The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 707

iKtnnnriAL irV' I jf f'g hyTryrtyaM-yiyr jrfirynifrprtiyrtiMi Iiny r-i i I miiTnWiKUrNirrTn SCOREBOARDiid 0UTD00RS9D HORSESIOD I i it Sunday August 31 1986 The Miami Herald Section k-' singing in rain with 38-14 opening victory FSU overcomes mistakes 24-0 By GARY LONG Herald Sports Writer TALLAHASSEE The Toledo Rockets trotted onto the Doak Campbell Stadium turf Saturday night straight out of central casting They perfectly fit the role of Opponent season opener Not that Florida State 24-0 victory have plenty of ragged edges Coach Bobby Bowden definitely would like to have written six Seminole turnovers out of the script But Bowden wanted to see a lot of players and he did All three of his quarterbacks saw action nine players carried the ball and 10 Seminoles caught passes Also Bowden wanted to see what a defense that has had an 80-percent turnover on the front line could do and in his estimation defense did as By JIM MARTZ Herald Sports Writer GAINESVILLE Tuning up Saturday for the University of Miami Gators played off key occasionally Saturday against spunky but outmanned Georgia Southern But they achieved their goal of sharpening some rough spots as they waltzed to a 38-14 season-opening football victory before 74221 rain-soaked fans the fifth-larg-est crowd at Florida Field The sour notes came in the form of too many penalties (14 for 110 yards) and too many sacks of quarterback Kerwin Bell (three plus several close calls) But the Gators also showed that their running game still sings despite the departure of first-round draft choices Neal Anderson and John Williams Wayne Williams (93 yards) Anthony Williams (43 yards) and a host of freshmen led by Octavius Gould (71) combined for 258 yards to take the pressure off Bell who passed for 160 yards and three touchdowns is good to have the first one behind us and get some of the rustiness out of our Bell said are going to be ready for Miami see a different team" Galen Hall now 18-1-1 as Florida coach said reason we moved a game ahead of Miami was to get things out of our system before we played them It matter whom we The 13th-ranked Gators played a team Please turn to GATORS 5D JOHN WALTHER Miami Herald Staff Georgia Chris Aiken left deflects a pass intended for Ricky Nattiel in the end zone during the first period Please turn to SEMINOLES 6D Edwin Pope Sports Editor a breeze for Hurricanes in 34-14 win new offense: run-and-hide By GREG COTE Herald Sports Writer COLUMBIA SC After a summer of uncomfortable uea for temperature-searcu Columbians and controversy-singed Hurricanes alike everything turned perfectly cool Saturday night The University of Miami football team buried its problems and the University of South Gamecocks at once in a 34-14 season-opening rout before 73500 at Williams-Brice Stadium The overflow crowd diminished noticeably in both decibels and numbers as domination built When they started The Wave trailing 24-0 the home team was long drowned It was 34-0 before South Carolina awakened the stragglers and made the final appear respectable against second teamers Tailback Melvin Bratton scored on runs of 34 1 1 and two yards to spark most lopsided season-opening victory since a 47-0 crushing of Florida State in 1976 And fullback Alonzo Highsmith scored on a 17-yard pass from Vinny Testaverde whose Heisman Trophy hopes got off to an airy start with 17 of 30 completions for 231 yards and no interceptions Placekicker Mark Seelig a surprise starter over Greg Cox added field goals of 45 and 49 yards And not all of the heroes scored Safety Bennie Blades set up the first two touchdowns with interceptions The game was played in temperatures in the 50s in an area hard-hit by drought and record highs this summer UM arrived with a different kind of heat the cloud of an August filled with well-documented off-field controversies one of which kept starting linebacker Winston Moss back in Miami with a one-game NCAA suspension The Hurricanes ranked No 3 by The Associated Press also faced the pressure had they lost of a 1-3 start with this game at Florida followed in three weeks by a home match against national champion Oklahoma Instead UM will travel to Gainesville on equal parts red carpet and magic carpet after a COLUMBIA SC After all that fear and loathing by University of Miami folk and 73500 folks piling in to see if South Carolina really could do the deed the Hurricanes made duck soup out of the Gamecocks 34-14 Greased pigs have run through the Gamecocks any slicker or quicker than the Hurricanes did on this wet and clammy Saturday night when all the opening thunder fell on SC The last thing you would figure is that you would need a topcoat in South Carolina on an August night The next-to-last thing is that UM would wring the Carolina necks with such brutal ease The third-to-last thing you would figure and the first thing Brent Musburger and Ara Par-seghian surely will after last 58-7 stomping of Notre Dame is that Miami would have had Vinny Testaverde and other offensive regulars still in there after it got to 34-0 I know Jimmy Johnson can always plead reminding how the Terrapins came back to win 42-40 after being down 31-0 at halftime But this anything close to that or about to be Fortunately JJ took out his first-stringers shortly after 34-0 It make much difference This any game at all It was a garroting Testaverde stands one knot up on Lorenzo White for the Heisman Trophy With Bill Hawkins pillaging and sacking and Brian Blades intercepting twice Miami turned run-and-shoot offense into run-and-hide Carolina went through one five-series stretch in the first half with two interceptions plus four yards zero yards and minus three yards defense is stiffer than Please turn to POPE 7D United Press International Vinny Testaverde looks downfield en route to completing 17 of 30 passes for 231 yards dominating victory domination did not begin right away South Carolina moved with the opening kickoff to 32 helped by a lost fumble that was ruled an incomplete pass and by a personal foul against UM safety Selwyn Brown before the Gamecocks had to punt Then Miami sputtered on its first series which ended when Testaverde lost the ball at 44 after being sacked by linebacker Zip Zanders Gamecock fans did precious little cheering the rest of the half Blades intercepted and the Hurricanes had the ball back at the UM 44 all of eight seconds after they had given it up Five plays later (the biggest a 15-yard strike Please turn to UM 7D Associated Press Alonzo Highsmith leaps over Robert Robinson (36) for a first down Blackwood is key to roster morning He was on crutches and it seem like he was going to be ready in a hurry difficult to make a determination on that sort of injury He could be out two weeks three weeks four or five How do you Shula has five roster moves to make before noon Monday although injury paves the way for one player to be released and then brought back The moves Shula indicated would probably include one defen By GARY SHELTON Herald Sports Writer Veteran safety Glenn Blackwood probably will count toward the 45-man roster Monday but probably not for long Blackwood who has a severely bruised right thigh likely will be placed on the injured reserve list shortly after the final roster is turned in meaning he will miss at least the first four games looks like our best option Dolphin Coach Don Shula said Saturday saw Glenn this sive back one linebacker one defensive lineman one offensive lineman and either a running back or wide receiver Shula said continuing discussions with other teams could alter those plans Shula could cut those moves to four if he placed Blackwood on the pre-season injured reserve list before turning in the final 45-man roster That is unlikely however because it would mean Blackwood would be out a minimum of six Please turn to DOLPHINS 8D US Opsn At a Glance Saturday highlights Ivan Lendl (1) Jonas Svens-son 6-3 6-3 6-4 Stefan Edberg (4) Ramesh Krishnan 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 6-4 4-6 6-4 Tim Wllkison Yannick Noah (5) 7-6 (12-10) 3-6 4-6 6-1 6-4 Martina Navratilova (1) Kathleen Horvath 6-4 6-2 Steffi Graf (3) Beverly Bowes 6-1 1-0 ret Gabriela Sabatini (11) Katerina Maleeva 7-5 6-2 key matches Mary Joe Fernandez vs Chris Evert Lloyd (2) Hana Mandlikova (4) vs Elna Reinach Boris Becker (3) vs Sergio Casal Jimmy Connors (6) vs Todd Witsken Story Page 3D Clemens wins his 20th 7-3 From Herald Wire Services BOSTON Roger Clemens became the first 20-game winner in the major leagues this season and first since 1978 on Saturday and then trained his sights on September wins is outstanding a good mark to get to but in a pennant race" Clemens said after allowing four hits and striking out 11 in seven innings in the Red 7-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians happy but glad behind the 24-year-old right-hander said still a lot of baseball to play and I have to keep pitching well want to get September going This will be nice to look back on but now I have to think of the next time out I think that will be against Minnesota next week and they care at all about what I did today going to have to go out there and pitch well against Clemens (20-4) said he the ball extremely as the Red Sox retained their 3 -game lead Please turn to CLEMENS 3D Bills fall to Bears in debut 31-17 From Herald Wire Services SOUTH BEND Ind Walter Payton ran for two touchdowns and Jim McMahon passed for another in a 21-point second-quarter blitz Saturday as the Chicago Bears defeated the Buffalo Bills 31-17 in an exhibition game that marked the NFL debut of quarterback Jim Kelly A crowd of 50196 attended the game at Notre Dame Stadium to benefit Special Olympics Chicago (4-1) and Buffalo (1-3) have completed their exhibition campaigns Kelly a former University of Miami player who signed an $8 million five-year contract last week entered the game for Buffalo late in the second quarter and played most of the third period The former star of the Please turn to KELLY 8D Navratilova favorite wins Precisionist takes Woodward Stakes PAGE 10D IIP BOYCOTT Padres piay want Gossage reinstated PAGE 2D CLOSE CALLS Conroy Swift miss no-hit bids PAGE 2D i p0F Al A 0k.