The Roanoke Times from Roanoke, Virginia • 21

Sports THE ROANOKE TIMES RIDAY OCTOBER 28 2005 OUTDOORS I wj Tim Kaine llwi IIH Jerry Kilgore Russ Potts gubernatorial candidates discuss outdoors issues with Mark Taylor PAGE 8 A Colorado St at New Mexico The Rams winners of four of their past five face a Lobos team that has won two straight road contests in this battle for second place in the Mountain West 8 pm ESPN2 No 3 Virginia Tech 30 No 13 Boston College 10 TECH MAKES A POINT After routing No 13 BC the No 3 Hokies hope to impact the BCS powers that be By Randy King randykingroanokecom 981 3126 BLACKSBURG Virginia Tech gave the BCS computers some fresh data to ponder Thursday night Responding to head foot ball coach rank cue UP NEXT Miami at Tech Nov 5 7:45 pm ESPN MORE INSIDE Game notes Page 7 Eagles impressed with Hokies Page 7 Quarter breakdown statistics Page 6 in regards to their plight of being No 3 in the cur rent BCS standings the Hokies had to register a few cha chings with the com puters with its thorough 30 10 spank ing of 13th ranked Bos ton College on Thursday night in Lane Stadium The final score was much closer than the game The third ranked Hokies (8 0 5 0 ACC) won the total yards category 492 183 outrushed BC 212 27 held a 26 10 edge in first downs and held the ball for nearly two thirds of the game running 81 plays compared to only 51 for the visitors score might not have been that bad but anybody who watched the game saw how we dominated this Hokies cornerback Jimmy Williams said why we were glad that folks had a chance to watch this game There be any ques tions about BC coach Tom have any other than about the performance of his own team a good football team and we were not a good football team said whose team fell to 6 2 overall and 3 2 in See HOKIES 6 Virginia Josh Morgan (17) celebrates his second quarter touchdown catch against Boston College Thursday at Lane Stadium The Hokies won 30 10 feSm fix! JfcfA TtT I Y' Associated Press This riMfl 'Wil 3r fl Tig ERIC BRADY The Roanoke Times Marcus Vick rushed for 52 yards on 13 carries but he was nearly flawless passing a good stall for hard drive By Tom Robinson Landmark News Service BLACKSBURG The thing now just to beat people Virginia Tech needs to beat people with style Needs to be eye catchingly potent in the battle for hear ts minds and foot ball poll votes Or else the humorous hope that Tech coach rank Beamer voiced this week that the computers Analysis at Bowl Championship Series headquarters will ultimately go a ding for his Hokies may not materialize His Hokies have four games including the ACC championship game to somehow overtake Texas or Southern California in BCS decimals Do that and they cam their coveted national title shot in the Rose Bowl But how to do that if Texas and USC finish unbeaten? By winning big the rest of the way Win ning strong Winning impressively enough to shrink the gap between second and third place in the voter polls fed into to the BCS computers Then just maybe ring a ding ding could yet be the I soundtrack a complicated forecast to see Tech in the title game Suffice to say that computers recognize cold facts victory totals sched ule strength and such But humans consider appearances methods consistency and physical dominance (proanoke See more photos from Thursday victory and hear Virginia Tech coach rank postgame press conference See ROBINSON 6 outlook brighter now Kenny I loran survived a winless season at Cave Spring three years ago and its paying off now By Robert Anderson robertandersonroanokecom 981 3123 Kenny Horan has the dirti est practice jersey on Cave football team No surprise there Horan has taken his share of knocks The 5 foot 9 150 pound senior starts at running back and cornerback for the Knights who play at defend ing Group AA Division 4 champion Salem tonight in a battle of unbeaten River Ridge District teams Horan who has scored six touchdowns and has a team high four interceptions for Cave Spring (7 0 2 0) also returns kickoffs and has handled the kickoff and place kicking duties since a knee injury sidelined Nick anti During his career Horan also has started at quarterback and wide receiver while being the punt return man MORE INSIDE riday night predictions Page 4 High school standings Page 4 Stewart they called him and Kenny does everything for Cave Spring coach Tim ulton said equate him to that but a great kid so versatile in what he can our years ago as an eighth grader Horan did little He See HORAN 4 NATALEE WATERS I The Roanoke Times al ttr aft ft Cave Spring running back Kenny Horan is enjoying much better times these days with the unbeaten Knights icom (ftroanoke Check out all of the latest Timesland scores which will be posted as they are received tonight South Side splendor Story on page 3 Associated Press A Chicago White Sox fan celebrates his 1 0 win over the Houston Astros outside US Cellular ield in Chicago on Wednesday night Eighty eight years of futility can lead to a great deal of frustration the Chicago White Sox would know all over now after the long time also rans of the Windy City complet ed a World Series sweep of the Hous ton Astros with a TO victory in Game 4 Wednesday at Min ute Made Park Now that Chica on top of the world time to celebrate a little I II 'v 'i fl Inside this section 3 OUTDOORS The Department of Game and Inland isheries approves dozens of new regulations with most going into effect next year 3 I BASEBALL John Katz who has worked in pro baseball for 13 years is named the Salem Avalanche GM ACC OOTBALL NOTEBOOK a Several teams are vying for theI remaining bowl positions I.