The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 20, 1985 - Page 9 'M' tries to stop potent 'Cocks ofense By JOE EWING Michigan is in store for a good old fashion cockfight tomorrow when it travels to South Carolina for its second football game of the 1985 season. Head coach Bo Schembechler will throw his 19th-ranked Wolverines into the ring for the nationally televised contest (to be seen on ABC at 3:30 p.m.) with a scrappy, option-oriented Gamecock squad that is currently ranked 15th in the country. And the result should be quite a brawl. THE Wolverines come into the con- test flying high on last week's season- opening upset of Notre Dame. South Carolina, meanwhile, did not play last week, but already has scratched up victories against The Citadel and Ap- palachian State this year. "South Carolina is a team with a lot of enthusiasm," said Michigan assistant head coach and defensive coordinator Gary Moeller. "They live on the big plays, and they'll make them both offensively and defen- sively." The 'Cocks big plays on offense will come almost exclusively from a play that should be familiar to Michigan fans and that dominates the South Carolina playbook - the option. The 'Cocks should run the play on nearly every down they have possession, a fact that could keep Schembechler second guessing his defensive strategy all afternoon. "LET'S SAY you're playing South Carolina - well what's the pass rush going to be?" asked Schembechler. "Everything they do is going to be an option or an option fake. They're not going to back into the pocket. What do you do? Spearheading the 'Cocks offense is not one, but two fine and experienced option quarterbacks - Mike Hold and Allen Mitchell. The senior duo has vir- tually split the time at field general, unusual in practice in today's one- quarterback world. "WE play them both during the course of the game," said South Carolina head coach Joe Morrison. "We don't have any strategy, it just depends upon the feeling and the situation in the ball game. Right now Mike's going to start for us. Then we'll come with Allen somewhere. We know he's going to play, and he knows he's going to play. Exactly when is what we don't know. WHILE THE quarterback situation may seem a little unorthodox, it has been effective as Hold and Mitchell have combined in two games, this season for 145 yards and one touch- down rushing, and over 500 yards and three touchdowns passing. While run- ning the option, both Hold and Mit- chell have also set the table for run- ning backs Thomas Dendy and Kent Hagood, who have run for 147 and 126 yards on the season. "This is really a good option team," said Schembechler. "They have two great backs and they got the guys who can run the offense." Complimenting the 'Cocks back- field is an offensive line that has been somewhat of a surprise this season despite being almost completely dif- ferent from last season's front. Aside from center Leonard Burton, no star- ters returned from the 1984 season when South Carolina went 10-2 and clawed its way to the Gator Bowl. "THEY'RE young," said Morrison of his offensive front five. "But they're learning. I think the impor- tant thing is that they learn each time they go out there." The Gamecocks' offense will get an additional boost this week from Michigan's loss of linebacker Mike Mallory, who suffered a pulled ham- string in last week's game and is not expected to play. Junior Andre McIn- tyre should replace the senior captain in the Wolverine lineup. Just like on its offense, the strongpoint of the South Carolina defense is its backfield, where the 'Cocks return three of four starters from last year's squad. Featured in that secondary are All-South In- dependent strong safety Joe Brooks, as well as cornerbacks Chris Major and Otis Morris. 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(180) Greg Philpot.........(181) Joe Brooks ............ (184) Jerry Dunlap........(174) Daily Photo by DAN HABIB Linebacker Mike Mallory won't be able to do anything but stand around tomorrow because of a pulled hamstring suffered in last week's game. Today's game will begin at 3:30 p.m. EDT and can be heard on WAAM (1600 AM), WPAG (1050 AM), WWJ (950 AM), "VOM (91.7 FM), and V JJX (650 AM). The game will be televised nationally on ABC. Tigers nail sNew York's other Niekro By SCOTT SCHAEFFER Special to the Daily Detroit Tigers used their homerun swings to hammer out five round- trippers and hammer another nail in- to the New York Yankees' coffin. Darrell Evans paced the Tiger's at- tack with his 35th and 36th homers as Detroit bombed the Bombers, 10-3. THE YANKEES, who have now lost six straight games, fell 51 games behind the idle Blue Jays. Detroit ruined Joe Niekro's Yankee debut by jumping all over him for six runs in the second inning. Johnny Grubb led off the second inning with his fourth round tripper. Later in the inning Alan Trammell singled to left to score Nelson Simmons and Bob Melvin. Trammell was plated by Kirk Gibson's double, and Evans followed with the first of two upper-deck shots. The Tigers ended any chance of a New York comeback in the fourth in- ning when Trammell and Gibson con- nected for back-to-back solo shots off Rod Scurry, another recent Yankee acquisition. The crowd of 19,588 was treated to the last of the twelve Tiger homeruns in this series when Evans cranked a Dennis Rasmussen pitch into the cheap seats in the sixth inning. The homerun, Evans' 36th of the year, moved him ahead of Carlton Fisk for the American League lead. Frank Tanana pitched seven in- nings and allowed eight hits to raise his record to 9-14. Two of the runs came in the third inning when Rickey Henderson hit a solo homerun and Dave Winfield singled home Don Mat- tingly, who had doubled. 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