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Jacob Swiger ·
30 Nov 2009, 11:16 PM ·
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Thaddeus Lewis earned second-team honors over several other worthy ACC quarterbacks. (File photo by Rob Rowe)
With the ACC regular season wrapped up, the first and second all-ACC teams were announced Monday, including 13 players from the Triangle.
Duke
The Blue Devils’ high-octane offense was led by quarterback Thaddeus Lewis, who was voted on the second team. Lewis’ primary target, Donovan Varner, made first team and led the league with 5.4 catchers per game.
Kicker Will Snyderwine made the second team as well as linebacker Vincent Rey.
N.C. State
Glaringly absent from the selections is quarterback Russell Wilson, who led the Wolfpack to a dramatic win over UNC Saturday and accounted for 35 touchdowns on the season.
Tight end George Bryan made the first team, and defensive end Willie Young, who recorded eight sacks this season, was on the second team.
North Carolina
Four North Carolina players, the most of any school, earned first-team honors as voted on by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association. Defensive end Robert Quinn, linebacker Quan Sturdivant, cornerback Kendric Burney and safety Deunta Williams were all selected to the first team.
Burney picked off five passes this season and racked up 200 return yards to reach second in interception return yardage in ACC history.
Defensive tackle Marvin Austin, who is considering turning pro after this season, and linebacker Bruce Carter, who told the media he would be returning for his senior season, both made the second defensive team.
UNC’s only offensive selection came in kicker Casey Barth, and the Tar Heels’ four first-team selections are the most since the 1997 season (six).
For the complete list, visit theACC.com.
ACC, Duke, N.C. State, UNC-Chapel Hill Bruce Carter, Casey Barth, Deunta Williams, Donovan Varner, Kendric Burney, Marvin Austin, Quan Sturdivant, Robert Quinn, Russell Wilson, Thaddeus Lewis, Vincent Rey, Will Snyderwine
Jacob Swiger ·
21 Nov 2009, 4:07 PM ·
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TV/ESPN2 — Quarterbacks T.J. Yates and Dave Shinskie battled for the title of “quarterback who threw the most interceptions” in Chestnut Hill Saturday. Shinskie won … but it wasn’t a good thing.
UNC and BC combined to toss eight interceptions on the day, but Shinskie’s mistakes couldn’t come at worse times. After a three-interception performance against Miami, cornerback Kendric Burney picked off a Shinskie pass and returned it for a touchdown to make it 21-0 in the first quarter.
Safety Deunta Williams (pictured) matched Burney’s Miami performance with his own three interceptions Saturday, including the game clincher that ended a BC drive late in the fourth, which could have tied the game. Williams returned the interception to the 1-yard line where Ryan Houston twisted into the endzone for his second touchdown of the game.
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Mike Potter ·
7 Nov 2009, 8:58 PM ·
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Duke head coach David Cutcliffe converses with UNC head coach Butch Davis prior to their second meeting as head coaches. (Photo by Rob Rowe)
KENAN STADIUM/CHAPEL HILL Football games in the state of North Carolina don’t get much bigger than this one except on pretty rare occasions.
The “Battle for the Victory Bell” means something to both UNC and Duke this season, as each team is 5-3 and needs at least two wins in its last four games to qualify for a bowl. Coming into the game Duke is even a longshot to play in a BCS bowl if the Blue Devils can win their final four regular-season games and then the ACC title game. All that is way out of context for Duke, which hasn’t had a football season to brag about since 1994.
UNC has won 18 of the last 19 meetings including five straight.
Scouts from the Champs Sports and Chick-Fil-A Bowls are in the house.
Again Triangle Offense has a record number staff on site, as I’m here along with UNC beat writer Jacob Swiger and young photographer Rob Rowe. Swiger is a UNC student and Rowe is in high school.
I was never the UNC beat writer for The Incredible Shrinking Herald-Sun, but I’ve been to Kenan quite a few times. The first was in 1964 for North Carolina’s official memorial to President Kennedy, and then I saw a few games with the family of origin in the late ’60s when the place seated 25,000 and tickets were $2 on the 10-yard line.
There will be about 60,000 on site today on a cold, sunny afternoon. It’s homecoming day and the Tar Heels are listed as 10-point favorites. And Carolina delivers, getting 164 yards on 37 carries from backup tailback Ryan Houston after Shaun Draughn is injured on his first carry in a grind-it-out 19-6 victory. Continue reading »
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Jacob Swiger ·
29 Oct 2009, 11:23 PM ·
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T.J. Yates made up for costly interceptions with clutch throws late in the fourth.
TV/ESPN — Remember when Connor Barth lined up and nailed a a 42-yard field goal to beat No. 4 Miami in Chapel Hill as time expired?
Well, fast forward five years later and Casey Barth continued the family legacy and made two field goals in the fourth quarter against No. 14 Virginia Tech, including the game-winning boot as the clock ticked to zero.
The kick snapped an eight-year losing streak to ranked opponents on the road and mirrored the elder Barth’s game-winner. It wasn’t pretty and and just sneaked its way through the uprights.
For the first time all season, UNC’s offense showed heart, rallying from a T.J. Yates interception that looked to seal a Virginia Tech fourth quarter rally.
But instead, Yates directed a 16-play drive, including clutch catches from Greg Little and Zack Pianalto. The drive ended with Casey Barth’s first made field goal of the game, and stole 8:59 off the clock and left the Hokies with little time to win the game.
After the ensuing kickoff, freshman Hokie running back Ryan Williams took a handoff on third-and-7 and lost a costly fumble. UNC defensive back Deunta Williams recovered and returned the ball inside the Hokie 25-yard line, allowing the UNC offense to run the clock down and score the winning three points. Ryan Williams had a towel over his head the rest of the game and was comforted by UNC linebacker Quan Sturdivant after time expired.
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Jacob Swiger ·
18 Oct 2009, 1:01 AM ·
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At 4-2 overall and still needing to finish .500 in its last six games to attend some random tire bowl, the North Carolina football team trots home to have coach Butch Davis sign the dotted line.
Is it refrigerator worthy or will there be no more Twinkies in their lunch boxes? The report card for year three of the Davis experiment follows after the jump.
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Jacob Swiger ·
3 Oct 2009, 4:50 PM ·
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Heels fans such as these photographed earlier this season left early and often as they saw the home team fall to a 3-2 record (Photo by Rob Rowe)
KENAN MEMORIAL STADIUM/ CHAPEL HILL—Trailing 9-3 at home with the defense keeping UNC in the game, the Tar Heel offense went three-and-out to begin the fourth quarter.
Not once. But two times in a row the Heels failed to gain a first down after the defense did its part. The second possession ended with an interception by UVa’s Chase Minnifield — which was the first of Yates two interceptions. UVa converted the turnover into the decisive touchdown with an 8-yard run by Mikell Simpson.
Virgina prevented the Heels from even sniffing the endzone and won its 10th game out of the last 12 contests 16-3 in the South’s Oldest Rivalry.
The Heels managed to gain 40 yards in the fourth quarter against a Cavalier defense that came into this game rated No. 58 in the country for total defense. Running back Shaun Draughn averaged 1.8 yards per carry on 14 attempts and Yates threw for only 135 yards. Freshman receiver Erik Highsmith, who had more than 100 receiving yards the previous two games, caught two passes for 11 yards.
Here’s the lone bright spot on the offenses’ stat sheet: UNC improved in total offense from 154 yards against Georgia Tech to 174 yards against Virginia.
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Robert Quinn postgame:
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Deunta Williams postgame:
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Jacob Swiger ·
5 Sep 2009, 11:17 PM ·
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Kenan Memorial Stadium/Chapel Hill -- UNC got off to a slow start but eventually clobbered FCS opponent The Citadel 40-6.
The Tar Heels, led by Shaun Draughn’s 118 yards on the ground, ran over the Bulldogs with 261 yards rushing, the most rushing yards in the Butch Davis era and the most since the Duke game in 2004.
“It didn’t even feel like I had that many yards,” Draughn said after the game.
Backup running back Ryan Houston added 45 yards on six carries and scored two touchdowns on the ground. Houston provided tough inside running to complement Draugn’s speed and appears to have improved his own speed this offseason.
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Butch Davis postgame audio [2:54m]:
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Deunta Williams postgame interview:
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Jacob Swiger ·
5 Sep 2009, 7:33 PM ·
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Kenan Memorial Stadium/Chapel Hill -- UNC leads The Citadel 23-0 at the half, running over The Citadel on both offense and defense.
The Bulldogs’ Joseph Boateng intercepted a pass with less than a minute to play in the half, returning it to inside the Carolina 5-yard line before Bart Blanchard threw his third interception and Deunta Williams caught his second pick of the half.
The Tar Heel front seven limited the Bulldogs to 73 total yards in the first half while the offense churned out 108 yards on the ground, including Shaun Draughn’s 84 yards. And three interceptions thrown by Blanchard ruined The Citadel’s scoring opportunities.
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Mike Potter ·
19 Aug 2009, 4:18 PM ·
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Four ACC players from the Triangle - Duke lineman Vince Oghobaase (pictured), UNC safety Deunta Williams and linebacker Quan Sturdivant, and N.C. State lineman Willie Young - are on the 62-man watch list for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy.
Wake Forest’s Boo Robinson is the other ACC defensive lineman on the list for the award, given annually to the nation’s best defensive player by the Charlotte Touchdown Club and the Football Writers Association of America.
The Football Writers Association will choose a national defensive player of the week each week during the season, and if the player is not on the watch list his name is added.
A list of five finalists will be named by Nov. 19, with the recipient announced at the annual Bronko Nagurski Trophy banquet Dec. 7 in Charlotte.
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Jacob Swiger ·
11 Aug 2009, 1:29 PM ·
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UNC started preseason practice Friday, officially beginning the 2009-10 season — the third season under head coach Butch Davis.
Carolina ended last season with an 8-4 record and finished third overall in the Coastal Division with a .500 record in league play. The Tar Heels enter the season ranked No. 20 in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll, despite many holes in the offense, a tough schedule and an improved ACC.
Here are a few questions leading up to the first game Sept. 5 against the Citadel.
Will the receivers step up? Frankly, the Tar Heels are probably tired of hearing it, but the loss of one of the nations’ top receiving corps from last season — which included Brooks Foster, Hakeem Nicks and Brandon Tate — leaves the talent level severely depleted. Greg Little is the only player returning with more than 10 receptions. Little and a slew of freshman and underclassman will have to take the pressure off the rushing game if UNC hopes to move the ball on offense.
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