Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 39

PRINTED IN COLOR Ittrljmoitd Eimw-Bfetpatdj Sunday November 16 1986 Virginia Tech tastes peaches in 29-21 win By John Packett Tlteti Dispatch staff writer BLACKSBURG Five minutes into the second quarter of Virginia Tecb-Vanderbilt game the Hokies were giving a good imitation of a team that can whether it went to a bowl or finished the regular season 8-H The Commodores had Just scored to take a 7-3 lead and looked very unlike a team with an 1-8 record But that brief embarrassment was enough to fire up the Hokies and Tech went on to post a 39-31 victory over Vandy before a chilled crowd of 37300 at Lank Stadium Bowl-bound? Page D-12 The win may have clinched a Peach Bowl berth for the Hokies who for the sixth straight week wen watched by two scouts foam the Dec 31 game in Atlanta Bowl bids can bot officially be extended until Saturday Chris Kinxer tied two school records (most field goals five and most points by a kicker 17 in a game) to keep the Hokies far enough ahead of the Commodores and Tech withstood a fourth-quarter rally to make Bill Dooley the wlnningest coach (63 games) in school history But a 33-yard tquchdown pass from Vanderbilt quarterback Eric Jones to flanker Carl Parker seemed to ignite offense which had only a 38-yard field goal by Kinxer to show for five possessions nally playing up to said tailback Maurice Williams who rushed for 88 yards to go over 1000 in a season for the first time in what percentage of their misfortune was caused by his four-year career HNi the chilly rainy coodiUena going right for ua After the a finease team Their defense and the scorel the offense Just sald 'We have Holy Cross' Tom Estep doses in on William Michael Clemons era I i 1 tackle Joe Monica "If they had scored every time they could have who knows what the score would "havebdenr dy Cross which' came up empty four times after advancing inside the Indians' 18 kept off ansi ve-mtadqd William and Mary out of double Ig- By Join Times-Dispatch staff writer The delivered cold wet dip to WUltamind Mary's poetaeuoa aspirations yeeterdiy The aeoand-nted Crusaders wracked the eighth-ranked Tribe 81-7 in this Division I-AA showdown before 17450 it Cary Stadium The scon is deceptive This one that doee a Holy Cross (10-0) gained 449 yards to Wldfs 164 sacked Indian quarterbacks live times and contained elusive Tribe tailback Michael demons "Just one of those days" said WlrM defensive weather combined to take the flnesae out of our said Clemons who rushed for 84 yards on 81 carries Tm not going to make excuses" said coach Jimmye Laycock get beat we get was wet for both said quarterback Kenny Lamblotte who suffered through his Continued on page 4 coL 1 column Pago D-4 ures for the first time since 1863 when East Carolina whipped the Tribe 40-6 William and Mary (8-3) might have to win next game at Richmond to qualify for the 16-team I-AA playoffs to do IL The defense is keeping us in the game got to score some A 31-yard return of the kickoff by Williams set the tone for the rest of the game Quarterback Erik Chapman hit split end Donald Wsyne Snell with a 49-yard bomb on the first play The quick strike moved the ball to the 16 but the HoUra rat- 26-11 -ireezesa Fite photo Chris Kinzer Five field gotta tto record tied for a 41-yard field goal by Kinxer Still trailing 74 the Hokies stopped Vandy on three plays then went 83 yards on 11 plays to take the lead for good All but one of the plays was on the ground tailback Eddie Hunter went seven yards through the left side for the TD We wen a little tense at the said Chapman who completed 11 of II paseea for 138 yards were moving the ball but we kept having too many penalties and mental The defense couldn't keep holding them and they finally got the big play TD pass "But we didnt get down on ourselves We weren't worried" The run by Hunter (107 yards on 18 carries) came with 18 left in the first Continued on page 13 coL 8 ra Tigers' day Hampden-Sydney wini The Gima conquering Hi main football rival Ran-dolpb-Macon 21-7 Hoops Tha Tlmaa-Diipatch'i pre-Maaon oollogo basketball action with rundown! on itata area and national teams la Saction of today's paper Top 20 Michigan auffara its tint lota of the college football reason to Minnesota 1 Mans Ra (104) Mat TUs 83-10 a MUdgwi (81) lost to MkmMote 80-17 8 Psnn Stats (104) baal Moira Dams 84-10 4 Oklahoma (81) bsat Colorado 804 8 Arizona Slate (S-O-l) In lata night gams 8 Nabraalia (81) bsat Kansas 780 i AIM (7-8) li 7 Texas 18 a Auburn (84) lost to Qaotgla 8818 8 Ohio Stats (84) bsat Wlsoonaln 38 ia Washington (74-1) Usd UCLA 17- 11 Alabama (84) bast Tbmpls 24-14 18LBU (74) bast Mississippi State 47- 8 18 Southam Catoomla (74) bsat Ca8 tonka 284 18 Arizona (74) did not play 18 Ctamaon (74-1) Usd Maryland 17- ia Stanford (74) did not play 17 Arkansas (82) bast Tsxaa ASM 18 10 18 Baylor (7-3) boat Rios 2817 18 UCLA (881) Usd Washington 17- ia da Mtoa (881) lost to TSnnaaaaa 22-10 UR doomed to By John Markon TUass-Dispsteh staff writer Until yesterday the best advice for Yankee Conference trams heading south from New England to University of Richmond Stadium might have been "Yknkaa go home" sue ess MOM Dertay a Ml (kM Stated) MMM ra SONHMdt S4 mow Wood I run (Ssqaata tak) tan Altai 11 Men ra Bohmuh Mama MHh 41 run (SorMMdl tak) tan Oroenu I mi (SiiMly pass twn A 11 SI 7 T-N S-11 HM IS MU HT II SflMMnQ yards IN 11 144M 1874 MS 441 741 IMS runt Of puimucn M0MDUM RUSHttte MsMs-DsmySfsarrta IDS teres: tMh87Si Fea 1S4S WMw Iteinut 1 Wdm 14 Drams 1141: Moran Star 8Nnus 10: Mat- tfisws OfMtti 14 IMOWHIWIL MSMNQ Matos WWW 14oompMtono IS altampta 0 totoroapsans IIS yara SMunoM Star 1M74-f47 WOWOUAL MCSIVIM MaM Row caMm 77 yordo: HMra 140: Donoy MS: WMh l-mnus 4: tenants 14: Knoa 1 10: Lania 1-11 RMunoM Churah 11-101: Shtely 171 Oroomo 141: Hargrao 1-11: Honry 140 losing season Over the past three erasone Richmond had spun off raven straight homo wine against invaders from Down East But that streak that was ended authoritatively yesterday by Black Bean who dominated almost every minute for a 38-11 victory The lose Richmond's third in a row dropped the Spiders to 44 and killed URs hopes for a winning season Maine finished 7-4 and prated back-to-back winning records for the first time in 31 years Both teams wound up 8-4 in conference times don't think any of our opponents have taken us more lightly over the Et few years than ine fullback Mike Walsh said why I think of a better way to and my five years hero Pd say wa deflated them In the flrst half but I thought they cams out a little flat and have anywhere to deflate to Wa got them down and kept them "Maine did have an emotional edge on Spiders' coach Dal Shraly admitted don't think then's any doubt of that We'd played with every Continued on page 8 coL 1 i I i i i i i i Diving UR linebacker Pat" 8taff photo by dement Britt Brown contain Maine's Jim Fox Fenner (328) UNC trample Virginia 27-7 ers for 338 yards on 38 carries He ran for touchdowns of 68 and 73 yards Either Fenner was awfully good or tackling was awfully poor a combination of both perhaps but seldom did Fenner run when he shed a defender or two occasionally more "I cant say why I did it" he slid later "I did things I normally da" He did admit however he had been upset by Crum's decision not to use him at the outset because there were mitigating circumstances for his midweek tardiness Just took it out on said Fenner He called it big but mostly because be went over 1000 yards (1206) which was his preseason goal Fenner has done it in nine games too because he didnt play Game 3 at Kansas He By Jerry Lindquist Tlmcs-Dlspatch iteff writer CHAPEL NC There Was nothing memorable about the way yesterday began for Derrick Fenner He had been late for two midweek practices so North Carolina coach Dick Crum told his best running back he start against Virginia It was cold and rainy and when Fenner finally did get on the muddy turf of Kenan Stadium he fumbled away the ball the third time he got his haqds on it No one could have lmsgined in his wildest dreams what would follow Fenner wound up setting an Atlantic Coast Conference rushing record and the Tsr Heels beat the Cavaliers 37-7 A 84 330-pound sophomore who has been in and out of rioghnMe Fenner slipped and slid and generally eluded defend missed the bus that took the team to the airport and Chun left him behind Fenner broke the ACC record of 388 set by Amos Lawrence against Virginia in 1977 The 338 yards rank 11th on the Division I rushing list but are only third best this season The all-time reccrd is 357 set by Washington Rueben Mayes (now a New Orleans rookie) in -1884 Fenner was practically the entire story in a game Carolina (4-2 83-1) needed to keep its faint postseason hopes alive In fact be was the only constant in an otherwise dreary affair played under dreary conditions Because of the inclement conditions the game began in a steady rain that stop until the second half maybe 20000 Continued on page 4 col 3 PRINTED ct'LDR.