South Roundup : N. Carolina St. Has Narrow Escape

Erik Kramer completed a desperation 33-yard touchdown pass to Danny Peebles in a crowd of defenders with no time left Saturday at Raleigh, N.C., to give No. 16 North Carolina State a 23-22 victory over South Carolina.

“It’s a humbling experience to win one like that,” N.C. State Coach Dick Sheridan said of the pass. “It rarely works, but you always hope. That’s the first time we’ve ever had it work for us.”

South Carolina Coach Joe Morrison said it was his most disappointing loss and blamed the timekeeper.

“This one was taken away from us, and I feel sorry for those players in the locker room,” he said. “N.C. State was out of timeouts, and I thought we could run the clock out. They stopped the clock after Raynard Brown’s run for no reason and then just took nine seconds off. . . . It was just a very questionable clock.”

The Wolfpack (6-1-1) appeared beaten as they struggled to line up for a snap with seconds left, and South Carolina swarmed Kramer under. But the Gamecocks (2-5-1) were called offside to set up the final play.

Kramer completed 10 of 26 pass attempts for 153 yards and had 2 passes intercepted.

Todd Ellis, who completed 22 of 37 attempts for 297 yards, became South Carolina’s all-time leader in passing yardage and completions. He has 152 completions for 2,264 yards, surpassing Tommy Suggs’ marks of 136 and 2,030 yards set in 1970.

N. Carolina 32, Maryland 30--Lee Gliarmis kicked a 28-yard field goal as time expired, and the Tar Heels defeated the Terrapins in a hectic finish to an Atlantic Coast Conference game at Chapel Hill, N.C.

Maryland had taken the lead with 2:19 left on an 88-yard scoring pass from Dan Henning to junior wide receiver James Milling.

The victory was North Carolina’s first over Maryland in five tries and gave the Tar Heels a 5-2-1 record overall, 3-1 in the ACC. Maryland is 4-4 overall and 1-3 in the ACC.

Mark Maye threw two touchdown passes and scored twice, including a one-yard dive with 7:05 left as North Carolina took a 29-24 lead. The Tar Heels appeared to have the game locked up when Dan Vooletich forced a fumble at midfield, and Tim Goad recovered for North Carolina.

But after the Tar Heels failed to move the ball and punted to Maryland 12, Henning connected with James Milling on an 88-yard play with 2:19 left to give Maryland a 30-29 lead. The pass for a two-point conversion failed.

Maye drove the Tar Heels from their 20 to the Maryland 9, setting up Gliarmis’ kick.

Clemson 28, Wake Forest 20--Terrence Flagler rushed for 209 yards and 2 touchdowns and caught passes for 2 more scores as the Tigers beat the Demon Deacons in an ACC game at Winston-Salem, N.C.

Flagler had scoring runs of 88 and 50 yards in the first half. He caught touchdown passes of 39 yards and 21 yards from Rodney Williams in the second half as the Tigers improved to 6-2, 4-1 in the ACC.

The Demon Deacons fell to 4-4 and 1-4, despite two touchdowns by halfback Darryl McGill.

Georgia Tech 34, Duke 6--John Porter returned an interception 22 yards for a score, and reserve quarterback Darrell Gast threw for three touchdowns as the Yellow Jackets downed the Blue Devils in an ACC game at Atlanta.

Gast, replacing starter Rick Strom--who went out with a neck sprain in the first half--completed touchdown passes of 21 yards to Tim Manion, 17 yards to Cory Collier and 20 yards to Jerry Mays. David Bell added field goals of 43 and 37 yards for the Yellow Jackets.

Georgia Tech is 4-3-1 overall and 3-2 in the conference. The Blue Devils are 3-5 and 1-3.

William & Mary 41, Virginia 37--Kenny Lambiotte, who left the Cavaliers’ basketball program in a dispute over playing time, threw for three touchdowns and ran for two more at Charlottesville, Va., to lead the Division I-AA Indians to their first win over a I-A opponent in five years.

Lambiotte, who completed 25 of 38 attempts for 307 yards, connected on scoring pass plays of 22 yards to Harry Mehre, 13 yards to Tom Lewis and 2 yards to Dave Sydlik.

He also scored on bootleg runs of four and seven yards.

Tulane 42, SW Louisiana 39--Quarterback Terrence Jones passed for 339 yards and 2 touchdowns and rushed for 57 yards and two more scores to lead the Green Wave (3-5) at New Orleans.

Southwestern’s Patrick Broussard missed a game-tying, 40-yard field goal with 13 seconds left in the game. Southwestern is 5-3.

S. Mississippi 23, E. Carolina 21--At Greenville, N.C., Rex Banks kicked three field goals, the last a 31-yarder with no time left to give the Golden Eagles (4-4) a victory over the Pirates (1-8).