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@l}? latig (Bar Hrrl FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 yard touchdown run three minutes into the game to put UNC (4-5,3-3 in the ACC) ahead 7-0. The Hokies (7-2,4-1) responded with a 5-yard score by Mike Imoh. When Virginia Tech took a 17-14 lead into halftime, both Scott and Imoh had topped the century mark. But Imoh kept up his pace after halftime, running for 131 yards, including 47 on the half’s first play when he ran right, spun past one UNC defender, juked another, and then blew past two more and sprinted down the sideline. Imoh also had a 13-yard touch down run that put the Hokies up 27-14. “A lot of those were hard yards. How many yards he got after the first contact is where you really measure a back,” said Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer. “He’s a little bowling ball. He’s tougher than heck, and he makes us abetter football team.” Meanwhile, Scott gained just 19 second-half yards as the Hokies packed in their defense. But the Tar Heel special teams kept them in the game. After a Barth field goal made the score 27-17, the Tar Heels forced a three-and-out at the Virginia Tech 16 with just more than 10 minutes remaining in the game. UNC brought an all-out rush against punter Vinnie Burns, and Tom O’Leary got the penetra tion to stuff the kick. D. J. Walker picked up the ball at the 1 and rolled into the end zone for UNC’s first blocked punt for a touchdown since the 1998 Las Vegas Bowl. “I’m extremely pleased with the way our special teams stood up to this challenge playing the great Virginia Tech special teams,” Bunting said. “We certainly played with them. Equal to of maybe even better.” CONSISTENCY FROM PAGE 12 more than in the first half,” Scott said. “In the second half, when everybody was blocked and I had to cut back, (the defender) was already there. It was kind of hard to make a move.” Meanwhile, the Tar Heel defense resurrected itself by holding Hokie quarterback Bryan Randall to just one passing yard and forcing the Hokies to punt on three of their final Dur drives, including a touchdown esulting from a blocked punt. But the inconsistency of the two aced Tar Heels led them to fall hree points short of knocking off i ranked opponent for the second :onsecutive week. Va. Tech’s maintenance of a pow erful rushing attack behind junior Mike Imoh’s 236 rushing yards allowed the team to endure the roll er-coaster efforts of North Carolina. Imoh’s success on the ground, combined with the Hokies’ defen sive adjustments at halftime, proved to be just enough to hold off the Tar Heels. “In the first half, guys weren’t fully wrapping up on the tackles, guys weren’t getting to the ball and guys weren’t staying in coverage,” said Va. Tech defensive end Darryl Tapp. “We just had to refocus our selves on the fundamentals, and it worked out for us in the end.” Despite UNC’s sporadic moments of efficiency, these bright spots were overshadowed by the team’s errors in critical situations. On the Hokies’ opening drive, the Tar Heel defense was whistled for penalties on two of the Hokies’ third-down situations. So instead of UNC regaining the ball with a chance to go up by two scores, Va. Tech was able to continue its momentum and ultimately tie on a 5-yard run by Imoh. “We were not technically sound,” said UNC center Jason Brown. “There are a lot of things that we could have executed better. We had a lot of penalties and shot ourselves in the foot." The Tar Heels also managed to hurt their own cause on their final push to win the game. On third-and-8 at the Hokies’ 26- yard line, UNC quarterback Darian Durant was unable to get a pass off and was sacked by Va. Tech's Jim Davis for an 11-yard loss. Consequently, UNC kicker Connor Barth was forced farther toward the threshold of his kick ing range, and his 54-yard field goal attempt fell short. Although the Tar Heels were unable to effectively entwine their offensive and defensive efforts, UNC head coach John Bunting took note of his team’s late-game competitiveness and resolve attributes that have been essen tially nonexistent during the last two seasons. “Once again, it just shows you how close we are getting to where we want to be,” he said. “To be in those games in the fourth quarter, I don’t think anyone thought we would, but we did. We are one or two plays away from finishing this game and winning it.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu. Virginia Tech 27, UNC 24 VT 7 10 10 0 27 UNC 7 7 3 7 24 Scoring Summary First Quarter UNC - Scott 48 yd. rnn (Barth kick), 12:00 VT lmoh 5 yd. ran (Pace kick), 6:35 Second Quarter UNC —Wright 49 yd. pass from Durant (Barth kick), 12:32 VT - Randall 1 yd. run (Pace kick), 5:20 VT —Pace 24 yd. field goal, 1:13 Third Quarter VT —Pace 36 yd. field goal, 10:34 VT lmoh 13 yd. run (Pace kick), 3:40 UNC —Barth 30 yd. field goal, 0:45 Fourth Quarter UNC Walker 1 yd. blocked punt return (Barth kick), 10:30 Attendance -58,000 VT UNC First Downs 23 13 Rushes-Vards 51-270 26-131 Passing Yards 100 165 Comp-Att-Int 7-18-0 14-21-1 Total Yards 370 2% Punts-Avg. 3-27.3 3-39.3 Fumbles-lost 2-0 04) PenaWes-Yards 4-35 7-56 time of Possession 36:03 23:57 Individual Leaders Rushing: UNC-Scott 15-122. VT —imoh 31-243. Passing: UNC —Durant 14-20-1165 VT- Randall 7-18-0100. Receiving: UNC-Pollock 640 VT—Royal 4-84. Although the special teams made some big plays and the defense held its opponent to a season-low 370 yards, it was penalties that ultimately cost the Tar Heels. UNC entered the game as the least penalized team in the ACC, but the Tar Heels committed seven costly penalties for 56 yards. On Virginia Tech’s first drive, which culminated in Imoh’s first touchdown, UNC had forced a three and-out. But Gerald Sensabaugh was flagged for a late hit on Josh Hyman to keep thedrive alive. With the loss, the Tar Heels must now win twice in a row to qualify for a bowl game. They must win both on the road —a feat they have yet to accomplish starting with a game at Wake Forest on Nov. 13. “Tough loss for these kids. They’re down. They had a big win last week, and they’re real down right now,” Bunting said. “We’ll just have to pick it back up because we have a two-game season now, and we still can make something spe cial out of this year.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports (E> unc.edu. 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He piloted his innovative program in India with a budget of less than $50,000 and today, Ashoka allocates approximately $7 million a year financing social entrepreneurship fellows globally ce i@u n c ed u www unc celt 1 coi Sports BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 Thomas quickly converted both the crowd and his teammates into believers by making a few well placed passes. “That dude’s got the ball on a string,” said forward David Noel. “He threw a pass tonight to Sean (May) that I was just in awe of. I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, we might have another Raymond (Felton).’” Marvin Williams, meanwhile, entered the game with 16 min utes, 59 seconds to go in the first half and took a grand total of nine seconds to score his first basket as a Tar Heel. Williams scored 11 points and showed flashes of the talent that garnered him preseason ACC Rookie of the Year accolades. The Tar Heels’ starting five of Felton, May, McCants, Jawad Williams and Jackie Manuel looked primed and ready for a season in which they will face their highest expectations to date. Led by 21 points from McCants and Jawad Williams, all five except Felton scored in double figures and shot better than 50 percent from the floor. Felton did most of his damage passing the ball, chalking up 11 of the Tar Heels’ 34 assists. Midway through the first half, he threw a jaw-dropping alley-oop to Jawad Williams, who toma | AITEHTinW I I Do you have S§9 Migraine Mclies? 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The Tar Heels launched a 27-6 run in the second half that frus trated Rams coach Phillip Stitt. He admitted after the game that he began to wonder, “Who’s run ning the damn clock?” Roy Williams challenged his players to keep their eyes off the scoreboard and focused on the in game action. “I can go a whole half and never look at the score because I make my decision on how we’re playing on what I see, not just what the scoreboard tells us,” Roy Williams said. After beating a Division-II team by 60 points, the Tar Heels didn’t gain much except the experience of playing an opponent with a dif ferent jersey for the first time this year. But for the players, that’s all that mattered. “It was fun,” Scott said. “We loved playing defense. We enjoyed the outcome.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2004 SWIMMING FROM PAGE 12 Comfort said the Golden Gophers have a very talented squad. “If they had gone three one hundreths of a second faster in a relay last week in Florida, they would have beaten the No. 3 team in the nation,” Comfort said, referring to Minnesota’s only loss to Florida. The Gophers demonstrated the significance of the gap between a top-10 team and 15th-ranked North Carolina. Minnesota took first place in 17 of the meet’s 20 events. The only UNC swimmers to win were Josh Glasco in the 200-yard butterfly on Friday and Matcovic in the 100 butterfly on Saturday. Junior Ryan Matuszak added a third victory by winning the men’s 1-meter dive. Matkovic, who is a two-time All-ACC swimmer, wouldn’t make excuses for the team’s potential fatigue. “We have had an extra month of training (since the meet against 'Election 2004: What Role Did the Media Play? 1 Sam Donaldson Famed television journalist 6 p.m. Wednesday, November 10 Carroll Hall Auditorium Free and open to the public. Part of the Nelson Benton Lecture Series. For details, visit www.jomc.unc.edu. jet | unc 4a£ai# SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION WILL PRESENT I ZELDA SAYRE FITZGERALD | I AF! AMERICAN WOMAN’S LIFE I Tuesday, November 9th AT 330 P.M. IN THE Bull s Head Bookshop twm HiHii call 962-5060^7 j or more info “That is why we swim against them . They show us exact ly what we need to do to be successful.” FRANK COMFORT, UNC COACH Georgia) and a lot of us are tired, but that’s no excuse,” he said. Instead, the Tar Heels hope to take the loss as a learning oppor tunity. “They are a great team, and that is why we swim against them,” Comfort said. “They show us exactly what we need to do to be successful.” Matkovic also noted the impor tance of learning from early season matches. “What it comes down to is the last race at the end of the year,” Comfort said. “The rest is basi cally practice, and we take it like that.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu. 9
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