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SUNDAY OCTOBER 1 2000 Kidginonil Eimts-Biapatd) SECTION Sports college football on (080 1 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Life on run best for Vick Mississippi State guard Kyle Wallace celebrates a 47-35 win over third-ranked Florida (Details Page C3) STATE SCORES UK9IIH CHESTNUT Va Tech 48 College 34 Virginia 27 Forest 10 Richmond 30Ar1t5t27 JMU24N Hampshire 13 31 Maine 28 liberty 50 Wingate 26 NSUO Hampton 54 Delaware SL 28 Ga Southern 56 VMI 3 VSII 23 Livingstone 20 VUU 48 Bowie St 14 Bridgewater 30 H-SC12 EmoryAHenry54Averett7 Methodist 10 Femim 7 Salisbury St 52 Shenandoah 6 Apprentice 23 Va-Wise 13 Detals Pages C2-3 OTHER ACC SCORES Na7Clemson52Duke22 GaTech42UNC28- ACC roundup Page C5 Tech grounds Eagles behind running BY JOHN MARKON Tmes-Dbpatch St aft Waite CHESTNUT HILL Mm And the gold medal in the 210-yard dash is awarded to Michael Vick of Virginia Tech Please rise and remain standing for the playing of Ho-kie Pokey" Vick in fact needed just about al of those yards to ensure that the unbeaten fourth-ranked Hokies would escape track meet at Boston College's Alumni Stadium with a 48-34 win could be temporary Tech (4-0) figures to advance a rung on the national ladder after Na 3 Florida's loss yesterday at Mississippi State It would be just fine with Hokies coach Frank Beamer and perhaps with Vick if highlight films of Vick's three touchdown runs were the principal public record of the win over BC Vick probably will wince a little during game films as he watches himself lose two fumbles throw an interception and complete only 5 of 17 passes missed a lot of things got a little Vick said afterward game today I guess it was running the balL Hopefully Fll pick it back up with the Even though Tech led 14-0 halfway through the first period and 35-20 at halftime the Hokies still faced an awkward moment in the fourth quarter BC (2-2) had just scored to make it 42-27 and had Vick looking at third-and-7 at the Tech 23 An apparent Boston College sack then was nullified by a call against the Hokies for delay of game On third-and-12 Vick certainly expected a blitz He may not have expected an all-out nineman pass rush by the Eagles After ducking and dodging four BC tacklers Vick broke free down the left sideline and didn't atop until he reached the end zone 82 yards away It belongs somewhere on the all-time Vick highlight reel all-out blitz means man-toman coverage and I knew the middle of the field would open up' Vick said have a chance to pass SEE TECH C4 OTHER BIG EAST SCORES HILL Mm this the year Michael Vick was going to be more Peyton Manning and teas Gale Sayers? the Virginia Tech quarterback been saying all summer that his goal was winning more games with his head and his arm and relying lesB on his more fragile legs? Well yes and yesterday at Boston College na No one who watched Vick throw yesterday would have given him one vote for the Heisman Trophy five complete passes and 61 passing yards were career lows By own count he missed two or three potential touchdown passes Watching Vick run however was an entirely different matter His 210 rushing yards were the biggest output in the Big East Conference this season and the third-largest one-game one-man total in Virginia Tech history Vick broke the game open with an 82-yard romp for a fourth-quarter touchdown that been a career highlight for just about any other player in America Vick tossed it oft by saying "That was just me being Hokies coach Frank Beamer was asked if die long run might qualify for inclusion on his list of the all-time top-five Vick highlights it's definitely top allowed Beamer somewhat jaded after only a season-and-abalf of watching Vick play Some Hokies epjoyed the show more than others Senior safety Cory Bird watched with one eye dosed so Bird said a QB and sometimes I like to see him think like a QB Mike hates to slide or run out of bounds or go down easy but sometimes a quarterback just has to go Bird and the Hokies endured a season-threatening moment in the second quarter aftw Vick took a vd-ume-10 hit from Sean Guthrie BCs hyperactive 250-pound defensive end Vick heard a voice screaming in his left knee and dropped to the turf it Vick said not for as long as I thought it No kidding A few snaps later Vick turned a SEE MARKON PAGE C4 No 10 Miami 64 Rutgers 6 Syracuse 42 BYU 14 Big East roundup Page C3 OTHER TOP 25 SCORES Noil Neb 42 Missouri 24 Miss St 47 No 3 Florida 35 No 5 Kansas St 44 Colorado 21 No 20 Oregon 23 No 6 Wash 16 Oregon St 31 No 8 USC 21 No 9 Mich 13 No 17 Wisconsin 10 L5U38NallTenn3KOT) Nal3Texas42OldaSt7 ArizStatNal5UCLAlate Nal6TCU24NavyO 37 Na 18 Mich St 17 Na 19 Auburn 33 Vanderbilt 0 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS during the first half Vick rushed Hokies QB Michael Vick avoids Boston College for a career-high 210 Na 21 Miss 24 Memphis 3 Penn St 22 Na 22 Purdue 20 Alabama 27 Na 23 Carolina 17 Mina 44 Na 24 Illinois 10 Na 25 Georgia 38 Arkansas 7 Detals Pages C3C6C7 Complete scores Page C7 Next week's schedule Page C7 Vlcfc watch PASSING a 5 completions 17 attempts 61 yards 1 interception RUSHING 16 rushes 210 yards 3 touchdowns STAT OF THE GAME Vick's rushing performance is a school record for quarterbacks and third highest in Hokies history behind mnning backs Kenny Lewis who had 223 yards against VMI in 1978 and Roscoe Coles who had 214 against Tulsa in 1976 UPSET OF THE OAT Dicenzo Miller ran for 172 yards and Dontae Walker had 156 as Mississippi State beat Na 3 Florida 47-35 The Bulldogs gained 517 yards including 351 on the ground It was the most yards rushing and points allowed by Florida since a 62-24 loss to Nebraska in the 19 Fiesta BowL It was Mississippi first vidory over a top-three team since beating Na 1 Alabama in 1980 Same old same old: UVa defeats Wake PLATERS or THE OAT Welsh has earned right to script his departure WINSTON-SALEM NC The old coach marched from the fieldhouse and into the stadium his expression the usual noncommittal mask his thoughts harnessed tightly his football team a mite wobbly his future Well that really is the heart of the matter now it? Architect of revivals at Navy and Virginia and bound one day for glittering testimonials George Welsh coached the 318th game of his master-builder career last night fair to say preparations for the first 317 did not include fashioning a defense against cyber attacks Nobody tub-thumps Forest Week" back in Charlottesville It's a low-voltage matchup with built-in predictability UVa won for the 17th straight time 27-10 last night so generating even a hint of pas- SEE UPPER page C5 BY JEFF WHITE Tdkes-Dispatch Staff Warm WINSTON-SALEM NC What could be more predictable than a Vir- ginia-Wake Forest football game? The names of the players and in case the coaches may change but not the winner at least not since 1983 INSIDE: UVa notes ACC roundup ference rivals to 17 games During that span Wake has had three coaches Al Groh Bill Dooley and now Jim Caldwell explain said George Welsh coach since 1982 guess we're better than Wake most of the time have better personnel and we shoot ourselves in the A crowd of 20151 at Groves Stadium saw Cavaliers tailback Ant-woine Womack the ACCs second-leading rusher run for a career-high 180 yards on 26 yards think pretty good Wo- SEE UVA PAGE C5 Tellis Redmon scored two touch- downs and had 183 yards rushing and 116 yards receiving as Minnesota beat Na 24 Illinois 44-10 Michael Vick ran for a career-best 210 yards and three touchdowns as Na 4 Virginia Tech beat Boston College 48-34 Woodrow Dantzler had 134 yards rushing and three touchdowns and added 174 yards passing and another score as Na 7 Clemson beat Duke 52-22 Damien Anderson ran for two long touchdowns and 219 yards as Northwestern beat Na 18 Michigan State 37-17 Billy Cundiff kicked three field goals including an NCAA Division I-AA season-best 62 yarder as Drake beat San Diego 52-12 Heisman hopefuls Page C7 Also Inside Small colleges roundup C2 FAA roundup -C3 PageC5 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Cavaliers did it again last night Their 27-10 victory extended their winning streak over their Atlantic Coast Con ILVas Antwoine Womack cuts through the Wako defense on route to a 40-yard scoring run UR shows game in late run C3 Big East roundup Va Tech UVa notes C4 -C5 Top 25 game summaries C6 Nation roundup C7 Richmond trailed Arkansas State 27-7 in the fourth quarter but came back behind running quarterback Sean Gustus and timely defense to win 30-27 before a homecoming crowd of 13116 at Indian Stadium was as a great a team win as ever been Reid said down 27-7 to a Division I-A team that can run circles around us with their skill And some way somehow we just kept on NEXT SATURDAY BY JOHN Tmes-Dbpatch Staff Warm Jonesboro Ark The enduring image of the University of first win over a Division I-A opponent since 1985 nighr RICHMOND 30 Spiders coach Jim Reid ran oft Arkansas State's field carrying tailback TyRonne Turner on his back ground game just wouldn't stop moving ARKANSAS ST 27 A TECH: vs Temple noon UVAJ vs Maryland noon RICHMOND: vs Delaware 1 pm NATION: Na2 Florida State at Na 10 Miami noon Complete schedule Page C7 THE ASSOCIATED PHESS Richmond's Claude Diggs stretches for extra yardage in first-half action against Division I-A Arkansas State SEE SPIDERS PAGE C3 i muauaaaamjlaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaA 44 4 14 a 40.