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By DAVID BULLA
Chronicle Sports Editor
Rodney McKoy had wanted to
say something publicly for a
.while.
McKoy, who was Carver's
; leading tackier last season despite
the presence of future Division
1-A college players Ray Agnew,
Fernando Horn and Derrick Debnam,
felt the Yellow Jackets
would be a hit without that
talented trio. Last Friday night's
:l2-0 shutout of Parkland did
nothing to dispute McKoy's
belief.
The all-county halfback rushed
for 105 yards on 17 carries and
scored the game's lone
' touchdown on a three-yard carry
as the Jackets ran their record to
2-0. He and his teammates were
; operating the wing-T offense like
it was their own invention. The
Yellow Jackets, who ran the
I-formation last season, totaled
,180 yards on the ground and 86
through the air in corraling the
Friday's Games
Mount Tabor at Carver
Glenn at West
North at Parkland
Reynolds at East
Mustangs in the first-ever
jneeting between the two high
schools. McKoy came away voic
ing a mighty high opinion of the
wing-T.
4 The wing-T is an awesome offense,"
McKoy said. "If you can
-get it going good, it's pretty hard
to defense. Winston-Salem State
;has showed that the last few
:years."
: Coach Jim Bovender, who got
^offseason assistance in learning
the nuances of the formation
;from WSSU's Bill Hayes, said he
;was proud of the offensive line
fo^ learning the wing-T so fast.
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"Not only has the offensive
line been trying to figure out
what we are trying to do with the |
wing-T, but they also had to learn ?
how to block a 40 defense," Ij
Bovender said. "Parkland pro- &
bably has the only 40 we'll see
and we spent a lot of time on it
this week."
Keith Holland, Carver's offen- fil
sive line coach and an all
America at WSSU last year, said
the hard work paid off.
"I've been pushing them hard I
in practice," Holland said.
"We're not real big (averaging I
214 pounds across the front), but I
you don't have to be real big in
high school to run this thing Ci
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Holland singled out the play of tm
senior tackle Darryl Young. The I
5-foot-ll, 231-pound Young P
graded out the highest in each of
Carver's first two games, including
the 10-7 win over North
Surry two weeks ago.
"There's a lot of finesse blocking
in the wing-T," Holland continued.
"It's not straight-ahead
blocking, but angle blocking."
Parkland had superior size on
the line entering the game, but
Steve Brown (6-4, 286) and James
Dematrakis (6-0, 267) were injured,
while linebacker Jacques
Bitting (6-4, 210) was knocked
out by a thigh injury. i
rarKiand Coach Homer
Thompson said the injuries made
it difficult for his team to mount
a comeback.
"We don't have the depth,"
said Thompson, who lost his first h<
intra-city game in three years. ta
"We have a lot of two-way T
players. When one is hurt, like ei
Jacques, that's two positions that
have to be filled." w
Mark "Fuzzy" Dunlap also T
was in and out of the game with it
leg cramps. Dunlap was
Parkland's leading tackier, but pi
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Last Week's Results
Wwt 9, East 6; Carver 12, Parkland 0;
Sltftn 7, Reynolds 0; Mount Tabor 21.
North 3.
Friday's tomes
Norm at Parkland; Glenn at Wast; Mount
Tabor at Carver; Reynolds at East;
Greensboro Smith at Greensboro
Dudley; lea County at Greensboro Page.
2 never got untracked at the
lilback position. As a result,
hompson experimented with
ght different backs.
"We never had a tailback and
e didn't have a fullback,"
hompson said. "There's not
luch you can do.
"But that's no excuse. Carver
layed well and we fielded too
5WEEK
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College Footbqll
Opening
By DAVID BULLA
Chronicle Sports Editor
What a difference a year
makes.
Winston-Salem State didn't
take kindly to last season's 17-7
opening-game loss at Virginia
State, routing the Trojans 44-7
last Saturday night at Bowman
Gray Stadium.
After playing listlessly in the
near-100 degree heat and
100-percent humidity in Ettrick,
Va., last September, the Rams
were in mid-season form on a
comfortable, late-summer evening
this time around. Thev
streaked to a 30-0 half time lead
and were never seriously
challenged. 1 j
The manner in which WSSU
whipped his team impressed
Virginia State Coach George
Moody.
"We got a good, old-fashioned
butt-kicking," Moody said.
"Winston-Salem is one precision
ball-moving machine. That's the
best I've seen Winston-Salem execute
this early in a season."
Moody was not perturbed with
the manner in which WSSU conducted
the rout, giving firststring
players plenty of playing
time. ^
"I'm like Billy Hayes,"
Moody said. "When you are able
to put points on the board, you
put points on the boards."
Hayes said his team well
remembered that VSU inflicted
one of only two blemishes on the
Rams' 198S record. He said his
team was not going to hold back
once it was going.
"1 wanted to, do everything 1
could do no matter what type of
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West 1 0 0 2 0 0
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S.Rowan 0 0 0 1 v 0 0
Davie Co 0 0 0 1 0 0
Parkland 0 0 0 0 1 0
N. Daudsn 0 0 0 0 1 0
Reynolds 0 1 0 0 2 0
Last WNk't ftttufli
Mount Tabor 21, North 3; Carver 12,
Parkland 0; Glenn 7, Reynolds 0; West
9, East 6; South Rowan 34, West Rowan
13; Lexington 28, North Davidson 14;
KannapoJIs Brown 7. StatesvWe 6.
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East; North at Parkland; Glenn at West;
Statesviite at Oevfe County; Concord at
Kannapofls Brown; North Devideon it
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many kids who had little varsity
game experience."
Meanwhile. Bovender's team
had big incentive to show well
against the Mustangs, who
posted an 11-2 record en route to
a quarterfinal berth in the state
playoffs last season. Coming off
a 7-3 season with Agnew & Co.
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game,'* said Hayes, who admitted
to being surprised at the extent
of the rout. 'There's no love
lost between us and them. This
was no charitv affair. Th*?v tallr.
ed about it (VSU's '85 win) all
year."
Sophomore quarterback Bobby
Junior, senior halfback
Leonardo Horn and senior
linebacker Johnny Cole saw to it
that this season opener would be
anything'but a close game. Junior
completed six of eight passes for
117 yards and two touchdowns,
including a 44-yarder to wide
receiver Masha Paul and a nineyarder
to halfback Lonnie
Pulley. All of his passing came in
the first half.
As for the ground attack, Horn
ran over the Trojans' young
defensive line for 71 yards and
two touchdowns on 14 carries.
Meanwhile, WSSU's defense
limited Virginia State to 146
yards. The Trojans only crossed
midfield once in the first half and
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only twice in the second half. If
not for Von Allen, who produced
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By DAVID BULLA
! Chronicle Sports Editor
Leonardo Horn formally
met Alan Hooker at the EastWest
All-Star football game
in July and the two will meet
again Saturday in
Greensboro.
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meeting,
at Greensboro's
Jamieson
Stadium,
was amiablrrnnn^h
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They talked
about how MH
eager they M
were to
start the
season, WJ I
about
Horn's
younger rfltt'
brother
Fernando.
a high
school all- 17 of 20 in A
America who was playing in
the All-Star game.
But matters will be different
Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
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Winston-Salem State's
fullback, and Hooker, North
Carolina A&T's quarterback,
will be searching for ways to
beat one another.
Horn, for one, has a good
idea what it will take for the
Rams to win in this meeting
of arch-rivals.
"We have to keep Hooker
off the field as much as
possible," the former East
Forsyth star'said. "So we
hope to ground it out."
undups,
lumns and profiles.
a surprise
42 percent of VSU's offensive
I total, it would have been a longer
night.
The Ram defense was led by
end Donald Evans, who had
three quarterback sacks among
11 tackles. Strong safety Derrick
Beasley had nine tackles and an
interception.
As it frequently does, WSSU*s
defense got into the scorina act.
Linebacker Johnny Cole intercepted
a Marshall Trotter pass
in the second quarter and returned
it 25 yards for a touchdown.
I Hayes, cautious in recent
weeks about how his team would
fare against a challenging earlyseason
schedule, said he was surprised
with the outcome.
"I thought it would be a close
ballgame," said Hayes, whose
team was ranked eighth in last
week's Sheridan black ml 1m*
poll. "But we did a lot of hitting
in preseason. That really paid
off. We played well in each area,
offense, defense and the kicking
game."
The Rams' offensive front
surged off the line like a National
Football League unit. The wingT
offense totaled 432 yards, including
276 on the ground. Four
backs had more than 40 yards
rushing,. including Horn, backup
quarterback Dana Walker (62
yards), Pulley (46) and fullback
Leroy Wonsley (42).
All in all, it was a nice balance
of scoring: three rushing TDs,
two passing, one defensive and a
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Tyrone Smith.
It was a far cry from last year,
when the Rams managed a single
short scoring drive that was set
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tdship aside
to A&T Saturday
The Rams can run with the
best of them out of their
wing-T offense. They rushed
for 276 yards on 54 carries in
last Saturday night's 44-7 win
over Virginia State. Last
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tral Intercollegiate Athletic
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with
215.2 yards
per game
on the
ground.
"Our
offensive
line looked
pretty
good,"
" said Horn,
who had
71 yards
and two
touchdowns
on
14 carries.
"We did
SO gOC>d
that our
ATs opener Stakes
were overshadowed by what
we did right."
Slowing down Hooker is
another thing. The junior
quarterback opened the new
season with a 17-of-20 passing
night for 194 yards and
four touchdowns in a 50-0
Aggie win at Fayetteville
State last week. He threw
scoring tosses of 33 and 22
yards to Anthony Best and .
two of 18 yards to Herbert
Harbison, a preseason Sporting
Sews all-America.
Hooker, who has never
beaten the Rams, said the
Aggies have plenty of incenPlease
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