The Roanoke Times from Roanoke, Virginia • 31

Sports newsonline or the latest sports news and scores go online at Irnoktlmescon Sports 2 BASEBALL Cardinals sweep I Mets win in 13 C7 12 PLAYOS Braves C7 I Yankees lose big C7 2 I' The ro anoke Times Sportsunday 2 Si rrP 'C Ji rt il A va i yLA Tsection GAME 5 Virginia Tech 35 Temple 13 Old style shellacking ERIC BRADY I JTIE ROANOKE TIMES a toi Virginia Ben Taylor (40) harasses Temple quarterback Mike rost The Hokies sacked quarterbacks six times in the 35 13 victory whole defense turned it up today" says linebacker Jake Houseright 1 Skslfl a 4 'iBk iL HMMki 0 III i xf i wuy wCJMtiMMbk ite'' JMbKI1S9Hm 4 KBak Uioioo i taggaKj5SIIWMKw 'y I rnw defense yields 116 yards in victory By RANDY KING THE ROANOKE TIMES BLACKSBURG On a day when a lot of the former boys were back in town for homecoming Virginia Tech's football team re sorted to an old reliable tactic Saturday called a kick your posterior defense Proving more than Michael Vick and his high offense in Blacksburg suddenly aroused defense ruled the roost on a chilly windy afternoon and carried the third ranked Hokies to a 35 13 Big East victory over Temple think this was like old style Virginia Tech football junior defensive tackle Chad Beasley said what we really need to get back to Just good old fashioned nasty The Hokies were nasty all right Led by a de fensive line that smacked front around all day and finally got some pressure on the quarterback the Hokies stymied the Owls to 116 total yards including minus 15 rushing Tech (5 0 3 0 Big East) which had posted just seven sacks all season dropped the quarterbacks six times for a total of 43 yards in losses ive sacks came courtesy of the big boys in the trenches two each by junior tackle David Pugh and true freshman backup end Jim Davis and one by backup tackle Dan Wilkinson PLEASE SEE TECHC6 think this was like old style Virginia Tech football CHAD BEASLEY TECH DEENSIVE TACKLE GENE DALTON THE ROANOKE TIMES Michael Vick leaps into the end zone at the end of a 5 yard run to put t(ie Hokies up 28 13 in the third quarter Vick threw for 162 yards and gained 55 yards rushing against the Owls V9T ir01 Wcer jjaig 1 86 ur i9fi or 4 lOHLJBk 1V rwMTk gBBBjMBBLj9hiiMBE BBtotadMHMbML ip 'Ji 1H fo il Jl if lo i id ev S'? IVJ fll iQ irll No 7 Miami 27 No 1 lorida St 24 Right IIP goes way Seminoles kicker Matt Munyon misses a 49 yard field goal as time expires as Miami upsets lorida St ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI After 1013 yards 100 passes and 51 points lorida State Miami came down to Wide Right III Amazing When Matt 49 yard field goal attempt sailed wide right as time expired No 7 Miami had a 27 24 victory over No 1 lorida State on Saturday derailing the national championship run and putting itself back into contention watched it I watched Miami receiver Reggie Wayne said only thing going through my mind was wide right one wide right two and I was hoping there would be a wide right three" There was much to the dis may of Seminoles coach Bobby Bowden who lived through wide right field goals in 1991 and 1992 against Miami that probably cost his team a pair of national titles The Hurricanes went on to win the national crown in Even the Orange Bowl score board carried the message: RIGHT lit up as the crowd of 80903 third largest in PLEASE SEE MIAMIC2 GAME 6 Cavaliers 31 Terrapins 23 UVa hangs on without Ellis Dan if A hamstring injury to Cavaliers quarterback Ellis gave Maryland a chance to come back right hamstring and would not return I my own Ellis said PLEASE SEE CAVALIERSC2 53655 It was ninth straight victory over the Terrapins whor trailed 28 3 late in the second quarter The Cavaliers had picked up! two first clowns in hopes of anoth er score when Maryland free safe4 By DOUG DOUGHTY THE ROANOKE TIMES CHARLOTTESVILLE somebody had conducted an exit poll Saturday at Scott Stadium Dan approval rating would have been at an all time high value to foot ball team has never been as ap parent as it was in the second half against Maryland which he wit nessed in street clothes with the support of crutches The Cavaliers survived the loss of their senior quarterback but just barely in a 31 23 victory before a crowd announced at ASSOCIATED PRESS Virginia tight end Billy Baber hauls in a pass from Dan Ellis in the first half of the Cavaliers win over Maryland Saturday in Charlottesville ty Shawn orte stepped in front of? an Ellis pass in the left front andj returned it 69 yards for a5 touchdown The UVa player with the best angle at catching orte was Ellis I who suddenly pulled up lame and! collapsed in a heap around the Maryland 30 yard line Ellis knew! instantly that he had injured his THht hamstring and wnnld lUuWIM 1 'WlBl.