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Section line: 829-4848 Football Outdoors 2sprrio The News and Observer Sunday October 9 1988 Raleigh NC Deacons rip UNC 4224 Wolfpack pounds ETSU 49-0 By JOE TIEDE Staff writer By AJ CARR Staff writer though UNC's Jonathan Hall fired two touchdown passes one with 2:04 left in the game "Elkins did a great job directing the team and Proehl made some great catches" Dooley said citing the obvious "The line also really did its job tonight" Elkins whose brother Rod played at Carolina several years See WAKE page 12B ''''k i ''7: 4::: ":0" 1- (:" '-1 4: ti It :4 ::4 9 '''A 4-- A o''1V -1114 'i '41111 :::::::::::::1 1 I 1::: r': :::::::::1: Illifl si: 0 Vtik 55 1 -kli alok '4' t41- ar 47i0' 40' 71': '4k- NI g' c'e11 "4i4':" ''''41 --A 1 Columbia roars snaps loss string The Associated Press This was the kind of football game that is a 'rare pleasure for winning coaches and an ordeal that lasts too long for losers NC State struck for two big plays early and thoroughly dominated East Tennessee State 49-0 Saturday night at Carter-Finley Stadium A blocked punt by reserve senior defensive back Dubie Picquet and an 85-yard pass from Preston Poag to Danny Peebles started the Wolfpack avalanche watched by 39300 Tyrone Jackson and Chris Hams went on to score three touchdowns each and the State defense held the Southern Conference visitors to 80 yards total offense in the one-sided contest "As I mentioned before the game it was important that we came out with a high emotional level" Wolfpack coach Dick Sheridan said afterwards "We played hard on both sides of the ball" A stunning 29-14 victory by East Tennessee over the Pack a year ago may have had much to do with the flow of this game "We didn't stress that game but we wanted to show them that wasn't the real State team" Sheridan said The Buccaneers put together one drive of three first downs in the first half but otherwise they were helpless offensively They seldom tried to throw the ball and WINSTON-SALEM Having played South Carolina Oklahoma and Auburn North Carolina's Tar Heels had reason to think that maybe the toughest times really might be over Not so Old rival Wake Forest riding the passing combo of Mike Elkins and Ricky Proehl played like a heavyweight Saturday night in a 42-24 romp in Groves Stadium that sent UNC reeling to its fifth straight defeat After falling behind 3-0 early the Deacons built an insurmountable 35-9 halftime lead and went on to present former Tar Heel coach Bill Dooley with his second straight win over Carolina First-year UNC head coach Mack Brown is still looking for his first Tar Heel victory Nothing could have been finer for the Deacs who at times no doubt had the Tar Heels wondering if Auburn's Tigers were after them again Elkins perhaps never sharper completed 18 of 22 passes for 233 yards and three touchdowns Meanwhile Proehl scored three times caught eight balls for 114 yards and made a one-handed touchdown grab that would rival any circus-type act going on at the nearby Dixie Classic Fair The partisan crowd of 33500 including Wake Forest alumnus Arnold Palmer loved it And they seldom had to sweat even NEW YORK Columbia's Lions snapped college football's longest losing streak at 44 games on Saturday riding Solomon Johnson's 2-yard scoring run with 5:13 to play to a 16-13 victory over Princeton Greg Abbruzzese rushed for 182 yards as Columbia won for the first time in 47 games since a 21-18 defeat of Yale on Oct 15 1983 Since that game Columbia had averted defeat only by tying Bucknell and Dartmouth later in 1983 Fans stormed onto the field and tore down both sets of goal posts Staff photo by Jim Bounds NC State's Bobby Houston top takes down an East Tennessee State runner for a loss See NC STATE page 1 2B West Virginia runs past East Carolina 30-10 47 fi By JOEL CHANEY Staff writer and 12 yards to set up a first down inside the Pirate 2 It took three tries but Harris scored on a keeper and Baumann kicked to give the Mountaineers a 30-10 lead with 13:25 left Starting quarterback Charlie Libretto directed a 65-yard drives but a touchdown pass to Al Whiting was nullified because of offensive pass interference On fourth-and-goal at the 24 Libretto again passed to Whiting in the end zone but Whiting dropped the ball The game began on a good note for East Carolina Junior Robinson returned the opening kickoff 65 yards to the West Virginia 35 A 20-yard pass from Libretto to Reggie McKinney gave East Carolina a first down at the Mountaineer 12 but the drive died Robb Imperato tried a 30-yard field goa! against the wind but it was wide left That smarted Had the Pirates scored a touchdown We went out to play Our intensity level has to change before we play again against Boston College Oct 2229 For almost three quarters East Carolina 1-5 flirted with putting a blemish on the Mountaineers' 6-0 record but couldn't take advantage of scoring opportunities "Once again we were our own worst enemy" said East Carolina head coach Art Baker whose team has lost five straight since a season-opening victory over Tennessee Tech "It was a close game where we couldn't make mistakes and we dropped passes dropped touchdown passes and missed field goals" With East Carolina trailing 17-10 to start the third quarter West Virginia drove into Pirate territory But Charlie Baumann missed a 30-yard field-goal attempt Second-string quarterback Travis Hunter who directed a touchdown drive in the first half marched the Pirates 51 yards to the West Virginia 29 where Robb Imperato missed a 45-yard field-goal attempt The other alternative was to gamble on fourthand-three from the 29 "I thought we could make a field goal" Baker said "He has Imperato hit some this year and missed some I thought we would continue to play well on offense and stop them on defense but at times we didn't do that" West Virginia then marched 70 yards in eight plays to take a 23-10 lead late in the third quarter The Mountaineers never faced a third down during the drive and scored on Johnson's 26-yard run through the middle of the defense Baumann missed the extra point The Mountaineers scored again after a 20-yard punt by East Carolina's John Jett went out of bounds at the Pirate 46 Harris did most of the work keeping for gains of 17 GREENVILLE The West Virginia Mountaineers rolled into town unbeaten and ranked seventh in the nation Saturday afternoon in Fie Iden Stadium And they left the same way The Mountaineers behind 167 yards rushing and two touchdowns from substitute tailback Undra Johnson and superb quarterbacking by Major Harris defeated East Carolina 30-10 before 33786 fans The crowd was the fourth-largest in Fick len history "It's a big win" West Virginia coach Don Nehlen said "Getting the third win on the road in a row I'd say we feel very fortunate These last two victories over Pitt and Virginia Tech were sort of like punching the clock at 8 o'clock and punching out at 5 See MOUNTIES page 1 5B A's rip Bosox 10-6 take 3-0 lead in AL Mets tar Dodgers Howell is ejected po The Associated Press The Associated Press I Radio-TV Noon Auto racing: Oakwood 500 (WAKS-1460 WCIDIR-FM947 WHPY-1590 1:00 Football: Washington at Dallas (WPTF-680 WRAL-Ch 5 WNCT-Ch 9) 1:00 Football: New York Jets at Cincinnati (WITN-Ch 7 WPTF-Ch 28) I :::7 ti 0 :4: A 7 i A i "4 :2 I 4 It Roa4-v t- i i ''1-1't 1: ti -77 ei1 4teof 41 4' 1:00 Tennis: Virginia Slims of New Orleans (ESPN) 2:30 Baseball: AL Championship Series Boston at Oakland (WDNC-620 INIVD-Ch 11 WCT1-Ch 12) inning Hassey who also doubled and drove in three runs and McGwire each got three of Oakland's 15 hits McGwire homered for the second successive game and got Oakland within 5-1 in the second Lansford connected for a two-run shot later in the inning and Hassey's two-run homer put the Athletics ahead 6-5 in the third and finished Boddicker Jose Canseco who homered in each of the first two games was the only Athletics starter without a hit on Saturday After singling Lansford scored ahead of Henderson's two-run homer in the eighth The Athletics have won all seven games against Boston in Oakland this year and are 15 of 16 since July 3 1987 Oakland is 12-3 overall against the Red Sox this season Boston held to just one earned run on 10 hits in the first two games broke out of its slump with 12 hits on Saturday Wade Boggs got three hits and drove in two runs and Mike Greenwell hit a two-rtm double and solo homer But the team that led the majors in scoring and batting average this season could not do enough to stop Oakland the second highest NEW YORK The New York Mets have a way of putting the opposition in a sticky position late in the game They certainly did it to the Los Angeles Dodgers and Jay Howell Saturday The Mets scored five runs after Howell a Dodgers reliever was tossed from the game for doctoring the baseball and went on to an 8-4 victory over the Dodgers in a cold rain on Saturday to take a 2-1 lead in the National League playoffs Game 4 is scheduled for 8:22 pm EDT today at Shea Stadium and will be televised by ABC John Tudor of the Dodgers and Dwight Gooden of the Mets will be the starting pitchers Game 5 is set for noon Monday in New York Howell who started the eighth inning with the Dodgers ahead 4-3 was ejected when the Mets claimed he had a foreign substance on his glove Umpiring crew chief Harry Wendelstedt along with home plate umpire Joe West found a pine tar-like substance "Give credit to coach Bill Robinson" Mets manager Davey Johnson said "He said he thought OAKLAND Calif Mark McGwire Ron Hassey Carney Lansford and Dave Henderson homered as the Oakland Athletics poured on the power Saturday night rallying from an early five-run deficit to beat the Boston Red Sox 10-6 and take a 3-0 lead in the American League playoffs The Athletics continuing to dominate Boston at the Oakland Coliseum moved within one victory of the World Series No baseball team ever has ever overcome a 3-0 gap in postseason play and Oakland could complete a sweep today when Dave Stewart opposes Boston's Bruce Hurst A hotly contested call on a hard slide at second base cost Boston a run in the fifth inning with Oakland ahead 6-5 and the Athletics' bullpen held on with Dennis Eckersley setting an AL playoff record and tying the major-league mark with his third save of the series After pitchers ruled the first two games at Fenway Park a hitters' paradise the batters suddenly got their revenge at one of the best pitchers' parks in the majors Not even the twilight start could help Oakland's Bob Welch or Boston's Mike Boddicken Neither survived the third 3:00 Golf: Vantage Championship (ESPN) 4:00 Football: Miami at Los Angeles Raiders (WITN-Ch 7) 4:00 Football: Denver at San Francisco (WPIF-Ch 28) 5:00 Horse racing: Turf Classic (ESPN) 7:30 Tennis: WCT Eagle Classic of Scottsdale (FNN Score) 8:00 Baseball: NL Championship Series Los Angeles at New York Mets (WDNC-620 WTVD-Ch 11 WCTI-Ch 12) The Associated Press Kirk Gibson grounds out with a broken bat in the third inning Se OAKLAND page 7B See METS page 7B of NASCAR's greatest Checkered flag is waving for a 'family By GERALD MARTIN Staff valter would be unparalleled in the sport Those guys represent 207 victories and millions of dollars in earnings "Coincidence" Benny Parsons said "Coinci: dence" Cale Yarborough said Buddy Baker said Each has his reasons and some of those reasons are common but among those three Baker Parsons and Yarborough the thing they'll miss most they say is daring Sundays by the feeling in for the button that is labeled "ignition" It's over after this season for Yarborough and Parsons says he's 95 percent sure he'll not crank it up again They are not alone in bringing down the curtain on an era in stock car racing Buddy Baker the gentle giant and yet another of the sport's superstars like Cale also is stepping aside content to call the shots as a car owner If Parsons indeed hangs it up and if Bobby Allison should not return to the cockpit the mass exodus from the driver's seat in a single season a factory Ford for at least a season on the circuit that was NASCAR Southern stock car racing Cale Yarborough won the race within the race against Benny Parsons and his overheating Ford Cale got the contract Benny returned to Detroit to become the scourge of the ARCA circuit Six years later he ventured back to his native state not far from the Wilkes County hollow where he was born once again to lock bumpers with Cale and men like him who lived week after week by turning left and by the grace of God A generation ago Now the time is near to reach CONCORD The year was 'M a generation and a lot of close calls ago The place was a bullring in the shadow of the Great Smokies and the men of the hour were wet behind the ears doorpost-to-doorpost and chasing the rest of their professional lives in a fencepostlined circle of asphalt Heads up toe-to-toe The best man on that day would win the favor of Ford Motor Co and a seat in See CHECKERED page 1 3B ll 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