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Tar Heels Fall To Virginia, 38-13
October 4, 2003 | Football
Oct 4, 2003
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, extending the Tar Heels' home losing streak to nine.
Lundy has rushed for 100 or move yards in six of his last nine games for the Cavaliers (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 a separated 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. ut the Tar Heels fell apart in the third quarter as Schaub led scoring drives of 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 going 0-6 in 1988.
Lundy, who carried 28 times, had 34 yards rushing on the first drive of the second half, capped by his 1-yard plunge.
Schaub then completed passes of 18 and 9 yards on Virginia's next drive to help 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 first half, moving ahead of Ronald Curry's 4,987 yards. However, Durant was sacked five 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 his career - gave North Carolina the early lead in its fourth straight game.
But UNC coach John Bunting was so disgusted with two straight penalties that nullified completions halfway through the 15-play drive that he called a time out.
Bunting motioned for his offense to come off the field and for the rest of the team to gather around him. He then went into a 30-second tirade in the middle of the circle, blasting the Tar Heels for continued mental errors.
North Carolina's lead didn't last long as Virginia scored 17 unanswered points in an eight-minute span.
Lundy scored on a 6-yard run on fourth down, while Hughes hit a 29-yard field goal after a Jacque Lewis fumble and Schaub found Fontel Miles for an 18-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, North Carolina's sideline reporter, who was killed early Saturday by a hit-and-run driver while changing a tire. He was 27.
