THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, October 1, 1995 TAG: 9510010202
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C6 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: FROM WIRE REPORTS
DATELINE: RALEIGH, N.C. LENGTH: Medium: 79 lines
Few people could have felt as good as Nealon Greene on Saturday. It's a sure thing no one felt any worse than Terry Harvey.
Greene answered his coach's call for mistake-free football, throwing two touchdown passes and leading Clemson to a 43-22 victory over North Carolina State.
Harvey had a bittersweet day for the fast-fading Wolfpack, setting a career single-game yardage record but tying an ACC mark for interceptions.
Prior to the game against the Wolfpack, Greene had thrown four interceptions and lost four fumbles. That drew criticism from coach Tommy West as well as an order to eliminate the errors.
Against N.C. State, Greene was 8 of 11 for 152 yards and a pair of scoring passes to Tony Horne. The Tigers (3-2, 2-2 ACC) also got two scoring runs from Raymond Priester, a touchdown dive from Emory Smith and a pair of field goals from Jeff Sauve.
``I've just got to play more effectively each week like this and not come back the next week and have a down game,'' Greene said. ``It can't be a roller-coaster game. I have to go out every game and produce.''
Greene helped Clemson produce the most points it's scored in an ACC game since 1989.
``I thought this was big for Nealon's confidence,'' West said. ``His confidence was shaken a week ago and it was obvious in practice this week. He needed to have a good game today, and today he made good decisions.''
While Clemson still can hope for a postseason invitation, N.C. State (1-4, 0-3 ACC) is off to its worst start since a 1-4 mark to open the 1971 season. The Wolfpack, whose only win this season is against Division I-AA Marshall in its opener, hadn't lost three in a row at home since 1987, and hadn't lost four in a row in six years.
Harvey threw for a career-high 395 yards and three touchdown passes. However, his six interceptions tied an ACC mark and he now has eight in his last two games. He played the whole game with a pulled groin muscle in his left leg.
``I don't know where things went wrong,'' Harvey said.
``I hurt us today. I tried to make some things happen. I made a couple of poor throws and they made a couple of nice plays. You can't do that, especially in your territory.''
Navy 30 Duke 9
DURHAM, N.C. - Chris McCoy rushed for 144 yards and one score and ran Navy's option game to near perfection as the Midshipmen snapped the Blue Devils' 20-game non-conference home winning streak.
Navy (2-2) rebounded from a six-turnover, 30-7 loss last week to Wake Forest with a ball-control offense and a defense that held Duke to minus 1 yard rushing on 24 carries through three quarters.
Duke falls to 2-3 and a return bowl trip now appears a longshot with road games remaining against No. 11 Virginia, Clemson and North Carolina. The Blue Devils' winning streak against non-ACC teams in Wallace Wade Stadium dated back to a 56-17 defeat against Miami in October 1983.
McCoy, who carried 22 times, scored on an 11-yard run in the second quarter. His 56-yard keeper helped set up Omar Nelson's second TD run of the game with 2:16 left in the third quarter for a 21-point lead. Nelson's scoring runs were 2 and 18 yards.
North Carolina 62 Ohio University 0
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Octavus Barnes had 211 receiving yards on eight catches and tied the North Carolina record with three touchdown receptions as the Tar Heels broke out of their scoring slump.
Barnes, who caught the game-winning pass in the final seconds of last week's win over Louisville, had scoring catches of 42, 56 and 23 yards as North Carolina (2-2) built a 35-point halftime lead.
It was the worst loss for the Bobcats (1-3-1) since a 72-0 drubbing to Syracuse in 1916. Meanwhile, North Carolina scored the fourth-most points in a game and most since getting a school-record 65 against Wake Forest in 1928.
Barnes' yardage was the second-highest single-game mark in school history and 11th best in the 43 years of the ACC. Randy Marriott set the Tar Heels mark of 247 yards in 1987 against Georgia Tech.
The Bobcats came into the game 11th in the nation in rushing at 249.5 yards per game, but couldn't get their option working against North Carolina's penetrating defense, ranked second in the nation. by CNB