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1 The News and Observer aD Section Saturday November 24 1984 Raleigh NC WootballBasketballPrepsBusiness 111 Virginia illi011P44WP3uv -1 tii (::::1 1 '1 7 0 4 I e's' I ''S 4146' iiiii: 1 441! i tILk k84110 a :4 tfo i tvgplot ILAi-IC: 4SgifAT :4 1' v' you'll find in college football Their offensive line is even better than a year ago They had to break in a new quarterback and started slowly but everyone knows what they've done" The Terps have averaged more than 40 points a game in winning five straight since a one-point loss to Penn State They were unbelievable the past two games coming from 31 points back to defeat Miami (Fla) and rushing for 400 yards in handily beating powerful Clemson Virginia has not lost since a season-opening 55-0 thrashing from Clemson The game with a 12:20 kickoff will be televised from Scott Stadium Maryland has beaten Virginia 12 straight years South Carolina Gator Bowl-bound saw its perfect season ended last week by Navy while Clemson took a 41-23 whipping from Maryland in Baltimore But the two rivals will put those games behind them and so will a crowd of 80000 at Memorial Stadium Clemson 7-3 has not lost at home since 1980 South Carolina 9-1 hasn't beaten the Tigers since 1979 Coach Joe Morrison's Gamecocks lost two outstanding players recently when halfback Kent Hagood the team's leading rusher went out for the year with a broken leg in the NC State game and linebacker James Seawright was injured in the Florida State game Seawright missed the Navy game but expected to play today By JOE TIEDE Sports Editor North Carolina's football squad takes an eight-mile bus trip to Durham today for a meeting with Duke that is more important to the rival schools than it is to the outside world The stakes will be considerably higher in Charlottesville Va where Virginia and Maryland both bowl-bound will meet for the Atlantic Coast Conference title A third game pits traditional rivals Clemson and South Carolina both humbled a bit last week in the 82nd renewal of their emotional series This one will be at Clemson starting at 1 pm Carolina's main objective will be to pull its record for the year to 500 It is 4-5-1 Duke 2-8 has won this game only twice in the past 14 years but it pushed the Tar Heels to the limit the past two seasons winning 23-17 in 1982 and losing 34-27 in '83 when Carolina scored 17 points in the fourth quarter The Tar Heels are favored again Their usually ground-oriented offense successfullly went airborne the past two weeks when they defeated Georgia Tech and tied Virginia Their defense has made progress and probably played its best game against Virginia Duke showed considerable improvement in its past two games with the return of some offensive linemen and effective execution of the option by freshman quarterback Steve Slayden After eight weeks of little movement the offense showed new life against Wake Forest and NC State The Tar Heels appear to have more horses 33'S'Ipod()I 4 North Carolina's fc eight-mile bus trip tl meeting with Duke th the rival schools than: The stakes will be uwi A( Atlantic Coast Confer and South Carolina I A third game pits tr we i week in 82nd ren Carolina's poithrsouheeassTerelusinhnpaetswrgSadloysiotghlartwtrurhhstoo ehisuoHesnfinoenegydeuraaeaiswiiTa83sn years but it pushed tt wl 1 Pm went airborne the pa! ddeeffeeansteed GhaeosrgmlaaTdeecti plaD deitsshbe ow setdgc a si 1 its past two games one of them being 220-pound tailback Ethan Horton the leading rusher in the ACC Quarterback Kevin Anthony threw for 492 yards in the past two games and Earl Winfield had 12 catches for 208 yards Game-time at Wallace Wade Stadium is 1:30 and a crowd of about 35000 is expected Carolina says it leads the series 36-30-4 Duke says it's 35-31-4 Maryland 7-3 is headed for a Sun Bowl date with Tennessee and Virginia 7-1-2 has announced it will an accept an invitation today to play Purdue in the Peach Bowl But those commitments should not detract from today's business especially because Virginia will be playing for its first-ever football title Cavaliers' coach George Welsh went so far Friday as to admit this game might be more important to him than the nine Army-Navy games he was involved in as Navy's head coach "For Virginia this kind of thing doesn't come around every year" he said "I'm just glad the bowl conjecture is over because I don't know if we could handle all that It's better for us it's over" Maryland 4-0 in the conference is seeking a second straight championship Virginia 3-0-2 would grab it by beating the Terps because it plays one more game Ties count as a half-game won and a half-game lost "It's great for us to be in this position" Welsh said "We changed our practice routine this week finished it before dark "Maryland is as well-balanced a team as In the bag Virginia's first ACC football title is in the bag if the Cavs and OB Don Majkowski beat Maryland today See TAR HEELS page 48 J-9 ''s Fititi7 0 lifts 11 Boston College-Miami FM sums page 5B MIAMI (AP) It is known as a "Hail Mary" pass because you put it up for grabs and pray "The 'Hail Mary' was definitely listening to us because we needed that one" Boston College coach Jack Bicknell said Friday after Doug Flutie's improbable desperation 48-yard touchdown pass to Gerard Phelan on the game's last play gave 10th-ranked Boston College a fantastic see-saw 4745 victory over No 12 Miami (Fla) The incredible last-gasp heave which Phelan caught over a maze of six other players as he tumbled into the end zone also enabled Flutie BC's 5-foot-9 miracle worker to win a record duel of 400-yard passers with Miami's 6-5 Bernie Kosar Flutie completed 34 of 46 passes for 472 yards and three touchdowns while Kosar was 25 of 38 for 447 yards and two touchdowns Flutie became the first major-college quarterback to break the 10000-yard mark in passing yardage as he finished the game with 10303 yards He already was the major-college career total offense leader with 10537 yards entering the Miami game "With 28 seconds left I said 'We've got at least four plays' Flutie said of his latest miracle which took exactly four plays "Let's get the ball out near midfield and put one up into the end zone "It's a matter who got the ball last We had 28 seconds left but I wasn't sure if that was enough time I thought our chances were very slim but I wanted to get out near midfield and put it up Once we got near midfield I thought it was about a 50-50 chance You put the ball in the end zone we've got a couple of guys down there they've got a couple of guys down there you see who comes up with The entire second half was played in a driving wind-blown rain on an already drenched grass field but it didn't bother Kosar or Flutie the Mutt and Jeff '8) '( 4 1 tPliel'' (9 it if Qird 1 0 iio ZOTN Ilitio 6 ii i 0: i t-: 3e (If ::) i g(? 1 k' obot L7-e Sl 4 dr Lot: 1 ''''N 5 i toifck 2107 cor 04) t) I II azwzio- '7" 9 04:: lit 't) i l'''''' Mit -N ti tiome (1i 'll'i -'-'lklifizt- i': 'Iv :00:4 0 cl Alio' 4 0 kie54 41 0 Aoki A 4 Is low' gor c'i "1 1 I 0 A e4L: 7 ''W fi -1 cr- :1 -4 e71 4 -t 0 i'-1 do 1 Jfrto) ---It et See FLUTIE'S page 38 RadioTV Alex Ramos (WITN-Ch 7 WPIF-Ch 28) Football: Notre Dame at Southern Cal (WNCT-Ch 9 MIKA-Ch 26) Football: Oklahoma St at Oklahoma (WWAYCh 3 WRAL-Ch 5 WGHP-Ch 8 WCTI-Ch 12) Golf: 'Skins Game' (WECT-Ch 6 WITN-Ch 7 WPIF-Ch 28) Football: Arkansas at SMU (ESPN) Basketball: Campbell at NC State 12:00 Football: Maryland at Virginia (WAAL-Ch 5 WECT-Ch 6 WNCT-Ch 9) 3:30 12:00 Football: Mississippi vs Mississippi St at Jackson Miss (WTBS-Ch 17) 3:30 12:30 Football: Texas at Baylor (USA) 1:00 Basketball: Louisville at Indiana (WGHP-Ch 8 VTVD-Ch 11 WJKA-Ch 26) 3:30 1:00 Bowling: Budweiser Classic (WITN-Ch 7) 1:30 Football: North Carolina at Duke (WCHL-1360 7:30 WODR-FM-947 WMPM-1270 WDNC-620) 7:30 2:30 Boxing: Middleweights James Kinchen vs The Associated Press BC players go berserk In end zone after 'Hail Mary' pass on final play Scots vault' past Fike ACC teams came close to good years rs son recovered the first of four Scotland fourth-quarter turnovers at the Scotland 26 On the first play Thompson who had 28 carries for 154 yards in the game streaked 26 yards around right end for the score Thompson added the 2-point conversion on a run Wilson Fike had taken a 6-0 lead on the first play of the second quarter driving 63 yards in five plays Silverthorne hit split end Archie Pender with a 21-yard scoring pass but Silverthorne's PAT attempt failed A 19-yard pass to Pender on the first play of the march ignited the By BILL JOHNSON Staff Writer WILSON Rudell Fields blocked a Mark Silverthorne punt with 1:20 left Michael Graham ran the ball in for a touchdown and Jim Hedgpeth kicked the extra point to give Scotland County a 21-20 win over No 1-ranked Wilson Fike Friday -night in the quarterfinals of the state 4-A playoffs The Fighting Scots 11-1 will play Fayetteville 71st a 25-7 winner over Jacksonville in the Eastern finals Friday night in Fayetteville Wilson Fike almost had put the game on ice when quarterback Silverthorne found tight end Ernest Williams open down the sideline on a deep pattern But the pass slipped through Williams' hands and the Golden Demons were forced to punt from their 46-yard line Scotland sent 10 players after Silverthorne and Fields got the block "Coach told us not to give up" Graham said "We had given up three straight turnovers and coach told everybody to go for it (the punt)" "This was a typical game for us" said Scotland coach Mike Dubis "We won three games during the season with less than a minute to play" Fike which ended its season at 11-1 had taken a 20-14 lead with 10:22 left in the game after the Golden Demons' Anthony Thomp t77'N Irtfl7N 1 i 1 '-is il 5 itAis1969 1' 4 114 AWN 11: '166'411 4 A See BLOCKED page 2B Pack cagers start- with Camels Except for Virginia and Maryland which play today for the league championship and for Wake Forest which finished with a winning re cord this wat A not a season of fulfilled hopes for most Atlantic Coast Confer ence football teams It was disap pointing for NC Joe Tiede State Duke and North Carolina and it fell short of expectations for Clemson and Georgia Tech This is the first year since 1969 that neither State nor Carolina will make a bowl trip However the ACC continues its streak of putting at least two teams in bowls every year since 1972 That is not as significant a record as it sounds though since there are 18 bowls accommodating 36 teams of the 105 schools in Division I-A One thing to keep in mind is that there usually is less difference between the abilities of different teams than their records would indicate Georgia Tech offers a good example The Yellow Jackets lost to Tennessee by a point in the last minute they had good chances to beat Virginia at Virginia but ended up in a tie and they had all kinds of chances against Carolina in Chapel Hill but lost by a touchdown In short Tech could have won those games if one play in each See TIEDE COLUMN page 48 lry- the for with re- rat of pes 1 a enr-- Dail sap- and ina sort and iina ver of in Chat Li sc) Li 4k) (r1) openers Friday night Maryland battled 19th-ranked Kansas in the first round of the Great Alaska Shootout and continues play today at Anchorage Virginia took on Providence in Honolulu and meets Davidson tonight in its Hawaiian excursion In other local games tonight Shaw hosts St Pau Is while St Augustine's Pembroke State Fayetteville State and a team of former CIAA and ACC stars 'will be playing in a double-header at Emory Gym on the St Aug's campus "I hope that we have an advantage against Campbell in that we've already played five games" the Pack's Valvano said Friday "That experience could be a big factor for us" For State the season opener offers a new beginning of sorts new faces new uniforms (with 'NC' added to the traditional 'STATE') and a new outlook Wolfpack dependables Lorenzo Charles Terry Gannon and Cozen McQueen are back for a final-fling senior season but the Pack See PACK page 48 From Staff and Wire Reports It seems odd to say that NC State "opens" its basketball season tonight against Campbell University Think about it The Pack began practice in late September trekked 7000 miles to play four games in Greece then returned to Reynolds Coliseum for an exhibition stroll past Marathon Oil As Wolfpack coach Jim Valvano might quip some of the Pack's newcomers players such asball-hawking swingman Nate McMillan and center Chris Washburn already seem like old-timers in red and white But all those games were unofficial The Pack ranked 13th nationally in pre-season polls starts playing 'em for keeps at 7:30 pm at Reynolds Coliseum State is one of two Atlantic Coast Conference teams cranking up the new season tonight Georgia Tech now considered a member of the ACC's elite hosts Baptist College A pair of ACC teams went international for their 11 I NLemm i Staff Ow by Robert Willett Staff photo by Robert Willett Fike's Archie Pender can't reach pass during first quarter defending on play is Scotland's Michael Robinson I 4.