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CCI 2ND SECTION, ZONE: SPORTS, FINAL 0:23:59 THE NEWS OBSERVER SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2011 7CCollege Football ACC Conf. Overall Atlantic Pct. Pct. Clemson 2 0 1.000 5 0 1.000 Wake Forest 2 0 1.000 3 1 .750 Maryland 1 0 1.000 2 2 .500 Florida St. 0 1 .000 2 2 .500 N.C.

State 0 2 .000 2 3 .400 Boston College 0 2 .000 1 4 .200 Coastal Pct. Pct. Georgia Tech 2 0 1.000 5 0 1.000 Duke 1 0 1.000 3 2 .600 North Carolina 1 1 .500 3 1 .750 Virginia Tech 0 1 .000 4 1 .800 Virginia 0 1 .000 3 2 .600 Miami 0 1 .000 1 2 .333 games Georgia Tech 45, N.C. State 35 Miami 45, Bethune-Cookman 14 Wake Forest 27, Boston College 19 Maryland 28, Towson 3 Virginia 21, Idaho 20 (OT) Clemson 23, Virginia Tech 3 Duke 31, FIU 27 North Carolina at East Carolina, late SUMMARIES NORTH CAROLINA 35, EAST CAROLINA 20 North Carolina 14 14 0 7 35 East Carolina 0 3 10 7 20 FIRST QUARTER 11 pass from Renner (Moore kick), 9:33. 75 pass from Renner (Moore kick), 5:04.

SECOND QUARTER 10 run (Moore kick), 12:57. Barbour 35, 7:40. 47 pass from Renner (Moore kick), 5:59. THIRD QUARTER 23 pass from D.Davis (Barbour kick), 5:20. Barbour 25, :30.

FOURTH QUARTER 4 pass from Renner (Moore kick), 6:55. 4 pass from D.Davis (Bar- bour kick), 2:49. NC ECU First downs 19 27 Rushes-yards 40-226 21-73 Passing 230 417 Comp-Att-Int 13-20-0 41-58-2 Return Yards 1 0 Punts Fumbles-Lost 1-0 3-2 Penalties-Yards 1-15 6-22 Time of Possession 29:57 30:03 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Carolina, Bernard 24-146, Boyd 3-34, Houston 8-23, Blue 4-18, Renner 1-5. East Carolina, Bullock 16-72, D.Davis 5-1. Carolina, Renner 13-20-0-230.

East Carolina, D.Davis 41-58-2-417. Carolina, D.Jones 6-93, Highsmith 3-94, N.Hurst 1-24, Blue 1-15, Boyd 1-11, Bond 1-(minus 7). East Carolina, Lewis 10-166, Hardy 10-73, Webster 5-51, Bodenheimer 5-41, Bowman 4-32, Womack 3-18, Wiggins 2-28, Bullock 2-8. DUKE 31, FIU 27 Duke 17 0 0 14 31 FIU 14 3 3 7 27 FIRST QUARTER Snyderwine 27, 9:29. 63 pass from Carroll (Griffin kick), 9:10.

non 26 pass from Renfree (Snyderwine kick), 6:46. 15 pass from Carroll (Griffin kick), 3:13. 22 pass from Renfree (Sny- derwine kick), :53. SECOND QUARTER Griffin 36, 4:01. THIRD QUARTER Griffin 33, :12.

FOURTH QUARTER 34 pass from Carroll (Griffin kick), 13:30. 6 run (Snyderwine kick), 11:56. 9 run (Snyder- wine kick), 6:52. Duke FIU First downs 18 28 Rushes-yards 22-49 41-176 Passing 335 392 Comp-Att-Int 28-43-0 26-41-0 Return Yards 5 22 Punts Fumbles-Lost 0-0 4-1 Penalties-Yards 2-25 8-85 Time of Possession 26:44 33:16 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Thompson 13-30, Crowder 1-16, Renfree 3-5, Hollingsworth 1-2, D.Scott 1-0, Team 3-(minus 4). FIU, Perry 17-102, Rhodes 12-61, Carroll 9-17, Hilton 2-10, Team 1-(minus 14).

Renfree 28-43-0-335. FIU, Car- roll 25-39-0-348, Younger 1-1-0-44, Team 0-1-0-0. Vernon 8-117, Varner 7-111, D.Scott 4-17, Helfet 2-50, Hollingsworth 2-9, Thompson 2-8, T.Watkins 1-13, Parker 1-10, Brax- ton 1-0. FIU, Times 7-54, Hilton 5-102, Perry 3-32, Rhodes 2-60, Anderson 2-47, Rhymes 2-44, Youn- ger 2-26, Faucher 1-15, Wright 1-7, J.Williams 1-5. NO.

13 CLEMSON 23, NO. 11 VIRGINIA TECH 3 Clemson 3 7 7 6 23 Virginia Tech 0 3 0 0 3 FIRST QUARTER Catanzaro 31, 2:12. SECOND QUARTER Journell 24, 4:35. 1 run (Catanzaro kick), 1:49. THIRD QUARTER 32 pass from Boyd (Catanzaro kick), 10:42.

FOURTH QUARTER 31 run (kick failed), 6:12. Clem VT First downs 17 17 Rushes-yards 35-119 40-133 Passing 204 125 Comp-Att-Int 13-32-1 15-27-1 Return Yards 0 53 Punts Fumbles-Lost 0-0 3-1 Penalties-Yards 5-61 6-60 Time of Possession 25:09 34:51 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Bellamy 6-47, Ellington 16-40, Boyd 10-28, Watkins 3-4. Virginia Tech, D.Wilson 20-123, Thomas 12-8, Gregory 1-2, Oglesby 6-1, Team 1-(minus 1). Boyd 13-32-1-204. Virginia Tech, Thomas 15-27-1-125.

Allen 4-75, Ja.Brown 3-56, Watkins 3-38, Ellington 2-20, Hopkins 1-15. Virginia Tech, Coale 5-41, Coles 4-44, Boykin 3-10, D.Wilson 2-21, Oglesby 1-9. NO. 21 GEORGIA TECH 45, N.C. STATE 35 Georgia Tech 14 7 0 24 45 N.C.

State 0 7 7 21 35 FIRST QUARTER 13 run (Ju.Moore kick), 10:35. 9 run (Ju.Moore kick), 3:34. SECOND QUARTER 9 pass from Washington (Ju.Moore kick), 14:55. 9 pass from Glen- non (Sade kick), 1:15. THIRD QUARTER 46 run (Sade kick), 13:22.

FOURTH QUARTER 2 run (Ju.Moore kick), 12:29. 34 interception return (Ju.Moore kick), 12:15. 38 pass from Washington (Ju.Moore kick), 10:07. 1 pass from Glennon (Sade kick), 7:47. Ju.Moore 40, 5:38.

13 pass from Brosius (Sade kick), :34. 33 fumble re- turn (Sade kick), :20. GaT NCSt First downs 19 22 Rushes-yards 52-296 38-195 Passing 117 192 Comp-Att-Int 4-12-0 23-36-1 Return Yards 34 4 Punts Fumbles-Lost 4-1 2-0 Penalties-Yards 4-45 7-35 Time of Possession 27:51 32:09 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Tech, O.Smith 9-74, Sims 9-73, Washington 16-43, Thomas 1-27, Jones 4-26, Lyons 5-22, Peeples 3-20, S.Hill 1-5, Days 2-5, Ze- non 1-2, Team 1-(minus 1). NC State, Washington 20-131, Creecy 12-77, Barnes 3-10, Glennon 3-(minus 23). Tech, Washington 4-12-0-117.

NC State, Glennon 20-29-1-163, Brosi- us 3-7-0-29. Tech, S.Hill 1-40, Jones 1-38, O.Smith 1-30, Sims 1-9. NC State, Washing- ton 5-35, Purvis 4-33, Howard 3-48, Bryan 3-26, J.Smith 3-24, M.Carter 2-16, Palmer 2-6, T.Gentry 1-4. MIAMI 45, BETHUNE-COOKMAN 14 Bethune-Cookman 7 0 7 0 14 Miami 0 14 10 21 45 FIRST QUARTER 1 pass from J.Wilson (Hurd kick), 4:05. SECOND QUARTER 56 pass from Harris (Wieclaw kick), 7:16.

3 run (Wieclaw kick), 5:25. THIRD QUARTER 43 run (Wieclaw kick), 13:47. 3 run (Hurd kick), 5:20. Wieclaw 30, 1:50. FOURTH QUARTER 27 pass from Harris (Wieclaw kick), 13:13.

1 run (Wieclaw kick), 8:39. 59 interception return (Wieclaw kick), 2:00. Beth Mia First downs 24 15 Rushes-yards 46-219 24-126 Passing 203 209 Comp-Att-Int 23-38-1 15-20-0 Return Yards 0 103 Punts Fumbles-Lost 2-1 2-1 Penalties-Yards 12-116 6-41 Time of Possession 38:59 21:01 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Lovette 7-65, Blackwell 5-53, Jordan 7-49, Scott 8-30, J.Wilson 18-20, Moment 1-2. Miami, Miller 14-102, Clem- ents 4-37, James 1-(minus 1), Team 1-(minus 2), Morris 1-(minus 4), Harris 3-(minus 6). J.Wilson 21-31-0-180, Blackwell 2-7-1-23.

Miami, Harris 12-17-0-175, Morris 3-3-0-34. Poole 6-44, Murphy 3-49, Francois 3-42, Lovette 2-18, Moment 2-15, Jordan 2-13, Scott 2-(minus 3), Keith 1-23, P.Harris 1-2, James 1-0. Miami, Benjamin 6-66, Streeter 2-83, Dorsett 2-16, Hurns 1-17, Clements 1-16, Walford 1-11, Thompkins 1-3, Miller 1-(minus 3). VIRGINIA 21, IDAHO 20 (OT) Idaho 0 6 0 8 6 20 Virginia 14 0 0 0 7 21 FIRST QUARTER 10 run (Randolph kick), 6:48. 6 pass from Rocco (Randolph kick), 2:38.

SECOND QUARTER Farquhar 19, 8:20. Farquhar 42, :37. FOURTH QUARTER 4 blocked punt return (Posey pass from Reader), 3:11. OVERTIME 27 pass from Watford (Randolph kick). 23 pass from Reader (pass failed).

Id UVa First downs 12 27 Rushes-yards 31-103 41-161 Passing 193 335 Comp-Att-Int 17-41-2 30-50-1 Return Yards 15 4 Punts Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-2 Penalties-Yards 5-46 7-60 Time of Possession 25:51 34:09 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS McCarty 14-90, Bailey 8-20, Vital 4-1, Team 1-(minus 2), Reader 4-(minus 6). Virginia, P.Jones 21-110, Richardson 11-70, Jen- nings 2-(minus 8), Rocco 7-(minus 11). Reader 17-41-2-193. Virginia, Rocco 20-30-0-240, Watford 10-20-1-95. M.Scott 5-74, McCarty 4-21, A.Johnson 3-49, Elmo 2-18, Veltung 2-14, Bai- ley 1-17.

Virginia, Burd 8-123, P.Jones 7-41, Ti.S- mith 5-43, M.Snyder 4-72, Milien 3-19, D.Terrell 2-29, Freedman 1-8. MARYLAND 28, TOWSON 3 Towson 0 3 0 0 3 Maryland 7 0 7 14 28 FIRST QUARTER 15 run (Ferrara kick), 13:25. SECOND QUARTER Soven 23, 10:07. THIRD QUARTER 5 run (Ferrara kick), 11:46. FOURTH QUARTER 7 pass from (Ferrara kick), 7:09.

5 pass from (Ferrara kick), 4:31. Tow Md First downs 21 20 Rushes-yards 43-161 37-198 Passing 217 137 Comp-Att-Int 17-29-2 16-24-0 Return Yards 0 19 Punts Fumbles-Lost 2-2 2-1 Penalties-Yards 7-77 2-11 Time of Possession 35:39 24:21 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Phifer 12-75, West 9-49, Booker 12-27, Athens 8-6, Kinnard 2-4. Maryland, Meggett 16-102, Pickett 14-82, Adams 3-12, 3-5, Wilson 1-(minus 3). Athens 17-29-2-217. Mary- land, 14-21-0-123, C.Brown 2-3-0-14.

Ryan 7-103, Kinnard 4-39, Blake 2-20, Wharton 1-19, Booker 1-16, Banks 1-12, Sheppard 1-8. Maryland, Dorsey 4-44, Fur- stenburg 4-15, Meggett 2-28, Tyler 2-23, McCree 2-16, Logan 1-6, Cierski 1-5. WAKE FOREST 27, BOSTON COLLEGE 19 Wake Forest 7 10 7 3 27 Boston College 3 6 0 10 19 FIRST QUARTER 2 run (Newman kick), 10:55. Freese 36, 2:52. SECOND QUARTER Newman 22, 13:41.

Freese 45, 6:18. 1 run (Newman kick), 1:04. Freese 52, :08. THIRD QUARTER 47 pass from Price (Newman kick), 12:01. FOURTH QUARTER 2 pass from Rettig (Freese kick), 13:05.

Freese 32, 6:00. New- man 22, 2:59. Wake BC First downs 18 20 Rushes-yards 33-104 34-148 Passing 288 188 Comp-Att-Int 20-30-1 23-48-1 Return Yards 5 37 Punts Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 2-10 7-56 Time of Possession 27:50 32:10 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Forest, J.Harris 19-60, Pender- grass 8-25, Price 4-15, Bohanon 1-2, Givens 1-2. Boston College, Harris 22-108, Amidon 2-31, Finch 5-22, A.Williams 2-1, Rettig 3-(minus 14). Forest, Price 19-29-1-252, Campanaro 1-1-0-36.

Boston College, Rettig 23-47-1-188, Team 0-1-0-0. Forest, Givens 7-132, Cam- panaro 4-31, Dembry 3-42, Davis 2-63, Bohanon 2-9, Pendergrass 1-7, L.Jackson 1-4. Boston Col- lege, Swigert 9-38, Larmond 5-80, Amidon 5-37, Harris 2-20, Pantale 2-13. ACC STANDS AND SUMMARIES Boston College defender Hampton Hughes, behind, forces Wake running back Brandon Pendergrass out. MICHAEL DWYER AP Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.

A two-point conversion pass by Brian Reader fell in- complete and Virginia es- caped with a 21-20 victory in overtime Saturday. Daniel Micheletti ran in a blocked punt and Reader completed a two- point conversion pass to Mar- sel Posey to tie the game 14-14 in the fourth quarter and force overtime. Virginia (3-2) got the ball first in the extra period and scored on David 27-yard pass to Dominique Terrell. Reader matched that with a 23-yard TD pass to Ar- mauni Johnson. But instead of kicking an extra point to force a second overtime, underdog Idaho (1-4) went for the win and came up short.

Virginia Perry Jones scored two touchdowns, and Idaho got a pair of field goals by Trey Farquhar. ELSEWHERE Miami 45, Bethune-Cook- man 14: Lamar Miller ran for 102 yards and two touch- downs, Tommy Streeter caught two scoring passes and Miami used a series of quick scores to shake off a dreadful early start and beat Bethune-Cookman 45-14 on Saturday. All five of offensive touchdown drives took under 2 minutes two of them checking in at 10 seconds or less. Jacory Harris complet- ed 12 of 17 passes for 175 yards for Miami (2-2). Bethune-Cookman (2-2) took an early 7-0 lead when Jackie Wilson found Eddie Poole with a 1-yard touch- down pass.

The Wildcats kept that edge until midway through the second quarter, when Mi- ami got touchdowns from Streeter and Miller to take the lead for good. Maryland 28, Towson 3: Danny threw two second half touchdowns and defense forced four turnovers, helping the Terrapins pull away to a 28-3 win over in-state foes Towson on Saturday. Maryland (2-2) snapped a two-game losing streak with the win, but failed to convert on any of its third or fourth downs in the first half and led 7-3 at halftime. completed 14 of 21 passes for 123 yards. Davin Meggett added 102 rushing yards, as Maryland finished with 335 yards total offense 198 rushing.

Towson came in leading all Football Championship Series teams in scoring defense, al- lowing an average of 10 points per game, and they held the Maryland offense in check un- til the Tigers began commit- ting turnovers. Virginia avoids upset bid from Idaho in OT that trend on their first three possessions allowing the Tar Heels a 14-0 cushion after Ren- ner turned a Tim Scott inter- ception into an 11-yard passing touchdown to Jheranie Boyd. Renner then found receiver Erik Highsmith for a 75-yard touchdown after linebacker Kevin Reddick recovered a fumble. thought Bryn was sharp UNC coach Everett Withers said of the sophomore, who completed 13 of 20 passes for 230 yards, zero intercep- tions and sacked. found his receivers and instead of always trying to make something happen, he threw it away when he needed to.

And that shows Bernard (24 carries, 146 yards) made it 21-0 early in the second quarter on a 10-yard run to the end zone. He went over 100 yards on that series, and UNC never looked back. wanted to take the ball and take the air out of it run it and run it and run it, and throw it when we had Withers said. did that for the most part, but we do it as well later in the game when we needed UNC receiver Dwight Jones (six catches, 93 yards, two touchdowns) gave his team 28-3 halftime cushion on a 47-yard touchdown grab, from Renner. ECU finally got into the end zone with 5:20 left in the third quarter, when Davis capped a 97-yard scoring drive with a 23-yard touchdown pass to Lance Lewis.

Kicker Mike Bar- bour booted a 25-yarder to cut the deficit to 28-13. But one-handed touch- down grab from Renner, with about seven minutes left sealed UNC victory. By the time Davis found Danny Webster for a 4-yard touchdown pass with 2:49 re- mianing for the final tally, fans had already started streaming out of the stadium. And it long until celebration began. time 4-1, Withers said.

just want to get on the bus, and Pickeral: 919-829-8944 North Dwight Jones (83) goes high over East Emmanuel Davis to grab a 4-yard pass from quarterback Bryn Renner to give the Tar Heels a 35-13 lead in the fourth quarter Saturday. ROBERT WILLETT UNC CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1C North Carolina quarterback Bryn Renner (2) re- acts towards the Tar Heels faithful in North Caroli- victory against East Carolina. CHUCK LIDDY chuck.liddy@newsobserver.com By Nate Taylor GREENVILLE The analogy Lance Lewis used for East Car- main problem Saturday night was a disease. what Lewis said each turnover felt like for the Pirates in the first half against North Caroli- na. The feeling felt familiar for the Pirates, who went down a similar path that has marred their season so far.

ECU turned the ball over four times in the first half, and though the Tar Heels convert those mistakes into 28 points, they did enough dam- age to build a comfortable lead. The Pirates never threat- ened the Tar Heels in the 35-20 loss in front of a record crowd at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. To begin the game, the Pi- rates did move the ball. Run- ning back Reggie Bullock raced to the outside but lost the ball fighting for extra yards. Tar Heels cornerback Tre Brown forced the fumble and recovered it.

Once that happened, Lewis said the following turnovers were caused by mental mis- takes. just tends to spread once a turnover Lewis said. stressed ball securi- ty so much this week that we have turned the ball over that Last week, the Pirates sur- vived Alabama at Birmingham and seven turnovers, which tied a school record. That number of miscues left coach Ruffin McNeill to focus his Pi- rates more on protecting the football. But on next posses- sion, quarterback Dominique Davis stared down receiver Joe Womack before throwing this pass high.

Womack did get his hands on the ball, but he tipped it up in air to allow UNC linebacker Tim Scott to grab his first-career intercep- tion. missed an opportu- nity against Virginia Tech, South Carolina and now these Bullock said. was all because of Even after the rough start, the Pirates felt fortunate to be down just seven. ECU drove the ball deep into terri- tory, only this time Bullock handle handoff cleanly. And with the ball on the ground, Tar Heel defensive lineman Kevin Reddick beat Bullock to recover the ball for third turnover.

This i not a cr is is McNeill said of his 17 turnovers this season. have to keep working on it. I think maybe we had the ball away from our By the end of the first quar- ter, ECU had 120 yards of of- fense but now points on the scoreboard. Sure, Davis did set a new school record with 417 yards, many of which came in the sec- ond half. And yes, the Pirates did go the entire second half without giving the ball away.

But in the end, UNC coach Everett Withers knew his Tar Heels defense executed his game plan well against the Pi- rates. have to have those (turnovers) when you play this kind of Withers said. way to beat this team is take the ball away from Taylor: 919-829-4538 Turnovers costly for Pirates ECU give up the ball 4 times in the half blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow.