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Receiving Records Could Fall This Year

By NED ROBERTS

CD/Bob Humphrey

Cavalier Daily Player Of The Week Chuck Belic Gains Yardage As Two State Defenders Close In

The only true bright spots
highlighting the Wahoos'
otherwise dismal season have
been the performances of Dave
Sullivan and Chuck Belic.

Already the two
fourth-year men from
Steelton-Highspire, Pa. are the
most productive receivers for a
single Virginia season. Sullivan,
who already holds all the
Wahoo career receiving records,
has 42 catches this year for
552 yards and seven T.D.'s,
while Belic is credited with 29
receptions, 512 yards, and four
touchdowns.

Both Sullivan and Belic also
have a chance of overtaking
Bill Davis's single season record
of 694 yards, and Sully needs
only eight more receptions to
break Davis's mark of 49
catches.

With a little help in the last
two games, the Cavaliers could
easily rewrite all the team
passing marks as well. Only 14
more receptions and 170
additional yards are needed to
surpass the old figures of 142
completions and 1864 yards.

In the kicking game, Billy
Maxwell has been only inches
short of perfect on P.A.T.'s
and field goal attempts. He has
succeeded on seven of eight
field goal tries and 22 of 22
P.A.T.'s. Unfortunately his
punting has shortened
considerably since the start of
the season, resulting in an
overall 35.9 average.

Leading the running attack
all season long has been injured
Kent Merritt, who, despite
having been hampered or out
of action for the last five games
with a sprained ankle, has
rushed for 551 yards in 112
carries for an average of 4.9
yds.

His longest run came last
Saturday afternoon on the last
play of the first half when he
scrambled 44 yards before
being pushed out of bounds
just short of the State goal line.

Mike Lacika, Greg
Dickerhoof, and John Rainey
have divided up the rest of the
team's rushing leadership, each
having gained 147,138, and
125 yards respectively.

In the passing categories,
both George Allen, Jr. and
Scott Gardner have upped their
totals considerably since the
loss of Harrison Davis to
numerous injuries. Gardner, a
first-year man, has been
particularly impressive, as he
has completed 28 of 58 passes
for 412 yards and four
touchdowns. He has been
plagued, however, by
interceptions, the Cavaliers'
chief menace throughout the
season.

Together, four Wahoo
passers have been the victims
of 28 enemy interceptions, a
new Virginia record. Allen has
been picked off 13 times, Davis
seven, Gardner six, and Pruner
twice.