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Bristol Herald Courier from Bristol, Tennessee • 48

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WrewwawoMg WWW Page4D Bristol Herald CourierVirginia Tennessean Sunday November 8 1987 West Virginia trips Virginia Tech 28 16 Associated Press Smith San Diego State QB sets NCAA career pass record Associated Press A Check These Specials or antastic Tire Prices! i USE YOUR REE SERVICE CHARGE ACCOUNT! CONVENIENT MONTHLY CREDIT AVAILABLE! SHAPE UP OR THE HOLIDAYS WITH OUR SPECIAL OER ON PAGE 2 155SR12 Blackwall ABINGDON 650 MAIN ST 703 628 9588 P15580R13 Whitewall P15580R13 Whitewall BRISTOL 936 STATE ST 968 3144 5 36 5 4 5 44 33:40 Mountaineers up 21 10 early in the fourth With 5:11 left in the third quarter Craig Taylor had given West Virginia a 14 10 lead with a 1 yard run The game was played in a cloud of smoke generated by for est fires that have burned 130000 acres of woodland in West Vir ginia The cloud gradually grew thicker during the game which had to be played under the lights despite a 1 pm starting time was tough out there with the air today Where are those fires? getting Neh len said Virginia Tech took a 3 0 lead the first time it touched the ball driving 26 yards in seven plays to set up Chris Kinzer's 45 yard field goal with 10:55 left in the first quarter Jon Jeffries fumbled at his 32 on the next possession to set up a West Virginia touchdown BYU owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints but the Cougars elected to sign Sean Covey a Provo native in stead Covey a sophomore who went on a church mission started for the first time last week against Air orce He threw for two touchdowns and ran for another to lead the Cougars Saturday Santos averaged 324 yards passing per game this season but he did not have great success pre viously against the Cougars who vowed before the game not to let him set the record against them In his previous three starts against BYU he failed to pass for more than 200 yards in any game He passed for 65 yards as a fresh man 176 yards as a sophomore and 168 yards as a junior On Saturday he was sacked four times before he set the record and had to throw many of his passes under pressure Mean while the BYU secondary al lowed him few open receivers and intercepted him three times Linebacker Richard Hobbs intercepted Santos in the first quarter setting up a BYU touch STOCKHOLM Sweden Top seeded Stefan Edberg de feated his doubles partner Anders Jarryd 6 4 6 2 and No 7 seed Jonas Svensson downed his training partner Magnus Gustafs son 6 3 6 4 Saturday to reach the singles final of the 8525000 Stock holm Open Scandinavian Tennis Championships or Edberg who is ranked second in the world it will be the second straight championship match in the oldest indoor Grand Prix tournament Svensson coming off a Na bisco Grand Prix triumph at Vienna last week gave me confidence" was never chal lenged in the second all Swedish semifinal MORGANTOWN WVa West Virginia football Coach Don Nehlen said he never thought the Mountaineers would lose Satur game against Virginia Tech but his team appeared to give it the old college try West Virginia took a 21 10 lead with 13:59 left but needed a 4 yard run by Eugene Napoleon with 3:22 left to seal a 28 16 vic tory Last week the Mountaineers blew a 21 10 lead at Penn State and lost 25 21 got nervous We were Nehlen said West Virginia 5 4 could not shake the 1 8 Hokies until late in the game After Anthony Brown scored from Virginia Tech's 2 yard line early in the fourth quar ter Virginia Tech came back with a 76 yard drive capped by Erik 40 yard scoring run Instead of folding as they did last week though the Mountain eers marched 74 yards to put the game away Major own 40 yard run on a third and 6 play put West Virginia at the Virginia Tech 30 and setup score we've got to do to have a chance to win the game is stop West Virginia on a third and long situation and we don't do it be cause our fellows missed their as said Coach rank Beamer West Virginia accumulated 412 yards in total offense but had difficulty moving the ball early in the game never felt we were going to lose the football game but their defense is difficult to prepare Nehlen said first half our defense played and our offense didn't and then in the second half that sort of flip flopped Brown rushed for 169 yards 99 in the second half to lead the Mountaineers He had 79 yards in the third quarter and it was his touchdown that put the PROVO Utah San Diego State's Todd Santos was both happy and sad after breaking the NCAA career passing yardage re cord Saturday "It felt good to get it out of the the senior quarterback said after breaking the mark set by resno Kevin Sweeney in a 38 21 loss to Brigham Young the school he originally wanted to play for But his happiness at setting the record was tempered by the loss disappointing we didn't perform as well as we Santos said after the Aztecs last year's Western Athletic Confer ence champions fell to 3 7 Santos a Mormon who was recruited but not signed by BYU set the record with 1:36 to play with a 23 yard pass to Ron Slack that gave him a career total of 10 632 yards pushing him ahead of Sweeney atop the NCAA Division I A career passing list Slack caught the pass up the middle and cut to his left and Santos said he knew he had the re cord when Slack made his cut knew in my mind that it was better than 11 he said put my hands in the air I new I ad the record With 16 seconds to play San tos threw a 13 yard scoring pass the first of the game for the 6 foot 2 senior to increase his record total to 10661 yards In all he completed 19 of 38 passes for 248 yards Sweeney passed for 10623 yards from 1982 86 Santos en tered the game with 10413 yards ranked third behind Doug lutie who had 10579 career passing yards for Boston College from A 1981 84 glad I got it over Santos said I can go on and break some more records in the last two Santos who originally wanted to play for church owned BYU but was not offered a schol arship picked apart the Cougar defense early in the game He completed his first three passes including a 60 yard pass to Kerry Reed Martin that set up the first touchdown He also engineered an 80 yard sec ond quarter scoring drive by com pleting three of four passes Santos was recruited by HOURS: MONDAY RIDAY 7:30 6:00 SATURDAY 7:30 5 00 Edberg Svensson in Stockholm finals Associated Press GOODfYEAR METRIC All Season Radial Blackwalls a Harris to IIarvey touchdown pass of 13 yards In the second quarter Chapman completed a 4 yard pass to Brian McCall to give the Hokies a 10 7 halftime lead West Virginia's defense en tered the game ranked 11th na tionally in total defense and pass ing defense Chapman last week had moved into fourth on Virginia Tech's all time passing yardage list with 2737 yards Chapman finished the game 9 of 15 passing for 63 yards and Harris was 5 of 13 for 80 yards Each was sacked twice Harris also had 18 carries for 70 yards Virginia Tech tailback Earnie Jones carried 24 times for 98 yards Both first half touchdowns came directly after miscues Jef fries' fumble at his own 32 led to a 6 play West Virginia drive in the first quarter and fumble at his own 30 in the second quarter set up a seven play drive by the Hokies Brown fumbled at the Moun 27 on West first play of the second half but four plays later Kinzer was wide right on a 37 yard field goal at tempt After the miss West Vir ginia drove 79 yards in 13 plays before scoring run thought the momentum changed at the start of the second Beamer said "We get the ball deep in West Virginia terri tory on a fumble and have a chance to pad our lead but a pen alty sets us back and we miss a field goal can't give up on those kinds of opportunities and expect to beat a good team like West Vir fourth quarter touchdown came after Virginia Tech receivers attracted defenders to both sides of the field Chap man faded back two steps and then found nothing between him and the goal line when his block ers separated Career leaders The all time NCAA Division I career passing leaders including school years played and total yards (x through Nov 71: 1 Todd Santos San Diego St (1983 1987) 10661 2 Kevin Sweenev resno State (1982 1986) 10623 3 Doug lutie Boston College (1981 84) 10579 4 Brian McClure Bowling Green (1982 85) 10280 5 Ben Bennett Duke 1 1980 83) 9614 6 Jim McMahon Brigham Young (1977 7880 811 9536 7 John Elway Stanford (1979 82) 9349 8 Chuck Long Iowa (1982 85) 9210 9 Mark Herrmann Purdue (1977 80) 9188 10 Joe Adams Tennessee St (1977 80) 8649 11 Robbie Bosco Brigham Young (1983 85) 8400 12 Jack Trudeau Illinois (1981 83 85) 8146 13 Randall Cunningham UNLV (1982 84) 8020 14 Dan Marino Pittsburgh (1979 82) 7905 15 John Holman NE Louisiana (1979 82) 7827 16 Jack Thompson Washington St (1975 78) 7818 17 Steve Young Brigham Young (1981 83) 7733 18 Marc Wilson Brigham Young (1977 791 7637 19 Scott Campbell Purdue (1980 83) 7636 20 Tom Tunnicliffe Arizona (1980 83) 7618 down and safety Troy Long picked off two passes one on the final play of the first half and the other midway through the fourth quarter Santos had thrown only 10 in terceptions in 383 attempts prior to the game or BYU the game also was a grudge match The Aztecs de feated Brigham Young 10 3 last year ending the hopes for an 11th straight Western Ath letic Conference title Before the game Santos said setting the career passing mark against BYU was no big deal He said he wanted to get the record behind him so he and his team could get on with the season Santos also set the WAC ca reer total offense record in the sec ond quarter passing former BYU quarterback Jim McMahon McMahon now with the Chicago Bears had 9723 yards total offense from 1977 81 Santos has two more games both in San Diego to add further to his records The Aztecs play Colorado State next week and New Mexico on Nov 21 Get Ready or Winter Driving With Tires Ihat Are Ready or Every Season! 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