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-i I 6C Anderson Independent-Mail Sunday September 17 1989 -1' -mv-CV Tw -VV Wolfpack stay unbeaten top Deacons 27-17 yr 'V S' 7 v' I i Virginia passes by Tech 17-10 By Ed Shearer TteAnociiiadReM ATLANTA Shawn Moore went to a seldom-used receiver on a couple of big plays and that was the difference Saturday as Virginia downed Georgia Tech 17-10 in an Atlantic Coast Conference game Moore set up a touchdown and field goal with pass plays covering 61 and 42 yards to tight end Bruce McGonnigal- nad the pass in but we used Virginia coach George Welsh said of the plays down the middle to the 6-foot-5 220-pound McGonmgal The Cavaliers 2-1 overall and 1-0 in the ACC broke a 7-7 tie nine minutes before halftime on freshman Terry Kirby's 3-yard run one play after McGonnigal completed the 61-yard pass play after making the eaten at the Tech 38 McGonnigal who had six catches for 157 yards carried his 42-yard reception to the Yellow 19 setting up a 30-yard field goal by Jake Mclnemey late in die third quarter It was fourth victory in its last five meetings with the Yellow Jackets won here but been Welsh said It was the 16th consecutive ACC setback for Georgia Tech 0-2 after two league games this year do still believe that we are a better football team" Georgia Tech coach Bobby Ross said not going to let this one loss shake me and detract me from what we want to get done with this football program still confident that we can become a good football Ross said he was disappointed with the passing second half the football pack 36 But Williams fumbled a pitchout that was recovered by Wolfpack left tackle Ray Agnew From that point Montgomery completed four of five passes on the nine-play drive the last one an 8-yard touchdown toss to Chris Wiliams After forcing a Wake Forest punt on the next series Damon 43-yard field goal increased the laid to 20-10 61-yard completion to Bobby Jones set up 1-yard plunge less than three minutes later but Montgomery completed passes of 20 14 14 and 12 yards on the next series to help set up Anthony 1-yaru scoring run A first-half field goal and two ex- tra points by Wilson Hoyle gave the senior 195 points for his career breaking Michael school record of 194 set from 1982-85 The Aanditad Raw WINSTON-SALEM NC -Shane Montgomery completed 24 of 39 passes for 298 yards and two touchdowns Saturday night as 19th-ranked North Carolina held off Wake Forest 27-17 The victory was the third straight to start the season performance overshadowed that of Wake Forest quarterback Phil Barnhill The junior left-hander making only: his second career start connected on 21 of 40 passes for 321 yards After a 10-10 halftime tie Montgomery came out picking on die Demon inexperienced secondary and Wake Forest gave him some help A 38-yard kickoff return by Anthony Williams and a 19-yard keeper by Barnhill put Wake Forest (0-2) in good position at the Wolf- Vi A -S No 17 Tennessee downs Duke 28-6 S' "i '7 Ttu Amaral Press Virginia quarterback Shawn Moore cuts downfield on a 5-yard run while a teammate blocks Georgia Tech tackle Steve Mullen during first-period action of the ACC game at Atlanta Saturday Wildcat defense tames Tar Heels 13-6 game and with Tech's pass defense the long pass to McGonnigal in the it seemed like he had a century to throw and we had a five-man Ross said ms I tv f-rt' flW 1WTT Mississippi 34 Arkansas St 31 OXFORD Miss John Darnell threw for 412 yards and three touchdowns Saturday and Mississippi rallied in the second half to outlast Arkansas State in a non-- conference football game In an offensive slugfest Darrell had touchdown strikes of 57 42 and 46 yards to senior flanker Fat Coleman With five receptions Coleman had 200 yards a school record Florida 34 Louisiana Tedi 7 GAINESVILLE Fla Kyle Morris threw long scoring passes to three receivers Saturday as Florida ended a streak of 10 consecutive games without a touchdown pass while trouncing Louisiana Tech 34-7 Ernie Mills and Lomack scored on pass plays of 69 and 84 yards respectively and Morris threw 43 yards to Terence Barber for a third-quarter TD that helped the Gators pull away from a 10-7 halftime lead in the rain Alabama 35 Memphis State 7 BIRMINGHAM Ala Siran Stacy scored four touchdowns including scampers of 44 and 64 yards and ran for 169 yards as 16th ranked football team defeated winless Memphis State in their first meeting since State upset Alabama two years ago four touchdowns tied an Alabama record for the most by runs His other scores were from the 6 and the 1 The Crimson Tide in its opening scored first but the Tigers tied the game at 7-7 die leriod before Stacy scored at left end to make it 14-7 at the half The Asaociatad Pros KNOXVILLE Term Reggie Cobb ran for three touchdowns and 109 yards including a career-high 61-yard scamper to lead 17th-ranked Tennessee to a 28-6 victory Saturday night over Duke Duke (3-0) threatened several times using their vaunted passing attack but could only manage two field goals Billy Ray connected on 32 of 45 pass attempts for 182 yards But Tennessee (1-2) was able to stop the Blue Devils with key inter ceptions by Darryl Hardy Mark Fletcher ana Earnest Fields The Blue Devils burned the Volunteers last season 31-26 using the passing game Appropriately 61-yard run through a string of Blue Devil defenders with 6:43 left surpassed his previous longest run of 33 yards against Duke last year Auburn 24 Mississippi 3 AUBURN Ala James Joseph rushed for a career-high 149 yards on 23 carries and Lamar Rogers led a relentless Auburn defense as the No 5 Tigers defeated Southern Mississippi The Auburn defense one of the toughest in 1988 held its opponent without a touchdown for the second straight week as the Tigers improved to 2-0 Southern Miss which upset then-No 3 Florida State to open the season could not put togeth a touchdown drive as Rogers and Craig Ogletree continuously pressured Eirterback Brett Favre dropping Golden Eagles to 1-2 Joseph rushed for 79 yards in the firk quarter and Auburn went on top 3-0 on Win Lyle's 47-yard-field goal A 1 JL rife Vs-rVf Hi 4 i "fe i'S squad North Carolina which racked up 533 yards in defeating Virginia Military Institute 49-7 last week managed only 218 yards and 12 first downs against Kentucky is a much better football team than North Carolina offensive tackle Pat Crowley expected that At times I thought we aid all Maryland 23 Western Michigan 0 COLLEGE PARK Md- Neil O'Donnell threw two touchdown passes in the final 2:26 of the first naif and Maryland intercepted four first-half passes en route to a victory over Western Michigan Maryland' 1-2 recorded its first shutout in nearly two years in the game that began in a heavy downpour which ended during the first quarter Western Michigan held to 230 yards in total offense fell to 2-1 1 who completed 15 of 20 passes for 212 yards put Maryland in front 10-0 with a 3-yard scoring pass to tight end David Carr with 2:26 left in the first half for first touchdown pass of the year Three plays after safety Kevin Fowlkes snagged Maryland's fourth interception of the half O'Donnell completed a 14-yard pass to Dean Green with 34 seconds left in the half for second By Mike Embry UieAnodatadPreM LEXINGTON Ky It took some yardage in the real world by Alfred Rawls to lead Kentucky past North Carolina Saturday Rawls scored on a 7-yard touchdown on the opening series and defense dominated the rest of the way in a 13-6 triumph over the Atlantic Coast Conference foe Kentucky 2-0 drove 72 yards on 11 plays with Rawls going around left end for the score with 10:03 left in the first period to go up 7-0 over die Tar Heels visualize at night what going to do the next said Rawls who finished with 130 yards on 28 carries dream about running big plays I dreamed (Friday night) about a 90-yard run but it hannen 91 All that North Carolina 1-1 could muster offensively were Clint 29-yard field goal in the second period and 41-yaraer in the final quarter was a hard-fought game out said Kentucky defensive tackle Oliver Barnett who was in on five tackles think we underestimated Carolina and we seem to let up which is good We just kept our heads and stayed after Kentucky's Ken Willis connected on a 33-yard field goal for a 10-3 halftime advantage and added a career-long 50-yard kick in the third quarter 1 1 -S At i "-4 TtwAnoditedPini Kentucky fullback Andy Murray runs through a hole as North Carolina defenders try to stop him during the first half of their game in Lexington Saturday Kentucky coach Jerry Claiborne played hard North Carolina played hard the best Rawls also had a 15-yard cany to set up his TD run and Freddie Maggard completed a 17-yard pass to Mike Meece to the North Carolina 22 to keep the drive going fix the Southeastern Conference knew that Kentucky had a good football team coming into this game and I did not see anything to change my said North Carolina coach Mack Brown A steady drizzle fell in the first halt but by the fourth quarter sunshine bathed the field did it the hard said No 8 Buffaloes roam over lOth-ranked Illini How Top 25 Fared INotra Dam (2-00) bail Michigan 24-19 Next Sect 23 va Michigan Stale Michigan (0-1-0) loet to Notre Dame 24-19 Next Sept a at Na 20 UOA 3 Miami Fla (2-00) beat CaWomia 31-3 Next: Sept 23 alMaaoufi 4 Nebraska (2-00) beat Utah 42-30 Next Sept 23 at Minneaota Auburn (200) beat So Mise 24-3 Next: Sept 30 el Na 17 Tennessee Oklahoma (200) at Artaona Next: Sept at Kansas 7 damson (200) beat Virginia Tech 27-7 Next Sept 23 va Maryland A Colorado (200) beat Na 10 Illinois 39-7 Next Sept 30 at Na 15 Washington 9 Arkansas (10-0) bsat Tulsa 26-7 Next: Sept 23 Mississippi 10 Minois (1-1-0) loet to Na Colorado 36-7 Next Sept 23 vs Utah Stale 11 Syracuse (200) beM Army 10-7 Next: Sept 23 at No 14 Pittsburg Carolina 45-21 12 Virginia (300) beat A Next Sept 23 at Louisville beat A The Associated Press BOULDER Colo Tailback Eric Bieniemy ran for two touchdowns and threw a 48-yard pass on the halfback option for another powering No 8 Colorado past lOth-ranked Illinois 38-7 Saturday Colorado (3-0) used the big play to overcome an outbreak of costly early penalties and the Buffalo defense negated the passing threat of Illinois quarterback Jeff Geotge sacking him four times for losses totaling 54 yards and intercepting him twice Both of those thefts were converted into CU touchdowns Illinois (1-1) got its lone score midway through the first quarter on a 2-yard run by Howard Griffith capping an 80-yard drive helped by two pass interference penalties against Colorado comeiback Dave McClouehan The illini however did not cross mid-field again until halfway through the final quarter 1-yard scoring run culminated a gpme-opening 75-yard drive highlighted by Darian 74-yard pass to Jeff Campbell Florida St 31 LSU 21 BATON ROUGE La Peter Tom Willis hit Terry Anthony with a 32-yard touch- -down pass in the thud quarter and ran seven yards for a touchdown in the fourth period leading Florida State to a victory over 21st-rankea Louisiana State Florida State is 1-2 avoiding its first 0-3 start since 1976 LSU is 0-2 the first time the Tigers have opened that poorly since 1981 Willis completed 25 of 35 passes for 301 yards including an off-balance 21-yard thud-down completion to Dexter Carter to keep alive the drive to the clinching touchdown Dropping back from his own 47 Willis was under pressure and had to run to his right He threw back across the middle off his back foot and hit Carter at the LSU 26 Three plays later Edgar Bennett went over from the seven completing a 21-point second half for the Seminolea Miami Fla 31 California 3 MIAMI Craig Erickson overcame four interceptions ana four sacks with three touchdown passes as the third-ranked Miami Hurricanes beat California Erickson threw scoring passes of 2 yards to Shannon Crowell 18 to Dale Dawkins and 33 to Randall Hill All three touchdowns came after turnovers inside their 35-yard line The Hurricanes (2-0) allowed California (0-2) to cross midfield only twice Nine of past 14 opponents have foiled to score a touchdown Nebraska 42 Utah 30 LINCOLN Neb Ken Clark ran for 130 yards and two touchdowns and quarterback Gerry Gdowski had three scoring runs and 98 yards leading fourth-ranked Nebraska past Utah It was the fifth straight game that Clark ran for 100 or more yards as Nebraska improved to 2-0 Bryan Carpenter rushed for 107 yards on only six carries and scored on a 29-yard run early in the fourth period Utah fell to 1-2 despite 297 ymris passing by Scott Mitchell who connected on 26 of 44 and four touchdowns Syracuse 10 Army 7 SYRACUSE NY A 23-yard touchdown run by halfback Michael Owens in the third quarter Saturday carried Na 11 Syracuse past Army in a game the Orangemen had to pull out after committing turnovers on their fust four possessions It was the 16th consecutive win in the Carrier Dome for Syracuse (2-0) which held its football centennial observation before 48331 people It was Army's season-opener Owens' score down the right sideline lifted Syracuse into a 10-7 lead with 233 to play in the third period Arkansas 26 Tulsa 7 FAYETTEVILLE Ark Quinn Grovey raced 12 yards for a third-quarter touchdown and defense deflated Tulsa a couple of minutes later as the ninth-ranked Razorbacks opened with a win score capped a 73-yard drive that began after Tulsa cut the lead to 13-7 on a 2-yard pass from TJ Rubley to Fallon Wacasey Down 19-7 after a foiled 2-point conversion Tulsa quickly reached the Arkansas 45 Brett Adams who had a string of five straight 100-yard rushing games snapped was stopped for no gain on thiid-and-1 by Williams and TV Mason On fourth down Chad Rolen and Michael Shepherd did the same thing to Rubley Barry Foster's 1-yard run made it 26-7 early in the fourth quarter Tulsa was off to its first 2-0 start since 1978 with wins over Texas-E! Paso 23-14 and Oklahoma State 20-10 The victory was the Razorbacks 13th straight against the Golden Hurricane Washington 38 Purdue 9 SEATTLE Washington recorded the two longest non-scoring plays in its 100-year football histoiy a 78-yard run by Greg Lewis and 76-yard pass from Cary Conklin to Andre Riley and the 15th-ranked Huskies pounded Purdue It was the ninth win in a row over a Big Ten Conference opponent Washington (2-01 got big days from Conklin- Riley and Lewis and a strong performance from its first-team defense which shut out the Boilermakers far the first three quarters Purdue (1-1) held to just 39 yards rushing scored a touchdown and a safety against Washington's reserves in the fourth quarter Conklin for three touchdowns and ran for a fourth completing 14 of 27 for 215 yards and no interceptions Riley caught four Conklin passes for 137 yards Washington St 41 Oregon St 3 PULLMAN Wash Tim Stallworth caught two touchdown passes and six Washington State defenders intercepted passes in a win over Oregon State on Saturday but the 23rd-ranked Cougars lost starting quarterback Brad Gossen The Cougars (3-0) won their Pacific-10 Conference opener for the first time since 1981 Oregon State slipped to 1-1 after two conference games Gossen connected with Stallworth for a 44-yard touchdown on the first possession The left-handed junior completed seven of eight passes for 98 raids but left the game with 6:12 remaining in the first half after tearing ligaments in his left thumb when he hit a shoulder pads following through on a pass 1 He is expected to undergo suigery and miss four to six weeks Oregon 44 Iowa 6 IOWA CITY Iowa Bill Musgrave completed 20 of 27 passes for 263 yards and three touchdowns as Oregon pounded No 24 Iowa for the worst season-opening loss in 19 years Iowa a member of the Big Ten Conference fell 48-0 to Southern California in its 1970 opener Oregon a Conference team improved to 2-0 putting the game away in the third quarter as Musgrave directed long touchdown drives on the first two possessions to make the score 38-0 Musgrave who tossed three touchdown passes in a victory over California last week took the Dudes on a 73-yard 11-play drive on their first series of the second He threw a soft scoring pass to Kolya Tefft in the back of the end zone with 10:21 to play in the third and when Iowa was forced to punt after three plays he capped a 71-yard drive by hitting Tent with a 5-yard touchdown pass with 6:18 left 13 Southern Cal (0-1-0) vs Utah Stats Next Sept 23 vs Ohio State 14 Pittsburgh (2-00) dW not play Next: Sept 23 vs Na 1 1 Syracuse 15 Washington (200) beat Purdue 360 Next: Sept 23 at Arizona 1A Alabama (1-00) beat Memphis State 35-7 Next: Sept 23 vs Kentucky 17 Tennessee (300) beat Duka 264 Next Sept 30 vs No 5 Auburn 1A Houston (1-00) did not play Next Sept 23 Arizona Stale lAltC State (300) baalWaka Forest 27-17 Next Sept 23 va North Carolna 20 UCLA (0-10) at San Diago State Next Sept 23 vs No 2 Michigan 21 Louisiana State (0-20) lost to FSU 31-21 Next Sept 30 vs Otvo 2A Texas AAM (1-1-0) at Texas Christian Next Sept 30 va Southern Mwiaiippi 23 Waeh St (300) beet Oregon St 41-3 Next Sept 23 at Wyoming 24 Iowa (0-10) lost to Oregon 444 Next Sept 23 at law Stats 25l Mississippi Stats (2-00) not play Next Sept 23 at Georgia I 1 1.