Wolfpack’s offensive leaders step up in bounce-back win

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Wolfpack’s offensive leaders step up in bounce-back win

NICK FAULKNER/TECHNICIAN Graduate quarterback Ryan Finley throws to the sideline on Saturday, Sept. 8 at Carter-Finley Stadium. Finley had 370 yards through the air during the 41-7 win over Georgia State.

Andrew Schnittker

Sports Editor

“Adversity creates opportunities as a leader.” That was NC State football head coach Dave Doeren at his Monday press conference last week. The Wolfpack was looking to bounce back from a home loss to Wake Forest that derailed the team’s New Year’s Six bowl hopes. It did exactly that with a 52-10 win at Louisville.

That was a game the Pack should have won handily against a terrible opponent, but making the layups is something this team has struggled with in the past. NC State didn’t let the crushing loss linger, and after Louisville took a 3-0 lead in the game, they never looked back.

“I love when our seniors play like that,” Doeren said. “The sand is running out of the hourglass for them. That urgency to play the right way and have fun playing is one thing. I thought our guys really just cut loose and relaxed, didn’t make mistakes and had fun. They really did. Those guys had fun today and I’m glad we were able to create that environment and they went out there and did that.”

NC State’s blowout victory, as Doeren had hoped for, started with the leadership, particularly on offense. “Best players have to be your best players” is a cliché, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true, and the Wolfpack’s best led the way against the Cardinals. Here’s a look at some of the top performers from the game.

Graduate quarterback Ryan Finley

Finley came through with a strong game after a rough outing from the offense the previous week. He completed 26 of 36 pass attempts for 316 yards, four touchdowns and no picks.

After NC State ended its first drive with a punt, Finley moved the ball down the field with authority, spreading it around to his receivers as three pass catches had over 70 yards for the Wolfpack. The Wolfpack’s second offensive drive saw Finley go 6 for 6 for 59 yards, ending with a 25yard touchdown to junior receiver Kelvin Harmon. That moved Finley past Jamie Barnette for second all-time among NC State quarterbacks in passing yards.

Finley was ready to answer Doeren’s challenge to bounce back from a tough loss.

“His challenge was to get everyone going, stick to the process and focus on the preparation side of things,” Finley said. “That would lead to the results that we want.”

Junior receiver Kelvin Harmon

Harmon isn’t a senior, but he participated in the senior day festivities against the Demon Deacons, and is a good bet to leave for the NFL one year early. After a week in which he tied the school record for catches in a game, Harmon caught seven passes for 100 yards and a score to guarantee a finish with over 1,000 receiving yards for the second season in a row. He’s the first player to do that for the Wolfpack since Jerricho Cotchery in 2002 and 2003.

“It’s a blessing,” Harmon said. “Just being around the guys that made it happen two years in a row. My coaches trust in me from last year to this year to put me in position to make it, everybody. [Graduate receiver Stephen Louis] for one, [Wide Receivers Coordinator George McDonald], everybody. It’s just a blessing.”

Harmon continued to be a chainsmoving weapon for the Wolfpack, going up over defenders for tough catches and critical yardage. He scored the first touchdown of the game and set the tone on offense for NC State.

Senior running back Reggie Gallaspy

After the Pack’s rushing attack put up just 47 rushing yards against a woeful Wake Forest run defense, it bounced back with 164 on 36 carries against the Cardinals. Gallaspy led the way with 73 yards and two scores on 11 carries and added a receiving touchdown.

Gallaspy was big part of the Pack’s improved red zone efficiency as well. After going just 1 for 5 scoring touchdowns inside the 20-yard line against Wake, NC State finished 6 of 7 in that regard against Louisville. Three of those scores came from Gallaspy.

“Just executing,” Gallaspy said. “That’s all it takes. Just go out there and do your job; don’t try to be a superhero. Just go out there, do your job and it’ll come to you.”

Executing has been an issue that has led to NC State losing to teams it shouldn’t in the past, and as recently as the week before this game. Those issues were nowhere to be found against Louisville, and that started and ended with the Wolfpack’s leaders on offense.

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Wolfpack stays strong to defeat Highlanders behind Cunane’s 23 points

Shrijan Tallury

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Kailee Jurnak

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The No. 17 women’s basketball team outplayed the previously unbeaten Radford Highlanders by a score of 75-58 on Sunday afternoon in Reynolds Coliseum, behind 23 points from freshman center Elissa Cunane.

The Wolfpack (4-0) used the height of Cunane and the playmaking ability of graduate guard Kiara Leslie to stay poised in the face of adversity. The Wolfpack went up by 13 at one point before letting Radford (2-1) back in to tie the game. The experience of Leslie, and junior guard Aislinn Konig and redshirt junior guard Grace Hunter were keys to the Wolfpack staying focus.

“I think all three of those guards, Aislinn, Kiara [and] Grace,” head coach Wes Moore said. “They all have a lot of confidence and they probably didn’t waver a whole lot there. We are kind of young inside, so those players were struggling a little bit.”

The Pack came out slow, taking almost two and a half minutes to get on the scoreboard. Radford meanwhile took advantage to get out to a 7-2 lead, using their strong finishing inside to take advantage of the Pack in the paint. Moore subbed in the 6-foot-5 Cunane to counter the Highlanders and she provided some much-needed defense down low.

Cunane’s impact was immediate, with her coming in and getting an assist, scoring a bucket and forcing a turnover with her defense. The Pack continued going to her in the quarter as she finished with five points and had a much bigger impact than the box score shows.

“It felt good, I was making my free throws which was very satisfying to me, because I’ve been off on those a bit and just my guards feeding me,” Cunane said. “It felt really good that they were able to feed me, because they were closing out on them so much.”

Radford cooled down after Cunane checked in, shooting just 36 percent from the field, but finding themselves only down 14-12.

The second quarter saw Cunane continue her dominance, going head-to-head against the Highlanders best player, redshirt junior Savannah Felgemacher, who finished with 15 rebounds. The two traded buckets on multiple possessions, with Cunane pouring in five more points before being subbed out due to picking up her second foul.

Then, the Highlanders got hot from beyond the arc, hitting back-to-back 3’s to take a 24-19 lead. Before halftime, the Pack used a balanced scoring attack that saw five different players score to come back and retake the lead 31-25.

Hunter and Leslie were key factors in the Wolfpack’s ability to stay in the game during the first half. Hunter grabbed five rebounds and dished out three assists while Leslie scored seven points and dominated the paint with eight boards.

The Wolfpack came out of the gates strong in the third quarter getting a variety of buckets including a Konig 3-pointer that extended her streak of consecutive games with a 3-pointer to 37. This gave the Pack a nice cushion at 38-25, but Radford wasn’t going to give up so easily and went on a 10-0 run to bring them within three at 38-35.

Cunane checked back in to provide the Pack some much-needed scoring and got to work straight away, getting to the line and bullying the Highlanders under the basket. She recorded eight points, going a perfect 6-of-6 from the line in the quarter.

“The third quarter we let them make a run and get back in it,” Moore said. “But we got Cunane back in there and made them match up with us. Thought she did a great job.”

Konig heated up as well, hitting three 3-pointers in the third, and finishing with 14 points on 4-of-7 shooting from distance.

The Pack was only up eight at the beginning of the fourth quarter, but the combination of Cunane and Leslie was too much for Radford as NC State was able to go on a 14-2 run capped by a Konig 3-pointer that gave the Wolfpack a 20-point lead.

“Elissa Cunane just put on a show obviously in the second half,” Moore said. “I’m really proud of what she was able to accomplish, but it’s going to get a lot tougher now. We’re going to have to put together a full 40 minutes to compete at the level we want to.”

The Wolfpack will be heading to Mexico for the Cancun Challenge to face off against Michigan State and George Washington.

“We are going to have to play a lot better,” Moore said. “Now you’re playing someone from a Power Five conference that is picked to finish pretty near the top, so I think it’ll be a pretty big challenge for us, first time on the road, without our fans. We’re going to have to be creating our own energy.”

NICK FAULKNER/TECHNICIAN Freshman center Elissa Cunane makes a move past the defense to go in for a quick layup on Thursday, Nov. 1 in Reynolds Coliseum. Cunane recorded 12 points, three assists and four rebounds during the 83-57 exhibition win over Anderson University.

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Flaming hot start pushes Canes past Devils

SARAH COCHRAN/TECHNICIAN Carolina Hurricanes captain and forward Justin Williams fights to keep control of the puck against Tampa Bay Lightning center Anthony Cirelli on Wednesday, Sept. 19 in PNC Arena. The Hurricanes beat the Lightning 6-1.

Alec Sawyer

Assistant Sports Editor

It took just 30 seconds for the Carolina Hurricanes to get all the goals they would need Sunday afternoon, as the Canes beat the New Jersey Devils 2-1 after scoring twice in the opening half-minute of the game.

It was the fastest two goals to open a game in Hurricanes’ (9-8-3) franchise history, and also made Carolina just the sixth team in NHL history to score twice in the first 30 seconds of a game. It was a much-needed win for the Canes, who were coming off a blowout 4-1 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets the night before.

“That’s the game,” head coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “We talk about it all the time how you can have a good game, but that one shift or you take a breath and it will cost you. I thought it was the other way tonight. We got lucky that they had their two worst shifts of the game to start the game. It benefitted us, obviously.”

Canes’ captain Justin Williams scored the game-opening goal on the Devils (8-9-2) just 22 seconds in, and forward Micheal Ferland tallied eight seconds later to make it 2-0. New Jersey fought back with a strong rest of the first period, which included the Devils’ lone goal from forward Pavel Zacha.

“I mean, who would have thought that that would be all the scoring just in the first period, and certainly just in the first 30 seconds,” Williams said. “Every game is a surprise, and not all are the same. That was a battle and a grind. It’s good for us to play some close games like that to have some confidence later on in the season.”

In net, Curtis McElhinney had a great game for Carolina. McElhinney stopped 33 of 34 shots faced and made a number of good saves to keep the Devils from tying things up.

“The biggest thing is when your team sets you up for some easier reads versus the twoon-ones, the breakaways and stuff like that,” McElhinney said. “The odd-man rushes are where things get hairy. I thought we did a great job overall, and I was able to see the puck and make the saves.”

For the Devils, Cory Schneider was impenetrable for the final 59:30 of play. However, the two early goals against Schneider were enough to give the Devils’ net-minder his 17th straight loss dating back to December of last year.

Williams’ goal came 22 seconds after the puck dropped, on the first shift of the game. Williams slotted the puck through Schneider’s five-hole after receiving the puck in open space from forward Jordan Staal, who made a great play at the blue line to keep possession, draw defensemen and get a pass away. For the Canes’ captain, it was just his second goal of the season.

“Hopefully that can springboard me to have some better offensive stats,” Williams

“That was a battle and a grind. It’s good for us to play some close games like that to have some confidence later on in the season.”

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Pack men place 11th, women 13th at NCAAs

Alec Sawyer,

Assistant Sports Editor

Led by junior Elly Henes’ second straight All-American finish, the NC State cross country teams both finished in the top 15 of the NCAA Championships at the Thomas Zimmer Championship Course in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday.

The Wolfpack women finished in 13th place, picking up 367 team points. The NC State men finished in 11th with 342 points, six places better than the Pack men finished last season. For the women, this year saw a slight regression as the Pack finished eighth in 2017.

Henes had by far the best finish for either team, placing 16th in the women’s 6k to earn All-American status for the second year in a row. Henes finished 32nd in 2017 but ran the race in 20:11.6 Saturday to jump up to 16th.

Behind Henes was senior Nell Crosby, who crossed in 20:44.6 to finish 54th. Sophomore Dominique Clairmonte came in just two seconds after Crosby, placing 62nd. Freshman Heather Holt earned a 146th-place finish at her first NCAA Championships, finishing with a time of 21:25.3.

Sophomore Nevada Mareno rounded out the Pack women that contributed to the team score, finishing 172nd with a time of 21:36.6. Those five scores saw the Pack finish with 367 team points, finishing 23 points behind 12th-place Portland. Colorado won the women’s national championship, finishing with 65 points.

On the men’s side, sophomore Ian Shanklin was the best finisher with a time of 30:10.9 in the 10k race, finishing 54th. Sophomore Joe Bistritz was next for the Pack, finishing in 88th with a time of 30:32.9. Right behind Bistritz was sophomore Gavin Gaynor, who finished just one place and one-tenth of a second behind his teammate.

Senior Elijah Moskowitz finished not far behind Bistritz and Gaynor. Placing 96th with a time of 30:35.6. Sophomore Edwin Rutto rounded out the Pack scorers, placing two spots behind Moskowitz with a time of 30:36.5.

The Pack’s 342 points was actually the same as 10th-place finisher Boise State, but the Broncos won the tiebreaker to finish in the top 10. Northern Arizona won the men’s national title, finishing with 83 points.

The Wolfpack’s season now comes to an end, with NC State’s runners shifting their focus to the indoor track and field season that will kick off on Dec. 1.

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said. “Our line certainly hasn’t contributed a lot offensively lately. We had a lot of chances tonight.”

Eight seconds later, Ferland made it 2-0. Defenseman Dougie Hamilton intercepted a pass in the neutral zone immediately out of the faceoff and fed it to forward Teuvo Teravainen. Teravainen made a great pass across the ice to Ferland, who rifled it past Schneider.

Despite the strong start, the rest of the first period was an absolute rollercoaster for the Hurricanes. New Jersey controlled the puck and the scoring chances throughout the rest of the opening frame and made it a 2-1 game six minutes after Ferland’s goal.

The Devils got out quick in transition, and a great pass from forward Jesper Bratt through the Canes defense found the stick of Zacha, who baited McElhinney with the forehand before firing a backhanded shot into the roof of the net.

The Canes took the 2-1 lead into the first intermission, but it easily could have been a different story. New Jersey had a number of good looks that didn’t find the back of the net in the first period, including one shot that got past McElhinney but didn’t cross the line before the Canes netminder was able to recover.

Carolina looked much better in the second period than it did to end the first, as the middle 20 minutes went by without either team adding to the scoreboard. For the Canes, the story of the second period was strong penalty killing, which is something that hasn’t been the case all season. Carolina killed off three penalties in the second period alone.

The Canes finished the game out in the third period, playing arguably their best frame of the game. While the Devils couldn’t get much going against the Canes, Carolina also struggled heavily to create chances after its initial offensive onslaught.

“[Last night] wasn’t our game, but tonight wasn’t our game either,’’ Brind’Amour said. “I really didn’t like this game for a lot of it. I did like that our guys were competing. We didn’t give up a ton, but we didn’t create very much.”

The Canes will now have a couple off-days, before returning to the ice Wednesday to host the Toronto Maple Leafs. Now a quarter of the way through the season, the Hurricanes have spent the year straddling that .500 line.

“Winning is a lot more fun, isn’t it?” Williams said. “A better attitude and just a lot more fun around the dressing room. We need to start something rolling here. We need to get it going soon.”

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