Michael Lemon News

"We've got the guys to lock it up and the talent outside to catch the ball." "The defense did a great job tonight.

N.C. State's Michael Lemon celebrates with Markus Kuhn after Lemon pressured Maryland's Jamarr Robinson to throw an incomplete pass on the last play of the game during the Wolfpack's 38-31 victory.

Give credit to NC State and Maryland for being gracious competitors. The Wolfpack's Homecoming Day football game was an enjoyable a contest as the weather was pleasant in Raleigh Saturday afternoon.

Sure enough, the skies were bright blue over Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday. But the Terps couldn't part the dark clouds of their season, losing starting quarterback Chris Turner to a second-quarter knee injury and falling, 38-31, to a North Carolina State team that hadn't won an Atlantic Coast Conference game in four previous tries.

North Carolina State's players got back to the locker room just in time to watch the tape-delayed broadcast of the game-clinching defensive series on television.

It's the end of the week, which means it's time to clean out the ol' notebook. . . . ________________ First of all, I finally got to talk to Christian Green .