The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 19

Section Basketball Preps Sunday September 11 1977 Dunn's 2-1'oint Bid Halted ECU Tops Duke 1 Charlotte Observer oporis Irs 2L By BOB QUINCY Observer Staff Writer DURHAM East Carolina University's defensive unit struck down backer who participated in 10 tackles made contact as Dunn was falling Said Brewington a 225-pounder from Greenville: "I went for See PIRATES' Page 10B Col 1 off on his own three and sprinted back 58 yards almost breaking away for a score before being brought down from behind by Jeffrey Warren at the Pirates 39 Two passes from Dunn to speedy split end Tom Hall moved the ball to the five With second-and-goal Dunn faked a handoff bootlegged the ball around the left side and went in standing That placed Duke in the position of decision making with the score 17-16 in favor of visiting ECU Duke had no choice under the conditions The two-point conversion was automatic and the Duke coaching staff wanted Dunn to handle the ball Everyone on the ECU side of the field knew it too Who else gets the ball under pressure? So Dunn ran his keeper and Thomas McLaurin a corner back and tackle Wayne Poole smothered the nimble Virginian before he could make his turn Big Mike Brewington a wide-line- quarterback Mike Dunn of Duke as he attempted a two-point conversion dash with just 62 seconds remaining in the game to take a thrilling 17-16 victory Saturday and thus claim a modified version of the Atlantic Coast Conference championship The pesky Pirates deep in homegrown manpower have beaten North Carolina State and Duke in the past eight days The statistics in the decision over Duke by ECU were just as close as the score Each team had 21 first downs and the winners amassed 361 net yards to Duke's 344 Duke was in position to make an impressive comeback when it struck with ECU leading 17-10 and less than two minutes remaining on the clock Sophomore Craig Hoskins a 194-pound fullback took the ECU kick- Observer Photo By BILL BILLINGS Duke's Mike Harney Is Caught On The Faeemask fey East Carolina linebacker Harold Randolph Passes Clemson 21-14 verta A Mike MeCee directs Duke 9 1CK Kentucky Rally Nips Tar Heels By GLENN ROLLINS Observer Staff Writer LEXINGTON Ky Mel Collins said he had never fumbled a punt before Not unmolested Not in the three full seasons he's been running 'em back for North Carolina Fact is in his freshman year against Wake Forest he took a punt 45 yards for a touchdown But the admirable streak ended Saturday at Commonwealth Stadium where Kentucky rallied to down the Tar Heels 10-7 in their mutual season opener With 5:33 left and the Tar Heels leading 7-3 Collins fumbled his Collins first punt fumbled it flatout saw it fall out of his reach saw UK's Freddie Williams engulf it at the UNC 33 saw the game begin slipping out of his team's victory column "It was like a knuckleball coming down" the 5-foot-8 171-pound wingback said of the 33-yard punt "I signaled for a fair catch but I kinda juggled it Then I was falling one way and it was falling the other "I don't know I didn't misjudge it I just didn't handle it They hit me but I don't think they interfered I was already losing the ball "There've been times when I got hit catching a punt and fumbled it 1 remember some like that But I've never just messed one up like that" But where to lay blame for the loss in a rematch of last year's Peach Bowl which Kentucky now 18th-ranked won 21-0? Pchaps the true villain is Derrick See KENTUCKY Page 10B Col 2 North Carolina Kentucky 0 0 0 7-7 0 3 0 7-10 Ken FG Bryant 23 Finn 2 pass from Kupec (Biddle kick) Ramsey 1 run (Bryant kick) 57796 NCars 15 42-135 84 -6 10-19-1 9-34 3-1 Kentucky 12 55-203 46 31 7-13-0 5- 44 2-2 6- 37 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punls Fumbies-lost Penallies-yards 6-30 NORTH CAROLINA Rushing Kupec U-tmmus 3) Johnson 6-21 Paschal 8-34 Collins 2-8 Farris 9-41 Gay 2-(minus B) Loomis 3-19 Chrislensen 1-23 Passing Kupec 9-16-1 78 yards Gay 0-1-0 Chrislensen 1-2-0 6 Receiving Mabry 1-8 Lee 1-3 Powell 1-10 Collins 2-21 Williams 2-9 Loomis 1-16 Finn 1-2 Paschal 1-15 KENTUCKY Rushing Ramsey 19-46 Stewart 18-83 Hill 6-57 Brooks 10-17 Passing Ramsey 7-13-0 46 yards Receiving Trosper 2-(minus 6) Stewart 1-9 Hill 2-27 Brooks 2-16 4 jGj if By WHITEY KELLEY Observer Sports Editor CLEMSON Its ground attack stifled by a tenacious Clemson defense Maryland turned to reserve quarterback Larry Dick and the airways Saturday to force the Tigers into 21-14 submission The Terps were relieved to get away with their 21st straight Atlantic Coast Conference Football success something that wasn't a certainty until the clock snuffed out a final Clemson threat at the Maryland 21 A crowd of 44650 had to like what it saw of Coach Charley Pell's Tigers because they saw their team take a 14-7 lead in the third quarter and battle the heavily favored Terps on even terms "The difference in the game boiled down to five or six plays" Pell observed Those 5 or 6 plays didn't go our way but when they do we'll be a winner like Maryland is now" Pell who replaced Red Parker as Clemson's head coach at the close of last season blamed himself for allowing the momentum of the game to turn toward Maryland in the third quarter "That field goal attempt in the third quarter was a dumb play my fault" he admitted "We had scored to go ahead and our defense had Maryland under control we had the momentum with us" With Clemson leading 14-7 with 7:03 left in the third quarter Pell called on Obed Ariri for a 53-yard field goal It was blocked by Terp linebacker Lloyd Burruss and the Terps spanned 57 yards in eight plays for a tie at 14-all "Our execution was off" Pell advised "Ariri has the leg to kick it that far but we were slow getting the kick off and that gave Maryland good field position" It was at that point that Maryland's Jerry Claiborne decided that'it was time to make a change at quarterback since starter Mark Manges had trouble reaching the end zone Dick a senior and one-time starter two years ago when Manges was hurt completed five of seven passes for two touchdowns and 1 1 8 yards Dick extracted Maryland from a third-and-19 situation by firing a 25- Sec MARYLAND Page 10B Col 3 East Carolina Duke 0 10 0 7-17 0 3 0 13-16 Duke FG 21 Wolcott Green 6 run (Creech kick) ECU-FG 20 Creech Duke Comer 59 pass from Dunn (Wolcolt kick) Soulherland 28 run (Creech kick) Dunn 4 run (run failed) 38200 ECU Duke First downs 21 21 Rushes-yards 59-278 49-170 Passing yards 102 190 Relurn yards 74 74 Passes 5-10-0 14-22-1 Punts 4-39 4-34 Fumbles-losi 1-0 2-1 Penalties-yards 12-104 8-94 EAST CAROLINA Rushing Soulherland 12-34 Hicks 7-22 Sutton 14-55 Hawkins 12-60 Green 10-55 Allredl-0 Collins 2-30 Kolanko 1-3 Passing Soulherland 4-6-0 80 yards Green 1-4-0 22 Receiving Gallaher 2-33 Johnson 2-50 Hawkins 1-19 DUKE Rushing Dunn 20-65 Barney 21-65 Gone! 5-17 Addessa 1-3 Brodie 2-4 Passing Dunn 14-22-1 190 yards Receiving Hall 7-73 Comer 3-81 Barney 2-23 Patten 1-12 Gone! 1-1 come much closer than the State defense did Saturday Virginia had only two scoring threats and the Wolf-pack squelched them both forcing a fumble late in the first half then holding after the Cavaliers gained a first and goal at the Wolfpack 3 early in the fourth quarter "You can't put a value on the goal line stand" said Andrew Wayne Jenkins who goes by AW for the same reason Orenthal James Simpson goes by OJ "They had first and goal inside our 4 Four tries to make JW KMC jfWT a So it 4 'U Un is lerl concentrating ke 4 I if Man land Running Haek Stee Atkins Tries To Split Clemson Defenders but Tigers Roy Eppes and Randy Scott make the midair stop State's Defease Crunches Virginia By MARK WOLF Observer Staff Writer RALEIGH AW Jenkins who spends his time at NC State studying engineering participaing in Army ROTC and knocking people down had a simple enough explanation for State's 14-0 shutout of out-manned Virginia Saturday night at Carter Stadium He talked about State's first shutout since 1975 in a locker room atmosphere leagues lighter than last week when State yielded 434 yards Connors Vilas Win Observer Pholo By DON STURKEY four yards and we stopped 'em Need I say more?" he asked grinning Jenkins credited with nine tackles was one of several defensive standouts for the Wolfpack Junior linebackers Kyle Wescoe (16 tackles) and Bill Cowher (14 tackles including one which caused a fumble at the Wolfpack 8) sophomore tackle Simon Gupton (nine tackles) senior tackle Tom Prongay (6 tackles and a pass deflection) cornerback Richard Carter (6 tackles and a fumble recovery) and linebacker James Butler (four tackles including a quarterback sack) all had strong games Still Virginia is not East Carolina a fact not lost on Wolfpack coach Bo Rein "We won but we looked a lot like a team that had a lot taken out of it last week We blocked and tackled decently and since we won I'll have to be happy "Defensively I felt we played pretty well except for that 77-yard drive of theirs in the third quarter Billy Ray (Vickers who led all rush-See WOLFPACK'S Page 10B Col 2 Virginia Carolina State 0 0 0 0-0 0 7 7 0-14 Brown 8 run (Shprrill kick) Johnson 3 run (Sherrill kick) A-38800 Virginia NCSIate First downs 10 19 Rushes-yards 46-151 54-20 Passing vards 41 123 Relurn yards 24 22 Passes 6-110 4-IS-l Punls 9-45 5-47 Fumbies-lost 3-1 11-2 Penalties-yards 4-42 6 60 VIRGINIA Rushing Browning 6-11 lilar 16-51 Taylor 3-15 Vigorito 6-22 Shumock 8-10 Harris 3 23 Mai-ton 3-19 Passing Shumock 6-110 41 yards Receiving Tayklor 2-13 Nowhall Hmlnus 2) Vigonlo 2-6 Izlar 1-74 NC STATE Rushing Brown 11-48 Evans 15 61 Adnm Vickers 11-102 Johnson 5 IB Smith 2-10 Passing Evans 3-14-1 73 yards Smith 1-1-0 36 Receiving Marshall 1-39 Jukes 1-21 Brown 1-IJ RHall 1-36 Maryland Clemson 0 7 7 7-21 0 7 7 0-14 Atkins 3 run (Loncar kick) Varn 93 pass intercenl'on (Russell kick) Brown 1 run (Russell kick) While 25 nass from Dick (Loncar kick) Hagen 43 pass from Dick (Loncar kick) 44650 Maryland Clemson First downs 20 14 Rushes-yards 51-165 47-150 Passing yards 201 118 Relurn yards 31 126 Passes 24-12-1 21-10-0 Punts 9-44 9-37 Fumbles-losi 2-0 2-1 Penallies-yards 8-52 4-20 MARYLAND Rushing Alkins 24-88 Maddox 10-44 Scolt 6-23 Manses 7-6 Richards 2-8 Dudish 1-2 Dick 2-(minns 6) Passing Manges 7-17-2 85 yards Dick 5-7-0 118 Receiving Kinney 6-92 White 2-41 Hagen 3-43 Seivers 1-5 CLEMSON Rushing Drown 5-16 Ralchford 7-21 Fuller 22-67 Calllcult 3-2 Goggins 6-28 Sims 3-11 Loll 1-5 Passing Fu'ler 10-21-0 118 yards Receiving Butler 6-75 Clark 1-12 Weddinglon 3-31 Sportswavcs Today Tennis Noon US Open Men's Finals 6:30 Inner Tennis (inslruction) Football 10 am Notre Dame-Pill Highlights 1 pm Jim Carien Show 12:30 JIHNCAA Highlights 3:30 Mills Show 5 pm Pro Football Hall ol Fame Special 7 pm Bo Rein Show Dooicv Show Baseball 2 pm WSOC-AM-Braves-Parires Auto Racing 12:45 WSOC-FM-Caniiai City 400 Miscellaneous Midnight Wrestling Vouda Baseball 7:20 WSOC-AM -Braves vs Giants Football 7:30 (3)DrvicKon-FpHllwn and Johnson Smith-Lenoir Rhyne highlights 9 pm UCLA vs Houston Evert Takes 3rd Open Title in a 28-23 season-opening loss to East Carolina "Things clicked this week" he said "We didn't work any harder than we did last week It just came together "Yes we needed that kind of game on defense" the 6-0 224-pound senior middle guard said "But we needed to do what we did on offense too You can stop 'em from beating you on defense but you can't beat them on defense" However you probably couldn't Connors the defending champion The Argentine lefthander has won 38 matches in a row and his last 45 on clay or Har-Tru surfaces Connors may have to play considerably stronger and steadier than he did Saturday to handle the topspin artistry of Vilas Although he dominated the net and attacked effectively against the 24-year-old Barazzutti Connors committed a staggering total of 81 unforced errors including 73 off the ground Connors destroyed Vilas 6-4 6-2 6-1 in the semifinals of last year's Open But Vilas has strengthened his game and toughened his competitive nature over the last year Vilas appeared to have more than thoughts of dollars and rankings In his mind during the Solomon match A comment attributed to Solomon earlier In the summer which suggested that Vilas was a "crybaby" Sec VUAS Page 811 Col 2 By NEIL AMDUR The New York Times FOREST HILLS NY Chris Evert is still the queen of women's tennis Today Jimmy Connors and Guillermo Vilas will put In their claims for the men's throne in the finals of the United States Open championships The Connors-Vilas heavyweight match their first meeting of the year was assured Saturday when ihe two 25-year-old professionals won semifinal matches In straight sets at the West Side Tennis Club The second-seeded Connors disposed of unseeded Corrado liaruzzut-ti of Italy In a 2-hour 26-nilmitc semifinal The fourth-seeded Vllus who has not taken a set off Connors in their two previous meetings but Is the hottest player of the summer ad-vnnced to his first US Open final with a H-2 7-6 6-2 triumph over 12th-KPfdtd Harold Solomon 'Fa tsv Connors Vilas The 22-year-old Evert collected her third straight women's singles title Joining an illustrious list of great names by heating 12th-seeded Wendy Turnbull of Australia 7-6 6-2 In addition to the $33000 first prize the victory extended Kvert's amazing four-year string of cluy-coitrt victories to 113 The fourth-seeded Vilas will put his own streak on the line apainst.