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I Mounts Ikimee nim College i Star quarterback injured-early in loss to Wolfpack Scores Top 25 (1) Notre Dame defeated (7) Pittsburgh 45-7 (3) Colorado defeated Oklahoma 20-3 (4) Nebraska defeated Iowa State 49-17 (5) Michigan defeated Indiana 38-10 (6) Alabama defeated (14) Penn State 17-16 (8) Illinois defeated Wisconsin 32-9 (10) Southern Cal defeated Stanford 19-0 (11) Tennessee defeated LSU 45-39 (12) Houston defeated (13) Arkansas (15) West Virginia defeated Boston college 44-30 (16) Auburn defeated Mississippi State 14-0 (20) NC State defeated (25) South Carolina 20-10 (21) Texas defeated Rice 45-7 (22) Clemson defeated Wake Forest 44-10 State Fuirman 17 Western Carolina 3 Delaware St 21 SC State 13 Wofford 51 Davidson 0 Newberry 36 Catawba 29 Sa Wingate 17 Presbyterian 10 ACC Duke 30 Georgia Tech 1 9 Maryland 31 North Carolina 0 Virginia 16 Louisville 15 Southern Conference Appalachian St 41 UT-Chattanooga 7 Marshall 40 VM1 10 More scores on page 2B By DENNIS BRUNSON ITEM Sports Writer COLUMBIA The University of South Carolina lost a football game Saturday but in the long run it may have lost much much more The 25th-ranked Gamecocks lost to No 20 North Carolina State 20-10 at Williams-Brice Stadium and in the process lost starting quarterback Todd Ellis for the season with a serious knee injury Ellis suffered a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee when he was hit by Wolfpack line backer Mark Thomas season is said USC athletic trainer Terry Lewis feel his injury will require surgery followed by a four- to six-month rehabilitation period He will also require some additional time to test the flexibility of the Ellis injury occurred on the third play of the game when he dropped back for his first and only pass of the game and the Anal pass of his USC career Just after releas- ing the football Thomas hit Ellis on the lateral portion of his left knee meaning the knee was pushed towards his right leg came in from the outside and he (Ellis) was kind of turned to said Thomas who came in on a blitz with linebacker Corey Edmond hit him in the back of the knee and he spun around When I saw him on the ground I figured he haj hurt his knee I want him to get hurt it just The Gamecocks had to punt once Ellis was taken from the field and NC State started it at its own 34-yard line Quarterback Shane Montgomery hit wide receiver Mike Kavulic for 18 yards on the first play and fallback Greg Manior ran for 18 more on the next play to give the Wolfpack a first down at the Carolina 30 State needed only five more plays to get in the end zone with Manior going in from five yards out for the score Damon PAT made it 7-0 with 10:49 remaining in the first quarter With running back Mike Dingle already out for the game with a deep quad bruise injury compounded South offensive woes Dickie DeMasi replaced Ellis but managed to hit on only four of 12 passes for 65 yards The 1 i I i i I HAROLD GREEN fights for yardage as NC Barry Anderson tries to make the tackle during 20-1 OWolfpack win Saturday Carolina St 7 0 3 10- 20 Carolina 0 3 0 7- 10 NCS-Manior 6 run (Hartman kick) SC-FQMadde20 NCS-FG Hartman 40 SC-Green 36 run (Madde kick) NCS-Byrd 31 pass from Montgomery (Hartman kick) NCS-FG Hartman 33 A -74248 NCS SC First downa Ruahas-yards Passing yards Rahim yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost PenaNes-yarda Tima of possession 20 10 43-162 44-03 294 66 11 4 1 22-31-0 4-13-1 538 8-42 4-3 3-1 4-30 3-26 32:28 27:32 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING -North Carolina 8tate Jaokson 9-48 Manior 636 Vam 11-21 Shaw 17-63 Montgomery 1 -(minus 6) South Carolina Green 26-116 Haynes 934 DeMail 9-(ml-nus56) PASSING -North Carolina State Montgomery 2231-0-294 South Carolina Elite 0-1-03 DeMasi 4-12-135 RECEMNG-North Carolina State Kavulic 6-109 Vam 662 ByM 332 8outh Carolina Brooks 2-47 Green 1-10 Miller 13 Gamecocks managed only 158 yards of total offense for the game sorry as I can be about Todd said USC head coach Sparky Woods whose team fell to 5-2-1 one of the sad things about football some times proud of Dickie DeMasi He played hard and did a good job considering he played all While the USC offense was straggling the defense rose to the challenge on more than One occa- sion Also the Wolfpack which upped its record to 7-1 appeared to be doing its best to give Carolina every opportunity to win the game One of the biggest mistakes by State came at the end of what appeared to be a 77-yard scoring drive Fullback Todd Vam caught a pass from Montgomery and was ready to go in to the end zone for a 17-yard score However he fambled See USC page 5B Series ey Henderson Not so coincidentally Moore who gave up two runs and five hits in six innings and joined teammate Dave Stewart as a two-game winner in the series and Henderson who homered tripled and singled were the two key players added by the this season With one of the most dominating performances ever in a World Series the 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 See OAKLAND page 7B Laws dealmg with spmal imtjiumy By DENNIS BRUNSON ITEM Sports Writer Clemson dismantles Wake Forest 44-10 CLEMSON SC (AP) Clem- quarterback Chris Mo-son which has played well in rocco said teams we big games but has had its prob- were supposed to beat lems against underdogs this struggled somewhat year stumble on Satur- I think the day against woefal Wake For- first time maybe that there est was a team that we were sup- Instead the 22nd-ranked Ti- posed to beat and we beat gers rumbled scoring on their like (the Tigers were supposed first seven possessions en route to) I think we played as well to-to a 44-10 victory over the De- day as if it was a big mon Deacons in Atlantic Coast Clemson is now 7-2 overall Conference action and 4-2 in the ACC Wake For- In its last four games Clem- est which last beat the Tigers son has lost to two heavy under- at Death Valley in 1961 fell to dogs Duke and Georgia Tech 1-6-1 and 1-4 after suffering its and struggled before beating 13th straight loss to Clemson Virginia But the Tigers had no many things problems against Wake Forest to be happy about for us out a 24-point underdog there Wake Forest way done this year played well at See TIGERS page 4B Keith said injury is as bad as any of that type Laws who started at safety for the Monarchs has been upbeat about his plight from the the injury occurred I really wanted to do was get up and play the last Laws said of the injury which occurred early in the third quarter mind was on the game until they got me to the (Richland Memorial) hospital (in 4 And with good reason Laws who had built a reputation as the big play man on defense already had four tackles and a famble recovery in what would turn out to be a 22-7 win He was moving in for his fifth tackle when the injuiy took place Laws was coming up to hit a Batesburg-Leesville running back who was freefn the sidelines after taking a pitch and slipping a tackle by one of the comerbacks had to come up to hit him and we both stepped into each other lowering our he said blocker from the side hit one of my legs causing my head to go lower His helmet was above mine and it hit me on the lower part of my The actual style of tackle was nothing out of the ordinary in the game of football seen that type of play that type of tackle a said head coach Charlie Combs who had a good view of the play as it happened on the Manning sideline (Laws) was hit just right though The helmet of the ball carrier gave him a solid hit on the lower part of his Laws said he blacked out for a short period of time because he remember hitting the ground He remembers coming to while he was still rolling on the ground When he stopped rolling his natural instinct was to lift himself up with his arms FLORENCE A poster carrying the Manning High School football schedule adorns the wall of Tony room at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Center The poster brings Laws enjoyment because it bears the signatures of all of his Monarch teammates I Whenever he looks at the though there is one thing his eyes goes to first the gahie against Batesburg-Leesville Sept 1 look at it just for a Laws said then I go on to the next game we have to The memory of the Batesburg-Leesville game will always be etched in the recesses of mind because it was in this game a life-threatening and life-altering event took place medical farms Tony suffered a subluxation of the cervical said physician Dr Edward Keith put he broke his fourth cervical vertabra was pushed out of place over his fifth cervical vertabra His spinal cord was severely bent but fortunately not torn Still Laws suf fared spinal cord trauma and was Initially paralyzed from his neck down except for some slight movement in his right arm The early diagnosis on Laws was that he would not be able to walk again However in a semblance of his own words above Laws has looked at the life of a paralytic just for a second and how he has gone on to something else Less than two months after the injuiy Laws is going through occupational and physical therapy ev- cry day and is now able to walk Ground the HealthSouth building yrith some aid been amazed with his re- I 1 win SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -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 derailed by destiny and the Los Angeles Dodgers a year ago completed the 14th 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 Rick- ed to him by his teammates on the Manning High football team- still had feeling in my arms speak tried to talk but I so I tried to lift myself he make any Laws said arms went numb and I said would be looking straight fell right back on my face All I at the physicians trying to talk could feel was a throbbing in the and back of my neck I had no feeling Lawg had jjg neck stabilized by anywhere else the emergency attendants at the Not only could Laws not feel anything he was even unable to See LAWS page 4B.