Richmond Times-Dispatch du lieu suivant : Richmond, Virginia • 35

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 28 2000 Hidtnonb Simefl-flispafdi SECTION IBAD5 COliEGE BASKETBALL D6 SCOREBOARD 014 I UtorJMkBnlntv 004)649-6445 pndnpaWiMBlbpitelLcoin VCU ami put my Mississippi in in overtime loss it the Siegei Center "D6 BRUCE nVWBVTIMES-IXSMTCH Yourastown Rnirt Mahtowor 1 grabs Sw fncomask of iy Roms Timer wins su 1 Vick proved too much for UVa tACKSMNM the thing about Michael Vick He can beat you with one leg tied behind Ms back Late interception topples Penguins BY JOHN TbasDoMTCH Star Warm Twice in the first half yesterday Youngstown State passes slipped' through the wet cold hands of University of Richmond defensive backs Jason Hm had a brief chat with himself MAPUYOFTS -at intermission If I get one RICHMOND 10 VOUHGSTQWHV He The ussidei Ooluninist PhiI UR cornerback Woody notsi that ffidvnond picked off a YSU coach Jim Raid bund ttw pass with 122 cold nfoentito day pstocti left and returned Pigs Dll Bridfeaaterbfc it 44 yards for to Trinity In 0T Page DHL the only touchdown Richmond prevailed 163 in the first round of the Division I-AA playoffs before 5484 soaked observers at UR Stadium The eighth-seeded Spiders (162) the first UR football team to record more than nine victories In a season advanced to a quarterfinal meeting Saturday at topoeeded Montana (11-1) which walloped No 16 Eastern Illinois 45-13 yesterday To be the beat you've got to beat die said Hill a 58 junior In eliminating the ninth-seeded Penguins (98) from the field the Spiders captured their sixth vfctorythis season by a touchdown or less For the third time they held an opponent with--out a TD In games UR has won in the final two minutes Last weekend at William and Mary Richmond scored with 188 remaining to win 21-18 Neither the Spiden nor the Penguins could move the ball consistently on a afternoon with steady rain wind and temperatures in the 30s Or was it the two defenses that dictated the form? "Everything we tried to do their de- fenae wai a atep ahead of us" UR tail-' SEE UR PAGE Dll This of course is an exaggeration it?) al-though when Virginia linebacker Doony Green attempted to twist Vick into a lower-extremities pretzel a half-dozen minutes into die first quarter last night no telling how contorted The Franchise might've become if the refs hadn't ar-riwd quickly on the scene and the guys three paces away on the Virginia Tech sideline hadn't come across 4 touchdowns tend Cavaliers to defeat BY MIKE HARRIS TawsDurATOi Statt Warm MACKMUM Rain? Wind? Odd? The Virginia bvsliers? Some ugly dements and their instate rivals were lo more inconvenient to the Virginia Tech Hoklea han a couple of ants at a picnic The sixth-ranked Hoides overcame Quarter a alow start to squish the Cavaliers quarter brash 2-21 last night before 56272 wet dom Pap OS MreHchiUedfans at Lane Stadium CmRers A portion of the crowd succeeded couMrtsusMa bringing down a goal post at whu pane's end and parading across the leid with their NetosPqge Sophomore Lee Suggs our touchdowns for Tech giving dm 28 for the season and 30 for Ids career That ties dm with James Barber and Cyrus Lawrence for first a the school's all-time Hat Tech improved to 10-1 the fourth time in the past lix seasons the Hokies have won at least 10 games Unhiding bowls) Tech is headed to a bowl game for the eighth straight season The Hokies wont learn their lestination until next Sunday but they kept their Lopes of a spot in a Bowl Championship Series game tlive by beating Virginia -To be 10-1 with the iqjuries and inexperience we tad these are tough Tech coach Flank earner said Just physically tough but mentally ough They always kept battling Virginia is 65 the first time since 1986 that it isant woo seven regular-season games The Cavaliers aped to be bowl-bound too They are looking for a sebTECH page bvgoin micnoown or wv punii Key stat Virginia began by looking as if it were capable of j' running Tech out of Lana Stadium rushing for 142 I yards in the first quarter and taking a 14-7 lead i The Cavaliers rushed for only 29 yards in the remainder of the game i Start of the game nTech's offense always looks best when both QB I Michael Vick and TB Lae Suggs are functioning at peak efficiency While an ankle injury limited Vick's production as a runner last night ha threw for 202 yards Suggs ran for 116 yards and scored four touchdowns three running and one on a 23-yard pass hum Vick as being very very hostile Vick lay an Lane turf a couple of minutes after UPPER WWF takedown then was higged to the bench for emergency treatment to his alreadytender right ankle IBs next venture was to an on-site training room for a new tape job and a quick phone call to Lloyd's erf London By the time Vick returned to the arena his crew was behind by a touchdown and fill-in QB Dave Meyer was tossing bounce passes is if he wanted to impress Ricky Stokes ana not Frank Beamer (who at last report was considering millkm-dollar offers from Tech North Carolina and Regia Philbin) Vick sized up this situation and then went to work which partly explains the 42-21 romp the other port being ability to strangle at tack Slid discombobulate any quarterback sent into so-( tion by George Welsh (who at last report was compos- ing Christmas travel plans to Hawaii or the Char lottesville Address on the back of his game plan) About the coaches: We dont know diddly Check i What means tTech (10-1) remained in contention for a spot In one of the four big-money BCS bowls but those won't be firmed up until next weekend The Hoktes' fallback position remains the Jan 1 Gator Bowl vs Oemson Virginia (6-5) had few stakes on the table The Cavaliers still are expecting to be invited to either the Aloha or Oahu Bowl this week SEE UPPER PACE DIO Blue Devils fall Generals pull out all the stops in win short of title game BY ARTHUR UTtEY TnasDuvAiai Staff Warns comiEVitiE Michael RoMnaon by on the rain-soaked field at Trussell Stadium with hia face to the ground as his BY TIM PEARREU TkasDarAns St ait Warm dmwkxhx Given a choice of running against hia team's defense Dinwid-die High School tailback Chris Harris saya he wouldn't "opt CROUP AAA PIV 1 got DINW1DDIE28 great dp POTOMAC 7 Exhibit No 1 was another big-hit big-play performance in the atate Group AAA Division 5 semifinals yesterday With its defense gobbling up five turnovers in a cold steady ratal and its offense getting a gritty 206jrard performance from a gimpy Harris Dinwiddie ad-vanced to the Division 5 championship game with a 28-7 victory over visiting West Potomac of Alexandria Dinwiddie (12-1) a team that was 5-5 a year ago and had a winning season since 1992 win play Heritage of Newport News (138) in the final Satur-day at 4 pjn at Uhiwwty of Richmond SEE DINWIDDIE PAGE DIS ft was turn to celebrate after a Division 6 semifinal The Wildcats scored the winning TD yesterday with 1:45 left on a 23-yard pass from Nick Smith to Chris Stanton The touchdown gave CentreviUe a 20-14 victory and propelled the Wildcats (11-2) into their first state championship game next Saturday it noon it University of Richmond Stadium They meet Eastern Region champion Deep Creek (138) which hammered fojury-riddled CD Hylton the two-time defending atate champion 428 yesterday just our Robinson SEE VARINA PAGE D15 last pass as a Varina quarter- group AU MV CENTREVILLE 20 Hkkapa- VARINA 14 and those of his Blue Devils kiNw AlAAlhAhOTIMES-DiSMTCH laid 1 dare msit)CiKinWKam say ft's one of pound DufMo Gap 448 the best de- Page D15 femes in the state" William Carrington was al milts altar rtcavtring a West Mo-mac fuirtWe In the first had of tfiair Croup AAA Division aomHinaL mmatea of playing in the state Group AAA Division 6 football championship game for the third year in a row fell incomplete too.