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Danville Register and Bee from Danville, Virginia • 35

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Udnuillc cjqis ter Bee Sunday November 22 1992 Section Sports Nhkl utA 32 5 Beck Crenshaw lead at Shootout sPORrSBRMK THOUSAND OAKS Calif (AP) Teammates Chip Beck and Ben Crenshaw made three con secutive birdies en route to a 7 under par 65 and a one shot lead in the $1 million Shark Shootout on Saturday Beck and Crenshaw are at 14 under 130 after two rounds Hale Irwin and Bruce Lietzke combined for a 3 under 69 US Open champion Torn Kite and partner Davis Love III shot a 5 under 67 to share third place with PGA champion Nick Price and partner Billy Ray Brown Price and Brown fired a 67 for a 131 total Birds sign Sutcliffe BALTIMORE (AP) Pitcher Rick Sutcliffe signed for another year with the Baltimore Orioles getting a 1 993 contract that will guarantee him $2 million plus in centives GW mat boosters The GW Wrestling Booster Club will meet Monday (7 pm) in the health room at the high school Sports on TV Basketball 9:00 pm: Chicago Bulls at Phoenix Suns (Channel 16) ootball 1 :00 pm: Philadelphia Eagles at NY Gi ants (Channels 2 7) 1 :00 pm: Cleveland at Minnesota or Hous ton at Miami or Indianapolis at Pittsburgh (Channels 10 12) 4:00 pm: Denver at LA Raiders or NY Jets at New England (Channels 10 12) 8:00 pm: Kansas Chy at Seattle (Channel 9) Golf 4:30 pm: ranklin unds Shark Shoot Out (Channels 2 7) Tennis 1 :00 pm: Virginia Slims Championships singles (Channels 8 13) 4:00 pm: ATP Tour World Championships inal Match (Channel 9) Hokies fall to Cavs By BUDDY WRIGHT Staff Sports Writer BLACKSBURG Virginia reserve cornerback Kareem Martin almost make the trip But the redshirt freshman did and made the crowd of 53271 at Lane Sta dium yesterday take notice With Virginia ahead 24 17 in the third quarter Martin roared in from the right side to smother a Virginia Tech punt and allowed UVa to regain momentum in the see saw affair Two plays later Terry Kirby went the final 11 yards in the 16 yard drive for the touchdown and Virginia went on to a 41 38 win to keep alive its slim bowl hopes is one of those years where 7 4 might look good (to bowl Vir ginia coach George Welsh said Martin who hails from Char lottesville and had injured a shoulder last week and missed prac tice because of the flu said a punt re turn was called force the punter to punt the he said I touched was kind of surprised But after taken my third step and he (Tech punter Robbie Colley) caught the ball I knew I was going to block it know if it turned the game I was just trying to make a Tech which finished its season 2 8 1 and with an eight game winless streak had cut the margin to seven on a two yard touchdown pass from Maurice DeShazo 4 I'' 11 Wil KI 3K ar UnlK JI 1 4 Associated Press photo Virginia quarterback Bobby Goodman eludes capture by Vir ginia Tech defensive end Billy Swarm yesterday during the first half of the Cav Hokies game UVA won the game 41 38 to Mark Poindexter with 6:15 remain ing in the third period The Hokies regained possession mo ments later when Tyronne Drakeford intercepted and returned it 25 yards to the Tech 42 The drive stalled four plays later at the Tech 49 following a sack by Chris Slade setting the stage for big special teams play blocked punt was Tech coach rank Beamer said had just scored and I thought we had the mo mentum That blocked punt turned the game It only got worse for the Techmen on their next series See CAVS Page 4D Wolfpack tops Wake 42 1 4 RALEIGH NC (AP) Terry Jor dan threw two touchdown passes and Greg Manior ran for two scores Satur day as No 13 North Carolina State matched its most successful regular season ever with a 42 14 victory oyer No 25 Wake orest The Wolfpack (9 2 1 overall 6 2 At lantic Coast Conference) won nine games last year en route to the Peach Bowl and the 1974 team under Lou Holtz won nine games before reaching the old Bluebonnet Bowl NC State secured second place in the ACC enhancing its chances at a game in the bowl coalition Six bowl scouts including those from the Or ange iesta and Gator attended the game It was a bitter ending for Demon Deacons coach Bill Dooley who con cluded his coaching career on the same field where it began Carter inley Sta dium He fared the same as he did back in 1967 when his North Carolina team lost 13 7 Nonetheless Wake orest (7 4 4 4 ACC) has secured a spot in the Inde pendence Bowl at Shreveport La on New Eve Dooley whose team had a six game winning streak snapped leaves the ACC as its winningest coach with 97 victories He announced before the sea son that he would step down at the end of the year The Wolfpack took control before the sunshine that opened the contest gave way to cloudy skies and drizzle at the half Keith West threw his first inter ception in 123 passes and NC State turned it into Anthony 6 yard touchdown run at 11:35 Wake orest squandered fumble and Jay 13 yard re turn Mike Green missed a 34 yard field goal and the Wolfpack took ad vantage with an 80 yard drive capped by Manioc's 1 yard run with 34 seconds left in the period The touchdown was set up on a fourth down pass interference call on Lamont Scales in the end zone After Wade Tolleson missed a 47 yard field goal NC State went 69 yards and raised its edge to 21 0 on 9 yard pass to Eddie Goines with 9:45 left before the half Heels edge Duke 31 28 DURHAM NC (AP) You can close the book on North re building program under coach Mack Brown arrived Mike Thomas hit Bucky Brooks on a 20 yard scoring pass with 2:06 left as the 21st ranked Tar Heels rallied for a 31 28 Atlantic Coast Conference victo ry over Duke on Saturday securing a bowl bid and helping erase the memory of a pair of 1 10 seasons in first two seasons shows how much ma tured over the past four said Brooks who has 427 second speed in the 40 yard dash lot of times in my early years we would have folded when a team jumps out on us and be hind in the fourth quarter We showed a lot of character today by coming The Tar Heels (8 3 5 3 ACC) closed their best regular season since 1983 and were extended a Peach Bowl bid after the game to play Mississippi State on Jan 2 in Atlanta The Blue Devils (2 9 0 8) lost their 13th straight ACC game and 10th in a row to a ranked opponent Thomas who replaced ineffective starter Jason Stanicek early in the sec ond quarter completed 11 of 18 at tempts for 299 yards and a pair of scor ing passes to Brooks just wanted this Thomas said a time when the game is one the line you have to have that cocky attitude that you have it in your hands to lead the team and make something happen for Thomas was every bit as good today as we thought he could North Carolina coach Mack Brown said of his redshirt freshman whose pass ing yardage was the seventh best sin gle game mark in school history made play after play after Brooks caught five passes for 185 yards second best in Tar Heels his tory and also had a 68 yard reverse that set up a field goal 29 yard scoring reception with 7:53 left in the third quarter gave the Tar Heels a 24 21 lead Duke quarterback Steve Prince starting for the first time in six games found Dan Clark on a 9 yard scoring strike about three minutes later and Duke led again 28 24 Prince who completed 23 of 40 pass es for 268 yards earlier had thrown scoring passes of 33 19 and 20 yards Trailing by four points early in the fourth period North Carolina was stopped on a fourth and one at the Duke 4 its third missed scoring chance of the second half Tripp Pignetti missed a field goal earlier and had an other one blocked Duke then took over and held the ball for 17 plays and 7:56 before punt ing with 3:41 left Thomas found Brooks on a 46 yard completion four plays later to set up the winning score Law named top offensive player on 1 992 All Piedmont grid team Pittsylvania County schools moved to the front of Piedmont District football last year when Tunstall Chatham and Dan River advanced to the playoffs Tunstall quarterback Khris Law is lift ing the in dividual players to the same status in the Group AA league stall's ver satile signal caller who passed for 19 touch downs dur ing the reg ular season and rushed for eight has been named Piedmont District offen sive player of the year Law 6 0 170 junior mans three positions on the 1992 All Piedmont District football team announced today In addition to individual of fensive honors Law is first team quarterback and defensive back and is the second team re turn specialist on the all star squad selected by the district coaches INGE I Ju 1 SSi 1 ADKINS MCKENNA SATTERIELD WHITE WHITE Ip i 4 (W MORRISON Tunstall had two other play ers split end Hubert Adkins and down lineman Mark Inge named to the first team Chatham's defensive tackle Jesse McKenna joins the trio on the first unit Adkins and Inge also landed spots on the second team Ad kins at linebacker and Inge tight end McKenna also was an offensive tackle on the second team Chatham center Todd Satter field was on the second team of fense along with Tunstall run ning back Sherman White Tunstall defensive end Andre Morrison and Chatham defen sive back Tippy White earned spots on the second unit Undefeated Magna Vista gained eight spots on the first team Tunstall Martinsville and Laurel Park four each Patrick County three Chatham Bassett and ieldale Collinsville one each Running backs Sharndell Ziglar and Evan Penn of district champion Magna Vista and teammates Hugo Hughes guard and reddie Roberts tackle were named to the offen sive team Guard Jason Pendleton cen ter Glen King and running back Charles McClain of Patrick County were honored Tight end Kerwin Hairston ieldale Collinsville tackle In gram Haley Martinsville and place kicker Jonathan Crabtree Laurel Park round out the first offensive team Other members of the first defensive unit are Martinsville end Mike Penn Laurel Park linebacker Sidney Cutchin Martinsville linebacker Chris rith Martinsville defensive back ranco Martin Laurel Park punter Crabtree and Bas sett return specialist Darryle Hand Cutchin was named the de fensive player df the year and Magna Vista Coach Don Bate man coach of the year The offensive second team is made up of split end Marcus See PIEDMONT Page 2D id A Photo by Bill Sotliff Tunstall quarterback Khris Law has been named offensive player of the year in the Piedmont Dis trict Sports on TV.

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