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Sports THE DANVILLE REGISTER SEPTEMBER 19 1976 V' Coles And Barnes Lead Vat Tech Win Win or UNC a Terps Beat WVU 24 3 345 Deacs Bow To Vandy 3 24 interception re Rebels Win Triple In earlier games Quick Stop ior tailback gained 54 yards in forfeit Deboes Upholstery had if 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 12 able to break than 10 yards The Gretna Rebels rolled back from the bracket with 4 3 and 9 5 victories over their cross town rivals Quick Stop and won the Triple men's fast pitch Duke's Vince usco missed a 46 yard three point try late in the first period but the Blue Devils came back for a touch down early in the second quar ter Duke drove 56 yards with Art Gore going the final 10 for 130 yards and Malloney for 41 while Mike Bennett had four receptions for 96 yards for the Tigers now 1 1 football 34 times Altogether the Indians out 22 si 123 40 9 20 1 339 3 I 449 60 212 108 139 6 11 2 344 8 4 459 Va Tech 12 56 230 33 16 460 646 1 1 430 75 215 96 46 8180 irst downs Rushes yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts umbles lost Penalties yards irst downs Rushes yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts umbles tost Penaitiesyard V0 0 10 lOrun (Martin kick) the 64 yard march and then yielded as Long went in on his first possession of the game Hie Gamecocks tallied on a Bernie Parrish field goal from the 28 al with 8:26 remaining in the same period South Miss 16 57 195 94 41 7 110 4 40 3 1 730 Carolina 7 35 99 70 Virginia Military in Conference football one of whose three was for 42 yards Hendrick Wins All Star Race At South Boston Kruis a junior from Lancas ter Pa scored his third touch down of the young season as he romped for 133 yards on 22 car Wakp orest Vanderbilt Grove Johnson 3 run (Martin kick) Hnly Martin 28 McDougald 62 run (Hely kick) Zeglinski 9 run (Hely kick) Young 32 pass from McGIamry (Hely kick) Vand Martin 25 Wright I run (Martin kick) Wake orest Rushes yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts umbles tost Penalties yards UP IX THE AIR Maryland quarterback Mike Manges (13) is lifted into the air by West Virginia's defender Tom HARRISONBURG Va (AP) Stan Jones threw two scor ing passes as Madison's unbeat en Dukes took advantage of two early breaks built a 22 3 lead and held off Towson Ti gers for a 28 26 football victory Saturday The Tigers scored wwith just 1:25 left on a id yard run by Jeff Herrick that narrowed the gap to two points but Tiger quarterhack Dan Dullea who had completed 21 of 35 passes for 295 yards was sacked on a two point conversion try that would have tied it A fumble recovery set up an eight yard run by Bernard Slayton and Bob Logan ran an intercepted pass back 32 yards to give Madison a 14 0 lead the Tigers never were able to over come despite 358 yards in total offense to the Dukes' 204 yards Jones who completed four of eight passes for 123 yards hit Chip Deringer on a 40 yard scoring strike and Ron Borders on a 63 yard plsay as the Dukes upped their record to 36 and ran their two year winning streak to 12 Slayton ran 13 times for 55 yards Although he scored two of Towson's touchdowns Herrick had just 19 yards on four car ries Mike Malloney who scored once gained 70 yards on 20 carries But Dullea was the big gun for Towson his passing setting up their scores Sup Chase and Malloney caught six passes each Chase SOUTH BOSTON Ray Hendrick of Richmond easily won last night's Invitational All Star 200 late model sportsman stock car race at the South Boston Speedway Hendrick finished with almost a lap lead over runnerup Tommy Houston of Hickory NC Hendrick who started from the pole position took the lead at the outset and led all 200 laps His fifth win of the season here was worth $5100 inishing third was Phil Morgan of Butner NC while Jack Bland of Riverdale Md was fourth and Paul Radford of errum placed fifth tight end Jim Wicks Then in the third quarter af ter William and Mary had made it 14 0 Hitt teamed up with flanker Joe Sroba on a 51 yard pass that carried to the Indians' 13 But on the next play Hitt went to the air again and Agee made a leaping inter ception in the end zone Virginia had one final scoring chance early in the fourth quarter when defensive back Tony Blunt returned a pass interception 27 yards to the 24 Three plays later however the Indians got the ball back as linebacker Jim Ryan picked off another Hitt aerial ASU VMI 4 43 124 81 120 10223 7 42 0 0 4 51 goals the longest being 39 yards John Craig and Emmitt Ham ilton combined for 149 of Ap palachian's 212 total rushing yards The Mountaineers held a 10 9 lead the half but a pair of back to back fumbles allowed VMI to make use of kicking and take the lead 12 10 on his final field goal But that was the only time the Keydets could capitalize on Appalachian's eight fumbles four of which the Mountaineers lost ASU quarterback Robby Price led an 80 yard drive mid way the third period with Craig and Hamilton doing the carry ing on the 11 play march Price HAMPDEN SYDNEY Va (AP) Bill Newell came off the bench and directed a 54 yard scoring march in the last two minutes Saturday that gave Hampden Tigers a 14 7 football victory over Sewanee's Purple Tigers Newell who had thrown a 17 yard scoring pass to Bo Snod grass in the second quarter hit Snodgrass again on a 21 yard play with just 1:48 left to rally Hampden Sydney from a 7 6 deficit The two also combined for a two point conversion Sewanee playing its opener scored first on a 64 yard march in the opening period ith Jim my Brett taking a seven yard scoring pass from Ron Swy mer But the Tigers came back with an 81 yard drive Newell Ithrowmg to Snodgrass for the score Hampden Sydney now 3 0 and winner of seven in a row over a two year span had three passes intercepted and missed on a fourth down try deep in Sewanee territory and also missed a field goal before Newell pulled it out The Tiger quarterback who hit 13 of 28 passes for the game for 181 yards completed four in a row in the winning drive His twin brother Ben caught seven passes for 93 yards and Snodgrass grabbed five for 95 yards Jimmy erguson led the Tigers' ground game with 1 13 yards on 18 carries Later in the period the Gob blers 2 1 started a drive from midfield and converted three fourth down situations before Barnes plunged into the end zonefromtheone The drive was kept alive when Tech used a fake field goal attempt by Paul Engle to convert one of the fourth downs Barnes who was hold ing snatched the ball away and flipped six yards to Paul Adams for a first down 42 yard field goal just before the end of the first ASHLAND Va (AP) Rick six yard touchdown pass to Irvin Black and Greg Warfield two yard scoring run both set up by third quarter fumbles gave Sherpherd's Rams a 14 7 college football victory over Randolph Yellow Jackets Saturday Mike Day recovered Bubbie fumble on the Ran the third period and hit Tony Perry on an 86 yard scoring play in the final quarter But opening its season lost a fumble at the Emory and Henry four in the second quar ter and the Wasps' Mike Snow recovered a fumble by Roberts in the end zone for a touchdown in the third period Mike Mabry ran 20 times for 115 yards for Emory and Hen ry now 1 1 Stu Atkinson gained yards on 23 carries for the Generals LEXINGTON Va (AP) Gary Davis kicked three field goals and defensive back Bill Medlin ran 27 yards for a touchdown with an interception Saturday leading Appalachian Mountaineers to A 31 12 rout of Southern Davis pointers missed only one of four field goal tries and added two extra points in the victory The Mountaineers are 2 1 The Key dets suffered their second straight defeat VMI struck first in the open ing period with a 32 yard field goal by Craig Jones the only offensive player to score for the Keydets He booted four field sumed half the quarter William and Mary might well have won by a wider margin but the Indians were stymied by two fumbles one at the Virginia 10 two pass in terceptions and several un timely penalties An illegal procedure in fraction early in the fourth quarter nullified a 24 yard field goal by Steve Libassi and Li bassi missed on his second try from 29 yards" William and mistakes kept Virginia within striking distance through three quarters but a fumble and two pass interceptions prevented i the scoreboard Late the first half a Cav alier bid to gain a halftime tie i was turned back by free safety Joe Agee who recovered a fumble at the 15 at the end of an 18 yard pass play from quarterback Andy Hitt to COLUMBIA SC reshman quarterback Steve Swinehart came off the bench in the second half and led South Carolina to two touchdowns and 24 6 victory over Duke Satur day night With starting quarterback Ron Bass on the sidelines nurs Pridemore (22) in action at Mountaineer ield Maryland beat WVL24 3 (AP Wirephoto) Vanderbilt's first half scores came on 10 yards by Adolph Grove and three yards by Da vid Johnson Martin added a 28 yard field goal Wake orest scored in the second quarter on 62 yard run by McDougald and a nine yard run by John Zeglinski The final touchdown came on a pass play covering 32 yards from McGIamry to Steve Young Bob Hely booted a 38 yard first quarter field goal for Wake orest now 1 2 Vanderbilt evened its record at 1 1 for the Wildcats Later in the period North Carolina's Bobby Cale inter cepted a pass and returned six yards to the Northwestern 35 But North Carolina stalled on the 14 where the visitors took over Halfback Bobby Cale was outstanding on defense for the 17th ranked Tar Heels in jecting a bit of excitement into a game that needed some Cale intercepted two passes and recovered one fumble In the cloeing minutes of the game Cale intercepted a pass by Steve Breitbeil on North western's 25 The Tar Heels were frustrated again when they tried to convert the break Jeff Arnold's 41 yard field goal yard pass to Philip Logan on the first play of the fourth quarter With Bass leading the way in the first half South Carolina stung the Blue Devils ouicklv as Kevin Long scored from softball championship last night I Earlier the Rebels had lost 16 Late Drive Lifts SC Rushesyards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts umbles tost Penalties yards Maryland 7 14 0 West Virginia 0 3 0 Manges 2 run (Sochko kick) McKenzie 29 Atkins 16 run (Snrhkfi kirk 1 White 32 pass from Manges (Sochko kick) Snrhto Northwestern North Carolina Riddle 21 UNC Rirtdle UNC Menapace 1 run (pass failed) I AW Northwestern irst downs Rushes yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts umbles tost Penalties yards eliminated Laurel Grove and the Rebels had eliminated Deboes Laurel Grove had nipped Home Improvement 6 5 before it was eliminated while Deboes easily downed the Challengers 14 0 prior to eliminating Laurel Park A softball tour nament with teams expected to be here from all parts of Virginia is scheduled to open at the Triple Park Wednesday Victor LEXINGTON Va (AP) Mike Roberts hit Ron Mabry on scoring pass plays of 62 and 82 yards Saturday as Emory and Henry's Wasps held off Wash ington and Generals 24 17 in the first Old Dominion Ath letic Conference football game in history Roberts who completed six of nine passes for 183 yards hit Mabry in the opening period on a 62 yard play and sent the Wasps ahead for good with the 82 yard strike in the second quarter Mabry caught five passes for 166 yards The Generals twice rallied on the passing of Ted Hissey who hit 12 of 26 passes for 193 yards He connected with Bob Szczcecinski for three yards in dolph Macon 21 yard line and tour plays later Kinsbury hit Black with a touchdown pass Moments later Bruce Wid dows fell on Mike fumble on the Randolph Macon 43 Warfield scored 12 plays lat er The Rams picked off four of John Buehler's passes with Matt Long intercepting two The Yellow Jackets finally got on the board in the fourth quarter when Buehler hit Bob Jones with an eight yard scor ing pass 8 35 22 4 58 attempt was far short North Carolina tailback Mike Voight was the busiest man on the field carrying the ball 29 times for 79 yards But Voight like the rest of the Tar Heels spent the better part of the afternoon frustrated never run further LACKSBURG Va (AP) Halfback Roscoe Coles ran 37 yards for one touchdown and quarterback Mitcheal Barnes plunged one yard for another as Virginia Tech's Gobblers downed Southern Mississippi 16 7 Saturday in intersectional college football The Gobblers leading 36 in the third period had the ball with fourth and two at the Southern Miss 37 when Coles broke through the right side and out ran two defensive backs to put Tech up 106 Late Heroics Propel USC Over Devils Nashville Tenn Gritty sophomore quarterback Mike Wright dazzled Wake orest with his running and passing and scored a decisive fourth quarter touchdown to lift Vanderbilt to a 27 24 inter sectional college football victo ry Saturday Vanderbilt roared to a 17 3 first quarter lead but Wake orest charged back behind quarterback Mike McGIamry and fleet freshman tailback James McDougald to take a 24 17 margin in the third quarter In the fourth period Vandy's Greg Martin booted a 25 yard field goal and Wright scored from one yard out with 11:12 left to end the scoring In the last minute Wake or est drove to the Vanderbilt 23 but was penalized to the 39 for offensive holding Urban Eriksson missed a 56 yard field goal with eight seconds left On final touch down drive Wright made the two crucial plays in the series He completed a 17 vard pass to Martin Cox to the Wake orest 20 and two plays later ran 16 yards to the one MORGANTOWN WVa (AP) Tenth rated Maryland sparked by quarterback Mark Manges and powerful tailback Steve Atkins dominated West Virginia both offensively and defensively to rout the Moun taineers 24 3 Saturday in a col lege football game Manges scored Maryland's first touchdown with 2:30 to go in the first quarter on a two yard run Then with 14 seconds to go in the first half he threw a 32 yard touchdown strike to wide receiver Chuck White to give the Terrapins a 21 3 half time lead Atkins who sat out the sec ond half rushed for 133 yards on 23 carries and set up anoth er Terp touchdown with several key first down runs West Virginia bottled up throughout by big ger and stronger defense man aged only a 29 yard field goal by Bill McKenzie Atkins rushed for 32 yards on four carries to set up touchdown run in the first quar ter After McKenzie kicked his field goal Atkins made it 14 3 with 3:28 to go in the first half by rushing 15 yards around right end It took Maryland lust two plays to set up the Atkins a 35107 touchdown after defensive back Doug Harbert picked off a lrs' DiiehM uak4 nenara pass and returned it 36 yards to West 35 yard line Manges then threw to White for 20 yards and At iimblitis Beats CHAPEL HILL NC (AP) Tom Biddle kicked two field goals and North Carolina shoved over a third period touchdown as the Tar Heels de feated Northwestern 12 0 Saturday for their third straight victory of the college football season A crowd of 41000 saw North Carolina stifle Northwestern with pass interceptions and a stout running defense The deepest penetration was to the Tar Heel 41 in the closing seconds of the game It as their second straight loss North Carolina jumped in front in the first period on a 21 yard field goal by Biddle Then early in the third period Biddle kicked another field goal from 25 yards: The Tar Heels scored late in the third period when quarter back Bernie Menapace lunged over from the one The touch dou qH nn uihon Dill Par 1 due recovered a Northwestern fumble by fullback Jim Whims on the Northwestern 28 Northwestern nlaved without its star quarterback Randy ueau wno aio not make tne trip because of an illness North Carolina winner over lorida and Miami of Ohio in earlier games missed two scor ing opportunities in the first quarter The Tar Heels drove from 48 to the five where Menapace fumbled and Marty Szostak recovered scored from a yard out to send the Mountaineers ahead for good The meager rushing attack was led by quarterback Robbie Clark who had 39 of the 126 yards Clark also completed six of 13 passes for 35 yards Sub quarterback Mark Lambert passed for 46 for the Keydets Appalachian intercepted three VMI passes two by Quin ton McKinney Bobby McQueen picked off two Moun taineer aerials Appalachian's first touch down came in the opening quarter on an 80 yard drive with Hamilton scoring on a 15 yard run The Mountaineers killed any hopes VMI had of a comeback when Medlin picked off a Lam bert pass and ran 27 yards to score just after Davis had kick ed his final field goal Appalachian io 0 11 Va Military 3 6 3 Jon PS 37 Hamilton 15 run (Davis kick) ASU Davis 39 Jones 29 Jones 26 Jones 33 Price 1 run (Hamilton run) uavts ZU ASU Davis 42 Medlin 27 pass turn (Davis kick 7500 Vanderbilt irst downs 16 55 254 110 5 5 10 2 440 2 1 9 109 Dukes Strike Early Keep Streak Intact The loss leveled record at 1 1 The Blue Devils of the Atlantic Coast Confer ence upset Tennessee lastweek in their season opener 21 17 Swinehart who saw action on only three plays last week against Georgia Tech nut the ing a sprained knee Swinehart Same out of reach with a 36 mhented a 10 6 lead after hall time The Lancaster Ohio na tive' led the Gamecocks to a touchdown on their first posses sion of the second half setting up the score with a 57 yard run to the Duke one foot line He scored on the next play three vards out with 10:58 sfil and South Carolina was on its to be played in the first quar 13 to Quick Stop before eking out way to its third straight win ter The Gamecocks had taken a 4 3 10 inning victory to set up Swinehart finished the game the opening kickoff and used the championship showdown with 60 yards rushing on nine Clarence Williams to carry the In earlier games Quick Stop carries He also completed three load in the first drive The sen had beaten Laurel Grove by of seven passes for 74 yards ior tailback gained 54 yards in forfeit Deboes Upholstery had kins scored a play later The only scoring of the sec ond half came with 7:07 left in the game when the Terps' Mike Sochko kicked a 23 yard field goal Maryland completely domi viramia t' natea tne statistics outrushing West Virginia 303 25 and piling up 24 first downs to the Moun nine West normally po tent ground game averaged less than a yard per carry The Mountaineers could get just 25 yards on the ground in 30 at tempts WVU's leading return ing rusher for last season tail back Dwayne Woods lost a yard in nine attempts after picking up 81 yards gainst Vil lanova last week Manges picked up 68 yards on 15 carries to back Atkins in strong running at tack Alvin Maddox who played most of the second half at tailback in place of Atkins had 45 yards on 10 carries the well over half their yar dage between the Cavalier tackles Kruis scored on a five vard a first period and wide receiver Tom Butler registered William and Mary's other touchdown midway the third period haul ing in a 13 yard pass from quarterback Tom Rozantz The second touchdown was set uo bv the running of Kruis ukvi wpuuuo pivvcuieu and imian who brought the the Cavaliers from getting on ha Hftwninlri frnw Tm 21 a drive that con Biddle Boots Strong Defense wmsaiM 30 25 years no 1 89 9 13 1 1219 2 5 34 22 6 76 quarter was the only score in tne first half Southern Mississippi got on the board late in the third quar ter when Ben Garry took a pit chout from quarterback Ken Aiderman broke through the line and went 48 yards for a touchdown Randy McDonald missed three field goals for the Golden Eagles 0 2 The Golden Eagles had one apparent touchdown nullified in the second quarter when Aiderman pitched out to Clan cy who lofted a wobbly 25 yard pass to Boo Smith in the end zone The play was called back because of an ineligible receiver down field Garry led both teams in rushing with 143 yards on 19 carries Coles ran 20 times for 121 yards for Virginia Tech Aiderman hit 7 of 11 passes for 94 yards and Barnes hit 4 of 6 for 33 yards Tech punter George Roberts kicked six times for a 46 yard yard average to keep the Gold en Eagles backed up in their own territory mot of the game His longest boot was 58 yards The aggressive Tech defense sacked Aiderman five times South Mississippi 0 0 7 i 7 Engle 42 Coles 37 run (Engle kick) Garry 48 run (MacDonald kick) VT Barnes 1 run (kick failed) 35000 Keydets all Victims To oot ASU Downs Cavaliers EJEEOTTESVILLE Va ries imian a junior from Vir (AP) Tailback Jim Kruis ginia Beach chipped in with and fullback Keith imian 164 yards as he handled the vuhwiik iui yaras aaiur day as William and In dians ground down Virginia's rushed Virginia 335 114 getting infrjscf'ifa rivnl r'mnlin a in an interconference football game i The Indians off to a 26 sea son start for the first time run in the final minute of the biiivc ien new Virginia Coach Dick Bestwick still look ing for his first victory as the Cavaliers suffered their second gpfhanlr nf fka in7C Maryland Wnst Virginia Qnn fhnir i wk Lv 24 9 ana tneir lltn in a row over two OH MY University of Virginia's Bill Copeland (26) gets a real hard hit from William and Rolfe Caraway (77) in early action Copeland's face tells thestorv of a real hard hitting interstate rivalry (AP Wirephoto) 132 121 7 43 II 645 RIM Mt 1 4 1 I 7 i' I I A MM) nT rwi at JRI Wi aBBw li IW 4' f'w' nlB iA 4 3' ts i 3.