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I I i i i i Sports 2 C7 12 COLLEGE BASKETBALL cQsra jBlS North Carolina aims to knock Duke off its pedestal in the ACC under new coach Matt Doherty C7 Sportsunday Sports newsonline or the latest sports news and scores go online at roanoketlmescom IT Al is INOVBMBERP5t2000rt7A HSECTION i GAME 9 No 3 Miami 41 No 2 Virginia Tech 21 Tropical depression s') i0 ob: rm uq Hokies are Gator bait after trip I MIAMI Does anyone have the phone number for the Gator Bowl? That probably the first question on minds Saturday at the Orange Bowl teeming with the largest crowd to watch a Big East football game There was plenty more to wonder about as Miami convincingly punted Virginia Tech from the unbeaten ranks and the 1 national championship picture Like was defense going to get even an itty bitty grass stain anywhere on Hurri canes quarterback Ken Dors ey? Or what was Michael Vick doing in the game when he was moving like a 50 year old sports columnist? His ankle was as stiff as that arm on the Heisman Trophy If Miami scored any faster it would be called jai alai The third ranked Hurricanes needed all of 7:40 to ring up their points in a 41 21 rout of the No 2 Hokies Tech was trying to run clock Miami was beating the Hokies and an egg timer Who knows how far the Hokies (8 1) will tumble in the polls today and in the Bowl Championship Series stand ings Monday? Give them extra credit for one thing They make excuses because Vick pitch relief on a bad ankle or because Andre Davis crumbled with foot pain again make enough plays against a really good football team to hang in Tech coach rank Beamer said the bot tom To anybody really paying attention to the Hokies recent ly this was no shocker Tech had been scraping past foes not nearly in class Tech which never has beaten a team ranked higher than ninth was exposed repeatedly in its first game against a ranked opponent this season A five season winning streak over the Hurricanes was PLEASE SEE B0GACZYK7C5 JACK BOGACZYK A 9 IBMf fl fa fflfl' jflt MUmI BBL A Iwl i 99g 9 A Mt KI W1 Ibi JMr i i jjEaaaMAir 'A jxw itua A ahhnMiMHaMl ERIC BRADY OLV 'I'' Michael Vick who entered with Tech trailing 14 walks off the field after failing to convert on third down in the second quarter in the sun t'L Miami thrashed the Game notes C5 QB shuffle hurts Hokies C5 r' ia Tech have any fun: Dorsey carries out simple plan C6 U(' i Game stats C6 )f By RANDY KING THE ROANOKE TIMES MIAMI When the herd of buses carrying the unbeaten Virginia Tech football team pulled into the Orange Bowl parking lot on Saturday morning some of the more juiced up Miami fans promptly the hated visitors It should have been an omen for the Hokies who would spend the rest of the day looking at nothing but the tail lights tI Ripping apart a second ranked Tech club that (j was unquestionably hindered by iqjuries to its two best players No 3 hopes for a second straight trip to the national title game rolling to a 41 21 rout in front of 77410 fans The Miami mas sacre ended unbeaten season and barring an unlikely collapse by the Hurricanes fin ished the Hokies in the race for the Big East title Tech fell to 8 1 overall 6 1 in the Big East Miami is 7 1 4 0 Getting some measure of payback for its string of five straight losses to Tech Miami brought out the stick and used it ear ly and often Torching defense for four big play touch downs the 'Canes led 28 0 through three quarters before the Hokies made the final count a little more respectable with 211 fourth quarter points impressed me and not impressed by any Tech cornerback Ronyell Whitaker said told the secondary they were either going to blow us out or we were going to blow them A out And they came out and just dominated the game from the The Hokies got jumped quicker than a tounsfli wearing an Armani suit walking through Liltle Havana the suspect crime riddled area in which thq dinosaur orange bowl sits On first possession sophomore quarterback Ken Dorsey got the old house rocking hitting flanker San tana Moss on a wide open slant pattern for a 4 2 yard touchdown pass E'r in TY zizfV ki a imon man cornerback who had the Herculean task of matching up with Moss most of the day attributedj the score to safety had the inside but he was taking the? out and I had the Green said referring to safety Willie Pile was just a little misunderstand ing and it really hurt After offense operating with backup Dave Meyer for injured starting quarterback Michael Vick picked up one first down on its next two PLEASE SEE TECHC6'j ASSOCIATED PRESS i i Martin Bibla (right) embraces Jeremy Shockey after 1 second quarter TD gives Miami a 21 0 lead rap HnHfli 4 1 1 i va 41 STREAK BREAKERS Miami stopped four Tech winning streaks Saturday Regular season victories 19 11 Big East victories Road victories Victories vs Miami 14 8 5 A.