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Section LD) Score line: 829-4848 Football Outdoors The News and Observer Sunday October 29 1989 Raleigh NC pcarao Heels dig deeper in cellar Pack wins as Ellis injured 1 I By CHIP ALEXANDER Staff writer By GERALD MARTIN Staff writer Associated Press 4: 7' 11: --1: 4 4 4 i'l'i 1- -P 4 0 :1:::: 41': f--4- -A 4-- 41- 14 I A 1 A A A -0 1: 6- 1-'' 4 ''''00'4 'ft' -7 1 I i 7: 0'' 1 1 I 7 1: dir i 1- :::::4 :4 iiT: T- 4 '11411f 'S''1ll14'Iii ''4 'I" :::1 --'t :4 "i ii -Y! li 4 i 1 -''i '''''11' '44! r'' 7i 7- -4V 4 --ft 441 '''-'''ii'-' 3 ''0(-'" 1 ei I L1 7 i i' 4:::::: -f: 7' i' 1' Pr ess Press Press COLLEGE PARK Md Et cetera North Carolina's lame offense set up Maryland scoring opportunities time and again Saturday afternoon and the Terps pounded the Tar Heels 38-0 and nailed them firmly and probably permanently onto the Atlantic Coast Conference cellar floor The loss was the seventh straight for the Tar Heels who have not won since a season-opening thrashing of Virginia Military and are 0-5 in the league Maryland improved to 24 in the conference and 3-6 overall The Terps at home before a spotty crowd of about 27000 at Byrd Stadium took a 7-0 lead on their first possession and stretched the halftime lead to 14-0 primarily on the strength of quarterback Neil O'Donnell's passing And any hopes the Tar Heels may have had of a comeback were erased in the third quarter when turnovers on their first two possessions led to a Maryland TD and a field goal The Terps led 24-0 at the end of the third and added two fourth-quarter TDs MC coach Mack Brown made several changes in his offensive line and in the backfield and though he said he saw some positive results the 'Tar Heels were unable to punch the ball into the end zone The Tar Heels' pathetic running game was denied four times twice on fumbles inside the Maryland 2-yard line in the waning seconds of the first half and that was as close as they came to producing points "There's no doubt in my mind that the turning point was the goal-line stand" Maryland coach Joe Krivak said "The defense dug in and got the job done When the ball's on the 1 or 2 you need to get penetration and we got it" Brown said the Tar Heels lost confidence and momentum when they failed at the Maryland goal line "We were playing Chuckle Burnette for the first time since Wake Forest" Brown said "and it took a lot out of us It would take momentum out of an older team and we're young and inexperienced and needed something good to happen" Though victory was all but out of reach Brown brought sophomore Todd Burnett out of 1989 redshirt retirement late in the third quarter to replace freshman Burnette But it made no difference Burnette replaced because of interceptions he had thrown and a fumble pondered his errors on the sideline as he watched his COLUMBIA SC It would be tempting to say that NC State's 20-10 victory over South Carolina was decided 85 seconds into Saturday's game With 13:35 left in the first quarter at Williams-Brice Stadium the Gamecocks' Todd Ellis went down after firing off his first' pass The senior quarterback was clutching his left knee in obvious agony and the crowd of 74248 sat in hushed apprehension 1 For the Gamecocks and for Ellis it was the worst of football injuries a torn medial collateral ligament that South Carolina trainer Terry Lewis said would require surgery It has ended Ellis' season and his career in the garnet and black and could be the much-feared "million dollar injury" endangering his chances of playing pro ball "You don't like to see anyone get hurt like that" State coach Dick Sheridan said "It's a shame and I feel bad for Todd "That's a difficult thing to overcome and I'm sure it affected South Carolina State improving to 7-1 after last week's 30-10 loss at Clemson won this one with big contributions from so many so many times For the 20th-ranked Wolfpack it was a matter of a little old and little new with junior receiver Al Byrd making perhaps the most critical catch of the game while some old hands on defense got the dirty work done when the Gamecocks 5-2-1 threatened to steal away a victory "It's not a conference game but we wanted this one very badly" said Sheridan whose team will face off against Virginia on Saturday at Carter-Finley Stadium with the Atlantic Coast Conference lead on the line "We played with a lot of intensity and we played well" Quarterback Shane Montgomery never rattled in the pocket or by a taunting crowd coolly completed 22 of 31 passes for 294 yards and received the Dick Ciristy Award as team MVP as the Pack finished with 446 yards in total offense Senior Mike Kavulic as usual was his favorite target with six catches and 109 yards including a clutch 23-yarder on thirdand-16 at the NCSU 22 early in the fourth quarter that kept the go-head drive in motion and another 30-yarder two plays later Byrd's 31-yard touchdown catch with 11:39 left in the game the first TD of his college career then proved to be the winner capping a 72-yard march and giving State a 17-10 lead It also came a little more than three minutes after South Carolina's Oakland's Jose Canseco points the way for the Athletics early in Game 4 as they complete World Series sweep lit's a sweet sweep for A's The Associated Press 1 Radio-TV 10:00 Running: Chicago Marathon am (WGN) 1:00 Auto racing: Winston 500 Classic (WHPY-1590 1310) 1:00 Football: Los Angeles Rams at Chicago (WRAL-Ch 5 WNCI-Ch 9) World Series the Athletics answered the best way they could any suggestions that this championship was tainted by disaster How dominating? The Athletics never trailed in the Series and were tied only once that at 1-all in the third inning of Game 2 Oakland outscored the Giants 32-14 tying the largest margin in a four-game Series and outhomered them 9-4 When Henderson led off Saturday's game with a home run it was a sure sign Oakland would soon win its first championship since 1974 That became even more clear when Moore who had batted only once in the majors helped himself with a two-run double the first World Series hit by an American League pitcher in the 1980s ending an 0-for-70 slump This World Series took 15 days 10 of them after the earthquake shook Candlestick Park a half-hour before Game 3 and threatened to extend the season into November for the first time SAN FRANCISCO The Oakland Athletics brought the quickest of ends to the longest of World Series Saturday night Their coronation as rulers of the baseball world was merely delayed by the earthquake that devastated northern California and was never really challenged even as their Bay area rivals the San Francisco Giants mounted their first serious threat The awesome Athletics derailed by destiny and the Los Angeles Dodgers a year ago completed the lelth and possibly most convincing World Series sweep with an 9-6 victory behind the pitching and hitting too of Mike Moore and the bat of Rickey Henderson Not so coincidentally Moore who gave up two runs and five hits in six innings and joined Series MVP Dave Stewart as a two-game winner and Henderson who homered tripled and singled were the two key players added by the Athletics this season With one of the most dominating performances in a 1:00 Football: Miami at Buffalo (WPTF-Ch 28) 1:00 Football Houston at Cleveland (WITN-Ch 7) 2:00 Golf: Nabisco Championships (ESPN) 4:00 Football: Washington at Los Angeles Raiders (WRAL-Ch 5 WNCT-Ch 9) See WOISPACK page 1 OB See TAR HEELS page 9B See ATHLETICS page 1 1 Cuthbert runs wild for Duke 'Dream Season' nears its end By JOE TIEDE Staff writer By KEVIN MULLIGAN Knight-Ridder News Service 7777777-7 i 4' -1: 4:: tt 44::::::: 1:1 ''i-- ti -A'''' 41 44or" 4 ::::1 --r: ti 1 1 ::1 tr' rth kc' ft' ty -'Ni :::::4::::::::2:: -4 01 a 1r' '11' '1 11'-sil '4': t1 A 1 i'i '14- -14 i IS l'- 1 4 1 7': '1' --i 11 47: 1-'4 1 i rik 'A mink I :4::: ---7 y' N-'704 4 7 I L' ii ::::::1: i 44 1- SN i 1'-i: 1 iii4' 4:: I de- 4 '41' pi If1' II ')A 1 i i i ''''''IV'e4q4: ''4' Itlq 1 i i i I 1- a '4 I --00 I 3- 4' -r- 1 -7 Nt 34 1 1: Lawrence Taylor has tackled Jim Brown A Bart Starr pass has been intercepted by Ronnie Lott Bill Walsh has coached against Vince Lombardi On the lighter side Weeb Ewbank coach of the 1968 New York Jets has shaken hands with Weeb Ewbank coach of the '59 Colts and Chuck Noll of the '55 Browns has played against Coach Chuck Noll's '78 Pittsburgh Steelers Only in ESPN's "Dream Season" the mythical computerized tournament matching the NFL's greatest teams which has boiled down to today's 8:15 pm EST Dream Bowl showdown between the '78 Steelers and the '72 Miami Dolphins Pittsburgh will have the home-field advantage 'analyst" Steve Sabol explains by virtue of having the higher "net-point differential and won-loss percentage vs non-division opponents and conference opposition factored against gross yardage compiled in relation to net yards allowed And the quotient of which is simply multiplied by the strength of schedule The normal NFL tiebreaker" If "Dream Season" newcomers don't know by the end of that tongue-in-cheek explanation that this is not something to be taken too seriously there is plenty more The "game" also will feature: Film footage of the release of 100000 doves and pigeons the largest bird release at a sporting event A flyover of 1012 planes representing all branches of the Armed Forces arranged by presiden tial order or by splicing tape of famous flyovers together to look like one giant air show IN Eighteen blimps circling the stadium "A day that will live in blimphamy" play-by-play announcer Merrill Reese says A live (believe that and I'll tell you another one) hookup with the astronauts aboard a space shuttle And finally the pregame coin flip ceremony featuring the uh return of the uh king of rock 'n roll Elvis Presley himself (Or someone vaguely resembling The King) "Let's get it on" Presley says after the coin is flipped as "Jailhouse Rock" rocks Three Rivers Stadium As all of these "Dream Season" games have this DURHAM Randy Cuthbert put his name in the Duke record book Saturday without any help from the "Airball" style of football usually associated with Coach Steve Spurrier Cuthbert a 210-pound sophomore tailback from Chalfont Pa ran for a school-record 234 yards and three touchdowns as the Blue Devils made Georgia Tech their fourth straight victim 30-19 A crowd of 38621 the largest at Wallace Wade Stadium in 10 years saw Duke build a 24-3 lead and then hold off a Tech rally in the second half The Jackets cut the score to 24-17 before Cuthbert broke a 59-yard touchdown run with 6:14 to play The Blue Devil defense also played a major role limiting the Jackets to three first downs in the first half and 258 yards offense for the game "I'm glad we won like this" said Spurrier known for his highly productive passing attack "We won with defense and the running game "It's another step for us as far as having a chance for the conference championship" Duke 5-3 and 3-1 in the Atlantic Coast Conference piled up 302 yards rushing and 228 passing Tech dropped to 34 and 3-3 in the ACC Cuthbert got off his long run on a third-and-inches sweep play to the short side of the field Blockers sealed off the outside and Cuthbert shook off one tackler before hugging the right sideline on his way to the end zone "I've never seen anybody stay 2 inches inside the boundary like he did" Spurrier said "The guy's amazing I don't know anybody in the country with that size and speed who can do so many things" Ironically minutes earlier Cuthbert had run the same play on fourth-and-inches and lost a yard and a half "I told Cutty to take it outside" backfield coach Carl Franks said "He turned inside the first time and they the Jackets were bunched in there" Duke's new-look defense applied great pressure and disrupted Tech's offensive rhythm much of the time The Blue Devils threw 11 plays for losses usually by crowding the line of scrimmage and coming after the Yellow Jackets See CUTHBFRT page 9B 1 Stott photo by Robert Molter It was a high-stepping day to Duke's Randy Cuthbert who rdshed for a ichool-record 234 Nrds 1 See DREAM BOWL page 11B 1 i fa.