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4 Sports Quote ACC Roundup 5-C Oregon State could get 400 garde but theg oulg get seven points That what counts Yards so what? It 's how mang points gou put on the Georgia's Rusty Beasley Pro Baseball 7C Fora the scores 225-1623 sun spt 13 ic Anderson jlndcpcndcnl-Itlail Pro Football 8-C Navratilova Defeats Graf In Two Sets To Win US Open Title Page 3-C Tim Etterbee Clemson Slugs Virginia Tech Sports Editor yard kickoff return by freshman Joii Jeffries with 10:05 to play in the game Virginia Tech quarterback Erik Chapman who engineered Virginia Tech's victory over Clemson last year spent much of this year's game on his back The Tigers sacked Chapman seven times for 56 yards in lasses Defensive tackle Michael Dean Pery had three sacks and an interception had to pull together as a defensive unit and that's what we Perry said offense has its days and the defense has its days and I guess today was one for Chapman finished with six completions in 17 attempts for 37 yards and two interceptions hate to blame it on the weather but that played a big part in Chapman said messed up the timing with our receivers and there was a lot of slipping going The loss also ruined the Virginia Tech coaching debut of Frank Beamer But Beamer remained upbeat despite the opening loss were going against a great football team" Beamer said is so huge and and quick and very talented I thought before the game that the best chance to move the ball against them would be with a short passing game They don't give you much chance to drop backend throw deep But our plan backfired 'The first two times we try short passes the ball is tipped It made me wonder if we were doing the right things" Clemson also had its problems throwing the ball Quarterback Rodney Wil- Pleasr See Clemson Page 6-C tailback Wesley McFadden and place-kicker David Treadwell supplied the Tigers with the necessary scoring McFadden rushed for 228 yards on 21 carries including second-half touchdown runs of 44 and 89 yards that moved the Tigers safely in front after a precarious 93 halftime lead Treadwell supplied all the Tigers' points in the first half on field goals of 27 39 and 31 yards love playing in the said McFadden days are perfect for sleeping and playing Clemson's defense probably had the Ilokies wishing they had stayed in bed The Tigers held Virginia Tech to 60 yards in total offense 23 rushing and 37 passing and six first downs The Ilokies' points came on a 48-yard field goal by Chris Kinzer with 1:14 remaining in the first quarter and a 92- By Charles Bennett Auirtul Sparta Mllar BLACKSBURG Va The defense was awesome the offense something much less and the punting game un-mentionably bad But the sum of its parts proved strong enough for the lOth-ranked Clemson Tigers to beat the Virginia Tech Ilokies 22-10 Saturday in front of a rain-soaked Lane Stadium crowd of 41000 have to congratulate our football team because we won in a very trying Clemson Coach Danny Ford said after watching his team improve its record to 2-0 don't know if we played all that good or bad or what at this point The weather had a lot to do with On a day when Clemson's offense had trouble mounting a sustained drive Georgia Grounds Beavers Tigers Must Apply Polish In Preparation For Georgia BLACKSBURG Va The rain that was a steady shower turned into another downpour here Saturday while the Clemson equipment men loaded the Express" truck to head down the road toward Clemson's biggest game of the 1987 season It was a dirty job this one The pads the pants the helmets and cleats were caked with mud and it's going to take a massive effort by the equipment people to return the shine before game against Georgia Clemson Coach Danny Ford also has a few rows to hoe What Ford saw Saturday during Clemson's 22-10 victory over Virginia Tech were weaknesses that were not revealed during last week's rout of Western Carolina They are weaknesses that must be corrected if the Tigers are expecting to stay among the top 10 teams The offense that looked so brilliant last week turned very ordinary against the Ilokies Two long touchdown runs in the second half could not erase from memory the inadequacies of the first half Clemson had four possessions inside the 50 and came away with nine points The Tigers completed two of nine passes for 19 yards And the offensive woes paled in comparison to the punting game That aspect a sore spot even last week against Western turned into an open wound On two occasions punter Rusty Seyle was forced to fall on the ball alter bad exchanges on the snaps While punting from his own end zone in the second half he was forced to field a short-hop and managed to make the kick His average was 346 yards Sound like a horror flick? Not so Clemson won and if you're counting on a trip Miami for the Orange Bowl it translates into two-down nine to go The Tigers won because the defense on this day could have played with any team in the country Chavous Earle Johnson Perry Stephens Carter Haynes Woolford Lott Beasley Smith in short they were great They held Virginia Tech to 60 total yards an average of 11 per play They sacked Erik Chapman the same quarterback who last year engineered Tech's victory over the Tigers seven times for losses totaling 56 yards They held in the second half from the 18 22 32 and 34 They created fumbles and interceptions and they helped Clemson improve its record to 2-0 And there was no finger-pointing When it was mentioned to Tom Harper Clemson's assistant head coach that the offense kept his defense in dire straits during much of the second half Harper had a simple football philosophy why you have he said it may be the other way around One unit doesn't win ballgames We all know Harper admitted his unit had an extraordinary game but he's not ready to write the book Not yet still he said now I think all playing great getting a lot of good ind ividual plays But got to take this as a game-by-game thing I'm real proud of them right now and I just hope By A1 Muskewitz Stair Sparta Writer ATHENS The Georgia Bulldogs proved in their 41-7 victory over Oregon State Saturday that a ball-control offense will beat a passing game any day The 73211 who filled Sanford Stadium expected an air show from Oregon State quarterback Erik Wilhelm against Georgia's maligned secondary That they got but in the end it was the balanced ball-control style offense that proved to be the difference in the game Wilhelm completed 33 of 53 passes for 353 yards as the Beavers became the seventh consecutive team to pass for more than 200 yards against the Bulldogs but he managed to find the end zone just once Oregon State had only 18 yards rushing Georgia's offense meanwhile amassed 518 total yards the most in a game since 1982 The Bulldogs had 382 yards rushing led by Lars Tate's 132 Stair Photo By Patricia Grind Please See Georgia Page 6-C Georgia's Mike Brown (42) and John Brantley (49) chase Oregon State's Brian Taylor (27) Please See Ellerbee Page 6-C Sloppy South Carolina Too Strong For WCU 31-6 that feeling out of this game With 20th-ranked Georgia and second-ranked Nebraska the next two games on theschedule the Gamecocks welcomed an open week to prepare think we've got to get in a better mental and physical frame" Little said think that interception helped break their backs a little but we could have put them away early in the game in my opinion gambled and lost some times (against Western Carolina) Against Georgia and Nebraska you can't gamble like Please See Carolina Page 6-C yards against Clemson managed only 38 yards against South Carolina But sophomore quarterback Todd Cottrell despite constant pressure passed for 193 yards completing 18 of 42 passes His ability to use three-step drops and complete short passes even forced South Carolina to leave its defense for a three-linebacker aligmenL made some definite progress from last week" Cottrell said didn't play great and we still have a long way to go but getting South Carolina which managed only freshman Collin Mackie's 47-yard field goal in the final 28W minutes didn't get made the last 2814 minutes seem like an eternity Instead of putting away the Division 1-AA Catamounts South Carolina battled evenly trading field goals and giving a team that last week was beaten 43-0 by Clemson University a sense of accomplishment didn't think it was as bad as the Western Carolina Coach Bob Waters said to six it didn't seem that bad I saw some good things and some positive things could have folded at the half We were outmanned but we didn't The Catamounts who rushed for only 10 1 By Jim Rice Amistant Sparta Kdilar COLUMBIA There was no fooling the 1'niversity of South Carolina football team here Saturday night Despite a 31-6 victory over Western Carolina University before a rain-soaked crowd of 66J73 at Williams-Brice Stadium the Gamecocks' victory celebration was short and sulxiued What a two-hour thunderstorm didn't do to emotions 12 penalties four interceptions and the realization that two Top Twenty teams lie ahead did was not particularly pleased with the way played especially starting off the second South Carolina Coach Joe Morrison said think we lost a little bit of our concentration (and) lost a little bit of our intensity during the course of the South Carolina 2-0 built a 21-3 halftime lead as sophomore running back Harold Green rushed for 96 of his career-high 104 yards and All-American quarterback Todd Ellis cloaked an overall disappointing performance by throwing three long touchdown passes But after Derrick Little intercepted Western Carolina's Todd Cottrell on the first play of the second half to set up an 8-yard touchdown drive the Gamecocks Furman Controls Presbyterian 23-3 Strom Leads Ga Tech Past Citadel ATLANTA (AP) Bobby Ross opened his Georgia Tech coaching career Saturday with a 51-12 victory over The Citadel was obvious we had the better football Ross said after watching quarterback Rick Strom pass for 317 yards and three touchdowns to spark the victory thought Rick did a good Ross said on the incompletions we had he had a couple of passes Strom who completed 1 1 of 18 passes sat out the remainder of the game after giving Tech a 37-6 lead with 11:10 to play in the third quarter on a 48-yard pass to Robert Massey passing game is just about where I thought it Ross said Coach Charlie Taaffe of the Bulldogs was disappointed with his team did not execute on offense and we gave up too many big plays on Taaffe said can't do those self-defeating things against a team like Georgia Tech and expect to do well much less other scoring passes covered 49 yards to running back Malcolm King and 34 yards to Greg Lester Tech never trailed taking the lead on its second offensive play of the day a 2-yard run by King that came after Strom and Steve Davenport combined on a 79-yard pass GREENVILLE (AP) Quarterback Chris Speaks rushed for one touchdown and passed for two more as Furman beat Presbyterian 23-3 in college football Saturday Speaks completed 1 1 of 17 passes for 185 yards as the Paladins improved to 2-0 The Blue Hose fell to 1-1 with the loss The Paladins opened scoring with an 11-play 74-yard drive which ended on a 9-yard touchdown run by Speaks The Blue Hose came back with a 57-yard second-quarter drive which resulted in Chris Wingo's 23-yard field goal that cut Furman's lead to 7-3 But Julius Dixon's block of a Presbyterian punt late in the second quarter gave the Paladins a second scoring opportunity as the Furman offense took over the ball at the Blue Hose 29 yard line Speaks completed a pair of passes to tight end Tim Fox to set up a first-and-goal on the 9-yard line From there Speaks hit Larry Grady for a touchdown that put the Paladins up 14-3 at the half A Mike Wood field goal early in the fourth quarter gave Furman a 17-3 lead at the 14:11 mark Furman's final touchdown came after Presbyterian quarterback Scotty Mozingo ftimbled inside the Presbyterian 10 yard line Two plays later Speaks threw a 4-yard pass to tight end Bill Duncan for the score and the final margin A two-point conversion attempt failed Furman Coach Jimmy Satterfield said he was glad his team won -the game but saw room for im- provement thought we played a sloppy ballgame but we won the game and I'm happy for that" Satterfield said looked like we weren't in real good shape out there and our tackling was very suspect this afternoon From an execution standpoint we were poor and for us to be competitive the Southern Conference we got to play better than we did Presbyterian lest four fumbles and had one pass intercepted and Blue Hose Coach Elliott Poss said the turnovers were a major factor in the game turnovers at key points really hurt us and especially the blocked punt really put us in the hole at the end of the first halC" Poss said just can't have mistakes like that against a team like Furman and expect to Blair Photo By Owl Rilrjr Jr Presbyterian's Scotty Mozingo (left) is pressured by Sammy Cooper (25) Please See Tech Page 6-C.