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UNC Football Slaughters Duke, 38-0
November 20, 1999 | Football
Nov. 20, 1999
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Josh McGee set a school record with six field goals as North Carolina beat Duke for the 10th straight time, giving coach Carl Torbush and the Tar Heels a 38-0 victory Saturday.
McGee made kicks of 41, 50, 23, 22, 41 and 40 yards to tie the Atlantic Coast Conference single-game mark first set by Vince Fusco of Duke in 1976 as the Tar Heels (3-7, 2-6) closed their worst season in a decade with two straight wins.
Torbush was raised on the shoulders of his players after the game in an emotional scene.
Duke (3-7, 3-5) turned the ball over six times on four interceptions and two fumbles. Errol Hood's 20-yard interception return for a score early in the fourth quarter sealed it for North Carolina.
North Carolina - 107th in the nation in scoring - put up its most points since a 42-30 victory over Indiana in the second week of the season. Meanwhile, the defense recorded its first shutout since September 1996 and its first against the Blue Devils since 1972.
Duke scored a school-record 34 points in the first quarter of last weekend's 48-35 victory over Wake Forest. But the Blue Devils sputtered with Spencer Romine returning at quarterback after missing one game with a foot injury. He was intercepted three times and lost two fumbles in his worst game of the season.
rian Morton, subbing for the injured Sims Lenhardt, missed field goals of 38 and 30 yards and was intercepted on a fake punt. The second field goal miss came after a 64-yard punt return by Scottie Montgomery in the second quarter as the Tar Heels dominated the opening 30 minutes.
North Carolina's 274 yards at halftime were more than the team had totaled in five of its previous 10 games.
Domonique Williams, a converted running back now seemingly comfortable at QB in his second start, had passes of 29, 42, 25 and 40 yards in the first half alone. The last one to Kory Bailey, who outjumped Duke defender Ronnie Hamilton for a score, gave the Tar Heels a 19-0 lead less than two minutes before intermission.
McGee's 50-yard field goal in the second quarter was the best of his career and moved the senior into second-place on the school's all-time scoring list with 257 points.
