European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sports the stars and stripes Page 29 by Tom Sharp Knoxville Tenn. A Alabama a just enough offence left it a Little late saturday but it scored a what else a just enough the no. 10 Crimson tide drove 80 Yards to a winning touchdown on Sherman Williams 4-Yard run with three minutes remaining for a 17-13 Victory Over Southeastern conference foe Tennessee. A it was a super drive. Jay Barker was making the right decisions and most of it was running the football and that a what we needed to do a Alabama coach Gene Stallings said. A it was the kind of win we really needed. I Felt we needed to play a Good Tough team away from Home in a hostile Environ seeking a face mask penalty Delaware quarterback Keith Langan. 13 tries to persuade an official that Richmonds Jason Gradell has a firm grip on the face mask. Delaware won 28-3. Ment and i thought our players handled it Well he said. As it has done All. Season the tide 7 Williams 0, 4-0 Sec led with its defense and counter punched with just enough offence. Quot Tennessee 3-4, 2-3 can look at its ninth consecutive failure to beat Alabama As another Case of might have been. _ a a a a the vols fumbled away one scoring Opportunity at the Alabama 2 in the first half and drove to the Bama 7 in the waning moments Only to come away empty handed. Quot the Crimson tide was out gained 385 Yards to 336, but its defense refused to let commodores stun Athens a. Apr quarterback Ronnie Gordon ran Vanderbilt a option offend to perfection saturday running for a career High 126 Yards and three touchdowns and throwing for a to As the commodores stunned Georgia 43-30 despite another record passing performance by the bulldogs Eric Zeier. Zeier completed 23-of-54 passes for 441 Yards three touchdowns and three interceptions in route to setting his 15th Sec record this one for career pass completions 744. Tor hankies overtake pirates Greenville . Apr Maurice Deshazo rallied 19th-ranked Virginia tech with an 8-Yard touchdown run late in the third Quarter and the homies beat East Carolina 27-20 on saturday. The homies who have always had trouble with the pirates in Greenville trailed 20-19 after Marcus Cran Dell tossed a 15-Yard touchdown pass to Larry Shannon with 6 59 left in the third period. East Carolina missed the 2-Point conversion pass. Virginia tech 6-1 started the game winning drive at its 38. Deshazo ended the March with successive quarterback draws the second giving the homies the Lead with 57 seconds left in the period. He capped the. Rally with a 2-Point conversion pass to Jermaine Holmes. East Carolina 3-3 was stymied by the homies defense in the second half. Virginia Lech prevented the pirates from converting any third Downs and did t allow the pirates any deeper than the tech 31. Although Crandall was 30-for-50 for 332 Yards the pirates were held to 89 Yards on the ground. Chapel Hill a North Carolina the Atlantic coast conferences top Rushing team pounded Home its Point on saturday. No. 15 North Carolina rushed for 335 Yards on 58 carries and scored on seven of eight possessions in defeating Maryland 41-17 in the Atlantic coast conference. A i knew after every play they Stop us a said offensive lineman Roge Purgason. A when you get up there on first Down and make a Nice Little 8-Yard gain right up the Middle and the Maryland Guys Are on the ground and you Are picking them up it takes the momentum out of their defense a Purgason said. The tar heels 5-1, 2-1 have put together two dominating Rushing efforts in consecutive weeks. North Carolina ran for 342 Yards in last weeks 31-24 win Over Georgia tech. The tar heels did no to have a punt or a turnover and the team lose. Tennessee had two first and goal Situa Lions that resulted in no Points. The first ended when Tommy Johnson forced a Fumble from James a Little Man Quot Stewart and John tanks recovered. The second came at games end. After Williams to put Alabama ahead Tennessee drove to the Bama 7. Michael Rogers flicked away a potential touchdown pass on third Down and a fourth Down pass fell incomplete. Williams finished with .142 Yards in 26 carries for Alabama. Barker limited in practice this week with a sore throwing shoulder completed 10-of-19 for 128 Yards and a touchdown. Williams run capped a 13-play drive that began with 7 45 left after Tennessee had taken a 13-10 Lead on John Becksvoort a 22-Yard Field goal. Barker completed two passes in the drive one a 16-Yard toss to Curtis Brown on third-and-7 at Midfield to keep the drive alive. A this ability to make plays with people hanging onto him off the scramble was in my opinion the difference in the Ball game Fulmer said. Tarrant Lynch raced 16 Yards for a first Down at the vols 6 and Williams scored two plays later for the winning Points. Tennessee took the ensuing Kickoff and drove to the Alabama 7 with a minute and a half left. On third Down Peyton Manning a pass into the end zone for Joey Kent was flicked away at the last second by Rogers and a fourth Down pass failed. Barker is 30-1-1 As a starter for Alabama. A v., out Victory ran the Ball on 30 of their 31 second half plays. Jason Stanicek passed for one touchdown and ran for one. He had a 39-Yard scoring pass to Marcus Wall in the first Quarter and a 2-Yard keeper in the second period As the tar heels built a 24-10 halftime Lead. North Carolina then took to the ground to preserve its Lead adding 10 Points on its first two drives of the second half using the run on All but one of 21 plays in the two scoring marches. Scott i Tanovich who threw for 405 Yards and five scores in last years 59-42 North Carolina Victory won his starting Job Back this week. But the tar heels took away the big play and held the Terpsy Junior quarterback to just 115 Yards in the air through three quarters. He finished 22-of-33 for 169 Yards. The terrapins 2-4,1-4 closed to 27-17 late in the third Quarter on an 18-play scoring drive. Twice in the March Milanovich converted on fourth Down. Durham . Apr one of the motivational slogans at Duke asks a if i done to do it who will a Well try Ray Farmer. For the eighth time in his career Farmer blocked a kick on saturday this time he recovered the Block in the end zone with 3 37 left giving the 25lh-ranked Blue devils a 19-13 Victory Over Clemson to assure Dukes first winning season in five years. A i knew i had it when i cleared the blocking Back a Farmer said of the Block. Farmer a who earlier blocked a Field goal attempt charged in and blocked Nelson Welches punt into the air. Ray Wrights Rush actually occupied two blockers and Wright got around the remaining blocking Back. The Ball chromed into the end zone where Farmer recovered it for the clinching score. Tom Cochran missed the Point after kick leaving Dukes defense to hold off the tigers one More time. Farmer has three blocked kicks this season. Clemson 2-4, 1-3 Atlantic coast conference started freshman Nealon Greene at quarterback in Hopes of Awakening a once potent offence which had scored just seven touchdowns in five games. Greene often escaped the Duke defenders by running the option offence and it helped produce Raymond priest Era a 23-Yard to run late in the second Quarter that tied the score 7-7. Duke 3-0 acc matched its 6-0 Start of 1952 and ensured a winning season for the first time since 1989
