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SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20 1 987 Sports Section A special pro am Todtl Shanesy This pro am golf tour nament at the lorence Country Club will be in recognition of Joe Pearce Sr as he is affec tionately called by members of the club and friends around town was the founding father of the tournament back in 1982 Pearce along with tournament committee chairman Buddy Baker and the golf profes sional at the time Scott Bailey came up with the idea to have the best pro am tournament in the state It was Pearce however who took the idea from the planning stage and set it in motion He convinced Roger Wailey regional officer of Trust and Chris Yahnis a rep resentative of Coors beer to sponsor the tournament by donating $3500 each The idea of having a profes sional amateur tournament had been bouncing off the country club walls for years but it was Pearce who took the ball and ran with it Pearce is still the driving force behind the tournament This year he secured $4000 each in donations from Yahnis and rank Chisom of North Carolina National Bank which took over Trust in 1983 goal was to add to the prestige of the lorence Country Club by organizing the biggest possible tournament with the biggest names in area golf He knew that in order to pull this off a considerable sum of money had to be raised The $8000 contributed by Coors and NC acts as a lure to make the trip to lorence worthwile for golfers from all over the state The incentives to play in the tournament are just too good for them to ignore The professional with the low score will win $1000 of the total purse of $3200 The rest of the finishers and money earned range from $750 for second place on down to $100 for seventh place The players get $150 just for coming to the tournament regardless of how they finish In addition to the money prizes the golfers will receive a free hotel stay free food and several complimentary cocktail parties with playing partners and other members of the club All this is made possible through the efforts of Pearce A longtime member of the club and golf enthusiast Pearce took great interest in the junior pro gram at the club when his son Rocky was a participant Rocky is now mayor of lorence and still a golfer Pearce is still active in bring ing the enjoyment of golf to young and old alike As president of the Pee Dee Senior Golf Association he encourages ac tive participation from senior citizens Pearce also established a scholarship fund at rancis Marion College that brings young golfers into the area and gives them an opportunity to further their education that might otherwise pass them by In addition he makes regular contributions to the golf program as a whole orty years ago he founded the insurance firm of Pearce and Pearce Inc and has since been instrumental in developing unique policies and landmark benefit plans Prior to a Pearce brainstorm there were no health benefits for college students or recreational complexes in the area So in this pro am tour nament we honor a man who worked to make lorence and the rest of the world around him a better place We all owe thanks to Joe for caring Treadwell lifts Tigers jK i I AR Laserphoto INDING A GAP THROUGH THE MIDDLE Terry Allen center slips from the hands of Greg Wiliams left An insistence on free agency stumbling block to agreement NEW YORK (AP) An almost night game certain NL strike moved a day have to do anything fur closer Saturday and each side blam ther but notify the player reps and ed the stand on free ageny for Upshavz said only causing the crisis thing that could stop it now is a set A statement issued by the six stlement and I see member of the NL This time the owners will try to Management Council said it had made numerous concessions at a meeting riday between the two chief negotiators Jack Donlan and Gene Upshaw But it said insistence on unrestricted free agen cy was the stumbling block to an agreement are satisfied that we have made every effort to negotiate a set tlement with the the state ment said agency stands in the But Gene Upshaw executive director of the NL Players Association said the free agent issue continue the season a position reit erated in statement issued in the name of the Manage ment Council Executive Committee made up of Hugh Culverhouse of the Tampa Bay Bucs Dan Rooney of the Pittsburgh Steelers Tex Schramm of the Dallas Cowboys Mike Brown of the Cincinnati Bengals Joe Rob bie of the Miami Dolphins and Chuck Sullivan of the New England Patri ots They said all strike games count in the final standings Many teams have offered $1000 retainers to players cut in preseason and the Management Council said in its statement it would payrolls for players who are not on strike The statement added: is a strong indication it may not be fea sible to make up any game that is missed during a The owners have said likely they will skip the third week of the season to get the teams together then resume playing the following week And they warned will be no lump sum bonuses offered to striking players when they a ref erence to the provi sion in the 1982 settlement that pro vided players with paychecks on their return from strike Donlan said in the statement that he had offered Uphshaw number of from the last management proposal in their meeting in Washington riday was being used by management they know where their leverage is with the And he added of free agency management pounding this If they just get off of free agen cy we can make a Upshaw denied claim that Donlan had made conces sions riday Kulwicki captures Delaware 500 pole never said anything specific He never made a specific proposal in any said Upshaw In view of the statements there seemed no apparent way to avert the second NL strike in six seasons barring intervention from someone like Commissioner Pete Rozelle Of Rozelle Upshaw said riday think he wants to wait until the issues are a little clearer and the sides are a little He added Saturday: course he could make a deal But not sure sure they (the owners) will let No new talks were scheduled and the strike was to start following Monday game between the New England Patriots and New York Jets which will complete the second week The 1982 strike which lasted 57 days and cost seven games of the 16 game season also started after the second Monday DOVER Del (AP) Alan Kulwicki won his third pole position of the season with an average speed of 145826 mph Saturday for the NASCAR Winston Cup Delaware 500 was a good he said never ran better than 18th or 20th here but we learn from our mistakes what done wrong in the The race will be Sunday over the Dover Downs International Speed way Twenty cars qualified early Saturday and the rest of the field qualifed later in the day Kulwicki was followed by Davey Allison Terry Labonte Rick Wilson and Ken Schrader Defending champion Ricky Rudd qualified 13th Kulwicki who was the 1986 Rookie of the Year and is 18th in the point standings this year said he has rac ed at Dover four times and always had trouble learned from our mistakes and (Saturday) we made a better guess on how to set the car he said indicates a lot of progress on our team Allison who won this Budweiser 500 is trying to become only the third driver to complete a perfect season at Dover The last driver to sweep the races on the high banked superspeedway was father Bobby Allison in 1983 Bobby Allison qualified 12th for race Eddie Drury was the only driver to crash during time trials He was unhurt Later in practice Cale Yar borough and Mike Waltrip crashed in practice Yarborough who will be making a rare appearance at Dover was 16th fastest overall He 11 haveto start 39th in a backup car Waitrip will go 40th over Bulldogs By BILL GILBERT Sports Editor CLEMSON In recent years the Georgia and Clemson football rival ry has been among the best in the country Nine of the last 11 meetings have been decided by a touchdown or less Three of the last four have been decided by a field goal in the last 10 seconds Saturday's 56th meeting between the two schools may have been the best David Treadwell kicked a 21 yard field goal with :02 seconds remaining as the eighth ranked Tigers defeated the 18th ranked Bulldogs 21 20 be fore a packed partisan crowd of 82000 at Death Valley And Georgia coach Vince Dooley had to have a feeling of deja vu Last year in Athens the senior placekicker from Jacksonville la split the uprights on the last play of the game as Clemson beat Georgia 31 28 It marked the first time in the his tory of the series that the Tigers have taken back to back victories since 1905 1906 However the series will take a brief pause as Georgia had to add another Southeastern Conference school to its schedule and will drop the Tigers until the year 1990 when the wars will resume of all very disap pointed in losing the ball Dooley said afterwards thought we played well enough to win and to lose right there at the end is really a tough way to lose really disap pointed for the But on the other side of the field it was an elated Danny ord very happy for our football team and I think we were very fortunate to ord said we found a way to win whether it was one point half pointI even know what the final score the excited nin th year head coach of the Tigers ad ded game winning kick came after the Bulldogs had gone ahead 20 16 on an eight yard scoring run by Rodney Hampton with 8:59 left to play The Georgia scoring drive came after Threadwell was low and wide on a 43 yard attempt earlier in the period Quarterback James Jackson connected on a 36 yard pass to Kirk Warner to spark the drive as the Bulldogs moved the the Tiger eight yard line On first down Hampton scooted around left end ran into heavy traf fic backed stepped and then sprinted into the endzone It was the first rushing touchdown given up by the Tigers this year had him for a loss on the sweep and he scored on ord said the first touchdown given up on the ground but Hampton really made a great run on the The Tigers took the following kickoff and picked up a couple of first downs before having to punt it away from the Georgia 44 Rusty Seyle who had his best day punting with a 418 average on four punts hit a high spiralling punt which was downed by the Tigers at the Georgia one foot line Jackson failed to gain an inch on the first play and on second down he tried to skirt left end but was nailed for a safety by cornerback James Lott Gene Beasley and Vince Taylor to cut the lead to 20 18 with 5:38 to Play It was a play Dooley would rather forget disappointed in myself for the poor call made when we were backed up in our own endzone a play that you could make 10 yards on or one that you could lose yardage on I'm disappointed in myself for making that call because I really think Clemson would have scored a touchdown on he said The Bulldogs were then given a free kick from their 20 and Donnell Woolford took the kick and returned it 25 yards to give the Tigers a first down at their 42 yard line Clemson then went to one of its patented time consuming drives reshman tailback Terry Allen was the mainstay of the drive as he pick ed up three first downs on runs of 11 II and 16 the last run gave the Tigers a first down at the Georgia 13 The Tigers had no timeouts re maining and was penalized five yards on first down for a delay of game On first and 15 at the Bulldog 18 Wesley Mcadden ripped through the line for seven yards and followed up with a four yard burst to the Georgia seven as the seconds kept ticking off the scoreboard clock ullback Tracey Johnson then grabbed a tight hold onto the football and plunged two yards and although he was short of the first down he gave Treadwell excellent field posi tion Treadwell then calmly walked onto the field and booted his fourth field goal of the afternoon to clinch the victory four field goals ties a Clemson record held by Obed Ariri and gives him 10 of 11 this season and 39 for his career which is good enough for second place on the career list behind Ariri did something right' said ord did a lot wrong especial ly using time outs I wasted everyone we had but our coaches overcame me "That's a good one to stop playing Georgia on I want many more like this It gets pretty tough on me But I want to congratulate our peo ple We didn't win it like we wanted to but what we set out to win "he added Georgia marched downfield on the first possession and capped a 12 play 56 yard drive with the first of two Steve Crumley field goals this one from 21 yards out with 8:44 to play in the first period But Treadwell offset the three pointer with one of his own from 30 yards out with 2 07 to play in the quarter The Tigers who had a punt returned for a touchdown last week against VPI watched Nathaniel Lewis streak down the right sidelines for a 76 yard touchdown run on punt less than one minute in to the second period as the Bulldogs went ahead 10 3 But it took less than two minutes for the Tigers roared back and knot ted the game at 10 10 as fullback Tracey Johnson exploded up the middle on a trap to race 38 yards for a touchdown Treadwell and Crumley matched field goals in the closing minutes of the half sending the two rivals to the dressing room knotted at 13 13 With 5:51 to play in the third quarter 29 yard field goal put the Tigers out front 16 13 and the Tiger defense held until Hampton's run in the fourth period The Tigers had possession of the football 22:39 out of a possible 30 minutes in the second half with the Bulldogs having possession only 3:09 in the fourth quarter offense I also thought we played well against a real power defense and they should get credit especially since it was able to score a touchdown against that defense in the fourth Dooley said has a solid football team on both sides of the ball They really keep after you all game long number two ranked rushing defense held Lan Tate who leads the nation in rushing with a 175 yards per game to 84 yards on 19 carries while the Bulldogs managed 268 yards of tota' offense to 337 yards by Clemson Allen led the Tigers with 97 yards on 16 carries while Johnson had 72 yards on 11 tries Georgia 3 10 0 1 20 Clemson 3 10 3 5 21 Geo GCrumlev21 Clem Treadwell 30 Geo Lewis 76 punt return (Crumbiey Kick) Oem Johnson 38run (Treadwell kick) Treadwell 43 GCrumiey28 Clem Treaowell 29 Geo Hampton 8 run (Crumley Kin k) Clem Safety Janson taodea menc zcne Clem Treadwell 21 A 82500 Geo Clem irst downs 15 IV Rushes yards 43 157 56 261 Passing Ill 76 Return Yards 76 8 Comp Att Int 9 19 6 16 0 Punts 4 31 4 42 umbles Lest 3 1 3 1 Penalties ard 3 35 5 40 Time of Possession 24 20 35 40 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHiNG Georgia Tate 19 84 jKson 13 49 Hampton 4 10 Clemson Allen 16 97 Johnson 72 Mcadoen 12 52 PASSING Gocrgia Jackson 19 9 0 1'1 C'emson Wilhams 16 6 I 76 RECEIVING Georgia Warner 2 Thomas 3 28 2 20 Clemson Cooper 4 55 Jennmqs 1 17 I Digest Rudd to driver for Bernstein in Ricky Rudd who announced he was leaving Bud rcing team last month announced Saturday he would be driving for Keny Bernstein in 1988 Rudd signed a two year deal with Bernstein Morgan Shepherd currently drives for Bernstein in Buicks The contract begins with next Daytona 509 Mayo pounds Choppee 53 0 red Wilds and Tony Robinson scored two touchdowns to lead Mayo to a 53 0 drubbing of Chop pee riday night in high school football action Wilds who had 220 yards on the night scored from 1 and 17 yards away while Robinson pushed it in from 4 and 15 yards out Quarterback Mike Davis ran for a 4 yarder and passed a 35 yarder to Johnny Moses Bernard Travis and Cisco Reed also scored Mayo 2 1 travels to Loris riday MC wins volleyball consolation SPARTANBURG rancis Marion volleyball team scored two wins Saturday to win the consolation bracket of the USC Spartanburg Invita tional The Patriots beat Columbia College 16 14 11 15 and 15 2 and then trimmed Newberry 15 6 and 16 14 MC 5 5 and 2 4 in District Six hosts Limeston Thursday at 6 pm CS blanks Richmond lorence Christian School shut out Richmond Sr High School from Rockingham 5 0 Saturday in soc ceraction Scoring goals for CS were Jesus Aguilar with four and David Jolley with one CS 6 0 travels to Columbia Tuesday against Grace in a conference game Hudgens edges St Stephens 25 19 Bo Jamison picked up a fumble on a field goal try with 17 seconds left and ran it back 87 yards to lift Hudgens to a 25 19 win over St Stephens riday night in high school football action The score was tied 19 19 when Jamison picked up the ball after a bad snap Scoring for Hudgens was Chris Moore on a 24 yard run Wayne Langston on a 7 yard run and Jamison added a 1 yard plunge Chris Pappas had 191 yards on the ground while Langston had 120 In all Hudgens ground up 574 total rushing yards Hudgens 2 2 hosts Catawba riday Indy race qualifying rained out NAZARETH Pa (AP) Rain on Saturday forced postponement of qualifying for the Bosch Grand Prix Indy car race with CART officials hoping to get in both time trials and the 200 mile event on Sunday at Pennsylvania International Raceway CART the sanctioning body for the 15 race Indy car series scheduled a 30 minute practice session begin ning at 9am EDT That would be followed weather permitting by the qualifying session The race is scheduled to start at 1 pm and will be televised on a tape delay basis by ABC Sports beginn ing at 4 pm Lehardy big winner in Senior golf Clem Lahardy wasn't the overall win ner but walked away with a number of prizes in the Pee Dee Seniors annual golf tournament this week By making a hole in one on a specific hole he won two tickets to fly anywhere in North America He also won $100 for the ace and won $15 for closest to the pin and was awarded a trophy The overall winner was Mullins' Gordon Miller The low net score was by Don Graham irst flight winners were Ted Walker (gross) and Steve Knight (net) Second light winners were Lahardy (gross) and John McNeil (net) Third flight winners were Olin Purvis (gross) and Richard Miller (net) And the fourth flight winenrs were Tom Lawrence (gross) and CC Smith (net) In a separate choice scramble the winning team consisted of Lilian Williams Sonya Powell Eileen Snell and Barbara Walker Charles leads Senior Classic RICHMOND Va (AP) Left hander Bob Charles a runner up in each of his last two tournaments fired a 6 under par 66 Saturday for a two shot lead after two rounds of the Crestar PGA Senior Golf Classic Charles had a 36 hole score of 10 under par 134 Defending champion Chi Chi Rodriguez Dale Douglass and Senior Tour rookie Larry were next at 136 Rodriguez and Douglass both shot 68s while Mowry had a 69.