Winston-Salem Journal from Winston-Salem, North Carolina • 37

'I'll Illi I I II 1 1 ill 1 IT' niriri'iaBBieWaMIllllllWMWiBMBllIMMI lillIBMIWiaiMUBHIBWIt EATURES STANDINGS WiNSTON SALEM JOURNAL SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17 1989 PAGE D1 Sports Kentucky Slogs Past Tar Heels 13 6 Wildcats Lead Early Stay Away rom Mistakes to Hand Heels irst Loss By Lenox Rawlings JOURNAL REPORTER LEXINGTON Ky 13 6 victory over North Carolina yesterday resurrected an ancient question When does a conservative football game ven ture into radical extremism? Answer: Any time Coach Jerry Wildcats score an early touchdown on a soggy field against a rebuilding opponent The motives for playing matters close to the vest vary Kentucky wants to North Carolina young and vulnerable has to The combination may have caused lethal boredom in the stands at Common wealth Stadium yesterday but both teams got what they wanted Kentucky driving through the rain stormed 72 yards on the opening series and scored the game's only touchdown Staked to a 7 0 lead the Wild going to have to play better The emotion was not Jerry Claiborne Kentucky coach cats methodically punched out the other holes on ace card no turnovers no fatal defensive lapses and secured their second straight win North Carolina managed only 42 yards passing and 218 yards overall but Coach Mack team still clung to the upset dream in the closing minutes Trailing 13 3 the Tar Heels surged to Ken 24 yard line Quarterback Jonathan brush with magic ended there though Three straight incomplete passes brought on the kicking team Clint Gwaltney delivered his second field goal a 41 yarder and cut the spread to seven points with 2:34 left Kentucky and 50174 fans sensed what was coming next Gwaltney teed up the ball on the right side of the field His version of the onsides kick virtually sideways with erratic bounces comically eluded two Wildcats tumbling through arms and legs but a third Kentucky player plopped on it Coach Brown explained his strategy succinctly used the onsides kick because we felt that was the best chance we had to get the ball back instead of stopping he said Kentucky upheld theory Alfred Rawls See UNC LOSES Page D3 AP WIREPHOTO Coach Mack Brown of UNC was troubled by the wet playing field Jr a 'Tw Jar js ft LENOX RAWLINGS Success Starts in Classroom LEXINGTON Ky Coach Jerry Claiborne walk on air He walks on the drab brown carpet that covers his Kentucky football office from wall to wall Jerry Claiborne parade around in expensive gray suits although he could certainly afford them He wears brown striped ties and short sleeve shirts from the early 1970s the kind with wide buttonless collars and polyester ripples every two inches He sometimes leaves his coat in the car or at home While many of his college football peers rush to devise new defensive sets Clai borne sticks to the wide tackle six front that Tennessee used to smother Ken tucky during his playing days which were about 14500 days ago The defense still works or at least it worked against North Carolina yesterday afternoon Kentucky held the Tar Heels to 218 yards and won 13 6 Call Claiborne old fashioned Call him one of the last of the good old boy South ern football coaches Call him anything and he probably raise an eyebrow In the race to sound sophisticated look slick on TV and chase every dollar Clai borne ignored the gun He left 1 Maryland during the heyday of Lefty Drie sell and returned to a school with a real basketball history Starved Ego ego have to be Clai borne said been in it too long to be worried about that or anything else The tradition here at the University of Kentucky in football and a winning tra dition is one of the biggest recruiting tools for a high school athlete had six straight years where we won five games or more I think any other coach has done that here except for Coach (Bear) Bryant not a very rich tradition trying to get over the hump If we could win two more games we would be going to some bowl The only bowl team has captured recently was the mythical College Bowl Kentucky graduated 90 percent of its seniors last year and won the College ootball academic achieve ment award which previously had been controlled by Notre Dame Duke and Virginia The award cast a soft spotlight on Claiborne Under most circumstances a 61 year old football coach with a 35 41 3 record could start figuring out those Social Security tables When the graduation rate hit the news though the Kentucky JERRY CLAIBORNE a See RAWLINGS Page D3 State Holds Off Wake orest 27 17 111 1 WMmriniR ly mb JOURNAL PHOTO BY RICKY MOON Chris Pratabas Louis Altobelli and Ricky Proehl celebrate around John Henry Mills after Mills scored first touchdown Defense Comes Through Against Deacons By Bill Cole JOURNAL REPORTER NC State remained atop the standings in the Atlantic Coast Conference last night surviving a threat from Wake orest to post a 27 17 victory at Groves Stadium defense had to come up with a sterling stand late in the third quarter to subdue the determined Deacons Wake orest had chopped a 20 10 lead to 20 17 and had gotten the ball back and was driving The Deacons had reached 31 where they faced third down and two yards Quarterback Phil Barn hill dropped to pass but State blitzed and Jesse Campbell a de fensive back knocked the ball away as it left hands felt like we were facing the turning point of the game Campbell said believed that if we stopped them we would win We had to stop BILL DOOLEY ThrwVr PHILIP BARNHILL Coach Bill Dooley of Wake orest chose to go for the first down instead of punting so Barnhill dropped to pass on fourth down But three man rush pres sured him and he had to hurry the pass to receiver Steve Brown Barnhill had to fling the ball almost side armed As a result he able to get enough steam on the pass and Brown trapped it at the 18 turning possession over to State tightened up and took a few things away from Barnhill said got some pressure on me and made me make some bad State then drove for the decisive touch down behind the smooth leadership of Shane Montgomery its senior quarterback The 69 yard march ended when Anthony Barbour a sophomore tailback bulled in from one yard out The point after kick by Damon Hart man his last of three ended the scoring with 11:10 to play Wake orest See DEACONS Page D7 WSSU Survives Scare Beats Pesky Elizabeth City State 27 13 By John Delong JOURNAL REPORTER ELIZABETH CITY Winston Salem State found out yesterday that Elizabeth City State is not just another dismal football team ready to sink into the Dismal Swamp this season WSSU remained undefeated with a 27 13 victory in front of 5332 at Roebuck Stadi um but not before getting tested and per haps even scared a bit by the Vikings The Rams 3 0 spurted to a 24 7 lead early in the third quarter but were outplayed the rest of the second half and then needed a key defensive play in the final minutes to keep this one from getting real interesting It took a freak interception by linebacker James Jenkins after Elizabeth City drove to 3 in the final two minutes before the outcome was settled Coach Pete Richardson admitted that the Rams were banged up physically and down a bit emotionally after a 48 19 victory over North Carolina last week But he stressed that the Vikings caused many of the problems yesterday too real Richardson said made a lot of mistakes But I attribute some of those to Elizabeth City State got to give them credit They were ready to play just proud of the way our guys hung in there at the Elizabeth City State won only two games last season and was picked to finish last in the CIAA Northern Division this year But the Vikings opened with wins over Living stone and ayetteville State and yesterday Coach Johnnie Walton claimed a moral vic tory feel like just as good a team as Walton said the first thing is See RAMS WIN Page D3 Offense Sputters in 28 6 Loss Reggie Cobb scores the first touchdown a I i M5 9 VL Bl 4' 1 By Tommy Bowman JOURNAL REPORTER KNOXVILLE Tenn defensive woes turned into offensive trouble and early season surge continued last night before 93659 at Neyland Stadium The 17th ranked Volunteers 3 0 scored on three of their first four posses sions en route to a 28 6 victory While defensive problems subsided it uncharacteristically strug gled in another area on offense Steve Spurrier whose Duke team fell to 1 2 said remember the last time we had this much trouble scoring We moved the ball OK in the middle of the field but we score when we got Tennessee made certain history repeat itself Last year in Knoxville Duke ripped the Vols for more than 500 total yards and jumped to a 31 7 lead en route to a 31 26 victory This time it was Tennessee that grabbed an early lead and protected it Johnny Majors whose team had scored a 24 6 victory a week earlier at UCLA said lot of good things hap pened that allowed us to win Duke is a dangerous opponent but we let them in the end On first series wingback Anthony Morgan beat defender Wyatt Smith and caught a pass from Sterling Henton that covered 46 yards Tailback Reggie Cobb scored from the 3 yard line on the next play Duke which came out throwing struggled on its first two drives and the defense gained momentum The Blue first drive ended after quarterback Billy Ray tripped on a See VOLS WIN Page D5 WINSTON ALL STAR MAY GOD12 PRO OOTBALL D9 OUTDOORS DI 5 GOLDIO SPORTS LOG 02 TORONTO STAYS ON TOP 06 Notre Dame Rockets Past Michigan 24 19 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANN ARBOR Mich Raghib Ismail returned two kickoffs for touchdowns in the second half yesterday as top ranked Notre Dame beat No 2 Michigan 24 19 and took a major step toward defending its national champion ship Ismail the leading kick returner last season ran back the opening kickoff of the second half 88 yards to give the ight ing Irish a 14 6 lead and added a 92 yard return with 12:46 left to give Notre Dame its third straight win over the Wolverines the first time any school has done that in Bo 21 seasons at Michigan Notre Dame led 7 6 after a defense domi See IRISH WIN Page D7 INSIDE SPORTS.