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FROMTERRAPINSINSIDER Defense deliverswhen it needs to


The calling card forMaryland’s defense this season has


been the ability to stop teams on fourth down. The unit hasmade critical stops throughout the season,most notably in the season-opening victory againstNavy and in Saturday’s 24-21 victory at Boston College. “It definitely defineswhowe are as a defense,” safety Antwine Perez


said. “We prove it everyweek.” With a 24-7 lead entering the fourth quarter, it did not appear as if


Marylandwould need to prove it Saturday, but the game turned unpredictable in the finalminutes. Trailing by three pointswith less than five minutes to play, the Eagles faced two fourth-down predicaments. On fourth and three fromtheMaryland 41, cornerback Cameron Chism


broke up a pass quarterback Chase Rettig intended for ShakimPhillips. The Eagles got a final chance to try to drive to tie orwin the game, but


again they faced a fourth-down situation. On fourth and one fromthe Boston College 44, running backMontel Harris plunged forward but ran into linebacker AdrianMoten and lineman Joe Vellano. “This is a good defense in terms of execution,” defensive coordinator


Don Brown said. “They knowtheir jobs.We don’t have any cowboys on this defense. And they kept their poise.”


—Eric Prisbell NEXTUP: Saturday vs.Wake Forest. NEXTUP:Nov. 4 vs.Georgia Tech.


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FROMHOKIESJOURNAL Williams returns fromhamstring injury


On Saturday againstDuke, Virginia Tech running back


RyanWilliamsmade his first appearance since going down in the first half of a Sept. 18win over East Carolinawith a hamstring injury thatwasmore severe than previously reported. “Itwas aGrade 1 tear; that’swhat they called it,”Williams said. “My


initial thoughtswas that I’d be back in twoweeks, but everybody heals differently froma hamstring. . . . I’mstill not 100 percent yet.” Williams’s goal for Saturdaywas just to get some game action before


Virginia Tech begins the critical final stretch of its schedule. And even thoughDarren Evans andDavidWilson have performedwell in his place this year,Williams seems to be setting his sights on being Virginia Tech’s featured runner sooner rather than later. “I’mstillme,” he said. “Regardless ofwhat they do . . . everybody know


what type of player I am, everybody knowwhen I’m100 percent,what I can bring to the table. So it’s really no diss to themor anything, but they know what I bring to the table and everybody around here has seen it.My role has always been to come out and help the offensewin andwhatever I can, do that.”


—Mark Giannotto


Virginia’s fresh uniforms Saturday’s game against Eastern


Michiganwas Virginia’s seventh of the season—and featured the Cavaliers’ seventh uniform combination. The Cavalierswore orange jerseys andwhite pants. After the Cavaliers scored a 48-21


victory, they’ll enter nextweekend’s matchup againstMiamiwith some renewed confidence and a small measure ofmomentum. Virginia entered the game ranked


No. 11 in the ACC in scoring offense (23.5 points per game), but they reached thatmark early in the third quarter.


—Steve Yanda NEXTUP: Saturday vs.Miami.


Buckley sits out Place kicker Joe Buckley


became the latest in a long line of Navy starters tomiss a game when he sat out Saturday’swin overNotreDame. Buckleywas tackled late after


making the final extra point in last Saturday’s 28-21 victory over visiting SouthernMethodist, drawing a flag for roughing the kicker, andwas unable to practice thisweek. “It’s very unfortunate that it


happened, that he got hurt that way,” Coach KenNiumatalolo said.


—GeneWang NEXTUP: Saturday vs.Duke.


FROM CAVALIERS JOURNAL


FROM MIDS INSIDER


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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2010


After tight first half, Cavaliers pull away 48 21


Virginia finally gets first 2010 win over division I-A opponent


BY STEVE YANDA


charlottesville — Scott Sta- dium has featured many igno- minious distinctions in five Vir- ginia home games this season. The Cavaliers played two divi- sion I-AA opponents in a single fall for the first time since 1983. They lost to North Carolina at home for the first time since 1981.


And for a time Saturday night,


in front of its smallest home crowd since Scott Stadium ex- panded in 2000, Virginia was in jeopardy of allowing Eastern Michigan— winner of one of its previous 19 games — to claim a second consecutive victory for the first time since Sept. 22, 2007. But the Cavaliers had been on


the wrong end of history-making enough already this season and had no intentions of delivering yet another benchmark at the expense of their waning confi- dence. Virginia (3-4) pulled away late for a 48-21 win, earning its


first triumph over a division I-A opponent this season. Big plays have haunted Vir-


ginia’s defense throughout the monthofOctober,andwhile that remained true against Eastern Michigan (1-7), the Cavaliers sur- vived the night by putting up a few of their own. Less than a minute into the fourth quarter, Virginia all but sealed a victory when punter Jimmy Howell completed a fake-punt pass to safety Trey Womack for a 56- yard touchdown. Virginia’s previous drive con-


sisted of a 70-yard kickoff return for a touchdown — the second shortest in program history — by junior fullback Terence Fells- Danzer. By the time junior cornerback


Chase Minnifield snatched his fourth interception of the season and fifth-year senior tailback Keith Payne marched in for his second touchdown of the night with just more than 13 minutes to play, the outcome was clear to the 37,386 fans in attendance. But their night was far from stress-free. Eastern Michigan tormented


the Cavaliers for most of the game with a jet sweep. An Eagles player would line up wide to the


right or left and then take a handoff from quarterback Alex Gillett, who was in shotgun for- mation. The ballcarrier then would sprint toward the edge on the opposite end of the field from which he came and — more frequently than Virginia Coach Mike London likely preferred — turn the corner. Eastern Michigan executed


one such play with just less than eight minutes remaining in the third quarter. Freshman tailback Javonti Greene dashed for a 53-yard touchdown run to bring the Eagles to within three points of the lead. Virginia defensive coordina-


tor Jim Reid said Friday that the personnel changes the Cavaliers had made entering Saturday’s contest were done not in desper- ate search of a cohesive combi- nation. Rather, he said, “it’s just about the number of reps that everybody’s getting.”


“Coach


[London] wants people to play, and that’s all we’re trying to do is get people reps, that’s all.” Whatever the reasoning, de-


fensive continuity was in short supply for Virginia on Saturday. The Cavaliers introduced three new defensive starters against Eastern Michigan, and Virginia


VIRGINIA


EASTERN MICHIGAN


forced consecutive three-and- outs on the Eagles’ first two possessions. But in the 19 scoring drives


the Virginia defense had given up in the past three games, 11 included a play of 25 yards or more. And on Eastern Michi- gan’s third possession, the big- play bug bit the Cavaliers once more as Greene broke loose for a 55-yard touchdown run. It was Eastern Michigan’s longest run from scrimmage this season. On that three-play drive, Vir-


ginia’s defense included four re- serves. Two of them — redshirt junior linebacker Aaron Taliafer- ro and senior cornerback Ras-I Dowling— gave chase, but could not catch up to Greene. Dowling, who has been nursing a knee injury, did not play the rest of the night. Payne— whotallied 13 carries


for 69 yards on the night — fumbled on the Cavaliers’ ensu- ing drive. Four plays later, East- ern Michigan completed a 42- yard pass that would have put


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Virginia's Perry Jones, who had 10 carries for 57 yards, goes airborne in the first half.


the Eagles on the Virginia 2-yard line, but the play was negated because of a penalty for an ineli- gible receiver downfield. With just more than five min-


utes remaining in the first half, Gillett scored on 31-yard run — his longest run of the season—to tie the score. Virginia responded with a 15-


play, 73-yard drive that conclud- ed with a 24-yard field goal by Robert Randolph. Had Eastern Michigan not missed a 28-yard field goal earlier in the second quarter, the game would have been tied at halftime. yandas@washpost.com


For Navy’s seniors, a third win over ND navy from D1


tion,” said Dobbs, a co-captain and part of the first senior class since 1964 to have beaten Notre Dame three times and one of three to do so overall. Dobbsandthe offense wereon


the sideline, however, when Navy tilted momentum signifi- cantly. After moving 71 yards on the opening possession of the game, Notre Dame was at the 1 and elected to go for it on fourth and goal. Quarterback Dayne Crist tried a sneak, but nose guard JaredMarks and lineback- er Tyler Simmons converged and stuffed the play for no gain. Clearly stirred by that aggres-


sion, the Navy offense didn’t blink despite being in the shad- ow of the end zone. On first down, Dobbs carried


for sevenyards to giveNavysome room and Teich ran for twoto set up third and one. The offensive line, playing with a distinct size disadvantage, then opened a cav- ernous hole for Teich, who broke loose for 54 yards. The longest run of his career carried Navy to the 36, and three plays later, Teich fittingly made it 7-0 with a one-handed catch of a short throw en route to a 31-yard touchdown. “I get excited when coach calls


[for a] screen,” said Teich, whose rushing total was the most against Notre Dame by a Navy player in academy history, “and they made the call, and I was thinking I can’t let this ball hit the ground.” The catch was the longest of


Teich’s career and capped Navy’s first 99-yard drive since last year’s opener against Ohio State. It also was just the beginning of an inglorious afternoon for Notre Dame (4-4), which had yielded 152 rushing yards com- bined over its past three games, all victories. In that stretch, the Fighting Irish also had limited opponents to 1.9 yards per carry. Navy averaged 6.1 yards per rush. The Midshipmen threw just


two passes on Saturday and had a third passing attempt dis- counted after Notre Dame was called for pass interference on a trick play that set up Navy’s second touchdown. The play at first appeared to be an end- around to wide receiver Greg Jones, but the senior pulled up and threw deep to Aaron Santia-


AREAROUNDUP


Hoyas suffer another


setback Georgetown turns ball over three times


in fourth loss in a row NEWS SERVICES


AND STAFF REPORTS Jesper Fredriksson made four


field goals and Sacred Heart de- featedGeorgetown, 33-20, on Sat- urday inFairfield,Conn. The Hoyas (3-5), who have lost


four in a row, took a 10-0 lead to open the game, but it was all Pio- neers (2-6) after that. Fredriksson made his first and


longest field goal from39 yards to pull SacredHeartwithin 10-3 late inthe first quarter. Sacred Heart tied the score on


DavidFink’s 32-yardpass toGarry Coles early in the second quarter. The two would hook up again a little less than threeminutes later on a five-yard score to give the Pioneers the leadfor good. lWILLIAM & MARY 17, DELA-


WARE 16: Chase Hill caught a six-yard touchdown pass from running back Jonathan Grimes midway through the fourth quar- ter tolift theTribetoawinathome over the Blue Hens, who are rankedsecondindivisionI-AA. Delaware had a chance to take


the lead with less than a minute remaining, but Mike Perry’s 42- yardfieldgoalwentwide left. William & Mary (6-1, 4-1 Colo-


nial Athletic Association), which trailed 13-3 at halftime, cut the marginto threepointswhenMike Callahan connected with Alex Gottlieb on 15-yard score with 3 minutes 51 seconds left in the thirdquarter. The Tribe has won six straight


since losing its season opener to Massachusetts. The Blue Hens (7-1, 4-1) took a 16-10 lead on Per- ry’s 20-yard field goal early in the fourth. l NORTH CAROLINA A&T 52,


HOWARD 32: The Aggies capital- izedonfiveBisonturnovers towin athomeandsnapa10-gamelosing streak dating from last season. North Carolina A&T’s previous win came atHoward, one day shy of a year ago. TheAggies (1-7, 1-4Mid-Eastern


Athletic Conference) scored on their first possession. Then on Howard’s first possession, the Bi- son (1-4, 0-3) committed the first of their five turnovers. Jeremy Graham returned the fumble 38 yards for a 14-0 North Carolina A&Tlead. l VILLANOVA14, JAMESMAD-


ISON 7: ChrisWhitney passed for two second-quarter touchdowns andJamesPitts interceptedapass in the end zone as time expired as theWildcatsheldonfor thewinat home. Villanova improved to 5-2, 3-1CAA; theDukes fell to 4-3, 1-3. l BOWIE STATE 20, ELIZA-


RICKY CARIOTI/THE WASHINGTON POST Alexander Teich (39) became the first fullback inNavy history to rush for more than 200 yards in a game.He began the year as a backup.


go. The slotback drew a flag against safety Harrison Smith, and Navy had first and 10 at the 22. The Midshipman ran six straight times, culminating in Dobbs’s three-yard burst into the end zone in which the hole opened after a fake handoff. NotreDametrimmedthemar-


gin to 14-10 with a touchdown pass from Crist to T.J. Jones with 6 minutes 7 seconds to play before intermission, but a costly turnover gave Navy another opening. On third down and six,


Crist dropped back to pass and delivered a throw into the mid- dle of the field, where safety De’Von Richardson had been pa- trolling. His interception set up the Midshipmen at the Notre Dame 30, and sophomore slot- backGeeGeeGreenetook a pitch around the left side, went air- borne near the 4 and extended the ball over the goal line before landing out of bounds with 14 seconds to play. “We had no answer for them today,” first-year Notre Dame


Coach Brian Kelly said. Navy’s lead swelled to 28-10


when it went 77 yards on seven plays to start thesecondhalf.The long gain during that possession was a 40-yard completion from Dobbsto Greg Jones,whoadjust- ed to the ball mid-flight, on third and six. Then, after cornerback KwesiMitchell’s interception on Notre Dame’s subsequent drive, Navyneeded10 plays tomarch73 yards, ending with Dobbs’s one- yard score to move him into a tie for first in Navy career rushing


touchdowns and officially trig- ger the rout. “I’mvery satisfied,” safety and co-captainWyattMiddleton said with a broad grin. “It’s a great feeling to have without a doubt. . . .We’ve had a lot of great football teams at the academy. To be able to say that my senior class was one of the classes to beat Notre Dame three times, that’s special right there.”


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BETHCITYSTATE12:CliftonBudd (Sherwood) threw for a touch- down and ran for another as the Bulldogs (5-4, 5-1 CIAA) won at home to remain in contention for theCIAANorthernDivisiontitle. l CATHOLIC 33, EMORY &


HENRY 31: The Cardinals scored 10 points off Wasps turnovers to earntheir firstOldDominionAth- letic Conference win this season. Greg Cordivari threw for 246 yards to lead Catholic (3-4, 1-2 ODAC). l GALLAUDET40,BECKER12:


The Bison scored 16 points in the first sixminutesbeforegoingonto win in Leicester, Mass. Mike Gimeli ran for 77 yards and a touchdown forGallaudet (2-4, 2-3 Eastern Collegiate Football Con- ference).


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