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Martinsville Speedway tries again today to run Winn Dixie 500 Page 3D Last second touchdown lifts NC State over South Carolina Page 3D Top ranked Miami outscores lorida State Page 4D Cowboys hope to maintain edge over NY Giants Page 8D Sports November 2 1986 Tribe outscores Virginia 41 37 By Adrian Register Sports Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE The cat chwords to remember from yester ping pong match of a football jame between Virginia and William Mary are and Coming into this in state sibling rivalry Cavalier coach George Welsh was the one while the Jimmye Laycock was the confident one Seems like it should have been the other way around huh? Nope In wake of gridiron give and take on a dark and gloomy day at Scott Stadium the casting director had it about right as the poor little I AA Indians behind the passing and running of former Virginia hoops player Ken Lam biotte dealt the defenseless Cavs their sixth loss in seven games 41 37 But who would have thought Leery? Welsh should have been scared stiff stone petrified After surrendering 42 points to Virginia Tech and having gamers from both squads question the effort and character his team was at a crossroads cannon fodder for a team on the make But confidence in Williamsburg? Pretty startling stuff especially for a school whose last victory against I A competition came in 1981 against East Carolina An amazing state ment particularly in the aftermath of a 42 33 loss to James Madison in which the vaunted Tribe offense turned the ball over six times and the defense stop traffic William ar 7101014 41 Virginia Mehre 22 pass from Lambiotte (Christie kick) Maltioli 14 pass from Majkowski (Gaff ney kick) Lewis 13 pass from Lambiotte (Christie kick) VIR Greggs 3 run Gaffney kick) Gaffney 48 Christie 23 Greggs 2 run (Gaffney kick) Lambiotte 4 run (Christie kick Christie 40 Lambiotte 7 run (Christie kick) Mattioli 57 pass from Majkowski (Gaff Szydlik 2 pass from Lambiotte 1 (Christie kick) Hammond 14 pass from Majkowski failed) 35100 VIR irst downs 25 27 Rushes yards 32 136 48 208 Passing yards 307 212 Return yards 26 21 Passes 25 38 1 15 27 0 Punts 1 38 3 42 umbles lost 0 0 0 0 Penalties yards 7 75 2 10 Time of Possession 33:35 26:25 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING William Mary Clemons 29 100 Elliott 4 20 Lambiotte 6 10 Black 2 5 Gibson 1 1 Virginia Greggs 16 96 Rice 9 46 Warren 12 32 Morgan 6 26 Majkowski 5 8 PASSING William Mary Lambiotte 25 37 1 307 Mehre 0 1 0 0 Virginia Majkowski 15 26 0 212 Rice 0 1 0 0 RECEIVING William Mary Mehre 7 123 Lewis 5 66 Szydlik 6 61 Clemons 5 30 Elliott 1 19 Pisano 1 8 Virginia Mattioli 4 90 Ham mond 2 38 Rice 4 36 Greggs 2 21 Warren 2 21 Morgan 1 6 But Laycock had a feeling and so did the players kids like Renaissance man Michael Clemons the Tribe's loveable lightning bug of a scatback Said Laycock: felt very confi dent something I wish I could put a finger on but I The players were confident too Virginia was a good team not a great one we knew that I was just concerned with how well play He should have been While the of fense was amassing 4326 yards a game in the Tribe's first six outings the defense was surrendering 3774 yards of real estate 2106 on the ground Against I AA opponents no less At least the offense was as confi dent as Laycock Said Clemons: think that when playing well we can always move it always proved it Just because it's a I A school playing) we still expect to move it It doesn't make any difference who we But it may have made a difference yesterday The Indians still smar ting from the loss to JMU rolled into Scott ready to prove a thing or two And yet although Virginia could well nigh afford it Clemons believed that maybe just maybe the Cavs took him and buddies from the Reservation a bit lightly really know if they did or he said if they did the JMU game had a lot to do with it We took a lot of criticism this week from people who said we played anybody People said how inept we were (against Well the Indians now 7 1 were anything but inept yesterday even the defense which save for one play bent a lot and yielded its share of points but never totally broke And offensively they were a sight to behold Lambiotte in his first season as a football regular since his senior year at Central High in Woodstock click ed on 25 of 37 tosses for 307 yards and three touchdowns and also scored twice himself on naked bootlegs of seven and four yards Seven of these passes found the hands of Harry Mehre for 123 yards and six were caught by Dave Szydlik for 61 yards And Clemons? All the 5 5 wunderkind did was rush 29 times for 100 yards and snare five passes for 30 more The kid is a wonder As was the game you hadda if the teams were playing basketball tennis or football Hoops? The Tribe scored about as many points yesterday as the basketball team averages per game Tennis anyone? or the greater part of the contest the ball went back and forth like a tennis match so much so that you felt a team was doomed if it did not score on a possession and See Tribe on Page 10D THE SUNDAY REGISTER Section Classifieds a' wVw RsMI A BB I 4 1 (AP Laserphoto) Virginia Bobby Martin jumps for joy and over kicker Chris Kinzer and holder Jeff Ballance after game winning field goal against Kentucky winning field goal leaves Terps coach kicking By Kimball Crossley Register Sports Writer CHAPEL HILL It was one of those football games that after it was all over at least one of the head figured to be seething In this case it turned out to be Bobby Ross After watching Lee Gliarmis kick a 28 yard field goal as time ran out to give North Carolina a 32 30 victory over his come from behind Maryland squad Ross went after a game official wanted to ask him for one final said Ross who tried to grab the official as he ran off the field and had to be restrained by a policeman guys fought their hearts out in the second Ross said deserved a better The controversy in the final moments concerned the North Carolina timeout situation as they drove for the winning score The stadium scoreboard had mistakingly charged North Carolina with a timeout on a previous extra point and Ross said he thought after checking with an official that the correct so when the Tar Heels used a timeout to stop the clock with 1:23 to go and then Maryland 0 7 10 13 Carolina 0 20 3 9 1 run (Gliarmis kick) Keller 7 pass from Maye Gliarmis kick) Smith 21 pass from Maye (kick failed) Milling 77 pass from Henning (Plocki kick) Scriber 2 run (Plocki kick) MD Plocki 36 UNC Miller 47 Milling 17 pass from Henning (Plocki kick) Maye 1 run (pass failed) Milling 88 pass from Henning (pass failed) UNC Gliarmis 28 46000 MD UNC irst downs 20 32 Rushes yards 30 93 55 225 Passing yards 367 316 Return yards 16 9 Passes 18 29 0 25 40 0 Punts 5 33 3 35 umbles lost 1 1 2 1 Penalties yards 6 34 5 38 Time of possession 24:11 35:49 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Maryland Lowery 18 84 Scriber 7 23 Carolina enner 30 173 Starr 6 32 PASSING Maryland Henning 18 29 0 367 Carolina Maye 25 40 0 316 Maryland Milling 5 220 Sullivan 5 62 Carolina Streater 7 107 Keller 6 37 again with 53 seconds to go he believed they were out But the Tar Heels 5 2 1 3 1 quiet ly ran the clock down amid the fren zy of their bewildered fans and then took a timeout to bring on Gliarmis and the kicking team they took the last timeout (actually the second) I assumed it was their last Ross said sent him (the official) out to check when he come back I assumed it was should come right back and tell me his Bradley aircloth Supervisor of ootball Officials in the ACC ex plained that the discrepency oc cured because of some confusion previous to two point conver sion attempt after they had taken the lead 29 24 North two point con version the North Carolina quarter back asked the referee if a timeout had to be taken for the ball to be moved to the hash aircloth said timeout was signalled as the referee talked to the quarter back The referee indicated to him (Maye) that a timeout did not need See UNC on Page 10D Tech kicks BLACKSBURG (AP) Kicker Chris Kinzer showed America when he booted a 49 yard field goal with one second on the clock to lift Virginia Tech to a 17 15 victory over Kentucky Saturday Tech Coach Bill Dooley said was an unbelievable finish and an unbelievable performance by Chris Dooley said went in there with no timeouts left and the clock ticking off the final seconds and he showed All America poise He took his time and split the field goal came after the Hokies drove the ball from their own 6 yard line in the final four minutes It was 16th straight field goal Kentucky started the scoring late in the first quarter on a 24 yard field goal by Joe Worley It was the only score in a first half in which Ken tucky held Tech to one first down and 64 total yards Kentucky Coach Jerry Claiborne said his team failed to take advan tage of scoring opportunities in the first half couldn't get anything on the board until right at the he said The Wildcats scored 12 of their 15 points in the fourth quarter was a tough loss no question about he said have to give Virginia Tech credit for moving the ball downfield and making the big Virginia Tech took a 7 3 lead with 5:52 left in the third quarter when quarterback Erik Chapman flipped the ball to split end Donald Snell on a reverse play and Snell ran 18 yards to score Worley booted a 33 yarder early in the fourth quarter to bring Kentucky to within a point of the Hokies Tech raised its lead to 14 6 about four minutes later on a 14 yard run by tailback Eddie Hunter See Tech on Page 6D Kentucky Virginia Tech 0 0 KY Worley 24 Snell 18 run (Kinzer kick) KY Worley 33 Hunter 14 run (Kinzer kick) KY Worley 22 Logan 3 run (pass failed) Kinzer 49 30300 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS KY VT irst downs 25 13 Rushes yards 45 157 43 177 Passing yards 235 79 Return yards 23 16 Passes 24 34 0 7 18 0 Punts 3 44 8 37 umbles lost 2 2 3 0 Penalties yards 5 40 5 69 Time of Possession 35:18 24:42 RUSHING Kentucky Higgs 12 72 Logan 2 44 Hunter 12 21 Murray 3 15 Virginia Tech Hunter 14 69 Williams 15 56 Jones 5 31 Snell 1 18 PASSING Kentucky Ransdeil 24 34 0 235 Virginia Tech Chapman 7 18 0 79 RECEIVING Kentucky Higgs 5 60 Bur bage 5 44 Smith 3 38 Pitts 2 27 Wheeler 3 30 Logan 3 23 Virginia Tech Johnson 3 36 Snell 1 19 Jones 2 19 Covington seconds away Keela Covington raB 1 Bb (Photos by Bill Setliff) from 4 0 against UNC By Kimball Crossley Register Sports Writer CHAPEL HILL ormer George Washington standout Keeta Cov ington was four seconds from having a perfect record against North Carolina his former dream school when it happened heard someone say got a timeout Covington the senior Maryland cornerback said heard a couple of people say have a I always listen to the refs I look at the scoreboard My mind was on trying to block the What happened was North Carolina took a timeout among all the confusion a timeout the scoreboard and Maryland head coach Bobby Ross said it have to bring on the field goal team and a game winning last second kick or Covington the 32 30 Maryland loss was a shocker because it was the first time in his four year career as a Terrapin that he had been on the losing side of a Carolina game Ironically the 5 8 Covington who grew up only an hour north of Kenan Stadium always envisioned himself a Tar Heel was always my dream Covington said grew up wanting to go to Carolina ever since Buddy (ormer Eagle and Tar Heel Buddy Curry) went here at the last minute something chased me away I wanted to go out and meet new As it turns out he exactly heading to a foreign land in fact brother Al was already a sophomore at Maryland and team mate errell Edmunds also of Dan ville and GW and now a junior because of red shirting came along with him Covington said he has never look ed back not even after defeat still have three ACC champion ships how many people can say said Covington whose Ter rapins find themselves struggling this season at 4 4 and 1 3 in the ACC after capturing three straight league championships The disappointment for Edmunds might be more or less than that of Covington considering how you look at it Edmunds was recruited by North Carolina but chose Maryland because he thought he might see more time as a pass catcher there It was his first loss to the Tar Heels as well Edmunds still has another year left to get even with North Carolina but he and his head coach through looking back at this one Edmunds was involved in a two point conversion pass play which Ross claimed was interference The play could have meant two more See Terps on Page 10D errell Edmunds it 4 4G 1 I i s'r.