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Sports Greensboro News Record Baseball Outdoors Props Sunday October 2 1983 UNC State win ECU beats Missouri Tar Heels rally past Ga Tech By WILT BROWNING Staff Sports Writer ATLANTA Senior Scott Stan kavage who entered the game with Georgia Tech as the most efficient quarterback set a Univer sity of North Carolina record on the make believe grass of ancient Grant ield Saturday It could not have come at a more fortunate time for the fifth ranked Tar Heels who rode the strong right arm of Stankavage to a come from behind 38 21 victory over winless Georgia Tech And this was no ordinary come from behind victory for the Caroli na which was staring an upset loss squarely in the eyes as the game en tered its final 15 minutes A 21 point outburst made the victory appear to be gaudy It Stankavage threw the ball 31 times 17 of them finding their mark for 271 yards three more yards than Jeff Beaver recorded against Duke in 1966 One of completions a 28 yarder to sophomore Larry Griffin at the end of first possession of the second half lifted the Tar Heels back into the game after a shocking turn of events in the first 30 minutes Another this one covering 30 yards to split end Earl Winfield five seconds into the final period pushed the Heels ahead for the first time on this sunny autumn afternoon rom that point a 28 yard burst up the middle by Tyrone Anthony for one touchdown and a 52 yard run for another by Ethan Horton merely served as finishing touches It took that burst off right tackle and then to the outside by Horton to give him 113 yards rushing and his fourth 100 yard plus game of the year In all it stole some of the thunder from Georgia Robert Lav ette who rushed for 146 yards in cluding a dazzling 58 yard journey for the first touchdown of the game But most of all the 21 points in the final period seems to have an swered one more riddle of this high ly ranked Carolina team the question been asked in Chapel Hill Raleigh and Durham each week going to happen when you get behind in a said Carolina coach Dick Crum (See UNC D6) North Carolina 38 Ga Tech 21 Carolina 7 3 7 11 31 Gwrgli Tec 14 7 0 4 11 Tech Lavette 58 run (Rice kick) Tech Norton 22 pass from Dewberry (Rice kick) NC Stankavage 7 run (Barwick kick) Tech Whlsenhunt 5 pass from Dewberry (Rice kick) NC Barwick 24 NC Griffln 28 pass from Stankavage (Barwick kick) NC WInfltld 30 pass from Stankavage (Barwick kick) NC Anthony 28 run (Barwick kick) NC Horton 52 run (Barwick kick) 28395 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS UNC GT irst downs 22 Rushes yards 44 258 41 221 Passing yards 271 101 Return yards 34 Passes 17 31 2 9 21 3 Punts 4 39 8 36 umbles lost 0 0 1 1 Penaltles yards 7 45 5 40 Time of Possession 29:50 30:10 RUSHING Carolina Horton 17 113 Anthony 11 91 Georgia Tech Lavefte 25 141 Cone 11 55 PASSING Carolina Stankavage 17 31 2 271 Georgia Tech Dewberry 8 12 1 03 RECEIVING Carolina Smith 3 75 Colson 3 30 Truitt 3 35 Georgia Tech Norton 2 40 Lavette 2 13 Staff photo by Jim Stratford state quarterback Tim Esposito (7) avoids Wake rush to deliver pass in 1 7 for 27 performance Iff MIIHBHIHHi HHb Wake orest errors help Wolfpack By TONY BARNHART Staff Sports Writer WINSTON SALEM North Carolina State a football team al most given up for lost a week ago rebounded in convincing fashion Saturday afternoon by beating er ror plagued Wake orest 38 15 be fore 28450 fans at Groves Stadium The Wolfpack now 2 2 used two Deacon turnovers and an 80 yard drive to post a 17 0 lead in the first half and put Wake orest in a hole out of which it could not climb Despite the Wolfpack dominance the game was still very much in doubt late in the third quarter as the Wolfpack clung to a 17 7 advan tage But with 2:57 remaining in the period Wolfpack linebacker rank Bush picked off a Gary Schofield pass and returned it 37 yards for a touchdown to make it 24 7 That turnover snuffed out any hope Wake orest had of winning its third straight as the Wolfpack cruised to its 23 point triumph The fate of Tom first NC State team was hanging by a thread a week ago when an uninspired Wolfpack lost at home to Virginia But on Saturday State was an op portunistic team with reason to be optimistic about the rest of the sea son team did a lot of soul search ing this said coach Tom Reed took a firm stand men tally and this win wras a lot of posi tive reinforcement Coming back and getting stronger in the final quarter means a lot to The battle of quarterbacks simply did not materialize Wake Schofield who has been nursing a lower back injury was anything but sharp hitting only 18 of 40 passes and throwing two crucial intercep tions which the Wolfpack turned into points Conversely State junior Tim Es posito dissected the Deacon secon dary with confidence hitting 17 of 27 passes for 221 yards Junior run ning back Joe McIntosh added an other 118 yards giving him his 15th 100 yard plus game in 24 starts at NC State Wake orest sophomore Michael Ramseur also had 118 yards rushing but the Deacons were unable to con (See NC State D6) NC State 38 Wake orest 15 Carolina St Wake orest 10 7 7 14 38 0 7 0 8 15 Miller 1 run (Cofer kick) NCS Cofer 33 Evans 1 run (Cofer kick) Dougherty 2 pass from Schofield (Newsome kick) Bush 37 Interception return (Cofer kick) NCS Greene 45 run (Cofer kick) Richmond 29 pass from Schofield (Ryan pass from Schofield) NCS Esposito 3 run (Cofer kick) 28456 NCS irst downs 23 II Rushes yards 58 251 31 147 Passing yards 221 247 Return yards 41 5 Passes 17 27 1 18 41 2 Pun's 439 449 umbles lost jj Penalties yards 10 53 2 17 Time of possession 36:25 23:35 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Carolina St McIntosh 27 118 Miller 7 27 Greene 2 51 Wake orest Ramseur 19 118 McKeller 7 20 Carolina St Esposito 17 27 1 221 Wake or est Schofield 18 40 2 247 Newsome 0 1 0 0 Carolina St Wall 5 88 Brothers 4 53 Brown 4 25 Wake orest Hawkins 5 115 Richmond 1 29 Ryan 2 22 big plays earn first win By TOM NORTHINGTON Staff Sports Writer A much maligned defense came up with five big plays including two blocked punts deep in enemy terri tory in a contest filled with offense and North Carolina recovered from a ragged start to outscore Johnson Smith 42 35 for a fitting homecoming victory Saturday Before many in the 17500 capaci ty crowd had become seated in Ag gie Stadium the Golden Bulls had struck twice for a 13 0 lead and it became 20 0 before rallied just as quickly in the last 3:39 of the opening half The Aggies scored twice within 56 seconds to trail only 20 14 at half time and coach Mo orte looked back on those touchdowns as the key to his team winning its first game of the season after three loss es got us back into the game made it respectable at the time and gave the team momentum for what came said orte who dedi cated the game to his sick father in Hannibal Mo Only minutes after the triumph he had the game ball which all the players autographed He planned to send it to his fa ther Otherwise Grady Hooker might have had it for a souvenir Or Mike Jones Hooker the former Page standout charged in to block two (See D2) Inside Sports Careers end today Carl Yastrzemski and Johnny Bench close the book on two of base most storied careers to day The two have epitomized the good things about the game D7 Rice and Tech Homer Rice former athletic director at North Carolina has taken on the job of rebuilding Georgia athletic fortunes Columnist Wilt Browning takes a look at Rice and the Tech pro gram D6 Waltrip on pole Darrell Waltrip is on the pole for running of the Holly arms 400 at North Wilkesboro Motor Speedway D9 Bench Yastrzemski Index College scores D3 Preps D8 Golf Column Sportscript D9 NL preview D10 Outdoors D11 Pirates take 1 3 6 victory The Associated Press COLUMBIA Mo or East Carolina Coach Ed Emory the Pir 13 6 upset win Saturday over Missouri was more than a victory it also was a geography lesson Emory recalled that Missouri fans sported buttons reading in the hell is East when the Greenville team dropped a 28 9 de cision to the Tigers in Columbia last year After victory Emory said he hoped Tiger fans had learned that his team plays good aggressive football a great win for Emory said will help us down the road and those people have to wear buttons that say the hell is East They know Emory praised the Missouri de fense as the best the Pirates have met this season but added that the Pirates had not been intimidated on their rare venture into the Midwest hope we meet anybody he said we do have to bring me a rescue squad We intimidated by coming into the Big Eight Little old East Carolina has a pretty good Kevin Ingram hit Ricky Nichols with a 27 yard touchdown pass late in the fourth quarter to lead East triumph over the Tigers in a penalty filled contest Jeff Heath kicked field goals of 26 and 39 yards for the Pirates after Missouri had taken a 6 0 lead in the first quarter Ingram stunned the Band Day crowd of 48268 by leading a 40 yard scoring drive that culminated in the touchdown pass to Nichols with 7:15 left Henry Williams returned a punt 23 yards to set up the scoring drive ollowing the touchdown the Pirate defense kept Missouri bottled up in its own territory on two sepa rate possessions to seal the victory Missouri went up 6 0 midway through the first quarter on field goals of 28 and 48 yards by Brad Burditt Heath cut the lead to 6 3 with 11 seconds left in the first quarter with his 26 yard kick following a 71 yard East Carolina drive Heath tied the game with 5:09 left in the half after defensive end Kenny Phillips inter cepted a Marlon Adler pass and re turned it to the Missouri 29 (See ECU D2) East Carolina 13 Missouri 6 Carolina 3 3 I 7 13 Missouri 4 MU Burditt 28 Burditt 48 Heath 26 EC Heath 39 Nichols 27 pass from Ingram (Heath kick) 48268 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS tC irst downs 15 13 Rushes yards 54 227 43 135 Passing yards 135 13 Return yards 43 Passes 1M7 0 9171 Punts 434 953 umbles lost 31 Penalties yards 953 533 Time of Possession 29:43 30 17 East Carolina Byner 16 95 Walden 1342 Bek er 7 16 Missouri Drain 17 66 Barbosa 10 34 Riley 41s Adler Carollna' IWAH 17 10 0 135 Missouri East Carolina Nichols 351 Vann 311 Williams 2 25 Missouri Shorthose 325 Hill 2 70 Davit 1 19 Thomas 1 17 Krahl Mo The Top Twenty Illinois routs No 4 Iowa 33 0 after scoring 27 first half points The Associated Press CHAMPAIGN Ill Quarterback Jack Trudeau fired three touchdown passes in the first half and Chris White booted four field goals Saturday as a determined Illinois squad upset No 4 Iowa 33 0 in Big Ten Conference action Most of the fireworks came early as the helpless Hawkeyes watched Illinois roll up a 17 0 first quarter lead then add 10 more points before the half ended Trudeau opened with a 54 yard scoring bomb to Mitch Brookins and came back quickly with TD passes of nine yards to Cam Benson and six yards to David Williams Trudeau com pleted 23 of 32 passes for 286 yards before turn ing the game over to Ken Cruz for the fourth quarter White who accounted for the only scoring in the second half kicked field goals of 20 30 45 and 47 yards during the game The Illini defense put tremendous pressure on Iowa quarterback Chuck Long who was sacked seven times for a loss of 55 yards only scoring opportunities ended with a sack at the Illinois 20 a bobbled field goal snap at the Illini 24 and four unsuccessful shots at the end zone from inside the Illinois 2 yard line The victory before a capacity crowd of 73351 improved record to 3 1 the same as the mark Illinois 2 0 in the Big Ten Conference held Iowa to just 15 net yards rushing The Hawkeyes picked up 280 yards passing includ ing 224 for Long who completed 12 of 27 The Illini rushed for 160 yards and passed for 314 and mixed their attack effectively on the first possession covering 65 yards to set up the 30 yard field goal Trudeau opened the next series with the 54 yard scoring bomb to Brookins and Illinois clearly had control of the game 1 Nebraska 63 Syracuse 7 2 Texas 42 Rice 6 3 Arizona 33 California 33 Illinois 33 4 Idwa 0 5 Carolina 38 Ga Tech 21 6 Alabama 44 Memphis St 1 3 7 Virginia 24 Pittsburgh 21 8 Ohio State 69 Minnesota 18 9 Oklahoma 29 Kansas St 1 0 10 Aubum 27 17 la St 24 1 1 Georgia 20 Miss State 7 1 2 lorida 31 1 6 LSU 1 7 13 SMU 34 Texas Arlington 0 14 Michigan 43 Indiana 18 15 Miami la 56 Duke 17 18 Washington 27 Navy 10 19 Maryland 23 Virginia 3 20 Arizona St vs Stanford late 1 Page again romps past Grimsley 35 3 By TOM NORTHINGTON Stiff Sport! Writer A game billed as a fierce rivalry between Page and Grimsley devel oped into a rout for the unbeaten Pirates as they stormed past their crosstown foe 35 3 in perhaps the most one sided game ever played between the schools So domineering was Page that Grimsley failed to reach midfield in the first half The Pirates reached the midpoint of their schedule with a 5 0 record and ranked as the No 1 Class 4 A football power in the state Their defense completely shut down an offense that had been suc cessful in the air until Saturday night Whirlie quarterback Mike Elkins ran for his life much of the time completed just one pass for a yard in the first half and directed his team to only eight more rushing It developed into that kind of nightmare for a team that came into i the non conference affair with a 3 1 record Only after Page coach Mar ion Kirby rested his regulars did Grimsley begin to show anything resembling an offense quarterback Todd Ellis picked the Whirlie de fense apart passing for three touch downs and running for a fourth The Pirates turned a Grimsley fumble into their first TD and seldom slowed until they established a 35 0 cushion were able to both run and said Kirby after an assort ment of quarterbacks had directed the Pirates to 316 yards without having to exert themsevles after halftime scoring opportunities aud were able capi talize on them continued Kirbv who has yet to lose to the Whirlies in 11 years There has been one tie (See Page D9).