The Herald-Sun from Durham, North Carolina • 39

Saturday October 17 1987 Sports Scoreboard2 Fanfare3 High School Football4 Etorijam itlorning Sfcrolfr UNC Pack Traveling Different Pathways Big Plays Memorable In Rivalry By CHARLES CHANDLER Herald sports writer By KIP COONS Herald sports writer Approximately 150 plays will be run today when North Carolina and NC State renew their football rivalry at Carter-Finley Stadium A single play comprising a fraction of the time the teams are on the field could decide the outcome History tells us that The annual confrontation between the Wolfpack and Tar Heels would not be special without a heritage This is a rivalry made of great games many of which were decided in an instant by a Some of those plays were unexpected striking from nowhere Others occurred at a time when everyone watching knew one of the teams would rise to the occasion Over the last 20 years there have been four plays that are most memorable They are classics IMS: Two In On CHAPEL HILL Sept 21 Each of the previous four meetings in the series had been decided by less than a touchdown There was no reason to believe this game would be any different Until lightning struck State scored two touchdowns in the first 1:34 of the game without running an offensive play The double jolt combined to give the Tar Heels one big headache that go away The first TD came when Gary Yount returned a UNC punt 84 yards for a touchdown Moments later Don McCauley fumbled the football into the air at the 46-yard line Jack See Big Plays3D Showdown Time Under The Dome RALEIGH North Carolina and NC State renew their backyard rivalry in football today when the Tar Heels invade Car-ter-Finley Stadium for the 67th meeting between the two teams The regionally televised game (channels 2 and 5 locally) gets underway at 12:05 pm A crowd of more than 50000 is expected State (2-3 overall 2-1 ACC) and UNC (3-3 1-1) enter the contest from opposite directions however The Wolfpack after a slow start in which it lost its first three games now owns a two-game winning streak following victories over Maryland and Georgia Tech The Pack also comes in rested With an open date last week Gametime: state hasn't 12:05 pm iS weeks ago The Tar critics might feel much the same way that UNC hasntplayed since its win over Tech For the record UNC posted an easy win over Navy then lost successive games to Auburn and Wake Forest since rallying past Tech in the fourth quarter However UNC suffered a big emotional letdown against Wake following its hard-fought 20-10 loss to No 5-ranked Auburn The Heels fell behind Wake 16-0 before losing 22-14 As if the defeat enough the Tar Heels lost the services of tailback Kennard Martin two days later when he failed a team drug test according to sources and was suspended indefinitely He is the fifth UNC tailback to be sidelined for one reason or another since last season The Heels lost Brad Lopp to injuries last spring and Torin Doran and Eric Starr this fall Last starter and an All-ACC performer Derrick Fenner was arrested for murder last spring and is awaiting trial in Maryland Freshman Reggie Clark with 27 carries for 112 yards in two games is expected to start for UNC problems at tailback matter to the Wolfpack once the game begins though a big game there's no question about senior tackle and co-captain Joey Page said game stands for bragging rights in this area and that carries a lot of weight in as a freshman you realize quickly that State versus Carolina is not just another game Each game is important but this one has a little extra significance not denying that all the State sports teams want badly to get the best of Carolina The rivalry is there in every sport and it always will be See State 2D Cards Dealt Big Blow Clark Pendleton Out Twins Not Nervous Just Ready To Play Associated Press A A Zf'-e Vy v'-' Associated Press jrT A 4 I 'z f-r MINNEAPOLIS The St Louis Cardinals enter the World Series in the same shape they started the playoffs injured The Cardinals announced Friday after taking batting practice at the Metrodome that first base-man Jack Clark would not be on their Series roster Clark who led die Cardinals with 35 homers and 106 runs batted in suffered a tom ankle ligament on Sept 9 and has only pinch hit since then St Louis also will be without third baseman MINNEAPOLIS The Minnesota Twins are easing into the World Series without the usual afflictions of young teams: lumps in throats and knots in stomachs They may not know supposed to be nervous know how supposed to third baseman Gary Gaetti said Friday get some of these things out in the open in the playoffs and you know a little bit what to expect and the thing to expect is baseball "Everything is more magnified because the whole country is watching and be a lot of people in the stands but the game is still the Minnesota is much less ex Terry Pendleton who pulled a no pulled a perienced in postseason play than the National League champion St Louis Cardinals The Twins have just five players who played in rib muscle in seventh-game victory over San Francisco for the NL championship like to have injuries But what are you going to do? You have to play the game with the players you have and we won the National League pennant with what we St Louis manager Whitey Herzog said To take place on the roster the Cardinals added reliever Lee TunnelL may need 11 or 12 pitchers to beat the Herzog joked Pendleton hit 286 during the regular season with 96 RBI and was second on the club in home runs with 12 He also is one of the best defensive third See Cards2D postseason games None of their eight expected starters for opener are in that group Only two of their nine starting batters including designated hitter Don Baylor are older than 30 Twelve Cardinals were in the 1985 World Series and five of their nine starting batters have postseason experience Four of those batters are over 30 That difference seem to bother the See Twins2D FREE EASY: Joe Magrane stretches in workout NCCU vs Winston-Salem State7 pm Duke vs Clemson1 pm Maryland vs Wake Forest1 pm Eagles Seek Redemption And Bragging Rights Blue Devils Await Results Of The Dilweg Experiment Confident Deacons Face The Bewildering Terrapins By TIM CROTHERS Herald correspondent By WARD CLAYTON Herald sports writer By TIM CROTHERS Herald correspondent traditional bruising rushing game has given way to the arm of Dan Henning Only Mark Maye has thrown more passes than the senior quarterback favorite target is tailback Bren Lowery who done much rushing the football but is tied for the conference lead in receptions have a potent offense with some big play type Deacon coach Bill said But all the finesse stuff might end in Winston-Salem The diminutive Deacons have put together a dream season for Dooley punctuated by 22-14 upset of last CLEMSON SC Duke matches its new Dilweg experiment against seventh-ranked ABC theory of Top 10 football today in Death Val-ley Duke is 0-1 in the ACC 3-2 overall and losers of two straight The Duke offense a Blue Devil strength under pass-oriented coach Steve Spur-rier has failed to score in its last five quarters So Spurrier made a big move this week inserting red-shirt junior Anthony Dilweg a three-year backup quarterback and Dilweg keep retrieving the volume and returning it hastily But despite the lack of monumental aspects pre-season words still apply lot of bragging rights go with this Eagles coach Hank Lattimore said trying to do is finish this season with a To make a bang it helps to have a gun That's Harvey defense is going to have to back up on Lattimore said haven't played against a team that can really throw the football and going to air it Trouble is the Rams can chuck the football as well Freshman quarterback Connell Maynor was eight-for-12 for 149 yards and also ran for three touchdowns in leading WSSU to a come-from-behind victory over Norfolk State last week The Rams also are the runaway conference leaders in total defense and yield just over 10 points per date Make no mistake WSSU may not need a victory to win the division but a loss to the Eagles opens up a window of vulnerability need this game and they know Lattimore said it could be a season-maker for So it's not the game it's just the game the end He seems to know what to do in But Clemson is no practice target especially for an iuex-perienced quarterback Clemson has attained its 5-0 2-0 in the and ranking with a simple way of playing football The Tigers rely on the running game kicking game and defense to defeat opponents the trio of areas most top teams in the country are built around The Clemson defense led by defensive tackle Michael Dean Perry and comerback Donnell Woolford ranks second in nation in total defense allowing only 190 yards per game The running game has been a pleasant surprise Sophomore Wesley McFadden (552 yards) and freshman Terry Allen (508 yards) help make Clemson the 10th best rushing team The kicking game is the best in the country Place-kicker David Treadwell has made 13 field goals tops in the nation Duke will be without inside linebacker George Edwards who broke a hand in practice Inside linebacker John Howell is out and reserve Jeff Brown is ailing Starters Jim Worthington and Jim Godfrey will be backed up by outside linebacker Andy Andreasik Sitting in the bleachers of McDougald Gymnasium before the 1987 season had even started Earl Harvey alread was talking about this game The junior quarterback suspended all football rhetoric about it one game at a and so on want them Winston-Salem State he said with an unset-tling grin lost it last year after having them Harvey imagined the usual scenario Two undefeated titans squaring off in Lattimore their annual struggle for the CIAA Southern Division championship Not so The Rams played along posting a 4-0 division mark and a 4-1 overall record But NCCU 3-3 and 2-2 has arrived at the prom with mud all over its gown As hard as the Eagles might try to out the record for this one the Rams WINSTON-SALEM Will Wake awake? The latest in the line of hel-meted would-be alarm clocks for the 5-0 Deacons are the Maryland Terrapins The Terps meanwhile have had their bells soundly rung in the last two games after a 2-1 start Three weeks ago Mary-land was stung by a re-born NC State team 42-14 and following an idle weekend the Terps were crushed again by highly-ranked Miami 46-16 But Mary- land as al ways is big and when big peo-le get mad they can wreak ivoc on smaller people The problem in College Park has been a lack of intensity caused partly by injuries to key players The heart of the Terp defense senior linebackers Kevin Walker and Rich Petti-bon were knocked out in the loss to the Wolfpack The Terps also have not been themselves on offense The North Carolina in Kenan Stadium attack is based on the creativity of quarterback Mike Elkins whose job it is to out-think the opponent confidence level also will play a big part in the final result this week we are facing a big strong football team that most people thought would be among the top two or three teams in the Dooley said key for us is to maintain the great effort we have been receiving every week We are not the type of team that can expect to win an ACC game with any less than that starter at punter for four-year starter Steve Slayden who has thrown 11 interceptions in five games only career start came two years ago against Ohio when Slayden was injured think got to let Anthony go Spurrier said Monday never really ever played much here just sorta swept up a few games at I i MW.