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Yankees sow down high rolling Red Sox Page11D Sports Bristol Herald Courier Bristol Virginia Tennessean Sunday September 25 1988 a Ya VftS L3J W' wl MB 'jt 1 wM 7H 5 4 i Jr jr? i wf 'J 4 1 7 fk 5 eyr AP Laserphoto 7'1 Canadian Ben Johnson lefh looks over at Carl Lewjs far right during 100 meter race Records tumble in Olympics Associated Press Associated Press i earned the No 1 spot in its prelim inary group and will play the sec ond seeded team from the other pool probably South Korea in the semifinals Tuesday round with a 94 79 vicEorv Sun SEOUL South Korea Ka day trina McClain scored 27 points Now 3 0 the United States and 5 toot 4 Suzie McConnell sparked a second half run as the US basketball team withstood a 32 point performance Sunday She holds the world re cord of 1049 got a lot left" Joyner said or Chris Evert there was nothing left at least in the Olym pics She was defeated by Raf faella Reggie of Italy 2 6 6 4 3 1 Records fell left and right first at the track then at the swim ming pool where America had its best day yet in the water Matt' Biondi broke a world record winning his fourth gold medal and1 sixth of the Games while Janet 1 Please see OLYMPICS) Page 5DZ Seoul south Korea The US women win over China 94 79 fastest man was even fas vanced to the Olympic medal 11 in Associated Press ler anu me worm lasiesi woman was working on it Sunday at the Seoul Olympics 1 On Saturday Ben Johnson led Carl Lewis to the wire in the fastest 100 meters ever run with four men under 40 seconds He lowered his world record from 983 by 6 foot 8 center and ad to 979 and declared the 975 br rier now within reach saving that for next Sunday afternoon women's 100 Olympic record twice in qualify Johnson said meter final with ever improving dng Saturday with times of 1088 1 'Tasfm 1 pn 11 1 luiciiLv xj iiiiiLii uj iici Liiricb 'dim i jocci a win a meanwhile warmed up for her Griffith Joyner broke the aided 1070 in the semifinals on THERE'S MORE Eddie Hill as Tennessee sings the same sad old song once again fiow tlie A i EXECUTIVE SPORTS EDITOR East suffered lorida rolled Tech Page 4D STEVE BAWDEN Executive Sports Editor 7 IHRA all Nationals scheduled to start at noon today at BID Vols lose to Auburn Tennessee State a loss to Central and Syracuse over Virginia or stories see AUBURN Ala Auburn's 38 6 victory over Tennessee Satur day afternoon before a crowd of 83000 and a national television audience was as easy as 1 2 3 More specifically it was as easy as 1 2 3 Tennessee fumbles early in the second half that helped the fourth ranked Tigers break open what had been a com petitive game through the first half Tennessee dropped to 0 4 0 3 in the Southeastern Conference while Auburn improved to 3 0 2 0 in the conference Trailing just 10 6 at the break Tennessee received the sec despite the 0 3 record "You never take anyone lightly" he said we knew that if we did everything supposed to do everything would come to Quarterback Reggie Slack went out of his way to be kind "In the first half they didn't look like an 0 4 team to me" he said were right in the STEVE BAWDEN Wasps roll to 41 0 win? NOBODY IS all that surprised that Auburn whipped up on Tennessee 38 6 Saturday in Jordan Hare Stadium really the saddest thing about the Vols' 1988 season JAuburn was basically a two touchdown favorite but anyone who watched Tennessee get mauled by Tigers 34 9 the week before realized that a similar fate was quite possible against version of the same animal The rumor circulating through the press box before the game was that CBS tried to get out of televising the game although CBS representatives denied that i When Eddie Hill raced drag boats" few years back he achieved a certain amount of sue cess that naturally brought recognition Nothing major you understand there were no offers to do beer commercials but enough to prepare hint for any success he might have when he began racing Top uel dragsters I Well not quite any success or when Hill broke the'magic four second mark back in April at the International Hot Rod Texas Nationals to become the first and only driver ever to record a sub five second time for a 14 mile he never really knew what him him fan recognition now is almost inde said Hill as he sat in his rig Saturday at Bristol International Dragway's all Nationals waiting for the rains to abate so he could make another pass (Hill and his wife Ercie) were going through Wyoming a while back and we stopped off along the highway We had to let our cat out for awhile so we took him out in the middle of this big field to let him run around Please see HILL Page 6D TlAf I I vv KEVIN TRIPLETT A SporfsWnter 1 pressure on him as he set up to throw He was sacked just once by Charles McRae but even then Slack had plenty of timeto look over his receivers And Slack didn't even have his target available Wide receiver Lawyer? Tillman sat out the game with a sore leg ONCE AGAIN it was a team for the Vols The defense gave up 460 yards and 38 points The offense help the defense by turning the ball over three straight times in ennessee territory early in the third quarter Auburn had little trouble driving 27 5 and 43 yards for touchdowns Tennessee moved the football well in the first half but failed to reach the end zone Tennessee probed to the Auburn 6 and 9 early but came away with a total of just three points did some real good things in the first half but had to settle for field goals" quarterback Jeff rancis said just not doing a good job inside the 20" ATHENS Tenn Everj 1 thing went as expected Saturday afternoon There were no surprises and no shocks except for the lights ning that threatened the entire) day and finally hit with 2:48 left in the game knocking out thex" scoreboard and ending a contests that could have been stopped I i sooner When the last lightning bolt hit Emory Henry had earned a 4T0 win over Tennessee Wesleyan in what sometimes felt like hurrk erne conditions one of the Emory I coaches said bet got the best horn in the world" joked Bulldog coach David Bankston That was about all Bankston could joke about after he saw his two year record attheNAIA Divi sion II school drop to 13 0 4 on the year zi The Wasps who improved to 3 came out of the gate quickly stopping TWC on its first posses sion After a short Bulldog punt took over on the TWC 34 and needed just five plays to score as Rodney Beville the second leading rusher and scorer in the Please see WASPS Page 7D Pressed further Slack admitted he was confident Auburn could move the football felt we could throw and run against he said Slack completed an efficient 14 of 18 passes for 220 yards two touchdowns and one interception At one point he completed 12 passes in a row a stat Tennessee fans are accustomed to seeing from opposing quarterbacks Anthony Dilweg and Tommy Hodson of LSU put together similar strings against UT Rarely did Slack have any defensive Tennessee wound up with just 175 yards worth of total offense and a total qf four turnovers Clearly things seem to be i VS getting much better for Tennessee "I'm not ready to bail said rancis who ran for his life on several passing plays "It hurts to lose but guys are fighting hard Saturday Auburn coach Pat Dye told his defense that it was playing well but not ell enough told us that the defensive line was getting good penetration but we i weren't getting 1 1 people around the ballV defensive middle guard Benji Roland said "He said if we wanted to pull away from Tennessee we had to get it nats to tne man with the ball It take 11 hats just Tracy Rocker Carlo Cheattom and Brian Smith to separate the ball from Tpnnpccpp nn thrpp diffr ront and the Tigers were off and running Auburn was able to make its own breaks yesterday That's the mark of a good football team ond halt kickoff eager to score some points But the first three pos session re ulted in three fumbles that Auburn recovered and quickly converted into three touchdowns I first five minutes of the second half were pretty much the big part of the bailgame Tennes see head coach Johnny lajoj said first play of the third quarter and the other two fumbled were the downfall in my opin ion 'c 3 'G Tenneee offen moved the ball quite well on Auburn dur ing the first two quarters al though the ols wasted three good opportunities to score touch UUWU5 Instead Tennessee had for two Chip jMcCallum'J field goals of 38 and 24yards A third attempt from 26 yards was wide 7 Meanwhile the Tennesseedefense did a relatively decent limiting Auburn to just 10 points although the Tigers did amass 256 total yards and seemed to hurt themselves with costly penalties Still the two touchdown: Un derdog Vols 'felt good about thejr situation as they sat in the locker room waiting for the second half wt all felt great about our quarterback Jeff ran cis said Reserve quarterback) HandyTSanders) said to me we I turn it over I think we can 4 Those were words proph ecy and words of doom Anthony 24 yard return to the Tennessee 35 Reggie Cobb Please see VOLS Page 4 1 I 3 Okia 0 i Tennes 14 Auburn det 1 i see 38 6 nl(la 237 1 r4UGSa lost to Ohio St I MlVodda St def Mich HOraf A yjil iona State 4 1 10 SA BnS' I raq Georgia Rujg I is penn St IQ lu 1 Sillers 26 Pi" losU0 I Washington def San I SotSI Jose state 35 del I I Wl 1118 Oklahoma St Texas 52 'gLirMichigon def siooi State Whatever Brent was certainly a lot happier not having to sit through Tennessee's latest pasting or the Vols the same song just another singer each week Auburn tried to be kind after beating a good team just struggling aetensivetacKienon Stallworth said charitably "Every team is going to have a bad year every now and then gave us a run for our money in the first flracy Rocker Auburn's All I American candidate at defensive tackle If so they probably wish they had the Tigers respected Tennessee now 1 Another rumor was that the top play by play guy Brent Miisberger refused to work this game after learning of Tennessee 31 26 loss to Duke the second game of the season There was no official confirmation of that one although Verne Lundquist was the announcer working with Pat Haden yesterday Hill no longera stranger LORI WORLEY Sportswriter The Chase is on kl 5 i I lira I' Ip W5r47 I Stall Photo Darlene Zoumphs Ashley Johnson of Bowling Green Ky right took the win Saturday in Bristol's Autumn Chase Challenge 10K road race in which there were 302 entrees or story see Page 6D Wi is lu f5 ix ItM fiow tlie topr'2dfared.