Its that simple.As Team USA heads into

Its that simple.As Team USA heads into

25.01.2019 08:23

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Matt Dayes has been determined all season to be North Carolina States first 1,000-yard rusher in more than a decade and get the Wolfpack back to a bowl.Both goals are within reach Saturday against Miami in the teams home finale.The senior is 61 yards away from becoming the programs first runner to gain 1,000 yards in a season since T.A. McLendon did it in 2002. And considering the Wolfpacks offense has run its best when Dayes is moving the chains, hes likely to get a heavy load as N.C. State (5-5, 2-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) tries to become bowl eligible for the third straight year.Obviously were always trying to establish the line of scrimmage, offensive coordinator Eli Drinkwitz said. Were just trying to find ways to win football games and move the ball up and down the field. And Matts a very effective way to do that.Dayes, a native of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is the leagues No. 3 rusher at 93.9 yards per game to go with seven scores and a 4.8 yards-per-carry average. More than half of his yards have come after contact, a sign that Dayes isnt afraid to run through tackles.He has seven 100-yard performances in 10 games this year, including last weeks 108-yard day with three touchdowns.Miami (6-4, 3-3) enters this game near the middle of the ACC in rushing defense (140.2) and holding opponents to 3.5 yards per carry, but the Hurricanes rank 13th nationally in scoring defense (19.3 points).That hasnt happened for them in a while, Miami coach Mark Richt said of Dayes run for 1,000, and I know theyre probably trying to knock that out this game. Thatll be a challenge for our guys.Miami has already secured bowl eligibility in its first season under Richt, and has bounced back with from a four-game losing streak with two straight wins.---Some other things to know about Saturdays Miami-N.C. State game:STYLE CLASH? Miami likes to be a quick-hitting offense and N.C. State is fine with a more methodical tempo-controlling approach. The Wolfpack had two touchdown drives of at least 6 minutes against Syracuse last week alone -- while Miami has had only one such drive in the entire season. They will definitely take what you give them, I can definitely say that, Miami defensive back Rayshawn Jenkins said.MOVING AGAIN: Miami has racked up 85 points and 984 yards in the past two games after failing to reach 30 points during its four-game skid. We blocked better, we executed most everything better, and we started a little faster, Richt said. We didnt get behind.KAAYA WATCH: Miami quarterback Brad Kaaya comes into the game with 9,004 career yards, 482 shy of tying Ken Dorsey for No. 1 on the Hurricanes all-time list. And he might need to be very sharp on Saturday, since N.C. State has allowed opponents only 3.0 yards per carry this season. The Hurricanes will test that with perhaps the ACCs best 1-2 rushing punch in Mark Walton and Joe Yearby; theyve combined for 5.7 yards per rush.INTANGIBLES: Richt said having a team thats pursuing bowl eligibility can make it easier to motivate your team. Throw in the fact that its the Wolfpacks Senior Day, and the coach knows his Hurricanes will face a tough test. Theres a lot of motivation thats kind of naturally built into this thing for them, and we have our reasons to be excited too now, Richt said. But two of those reasons right there, I think, play to their advantage.RIVALS, SORT OF: Most ACC teams in opposite divisions dont meet very often, and this is Miamis first visit to Raleigh since the final game of the 2008 regular season. The Hurricanes have played road games in 26 other cities since that trip eight years ago. No current N.C. State player has ever faced Miami.---AP Sports Writer Tim Reynolds in Miami contributed to this report.---Follow Aaron Beard on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/aaronbeardap---More AP college football at http://collegefootball.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-Top25 http://www.falconsrookiestore.com/Falcons-Blidi-Wreh-Wilson-Jersey/ . The judges scored it 48-47, 48-47, 49-46 for Jones (19-1). It was the champions closest call. 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The U.S. wrestler and retired mixed martial artist says he was visiting his brothers farm in Saskatchewan and decided he wanted to hear what the premier had to say. WASHINGTON -- When you ask Los Angeles Kings goalie Jonathan Quick, a two-time Olympian with a silver medal, two Stanley Cups and a Conn Smythe Trophy, what else hed like to achieve in his career, his answer is simple: I just want to win.Dean Lombardi, general manager of the Kings and for Team USA at the World Cup of Hockey, has witnessed that focus since the first time he saw Quick play at the University of Massachusetts.When players say theyre not interested in their stats, you never really think theyre telling the truth, but with this guy its true, Lombardi said. Its what hes been about his entire career. Its just the way hes wired.The next mission for Quick, 30, is to help the U.S. win the World Cup. On Wednesday, the Milford, Connecticut, native was named Team USAs starting goalie over Ben Bishop of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Cory Schneider of the New Jersey Devils.Winning came early for Quick. He won a national championship as a youth hockey player and two New England Prep School championships while at Avon Old Farms. Still, he didnt initially consider a career as a hockey player.At that age, youre playing a bunch of different sports throughout the year and just having fun, he said. I mean, whenever I played baseball, I thought I could play for the Yankees. You never think its actually going to happen. So, it was just fun and you enjoy playing it and you want to be good at it.Obviously, as I got older I recognized that I was a little bit better at hockey than the other sports and decided to focus on that.The winning continued at UMass. In 2007, he led the Minutemen to their first trip to the NCAA tournament, where they lost in the regional final, coincidentally, to Bishop and the Maine Black Bears. After that loss, Quick set his sights on the NHL. The Kings had drafted him in the third round in 2005, but they didnt just hand him a roster spot.He was a really talented kid, a really competitive kid, and he got by on his athletic ability and he wasnt really used to working as hard off the ice as he did on the ice, Lombardi said. He had to start his professional career in the East Coast [Hockey] League because of his work ethic, and it doesnt seem right to say that because he is a very hard worker; he just didnt know he had to do it or even how to do it because up to that point he really didnt have to. He was that good.Quick understood what he had to do.ddddddddddddIve always been a hard worker, he said. My father made sure of that. If he was going to drive me to all these games, I was going to work. But this league is on a whole other level. You look at the best players and the preparation and everything that goes into it and, if you want to be a part of that group, you have to do the same.It didnt take long for his work ethic off the ice to match his work ethic on it. In December 2007, only two months after starting his pro career with the Reading Royals in the ECHL, he played in his first NHL game. He started the 2008-09 season in the AHL with the Manchester Monarchs, but two months in he again found himself in Los Angeles, this time for good.While Quicks career numbers as an NHL goalie speak well enough for him -- 2.27 GAA, .916 save percentage and 42 shutouts -- Lombardi says its what cant be measured that sets Quick apart.Weve become enamored with stats, but theres no stat for rising to the occasion and no stat for timely saves, Lombardi said. Its not just a matter of how many he stops, but when he stops them, too. When the game is on the line, he sets the tempo probably better than anybody.For Quick, despite the high level and high stakes, hockey can still be a game that you play with your friends.I enjoy coming to the rink every day and being around the guys, he said. In that way, Im very lucky. We have a great group in L.A. to go to work with every day and here as well with Team USA. Who wouldnt want to get to do this every day? Whatever I can do to help the team win, whatever your role is, do it as well as you can and be a good teammate. Thats what I try to do every day. Its that simple.As Team USA heads into its first World Cup game against Team Europe on Saturday, Lombardi says he expects to see the same desire to win that he first saw in Quick a decade ago.I always felt he was one of those guys that was going to get there eventually, it was just a question of when, and I knew it since the first day I met him, Lombardi said. 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