PAGE 6-THE SOUTHWEST TIMES, PULASKI, VA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9,1993

Pulaski County's Eric Webb gallops through the Franklin County defense for a first downStaff photos by Donnto Will*

Pulaski Co.routs Franklin5-0 Cougars now prepare forreturn match with rival Salem

Cougar defender Larry Newcomb grabs onto Eagle QBScott Lynch

ByDANCALLAHANSWT Football Writer.

Franklin County may havemade a mistake Friday night inKenneth J. Dobson Stadium.The Eagles took the openingkickotf and drove down the fieldto put the first score of theseason on the board against thefirst unit Pulaski County de-fense.

The Cougars focused quickly,drove 85 yards to score on theirfirst possession, and scored thenext 51 points on the way to aneasy 51-14 victory over Franklin.

The win upped the state's topranked Group AAA team's re-cord to 5-0 on the season. It wasthe Cougars' first Roanoke Val-ley District conquest of the yearand sets the stage for a big mat-chup with Salem next week athome. The Spartans were upsetby William Byrd,Friday, 15-14.

Pulaski County, ranked 15thin the nation by USA Today,

rambled for 259 total yards inthe first half, and totaled 375yards of offense for the game.

Franklin fell to 0-5 on theseason, but that didn't matter toPCHS head coach Joel Hicks.

"Franklin Co. has improved. Ibelieve they're better than two orthree of the teams we had beatenbefore tonight. I just think weexecuted well."' When the Salem game wasmentioned Hicks said that'.snextweek's game, but he will preparehis team just the same as he hadprepared it for the Cougars' firstfive opponents.-

"Sa lem is the . n e x tgame...ttiat's all. It'll be too goodteams, and both will play hardI'm sure, but you win all gamesfor the same~reason...you blockand tackle. You prepare yourselfto execute well, play hard, anddo the fundamental things wellthat determine who wins anygame."

Franklin utilized the passingand receiving of quarterbackScott Lynch and wideout SteveMcGhee, plus the outside run-ning of Stacy Helms to move 65yards and score following theopening kickoff. The score camewhen Lynch hit McGhee with apass, from 17 yards out. MikeSmith kicked the conversion fora quick 7-0 Eagle lead.

"I hated that, but jt was ourfault," said linebacker JammonPayne. "Franklin was fired upand we were flat. When Franklinscored it .got us fired up. Weknew it was time to play. Weshould have been ready from thestart, but we knew we had to es-tablish ourselves and let themknow there wasn't going to be anupset or anything close to it to-night," added Payne,

The Cougars let the Eaglesknow exactly how it was going to ,be following the kickoff. They

Please see COUGARS, page 7

6-1 winBy BEN WALKERAP Baseball Writer

, TORONTO — Just one bigUJt rpU-i>« ~,i\ "£f«««lp "T'V.oirfA p OTVO

the Chicago White Sox said itwould take to get them back intothe AL playoffs.

Well, the White Sox got thathit and more Friday night. Tho-mas started it with a single — atleast, it was scored that way —and by the time the third inningwas over, Chicago had five runsthat Wilson Alvarez protected onthe way to a 6-1 victory that cutToronto's lead in the series to2-1.

"I told myself, and I think myteammates felt the same way,that when we came up with onebig hit, it would open the flood-gates," said Tim Raines, whodoubled twice and singled twice.

"I think maybe the guysmight've been trying too hard,"he said. "But baseball is a weirdgame. Toronto got those hits inthe first two games and had.chances tonight, but didn't getthem. The game swings in weirdways, and it swung our way to-night."

Even though the White Soxchanged their lineup, insertingBo Jackson as the designatedhitter and putting Thomas backat first base, it was a change ofscenery that seemed to help themost.

Away from booing crowds atComiskey Park, away from thefallout from Michael Jordan's re-tirement and away from the con-troversial comments by Jacksonand George Bell about whoshould be the DH, the White Soxreinforced their reputation andrecord as the AL's top road team.

Whether the victory will sendthe White Sox on the road to theWorld Series. however, remainsto be seen. No team has ever wona playoff series after losing thefirst two games at home, butChicago now has a much betterchance as it sends rookie JasonBere (12-5) against Todd -Stott-lemyre (11-12) in Game 4 Satur-day night.

Alvarez, who won his last se-ven decisions of .the regularseason, settled down after ashaky start and pitched a com-plete game, allowing seven hitsand striking out six.

"When we scored those five1 Please see SOX, page 7

Fumblescostly asDMS rolls

Dublin Middle School took ad-vantage of fumbles by cross- •county rival Pulaski -MiddleSchool to capture a 22-6 victoryover the Orioles Thursday even-ing at Calfee Park.

Dublin attacked first as z-backScotty Goad scored on a 55-yardrun in 'the second quarter andtailback Nick Yates scored on apass from quarterback CraigHodge for the PAT. Dublin led8-0 at the half.

The Dukes made it 14-0 earlyin the fourth quarter as Yatesadded six on a 35-yard punt re-turn. The PAT failed.

Pulaski's only score of thegame came in the fourth quarterwhen fullback Robert Rogersfound the end zone on a three-yard run. Dublin led 14-6 as thePAT failed.

DMS extended its lead .asYates intercepted a pass by Pu-laski' quarterback Brad Ander-son. On the next play, Yatesscored on a sixryard run to givethe Dukes a 20-6 lead late in thefourth,

Robbie Hamblin added thePAT on a quarterback sneak forthe final margin of victory.

With the loss, PMS falls, to 2-2,while Dublin raises its record to2-2. The Orioles host CaveSpring next Thursday at 5 p.m.,while the Dukes travel to Gileswith game time slated for 6p.m.

No game biggerthan Miami vs.Florida State!By RICK WARNERAP Football Writer

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Pulaski Middle School's Michael Davidson runs for yardage as Dublin's Scotty Goadcloses in for-the stop:. . . • ' . ; . . • > . . v v • / y. . : . ' / ' • ; • ' . • • • • . . / . ' < . ' ' " . ' ' : ' ' . • • • . • : - " - ' : , • - • • • ' • •

Preston is backoff Hokie roster

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP)— Virginia Tech defensive endP.J. Preston has been removedfrom the Hokie roster aftermissing a practice Wednesdayin order to see a hypnotist.

Preston, a senior, had quitthe team during the preseasonbecause of a mysterious gag-ging when he practiced. Doc-tors were unable to find areason for the gagging, but

several sessions with a hypno-tist appeared to cure the prob-lem. He was cleared to practicewith the team Sept. 26.

Preston told a Roanokenewspaper on Friday he felt theproblem returning on Tuesday,his first full workout with theteam. ,

This was Tech's off week, andcoach Frank Beamer had said

Please see PRESTON, page 7

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —Harvard-Yale is The Game andCalifornia-Stanford is The BigGame. No game, however, is big-ger than Miami-Florida State.

From humble beginnings, the.annual Sunshine State show-down has developed into the toprivalry in college football. In thepast 10 years, no teams haveplayed moire close, dramatic andmeaningful games.

"The Florida State game issomething mystical," Miami de-fensive end Kevin Patrick said."The blood starts boiling a littlemore and the heart starts pump-ing a little faster."

Florida State quarterbackCharlie Ward said the atmos-phere "is like the Super Bowl."

"Everybody is, hyped," he said,"and everything is crazy aroundhere for a whole week. It's one ofthose games you enjoy playingin. You can't help but get ekrcited."

Saturday's game between thetop-ranked Seminoles (5-0) andNo. 3 Hurricanes (4-0) is typicalof the series. It's the thirdstraight year and fifth time inthe last seven that both teamshave entered the game un-defeated. It's also the eighth

consecutive year that the gamehas featured at least one teamranked in the top 3.

— Most intrastate rivalries arefor local bragging rights. Thisone is for a shot at the nationalchampionship.

"It's pur biggest game of theyear every year/' Miami quar-terback Frank Costa said; "It'sprobably bigger than any bowlgame. It's the biggest game inthe world right now for us."

The game means just as muchto Florida State.

"Our whole season alwaysseems to .ride on this game,"Florida State safety RichardGoes said. "If we win, we're No.1, If they win, they're No. 1."

Miami, which has won fournational championships in thepast decade, is the main reasonFlorida State has never finishedNo;l. . , . - ' • ; • • • • . " - ' . . . ' . • • " ; . . ' :

The Hurricanes handed theSeminoles their only loss, in1987, 1988 and 1992. They alsoruined Florida State's title hopesin 1991, knocking the Seminoles.from the top spot in their next-to-last, regujar-season game.

"They've taken three cham-pionship rings off my fingers,"said Florida State linebackerKen Alexander, a senior who is

Please see COLLEGE, page 7

Sox

Cougar tackle Randy Dunnigan recovers a second quarter fumble

Cougars ——Continued from page 6

moved 85 yards in 10 plays andscored on a keeper by quarter-

i back Andre Eaves from 36 yardsout. Shayne Graham's conver-sion kicked the the score at 7-7.

Offensively, that was about allthere was for Franklin the restof the night until a late scoreagainst the Cougar substitutes,but Pulaski County was just get-ting warmed up.

The Cougar offense took overat its own 25. It took just sevenplays to move 75 yards. TimKimbrough's 30-yard run wasthe big gainer, and his 21 yardscamper found paydirt. Gra-

• ham's kick was good and thescore was 14-7 Cougars. .

Things rapidly began to un-ravel for Franklin. Following thekickoff Helms got rocked andCougar lineman Randy Dunni-gan recovered a fumble at theEagle 39.

Five plays later Carl Lewis• skirted left end from a yard out

and it was 21-7 PCHS with 7:53left in the first half, but the Cou-gars had a torrid second quarter.They would find the end zone ontheir next three snaps.

Eric Webb partially blocked apunt on Franklin's next posses-sion. It was first down PulaskiCounty at the Eagle 28. AndreEaves dropped deep and nailed astreaking Timmy Davis in theend zone.

Following the kickoff Franklincouldn't move. This time LarryNewcomb got his hands on thepunt, and the Cougars were atthe Eagle 20. On first downEaves passed in the fiat toLewis, and he twisted and tur-ned through the Franklin secon-

StaH photo by Donnte Walls

dary on his way to end zone.On the fourth play following

the kickoff Chris "Lawson re-covered a Franklin bobble at theEagle 10. On the first snap Webbran the inside reverse off the leftside to paydirt again, and sud-denly it was Pulaski County 41,Franklin 7 with 1:51 still left inthe first half.

About the only bad news hi thesecond quarter was a blockedextra point attempt, Graham'sfirst conversion miss of his ca-reer.

Pulaski County received thesecond half kickoff, the only pos-session for the first unit over thefinal 24 minutes. It was obviousHicks wanted his team to workon its passing game, but onfourth down from the Franklin32 Eaves ran the option, he waswrapped up and apparentlystopped, but at the last instanthe made an outstanding pitch toWebb who stepped his way pasttwo Eagle defenders to the endzone.

Following the kickoff Franklinwenrto the air on first down, butWebb picked off Lynch's heave atthe Eagle 34. The Cougar secondunit couldn't get past the Frank-lin 11, but Graham hit his firstfield goal of season from 32 yardsout to put the Cougars on top,51-7.

Graham's three-pointer cameon the final play of the thirdquarter which saw PulaskiCounty completely control theball offensively. Webb's intercep-tion of Lynch's pass was the onlyplay from scrimmage over theentire 12 minutes for Franklin.

Shannon Smith scored fromthree yards out against whatamounted to the Cougar junior

Stat SheetPC 7 34 10 0 BiFC 7 0 0 7 14FC — Lynch 17 yd pass to McGhee,M. Smith PAT 9:12 letPC T- Eaves 36 yd. run, Graham PAT4:101st '.PC— Kimbrough 21 yd. run, GrahamPAT 10:38 2ndPC— Lewis 1 yd. run, Graham PAT7:53 2ndPC —Haves 28 yd. pass to Davis PATFailed 4:54 2ndPC — Eaves 20 yd. pass to Lewis,Graham PAT 2:26 2nd .PC — Webb ft yd run, Graham PAT1:612ndPC —Webb 32 yd. run, Graham PAT6:32 3rdPC—Graham 32yd. FG 0:00 3rd ,FC — S. Smith 3 yd run, M. SmithPAT 4:09 4th __ ,,„

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Rushing 44-274 26-131Passing 5-6-6 8-16-1 ,Paes Yards 101 114 ,Total Yards 375 245Rotujn Yards 54 100Pttattng 2-63-31.6 3-3£lfcO,Peaalties 8-65 7-60 ;

Funsbles-Lost 3-0 4-3Rushing < •PC—E.Webb 6-76, Kimbrough 6-73,Lewis 6-31, Eaves 2-24, Burkes 8-24,Redd 7-20, J.Webb 3-13, Ingles 3-8,Conner 2-6, Jackson 1-minus 1 ' 'FC— J,Mu8t', 9-73, Helms 11-65,Smith 2-5, T.Muse 2-minus 3; Lynch2-minus9 * " , • , ' , '•'.' •,-, .^^Passing . . . , ,, "'-.PC—Eaves 5-6-0,101 yds, 2 TDa <FC-i-Lynch 8-16-1, l,14yds,lT0 * '"'Receiving. , ..,>.'<PC—.Lewis 2-56, Davis 1-28; .Page,W3,Redd 1-4, , , , - > •, > < * > VFC — McGhee 6-103, Campbell 1-3,.Huntl^S ' * * •" " ' "' '-

varsity with 4:09 left to play forFranklin. Smith kicked the patfor the final 51-14 score.

Larry Newcomb had one of hisbetter performances'for the Cou-

gars, blocking a punt and record-ing a quarterback sack, but likePayne, he was unhappy over thefirst unit getting scored on forthe first time.

"We weren't ready. I knew inthe locker room we weren'tready. There was too much hors-ing around. That score got usinto the game though. It was awakeup call. I think we hadSalem on our minds, but wefound out early that we weren'tplaying Salem, it was Franklin. Igive them credit for putting ascore on us. They were ready toplay football, and we weren't.They proved to us that were go-ing to have to play this week too.After that we got down to busi-ness, and we had a good game,"said Newcomb.

Brian Redd, who was crownedHomecoming King at the half,felt his team was suffering froma wondering mind.

"We weren't focused, and wegot shocked a little early. Wedidn't lose our composurethough. We just regrouped. Be-ing down 7-0 upset us, but wealso knew it wasn't a big deal ifwe just played like we can, andfrom that point on we handledthem," said Redd.

Webb led the Cougars in rush-ing with 76 yards, Kimbroughadded 73. Lewis' two pass re-ceptions_went for_56 -yards.Eaves was sharp passing thepigskin, hitting five of six aerialsfor 101 yards and two touch-downs. '

Once again Pulaski Countyspread the ball around as 10different Cougars ran with thepigskin and Eaves found fourdifferent receivers through theair.

Rec Rpimdup

The Pulaski Big Rowdies re-mained unbeaten in the PulaskiCounty Junior Soccer Leaguewith a key 7-5 win over secondplace Pulaski Hornets this weekat Loving Field Complex.

Jamie Smith and Willie Halebooted a pair of goals each whileConor Quinlan, Will Mayo andMike Meyer each had one.

Mike Meyers was the winninggoalie.

Chad Piediscalzo scored threegoals for the Hornets and nowhas 197 career goals, just threeshy of the 200 mark.

Stephen Brubaker andCameron Ash worth scored onegoal each, Freddie Waller had an•assist;' . . . - . . ' . • • ' . ; • '•'•, ' ; ' : ' ': , : ::'

The Rowdies blanked theStrikers 8<-0 with Quinlan andBrad Anderson scoring threegoals each and Hall kicked in

" two.' ' . . ; • • • . - , . • ' ; . . • ' • . ' • • •Chris Quesenberry was the

winning goalie.Quinlan, Cory Newman and

Mayo each scored in a 3-1 winover the Draper Fury.

Troy Berkley scored for theFury.; : - . : ' • • ; ' ' • ' ' . . ; ' ' ' . • ; . ' ' .

'Waller scored two goals whileJason Dean, Mike Turner and

Brubaker had 'one; as. the Hor-nets blanked the Dublin Roa-drunners 5-0. :

Waller and Brubaker earnedassist and Chucky Hodge earnedthe shutout.

The Pulaski Counts collectedtheir_^econd win 2-1 over theStrikers as Cory Surber .andIsarel Long toed in the winningscores and Andrew Kirk handledgoalie duties.

The Comets earned a 2-2 tiewith the Roadrunners as J.R:Easterling and Jon McGlothlinscored arid Easterling assistedon McGlothlin's.

The Dublin ;NeoN Bandits.foiled Pulaski Top Gun's .bid for aperfect season tying the leagueleaders 0-0 at Dublin LionsField.. V - • • • ' • • ' ; •

Will Nester was the Banditsgoalie and Greg DeHart defen-ded goal in perfect fashion for

•'Top:'Gun.Top Gun got past the Draper

Lightning 5-1, as Mike Sahtollascored two goals. Matt Burton,Josh Bowling and Todd South-ern added one each, DeHart wasthe winning goalie.

Kellen Wohlford's goal gavethe Lightning a 1-1 tie in the

first quarter. Adam Farris hadanassist. ' . ' • ' • ' • • ; " • " . • ; . • / • ; . ' - • ;

The Lightning beat the Pula-ski Comets 10-1 as Wbhlforddrilled three goals. Josh Wilburnarid Casey Piscura scored twoeach. Justin Barkley, JakeAdams and Farris all scoredonce. Wphlford and Piscura hadtwo assist each; . .

Wohlfbrd scored two moregoals in a 3-1 win over the NeonBandits and .Piscura got the;other goal for the Lightning.

Jake Adams was the winninggoalie. ;

G.C. Duck and Heath Reedybooted a pair of scores each asthe Dublin Odyssey defeated theComets 6-1.; .

Reedy scored twice andJeremy Vaughn once in a 3-2

Fishing ReportOct,4,1993

Regions •Claytor Lake: From the

Lakeside Marine Supply we.learned that anglers are catch-ing catfish and a few bass.

New River: Hunting is do-minating the outdoor activity inJiis area, says Wayne Gentry at

win over the Pulaski.Wildcats.The Wildcats beat the Comets

4-1. as •'•Chris; Terwilliger drilledthree; goals and Dustin Turnerone.: ' . ' . • ' ' v.; ' • .-• ' . . • • ' • ' . ; " . • " "•. ' • ' .

Standing*:Junior —Big Rowdies 6-0, Hornets 4-2; Fury

3-2, Roadrunners 2-2-1, Counts 2-3-1, Strikers0-7. • • • • • ' : . : • • ' • ' . •" : . ' . . - . : . , . . • : . • • •

Major — Top Gun 6-0-1, Lightning 6-1, Neon .Bandits 3-2-1, .Wildcats 2-4, Odyssey 2-4,Comets 0-6. •

Minor Sporew ; , - • ' . ' . '.Bandits 3, Thunderbirds 1; Outlaws.1, Ter-

minators .0; Roadrunners 4, Bombers 0;Bombers 1,Terminators 0; Rowdies 1, Bombers0; Bombers 3, Outlaws 2; Roadrunners : 3,Steelers 1; Roadrunners 3, Bandits 2; Roa-drunners ,3, Thunderbirdfl 0; Steelere 2, Out-laws 0; Thunderbirds 1, Rowdies 0. ;'

Note: Roadrunners lead Minor Division with•a 6-0 record. :

Leading BoorercJunior — Chad Piediscalzo. 12, Conor Quin-

lan 11, Will Mayo 6, Cory Newman 6, StephenBrubaker 5. ,

Major. - Kellen Wohlford 10, Heath Reedy10, Bryc« Clark 7, Josh Bowling 7.

the 7-Day Market in Pearisburg.Few anglers were on the riverand no catches were reported.

Gatewood Reservoir: Bassto seven pounds were caughtthis week along with catfish thatweighed up to 5Va pounds. Crap-pie appear to be slowing down.

Continued from page 6runs, I said that's the game," Al-varez said. "I knew I could holdthem?'

Pat Hentgen, who led the BlueJays with 19 wins, again strug-gled at home and was chasedwithout retiring a batter in thefourth. :

The game was scoreless andHentgen seemed in good shapewKen he retired the first two hit-ters in the third. Raines thensingled and took third on JoeyCora's single. |

That .brought up Thomas, avirtual designated walker in thefirst two games., Toronto pitchedto him this time, and he hit ahard, two-hop grounder that

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CollegeContinued from page 6

0-3 against Miami.Miami has won seven of the

last eight meetings, but only twoof the wins were by more thannine points. Three of the gameswere decided in the final minute,including the past, two yearswheri Florida State missed fieldgoals in the closing seconds.

"Change a few plays and we'dhave as many national 'Cham-pionships as Miami," Seminolescoach Bobby Bowden said.

The Miami-Florida Staterivalry is a family f^ud. Manyplayers were recruited by bothschools and many played againsteach other in high schobl. Some,like Florida State safety Devin

--?Tich r,\i Mf.r.-iSi -g^ci r!!ttyan Collins, were high schoolteammates.

'Everybody on this teamknows somebody from thatteam," Miami cornerback DexterSeigler said. "Everybody wantsto prove they're the better playerand the better team. It's for thenational championship andbragging rights."

"They know us and we knowthem," Florida State receiverMatt Frier said. "There's no se-crets in this game.'' •

The game wasn't always amajor event. When they firstplayed in 1951, Florida State'sfootball program was only 5years old and Miami wasn't anational power.

By the mid-1970s, both schoolswere so bad they considered giv-ing up the sport. But then Bow-den came to Florida State, LouSaban took over at Miami andthe teams started to get better.

Today, they probably are thetop two programs in the country.Miami has the most wins in thepast decade, while Florida Stateis No. 3. And both schools havefinished in the top 4 every yearsince 1987.

Also Saturday, Michigan takeson Michigan State and Texasbattles Oklahoma.

In other games involving ran-ked teams, it will be No. 4 Notre

• Dame vs. Pittsburgh, No. 5 Flor-ida at Louisiana State, No. 6Ohio State at Illinois, No. 11Tennessee,at, Arkansas, No. 13Washington at No. 16'California,No. 14 Texas A&M vs. Houston,No. 15 North Carolina vs. WakeForest, No. 17 Louisville at No.24 West Virginia, No. 19Brigham Young at No. 25 UCLA,No. 20 Colorado vs. Missouri,No. 21 Wisconsin vs. North-western, and No. 22 Auburn vs,Mississippi State.

Annual PP&Kcompetitionon tap Sunday

The Pulaski County Jayceesare sponsoring the annual Punt,Pass and Kick competition to be

.held Sunday, Oct. 10 at the Pu-laski County High School prac-tice field. _

The Punt, Pass and Kick prd-^gram is open to boys and girlsbetween the ages of eight and 15(age verification as of Dec. 31,1993).

Registration forms will beavailable at the local schools,YMCA or by contacting any Pu-laski County Jaycee member.Winners of each age group willadvance to the sectional compe-tition in Collinsville on Satur-day, Nov. 6 at 1 p.m. at the Col-linsville YMCA.

No football shoes, cleats, orturf shoes will DC permitted, onlysoft-soled sneakers will be al-lowed.^Registration begins at 1:30

p.m. with competition starting at•2p.in.--/ :' ' . . " : • • ; ' ; . , / • ' ' • ' • • •: .

PrestonContinued from pageS

Preston could earni playing :.time during this week's wor-kouts.

"I told Coach Beamer that ifthey wanted me to be 100 per-cent before I practiced, Icouldn't do that • right now,"Preston said. "If they didn'twant me out there unless I'm100 percent, I can't practice. If Ican't practice, I qan't play."

"I think he's been a valuableperson on our football team,"Beamer said. "I would love tosee it work out for him."

Preston, one of four electedcaptains this year, was co-leader last year in tackles with89. . •• ". : ".' . - . : ; . . " • '

uuaeman iLu oprague.Sprague was handcuffed,

however, and the ball hit himnear the heel of the glove andglanced into foul territory. Tho-mas wets given credit for an RBIsingle.

Robin Ventura followed with awalk that loaded1 the bases andGastbn, having seen severalballs hit hard off Hentgen, wentto the mound* The short breakdid not help as Ellis Burks, whohad stranded 10 runners in theseries, hit a sharp, two-runsingle.

A walk to Jackson, the lonetime he reached base, re-loaded

• the bases and Lance Johnsonblooped a two-run single thatmade it 5-0.

The big inning was a big relieffor Chicago. The White Sox hadleft 23 runners on base in thefirst two games, tying the ALplayoff record, and had manageda total of seven runs in their his-tory of six playoff games.

Chicago's good fortune contin-ued in the fourth when, afterleading off with a single, OzzieGuillen was trapped off firstbase and escaped a rundown.Another single by Raines fin-ished Hentgen, and a sacrificeand an intentional walk to Tho-mas set up Ventura's sacrifice flyoff Danny Cox.

The Blue Jays scored in thethird on a double by RickeyHenderson, his first hit in- 11playoff at-bats, and a single byDevon White. Toronto has scored10 of its 11 runs in the series ontwo-out hits> but its luck ran outwhen White, one of baseball'sbest basestealers, was caught onapickoffmove.

Blue Raidersclinch firstin Jr. League

The Pulaski Blue Raiders im-proved to 5-0 and clinched firstplace in the Pulaski CountyYouth Football League for theregular season with a hardfought 8-0 victory over River-lawn in Junior League play atCalfeePark.

With a 3-0 league mark theBlue Raiders will be the numberone seed in the playoffs, asRiverlawn and Dublin both havetwo losses and will face eachother the first round at DublinMiddle School. '

Travis Roop scored the game'sonly touchdown with a threeyard run in the fourth quarter.

• " . Kwasi Scott ran in the twopoint conversion. :

Bobby Peaslee and Roop hadinterceptions. Roger Penningtonrecovered his, fourth fumble ofthe season and Scott recoveredanother.

Domonic Brown, Mike Tilley,Pennihgton, Bradley RatclifT andLee Cook were citecl defensivelyfor outstanding play.

F or •• , R i v e r 1 awn J u s t inMcGuire, Kevin Long, Troy Mm-ter, Billy Montgomery, PhillipRupprecht and Eric Bird werethe leading tacklers in the Ramsstiff defense that improved fromallowing the Raiders 34 pointstheir first meeting.

In the Pee Wee Division theRed Raiders stay tied for firstplace with. a '14-2 win over thePee Wee Rams, improving theirrecord to 4-0-1,

Brandon Hambliit was themain man for the Red Raidersscoring a pair of touchdowns onruns of 68 and 17 yards. He fin-ished with over 100 yards rush-ing, while teammate Adam Rooprushed for 80 yards and scoredtwo single point conversions.

After the Red Raiders went ontop 7-0 on Hamblin's long runthe Ranis came back to get asafety with Mark Brillhearttackling Roop in the endzone.

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PAGE A8-THE SOUTHWEST TIMES, PULASKI, VA-, SUNDAY, OCTOBEft 10,1993

For FSU,no more

By RICK WARNERAP Football Writer

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State didn'tneed a last-second field goal this time.

After losing to Miami two straight years whenfield goal attempts sailed wide right in the closingseconds, the top-ranked Seminoles didn't want an-other heart-pounding finish. So they took controlearly with two long touchdowns Saturday andwent on to beat the No. 3 Hurricanes 28-10 beforea record crowd of 77,813 at Doak Campbell Sta-dium.

"This takes all the burden off the 'wide right'talk," said Florida State quarterback CharlieWard. "We did the things we needed to do to win.We survived."

It also took the burden off highly recruitedfreshman kicker Scott Bentley, who was so ner-vous that he skipped breakfast Saturday morning.He wasn't needed except for his four extra-pointkicks,_ By beating their longtime nemesis, the Sem-inoles snapped Miami's 31-game, regular-seasonwinning streak and, handed the Hurricanes theirworst regular-season loss since beating them 38-3in 1984.

Miami had beaten Florida State seven of thepast eight, years and spoiled the Seminoles'national championship hopes four times since1987. But the Hurricanes (4-1) were no match thistime-for the mighty Seminoles (6-0), who had outs-cored their first five opponents 228-14.

"This was very important, but we have gamesdown the road that might even be bigger," Sem-

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Chisoxeven A.LseriesBy BEN WALKERAP Baseball Writer

TORONTO — The most un-likely power hitter put the Chi-cago White Sox in the mostunexpected position.

The White Sox, in troublewhen the AL playoffs moved toToronto, instead tied the seriesat two games each Saturdaynight when slap-hitting LanceJohnson led them to a 7-4 victoryover the Blue Jays.

Johnson homered for the firsttime in more than a year anddrove in a career-high four runs.Frank Thomas, who is supposedto be a slugger, also homeredwhen the Blue Jays finally pit-ched to him as the White Soxwon a wacky game filled withweird plays.

The victory gave Chicago, theleague's best road team, anotherwin at SkyDome. It also madecertain the series, in which nohome team has won, will returnto Comiskey Park, where per-

Please see AL, page A11

Florida State's Devin Bush stiff-arms Miami's Larry Jones as he crosses the goal line with aninterception return that closed the door on the Hurricanes

Race willplay bigrole inCup fightAP Motorsports Writer

CONCORD, N.C. — Sunday'sMello Yello 500 will play a bigrole in determining whetherDale Earnhardt or Rusty Wal-lace is going to win the WinstonCup championship.

When the 500-mile race onCharlotte Motor Speedway'sIVi-mile oval is over, there willonly be three races remaining.But, more important is thepsychological edge that eitherEarnhardt or Wallace will have.

"It's close to being a hometowntrack for both of us," said Earn-hardt, who has lost all but 72points of his 304-point lead in re-cent weeks, "Our shops are bothclose to Charlotte. We both rungood here and we both enjoy rac-~ing here. And weird things hap-pen here. _

"I remember we left the pits, Ithink it was the same year(1989) we were racing Rusty forthe championship, and we didn'thave any left-side tires. I've cra-shed in this race. I broke a cam-shaft 13 laps into the race. Onthe other hand, you win here,too.

"I think Rusty has seen thesame kind of luck at Charlotte."

Earnhardt has won four times

Please see NASCAR, page A12

Forget all the power,liners all Braves need

AP Lawrpholo

Phillies hurler Terry Mulholland watches another linedrive off the bat of a Brave —this time from FredMcGriff

ByRONALD BLUMAP Sports Writer

ATLANTA — Forget thepower. The Braves didn't needany big blasts Saturday. Instead,the weapon of choice was the linedrive — a lot of line drives.

The result wasn't anydifferent: another blinding burstthat left the Philadelphia Phil-lies hanging on. The 9-4 victorygave^Atlanta a 2-1 lead in theseries, and suddenly the NLplayoffs seem to be a bit of_amismatch.

"We feel that we can have abig inning'at almost any time,"Braves third baseman TerryPendleton said. "We had the op-portunity to explode for someruns and luckily we were able todo so."

For five innings, Terry Mul-holland shut out the Braves andPhiladelphia led 2-0. Instead offboom, boom, boom — likeThursday night's six-run second,it was ping, ping, ping as Atlantascored nine runs in a two-inningspan.

"We've hit the dickens out ofthe ball the last two ballgames,"

Braves manager Bobby Cox said.That's an understatement. At-

lanta, which had four homersamong 16 hits in Game 2's 14-3rout, had five doubles and sevensingles in Game 3. The 23 runsin two games are a playoff re-cord.

We've hit the dickens out ofthe ball the last two ball-games.

—Bobby CoxAtlanta Manager

"They're capable of scoring alot of runs and so are we," Phil-lies first baseman John Kruksaid.

So Jar, it's been the Braveswho are doing the scoring. After,they dispensed with Muholland,they bruised the Phillies' bat-tered bullpen for four more runsin the seventh. Philadelphia re-lievers have given up 11 runsover 10 2-3 innings in this series.

"Some of these guys are allpitched out now," Phillies pitch-

ing coach Johnny Podres said."In the first game, we had someguys up four times, and that's alot of pitches even though theydidn't get into the game. At thisstage of the year, there's notmuch you can do."

No one the Phillies put on themound seems capable of stop-ping the Braves for long. Thefirst eight batters in the ordergot hits. David Justice broke anO-for-9 slump with a two-rundouble that put Atlanta ahead4-2 in the sixth. Mark Lemke,who has 12 RBIs1n~97 postsea-son at-bats, drove in three runswith a bases-loaded double thefollowing inning.

"It's nice that we can scorethat many runs, but you have tohave that pitching and defense,"Lemke said.

Tom Glavine allowed two runs-and six hits over seven innings,winning in the playoffs for thefirst time following four losses toPittsburgh in 1991 and 1992.Despite his 22-6 record thisseason, he felt he had somethingto prove.

Please see BRAVES, page A12

Despite their loss, Salem isstill good; Friday's game big

Much of the talk following Pu-laski County's big 51-14 footballvictory over Franklin County atthe school's 20th HomecomingFriday centered around WilliamByrd's 15-14 upset over Salem.

Fans were debating in thelocker room after the team had ,departed if Salem's loss was goodor bad as far as the big upcomingbattle in Kenneth J. DobsonStadium is concerned.

Some were disappointed be-cause they wanted the Cougarsto be the first team to defeat theSpartans this season. Some feltit was good that Salem lost be-cause it might make it easier tobeat the Spartans: Opinionsbounced off the walls.

You knpw what they say aboutopinions, but I'll give you onemore any way...mine,

I've seen Salem twice. Once in

Locker RoomDanCallahan

the preseason and again againstGraham. Salem is not as strongas it has been in the past, butmake no mistake, the Spartans

are a very capable football team,and will journey into the playoffsagain in 1993; >--

They will also journey to Pula-ski Cqunty this coming Fridaywith one single thought on theirmind...to beat the Cougars. I alsomight add, for the fifth straighttime." ' . • . . .; ' • . • v ' • , • ' . . . ' " '

Good football programs comeback hard from a defeat. Youonly need to look at Pulaski ; ~County for proof of that. Howmany times has Pulaski Countylost twice in a row since1979...14 and a half years worthof football games? Try sixtimes., just six times. How manytimes have the Cougars comeback to win following a defeat?try'22 times...22!''

I suspect over the past 10

Please see CALLAHAN, page A12. :

; . • ••••'• •.'•'/• " . . ' • • . ' , . ' . - ' • . : ' • ' • ' • • ' . ' . . : ' • ' " ' • . ' ' , • • • • ; ' ' . ' . ; ' ' 8ta« photo by DonntoW«l|«Pulaski County's Eric Webb slams a Franklin County ball carrier to the turf

PAGE A12-THE SOUTHWEST TIMES, PULASKI, VA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10,1993

NASCAR-Continued from page A8

at Charlotte, twice in the Mayrace and twice in the Octoberevent. Wallace, who rallied tobeat Earnhardt in 1989, has woneach of the Charlotte races once.

"I keep having people tell me,Tou haven't been running goodhere,' "Wallace said; "I've wonthe (Coca-Cola) 600, the 500 and

...The Winston (all-star event)here. I've got a lot of good top fivefinishes.

"Everybody used to say, 'Thisisn't Dale's track. It's terrible forhim.' Then he won two 600s in arow. Now what are they going tosay? It just goes in cycles.Drivers don't change from oneyear to the other. It's the equip-ment you're driving,, how'hard«rrt.*Va \yov*Mv*ft ' I Uo fu'l lV.'rtan*

and how focused your team isand how well your team blendstogether.

"That's the reason I think ourtwo teams are on top right now.Our teams are long term, Theseguys have been together for along time. I like looking out andseeing all those guys switchingdrivers.'It takes them more timeto build."

Earnhardt appeared to beready to bury the opposition in abid for his sixth Winston Cupcrown, but a crash at Dover anda broken rear end to his car atMartinsville helped Wallaceslice 202 points from Earn-hardt's lead in only two weeks.

Earnhardt has been accused ofeasing up after taking such a bigpoint lead, but he said, "Why

AP Uecrphoto

Winston Cup points leader Dale Earnhardt rejects the idea he let up after jumpingout to such a big lead early in the season

would I be on cruise control?""I was sitting there running

second at DoVer when we got in acrash," he said. "We were run-ning fourth or fifth at Martinsvi-lle when we had the problems,and we were running hard. Wejust had things happen that you

can't gain back."I think Rusty and I were close

last Sunday at North Wilkesboro(where Wallace won and Earn-hardt finished second). I wasrunning him hard at the end,trying to make him do some-thing, and I used up my tires.

No, we haven't been on cruisecontrol. Cruise control is 10th or12th."

Rookie Jeff Gordon will startfrom the pole Sunday, with Er-nie Irvan alongside. Earnhardtwill start ninth and Wallace 21stin the 42-car field.

BravesContinued from page A8

"I didn't go out there pitchingso much ,to get the monkey offmy back as much as pitching tohelp this team win," Glavinesaid. "I've pitched pretty good inthe playoffs the last couple ofyears, I just didn't get the resultsI wanted to get."

Kruk, who drove in three runswith a triple, opposite-fieldhomer and RBI groundout, saidGlavine's effectiveness came bythrowing first-pitch strikes.

"The key is to get to himearly," Kruk said. "We let himhang around too long."

Mulholland pitched just aswell for the first five innings, al-lowing five hits but no runs.Then the Braves suddenly'solvedhim.

Jeff Blauser opened the sixthwith a little grounder back to themound. Mulholland, who hadpitched just five innings sinceLabor Day because of a strainedmuscle in his left hip, got hisglove down on the ball, but itbounced away. For a moment,Mulholland appeared to walkawkwardly, but he said he wasunhurt.

"I had no problems physica-lly," Mulholland said softly as hestood in front of his locker. "Ididn't make the pitches I had tomake. Maybe I was trying toohard."

After that, Mulholland threw11 more pitches — five balls andsix that were hit safely or fouledoilf. He walked Ron Gant on fourpitches and McGriff,_ now15-for-31 against Mulholland inhis career, lined a run-scoringsingle to center. Pendleton linedthe next pitch to center for an-other RBI single and Justice'sdouble made it 4-2, finishing theleft-hander.

"I was very disappointed," saidMulholland, charged with fiveruns and nine hits! "I don't takethis lightly. It hurts. I knowthese guys were looking for a

good game from me and I didn'tgive it to them."

Atlanta got another run whensecond baseman Mariano Dun-can failed to come up with Le-mke's grounder with the infieldin. Duncan recovered, but cat-cher Darren Daulton had step-ped from in front of the plate andJustice went around the tag.Pendleton then hit an RBI singlein the seventh off Larry Ander-sen and Lemke doubled in threeoff David West.-

It had looked good for the Phil-lies early. Consecutive triples byDuncan and Kruk — the first inthe 24-year history of theplayoffs — scored a run in the

fourth, and Kruk hit an opposite-field homer in the sixth. Glavinehad allowed just one homer in167 at-bats against left-handedhitters during the season andbegan to think of past playoffs.

The key is to get to him(Tom Glavine) early. We lethim hang around too long.

—John Kru.kPhillies

55"Don't let the game get out of

hand," he thought, "and giveyour offense a chance to work,

because we have the kind ofoffense that sooner or later willget to work." •

That's exactly what happened.Now, Atlanta gets to send an-other Fab Four pitcher to themound on Sunday night, whenJohn Smoltz (15-11) will pitchagainst Danny Jackson (12-11).

It seems like the Braves,World Series losers the past twoseasons, are a team on a mission.

"This getting-close stuff isn'tcutting it for us anymore for thisteam," Glavine said. "For thisteam to get the recognition itfeels like it deserves and itwants, we have to win the WorldSeries."

StaM photo by Donnto Walls

Homecoming RoyaltyFriday night was a good one for Pulaski County's Brian Redd. The No. 1 ranked Cougarsremainedjinbeaten by easily handling Homecoming foe Franklin County, 51-14, and Reddaided the winning cause by gaining 20 yards on seven carries. The night turned even betterduring halftime festivities as the Cougar was named Homecoming King. April Alexander,shown here with Redd, was named the Homecoming Queen for

CallahanContinued from page A8

years you would find Salem's re-cord to resemble that of the Cou-gars. ' . ' • . • . • " . • • -,• ' ; ; :•.• '

Few would argue that PulaskiCounty and Salem have fieldedthe two most successful footballprograms in this area of thestate for a number of years, andover the entire Old Dominion forthat matter.

I think Salem was likely guiltyof overlooking William Byrd, and1 mean no disrespect to Byrdwith that remark. It was a greatvictory for the Terriers and nodoubt gave hope to a lot of BlueRidge teams.

But it's very likely the Spar-tans took the field Friday nightthinking about the Cougars, justas some Cougars admitted afterthe Franklin game they werethinking more about the Spar-tans than the Eagles. ^

Pulaski County went down 7-0

early, but had time to get fo-cused and take care of business. • ' -Salem led'almost, the entiregame against Byrd, but neverput the Terrier.s away,.and the.go-ahead score came late, allow-ing little time for Salem to reta-liate.. : . • . . : ' . ' • • . ' • ; . . ' • " • " • • - • ' - : • . . • • . ' .

Now Salem is 4-1 and PulaskiCounty 5-0. Some think thatsingle digit on the wrong side ofthe. ledger for Salem takes someof the luster off Friday's big mat-chup. I don't...not even a little

-bit. - . . • • ' . • : ; • . . ' ; • ' . '.. I think Salem will be harder to

defeat after its loss than theSpartans would have been withan unblemished record. They gotcaught napping...looking ahead.When you don't give proper,re-

. spect to a capable opponentyou're not far away from-gettingbeat. ' . - . . • . • • "

Good programs come back .from defeat more determined

than ever. What 'happened toSalem Friday will make the _Spartans an even more stubbornfoe than they already wouldhave been.

The Record Book: PulaskiCounty senior Carl Lewis hadalready entered the record bookfor the Cougars earlier thisseason by becoming the leadingscorer in school history, replac-.ing Dion Hendricks, but afterFriday's win over Franklin hemoves to the top of the chart intwo additional categories.

He replaces Billy-Myers, aformer Cougar great, as theleader in career all-purposeyards gained with 2,957, Myershad 2,721.

Lewis also takes over as thetop kickoff returner in Cougarhistory, again moving Myersaside, with 934 yards. Myers had' ' '

I was always impressed with

Myers'753yards:of kickoff re-turns, but Lewis has now f etur-ned kickbffs almost10 fulllengths of the field. By the way,

.both Lewis and Myers had hugekickoff returns for touchdownsduring playoff competition thatdo not count in the totals. Myers'came against Danville in 1983,and Lewis'came against ThomasDale in the state championshipvictory in Richmond last Decem--ber. '". ' ; . . ' -" • • ' • . - ' • ' ' • • • - . ' . . . ; ' "

Record Pace: Pulaski Countyhas scored 225 points in fivegames. That's an average of 45an outing, a stunning number, vbut even more impressive whenyou consider that the first unitCougar offense has sit out sevenof the 20 quarters, that's 84minutes of playing time.

- The Cougars have now alsointercepted 10 enemy passes.That's two a game and anotherrecord pace.

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