THOMASVILLE TIMES
Right at Home
Denny Hamlin wins at home
track in Richmond.
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Sports
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,2010
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DCCC hoops release schedule
Calendar
TODAY
Cross Country
CCC Meet
. @ Salisbury
5 p.m. ,
Golf
Ledford
@ N. Davidson
4 p.m.
Tennis
E. Davidson
©Thomasville
4:30 p.m.
Tennis
Wheatmore
. @ Ledford
4:15 p.m.
Volleyball
C. Davidson
©Thomasvilie
5 p.m.
Volleyball
Lexington
@ E. Davidson
4:30 p.m.
Volleyball
Ledford
@ So. Guilford
6 p.m.
Volleyball
DCCC
@ Wake Tech
7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Soccer
E, Davidson
@ Ledford
7 p.m.
Tennis
W. Davidson
@ E. Davidson
4:30 p.m.
Tennis
Ledford
@ N. Forsyth
4:30 p.m.
Volleyball
Salisbury
@ Thomasville
4:30 p.m.
Game Report
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BYZACH KEPLEY
Sports Editor
Davidson County Community College released its
2010-11 basketball schedule last week, and it is just
as grueling as the Storm faced last season.
DCCC win be challenged right from the onset, with
12 of their 30 regular season games coming
in the month of November.
“November is slam-packed with games,”
said head coach Matt Ridge. “We have two
games in there that will really test us. Vance-
Granville (Nov. 6) is a good Division II (NJ-
CAA) opponent and obviously Carolina
(UNC JV @ Dean E. Smith Center) Nov. 28
wm be tough.”
The 2009-10 edition of the Storm found out just
how tough the early slate can be. Davidson started
the season rocky with a 2-3 mark, but through hard
work and adjustments, DCCC would later win 21
consecutive games. Along the way they captured
the Tarheel Conference crown, a district title, and
earned a berth into the national tournament.
“Hopefully, we can learn from these games early
on like we did last year,” said Ridge.
DCCC was able to run the table in conference play
securing a perfect league mark last season, but du
plicating that performance should be a little more
difficult. Caldwell Community College and Sandhills
Community College are two that stand out
to Ridge, but any of the teams in the league
are capable of winning on any given night.
“Every game will be tough because every
body in our league is Working harder and
recruiting harder,” Ridge said. “Our league
seems to be improving every year, and since
we have won the league three years in a row,
we are going to get everyone’s best shot. We cannot
take any nights off.”
Justin Glover and Kimani Hunt are the only two
returning players, so the Storm will be extremely
young to start the campaign. Both were starters
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SPRINT CUP SERIES
Hamlin
shines at
Richmond
NASCARMedia.com
RICHMOND, Va. —
Denny Hamlin won again
at what he calls his “home
track” on the NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series circuit
Saturday night — the .75-
mUe Richmond Interna
tional Raceway
The Virginia native
from Chesterfield fought
off numerous challenges
from Jimmy Johnson,
Clint Bowyer and Kyle
Busch to win the last
event before NASCAR’s
10-race version of a play
off begins next Sunday
at New Hampshire Motor
Speedway.
The victory was Ham
lin’s second at his home-
state track and his se
ries-leading sixth of the
season, which gives him
the top seed for the play
off races.
Twelve drivers qualify
for the playoffs and then
points are recalculated
beginning at New Hamp
shire. Each of the 12 driv
ers get 5,000 points plus 10
bonus points for each win
this season. Hamlin’s six
wins put him atop the list
with 5060 points. Jimmie
Johnson, who finished
third Saturday night, is
seeded second with five
wins, for 5050 points.
Kyle Busch, runner-up
Saturday night, will be
seeded fourth. Regular-
season points leader
See HAMLIN, Pages
Above, Clint Bowyer leads
Denny Hamlin through
the turn. Bowyer filled
the final spot in the Chase
field.
At left, Virginia native
Hamlin celebrates his win
in Victory Lane.
GEHY IMAGES
Big plays causing problems for Blue Devils
BY STEVE WISEMAN
Durham Herald Sun
Failing to stop the op
position continues to
cause major problems
for Duke football.
With top-ranked Ala
bama coming to Wallace
Wade Stadium this Sat
urday, the Blue Devils
are looking for serious
answers.
On the way to a 54-48
win with 500 yards of
offense. Wake Forest
torched the Blue Devils
for large chunl^? of yard
age at a time.
The Demon Deacons
had touchdown plays
covering 81 and 28 yards
plus two more covering
23 yards. Wake Forest
averaged 4.3 yards per
carry with quarterback
Ted Stachitas gaining
a team-best 77 yards on
nine carries (8.6 aver
age) despite not playing
after halftime due to a
hand injury.
Wake Forest threw for
271 yards on 13 comple
tions, a healthy 12.8
yards per completed
pass.
Duke coach David Cut-
cliffe doesn’t think his
defense was whipped at
the line of scrimmage.
But Instead he said the
Devils just failed to make
the plays.
“I thought we had
pretty solid match-ups
there,” Cutcliffe said.
“We showed up and we’d
have a head down the
guy would run by us. It
was kind of a unique
thing.”
Duke had similar prob
lems against Elon in a
season-opening 41-27
win, albeit on a smaller
scale. Elon averaged
nearly six yards a rush.
Wake Forest compound
ed the problem, scoring
35 first-half points and
tacking on three second-
half touchdowns that
made the difference.
“They ran a lot of dif
ferent looks, different
sets and different per
sonnel groupings,” Duke
linebacker Abraham
Kromah said. “They
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Wake nips
Duke in
offensive
battle
BY STEVE WISEMAN
Durham Herald Sun
WINSTON-SALEM
— On a day when the
offenses threatened to
overwhelmBB&TField’s
score-
board, the
Duke Blue
Devils feu
a single
touch
down
short.
In a record-setting
game. Wake Forest ran
up 500 total yards of of
fense against an over
matched Blue Devils
defense, extending its
winning streak over
Duke to 11 games with
a wild 54-48 win in the
ACC opener for both.
The teams set a stadi
um record for the most
combined points (102),
and the output was the
second highest in ACC
history in a league
game. Only Wake’s 82-24
loss to Clemson in 1981
had more, but not by
much.
Wake Forest (2-0, 1-
0) tied a school record
with 28 second-quarter
points, which aUowed
it to overcome the fleet
ing 14-7 lead Duke (1-1,
0-1) had built after one
quarter.
“It’s always a shootout
with Duke,” said Wake
Forest redshirt senior
Marshall Williams, a
Riverside High School
graduate. “I’m glad we
came out with the win.”
WUllams played a big
part with two touch
down catches and also
completed an 81-yard
strike on a trick play in
the second quarter.
Duke’s offense nearly
matched the Demon
Deacons, amassing 487
yards behind another
stellar day from Sean
Renfree. The redshirt
sophomore quarterback
completed 28 of 44 pass
es for 358 yards and four
touchdowns.
He was let down,
though, by a receiv
ing corps that dropped
eight passes. Two of
the drops, one by all-
ACC receiver Donovan
Varner and another by
senior Austin Kelly, fell
into the hands of Wake
Forest defenders for two
of Renfree’s three inter
ceptions.
“They would have
been tough catches,”
said Duke receiver Con
ner Vernon, who caught
eight passes for 181
yards and two touch
downs. “But he hit them
in the hands. We have
good receivers. We’ve
got to make the plays on
the ball.”
Said Kelly, whose mis-
play gave Wake posses
sion at the Duke 16 and
led to an easy second-
quarter touchdown: “It
was a lack of focus. I’ve
got to make that play
right there.”
Still, it’s hard to fault
an offense that turned
in such a terrific per
formance, even with the
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