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riday September 24 1999 The News Advance Please see RYDER CUP Paige DJ3 Virginia Tech football Hokies dump Clemson for BYU war AP photo ormer Olympic champ to speak to Ten Miler competitors i np tl Billy Mills Please see CHAMP Page 3 More Ten Miler coverage on Pages and T) was made into the movie which starred Robby Benson PGA Championship shrugged it off not 1 on alternate shot and you only hit half the shots" he said i The buzz that pairing will bring lost on Lehman or US captain Ben Crenshaw though a team format Sergio and Tiger going at is a golf said Lehman who was surprised to be paired with Woods since they had not played together all week The pairings process is a blind draw with Crenshaw and Mark James separately submitting in order their four groups for each set of matches James and I met down by the skating pond on 1 1 never focus on victory I focus Ion the pursuit of Braves Do It Again Chipper Jones belts his 45th homer to lead Atlanta to a three game sweep of the New York Mets D2 a fake field goal attempt when backup kicker Tony Lazzara rolled left and threw a nine yard touchdown pass to an open Vince Ciurciu Brandon Streeter's pass to Jason LaMay for the two point conversion brought the Tigers to within a field goal with 11:31 left The Hokies slowed by penalties all night helped Clemson on the drive when Anthony Midget was called for pass interference on a key third down play play presents challenge for Cavaliers MW The Virginia Ten Miler lost its defending champion Thursday but it gamed cne of the premier run the world for this years event Two time New Yoik Maiathon winner John Kagwe will renlace Darnel Kihara on the list of entries (for the 10 mile event Saturday Kagwe 30 finished just 11 sec onds behind the race record at New York and finished in the fifth fastest time of 2:0844 last year Kihara will be unable to defend his title after his flight was bumped from Kenya to Virginia Kihara was coming off victories in the Indianapolis 500 21K and the Mt Washington Road Race Kagwe immediately becomes a nice favorite along with 1997 champion and fellow Kenyan Peter Githuka The pair could been 35 years since Billy Mills pulled one of the biggest surprises in Olympic track and field history and still running i Mills the stunning winner in the 10000 meters at the Tokyo Olympics is on the go some 300 days a year as a motivational speak er The gold medal winner wall deliver his message to Virginia Ten Miler competitors at EC Glass High School tonight at 8 The Virginia Ten Miler and its accompanying four mile ran start Saturday at 8:30 am at Glass As part of his speaking engagements Mills 61 sees a film clip of his come from behind victory in Tokyo He says never tired of seeing the clip not because he enjoys watching himself win because he eqjoys the reaction from his audience never focus on said Mills focus on the ptirsuit of excellence changes every time I see it (the clip) Usually I see at least two or three people in the audience and apparent they are pursu ing excellence and are life and accomplishments are cer excitement obviously something that people want to That the only surprise Davis Love III thought he might be paired with Justin Leonard Instead Crenshaw benched Leonard for the morning matches and put Love with US Open champion Payne Stewart Crenshaw said leaving Leonard out of the morning matches was simply a case of having too many players on top of their game an impossibility to try to look at four names and say who am I going to leave driven myself he said got to push the Dutton somewhere I mean the whole lineup is playing The biggest surprise for Europe was who be playing right away Masters champion Jose Mana Tech which scored since early in the second quarter answered with a 47 yard field goal by Shayne Graham making it 17 11 with 5:00 left Graham had missed a 48 yard attempt in the first half think that was the making of a football said Tech coach rank Beamer national TV we had lost the momentum and we got it back I am really really proud of the way we took the game over in the fourth Streeter had been accurate all night but on the next possession he unleashed a badly thrown pass that Ike Please see HOKIES Page 3 IAS VEGAS Stacy Compton put him self within striking distance of his first win of the season in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Compton a Hurt resident won his series leading sixth pole of the season at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Thursday for the Orleans 500 He circled the 114 mile track in 33374 seconds or 161803 mph for his eighth career pole Compton is currently fourth in the points standings 185 points behind series leader Greg Biffle with four races remain ing Biffle qualified fifth Olazabal the most experienced player for Europe who has never missed a Ryder Cup match i Olazabal has been wild off the tee and is quick to degrade himself After a 75 in the first round of the US Open he slammed his fist into a hotel wall and broke his hand Since then he has missed die cut three times and not finished better than 40th assistant captain Sam Torrance said think awesome he would do that being I Accuracy off the tee is crucial alternate shot matches but Olazabal conceded even on Tuesday that the fairways of The Country Club are wide enough for 1 AP photo Hilly Mliis wins the 10000 meters at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo last year in Death Valley but this time put together an 86 yard drive early in needed a late defensive surge to over the final quarter to draw within three come four turnovers and subdue the 12 points 14 11 Th touchdown came on point underdog Tigers (1 2) think we sent a real big statement said defensive end Corey Moore not bragging if you can back it up And I think our defense came to play Despite the return of quarterback Michael Vick the Hokies stuck to the ground with a relentless running attack countering pass happy attack that pecked away at the nation's top ranked defense The Tigers trailed throughout but Mills was raised on the poverty stricken Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota Being part Caucasian and lakota Indian Mills was not totally accepted either world By age 12 both of his parents had dk He began running to ease his pain would run five or miles on weekends because it allowed me to get away from everjb Hlv Mills said 'Td be crying while 1 was running A half blood and an orphan on get much lonelier than Running helped Mills ms search tor identity and paved the way to a successful athletic career at Kansas University After graduation Mills joined the Marinos and began training running as much as 100 miles a week in hopes of making the Olympic team After earning his spot Mills certainly was among the favorites to even medal at the games In the final Mills kept pace with the tainly inspiring In fact his early life story leaders but as he tired he thought of drop QB fuels hot start threaten the course record of 4650 set in 1981 by Rod Dixon Dixon alo ran a 46 51 the previous year two guys ares the best one two combination this race has ever had" said race director Chns Eihs means a lot to have them at this event We've had solid fields the last few years but a good these guys will be running for the Githuka 30 placed sixth in this Boston Marathon and was ranked No 2 in the world rankings' by World magazine in 1997 and His best time in a 10 mile race is 45:51 one minute better than the Ten Miler record in 1996 The race starts at 8 30 am Saturday at Glass Hign School By Douglas Braunedorf The News Advance PROVO Utah Kevin eterik still has quite a ways to go before cracking his way into the top five of Brigham Young all time passing yards list In fact still more than 2400 yards away from the fifth spot occupied by some guy named Steve Young And the quarterback at the top of the list ly Detmer put I up numbers from 1988 91 that place a 111111 111 4911 VIKtllNIA ferent stratosphere: WUV 15031 yards rnak ing him the all time NCAA career passing record ww I think ever gonna be said eterik senior quar terback who leads the 17th ranked Cougars against Virginia on Saturday night (9 pm ESPN2) eterik has thrown for 5322 yards While record appears safe two games into the 1999 season BYU coach LaVell Edwards believes eterik is off to the best start for a Cougars quarterback in 27 years at the helm here never had anybody around here been in a zone like him these past two said Edwards of the 22 year old quarterback from Los Alamitos Calif it will By Gary Crockett The News Advance BLACKSBURG It an award winning sequel to last game but Virginia lech got its prime time hit The eighth ranked Hokies looking to cfotorriont before a national Va Tech 31 television audience Clemson 11 managed to at least have the final say holding off persistent Clemson 31 11 Thursday at sold out Lane Stadium Tech (3 0) pounded Clemson 37 0 BROOKLINE Mass (AP) The Ryder Cup cap tains unwittingly gave everyone the pairing they want ed to see Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia even though the two youngest and brightest stars in golf will have some company Woods will be paired with Tom' Lehman and the 19 year old Spanish sensation will be joined by Jesper Pamevik in the second of four alternate shot matches that kick off the 33rd Ryder Cup on riday morning at The Country Club The pairings were publicly announced during the opening ceremony Thursday afternoon and drew the Noj 3 and worked this out for you Crenshaw loudest cheer of all cracked pairing came out and everybody just Woods whio held off Garcia by one stroke to win the (kind of shpok their head a little bit That adds so much A 1 To conralffiflreports editor 5528 MM ww By Kurt Culbert The News Advance Please see BYU Page 5 Compton takes Trucks pole rom staff reports By Walt Moody The News Advance Virginia Tech defensive end Corey Moore wraps up Clemson's Brian Wofford during the first half of game Virginia defense grounds passing attack 1 1 1 1 T1 dHteiiL I IL AV a a iv" IS W5T jfl Two time NY' Marathon chan becomes late 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