Potomac News from Woodbridge, Virginia • 19

C3 COLLEGE OOTBALL SCOREBOARD WILLIAM MARY 40 DELAWARES! 7 LIBERTY 27 VMI21 PENN STATE 49 ILLINOIS 0 NOTRE DAME 35 PURDUE 0 SPORTS AY Potomac Kras College football It was a happy afternoon for Chris Howard (8) and his Michigan teammates as the wolverines beat Colorado in Boulder C7 September 15 1996 Community sports Thomas Engineering senior softball team kept its dynasty going by again winning the National Softball Association World Series C9 Defense creates offense in victory ANOTHER ANGLE Pitching give Torre headache TORONTO Joe Torre loves to tell the story of how a Milwaukee Braves team on which he played went into Philadelphia to play a Phillies team that held a three and a half game lead in the National League in the dying days of the 1 964 season CHARLOTTESVILLE (AP) Earlier this week coaching staff devised a drill to help its defensive lineman catch the ball Tony Dingle made the effort pay off Saturday intercepting a horribly thrown pass from Maryland backup Ken Mastrole and returning it 10 yards for the first of three touchdowns all set up hv tliA Virginia (2 0 1 0 Atlantic Coast Con ference) held Maryland to 168 yards of offense including 54 on 47 rushing attempts Maryland (2 1 0 1 ACC) lost despite limiting the Cavaliers to 221 yards 60 through the air or the first 55 minutes Dingle was both an offensive and defensive force College football His TD was the only score in a 7 3 struggle my feet hit the ground and 1 get tackled I took off running" said Dingle who also set up another late TD with a fumble recovery with 2:15 left thrilled but this game is behind us now" Ronde Barber helped Virginia get some breathing room intercepting Mas trole at 19 with 4:41 remaining ive plays later after the Cavaliers accepted an offsides penalty and took a field goal by Rafael Garcia off the scoreboard Tiki Barber made it 14 3 with a 6 yard scoring run Maryland lost quarterback Brian Cummings on a big hit by Dillon Taylor late in the first quarter and never got on track offensively a real threat He's a playmaker" Cavaliers defensive captain Todd White said of Cummings who was 4 for 6 for 48 yards he went out and didn't come back there were big smiles on our faces" Mastrole a redshirt freshman was 9 for 15 for 66 yards with two intercep tions He also was sacked twice and hit hard several other times Tiki Barber ran 29 times for 123 yards He added a second TD run from 14 yards with 1:34 left after fumble recovery Tim Sherman and Aaron Brooks both played extensively at quarterback for Virginia and neither did well Sherman was 4 for 1 2 for 5 1 yards with two inter ceptions Brooks 1 for 6 for 9 yards with one interception Both also missed wide open receivers repeatedly and had passes that were on target bobbled or dropped Two of the interceptions came on tipped passes would think by now we overthrow wide open receivers but we said coach George Welsh we do that next week Before the two late scores Dingle and punter Will Brice were the stars for the 22nd ranked Cavaliers day included two punts of 59 yards and another that pinned Maryland on its 9 yard line with 5:30 left in a 7 3 game See CAVS Page C7 VIRGINIA 21 MARYLAND 3 Claire Smith New York Times As Torre remembers it when the Braves left town the Phillies were a game behind Cincinnati a collapse from which they never recovered Bythe time fate completed what the Braves had started the Phillies lost the pennant a historic disintegration that would haunt the club for 16 years and its manager Gene Mauchforever Torre who talks so fondly of the role his team played in that drama has to hope that part of what haunted Mauch visiting him more than three decades later or part of what did in the Phillies and caused Mauch to be second guessed to this day was a lack of pitching and his attempts to com pensate for it As Rome burned around him Mauch all but shelved his original rotation By the end he had only two starting pitchers he thought he could rely on Jim Bun ning and Chris Short and therefore they were the only ones he used Thirty two years laterTorre is only one up on the Little General and must be starting to feel an uneasy kinship with Mauch or on a dav when most t' reliable starter Andy Pettitte gamely won for the 2 1st time defeating the Toronto Blue Jays 4 1 another one time stalwart Dwight Gooden bowed out of the immediate picture his arm as dead today as Dennis and Art were for the Phillies in 1964 so easy for it to get away from you so easy to lose it" Torre said of the fragility of life in baseball the game was played on paper there would never be a Thing is the game is not And f' only as strong as the fiesh bone and cartilage ofyour next starting pitcher And now that pitcher will not be Gooden whom Torre announced riday would indeed be scratched7 from a start here Sunday With that the Yankees saw their rotation of starters with post season: experience reduced to Pettitte David Cone and Jimmy Key And that is scary stuff considering the Yankees have over five times as many games left 1 6 as they have pitchers in this category Right now Torre is lucky to have' even that Because on riday in a truly scary moment Tomas Perez lined a ball off left leg in the third inning And you could almost hear a pennant drop "When he was hit everybody in the dugout yelled out an expletive at the same time nol Please not Cone said doing a little editing of his teammates' comments Pettitte was immediately sur rounded in the infield by what I seemed to be the entire Yankees' i roster He limped about The Yan kees led by Torre and the trainer Ggne Monahan fretted Pettitte threw Awkwardly away thinking Ricky Bones" Torre said don't dwell on it You Just try to go out there and plug in someone and figure going to win Maybe not as pretty as an Andy Pettitte would but that's what been about all year anyway But glad we have to make that decision" for Pettitte managed to stay the course pitching deep into the eighth inhing and most important winning a victory that helped maintain the Yankees lead over the sizzling sec ond place Orioles who won in Detroit ort riday i Still the loss of Gooden is trou bling And it reinforced the obvious that options are as thin as his rotation Torre will now have to rely all the more on Kenny Rogers the pitcher who all but loslTorre way back in spring training because of an 7 inability to be open about an injury a violation ofone of the rules Torre holds dear By Larry Kobelka Potomac News Gar ield High School running back Gary Ham is surrounded by the Dematha defense on Saturday Bad snap stops Indians Dematha takes advantage earns winning score By JOHN HOLLIS of the Potomac News the seemingly routine kind of football play that you see in the next boxscore but can often mean the difference between and win ning and losing Special teams have been the bane of many a great team over the years or at least one night the Gar ield High School football team was no exception Taking advantage of a errant punt Prep football snap in the third quarter visiting DeMatha accounted for the lone second half score and escaped Ralph Barnette Stadium Saturday night with a 12 6 win knew the game could have gone either DeMatha coach Bill McGregor said were fortunate to get the high snap" The critical play came from the Gar ield 30 yard line with the score deadlocked at 6 apiece midway through the third quarter As punter Brian McElhenney dropped back to kick the snap sailed high over his head and rolled on the ground until the Gary Ham finally recov ered it all the way back at the 9 The Stags 1 0) took over on downs scoring three plays later as running back Kenny Dantzler plunged in from three yards out to close out the scoring with Just under 5 minutes left in the third period Gar ield (2 1) which hosts Annandale next riday had one last real chance on its next drive but fell short when it mattered most DEMATHA 12 GAR IELD 6 Va Tech trounces College No huddle offense keys points explosion BOSTON (AP) Nineteenth ranked Virginia Tech felt it knew exactly what type of defense it would see How right it was The Hokies facing former defensive coach Phil Elmassian used a no huddle offense to near perfection in the opening quarter scoring on the first three pos sessions en route a 45 7 defeat of Boston College and a school record 12th straight vic tory guess they run our said Hokies quarterback Jim Druckenmiller who completed 13 of 24 for 214 yards and two TDs "No one runs it any better than we do We see it every day in practice" Elmassian coached the defense in 1993 and '94 before leaving for Washington He Joined the Eagles this season Brian Edmonds and Shyrone Stith each had two scoring runs as the Hokies surpassed their school record of 1 1 consecutive victories set from 1917 through 1919 They also extended the second longest active winning streak in the nation behind two time champion Nebraska's 26 "I mentioned it (the winning streak) and I think the players have mentioned it either" Virginia Tech coach rank Beamer said had a great win If we keep it in that frame Virginia Tech (2 0) coming off a sur prisingly close 21 18 opening week vic tory over Akron built a 35 7 lead after three quarters The Eagles (1 1) who defeated Vir ginia Tech 20 14 last Sept 7 at Blacks burg suffered their largest Big East loss and dropped their fourth straight home opener 1 can say gentlemen is I can't imagine how bad it would have been if we been working at it" Boston College coach Dan Henning said "Obvi ously they're a better football team than we are got a long way to go to catch up to a football team like Virginia Tech" The Hokies used a play action trick play on their first play from scrimmage when Druckenmiller faked a handoff and two backs collided before he hit receiver Cornelius While for a 25 yard See HOKIES Page C7 VIRGINIA TECH 45 BC 7 Redskins eye consistency By TODD BEHRENDT of the Potomac News NL When the Washington Redskins line up against the New York Giants in the Meadowlands on Sunday they best not be too overconfident Because when they look across the line of scrimmage come Sunday the Redskins should see something familiar in the eyes of their opponents After all it was only last week when the 'Skins were desperate for a win and playing at home The result? Wash ington came up with a big win over the Chicago Bears After back to back losses to open the season for only the second time in head coach Dan career the Giants and Reeves certainly sound desperate game is a miserable game when you Reeves said not even tol erable when you lose" That having been said the Giants may be hard pressed to come up with the offensive effort necessary to extend Head to head matchups Page C4 their current winning streak over the Redskins to seven games The Giants managed Just 105 total yards against the Dallas Cowboys last week And it took some revisionist thinking statistical team added 12 yards to New York's total after the game) for them to reach that number only the fewest yards gained by the Giants since 1966 And New York's seven first downs against the Cowboys were the fewest registered by a Giants team since 1963 See REDSKINS Page C4 Inside ALL SMILES Tony Phillips center and the rest of the White Sox had a lot to smile about after beating the Red Sox PAGE C8 STRIKES SPARES The weekly bowling column takes a look at the top tournaments in the area PAGE C9 Sunday scoreboard complete with television listings home team sports schedules and news briefs from around the world PAGE C6 Potomac Drills VIRGINIA 21 MARYLAND 3 VIRGINIA TECH 45 BC 7 DEMATHA 12 GAR IELD 6 '7' du xaBf Mb lo By Larry Kobelka Potomac News Gar ield High School running back Gary Ham is surrounded by the Dematha defense on Saturday Bad snap stops Indians Dematha takes advantage earns winning score By JOHN HOLLIS through the third quarter As punter of the Potomac News PreofOOtball Bran McElhenney dropped back to kick the snap sailed high over his Its the seemingly routine kind of head and rolled on the ground until football play that you see in the snap in the third quarter visiting the Gary Ham finally recov next boxscore but can often DeMatha accounted for the ered it all the way back at the 9 mean the difference between and win lone second half score and escaped The Stags 1 0) took over on downs ning and losing Ralph Barnette Stadium Saturday scoring three plays later as running Special teams night with a 12 6 win back Kenny Dantzler plunged in from have been the knew the game could have gone lhree yards out to close out the bane of many a either way DeMatha coach Bill scoring with Just under 5 minutes left great team over McGregor said were fortunate to jn (he lhird period the years get the high snap" Gar ield (2 1) which hosts least one night the Gar ield High The critical play came from Annandae next riday had one last School football team was no exception the Gar ield 30 yard line with the rea chance on its next drive but fell Taking advantage of a errant punt score deadlocked at 6 apiece midway hen lnattered most.