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THE SOUTHWEST TIMES, PULASKI, VA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11,1988-PAGE A7

BYDANCALLAHANSWT Sports Editor

Pulaski County High School usedthe big play offensively, shutdownthe Petersburg offense the fourthquarter, and overcame its own mis-takes to win an out-of-district foot-ball contest Friday night in CountyStadium, 31-21,

The victory upped the PCHS re-cord to 2-1 on the season. It was thefirst game for the Crimson Wave.Next'Friday, the Cougars will travelacross the state to face Hopewell, ateam from the same Central Districtin the Central Region as Petersburg.

The biggest offensive hero for theGougars was junior tailback KirkHendricks who rushed for 138 yards

StatSheetPetersburg Pulaski Co.

First Downs 14 10Rushes- Yds. 35-107 39-256Passing A-C-I 17-6-3 3-2-1Passing Yds. 73 82

. Total Yds. 180 338Return Yds. 131 84Punts-Ave. 4-27 2-34.5Fumbles-Lost 3-0 2-1Penalties-Yds. 3-35 7-71.

Scoring SummaryPetersburg 7 7 7 0—21Pulaski Co. 6 12 6 7—31Petersburg- Epps 3 run (Garrison Kick)P.C.-Hendricks 54 Run (Kick Failed)P.C.- Hendricks 3 Run (Run Failed)P.C.- Hendricks 40 Run (Run Failed)Petersburg-Coleman 8 Run (GarrisonKick)Petersburg- Coleman 2 Run (GarrisonKick) • : •P.C.- Hoback 63 Pass from Sheppard(PAT failed) 'P.C.- Hendricks 8 Run (Powell Kick)

Individual StatsRushingPetersburg- Epps 15-83 yds.; Taylor7-24, Coleman 9-22, Mcbaniel 1-(-1),Whittle 3-(-21)P.C.- Hendricks 15-138, Henley 7-89,Stigger 12-48,. Mooney 1-2, Sheppard4-(-21)PassingPetersburg- Whittle 6-17, 3 int.-, 73yds.P.C.- Sheppard 2-3,1 int. 82yds. 1TDReceivingPetersburg- James 4-48 yds., Epps1-17, Coleman 1-8P.C. Hoback 2-82 yds., 1 TD.

on 15 carries and touched paydirt. four times, tieing the single game-

record of King Harvey set in 1980 inLynchburg against Heritage. Hen-dricks scored on runs of 54, three, 40and nine yards. :

But even with those stellar num-bers, it was not a one-man show byany means. Sophomore tailback JonHenley ran for 89 yards on only se-ven attempts, and junior fullbackJohn Stigger got 48 yards on 12 car-ries.

Pulaski County rushed for 246yards, and Tommy Sheppard com-pleted two of three passes for 82yards, both to tight end Robbie Ho-back, the second for 63 yards and atouchdown. The Cougars finishedwith 338 total yards, by far theirbiggest output of the season. '.

Sheldon Epps led Petersburg with83 yards rushing on 15 carries.Quarterback Terrance Whittle com-pleted six of 17 passes for 73 yards,but was intercepted three times.David Harding, Hendricks, and JoeyDavis picked off Whittle aerials. TheCrimson Wave totaled 180 yards.

PCHS head coach Joel Hicks was.satisfied with his team's perfor-mance.

"We did a pretty good job consider-ing we weren't real sure whatPetersburg was going to do. Theywere a better offensive team thanwe anticipated. They have some fineplayers. .

"We were down early/and down irithe third quarter, but we turned itaround both times. That's a very sat-isying feeling. It was a great win forthese kids.

"I was pleased offensively. We didmore than I thought we might, andas the game got older, w^.reallystarted to knock them off the ball. Ithink we'll be pleased with ouroffensive line when we see the films.We got ourselves in trouble a fewtimes, made some mistakes, andwe've got work to do in places, but itwas a good night for the kids. Over-all, I'm very pleased," said Hicks.

It was the second 100-yard pluseffort for Hendricks. He had 103.inen opening 17-0 win over Anacostia.

Please see COUGARS page A9 Pulaski Co. tailback Jon Henley bursts through big hole in Petersburg defense,y»,-V« •' " *"

Staff photo by Bob Hln»e

Pulaski County...a substantial opponent

•- , s>tan photo by Bob Hin»tCougar Kirk Hendricks thanks tackle Jackie Brucefor his block after one 'of his four touchdown runs

It was only a couple of weeksago that Pulaski County HighSchool head football coach JoelHicks was explaining that fieldposition, good defense, and con-trolling the ball offensively bymaking first downs would be themajor keys for his young team in1988 since he did not expecthave a big play offense.

So what happens? The Cou-gars scored from 54,40, and 63 ~yards in Friday's 31-21 victoryover Petersburg. Hicks alsostated in preseason that the lastthing he wanted was to be in-volved in a scoring battle.

Hicks was asked jokingly fol-lowing the second PCHS win ofthe season if he had been tellingsomethingless the truth.

"No, I was being truthful. Atleast I thought I was. Heck, I'mjust as shocked as anyone withthose long plays, but I love it for

.the kids. It was fun," said Hicks.But how did it happen?"First, we were able to get a

good reading on Petersburg's

stunting. One one of the runs . '(Kirk Hendricks) they sent boththeir linebackers inside on ablitz, and we had the quick pitchon the corner called. Our execu-tion is also improving. One thingI have said is that this team willget better the more it plays. We'-ve still got our problems, but weare better. I think maybe somepeople let the preseason in-fluence things, and we didn'tlook all that good, but these kidswere learning. Now they havelearned, and they've started (playing, Hopefully our improve-

"rnent hasn't stopped though,"said Hicks.

It's also possible that thisCougar team isn't young any-more either. After finding itsway during preseason, it is nowprecariously close to being 3-0 onthe season. I'm not sure even 2-1was expected at this point.

But this team also exhibitedpoise against Petersburg Friday,a team with excellent capabili-ties. Expect Barry Brown's

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Crimson Wave to have a produc-tive season.

The question however, is howmuch better can Pulaski Countyget? This team appears to havegrown quickly, and there is nowlittle doubt that it will play hardfor four quarters. The Cougarsbusted the first play from

scrimmage against Petersburg,.fell behind 7-0, and came back tolead at the half.

Petersburg then seemed totake control of the line of scrim-mage, and moved out front witha grinding drive in the thirdquarter. The Cougars came backagain, and like the game at Dan-ville the week before, Hicks' crewtook possession of the line ofscrimmage on both sides of theball the fourth quarter.

The PCHS offense is obviouslyimproving. Tommy Sheppardmay not be a spectacular per-former, but his execution isexcellent, and his passing abilityfar better than anticipated. Ontop of that, he's a tough littleguy. Also, the running backs;Hendricks, John Stigger, andsophomore Jon Henley have im-proved markedly, and they arefinding holes to run throughmore often as the offensive fronttoo is coming on. The executionlevel now resembles Hicks'Please see LOCKER ROOM, page A9

Tech dominates ECUBy DAVID J.BISSETWorrell Sports Service

BLACKSBURG- The VirginiaTech football team received a big in-jection of confidence Saturday after-noon when they rolled over EastCarolina, 27-16 here in Lane Sta-dium.

The Hokies, who had been embar-rassed at Clemson in their seasonopener, took command of the contestearly thanks to the offensive linewhich opened the holes for runningbacks Jon Jeffries, Rich Fox, Mal-colm.Blacken and Ralph Brown,

Jeffries was the ga'me's leadingrusher with 101 yards.on' 21 at-tempts. Overall, the Hokies netted276 yards on 62 carries..Jeffries alsoscored a pair of touchdowns on runsof three and five yards.

With the offensive line openingthe/holes for the backs, the samebunch, which was led by PulaskiCounty's Todd Grantham, also pro-vided a 'pocket of protection forquarter Will Furrer: .Furrer com-pleted 13 of 18 passes for 158 yards.Myron Richardson with four re-ceptions for 59 yards highlighted thereceivers.

Pulaski County's Chris Kinzer

added field goals pf 28 and 22 yardsin the second and third quarters be-fore Fox finished the Hokie scoringwith two-yard run with just overeight minutes remaining to seal thevictory for the Techmen.-

"This was a big, big win for us andfor the Va. Tech football program,"said Coach Frank Beamer after-wards.

"We needed a win like this afterlosing to Clemson last week. Theoffense controlled the ball, we gotgood execution and our tight-endsmade some tough catches," addedBeamer.

On defense, the Hokies allowedlimited the Pirates 'to 117 rushing

. yards. '. • ' ... . . '"Defensively, I was pleased," said ,

Beamer. "They played much betterthan they did against Clemson."

After winning the coin toss, theHokies took the kickoff and marched.80 yards in , 14 plays with Jeffriescapping the drive with a three-yardrun over right tackle (Grantham).Kinzer's PAT was good and Tech led7-0 with 8:32 showing.

During this opening drive, Jeffriesrushed seven .times and found day-light between right tackle and right

guard. In between Jeffries' rushing,Furrer kept the Pirate defense off-balance with pin point passing toBrian McCall, Fox and Richardsonfor 11,11 and 14-yards. '

ECU* attempted to even thecontest, but 10 plays later safetyScott Rice ended their hopes whenhe intercepted at the Tech nine-yardline and returned it to the 19.

The Hokies kept that 7-0 lead un-til midway in the second periodwhen Larriiar .Smith fumbled at the21 and ECU's Junior Robinson re-covered. The Pirates capped a three-play, 21-yard scoring drive whenWalter Wilson caught a 17-yardpass from quarterback Travis Hun-ter. Robb Imperato made the PATand the contest was deadlocked 7-7.with 8:55 showing before halftime.

On Tech's next possession, theHokies had their best comebackdrive of the young season. Theymarched 67 yards in 10 plays high-lighted by Furrer completions t6 Ri-chardson for 18 yards and to Fox forsix yards. When Furrer didn't com-plete a^pass, Jeffries continued torun up the middle of the Pirates.

Jeffries' five-yard run off right

Please see TECH, page A10 Hokie tailback Ralph Brown cuts for some of his 59 yards rushingStall photo by Bob Hints

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Cougars—Continued from page A7

He has 262 yards in three games.. "We're working the ball well as ateam," said Hendricks. "1 got goodblocks. I've made up my mind, once Iget oiitside...nobody catches me.That's all there is to it. We've justgotta keep playing as a team...doingthings together."

It was the first big performance. for Henley in his career as a runningback. The big sophomore knew hefigured to see more playing time inthe backfield, but he didn't knowhe'd be used as a runner that much.

"The coaches and I talked aboutme seeing more playing time duringpractice this week. I thought itwould probably be more for blockingpurposes. I was close a couple oftimes to breaking all the way. Ishould have. I guess I've got to workon my speed. It would have made mereal happy to score, but I'm pleasedwith how I played. I think we've gota pretty good team," said Henley.

Petersburg coach Barry Brownthinks Pulaski County has a "prettygood team" too.

,''Except for their coaches, I'm asfamiliar with Pulaski County asanybody in the state. We've seenthem on film and I scouted them inboth their games with Anacostiaand Danvi)le," said Brown. "Theyare definitely improving. They werebetter in Danville...they were bettertonight, particularly offensively. Ididn't think they could move the ballon us like that.

"We played pretty well. I'm notmad at my team. But Pulaski Coun-

ty's big plays really hurt, and theytook over down inside on both sidesof the line the fourth quarter.

"I think we're going to be a .goodteam. We're better right now thanlast season. Pulaski County is goingto be a good team too. They ain't tooshabby now," laughed Brown.

Petersburg jumped out on. topquickly when the Cougars bustedthe first offensive play of the game.Chris McDaniel recovered the loosepigskin at the Cougar 28, and Eppsscored from the three for a 7-0 lead.

With 5:46 left in the first quarterHendricks broke his first big play ona quick pitch for 55 yards followingDavis' interception, but Tony Powellmissed the coversion kick. PulaskiCounty had a rare miserable nighton conversions.

Hendricks setup his second scorewhen he intercepted a Whittle passand returned it 10 yards to theCrimson Wave 28. Seven plays laterhe scored from the three, but he wasstopped short on the two-point at-tempt and the Cougars lead 12-7.

Petersburg couldn't move the ballfrom deep its own territory andDavis returned a punt inside the 10,but off-setting penalties nullfied theplay. It didn't matter. On seconddown from the Petersburg 40, theCrimson Wave sent both linebackersinside on a stunt. It was bad timing.Sheppard quick pitched outside toHendricks who got an excellent leadblocks from tight tackle Ja,ckieBruce and Hoback and ran untou-ched to the end zone. Sheppard wasstopped short this time on a 2-point

Whoa baby! Cougar Todd Wade makes flying tackle onPetersburg's Shelton Epps

Locker RoomContinued from page A7

teams of the past nine seasons.This team is not as big, as

strong, or as fast as many ofHicks' previous nine. However, itis not small, weak, or sloweither. As a group, it is gettingthe job done.

It would appear that Danvillecoach Ed Martin may have beencorrect last week when he im-plied that the personnel mightbe a little different at PulaskiCounty, but the desire and abil-ity to compete hasn't changed.

Maybe things aren't quite thesame. Maybe this team isn't andwon't get to the high level of per-formance of some of the out- .

Pioneers—• Continued from page A8

"I thought we dominated the firsthalf defensively. But you've got togive Fort Chiswell credit. They cameout in the second half and showedsome guts. They forced some tur-novers and the kid kicked a coupleof field goals which won the ballgame," he added.

Martin felt that his team wasn'tmentally ready to play football, andthat was the reason for their sloppyfirst half of play. "I think we werestill a little down from last week,and we didn't have that great aweek at practice either. I thoughtthere for a while,that there were,impostors in our uniforms when wefirst came out."

"I think the one phase that wewon outright was the kicking game.We changed some people around onour kickoff and punt teams, and Ithought we got much better cover-age. And it looks like it paid off,"Martin added.

The Indians returned four kickoffsfor a total of eight yards, and retur-ned five punts for 25 yards.

A: major :backbreaker -for RuralRetreat was also penalties, as theyhad 10 penalties totaling 80 yardscompared, to four penalties for 20yards by the Pioneers.

"I'm real pleased with them. Ithink that the win will be a confi-dence builder. I think they showed alot of guts by coming back, especially

conversion attempt and the scorewas 18-7.

Petersburg got back into the fraywith a 77-yard drive following thekickoff behind the. running of Epps.Edwin Coleman scored from 11yards but on a sweep to cut histeam's deficit to 18-14 at the half.

, The Crimso.n Wave appeared tohave taken control of the game fol-lowing the second half kickoff whenit moved 74 yards in a time consum-ing 16-play, eight and a half minutemarch which finally ended whenColeman scored from the two to putPetersburg up 21-18. Only 3:30 re-mained in the third quarter and theCougars hadn't touched the ball yetin the second half.

But on first down following thekickoff Sheppard rolled left andfound Hoback down the seam for 19yards. Three plays later he found.Hoback open on an out pattern. Thejunior tight end slipped a tackle at-tempt and sped down the right hash.He got an excellent block from widereceiver Angelo Webb and scoredfrom 63 yards out. A fumble foiledthat" extra point attempt, but Pula-ski County was back on top in quickfashion, 24-21. .

The Cougar defense then came tolife and stuffed Petersburg at itsown 19. Following the punt, theCougars moved 49 yards in sevenplays. A Henley gallop of 24 yards tothe 10 setup the score. It came whenHendricks broke outside to scorefrom the eight. Finally, Powellkicked a conversion for the final31-21 margin of victory.

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Allison captures first pole at new RIRRICHMOND (AP) — Davey All-

ison, leading a contingent of Forddrivers who made successful runs,turned a fast lap of 122.850 mphSaturday, to grab the pole for theMiller 400, the first Winston Cupevent at the new Richmond Interna-tional Raceway,

"I'm psyched up, pumped up, anx-ious. I want to go racing," Allisonsaid after his effort on the onlythree-quarter-mile track on NAS-GAR's Winston Cup circuit.

Allison, the 1987 rookie of theyear, edged out Alan Kulwicki forthe top spot. Kulwicki, who tookboth poles in 1987 at the old Rich-mond half-mile oval, posted a speedof 122.338.

Starting in the second row inSunday's 400-lap race will be Bill El-liott, the leader in this ;year's seasonpoints race, and Mark Martin.

,' The top four starters all driveFord Thunderbirds.

"I guess we were all,just lucky,"

Allison said.Darrell 'Waltrip, in -a Chevrolet

Monte Carlo, was the only other-driver to break the 122-mph markand will start fifth.

Rounding out the top 10 will beMike Alexander, Rick Wilson, KenSchrader, Rusty Wallace and Mi-chael Waltrip.

jTwortime defending Winston Cupchampion Dale Earnhardt will start19th after a fast lap of only 120.622.

The entire 36-car field was set inSaturday's time trials. The rain thatwashed out Friday's scheduled firstround of qualifying gave way Satur-day to sunny skies and tempera-tures in the 80s!

Richmond's new track. was builtafter the Pontiac 400 in February.Minutes after that race ended,workers began 'tearing up the sur-face, and less than seven monthslater, the new layout was ready for.racing. . •-•• . . '

The new track is in the shape of a

rounde'd-off "D" and is 60 feet wide,has an 860-foot-long backstretch

-and is banked 14 degrees in theturns.

Allison said he planned to stay atthe track Saturday afternoon andwatch a 200-lap Busch GrandNational race to see how thosedrivers run the first race on the newlayout. .

"I feel like it will be an advantageto see what's going on,", said Allison,who needs to win $5,015 on Sundayto surpass the $1 million mark incareer winnings faster than has everbeen done before. The race will behis 52nd.

"I feel like we've got a pretty goodidea of what's going to happen," he'said."It looks like you'll probablyhave to go outside to pass. I don'tthink anybody's .going to give youthat inside groove.'' ' ,

Most of the 43 drivers who at-tempted to qualify were riding onHoosier Tires, which are in theirfirst' year of Winston Cup competi-tion. But many of the drivers alsoindicated they would switch to Goo-dyear tires early in Sunday's race iiiorder to increase long-term traction'.

"There still is a lot of questions upin the air about what's going to be.the best way to go," Allison said.

Elliott said the Hoosiers were apopular qualifying tire because theyseem to provide; good traction for abrief period.

-̂"If you missed the first time, yoursecond lap wouldn't help," he said,"Tires go away that fast."

All 53,103 seats have been sold forSunday's race, which will be tele-vised live by WTBS beginning at 1p.m. EOT. :

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standing Cougar teams_in_thepast, but it's obvious to me thatthe gap is lessening, and it's.do-ing so at a rapid rate. Again, thequestion is when will the im-proving factor lessen?

How many games will thisteam win? Can it be a major fac-tor in the Roanoke Valley Dis-trict? Could it possibly contendfor a playoff bid?

Those are often asked ques-tions in Pulaski County everyfootball season, and those an-swers aren't available yet, but atthe very least, this Cougar team.has already .proven it will benothing less than a substantialopponent.

since we're playing a county rivalryaway from home," Martin con-cluded.

Barnes led the Pioneers.in rush-ing for ihe second week in a rowwith 67 yards off 25 carries. Free-man completed four of eight passesfor 80"yards, while Burnett was two-for-two on field goal attempts. He is(.now three-for-four on the season.

NEW YORK (AP) — Steffi Graf,overcoming a shaky second set, wonthe first Grand Slam in 18 years bybeating Gabriela Sabatini 6-3, 3-6,,6-1 in the U.S. Open women's finalSaturday.

The West German became thefirst player to sweep the Australian,Fren.cn, Wimbledon and U.S. cham-pionships in the same year sinceMargaret Court in 1970.

"I'm very thrilled. It's a veryhappy feeling at this moment," saidGraf, who ran over to the stands to

hug her parents': and her coach,Pavel Slozil,' after the match. .

"Everybody had been telling mehow tough the last tournamentwould be. I wasn't nervous, but Iwas tight."

Graf, 19, is the second youngestplayer to win the Grand Slam.Maureen Connolly was 18 when shewon -the four major titles in 1953.The only other Slam winners wereDon Budge in 1938 and Rod Laverin 1962 arid 1969.

Budge, 73, attended Saturday'smatch and kissed Graf during theawards ceremony.

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