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Its must-win time for North Carolina State and Syracuse. Time is running out on their postseason hopes.Each team has to win two of three to become bowl-eligible, and one will be very disappointed on Saturday after they play in the Carrier Dome.Thats a major goal were fighting for, North Carolina State defensive end Bradley Chubb said. Just got to stick together, stay as a team, and hopefully everything will pan out the way we want it to.Both teams are 4-5, with the Orange at 2/3 in the Atlantic Coast Conference and N.C. State at 1-4.Syracuse is coming off a 54-0 pounding at No. 2 Clemson. Starting quarterback Eric Dungey was knocked out of the game last Saturday with a jarring hit to the shoulder and head in the first quarter and did not return. He underwent a battery of tests after returning to Syracuse. The team listed him as questionable in its injury report to the ACC on Thursday night.We run our system, Orange coach Dino Babers said. Were going to do the things that we do. You need to do what youve done all year long, and hopefully the players around you, around the quarterback position if Eric doesnt play, play better.That means an up-tempo offense that has clicked an awful lot in this first season under Babers, except on the scoreboard. Dungey ranks third in the ACC and 16th nationally in passing yards with 2,679 on the strength of six 300-yard games, and he leads the conference and ranks sixth in the country in completions per game, averaging 25.Even if we were pretending the other two guys were going to play, theres not enough film to know whats going to be different, Wolfpack coach Dave Doeren said. You have to go in there and plan on seeing Dungey, defending all the things hes been able to do.Other things to know when North Carolina State visits Syracuse on Saturday:QB SHUFFLE: The Syracuse depth chart released earlier this week listed both Austin Wilson and Zack Mahoney as backups to Dungey. Wilson finished 17 of 27 for 116 yards passing against Clemson, both career highs, but threw two interceptions in his first appearance this season. Mahoney, who was 1 of 4 for eight yards against the Tigers, quarterbacked the Orange in last years 42-29 loss at N.C. State while Dungey was out with an injury and passed for 152 yards and two touchdowns. A walk-on last year, Mahoney also started against LSU and Clemson and played well, earning a scholarship this season.BATTLE OF THE WIDEOUTS: For the first time in school history, N.C. State has three receivers -- Stephen Louis, BraLon Cherry, and Maurice Trowell -- with catches of 70-plus yards in the same season. No other ACC school has more than two. Four players on each team have 100-yard receiving games. Syracuses Amba Etta-Tawo has 1,158 receiving yards, sixth in the nation and second among Power 5 conference players.CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR: Four of N.C. States losses have been by seven points or fewer, and Clemson went into overtime. The Wolfpack failed to convert three field goals (one was blocked) against the Tigers, including a 33-yarder on the final play of regulation that would have won the game.Weve made a lot of progress in a lot of ways, but we still havent put away teams when we had them on the ropes, Doeren said. When you get there and dont get it done against two of them, theres no moral victory there. Theres progress, there just isnt pleasure.DETERMINED DAYES: Senior tailback Matt Dayes needs 169 yards to become N.C. States first 1,000-yard rusher since T.A. McClendon in 2002 and only the eighth player in school history to reach that mark. This season, Dayes has gained 53 percent (442 of 831) of his rushing yards after contact.WOLFPACK DOMINANCE: N.C. State is 8-1 against Syracuse. Better yet, the Wolfpack is 4-0 in the Carrier Dome. Syracuses lone win in the series was 24-10 three years ago, the Oranges first triumph as a member of the ACC.---AP Sports Writer Joedy McCreary in Raleigh, North Carolina, contributed to this report.---More AP college football: www.collegefootball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 .---Follow Kekis on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Greek1947Nike NFL Jerseys China . -- Jimmy Walkers first PGA Tour trophy came with a special gift tucked inside. Wholesale NFL Jerseys China .S. Open champion Justin Rose birdied the first hole with a blind shot he hit to a foot of the pin, and he stayed in front Tuesday until he completed a 4-under 67 for a two-shot lead over Jason Dufner in PGA Grand Slam of Golf. https://www.chinajerseysnfl.us/ . -- Stanford squashed Oregons national championship hopes again, schooling the Ducks in power football. NFL Jerseys China . With the short-handed Warriors needing help from someone -- anyone -- to stop a three-game skid, ONeal returned from right knee and groin injuries that had sidelined him for four games and put up season highs with 18 points and eight rebounds. It was just enough to help lift Golden State to a 102-101 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night. Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys Free Shipping . PAUL, Minn.COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Matt Calvert was beaming in the Columbus Blue Jackes locker room after scoring the winning goal with a bandaged forehead hiding about 30 stitches.Calvert returned from absorbing a slap shot that requird medical attention and scored a short-handed, tiebreaking goal in the third period to lift the Blue Jackets to a franchise-record seventh straight home win, 4-2 over the New York Rangers on Friday night.You cant script it any better that he comes back and scores the winner for us, said Sam Gagner, who also scored. Thats just an unbelievable teammate and it gives every guy on the bench a huge shot when he comes back.William Karlsson had a goal and an assist and Boone Jenner also scored for Columbus, which led 2-0 in the second period before allowing the Rangers to tie it in the third. The Blue Jackets have won three in a row overall and seven of nine. Sergei Bobrovksy had 25 saves.Michael Grabner and Mika Zibanejad scored for New York, which lost for the third time in 14 games. Henrik Lundqvist made 20 saves for the Rangers.They made it tough for us to really get going, Lundqvist said. But in the end it came down to one play. I think we feel a little disappointed even though being down 2-0 the way we lost this one.About three minutes after Zibanejad evened the score at 8:32 of the third, the Rangers were looking to take the lead on the power play, but Calvert snuck a shot under Lundqvists right arm on a 2-on-1 with Karlsson.I think when something like this happens emotions just kind of take over, Calvert said. Youre riding on adrenaline. I made a shot and it was great to see it hit the back of the net.The Rangers pressured at the end but Bobrovksy stopped Chris Kreiders close range redirection with 11.6 seconds left.Jenner scored into an empty net with Lundqvist pulled for the extra attacker.I dont think we gave them that much, Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella said. I thought we did a really goood job as far cutting down the the ice to play on as fas as entering our zone.ddddddddddddThe matchup featuring the leagues two most productive offenses was a slog in the first period. Karlsson capitalized on J.T. Millers ill-advised pass attempt across the top of the circles. He let loose a low shot with no traffic through Lundqvists legs for the first score with 3:26 left.The pace and chances picked up after that. Gagner made it 2-0 with his seventh at 5:38 on another bad clearing pass by the Rangers. Gagner knocked the puck down with his stick then wristed a shot that banked off Lundqvist before landing across the goal line.Grabner cut the deficit in half six minutes later when Columbus Ryan Murray ripped the puck into the shin pads of the speedy forward, the carrom sending Grabner on a breakaway and he lifted a shot past Bobrovksy for his 11th.On the tying score, Zibanejad found an open spot on the back side and sent a one-timer into an open net on a nice set up from Brady Skjei.Give them credit, they played a strong game but in my mind there were some areas -- puck decisions -- that we could have been a lot better at, New York coach Alain Vigneault said.Game notesThe first three goals of the game were unassisted. ... The Rangers entered with a 4.24 goals-per-game average, tops in the NHL. Columbus was second at 3.36. ... New York had won seven straight in the series. ... Calvert left in the second period and returned for the third. He left a sizeable amount of blood on the ice. ... Kreider was back after missing the last two games with an upper-body (head/neck) issue. ... Jenner played his 200th career game. ... The Blue Jackets 15 games played are the fewest in the league. The Rangers have played 18.UP NEXTRangers: Host Florida on Sunday.Blue Jackets: At Washington on Sunday. ' ' '