Bristol Herald Courier from Bristol, Tennessee • 19

Hi got Associated Press Johnson lifts Biics by VMI I Please see BUCS Page 7C WvStvSxi By The Associated Press Please see CAVS Page 7C By The Associated Press Herald CourlcrJoe utia sidelines How they fared Brad Lifford Sports Writer bogged down engineers win By GEORGE STONE Sports Editor CHARLOTTESVILLE Va After booing numerous and frequent miscues over four quarters Saturday the fans did the only logical thing: They stormed the field and tore down a goal post still a pretty big deal around defensive tackle Ryan Kuehl said in explain ing celebration after a 9 6 victory over the Tigers reshman Ronde Barber inter cepted a pass by Louis Solomon with 1:49 left and re turned it 35 yards to the Clemson 5 our plays later Rafael Garcia kicked a 19 yard field goal with 26 seconds remaining to give Virginia How the top 10 teams and others of local interest in the Associated college football poll fared this week 1 lorida (3 0) beat No 15 Tennessee 31 0 Next: at Mississippi Oct 1 2 Nebraska (3 0) beat No 13 UCLA 49 21 Next: vs Pacific Saturday 3 lorida State (2 0) at Wake orest Next: vs No 16 North Carolina Satur day 4 Michigan (2 0) did not play Next' vs No 7 Colorado Saturday 5 Miami (2 0) did not play Next vs No 19 Washington Saturday 6 Penn State (3 0) beat Iowa 61 21 Next: vs Rutgers Saturday 7 Colorado (1 0) vs No 10 Wiscon sin Next: at No 4 Michigan 8 Notre Dame (2 1) beat Michigan State 21 20 Next: vs Purdue Saturday 9 Arizona (2 0) did not play Next at Stanford Saturday 10 Wisconsin (1 0) at No 7 Colorado Next: vs Indiana Saturday 15 Tennessee (1 2) lost to lorida 31 0 Next: at Mississippi State Saturday 18 Virginia Tech (3 0) beat Boston College 12 7 Next: vs West Virginia Thursday goodbye to their string of twostraight shutouts then gave Johnson a belated welcome back to college footba1! as the senior wide receiver turned in a record setting performance that led ETSU to a 31 21 victory in the Mini Dome them next Saturday: Auburn i University The Keydets fell to 0 2 but not as willingly as most recent VMI teams: They stum bled they righted themselves they lurched then put a hand down to keep their balance this had been last year we said VMI line backer Sam Daniels a Norton native been down year at halftime like we were A win at home in their South ern Conference opener and a 3 0 record were important achieve ments for the Bucs especially considering where the road takes The Vols found it virtu ally impossible to stop the Dean of quar terbacks in the SEC as Terry Dean riddled the Tennessee secondary last year as the teams combined for 1126 yards They combined for 477 Saturday a hard pill to swallow when you feel you played well defen Boston College coach Dan Henning said make a big Virginia Tech which was 4 0 in 1981 held Boston College to just four first downs in the first three quarters before giving up seven in the fourth The Hokies began the game as the second stingiest de fense allowing 1605 yards per game having held its other op ponents below 200 yards and 10 first downs Boston College the exact same (offense) as last Vir ginia Tech linebacker Ken Brown said just threw so many cov erages on them we had them Boston College also used three inexperienced quarterbacks Mark Please see HOKIES Page 7C Doing it his way Geoff Bodine doing well in first year as owner Busting through Charl'e Cole plows through the Bridgewater line for a score Saturday afternoon The Wasps won the game 47 6 See story page 4C They managed only 233 yards themselves and the only touch down came on Torrian 66 yard return on one of his four interceptions very fortunate to be able to win while we look Vir ginia Tech coach rank Beamer said awful close We're closer than what it looks like" Boston College (0 2) is far from its level of last season when Glenn oley ran the offense The Eagles beat Virginia Tech 48 34 Associated Press Boston College running back David Green is wrapped up by the Hokie defense led by defensive end Hank Coleman top No 18 Hokies slip by BC 1 2 7 ETSU needed test from VMI Mike Cavan spent the early part of this week sweating out an overnight stay in a hosptial and the latter part of the week sweating out a football game If he has his druthers he will never face the former scenario again He knew the latter scenario would crop up sooner or later and he was glad it happened Saturday against Virginia Military Institute in the Mini Dome got tested and Cavan said after the Buccaneers held on for a win over the Keydets needed Indeed the Bucs needed something of an examination after mugging Catawba College a Division II school then ambushing muieneaa state a Division 1 AA school that is considering the Division III route The Bucs lived a soft life the first two weeks of the season and things get only harder after yesterday That VMI could actually provide some barometer for a progress seems like a paradox for a military school program that has been all but defenseless in recent memory VMI appears to have already undergone at the least a slight metamorphosis in Bill first year as head coach however so Cavan was not at ease with a 24 7 halftime lead Linebacker Sam Daniels a former JI Burton star said the difference in playing last year for Jim Shuck and this year for Stewart has already made all the difference coming said Daniels a junior just a little slow right now because having to play some young players The attitude here is much better The intensity level is a lot ven the short end of that halftime score have made Cavan feel worse than he felt Tuesday when he fell ill and had to be hospitalized for 24 hours His doctor determined he slept enough or eaten for a couple of days running so Cavan left the hospital bed and headed back to football practice for some rest and relaxation was worried at Cavan said get a couple of touchdowns and it looks like things might be getting out of hand But I knew we had to play 30 more The message got through to senior wide receiver Jeff Johnson: knew we just go out there and flop So they or the second straight year under Cavan the team got off to a 3 0 start This time they accomplished it clad in new solid navy blue uniforms and in a resilient albeit flawed manner: The Bucs often hold onto the ball when they ran it sometimes couldn't score because of penalties cover a kickoff with a dragnet Cavan will pay particular attention to improving in those areas in practice this week And if you think because he harbors high hopes of shocking Auburn and thus the nation this Saturday then wrong not worried about Cavan said mean not a conference game that's an insurmountable ut his players as pragmatic or as surreptitious in expressing their feelings may awe wide receiver Chris Beatty said they awe me just going to go down there and try to keep doing what been Defensive tackle Germaine Bosket like Beatty also be shocked if the Bucs snuck out of Alabama with a 4 0 record But also keeping Auburn in perspective He knows other games down the road like Georgia Southern Marshall Western Carolina etc etc are more important Nol goal is to win the Southern Conference Bosket said not in our conference Now if the road to the Southern Conference title went through Auburn be a different loss to Alabama and it was the first shutout since losing at Geor gia 44 0 in 1981 told you guys on Tuesday that I thought lorida was the best team in the Tennessee coach Phil ulmer said guess you thought I was The Vols found it virtually im possible to stop the Dean of quar terbacks in the SEC as Terry Dean riddled the Tennessee secondary Meanwhile the Vols saddest words of the night was Helton to Manning to Stewart Neither Todd Helton nor Peyton Manning nor Branndon Stewart could jumpstart the Tennessee of fense into any positive force As lorida went through its de fensive depth chart in the closing minutes of the game Manning had Please see VOLS Page 6C BOSTON Virginia Tech is off 1 to its best start since 1981 because of its strong defense It may be very close to smoothing out its sputtering offense The 18th ranked Hokies (3 0) beat Boston College 12 7 Saturday allowing 244 yards and losing a shutout with 6 seconds left on Jeff 12 yard pass to Pete Mitch KNOXVILLE Apparently No ranked lorida is beginning to weaken The Gators were only able to wrestle Tennessee down to the newly sown grass mat at Ney mnd Stadium 31 0 After opening the season with nicilicious wins of 70 21 over New Mexico State and 73 7 over Ken tucky the Gators simply chewed up and spit out the 15th ranked Vols Saturday night before a live crowd of almost 96000 and an other several million on ESPN Whatever questions there were concerning No 1 ranking they were answered in Knoxville on an evening which began with hard showers While the rains stopped Tennes see remained bogged down in its own inability to finds its offense and stop that of lorida The loss dropped Tennessee to 1 1 in the SEC and 1 2 overall while lorida climbs to 2 0 and 3 0 The Vols now look ahead to next Saturday trip to Mississippi State (12:40 EDT) as lorida takes a week off to nrenare for a nmn nt Mississippi The shutout was the first for Tennessee at home since a 27 0 No 1 Gators swamp Vols Tennessee as Dean A Bristol Herald Courier Bristol Virginia Tennessean PORTS By BRAD LIORD Bristol Herald Courier JOHNSON CITY Virginia Military Institute needed barely over a minute Saturday to show it would not be just another shutout victim of East Tennessee State Then the Keydets spent the next 79 minutes being victimized by Jeff Johnson The Buccaneers said a quick Pace 4C UzSS red TaylOr scores on a 7'yard run in the first Vuarter dragging Tennessee's Leland I aylui Wllfl Him Cavs hold on to claim second win over Tigers (2 1 1 1 Atlantic Coast Confer ence) just its second victory over the Tigers coach George Welsh said was Clemson (1 2) is 0 2 in the ACC for the second time in three years gave a good effort but not an intelligent coach Tommy West said The Tigers still have a 31 2 1 edge in the senes but Virginia is 2 2 1 in the last five meetings The reason they won the latest meeting was simple according to Welsh as good a defensive effort as had said Welsh now in his 13th season at Virginia all those turn I i CS3M 1 iitw ifciiiMiW 54 IT 7 uBji xS I fl 1 1V I Mt Wnft Mir tit ip "1 St Il 'X JL a X'i jam xiW 7 Bk' MHPT 1 11" KT Wax' Ac WOr kJ A LJ sidelines SW1XM ft 4 77 4'.