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12D THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Sunday September 3 1989 College Football NO a III NC State-Maryland Hoopla Better Than Game p1 k4f Tom 111 Sorensen Maryland 35 as the clock got down to two seconds Time-out Wolfpack With one second left Damon Hartman who had missed from 27 yards hit from 45 The field goal was immediately followed by one of those statements that makes college football great Running off field Wolfpack defensive tackle Ray Agnew announced to the offense: "That's all we need" But fans needed more It has been almost six months since the Wolfpack had won a big game That was when the basketball team beat Iowa in the NCAA tournament Then it lost to Georgetown in a game that went bad after a terrible call against Wolfpack guard Chris Corchiani That's how the basketball season ended and little has gone right for the Wolfpack since The chancellor quit under fire The basketball coach lost his athletic director's job and wrecked his reputation The school took more good shots than an op field in the last three minutes for the win- ning touchdown Not again Agnew is praying Not again The fans are no longer talking about the weather They have seen the Wolfpack drive 80 yards in 12 plays most of them pin-point brazen passes to go ahead 10-0 They have seen Maryland on the posses- sion before this one drive 80 yards to cut the lead to 10-6 Now they have seen Maryland take the ball at its 37 with one minute 39 seconds to play and move to the Wolfpack 17 The fans are drained They have stood and whistled and begged "Clock tick!" a student screams And now the ball is in the air and Barry Johnson is in the right corner of the end zone And he appears to be alone "I thought we lost" said tailback Bar-' bour watching from the edge of the Then cornerback Barry Anderson slips over and knocks the ball into the air It hangs there then falls to the grass The season is under way ponent of Mike Tyson Saturday was supposed to be a coming out Saturday was a day to cheer as the country's No 24-ranked football team led by cleaner-than-a-baby Dick Sheridan charged onto the grass beneath an arch of red and white Great expectations Boring game A first-half field goal fling might have been enough for Agnew and the defense but fans needed more evidence that the 1989 college football season really was here They got it With three seconds left there was Maryland quarterback Neil O'Donnell dropping back and seeing split end Barry Johnson open in the right corner of the end zone The Terps trail 10-6 If Johnson catches the pass the Terps win No longer is senior tackle Ray Agnew saying "That's all we need" Ray Agnew is now yelling "Last year! Last year!" Last year Maryland drove down the RALEIGH The NC State players ran onto the field beneath an arch of red and white balloons The majorettes twirled batons The kids all of them little and cute played catch with red and white Footballs The fans stood hand on heart For their alma mater The buildup had been great But the pme was lacking NC State and Maryland had been olaying football for more than an hour low and almost nothing had happened A good hits A missed field goal A couole runs Wolfpack tailback Anthony Bar-)our almost broke But that was it Watches were checked The temperature being 87 degrees people 'alked about the weather The teams noved from one side of the field to the )ther but only threatened to move forvard The buildup had been huge But the ame seemed to be getting smaller NC State would go on to win 10-6 and he 41780 fans at Carter-Finley Stadium vould go home nervous but happy The ecord must show however that with 34 seconds left in the first half Wolfpack fans booed their team They were entitled As the first half moved to a close the Wolfpack had the ball at its 20 It ran up the middle Gain of 2 It tried again a little to the right Gain of Boo went the fans Time-out went the Terps Pass went the Wolfpack Shane Montgomery hit flanker Chris Corders for 27 yards He hit tight end Todd Harrison for 6 yards After an incomplete pass he hit flanker Mick Kavulic over the middle Kavulic got to the Pack Stops Terps In Closing Seconds Tigers Defense I'Lteeps PaladinS' Ili ottled Up 1 77-- N-- ----4-4 0 4 1' i Ar i 4 Ni: Nit' :1: -g A it: l'1-1 I' li- :4 0'''' 40' A a i-1! -4 1 1 ''''i- 41ti i r-z-7A144v13 -s A :41 4 f-1lo 0 1 ''3 VI' 4r: opct 1 77 1 vx- ''1- itt a tht7'c- :1: 4:: 7' f---'-'- 2 "''-si-- 1 140144es 411g5 rs': At i0i- 4 i7 4''' 1i1 4- 1::: i lai ::::6: 4:::::4::::: Continued From Page ID "It was like all that was going through anybody's mind was 'Last year last year' said Wolfpack iafety Fernandus Vinson "We kept saying to ourselves 'We can't it happen again' O'Donnell went to work with Maryland trailing 10-0 in the 'ourth quarter and in jeopardy of ving shut out for the first time in 12 games He put that possibility rest by leading the Terrapins on sn 80-yard drive ending in Ricky lohnson's 1-yard touchdown run Nith three minutes 21 seconds left in the game Coach Joe Kdvak chose to go for a two-point conversion hoping to cut NC State's lead to two and set up a possible game-winning field goal But Johnson was stopped short leaving NC State bead 10-6 The Wolfpack offense was unsble to gain a first down on its ensuing possession and punted the all away to Maryland O'Donnell took over with 1:39 remaining 67 yards to go and no timeouts left "I love situations like that" O'Donnell said "I told the whole Dffense to keep a positive attitude that we'd done it before and let's do it again There's nothing I like Setter than having the ball in my aands having to make big plays" He moved the Terrapins down-field like a master Completions of 4 15 and 4 yards moved the ball to the NC State 40 Then three plays resulted in nothing and he faced fourth-and-6 And he calmly delivered completing a I7-yard screen pass to tailback Bren Lowery With 16 seconds left Maryland was 23 yards from a touchdown An incompletion a 6-yard pass JEFF SINERStaft NC State defenders Jesse Campbell (42) and Lee Knight stop Maryland runner Bren Lowery during Saturday's 10-6 Woltpack victory in Raleigh Maryland turnovers two interceptions of O'Donnell and two fumbles and made the big play at the end "It wasn't easy on that last drive but I take things like that as a challenge" Anderson said "You have to want that kind of pressure to be a defensive back There's nobody behind you backing you up You're the last hope You have to want the game to come to you Today I'm glad it did" Woods' Gamecocks Maryland 0 0 0 6-6 NC State 0 3 7 0-10 Hartman 45 7 run (Hartman kick) Johnson 1 run (run laded) Att-41780 (at NC State) NCS First downs 15 16 Rushes-yards 36-91 43-103 Passing yards 211 161 Return yards 38 29 Passes 22-34-1 13-24-0 Punts 8-40 8-40 Fumbles-lost 5-2 2-0 Penalties-yards 6-46 0-0 Time of possession 29:43 30:17 INDIVIDUAL STATISTIC Lowery 10-34 Johnson 10-34 State: Barbour 19-70 yarn 10-35 O'Donnell 22-34-2-211 NC State: Montgomery 13-23-0-161 Corders 0-1-0-0 Lowery 5-30 Spinelli 3-24 NC State: Kavulic 5-62 Corders 4-58 to Lowery and another incompletion set up the finale with three ticks remaining The crowd of 41780 was standing Players on both sidelines were pacing One play was going to decide the game "It's just like rolling dice in times like that" said NC State coach Dick Sheridan "Obviously it got kind of hairy" In the end the line between victory and defeat was ever so fine "It was a great pass it hit me right in the fingertips" said Maryland's Barry Johnson "I had it but then their cornerback (Anderson) came up and tipped it away "For me it's a very empty feeling You're talking about my hands here and you're talking about the game I feel like I've let everyone down" NC State's winning points came on its only sustained possession of the day The key plays in the third-quarter 80-yard drive were passes of 22 and 16 yards and covered the other 42 on the second play "1 haven't had a run like that since high school" said Green who played at Stratford High in ladson SC The drive took only 18 seconds Collin Mackie's kick for the extra point then put South Carolina out front 7-0 with one minute 53 seconds elapsed Ray completed six passes in an 11-play drive the last one for 4 yards to flanker Clarkston Hines bringing the Blue Devils right back The touchdown reception was the 22nd career scoring catch for Hines a senior and it set an ACC record But Randy Gardner's kick was wide and the Gamecocks kept the lead 7-6 with 3:42 left in the first period South Carolina quarterback Todd Ellis who dueled Ray and came up with 192 yards passing on 14-of-25 accuracy got his arm warmed up in the ensuing South Carolina series He twice hit third-down passes to keep the drive going and Mackie capped it with a 24-yard field goal for a 10-6 South The Region Flowers completed 16 of 32 passes for 263 yards but threw two interceptions Johnson Smith 0 14 13 14-41 Bowie State 24 14 0 20-58 3 run (Fitzpatrick kick) 9 run (Fitzpatrick kick) Fitzpatrick 47 53 pass from Frazier (Fitzpatrick kick) 35 pass from Frazier (Fitzpatrick kick) 5 run (Fitzpatrick kick) 27 pass from Flowers (Kandakai lock) 14 pass from Flowers (Kandakai kick) I run (Kandakai lock) 25 run (Kandakai kick) 2 run (kick failed) IS pass from Washington (Kandakat kick) I run (Fitzpatrick kick) 4 run (Fitzpatrick kick) 7 pass from Flowers (Kandakat lock) Southern East Tennessee State 17 Virginia Military 16 Mike Shoun kicked an I 7-yard field with familiar Clemson power footbalr The Tigers got the ball on the Furman 47 and ran six straigIU times finishing with a 36-yard field goal from Chris Gardocki Late in the quarter Furman running back Dwight Sterling fumbled and Clemson's James Lott recovered at the Furman 33 After a I 5-yard pass play frortr Cameron to Doug Thomas Clemson ran four straight times the last a 1-yard touchdown dive br Wesley McFadden and Clemr son led 10-0 Gardocki added another field goal before halftime Clemson put together its best drive an I I-play 48-yard drive in the third quarter ending with a 1-yard touchdown run Morocco After another Gardocki field goal the Tigers finished off the scoring when Clemson's Mitch Belton blocked Bruce Leicht's punt and Tony Mauney recovered it in the end zone While Clemson's passing of fense often stunned with its effectiveness its usually overpowering running game stalled The Tigers: were without leading rusher Terry- Allen suspended for one game after being charged with driving under the influence but Ford said there were other problems Such as the blocking of the offensive line "Terry runs hard" Ford said "I' don't know if I would have wanted him out there with the way we were blocking" The Tigers gained 167 yards passing 155 on the ground "I'm going to give our team benefit of the doubt and guess or running game will improve" Ford said "We're going to start working on it immediately We're going to-- start working on it Sunday morning" Does this mean we won't be seeing much more "Air Clemson?" "You know we're a ball-controL team" Morocco said "We're not going to fool anybody Maybe this year we might have to fool people a little more But 1 think (running) is our basic offense We'll go back to it" Furman 0 0 0 17 Clemson----- 3 10 7 10-30 Gardocki 36 I run (Gardocki kick) Gardocki 46 1 run (Gardocki kick) Gardocki 48 recovered blocked punt In end zone (Gar docki kick) Att-80000 (at Clemson) First downs 3 21 Rushes-Yards 30-31 60-155 Passing yards 27 166 Return yards 6 44 Passes 3-11-1 14-20-0 Punts 9-31 3-48 Fumbles-Lost 5-3 1-1 Penalties-Yards 2-20 5-44 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Sterling 9-37 DeBusk 7-31 Clemson: Henderson 17-64 McFadden 10-21 DeBusk 3-11-1-27 Clemson: Mo rocco 8-14-0-99 Cameron 6-6-0-67 Key 2-29 Clemson: Fields 4-24 Cooper 3-40 Smith Howard handed District of Co: lumbia its 21st straight loss The game made Steve Wilson' debut as coach of the Bison a successful one Wilson who ended his 10-year NFL career earlier this year took over the job left open by- the departure of Willie JetTries now at SC State NC 24 NC Central 6 Sophomore quarterback Cornell Maynor passed for 287 yards and three touchdowns to lead NC over NC Central in Greens boro Maynor a transfer from Winston-Salem State completed 11 of 18 passes Morgan State 31 Norfolk State 20 Quarterback Daryl Jackson and wide receiver Glenny Moore hooked up for three touchdowns and 160 passing yards as Morgan State won at home Delaware State 41 Cheyney 0 Darren Felton threw three touch By JOE POSNANSKI Stall Writer CLEMSON SC While virtually everyone else including the Clemson players involved played "Guess who will start at quarterback" Saturday Clemson's defense played monster football The Tigers never allowed Furman's offense past the Clemson 25-yard line that was after a Paladins fumble recovery and the Tigers breezed to a 30-0 college football victory at Clemson Memorial Stadium How dominant was Clemson's defensive effort? Furman's most sustained drive was a five-play drive in the second quarter Net gain: 9 yards Other than the fumble recovery Furman didn't cross into Clemson territory The Paladins defending NCAA Division I-AA champions managed 58 yards of total offense along with three first downs Nine times the Paladins were tagged for losses by the Tigers defense "This is probably one of the worst offensive games we've ever had" Furman coach Jimmy Satterfield said "But that was due primarily to Clemson's fine defense Their outside linebackers are probably the best we've ever faced" Despite Clemson's smothering effort the spotlight of the game the opener for both teams was on Clemson's quarterbacks And on whom Clemson coach Danny Ford would start Ford promised he wouldn't make a decision between two candidates senior Chris Morocco and sophomore DeChane Cameron until game day Moments before kickoff the public address announcer reading the starting lineup said "And at quarterback Morocco or Cameron" In the end Ford decided on Morocco for the start although as he promised both quarterbacks played Morocco completed eight of 14 passes for 99 yards and Cameron was six for six for 67 yards "I didn't know I was going to start until a minute before the game started" Morocco said "Until then I was up in the air" Morocco wasn't the only thing in the air When the game started in perhaps the most stunning series at Clemson in a long time Morocco threw on four of the Tigers' first six plays For a Danny Ford-coached team known for power running on virtually every play this is as likely as Ford himself starting at quarterback "We had planned to open up and throw deep" Ford said "We wanted to try and keep them off us" Clemson didn't score on that possession And the next time the Tigers got the ball it was back to Win Over I run (Driver kick) Pyzik 37 14 run Driver kick) Concord 10 Mars Hill 7 Randy Hart tossed a 7-yard pass to Brian Hamm with a minute left in the third quarter to lead Concord (WVa) over visiting Mars Hill Barry Barilsford's 67-yard punt return set up the winning points Anthony Galloway scored the only touchdown for Mars Hill on a 1-yard run in the first quarter Carson-Newman 44 Fairmont State 0 Todd Henderson rushed for three touchdowns and CarsonNewman's veer offense overwhelmed Fairmont State's defensive line as the NAIA's No I team scored a rout in the opener at Fairmont Va MEAC Continued From Page ID "Harold Green made some great plays" Woods said The Gamecocks needed them They led early then fell behind in the second quarter But South -AF4t- Carolina came 4- up with 10 1 -z points in the 1 last four min- utes of the 44 sec- A41t ond period ex- tended the mar- s4 gin to 14 in the third quarter and didn't allow Green the Blue Devils any more points until the game's final minute Two of Green's "great plays" came in the game's opening minutes After Ray's first pass was intercepted by Robert Gibson South Carolina started its first drive from the 50 It took only two plays to reach the end zone Green ripped around left end for 8 yards on the first one then went right broke free from Shane Montgomery to Mike Kavulic and Chris Corders Anthony Barbour who led all rushers with 70 yards on I 9 carries scored on a 7-yard run with 3:03 left in the third period Montgomery started at quarterback and is penciled in to stay there all season as Sheridan announced plans to redshirt backup Charles Davenport NC State held on mainly because of a defense that forced four eat uke Carolina lead with 2:46 to play in the first period The Blue Devils then produced their most impressive drive of the night moving 61 yards in seven plays to score on fullback Randy Cuthbert's 2-yard run with 14:55 remaining in the second Ray had an I8-yard completion to Dave Colonna on the second play of the series then got a boost from a pass interference call on Keith McDonald at the South Carolina 15 On the next play Ray set up the touchdown with a I3-yard pass to Randy Jones Duke held the lead for a while but that was to be all the points the Blue Devils could come up with until the game's final 49 seconds when Ray and Hines teamed up for a touchdown and a two-point conversion In the meantime the Gamecocks seized control first with Green's 1-yard touchdown run with 3:58 left in the second period then with 28-yard field goal with 0:27 remaining in the quarter That gave the Gamecocks a 20-13 advantage that stood at half ence victory at VW VW took a 16-7 lead with five minutes 41 seconds left in the third quarter Wade Hawkins kicked his third field goal of the afternoon on a drive set up by a VW fumble recovery at East Tennessee's 35-yard line But the Buccaneers came back on the ensuing possession and scored in a 10-play 54-yard drive capped by George Searcy's 3-yard touchdown East Tennessee's winning drive was set up by a VIVI! fumble that was recovered by Jeff Page at the VM1 27 with 3:39 left in the game East Tennessee St 7 0 0 10-17 Virginia Military 7 6 3 0-16 1 run (Hawkins kick) 22 pass from Meedith (Schoun kick) Hawkins 25 Hawkins 21 Hawkins 35 2 run (lock faded( E-1G Schoun 17 Alt 100 (at VW) Marshall 48 Catasha 0 John 11) In pener time They wrapped up their scoring on 2-yard touchdown run by Mike Dingle with 6:59 to play in the third quarter and the rest of the time they were content to control the ball and keep Duke at bay That success covered some of their first-game mistakes and left Duke coach Steve Spurrier fretting about his team's errors Duke had "the interceptions and the tipped balls that we had our hands on but couldn't get our hands on and the blocked punt (in the third quarter)" Spurrier said We've got to gel better" Duke 6 7 0 8-21 South Carolina 10 10 7 0-27 42 run (Mackie kick) 4 pass from Ray (lock failed) Mackie 24 2 run (Gardner kick) 1 run (Mackie lock) Mackie 28 2 run (Mackie kick) 1 pass from Ray (Hines pass from Ray) Att-74232 lal South Carolina) INDIVIDUAL STATISTIC Boone 17-63 Jones 3-27 South Carolina Green 22-160 Dingle 15-49 Ray 28-39-3-341 Brown 1-4-0-90 South Carolina Ellis 14-25-1-192 Boone 8-78 Hines 6-60 Jones 6-98 South Carolina Green 4-48 Miller 4-80 In 58-41 Eastern Kentucky 31 Western Carolina 13 Lorenzo Fields passed for 182 yards and three touchdowns to give Eastern Kentucky a home victory and coach Roy Kidd his 200th win SAC-8 NVingate 24 Shepherd 13 Wingate improved to 4-0 in openers since resuming football in 1986 while host Shepherd (WVa) lost its sixth straight season opener Wingate quarterback Richard Jacobs of Cheraw SC entered the game in the third quarter and finished with 99 yards rushing on 13 carries He scored the clinching touchdown on a I4-yard run Wingate 0 3 7 14-24 Shepherd 0 10 0 3-13 Duhaime 34 from 0 Bowie State Opens Flood Gate Observer Staff and News Services BOWIE Md Quarterback Henry Frazier passed for two touchdowns and ran for another leading Bowie State to a 58-41 CIAA football victory over Johnson Smith Saturday The Bulldogs ran up a 38-0 lead in less than 16 minutes and added 20 points in the final quarter of the season opener for both schools Noel Harrison ran for a 3-yard touchdown with 12 minutes 30 seconds left in the first quarter and added a 9-yard run later in the period giving Bowie State a 14-0 lead Kicker Mark Fitzpatrick kicked a 47-yard field goal and Bryant Hall turned a 10-yard pass from Frazier into a 53-yard touchdown to end the first quarter Johnson Smith quarterback Maurice Flowers who threw three touchdown passes starting with one to Ronald Meadows with 1:22 left in the first half pulled the Golden Bulls within 38-14 at halftime with a 27-yard scoring pass Golden Bulls within 38-14 at half- with a 27-yard scoring pass Gregory threw r'- or three touch- Howard 40 District of-Columbia clown passes to lead Delaware 1 19 seconds le-ft lifting East Ten- downs and ran for another as Mar- 0 James Carpenter ran for I 13 State over Cheyney sFG Pypk 26 at Warning nessee State to a Southern Confer-shall won at home 6 run (Driver koo yards and three touchdwons as ton Del i 1 i 1 I goal 19 seconds left lifting East Tennessee State to a Southern Confer Gregory threw for three touchdowns and ran for another as Marshall won at home pass Stky Pyzik kick) PG Drive 35 PG PO 26 6 run (Driver kick) Howard 40 District of Columbia 0 James Carpenter ran for I I 3 yards and three touchdwons as I down passes to lead Delaware State over Cheyney at Wilmington Del 1.