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8D Thm fcxtex-Jeumal. Greenwood. 8.C.. Nov. 15, 1992 Gamecocks fall, 14-9 Gators comerback Larry Kennedy, who reached around Chaney to make the play.

The possession ended two plays later when Florida stopped Bennett for no gain on fourth and two at the 17. Down 14-3, the Gamecocks put together a 12-play, 79-yard drive that Bennett capped with a 1-yard scoring run with 3:04 remaining. "If we can hold a team like Florida to only 14 points, we need to find a way to score 15," South Carolina coach Sparky Woods said. "We had a lot of missed opportunities." Matthews completed 19 of 32 passes for 259 yards, while Taney-hill was 19 of 34 for 239 yards. "I thought I played all right But it wasn't good enough to win, so I'm not pleased," said Taney-hill, who set up Bennett's TD with completions of 18 yards to Mike Reddick and 30 yards to Terrell Harris.

USC AD (Continued from page ID) and Duke football coach, is a candidate for the job. South Carolina spokesman Russ McKinney said Friday that no final decision has been made on who will replace King Dixon as athletic director. "Mr. McGee is one of a number of athletics directors that Dr. Palms has spoken and consulted with in his search," McKinney said.

Palms has kept his list of candidates under wraps during the interview process. McKinney said the search is on schedule and that the school hopes to make a decision by Thanksgiving. "Thanksgiving is still a real good target," he said. "The search is progressing nicely, and we've narrowed the focus considerably." McGee, a 53-year-old North Carolina native, started at Southern Cal in the summer of 1984. The Trojans always have had a strong, well-rounded athletics program, but the school has some impressive accomplishments under McGee.

In 1988-89, for example, 13 Southern Cal teams were in postseason play. During his tenure, Southern Cal has won national titles in men's tennis, women's tennis and twice in men's volleyball. Under McGee, Southern Cal's endowment income has risen more than 470 percent. (Continued from page ID) did what be had to to win the game." Florida's "Fun 'N Gun" offense misfired for nearly three quarters before Matthews completed passes of 24 yards to Hill and 38 yards to Jack Jackson on the 75-yard drive that produced his 1-yard sneak for a 7-3 lead. The Gators struck again less than five minutes later, marching 89 yards in eight plays and scoring when Matthews spotted the wide-open Hill racing up the right side of the field.

Florida, held scoreless in the opening half for the first time in 30 games, finished with 328 yards despite being only l-for-12 on third-down conversions. Except for the big pass plays it yielded in the second half, South Carolina's defense was superb. Meanwhile, the Gamecocks moved the ball well, gaining 332. yards, but failed to take advantage of a couple of scoring opportunities that could have made a difference. Marty Simpson's 36-yard field goal put South Carolina ahead 3-0 midway through the first quarter and the Gamecocks would have built onto the lead if Don Chaney, running 10 yards ahead of (he nearest Florida defender, could have caught up to Brandon Bennett's halfback pass later in the period.

Early in the third quarter, Ta-neyhill moved the Gamecocks from his 40 to the Florida 19 where his only pass of the drive was broken up in the end zone by 5 Petty taking final ride today Gang tackling Calhoun Falls' Corey Turman (10), Marlon McDuffie (2) and Dennis Thomas (80) are closing in in case their teammate is unable to bring down this Buford running back Friday. Flashes fall in overtime (Continued from page ID) 73 totai on foe drive. McCul- the Calhoun Falls 40. it was picking up another yard to the 8. lum took the ball in himself from McCullum again, rumbling in from Turman, whose only completed 13 yards out and Porter's PAT tied 6 yards out.

Porter hit the PAT to pass of the game was a touchdown the contest tie the contest with six minutes re- to Cade, then went to the air, find- It stayed that way until midway maining in regualtion. ing Cade again to the 3-yard line, through the second quarter, when Buford's last shot to win before setting up the biggest play of the Buford quarterback Jeff Holden overtime came after recovering a season for the Blue Flashes. fumbled and the Blue Flashes re- Blue Flashes fumble at the Cal- Turman again looked to pass on covered at the Buford 39. The noun Falls 48. A quick, six-play fourth down, but the ball sailed drive look to be stalled after a march set up Porter for his field just wide of Glover at the 1.

Flags holding penalty forced a third goal attempt were thrown on the play, but the down and 14 from the Yellow "Our kids did everything they penalty was on Calhoun Falls and Jacket 34, but it was the senior could do to win," Brady said, an impressive 10-2 season was Cade again coming up the big "Buford was well-prepared and a history. play. very physical football team. They "It was a tough loss," Calhoun Turman scrambled and lofted a did a good job." Falls head coach Richard Brady pass towards the goal line, where The victory moves the Yellow said. "Buford did an excellent job.

Cade looked to be well-covered by Jackets to the third round, where "They had two real big backs Buford defensive back Reshay they will meet Timmonsville, who who were hard to bring down and Porter. Porter even got his hands easily defeated Blacksburg 40-0. when the chips were down, they on the ball before Cade ripped the These two teams met earlier in the got the job done. Our kids never, ball into his own arms and stepped season with Timmonsville winning ever gave up. We're real proud of into the end zone for the score.

20-7. them. Young was again good with the Bu'd 711 The Flashes defense opened the extra point and Calhoun Falls took CMMm 7 0 -u game impressively, forcing the a 14-7 point lead into the locker- 1 iT Ft. McCullum 13 run (Porter kick) only Buford punt of the night after room at halftune. sd quarter only three plays.

The offense then Buford, midway through the -a-ci uck Fourui quarter made short work of it, with a four- third penond, mounted a massive b-mccuuuh 6 run Pon ucjo play, 61-yard drive, capped by 83-yard drive, powered by the run- t-Qfim6mZi) Glover's 31-yard touchdown run. ning of McCullum and Talford. Buford Sutktlca Calhoun Falls Forest Young's PAT made it 7-0 Talford would lead all rushers in with only four minutes gone and it the game, finishing with 1 10 yards 2-5-0-u 1. 2-5-o-m looked like a repeat performance on 20 carries. of the previous week's shutout The Yellow Jackets got to the i-iZZlZI UntwiH ZZZZZZZiii win.

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stuffed on the keeper and the aom 15-93. tcbdown; smt Turmm n-19 Buford, 7-5, mounted an eight- Flashes took over. But the Buford pw ti mi Mtota. en; imr play march of its own, keyed by defense responded defensively, rin Bored nou, 2-5-0-18. caihoun fhu the running of fullback Michael forcing the Flashes to punt.

-T" 1. to i- ReceMns, Buford McCullum 2-18. Calhoun Falls McCullum, who gained 38 of his Seven plays after taking over on 2-39, one touchdown. Florida 17 714 SC PO Slrnpaon 36 Ra Matthews 1 (Jadd Darts kick) FU HU 36 pan from Matthews (Jodd Davis kick) dctocu i ran (pais laued) 1,177. SC FU 17 32-69 259 20 4S-93 239 16 Rotbn-varoj Return Yard) Comp-AU-Int Punts Pumbfcs-Losl rtontttes-Yardi Hint of Pmatsalnu 21 19-35-1 19-33-1 6-42 7-40 4-1 5-40 3100 1-0 6-55 JtOO INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINO South Carolina.

Bennett 17-14. DeBorr 11-50. Florida. Rhttt 24-6. alone 2-14.

PASSINO South Carolina. TaneyUU 19-34-1-239. Beam 0-1-0-0. Florida. Mllftevi 19-32-1 259, Pakner 0-I-O-O.

RECEIVING Soadl Carolina. DeBoer 3-27, Campbell 2-2. Btmsa 2-14. Florida. Row 4-30.

Jackson 4-21, HU 2-59. busier and doing more and more things and gotten farther and farther away from the race car. Hopefully, we can get this last race over with and get ready for next year. I'm looking foward to surviving between now and when the race is over. "I want to get through with this so I can get to the thing I really want to do, and that's go racing again.

That's why I want to put this part of it behind me, so I can start a new career, as a car owner. "It will be a clean slate starting in February, with no losses, no wins, no nothing. It will be a relief that we can start into a different situation." Petty took one big step toward next season Thursday when he ended months of rumors and speculation by naming Rick Wilson to replace him in the driver's seat of the team Pontiacs in "1993. But he still has one last 500-mile race as a driver. Is it going to be a sad moment when he climbs out of the cockpit for the final time? "No, sadness has not crept into it and, hopefully, it won't after the race," Petty said.

"Hopefully, I can look back on more good times than bad times. to '93 sive back Rufus Logan to the ball near the right sideline and scored. Weaver's kick made it 21-0. After Walker's seventh punt, Northwestern drove 28 yards in just three plays. Templeton scored on the same play that set up and scored the previous touchdown, off an option to the right The play covered 26 yards.

He finished with a game-high 103 yards rushing. The Trojans were knocking on the door again in the fourth quarter, driving to the 1, but Templeton was hit going toward the end zone and fumbled. Eagles defensive back Quincy Singletary recovered. Greenwood's second first down didn't come until there was just 1:13 left when receiver George Williams was bumped and pass interference was called. On the next play, Tyrone Cohen passed 19 yards to Nick Wideman, giving the Eagles three first downs.

Greenwood never crossed mid-field, reaching its own 49 prior to the 42-yard fumble, and the 47 on Nick Wideman's late reception. Now you know On April 20, scientists Marie and Pierre Curie succeeded in isolating the radioactive element radium. fall to Northwestern, look (Continued from page ID) "I can't believe how good it makes you feel," Petty said as he approached his final ride. "You know, I've always tried to treat the fans like I would want them to treat me if I was on the other side of the fence. Hopefully, we've, done a decent job of that.

"Fortunately, I was in the right place at the right time to get into racing and have the family behind me, to work with me and get me to go back in there when things went wrong But it's not been a solo situation. Richard Petty didn't do any of this stuff by himself. The fans helped, the press helped, the family helped you name it, everybody was involved. The people that work for us, the manufacturers and everybody." Petty announced his intention of retiring at the end of this season after a year-long "Fan Appreciation Tour" in October 1991. That seems a long time ago to him now.

"I started off hoping at the beginning of the year that it would be a really long year," Petty said. "I hoped it would take a long time to get it over with. But, as the end of the year got closer, the quicker I'm Jiving to get it over with. We've been getting busier and stand in the first quarter. North-western's second possession began on the GHS 28.

Six plays later, quarterback Brian Morgan was stopped on fourth-and-goal at the 1. But the Greenwood offense was unable to move the ball and Walker was forced to punt out of his own end zone for the second straight time. The Trojans wound up with the ball on Greenwood's 29 and scored six plays later on a 1-yard run by Anquan Gist The first of Mark Weaver's four PATs made it 7-0 1:12 into the second quarter. Walker was forced to punt for a fourth time and Curtis Wilmore blocked it, picking the ball up around the 20 and racing in for a 14-0 lead at the 8:21 mark. In the first half, Greenwood had seven possessions and punted six times, netting -13 yards rushing and none passing.

The only first down came on the last play of the half when fullback Lome Chambers ran the ball 20 yards. That turned out to be GHS's longest gain of the night The Eagles defense held Northwestern to 64 yards of total offense and three first downs in the opening half and got two sacks from defensive lineman John Smith. But the defense couldn't hold the Trojans in the third quarter. Northwestern returned the opening kickoff to the Greenwood 49 and scored nine plays later, building a 21-0 lead. "I felt, personally, the opening drive of the third quarter set the stage," Trojans coach Jimmy Wallace said.

"We thought we had the kickoff broken. We had our man running out to midfield and he ran into two of our players. Then we settled down and put it in there. That was a big turning point in the game." A key play in the scoring drive came on third-and-9 from the 23 when Morgan optioned to Jay Temple ton, who took it 17 yards to the 6. On the next play, Morgan's pitch to Templeton landed on the ground, but Templeton beat defen "To be able to do something for 35 years, like I've done; to.

do what you want to do when you want to do it and be fairly successful at it, and call your own shots, is unbelievable." What can be expected from Petty on Sunday? "If I had my druthers, I'd like to win the race," he said. "I mean that's the ultimate tiling. You want to accomplish everything you set out to do. But you have to be satisfied with what happens in between. "I feel like if we ran the whole race and run a decent race and finish the race, then I feel like we will have accomplished what we set out to do." Modest goals for a retiring giant; Hooters (Continued from page ID) thinking too much about the championship, I feel I could overlook something with the preparation of the race car that would affect our performance and affect our chances." "If we finish fifth, we win the championship, no matter what," Allison added.

"But we can't start thinking about that as a magic number. We have to run a smart race, finish as high as we can and be satisfied with it when it's all over." Kulwicki is squeezed in between Allison and Elliott in the points and on the starting grid, starting 14th with Elliott 11th. But the driver-car owner said he won't be worrying about what anybody else does. "I'm trying to win the championship much more than I'm trying to protect second place," Kulwicki said. "The gap between first and second is so much greater than the gap between second and third.

If we can't win, I'd rather be second than third, but it has nowhere near as much impact" Kyle Petty is very aware how much of a longshot for the title he and Gant and Martin are, but he remained hopeful, and grateful to his famous father. "We've got to have all the good luck possible and hope the guys ahead of us (in the points) have all the bad luck," the young Petty said. "We're starting 20th, but I think the car is capable of winning. It's just that we can't control what those other guys do "At least daddy has kept the reporters and photographers away from us this week. They've all been hanging out around the No.

43 car somewhere, asking Richard Petty questions. That's made it a little easier." who also led late in the season-ending race. Mike Wallace, who started from the pole, led 107 of the first 147 laps, but faded at the end and wound up fifth. There were 10 cautions flags for 50 laps in the attrition-filled race and just 16 of 42 starters were running at the end. There were several crashes, but no injuries were reported.

Allen, from Raleigh, N.C., averaged 114.948 mph in a Ford Thun-derbird prepared by Robert Yates who owns the cars Winston Cup point leader Davey Allison drives on NASCAR's top circuit The ARCA race was run as a' support event for today's Hooters 500 NASCAR stock car race. Eagles (Continued from page ID) Northwestern improved to 9-3, recording its sixth shutout, and will play at 12-0 Spartanburg in Friday's second round. Gaffhey will host Orangeburg-Wilkinson in the other Upper State Big 16 semifinal. Greenwood lost the game at Rock Hill District 3 Stadium despite a strong showing on defense in the first half, including a goal-line stand. "I think our defense played as well tonight for two-and-a-half quarters' as they've played all year," Burkett said.

'We had a great goal-line stand. The two touchdowns they had the first half were results of turnovers and short punts and that wasn't the defense's fault" Greenwood had 12 possessions, 10 resulting in three downs and a Wayne Walker punt, one ending at halftime and the other at the end of the game. Moments after the loss, Burkett was already looking to next season. Twenty-six players off the 1992 roster can return, including most of the key players on offense. "On paper, it looks like we ought to be pretty good next year," Burkett said.

"I'm real con cerned about our physicalness, though, our toughness. That will be a theme in the offseason, I promise you. We'll work on that "I don't know if we'll win any more games next year or not, but we'll be better, we'll be tougher and we'll have kids that enjoy playing the game. "I issue the challenge to a lot of kids in Greenwood, we need a lot of kids. Our numbers were down this year.

We need a lot of kids back in the program. We'd love to have them out there, work and try to turn this thing around. We're excited about next year." Burkett said he can't wait 'til next season and hopes the returning players feel the same. "If it were up to me, we'd start practicing Monday for next year. I want to get this bad taste out of my mouth.

I don't like ending the season like this and our kids don't There are a lot of them in there (the locker room) right now who are hurting. I hope they're as eager to get back as I am." The offseason program will begin in January in the weightroom and continue through the second week of May when spring practice starts. "We'll be real demanding on them in their offseason program. We won't cut them any slack," Burkett said. "In spring practice, we'll make it as physical as we possibly can in shorts.

"And our preseason practices and camp (in August) will be real physical. We want to try to find some kids that want to play and want to hit." Burkett had two theories as to why the Eagles got pushed around by Laurens and Northwestern. One, the practices weren't tough enough; and two, the middle of the schedule was weak. "We might have gotten a little bit away from that (physical practices) this year because we were real concerned about injuries," the coach said. "We didn't have a lot of kids and early in the season we had a lot of people playing both ways (offense and defense).

We may have backed off a little bit too much and it may have hurt us. We won't back off anymore." The schedule included easy victories over Pickens, Byrnes, Maul-din and Hillcrest The Eagles also beat a talented Westside squad. "I really think the schedule had a lot to do with it Westside had a lot of skill people, but they weren't physical. The last two weeks we played against physical people and we haven't responded to it" The offense put up big numbers against weak opponents as well as Westside, and running back Chris Wideman had broken two school rushing records by the 10th game. But the offense slowed to a standstill the last two weeks.

"To be honest with you, we don't know what's happened," Burkett said. "We're trying to find out what happened. We haven't blocked well the last couple of weeks and we don't know why. "We knew what the defenses were going to be and we blocked them well in practice. We blocked and hit as good in practice this week as we ever have.

We really hit each other hard this week. We came out tonight and we don't do it." The Eagles defense started off playing well, staging a goal-line Allen earns first ARCA victory GHS season-ending notes Fourteen Greenwood High School seniors saw their football careers come to an end with Friday's 28-0 playoff loss at Northwestern. They are: punterplace-kicker Wayne Walker, linebackers Johnny Carter and Darveco Mitchell; fullback Keith Hackett, fullbacklinebacker Rodney Wright, defensive backreceiver Nick Wideman, receiver George Williams, defensive back Detric Moton, defensive ends Richie Williams and Desi Freeman; and offensive linemen Louis Hedrick, Shawn Dunlap, Roderick Tolbert and Chuck Anderson. Chris Wideman finished his junior campaign with a single-season school-record 1,274 yards on 169 carries, gaining only 37 his last two games. He finished with 20 touchdowns, tying Sonny Horton's 1945 record.

He had already broken Horton's 1946-47 record for rushing touchdowns, finishing with 19. Quarterback Tyrone Cohen rushed 98 times for 404 yards this season. He lost 42 yards Friday, mostly on sacks. Passing-wise, he completed 46 of 129 throws for 740 yards, seven touchdowns and seven interceptions. Freshman tight end Adrian Wideman led the Eagles in receptions with 13 for 147 yards while junior receiver Jason Smith led in receiving yards with 201 on nine catches.

Nick Wideman caught 12 passes for 197 yards. Melvine Hurley rushed for 284 yards this season, Lome Chambers for 191, Wright 166, Hackett 97, Quincy Singletary 52, Nick Wideman 35, Rufus Logan 19 and Smith 8. Logan led GHS with five interceptions. HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) Loy Allen Jr.

earned his first Automobile Racing Club of America stock car victory Saturday, beating Tim Fedewa by a car-length to win the Motorcraft 500-kilometer race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The 26-year-old Allen took the lead for the first time on lap 182 when Charlie Glotzbach had to pit for gas, and led the rest of the way in the 204-lap event on the 1.522-mile oval. Bob Keselowski, the 1989 series champion, finished third but fell 35 points short of catching new series champion Bobby Bowsher, who wrapped up the title by finishing Bowsbcr came into the race leading by 65 points. Fourth place went to Jeff Purvis,.