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orts II) Section Business News7B Score Phone: (704) 379-6535 Cnie Chartotte Observcr Saturday November 7 1987 Tigers Might Have Tar Heels By The Tail(backs) Games Go On In Carolinas them had carried the ball in college before this season Freshman Terry Allen and sophomore Wesley McFadden are one-two in the ACC with averages of 865 and 833 yards per game That makes quite a tandem for one team McFadden rushed for 226 yards against Virginia Tech and Allen got 183 against Virginia the top two games in the ACC this season Then Clemson runs in sophomore Joe Henderson who looks like the most creative of the bunch Henderson nailed Wake Forest for 131 yards last week 115 in the second half with dazzling cutback touchdown runs of 31 and 48 yards McFadden averages 64 yards per carry Henderson 59 and Allen 50 "It doesn't seem to matter which one is in there" said Tar Heels linebacker Brett Rudolph who added that he had See TIGERS Page 4B By GLENN ROLLINS Staff Writer It's only a slight oversimplification to say that today's Clemson-North Carolina ACC first-place showdown in Chapel Hill (4 pm ESPN) could come down to tailback play Advantage Tigers Huge advantage That's partly because the Tigers have three excellent first-year tailbacks and partly because of the twice-sprained ankle of Tar Heel sophomore Torin Dorn He might be as good as any Clemson runner but he's not as healthy "We're hoping Torin can play" said coach Dick Crum "But even if he does he won't be able to run like he did against Illinois He's running OK straight ahead but he doesn't have his normal cutting ability" Against the Illini in the season opener Dorn ran for 165 yards and two touchdowns but sprained an ankle at the end of a 69-yard run Since that play he has netted 84 yards and has not played in the past three games after reinjuring the ankle against Auburn After Dorn North Carolina's runners have been ordinary none showing the ability to make defenders miss them Eric Starr is the leader with 436 yards for a 39 average per carry and three touchdowns Reggie Clark a true freshman from Charlotte's Providence Day appears to have the potential to develop Into an outstanding runner lie isn't there yet having rushed for 220 yards and a 42 average So the Tar Heels almost certainly will not have a rusher come close to 1000 yards for the second time in the past three seasons That from a program which leads the NCAA with 18 1000- yard rushers including at least one for an NCAA-record 12 straight seasons (1973-84) William Humes led the team in 1985 with 515 yards Clemson has three tailbacks who can dance you off the floor and none of and No 2 national ranking against Marshall (3-1 6-3) at 1:30 pm in Boone Also injury-depleted Western Carolina (2-1 4-4) tries to stay in the race against Tennessee-Chattanooga (2-3 4-4) at 1 pm in Cul towhee In the NAIA eighth-ranked Gardner-Webb (4-1 7-1) is host to 12th-ranked Presbyterian (4-0 6-2) at 2 pm in a showdown for first place in the South Atlantic Conference (SAC-8) And Winston-Salem State (7-1) ranked No 12 in NCAA Division 11 plays host to No 2 Central State (8-0-1) of Ohio at 1:30 pm Life goes on in Carolinas college football away from the Clemson-North Carolina game Wake Forest (2-3 ACC 5-3) and Duke (1-3 4-4) both striving for rare winning records play at 1 pm in Winston-Salem Elsewhere in the ACC NC State (3-2 3-5) plays 1-AA East Tennessee State (4-4) at noon in Raleigh Virginia (2-2 4-4) is at Georgia Tech (0-4 2-6) at noon (WBTV channel 3) and Maryland (3-2 4-4) meets Penn State (6-2) in Baltimore at 1 pm East Carolina (4-5) is at home against Temple (3-5) at 1 pm In the 1-AA Southern Conference Appalachian State (4-0 6-2) defends its title Glenn Rollins More college football Page 4B Matchups statistics Page 4B West Meclk RR Pl ifs II ty Hawks Rip ii ullets In tpener Wilkins Scores 34 Bogues Makes Debut North Fails To Get Win In Overtime 4 4: II' i 'f ---4 ki' AT 14 -4 4 ''4 6- 17'''' t'' it' --'4 -4 '4 c'''' 4 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41 41 players on the Bullets roster started the game and contributed 10 points six assists and four steals in 31 minutes But the Hawks returning with the pat hand of players that won 57 games and the Central Division Wilkins championship last season took all the suspense out of this one before the crowd of 16064 had warmed their seats in the Omni Atlanta streaked to a 15-4 lead in the first four minutes hitting six of its first eight shots while the icy shooting Bullets hit just one of six That set a pattern as the Hawks went on to lead 36-19 after the first quarter briefly by 30 midway through the second period and 73-45 at halftime Atlanta forward Dominique Wilkins had 34 points and 14 rebounds to pace the victory And he got a lot more help with five teammates in double figures than Washington center Moses Malone who scored 32 The play of the big men and the Hawks' early surge left the matchup of the NBA's two shortest players forgotten Bogues was matched occasionally See WILKINS Next Page By HARRY LLOYD Staff writer West Mecklenburg High earned its first football playoff spot ever on Friday night and as if a 36-year wait wasn't enough the Indians had to go through overtime too Pressley Herron made the deciding plays in the extra period with a diving touchdown catch and later a crucial defensive stop on an extra point run to hold off North Mecklenburg 14-13 at West's field West Mecklenburg (4-1 8-2) will face RJ Reynolds the Central Piedmont 4A runner-up at home Friday night in the playoffs North coach Will Campagna gambled his team's playoff chances on a draw play for a two-point conversion rather than try a potential tying kick by Rico McCain Bernard Sherrill squirmed through the defensive line but was stopped just short of the goal "They said Moosie (Herron) hit him on the one-inch line" said West Mecklenburg coach Jim Hambacher "We weren't expecting a draw but we had a balanced defense and tried to be ready for anything" Earlier in the overtime Herron made a spectacular catch in the end zone of an high third-and-8 bootleg pass by freshman Maceo Bolin North stayed alive with the help of a fourth-down interference call when it gained possession but needed four more plays to score from the 3 Marvin Sloan appeared to be hemmed in when he caught a short pass from Larry Henderson but sprinted for the far flag and outran the defense for a 10-yard gain Herron played all but about two plays in the game He caught eight passes for 72 yards including the See WEST Page 6B DAVIE HINSHAWStaff On A Tear Soviets Edge NC State East Mecklenburg's Greg Carter (50) and Lamar Rich- during Friday's game East Mecklenburg won 22-12 at ardson tear at the jersey of Garinger's Reggie McNeil Garinger TeamClass Record Latin Rips Country Day To Finish Perfect Season Late Huss Drive Stops Ashbrook Takes Title 1 Harding 4A 10-0 Beat East Gaston 61-7 2 Ashbrook 4A 9-1 Lost to Hunter Huss 14-7 3 Page land Central SC 2A 10-0 Beat Andrew Jackson 20-10 4 AL Brown 4A 10-0 Beat Davie County 28-7 5 Lewisville SC IA 10-0 Beat Great Falls SC 30-0 6 Newton-Conover 2A 10-0 In Beat Bandys 21-0 7 Maiden 2A 8-2 111 Lost to Bunker Hill 24-22 8 Lexington NC 2A 9-1 Beat West Davidson 45-18 By STAN OLSON Staff Writer RALEIGH You knew something was a bit different from the beginning There next to the Reynolds Coliseum visitors' bench in the heartland of the ACC stood the hammer and sickle The red flag of the Soviet Union The visitors represented it well smacking down NC State's basketball team 99-90 in an exhibition Friday night The 1 victory was the Soviets' third in fc three days coming after wins at 1 Illinois State and Georgia Tech i 'tw" t' And the Soviets won it despite preparation that consisted of head 1 coach Aleksandr Gomelsky asking I "1-7Z'''' a native 15 minutes before game 1 -p time Who is (their) best players" 1 -1 )t and nodding when Charles Shack- i 1 leford and finny Del Negro were pointed out to him 'I i alvano Gomelsky also was taken aback by the Wolfpack's tartan-surfaced court "What is this plastic floor?" he said Ile was told that it was more like rubber and the ball bounced well on it lie seemed satisfied Then his players who had to be tired from their grinding schedule went out and ran the Wolfpack out of the game And they almost looked American doing it There was hand slapping after baskets and pointing to the assist man after a good pass and even anguished expressions in the best ACC tradition after being called for fouls See TOURING Page 3B '1 t'' 1 1 f' 0-' i 1 Igt 'r 16l'I' i 1 I By JOE HAMA Special Correspondent There was no way Charlotte Latin could lose The ground crew painted the end zone in Latin blue The likeness of the Latin mascot a Hawk was stenciled at midfield It was homecoming And the largest crowd of the year showed up to see the Hawks beat Charlotte Country Day 28-0 Friday and win their first North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association 2A championship "We did a little something differently" head coach Larry McNulty said "While we were getting ready for last week's game we did a little preparing for Country Day which is unusual" The Hawks (4-O 10-0) have lost three games in three years but this has been their only undefeated season Country Day finished 2-8 Latin took the game's opening kickoff and drove for a touchdown in less than four minutes Cameron Dickerson capped a nine-play drive with a 5-yard run On first and goal Dickerson took a handoff and was stopped at the line but bounced outside to drive in for the score Vic Gatto's kick gave the Hawks a 7-0 lead That was all the points Latin needed but the Hawks scored twice more in the second quarter to take a commanding 21-0 halftime lead The Hawks surprised the Buccaneers early in the second quarter with a gadget play Facing a third and 4 on his own 44 Latin quarterback Steve Hinshaw completed a pass to wide receiver Bob Moffett on the right sideline Moffett then lateraled to Dickerson who took it the rest of the way for a touchdown and a 13-0 lead Country Day suffered a loss when fullbacklinebacker Stephen Pharr left the game with broken leg on the failed conversion attempt He had to be taken from See LATIN Page 5B 9 Charlotte Latin Ind 10-0 II Beat Char Country Day 28-0 10 Shelby 3A 9-1 Beat Chase 61-0 11 Clinton SC 3A 9-1 Beat Broome 23-12 12 North Iredell 3A 10-0 Beat West 111340 24-21 By CHRIS HOBBS Staff Writer GASTONIA A Hunter Huss touchdown drive as long as it was short gave the Huskies a 14-7 high school football victory Friday over visiting Ashbrook for the Southwestern 4A title The Huskies (6-0 9-1) took an Ashbrook turnover and drove 55 yards for Pete Lipscomb's second-effort 1-yard scoring run with two minutes five seconds to play to win Huss's victory dropped Ashbrook (5-1 9-1) Into the Southwestern 4A's No 2 playoff berth and a game Friday at Al Brown The Green Wave No 2 in the Observer Sweet 16 had won 14 straight conference games and 22 straight in the regular season But the yards Huss needed for victory and the league's top playoff berth didn't come easily Those 55 yards must have looked like 155 to Huss as more than 15500 fans looked on "When we got inside the huddle we called the yards to go to victory" said Huss quarterback Neal Cochran as Huss fans around him rang the victory bell "Nine yards whatever it was See LATE Page 6B 13 Monroe 2A 9-1 Beat West Stan ly 43-7 14 Thomasville 2A 9-1 Idle 15 NW Cabarrus 3A 8-2 Lost to Central Cabarrus 9-6 16 Central Cabarrus 3A 9-1 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 I I Bodine Holds On To Capture Sunday's Western 500 Pole Fryar Chases Mugger New England Patriots wide receiver Irving Fryar dodges bullets while chasing a mugger in Easton Mass NFL Notes Page 38 Cross-Country Winners East Mecklenburg and Sun Valley runners capture regional high school cross-country titles at McAlpine Greenway Park Page 58 INSIDE College Foot ball 48 NFL 3B Nation 58 NHL 5B NBA 2B Update 58 1 1 1 his Winston Cup driving debut also qualified Friday as the top 25 slots in the lineup for Sunday's 3 pm EST green flag were decided Hendrick was timed at I 14664 mph in a Chevy fast enough for the 2Ist position "I'm doing it because I love to drive" Hendrick said with a grin after crawling from the machine semiretired Tim Richmond drove to victory in the last two Winston Cup races at Riverside "I've been a lifelong racing participant and it has been a dream for me to drive one of these cars "It gives me a escape from business and provides me the opportunity to be with guys I See BODINE Page 3B road course pole of his NASCAR Winston Cup Series career "I'm excited 'cause I didn't expect it since I had to go out early" said Bodine "The temperature must have dropped 15 degrees between when I ran and the last few cars went out It's amazing that the time held up" Bodine a pole winner for the second time this season beamed and added: "I'm happy for myself and the crew which had to make a late engine change and I'm happy because it was a good day for Hendrick Motorsports" Bodine obviously was referring to the fact that his team owner Rick Hendrick making By TOM HIGGINS Staff Writer RIVERSIDE Calif Geoff Bodine the first A i driver to qualify for Sunday's Winston Western l'''---olk 500 rolled to a lap of 117934 mph Friday at v404 tprk' --4 Riverside Raceway and the speed surprisingly I stood up for the pole Driving a Charlotte-based Chevrolet for Hen drick Motorsports Bodine negotiated the 262- mile eight-turn layout in 1 minute 19977 seconds Although track conditions subsequently im- proved by cooling down which usually in creases speeds no other driver was able to Bodine equal the effort of Bodine as he took the first.