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The News and Observer SPORTS State quarterback S. C. decks Deacs By GRADY ELMORE Special Correspondent WINSTON-SALEM Those in the crowd of 29,300 who expected another 39-38 thriller such as last year's regular-season finale had not considered South Carolina's improved, veteran defense. The Gamecocks stifled Wake Forest's offense most of the night as quarterbacks 'Terry Bishop and Gordon Beckham each produced a touchdown and sophomore placekicker' Mark Fleetwood booted three field goals in a 23-6 victory Saturday night. Bishop, who started, capped an 80-yard opening march with a three-yard plunge.

Beckham hit DeWayne Chivers for a 49-yard score. South Carolina drove 80 yards from the opening kickoff in a 12- play push to take a 7-0 lead over. Bishop, whose 29-yard pass to split end Jerry Anbin set up the score, kept behind a good fake handoff and plunged in off right end for the final three yards after Wake had repulsed one play for a yard loss. Fleetwood kicked the extra point, and he was just tuning up for things to come. Fleetwood kicked 35 and 37-yard field goals in the second quarter as the Gamecocks took a 13-0 halftime lead.

An 18-yard punt return by Troy Thomas proved good field position for the first field goal, and then a pass interception by Thomas again, put the ball on Wake's 37. Fleetwood's 3-pointer came with just 19 seconds left before intermission. The Deacons opened with Schofield at quarterback and he hit a 33-yard pass to Baumgardner to South Carolina territory on the first Wake play of the game, but on the second down another completion to Dan Dougherty turned into a midair fumble Emanuael Weaver retrieved for South Carolina at its 35. Wake staged a threat its next possession, moving from its 20 to the Gamecock 27 mostly on passes, before linebacker Mike Durrah stopped Dougherty in his tracks on fourth one there. South Carolina rushed for 115 yards to Wake's 23 the first half.

Passing was about even, South Carolina gaining 96 yards to the Deacons' 99. The second time the Gamecocks See GAMECOCKS, page 6 Sunday, September 6, 1981, page 1 Raleigh N.C. McIntosh sparks Pack by Spiders 11 By JOE TIEDE Sports Editor N.C. State freshman Joe McIntosh was a smash hit in his college football debut, but the Wolfpack still had its hands full with Richmond Saturday night. The favored Pack had to scramble back from a 14- 10 halftime deficit to beat the Spiders 27-21 in an opener witnessed by 40,400 at Carter-Finley Stadium.

McIntosh, a 180-pounder from Lexington, bounced off tacklers for 131 yards in 19 carries to spearhead a State ground game that racked up 347 yards. But the Wolfpack defense had difficulty containing the passing of Richmond's Steve Krainock, who completed 14 of 20 passes for 191 yards and two touchdowns. Only in the third quarter, when State completely dominated the game, did the defense shut off Krainock. Split end Clayton White caught six passes for 95 yards and two scores for the Spiders. State coach Monte Kiffin paid credit to Richmond for putting up such stout resistance.

"Those guys over there played their hearts out for 60 commented. "I have a lot of respect for coach (Dan) Shealy, his staff and players. "By the same token, our kids played their hearts out, too. I was disappointed in some respects. We should have scored more.

But the Mike Quick you saw out there was not Mike Quick. He was not 100 percent by a long shot. I saw him drop two passes tonight, and I didn't see him drop one all of last year." Quick made five catches as quarterback Tol Avery hit eight of 16 for the night. It was a strange game in that the two teams took turns controlling play. State seemed to be comfortably in charge in the opening period and a half, taking a 10-0 lead.

Then Richmond got its offense unstuck and rolled for two touchdowns in the last 4:23 of the second quarter. State, with its defense obviously charged up, pushed the Spiders all over the premises in the third quarter. Richmond's only first down during its first five possessions of the second half came on a roughing-thekicker penalty. Finally, with the Wolfpack on top 27-14 after scoring 17 straight points, Richmond got moving again and produced a final touchdown with 3:10 left. Staff photo by Joseph Thomas State's offense, which piled up 28 first downs, moved downfield again as time ran out.

"I think our guys are winners," Shealy said afterdefender Mike London What's inside Georgia belts Haas leads Tampa Bay Vols, page 3 B.C., page 7 wins, page 2 CARD 6 United Press International Gamecocks' Troy Thomas (29) breaks through for long-gainer against Wake Forest Bryant's Tide downs LSU BATON ROUGE, La. (UPI) Ken Coley and Ken Simon triggered a first-half ground explosion Saturday night that carried Alabama to a victory over Louisiana State and moved Bear Bryant another step closer to the all-time collegiate coaching win record. In the first national television spectacular of the season, the Tide overcame two early mistakes to run up a 17-point halftime lead, then turned things over to its de- Radio- TV 10:30 Track: International Amateur Athletic Federation World Cup (ESPN) 1:00 Football: Dallas at Washington (WNCT-Ch. 9) 1:00 Football: Kansas City at Pittsburgh (WECTCh. 6, WITN-Ch.

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3, WGHP-Ch. 8, WCTI-Ch. 12) wards. "They believed they were going to win. Time just ran out before we got the ball back." State's second half blitz began with a 66-yard march in seven plays.

The big one, cited as a crucial play by Kiffin, was a 28-yard run by Avery on a busted pass play on third and 14. Larmount Lawson, the starting tailback who netted 94 yards in 18 carries, ran for 12 and McIntosh followed with an 18-yarder for a touchdown, breaking two tackles on the way. That put the Pack ahead to stay, 17-14. State covered 60 yards in 12 running plays the next time it had the ball. Avery went over from the one with 4:54 left in the quarter.

The final three State points came with 6:55 left when Todd Auten kicked a 27-yard field goal. It was then that Richmond got rolling again, moving 81 yards on the passing of Krainock. Auten's kickoffs kept the visitors in a hole all night. During the first quarter, Richmond didn't escape its 10-yard line until its third possession. Avery escapes Richmond See PACK, page 9 Nelson, Pirates in romp By BRYAN BLACK Staff Writer GREENVILLE Other than quarterback Carlton Nelson, the names of those carrying the football for East Carolina Saturday night were not all too familiar to Pirate followers.

But the potent ECU wishbone purred as it had in the past, and the Pirates pounded Western Carolina 42-6 at Ficklen Stadium. East Carolina scored three touchdowns in the first half, all on the ground, and the Pirates added two more rushing TDs in the second half, with one score via the airways. When it was over, ECU had amassed 321 yards on the ground, 118 by Nelson, who opted to keep the ball 12 times while engineering coach Ed Emory's wishbone-option attack. But to change the pace a little, Nelson also completed six of 12 passes for 111 yards and a touchdown. Throw in the numbers compiled by reserve QBs Greg Stewart and Kevin Ingram, and the Pirates totaled 178 yards passing, hitting on nine of 15 aerials.

But Nelson, a junior who had surgery in January for a neck injury that caused him to miss the final four games of last year, wasn't the only back who took advantage of big holes opened by ECU's offensive line. Senior halfback Harold Blue, who scored the Pirates' first touchdown on a 13-yard burst off right tackle with 2:10 left in the first quarter, finished with 88 yards on 18 carries. On ECU's first possession, which began 97 yards from the Catamounts' goal line after WCU punter Eddie McGill coaxed the ball out of bounds at the ECU 3, Blue carried the ball seven of 14 plays, the last of which went for the TD. Blue scored again with 7:46 left in the game on a 6-yard run that made it 35-6 following the fifth of Chuck Bushbeck's six extra points. In addition, sophomore Earnest Byner gained 47 yards on five attempts, Stewart picked up 17 on three, and reserve halfback Milt Corsey had 13 yards on just two carries.

"I was extremely happy with the way we moved the football," Emo- fense in shutting out LSU until only 13 seconds remained in the game. Alabama beat LSU for the 11th consecutive season and brought Bryant his 307th coaching victory. Bryant, beginning his 37th year as a head coach, needs only eight more wins to surpass the record of 314 held by the late Amos Alonzo Stagg. Coley, Alabama's junior quarterback and one of three signalcallers used by Bryant Saturday night, directed the Tide's wish bone attack to 270 ground yards in the first half alone. Alabama converted seven out' of seven thirddown attempts in the first half.

The Tide scored on a 51-yard run by Simon five minutes deep in the game and added a 20-yard field goal by Peter Kim and a 4-yard scoring run by second-string quarterback Walter Lewis in the second quarter. Alabama's third quarterback, Paul Fields, threw a 44-yard scoring. pass to Mark Nix with nine minutes to play in the game. LSU's only touchdown came on 7-yard pass from Timmy Byrd to Malcolm Scott. The score came after the only penalty called against Alabama all night, an interference call in the end zone.

The game, which was moved to the season's opening weekend from its original date of Nov. 7 to accomodate television, drew 78,066 the third largest crowd ever to see a game in Tiger Stadium. See PIRATES, page 9.