.THE SOUTHWEST TIMES, t?ULASKI, VA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2,1988-PAGE B1

Pulaski Co. comes from behind to win, 17-13BYDANCALLAHAN

. -SOTl.Spprts_Editor

r Pulaski County High School over-came a first half of disappointmentto rally in the second and defeatFranklin County at home Friday;IT-IS.; . : . . ' - • - . -

The victory evened the Cougars'overall record on the season at 3-3,and.1-1 in the Roanoke Valley Dis-

••.'••• trict.The loss dropped the Eagle to2-3,0-1. ,

Butnothing has come easy for thisPCHS team that found itself behind13-7 at the half after being throttledby crucical penalties and a fumble inthe. first..two quarters. In theLfirstquarter a 36-yard touchdown run bytailback Kirk Hendricks was called

'back for holding. ;"I have to admit; at the half for a

moment. I wondered what else couldhappen bad -to these kids," saidPCHS head coach Joel Hicks.

"But I want to say I'm very, veryproud of this team. I'm proud be-cause of its attitue. We could havesaid what's the use, but we didn't.Our kids wanted it. We went backout in the second half and blocked'em. We tackled 'em hard. Our spe-cial teams played well. Our backsran hard. We didn't lose it'thistime.'.".we won it!".

The first big play was a blockedpunt by Jon Henley. Then the Cou-gars scored on a 13-yard end-aroundreverse run by Joey Davis on fourthand five. The Cougars drove againbehind the inside running of JohnStigger, and B.C. Clark gave Pula-ski County its final margin of vic-tory with a 25-yard field goal with7:23. to play.

It was virtually .a perfect half offootball for the Cougars.

"I give all the credit to the kids,and my eoaching staff," said Hicks.

. "They won this game, I didn't. Itwould be nice to say we had an emo-

naff phnio by Rnh Minns'—tiojial experience or something like

blackboard with our coaches. Wewere trying to figure out how to stop_'em. After we decided on a couple ofthings, there wasn't much time loft.Mentally, the kids got themselvesready. I talce no credit for that at

:all." ' " • ! ' , _ • . . " _ ' . ' "Hicks was only pleased with his

team's performance."Except for the scoreboardy and a

couple of minutes, in the secondquarter, we controlled the game. Wedid a lot of good things the first half,but didn't get much for it. Our de-fense, except, for a couple of lapses,played well again. In the secondhalf, we took it to 'em up front. We,were a_veryLgood_team ̂ at Jtimes out

Please see COUGARS, page 65^' ' ' - : . • . • . • • • ' • ' . •„_• B

StatSheet. , . ,

Scoring Summary ,FCHS 0 13 0 0 13PCHS 0 7 7 3 17

FCHS - East 1-run (Trotter Kick)PCHS'•• Webb 36-pass from Shop-

pard (Clark Kick)FCHS • McDaniel 53'Pass from East

(PAT Kick Blocked) • ;PCHS-Davis 13-run (Clark Kick)

PCHS9'.'.;-, •33-1625-2-055217113

•5-34.63-16-35

Pulaski County split end Joey Davis is estatic after his 13-yard touch down runthat during the half, but we didn't, ispent almost.the whole time at the

F)r»t DownsRushes-YardsPaswingA-C-iPassing Yds.Total Yds.Return Yd*.Pimta-Avg. ,Fumbleu-lostPenalties-Yds.

FCHS•9 '29-7218-6-0131203518-29.00-01-1

Individual StateRustlingFCHS -East, 8-4; Martin, 17-50;

McOariiel 8-18 'PCHS -Stigger, 12-79, rtendricks,

10-39; Sheppard, 10-31; Davis, 1-13.PassingFCHS -East, 6-18-0,131.PCHS -Sheppard, 2-5-0,55.Receiving . .FCHS -Quirm, 1-5; Grubb, 1-31;

McDanisI, 1-53, McCiiukard, 2^PGHS "Stigger, 1-19; Webb, 1-36.

Spirited Tech upset bid falls short, 22-10

Locker RoomDan Callahan

There is noquit in theseCougars either

At halftime Friday night PulaskiCounty football fans had to be won-dering what could happen next.

If ever a Cougar football teamover the past 10 years needed abreak, or a decent bounce once in awhile, it's this one.

But a quick reflection back overthe first two quarters was disturb-ing as PCHS continued to suffer dis-appointment. It seemed that justwhen something good happened,immediately thereafter somethingbad followed.

In the first quarter Cougar tail-back Kirk Hendricks breaks for 36yards to the end zone. It's calledback...holding.

Early in the second quarter JoeyDavis returns a punt 14 yards to theFranklin County 31..,but fumbles.

On its next possession PCHSmoves to a third down and seven.Tommy Sheppard completes a passto wide receiver Angelo Webb for afirst down at the Eagle 27, butnope...backfield in motion.

Then after finally making a bigplay that counted to tie the gamelate in the half, Franklin scores on a"Hail Mary" pass from 53 yards out, ..and the Eagles lead at the half,13-7...geez.

But with all the misfortune suf-fered Friday night, and in previous,games as well, this Pulaski Countyteam is exactly the same in one re-spect as those before it.,.-it does notquit.

This version of the Cougars,though somewhat smaller, shorter,and slower than some before it cameback in the second half to win, andkept a tradition alive. That traditionbeing just because you're ahead ofPCHS in County Stadium at the halfdoes not necessarily mean you're go-ing to win.

Please see LOCKER ROOM, page B5

By DAVID J.BISSETNew River Valley Staff

BLACKSBURG-Seventh rankedWest Virginia nearly self-destructedagainst unranked Virginia Techhere Saturday afternoon before aLane Stadium sell-out crowd of50,231.

West Virginia, now undefeated infive games, had six turnovers andwere penalized 13 times for 107.yards. Yet, the Mountaineers man-aged to grind out 346 rushing yardsand 518 total yards in their 22-10victory. ;

"It's unbelievable," said WVUcoach Don Nehlari afterwards."There were just too many flags, butboth teams had to play with thesame flags (officials)."

Virginia Tech, which fell to 1-4,had several chances to upset theMounties, but couldn't quite pull itoff.

"We played hard, very hard. Wejust didn't play well enough to win.Our defense really left it out thereon the field. It was a magnificienteffort," said Va. Tech Coach FrankBeamer.

"Our problem was, we just didn'texecute as well as we should have,especially on third down situations,"added Beamer.

Va. Tech, (which had no field posi-tion in the first quarter despite JohnGranby's interception at the 7:18mark to stop a WVU drive on theHokie 18, almost scored a touch-down when tailback AnthonyBrown, who led all rushers with 191yards on 23 attempts, fumbled andDon Stokes of the Hokies recoveredat the Tech 46 with 10:16 remainingin the second period.

Staff photo by Bob Nines

Please see HOKIES; page B3 West Virginia fullback Craig Taylor prances into the end zone for game's first touchdown

Nehlen...'West Virginia won. That's the bottom line'BYDANCALLAHANSWT Sports Editor .

BLACKSBURG" For a teamthat had just won a football game22-10 the West Virginia Universitylocker room was not a joyous loca-tion Saturday afternoon. The Moun-taineers, the seventh ranked teamin the nation are 5-0, but mostlyhead coach Don Nehlen wanted totalk about three things.

1- Virginia Tech's spirited effort.2- His teams turnovers. 3- How thegame was officiated.

"First, I wanted to credit Tech forits effort," said Nehlen. "They reallycame after us. I think they are a bet-ter team than their record indicates.They've played a tough schedule. I

don't know about the Southern Missthing, but losing to this team, Clem-son, and Syracuse is nothing to beashamed of. Coach (Frank) Beamer

. had his team well prepared to playtoday. I'm not sure what happenedto mine. West Virginia was just anaverage team today. This was notour best team. Maybe we'll get backto being that next week."

The Mountaineers made nu-merous big plays throughout thegame in Lane Stadium, but wereguilty of six turnovers.

"It's amazing to me how we evenwon," said Nehlen who was likelyblowing a little smoke with thatstatement. "We turn the ball overthat many times and get penalizedover 100 yards. We made a lot of

good plays, but we made some badplays. I don't think it was necessar-ily a bad effort, but we were notsharpe. We may have played fairlyhard, but we didn't play good."

And the officiating. The • Moun-taineers were penalized 13 times forminus 107 yards.

"Geez" said Nehlen. "I reallydidn't expect the officating to be thatgood in the first place down here,but certainly not like this. The offi-ciating just didn't hurt us from ayardage standpoint. We didn't lose afumble in the second quarter thatthey said we did, and we intercepteda pass in the second half and theysaid we didn't.

"But I just felt the game was offi-cated poorly overall. It hurt Tech

too. I still don't know why theycalled their touchdown pass back inthe second quarter (illegal shift wasthe call). Once we got a first down,had broken the huddle and werecalling signals for the next play, andthey had to stop the game becausethey forgot to move the chains.There were just too many flags...itwas crazy. The wanted to make it soneither team could play."

Nehlen also wonders if somethingabout Lane Stadium bothers histeam. •

"We never play well here. I don'tknow why. If I dull would fix it. Buthell, the biggest margin of victorywe've ever had down here was 16-6.Gracious, would you believe it? Weimproved...holy cow...strike up the

band again!"Still, WVU now leads the series

between the two schools 23-10-1 andhas • won seven of the last eightgames over the Hokies. Tech lastwon in 1980, has never beaten theMountaineers in Morgantown, andmust travel there next year.

"That's the one thing we have toremember. West Virginia did notlose a football game today It won,and is now 5-0," said Nehlen.

"What the hell, we took their bestshot and came out on top. Our de-fense played well and we gainedover 500 yards, and we won. That'sthe bottom line," said Nehlen.

"Let's put it this way. A bad team

Please see WVU, page 83

THE SOUTHWEST TIMES, PULAlsKI, VA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2,1988-PAGE B5

Continued from page B1there tonight. When you've got goodkids, they will keep trying untilsomething good happens, and I'vesaid it before, and I'm saving itagain now, we've got good kids," saidHicks.

It appears the Cougars were goingto get on the board first and for vir-tually the entire first half had excel-lent field position. Then Hendricks

-bfeke his run on-PCHS's4hird-pos—session of the game only to haVe itcalled back. .

Davis then lost the handle on apunt return that would have giventhe Cougars a first down at theFranklin 31. That was followed by athird down pass completion from

wihgback Travis McDaniel cutacross the field and back.toward theaerial while Cougars searched invain for the flying pigskin. McDanielcaught the pass at about .the 10,'shook free of a tackle attempt, andalmost unbelieveably stumbled intothe end zone with 12 seconds left onthe clock. Pulaski County's ToddWade blocked thereon version kick,and the Cougars were down by six at

Tommy Sheppard to wide receiverAngelo Webb for a first down at theEagle 27, but motion in the backrfield nullified that effort too.

At that juncture, Jianklin Countygots its offense cijanked up for thefirst and really only time in thegame. „ ,

Tailback Chris Martin ran twicefor a first down at 42. Dean East, Jr.hit Tim Belcher with a 31-yard passto the PCHS 24, and Martin rackedoff 17 more off the right side for afirst and goal at the seven. On thirddown East sneaked over from-the^one and the. Eagles went up 7-0 withonly 2:01 left in the half.

But the fireworks were just be-ginning as 20 points would be scoredin the last 121 seconds of the secondquarter. -

Following-the kickoff Sheppardkept off the option for 14 yards. Hethen hit John Stigger out of the

,; hackfield with a pass than went for19 yards to the Franklin 36. Twoplays later Sheppard nailed Webbon a quick slant pass over themiddle/He slipped free of a tackleattempt and sped 36 yards to pay-dirt for his first career touchdown.

But on Franklin's first possessionof the third quarter Henley blockedthepunt.

"The call was for my side of thedefensive line to rush the punter,"said Henley. "Todd (Wade) almostgot the ball too. The guy trying to

score was double sevens with, only24 seconds left in the half.

But a flubbed kickoff attemptgave Franklin the ball at the 47.East 'dropped back to pass andthrew far down the right hash.~ Hispass was under-thrown, but Eagle

block me just barely bumped me as Iwent by. It wasn't milch of a block.'Ithink maybe he .didn't think I wasgoing to rush that hard."

Henley's effort gave the Cougars afirst down at the Eagles' 18. Threeplays later it was fourth and five atthe 13. At that point the surpriseplay call of the game took placewhen Davis received a pitch fromSheppard on the reverse, got anexcellent block from tackle CurtisTurner, and scored. Clark's pat putPCHS on top for good, 14-13. .

__ The reverse was not the play theEagles expected, butjhe most sur-prised person in County Stadiummay have been the guy who scoredthe touchdown.

"I took the play in from thebench," said Davis. "I was very sur-prised when coach Hicks told me theplay. But I was happy it was mynumber. Curtis gave me the greatblock. It was a thrill for me, and Ithink a great call by coach Hicks." '

Also, from that point on, the Cou-gar defense roared. Jeremy Smith,Brad Smith, Turner, and Wademade contact with Eagle runners

jjme_and_ again .behind Jhe linej 6f_scrimmage. In the second half,Franklin managed only three firstdowns, and 45 total yards, and twoof the first downs, and 30 of theyards came in the final minute.

- • tf

Pulaski County finished with 215total yards. After carrying the mail

only twice the first half, Stigger fin-ished with 79_yards _rushing_on_12 _|carries, and it was he wruTled'Tvsurge through the gut of a tirecTEagle defense' on a drive from theCougar 32 to the Eagle nine, Stiggerhad runs of three, six, 34, and six onthe seven-play march. On fourthdown, Clark . was perfect, withthree-pointer from 25 yards out forthe final 17-13 margin.

'The Blocked punt was crucial,"said Franklin coach Dean East. "Wedidn't have good field positonrthe se-cond half! Pulaski County did a goodjob along the line, and they wereable to move the ball the third quar-ter, and that's to their credit. Theiroffensive line came off the ball well.

TPHlaski County fr* good team. They-got real physical the second half.The 53-yard pass for-the touch-

down was a big play for us. McDan-iel saw the ball and did a good job ofcutting across the field to make thecatch. We .knew about the reverse

:play, burthey executed it well, anddid it from a spot on the field whereyou wouldn't normally expect to runthat type play. It was a good call,but we had a man oyer there. Theirtackle (Turner) took him out like hewas a blocking bag.

"I think we could have won had itnot been for the blocked punt, butcredit Pulaski County for doingwhat it had to do to win," said East,

Continued from page B1It's almost an. unbelieveable num-

ber, but for the 24th time in the pastnine and half seasons, PulaskiCounty came from behind in the se-cond half to win in County Stadium.

And it did so by making its ownbreaks, and .making big plays. Ashocking play call on fourth and fiveat thirFrTrnffirrtS-ateo played amajor roll.

It started with the first big play.With a fourth down at its own 42Franklin punted. Sophomore JonHenley broke through to block the

TrantrpickedTip-thebouncing^pigs--^-kin and ran 12 more yards to theEagle 18.

Three plays later it was third andfive at the 13. PCHS head coach JoelHicks decided against the field goal,already something out of character.

Davis took the play in from thesideline. It appeared to be option .left, but Sheppard^flipped the ball toDavis on the reverse runningtoward the right side of the field.Davis got a good block from tackle .vCurtis Turner and was southboundand down into the end zone. B. C.Clark's pat put the Cougars up forgood, 14-13.

_So_now Pulaski County is stillalive in the Roanoke Valley Districtchase. Already Cave Spring cannotgo undefeated after being defeated13-0 by Patrick Henry Friday.

So what has become a customary

happening the past nine seasonswill now occur again a lOtRTsfraighfyear. The Cougars will host WilliamFleming next Friday, and it's quitepossible the game could decide the1988 BVD championship'.

No, the record is not quite as good,but that matters little for once againPulaski County will have to be dealtwith if somebody else is going to wintheRVD.

Regardless of what the rest of theseason holds in store, that onesimple fact is very refreshing.

Little was expected from this-squadmno expectations, at least by—reasonable people. But regardless ofthe odds, a football team can alwaysfight its hardest, and after two se-ven-point defeats, and another byfour, these Cougars shoved aside thedisappointment, and for the sixthtime in 1988 gave its best effort.

After the past two weeks, particu-larly the 7-0 loss to a lesser team atCave Spring the week before, andafter the first half against Franklin,

. it would have been easy for the Cou-gars to have slumped over and saidwhat's the use.

But this young bunch hasn't quit,didn't Friday night, and won't quitin the coming weeks either.

How could one possibly expectanything more? No sir, absolutelynot. There is no quit in "Cougar-land".

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Bast Division

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