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The News and Observer Section Sports Sunday, November 18, 1984, Raleigh, N.C. Heels rally for 24-24 tie with Cavs By JOE TIEDE Sports Editor CHAPEL HILL With many of the 48,000 Kenan Stadium spectators long since departed, North Carolina scored 10 points in the last four minutes Saturday to tie Virginia, 24-24. Despite the comeback, Kenny Miller's tying, 25-yard field goal with seven seconds left was not received enthusiastically by the crowd. The Tar Heels could have gone for two after Kevin Anthony's 10-yard touchdown pass to Arnold Franklin with 4:03 remaining. They chose to kick, making the score 24-21.

Then, they drove 80 yards in less than 1:30, missed on three passes from the 9-yard line, and sent Miller in for the tying threepointer. "It was my decision," said coach Dick Crum. "We'd come back 90 yards, so we went for the field goal. "I learned down at Clemson three years ago that going for the win isn't always the best thing to do. We could have gone for the tie.

We didn't and it hurt us the rest of the year." He didn't try a two-point play after the TD, Crum said, because it would have hurt the team psychologically i if it failed. Staff photo by Jonathan Wiggs UNC fullback Eddie Colson (34) goes airborne for tough yardage against Cavs Navy stuns Gamecocks ANNAPOLIS (AP) South Carolina's hopes of playing on New Year's Day in the Orange Bowl suffered a major setback Saturday in cold and windy Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Orange Bowl officials dropped by the South Carolina dressing room after watching the previously undefeated Gamecocks get demolished by Navy, 38-21. They didn't extend the invitation to play the Big Eight champion on Jan. 1, which South Carolina had anticipated.

"They said we're not out of the picture," Sid Wilson, assistant athletic director, said. "They said they have to go back and think it over." Orange Bowl officials had said earlier in the week that South Carolina was at the top of the list of possible opponents for the Big Eight champion, and Gamecock fans had bought more than 6,000 tickets for the bowl. However, ABC-TV sportscaster Beano Cook claimed Saturday that South Carolina already had accepted an offer to play in the Orange Bowl. Cook claimed Orange Bowl officials reached an agreement with the Gamecocks earlier in the week, violating an NCAA rule prohibiting bowls from making bids before Nov. 24.

Orange Bowl and university officials quickly denied the report. Navy's stunning upset not only damaged South Carolina's Orange Bowl hopes, it ruined an undefeated season and chances of a national championship for the No. 2 ranked Gamecocks. Navy coach Gary Tranquill gave much of the credit to the defense, which held South Carolina to 7 points until the final quarter, when the score was 38-7 and the game out of reach. "Defense made big plays, and our offense took advantage of them," he said.

Navy scored two touchdowns on passes from quarterback Bob Misch to Chris Weiler and two on short runs by halfback Mike Smith. The Midshipmen, after building a 14-7 halftime lead, broke open the game in the third quarter when they scored on three consecutive possessions. They went on to increase the lead to 38-7 early in the fourth quarter before South Carolina scored twice in the final period. See SOUTH CAROLINA'S, page 10B Runners By A.J. CARR Staff Writer Danny Aldridge has traveled approximately 3,000 miles to run 10 kilometers in today's Old Reliable Run.

And if all goes right, the long distance standout from Oregon should cover the 6.2-mile course in 29 minutes or less. That's moving, but Aldridge will have plenty of company and competition. The fast lane is expected to be crowded with sub 30-minute men when the starting gun goes off at 2 p.m. and sends some 2,000 runners winding on the trek that begins at The News and Observer on South McDowell Street. "It's a fast course," said race director Butch Robertson, "and I think the runners will go out fast and run the whole course fast.

I think it will be close at the finish. With this quality field, I don't think anyone will run away with it. "Most of these guys are used to winning races. I could see any one of seven or eight guys winning on a given day." Raleigh's Jimmy Cooper, a former University of North Carolina runner, is the top seed among the men, with Bill Reifsnyder second, Guy Stearns third, Colin Reitz fourth, Keith Brantley fifth and Aldridge sixth. In the women's division, Betty Springs, a former N.C.

State standout and local favorite, is ranked No. 1. Marianne Dickerson is No. 2, Janice Ettle No. 3 and Candy Strobach No.

4. The men's and women's winners each will receive a $1,000 prize. "I wouldn't be surprised to see as many as 20 men under 30 minutes," said Robertson. Coder, a graduate student in mechanical engi- Maryland, Tech surge, 2B Gators win SEC title, 3B Sooners surprise Huskers, 4B The decision left Virginia 7-1-2 and still in position to win the ACC title if it defeats Maryland next week. Carolina is 4-5-1 with Duke remaining.

Although the game finished with an offered pop, many rather bright than a spots for bang, both it teams. Carolina, relying heavily on the pass for a second straight week, charged to a 14-0 lead and dominated much of the first half. Virginia came back in the third quarter for a touchdown and added two more on long drives in the fourth quarter. People started leaving after an Anthony pass was intercepted by cornerback Ray Daly at midfield with 7:51 left. But the Tar Heels, who hadn't scored since the first quarter, suddenly regained their touch after the Cavaliers punted to the 14-yard line.

Anthony hit two short passes and then gunned one as far as he could. Flanker Earl Winfield put on possibly the best juggling act ever seen at Kenan Stadium before finally controlling the football and advancing it to the 10-yard line. After one incompletion, Carolina lined up with two tight ends, a totally different formation than it had been using, and sent Franklin on a delayed route over the middle. He caught the ball alone at the 4, with his defenders in the end zone, and scored easily. Miller's kick made it 24-21.

Virginia, which remained unbeaten for the ninth straight game, made one first down after the kickoff, but then punted to the 11-yard line. With 1:30 left, the Tar Heels See TAR HEELS, page 8B Duke slips past Pack By GERALD MARTIN Staff Writer A Duke team that has lived this season hand in hand with weekly disappointment prevailed for the first time since its season-opener Saturday, turning back an N.C. State team that knows the feeling, 16-13. A repetitious theme held true again for the Wolfpack. It failed to convert scoring opportunities and its defense was scorched down the stretch.

Duke, trailing 10-7 at halftime, drove 96 yards for go-ahead touchdown in the third quarter, though it missed the point-after. Then, after State tied the score at 16-16 on a 32-yard field goal by Mike Cofer, the Blue Devils launched a time- 67-yard drive to end their game losing streak on a 29-yard Ken Harper field goal with 1:52 remaining. The Pack still had a shot, compliments of Mike Miller's 37-yard kickoff return, but Darryl Brunson's interception of a Tim Esposito pass with just over minute left sent the Pack reeling to a 3-8 season 1-5 in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Duke, 2-8 and 1-4, concludes its season next Saturday at home against North Carolina. The game at Carter-Finley Stadium was hardly a masterpiece, though the outcome was in doubt almost to the end.

Controversial calls infuriated both head coaches, and missed opportunities did the same. State twice failed to score touchdowns from inside the Duke 5-yard line. One drive was stifled by a pass interception, and the Pack had to settle for Cofer's field goal in the fourth quarter after a an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against tackle Joe Milinichik moved the ball from the Duke 1 to the 16 for the third and fourth downs. "It seemed that no matter what happened, we weren't going to win," said State coach Tom Reed. "It typifies what has happened to us all season." Reed said Duke's ability to drive against the Pack and score the go-ahead and winning points in the final half was "the same things we've had problems with since the first snap of the season." Duke was especially effective in third-down conversions on its third-quarter TD drive.

It converted five times, primarily on the strength of Steve Slayden's passing and the running of tailback Stanley See BLUE DEVILS, page 10B Reliable Run a group of his college classmates are expected to lend vocal support for his stretch run. "I'll feel some pressure," Cooper said earlier this week. "This being my hometown, I want to do well. And being seeded No. 1 adds a little more pressure.

But I could finish first or I could finish eighth." Second-seed Reifsnyder also is on a roll. He has beaten a number of talented runners, including fabled Bill Rodgers. Stearns, who also has outlegged Rodgers, competes for Athletics West and consistently breaks the 29-minute barrier. The fourth-seeded Reitz finished fifth in the Olympic steeplechase as a representative of Great Britain, and No. 5 Brantley, a Gainesville, runner, ranks among the elite in the Southeast.

Aldridge, at No. 6, is one of Nike Shoe top competitors. The field is composed of runners from about states coast-to-coast, but local runners are hoping make a strong chase. In addition to Cooper, three other Raleigh residents are seeded among the top 16 Kevin Brower at defending Great Raleigh Road Race champ John Rogers at 13, and Mike Mantini at 16. Springs, who won the popular Peachtree event Atlanta and recently took a major Hawaiian race 32:28, is generally regarded as the No.

1 10-K woman on the road. But nobody discounts the second-seeded Dickerson, who gained fame at the World Track and Field Championships in Helsinki, Finland, missed the Olympics because of injuries, and now is on the comeback trail See FAST, page 11B 09 in a it a a Staff photo by Robert Willett Pack's Frank Bush storms through to sack Duke quarterback Steve Slayden (6) in first half 1:00 1:00 2:05 expect FM-104, WTBS-Ch. 17) 3:30 Football: Grey Cup Hamilton vs. Winnipeg Football: Washington at Philadelphia (WNCT-, at Edmonton (ESPN) Ch. 9, WTVD-Ch.

11, WJKA-Ch. 26) 4:00 Football: Miami at San Diego (WECT-Ch. 6, Football: New England at Indianapolis WITN-Ch. 7, WPTF-Ch. 28) (WECT-Ch.

6, WITN-Ch. 7, WPTF-Ch. 28) 10:05 Basketball: Los Angeles Clippers at Portland Auto racing: Winston Western 500 (WAKS- (WTBS-Ch. 17) a fast pace in Old Raleigh several weeks ago and finished third in a fast 10-K field in Kentucky last week, producing a 28:44 should benefit from strong crowd backing, particularly at the Bell Tower on N.C. State's campus, where Chestnut St.

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Morgan FINISH Hargett St. News START Observer Martin St. neering at N.C. State, has come on strong in recent time despite running in the rain. races.

He captured the 10-mile Capital Trail event in Cooper also knows the intricacies of the course and 19 to 9, in in the the.