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Kingsport Times-News Sunday September 13 1992 Vols shock Digest 34-31 By RON BLISS Executive Sports Editor to pull out a scintillating 34-31 upset victory over Georgia before 85434 fans between the hedges at Sanford Stadium This was a Tennessee team playing without 16 starters from last team a Vol team playing without its head coach and quarterbacked by a green sophomore who was starting just his second collegiate game The opposition was a veteran Georgia team that was unbeaten and pointing toward both SEC and national titles and talking of an unbeaten season ATHENS GA If the Ten-fiessee-Georgia game a tradition before it became one Saturday The 14th-ranked Bulldogs and 20th-ranked Vols met on regional television arid produced enough highlights to fill a season highlight film But fans will treasure their memories just a little bit more They will be of a young inexperienced team coming of age in the toughest of circumstances making an improbable comeback against all odds Please see VOLS page 2D Bucs shut out Mars Hill 21-0 By REX GREENE Times-News Sports Writer running their record to 2-0 with a 21-0 win the first shutout since 1984 work hard every week and the coaches have us well-prepared for whatever said freshman cor-nerback Donnie Abraham whose 67-yard interception return in the fourth quarter sealed the Buccaneer win the run-and-shoot the only thing you can do is stay deep The defensive line did a great job of putting pressure on the The Bucs limited the Lions More surgery for Montana SANTA CLARA Calif Quarterback Joe Montana underwent minor surgery to remove scar tissue in his right elbow Saturdaiy the San Francisco 49ers said was an elective procedure to release pressure that was causing some pain and discomfort on the ulnar nerve in team physician Dr Michael Dillingham said in a prepared statement Ashe in stable condition NEW YORK Tennis great Arthur Ashe was in stable condition Saturday two days after suffering a minor heart attack Ashe earlier this year announced that he had contracted the AIDS virus during a 1983 heart bypass operation before blood was screened for the fatal disease He was diagnosed with the disease in 1988 Ashe 49 arrived in the emergency room at New York Hospital on Thursday after suffering chest pains in his Manhattan apartment North wins cross-country carnival BOONE NC Sullivan crosscountry team combined for a five-race total course-record 55:54 in the Appalachian State Cross Country Carnival Saturday Mark Caldwell was second in the first race with a 10:28 Jake Douthatwon the second race with 10:51 Phil Parker won the third race with a 10:58 Michael Vaughn won the fourth with an 11:02 and Jonathon Weatherly was second in the fifth race with 11:35 two-mile relay team of Caldwell Douthat Parker and Vaughn ran a Carnival record 10:17 cross country team finished second The D-B girls won their meet CHMt Carmel volleyball opens Church HillMt Carmel volleyball registration is underway Those interested can register at the City Office in Church Hill between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm An open practive is scheduled Tuesday at 5:30 at the middle school and players can register then There is no charge and grades 4-8 are eligible For more information call 357-7010 Doubles tourney slated at D-B The October Doubles Tennis Classic will be held Oct 2-4 at the D-B Tennis Courts Each division A and A and and Mixed A and C) will be limited to the first sixteen entries All players who fail to advance to the second round will be placed in a consolation bracket The cost for each doubles team is $12 For more information call (615) 357-5898 after 6:30 pm or the D-B courts at (615) 247-3271 Entry forms may be picked up at the Match Point Tennis Shop Hitmen host cage tourney The Hitmen Softball Club will host a church and industrial basketball tournament Sept 25-26 at Kingsport Christian School Entry fee for the double-elimination tournament is $95 Awards will be given to the top three teams and MVP For more information call Greg Bradley at (615) 928-3119 Jenkins fitness walk run set The 6th Annual Jenkins Kiwanis Day-Mountain Heritage llA mile fitness walk and 2-mile run will be held on Saturday Septem-'ber 19 The walk begins at 9 am and the run at 9:30 am There will be division for those with special handicaps and a division for those with mended hearts For information call Ked Sanders (606) 832-4122 or Charles Dixon (606) 832-2759 JOHNSON CITY Defensively the East Tennessee State Buccaneers could not have played any better than they have in the first two games of the 1992 season After slowing down Virginia Military wishbone last week the Buccaneer defenders tackled Mars run-and-shoot Saturday night in Memorial Center and the result was even better The Bucs limited the Lions to 170 yards of total offense and intercepted three passes in I Times-News photo Ned Jilton II ETSU quarterback Gabe Berry 14 lofts pass downfield as defensive tackle David Mennitt 94 closes in The Bucs won Saturday contest 21-0 Please see BUC page 4D Wallace ends skid with win in Miller 400 Associated Press Times-News photo Over 350 runners start the Bechtel 10K during the 13th Annual Eastman Road Races on Saturday The ideal conditions resulted in course records in both the and races Eastman records shattered RICHMOND Va Rusty Wallace broke a winless drought of nearly 14 months by cruising to a dominating victory in the Miller Genuine Draft 400 on Saturday night Wallace who took the lead to stay on the 262nd of 400 laps at Richmond International Raceway finished 352 seconds ahead of Mark Martin Wallace who started third his Pontiac Grand Prix led 231 laps on the way to winning for the first time since the July 1991 event at Long Pond Pa a span of 34 races Wallace who previously had just two top-five finishes this season won $47115 Darrell Waltrip seeking his third consecutive Winston Cup victory was a distant third Dale Earnhardt and Geoff Bodine wound out the top five Bill Elliott continued to widen his edge over Davey Allison in the point standings although neither driver had a particularly good race Elliott who started 25th got lapped less than one-fourth of the way through the race and spent the rest of the night running well off the pace He wound up 14th one lap down Allison began on the inside of the third row and ran in the top five for the first 100 laps before fading Elliott who took a 119-point lead into the race expanded it to 134 He needs to finish second or better in the final seven races to lock up the Winston Cup title Johnson Presedo cop titles in 10K Championship Run By PAT KENNEY Times-News Sports Writer Morelock aces at Meadowview Dean Morelock aced the 138-yard No 12 hole at Meadowview Golf Club Saturday for his third hole-in-one The shot was witnessed by Jim White Richard Cross and Tom Addington Four-day card show scheduled Extra Inning Baseball Cards will sponsor a four-day baseball card show Thursday Sept 17 through Sunday Sept 20 at the Johnson City Mall The show which will feature 40 dealer tables is free to the public Johnson made the race a one-man show as he broke from the pack at the one mile mark and finished in a time of 29:13 Jim Kaiser of Lexington was the runnerup for the second year in a row His time was 30:48 Thomas of Johnson and low humidity greeted the field for the 8 am start of the Bechtel 1992 Tennessee 10K Championship Run: Ashley Johnson of Bowling Green Kentucky and Lisa Presedo of Baton Rouge Louisiana shattered the existing course records on the way to victories in the and divisions The timely entry of a cold front into Northeast Tennessee led to record breaking performances in 13th Annual Eastman Road Races Saturday High humidity over the past week has dogged local runners but cool temperatures Please see JOHNSON 4D 3 Vols' Shuler rises to occasion in classic SEC contest prepare for back-to-back games with Georgia and Florida it would settle the starting identity Obviously UT played Jerry Colquitt against Shuler to be fair with the former for his efforts in practice to develop a backup and to nudge the multi-talented North Carolina native toward maturity Is the QB dilemma over? "I said Shuler sipping a Gato-rade outside the dressing room to avoid cracking a smile When future games are on the line Shuler will be the UT pilot Colquitt the co-pilot quarterback has to be in control" he said ter with a 45-yard run off the QB draw No less than five times during the game he feinted a step back to pass then dashed ahead for gains Finally with 50 seconds to go and UT trailing 31-27 Shuler jumped in for the winning TD to climax a 66-yard drive However Georgia finished Zeier had the Bulldogs headed goal-ward when linebacker George Kidd blasted receiver Andre Hastings from behind and knocked the ball loose was about 10 yards behind said Kidd he got the ball and I somehow caught Ingram said Tennessee was hoping for a turnover fought off a block and reached around Hastings UT 34-yard line to seal the win with 14 seconds left to play From start to finish it was a thrill a minute said Ingram a big test like a final exam for Eric Zeier talented 6-2 200-pound quarterback passed for 354 yards Still he stood in the shadow of Shuler who was merely a split-duty QB when the game began Shuler had closed the third quar- and stripped the ball loose I just told myself need to get this I held tightly to it and waited for our offensive unit to come onto the UT except that it was behind only 17-13 flirted with total embarrassment in the first half Georgia had outgained the Vols 342 yards to 150-at the break But UT shut down the Bulldogs in the third quarter to regain the lead 20-17 The see-saw exchange was just warming up as it turned out Both teams seemed to have the win under wraps at various times only to see the other charge back It was inevitable in this two-week time frame when Tennessee had to 1 ATHENS Ga This particular Tennessee team has And Heath Shuler Between the hedges of Sanford Stadium Saturday the Vols shocked Georgia 34-31 in a football classic One would have to dig deep into UT archives to find on game films where a quarterback draw was used maybe as far back as the days of Jimmy Streater and Condredge Holloway to see it with any degree of consistency But the 6-3 208-pound Shuler with the gait of a thoroughbred trampled the Bulldogs by running keepers on a sunny afternoon that was fading into dusk when middle linebacker Reggie Ingram recovered a fumble on the I Please see SHULER paje 2D.