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"iui Sunday September 111 994 '30 NFL: Buddy Ryan may be a bit on the brash side when compared with Dan Reeves but brash or quiet they have a common goal: winning They meet today i H4 Baseball: The game scrambles to assure the nation that no decision has been made to 1 i cancel the season despite speculation that the end will come Monday Outdoors: The Joyce Kilmer Memorial is one of the most impressive remnants of the nation's virgin wilderness The News Observer 1 Track and field: Former St Aug's star Antonio Pettigrew wins the 400 at the World Cup Relentless Sanchez Vicario takes Open title THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Telecast interrupted Area television viewers temporarily lost their telecast of the US Open on Saturday as Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario was about to serve for the women's title in the WYED showed most of the CBS feed ol the matehgl picking rt up because WRAL a CBS affiliate was obligated to show the Florida State-Maryland football A message on the screen instructed vie wers to tune to WRAL for the end ot the Open match but at appointed time for the switch the football game was still under way lSSfiSiSS'fi 'Our instructions were to take the match off of the air at a spokesman at WYED said 'It was up to ll WRAL employee said the station misjudged the time the football game would end WRAL showed the second Open men's semifinal after the FSU ame-w (7-3) 6-2 victory over Gabriela Sabatini and Larisa Neiland Sanchez Vicario and Novotna will play today against Katerina Maleeva and Robin White The US Open title proved that Sanchez Vicario is not just a clay court player and won't necessarily stay No 2 behind Graf for long "I won two Grand Slams and I have been so consistent I can probably be called the best player of the year" Sanchez Vicario said I don't know who is the best player but I am very proud of what I did Now I can say to everybody that I can also win on hardcourts" Graf who missed a tuneup event before the Open because of back spasms related to a stress fracture See Sanchez page 13B 1 over Graf's head into the corner It was that kind of effort more thatv the sudden -flare-up of Graf's sore back in the middle of the second set that enabled Sanchez Vicario to turn a rout into a classic comeback and a 1-6 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 victory for her first US Open title She also became the first Spanish champion in the 108-year history of the US national women's singles Sanchez Vicario 22 who won her second French Open title in June earned $550000 for the victory giving her more than $73 million in career earnings Graf 25 picked up $275000 to put her total prize money at $146 million A few hours after taking the singles title Sanchez Vicario came back to the stadium and reached the women's doubles final with Jana Novotna in a 7-6 NEW YORK Arantxa Sanchez Vicario's obsession to become No 1 a yearning that led her to a sports psychologist and a new trainer six months ago paid off Saturday in a stunning triumph of will over Steffi Graf for the US Open championship in a women's final that ranked among the best of the Open era Sanchez Vicario repeatedly showed a refusal to lose even when shots seemed far out of her reach That never was more evident than in the last game when she earned one of three match points sprinting diagonally across the court in a desperate chase for Graf's dying drop volley Lunging at the- last moment Sanchez Vicario scooped up the ball as her racket scraped the ground and lofted a backhand lob Duke St rack shuts edges 4 isers down -4 tL I "i NC State gets a big Atlantic Coast Conference win on the road upsetting No 22 Clemson at Death Valley By Bill Woodward STAFF WRITER CLEMSON SC No comeback needed 1 NC State which nearly erased a 20-0 deficit at Death Valley in 1993 started off strong and played that way for four quarters in a 29-12 victory Saturday over the 22nd-ranked Tigers that was more one-sided than the scoreboard indicated The Blue Devils use what Coach Fred Goldsmith calls old-time stuff to beat the Pirates in a game marked by seven turnovers By Tom Harris STAFF WRITER DURHAM Old-fashioned rock 'em-sock 'em football That's what Fred Goldsmith called it Saturday night after his Duke Blue Devils moved to 2-0 with a bizarre 13-10 victory over East Carolina before a crowd of The Wolfpack which lost 20-14 to Clemson last year despite four shots at victory from the 12-yard ltif 114 36420 at Wallace Wade 7 S'm 1 5 1' 1 ''i'-'F'- vj line in the final seconds got the offense cranking from the outset and piled up 493 yards 255 on the ground against a defense that was expected to be one of the toughest in the Atlantic Coast Conference On defense the Pack was just as dominant holding Clemson to 21 yards on the ground and only one rushing first down Clemson had not been held to a single rushing first down since a 1947 game against Wake Forest "They basically beat our butts" said Clemson offensive guard Will Young "That's all there is to it" Call it a carryover from a year ago when the Pack rolled for 202 yards of otfensc in the final quarter "Last year's fourth quarter gave us a tremendous amount of confidence coming in1 NC State coach Mike O'Cain a former ClemSon quarter- back who feeling of winning at JFrank Howard Field was something he just couldn't put into words "I don't think there are too many people in the world happier than I am right now It was the first ACC game for both teams which had similar performances in season-opening non-conference games State beating Bowling Green 20-15 and Clemson topping Furman 27 6' Clemson was the favorite but State dominated from the beginning and had many of the 68000 fans heading for the exits early on what was a numbing afternoon for the Tigers "I really think that we got physically whipped" said Clemson coach Tommy West "You try to complicate this thing But I think it's real simple SeeWoifpackpageIOB 15 Michigan wins i i Michigan placekicker Remy Hamilton' foreground and teammate Jeff Holtry watch Hamilton kick beat Notre Dame in the final seconds of their showdown at South Bend Ind The Wolverines who had fallen behind on Ron Pawlus' TD pass to Derrick Mayes with 52 seconds Jeft won 26-24 The story is on page 7B the rest of the college football report is on pages 8B through 11 Clemson's Antwuan Wyatt is separated from the ball by NCSU's Kenny Harris The Associated Press "That out there is Wallace Wade Stadium and in here this is the Bill Murray Building" Goldsmith said in Duke's locker room "and that's appropriate because that was old-time stuff out there tonight "A big crowd Great defenses Low scoring That's the kind of old-fashioned football that Coach Wade or Coach Murray would have appreciated" What Wade and Murray might not have appreciated were the seven turnovers including six pass interceptions and the errors that permeated and in the end decided the contest Duke's game-winning score a 28-yard Tom Cochran field goal came with 6: 14 left and was set up by an East Carolina mistake when long-snapper Brian Williams sent the ball high over Pirates punter Matt Levine's head on fourth down at the Duke 47-yard line Levine chased the errant snap all the way to his own 15-yard line where the Blue Devils took over Three plays later Cochran's field goal from the right hash mark gave Duke the lead for good "There were some mistakes" Goldsmith said "Each team made some and each team hit a big play We didn't execute obviously like we would have liked but East Carolina had a lot to do with that and I'd hope that our defense had a lot to do with their offensive problems "But mostly it was mostly the defenses just bowing their necks and fighting their guts out out there" Still it was a game of bizarre plays and odd happenings Three of the game's six pass interceptions came in a seven-play span of the first quarter but only the third when ECU quarterback Marcus Crandell put his first-down pass from his own 16 right into the gut of Duke linebacker Billy Granville led to a score Taking overeat the Terry Labonte wins rain-delayed race Mudcats take 1-0 lead in SL championship By Steve Politi STAFF WRITER ZE8UL0N This time the Comeback 'Cats will have to hold onto a lead instead The Mudcats known for falling behind in By Gerald Martin STAFF WRITER RICHMOND Va Terry Labonte held on just after midnight this morning to win the Miller 400 Winston Cup race whose start was delayed for one hour and 40 minutes because of a rainstorm" Few details were available A full report on the race will be in Monday's News Observer Labonte who started fourth in a Hendrick Motorsports -Chevrolet eased past Hut Stricklin on lap No 7 and his was the dominant car on the track although on several occasions lie lost the top spot during caution flag pit stops usually to Rusty Wallace Such was the outcome after the fifth caution of the race when Stricklin's Ford scraped the wall oniap 252after a tire failed Dale On Saturday starter Michel LaPlante rebounded from a shaky start to earn his first win of the playoffs After spotting the Stars a 2-0 lead in the second inning LaPlante held the Stars to two hits through the next five innings That gave the Mudcats offense plenty of time to get hot "I wasn't mad about that inning" LaPlante said "I kept the ball down and two runs is not the end of the world with this team You know the guys are going comeback-' crrcO I With the score? ffetf -1Z-2 the Mudcatsgot four runs on two hits in he bottom of the fifth inning The rally started when Huntsville first baseman Joel Wolfe booted a Mudcats page 3B Jeff Burton's car disqualified 1 2B Earnhardt and Wallace beat Labonte off pit road and shortly after the restart engaged in a stirring side-by-side duel while Labonte bided his time With 100 laps remaining Labonte finally slipped by Wallace and a few laps later Labonte took the measure of Earnhardt and again pulled away from the men in black The win is the 12th of Labonte's career Among the victims of accidents were rookie Jeremy Mayfield who crashed and Jimmy Spencer whose Ford momentarily burst into flames Kyle Petty parked his Pontiac early because of arroil pimp failure Southern League championship series Carolina vs Huntsvllle Gam 1: Carolina 7 Huntsville 2 Mudcals lead series 1-0 Game 2: Today at Five County Stadium 6 05 pm Game 3: Tuesday Huntsville Ala 8 05 Gam 4: Wednesday Huntsville Ala 8 05 Gam 5: Thursday HuntewHe Ala 805 pm Games 4 wcaMnr All torn EST regular-season games and in the first playoff series this season took a 1-0 lead in the Southern League Championship Series with a 8-2 win over Huntsville at Five County Stadium Saturday night "It's better than having to-battle back" outfielder Stanton Cameron said The teams will square Jff-at Five County Stadium again today at 6:05 pm Mudcats right-hander John Ericks is scheduled to face starter --Set-DUKMAGElIB.