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SUNDAY HIGHLIGHTS Ba Major basketball col- Scores ALSO lege COLLEGE FOOTBALL NBA Garrison Hearst made his final SEE NBA season high of 54 set by Michael Jordan, as Inside opens Tuesday, Reggie Miller scored 57 points, eclipsing the and The State Citadel 44 17 pitch for football's in- previews the Mississippi the Indiana Pacers beat the Charlotte Hornets 134- N.C. ...0 10 With injured Marshall Faulk E. Notre Southern Dame 23 Whom did they beat? When do they play? 10C lead No. 9 Georgia over Georgia Previe, today. Rice 61 Miami 63 year in a spe- Florida 45 Georgia 31 college top dividual award, running for 169 Florida ..24 Ga.

17 122. 2C yards and three touchdowns to cial section High schools Tech 31-17. 6C E6-766 34 S. Diego 17 The football playoffs are down to 10 teams in 31 five championship games. How did they get there? watching from the sideline, Miami's Gino Torretta made his fi- Southern Youngstown Outdoors 27 Villanova.

...20 nal pitch for the Heisman Trophy Two new books of Archibald Rutledge's best by throwing for 310 yards and Tennessee .........29 McNeese 23 short stories and essays on the outdoors, part of a one touchdown as Miami routed ..........25 planned trilogy, have just been published by the Vanderbilt San Diego State 63-17. 6C University of South Carolina Press. 12C The State Sports Columbia, South Carolina Sunday, November 29, 1992 Arkansas rules out Kines; Ford now top candidate for position? By HARRY KING The Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. Interim head coach Joe Kines made it clear Saturday that he will not be named the Arkansas football coach. BOB SPEAR Sports Editor The Citadel enjoys life at the top CHARLESTON North Carolina secured a share of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title a week ago, and coach Bill Hayes planned to savor the pleasant memories throughout the Thanksgiving holidays.

A 9-2 record and no worse than half of the league title would be his legacy for 1992. Ah, life is good. Time to kick back and relax a bit before turning in earnest to recruiting. Then, doggone it, the phone rang, and the voice at the other end spoiled everything. The NCAA called to invite Hayes and his Aggies to compete in the Division I-AA playoffs.

Like the wallflower whose invitation to escort the belle of the school on New Year's Eve is enthusiastically accepted, Hayes wondered about his sudden good fortune. This is what they play for, of course. And the Aggies did put together a nice season. And winning a national championship is Hayes' professional goal. But can this be true? Can they really want us? Or is some jokester pulling a fast one? Do we absolutely know that's the NCAA calling? Assured that the NCAA had forgiven the Aggies for a 42-6 loss to Appalachian State a week earlier and honest-to-goodness wanted them in the 16-team tournament, Hayes returned to work.

Equipment came out of storage. Thanksgiving plans changed. The Aggies went back to the practice field. They shouldn't have bothered. They drew The Citadel in Saturday's first round, and the game remained a mystery for ho hum all of two plays.

First playoff triumph The Citadel won 44-0. No surprise, really. The Bulldogs do share the No. 1 ranking in the I-AA poll, and this would be another step forward in a season for firsts. They advanced the school record for wins in a season again, this time to 11.

And they earned the school's first playoff win. And I suspect they know how the Aggies feel. See Spear, 4C Kines, who took over for Jack of the committee, "told me that the until Crowe Crowe one game deep in the season, University of Arkansas would look for "That's said at a brief and emotional news an experienced head coach to lead Kines said of conference that he had met for a few this program." decision they minutes with the UA selection com- Kines, who was hired in 1991 as best for this mittee. He said Al Witte, Arkansas' the Razorbacks' defensive coordina- Arkansas faculty representative and a member tor, was never a head coach in college with a 30-6 Citadel tosses AGGIES aside was fired Sept. 6.

a business decision," the committee. "It's a made looking at what's program at this time." finished a 3-7-1 season victory over Louisiana 93 Jamie The State The Citadel's Tracey Gamble forces fumble by Aggies' Maceo Bolin, leading to a Bulldog touchdown. Early Seminoles blitz overpowers Florida By CHARLIE NOBLES with the University of Miami, in the New York Times Fiesta Bowl. The Seminoles' only loss TALLAHASSEE, Fla. this season was by 19-16 to the HurriThe Florida State football team canes on Oct.

3. Saturday provided a convincing argu- Such a rematch can occur only if ment for its participation in a nation- Miami and the Seminoles are ranked al championship No. 1 and No. 2 in the Dec. 6 poll of showdown.

Operating mostly from a shotgun The Associated Press. That's why the formation that has transformed them Seminoles, currently ranked No. 3 by into a veritable scoring machine, the The Associated Press and No. 4 in The Seminoles dispatched the Florida Ga- New York Times computer ranking, tors with ease, winning 45-24 before a will be rooting heavily for Florida (8- record 68,311 fans sandwiched into 3) against Alabama next Saturday, Doak Campbell Stadium. when the Gators and the undefeated Representatives from the Orange Crimson Tide (11-0) play in the SouthBowl and the Cotton Bowl looked on eastern Conference title game.

with anticipation, but Florida State (10-4) has its heart set on a rematch See FSU, 5C The Associated Press FSU's Leon Fowler (3) tips pass from Jack Jackson. (10-4) has its heart set on a rematch See FSU, 5C Leon Fowler (3) tips pass from Jack Jackson. State University on Friday. games into the season. Kines' announcement was a sur- Ford, who had the title of consultprise.

It was generally believed that ing assistant coach, said he came to Kines and former Clemson coach Fayetteville to help Kines get the Danny Ford were the leading candi- head coaching job. Arkansas athletics dates for the job. Kines called Ford, old friend, for four See Ford, 5C an coaching help Bulldogs catch Aggies off-stride, coast to 44-0 win By NEIL WHITE Sports Writer CHARLESTON North Carolina came well-prepared to stop The Citadel's wishbone in the first round of the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs. But the Aggies apparently forgot the Bulldogs still kept wide receivers on the field. Jack Douglas burned deep twice in the first half with long passes to Damond Boatwright and Cornell Caldwell to set up the first two touchdowns in Saturday's 44-0 rout at Johnson Hagood Stadium.

The Bulldogs, the Southern Conference champions and the No. 1 team in I-AA along with Northeast Louisiana, improved to 11-1. More importantly, they won the first playoff game in school history, on their third try. They play at home in the quarterfinals next Saturday against No. 7 Youngstown State, 9-2-1 after defeating Villanova 23-20 in the first round.

Youngstown won the title last year. North Carolina the MEAC champions, finished at 9-3. Douglas, who was playing with a sprained right thumb suffered a week ago against Furman, set a personal career high in passing yardage in the first half alone with 142 yards on three completions. He didn't complete a pass in the second half. Douglas, who also had a team-high 86 yards rushing, said he didn't think about how sore his thumb was once he got onto the field.

"They were definitely hitting hard," Douglas said. "They came to play football." Hence the idea of going to the air. "I like to throw so they can't come up and have 11 men on the line of scrimmage," Douglas said. His 57-yard pass to Boatwright on the game's second play carried to the 4 and set up his own 2- yard touchdown run in the first quarter. The play-action worked perfectly after the cornerback came up to stop the triple-option on the first play of the game.

"That set the tone," The Citadel coach Charlie Taaffe said. "We weren't going to let them come up and attack the option all day. If teams are going to commit the secondary to the line of scrimmage, we've got to be willing to go up top. That play sent a message." linebacker Rodney Edwards admitted the Aggies weren't ready for the pass right off the bat. "Our game plan was to take them out of the run and make them throw the ball," Edwards said.

"We did that, and they took advantage of it." Caldwell pulled in a 58-yard completion on a perfectly run post pattern that carried to the 20, and Cedric Sims scored six plays later from 2 yards out early in the second quarter to give the Bulldogs a 13-0 lead. "We know teams are going to key on our running Taaffe Taaffe See Bulldogs, 5C 3 Cannon powers Irmo past Eau Claire 62-40 By ROBBIE JOHNSON straight state championship Special Correspondent games," Irmo coach Tim Whipple Tournament MVP Ronnie Can- said. "He just hasn't been the guy non of Irmo nearly outplayed Eau who's had to be the main scorer Claire's front line by himself in the and the main person. Tonight, he finals of the Columbia Tipoff Clas- certainly showed he was capable sic at Benedict College. of that." Cannon, a 6-4 senior, scored 26 Richland Northeast won a doupoints and had eight rebounds to ble-overtime thriller, 51-48, over lead the Yellow Jackets to a 62-40 A.C.

Flora in a consolation game victory. for third place. Eau Claire's front line of Thad- The Cavaliers' D.J. Carson deus Delaney (6-9), Leonard John- made a three-pointer with 12 secson (6-10) and Travis Salley (6-5) onds left to the game to oversend combined for 17 points and 15 time tied 43-43. rebounds.

"Rortnie has played in, three See Irmo,.