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Oct 4, 2003
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By DAVID DROSCHAK
AP Sports Writer
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Wali Lundy ran for 129 yards and a career-high three touchdowns as Virginia pounded North Carolina 38-13 Saturday, extendingthe Tar Heels’ home losing streak to nine.
Lundy has rushed for 100 or move yards in six of his last nine games for theCavaliers (4-1, 3-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), off to their best league start since 1998.
Lundy has seven 100-yard games in his 14 starts.
Matt Schaub, playing his second game since missing a month because of aseparated shoulder, was nearly perfect, going 19-for-22 for 284 yards and two touchdowns.
The nation’s worst defense held its own in the first half and trailed 17-6.But the Tar Heels fell apart in the third quarter as Schaub led scoring drivesof 63 and 67 yards in a span of eight minutes to put the game away.
The loss leaves the Tar Heels (0-5, 0-3) with their worst start since going0-6 in 1988.
Lundy, who carried 28 times, had 34 yards rushing on the first drive of thesecond half, capped by his 1-yard plunge.
Schaub then completed passes of 18 and 9 yards on Virginia’s next drive tohelp set up his 33-yard scoring pass to Alvin Pearman and a 31-6 lead.
Lundy’s third TD came from 7 yards out with 11:22 left.
Darian Durant became North Carolina’s first 5,000-yard passer in the firsthalf, moving ahead of Ronald Curry’s 4,987 yards. However, Durant was sackedfive times and never could get in rhythm against the Virginia defense.
Dan Orner’s 50-yard field goal – his fifth of that distance or longer in hiscareer – gave North Carolina the early lead in its fourth straight game.
But UNC coach John Bunting was so disgusted with two straight penalties thatnullified completions halfway through the 15-play drive that he called a timeout.
Bunting motioned for his offense to come off the field and for the rest ofthe team to gather around him. He then went into a 30-second tirade in themiddle of the circle, blasting the Tar Heels for continued mental errors.
North Carolina’s lead didn’t last long as Virginia scored 17 unansweredpoints in an eight-minute span.
Lundy scored on a 6-yard run on fourth down, while Hughes hit a 29-yardfield goal after a Jacque Lewis fumble and Schaub found Fontel Miles for an18-yard scoring play three minutes before the half.
The catch was the first for the true freshman.
There was a moment of silence before the game to honor Stephen Gates, NorthCarolina’s sideline reporter, who was killed early Saturday by a hit-and-rundriver while changing a tire. He was 27.