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Terps Lead, Then Fall Low
Maryland running back Keon Lattimore stakes the Terps to a 7-3 first-quarter lead over Virginia during Homecoming on Saturday in College Park, Md.
(Toni L. Sandys - The Post)
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Virginia then converted on a critical fourth down deep in Terrapins territory when Cavaliers quarterback Jameel Sewell hit Simpson for a four-yard gain. Virginia converted by the nose of the football, and the officials' spot survived a video review, though Friedgen said he though Simpson had been stopped short.
[an error occurred while processing this directive]Video review came into play again, this time on Simpson's winning touchdown dive. The Terrapins contended the ball had come loose. But the review went in Virginia's favor.
"I knew I scored," Simpson said of the close calls. "I looked down to see the yellow line [goal line], the ball crossed and they hit it out. I really wasn't too worried about that. The play that got me was the fourth down. . . . I didn't know if I had it."
Virginia tied a single-season school record by winning its seventh straight game. The Cavaliers improved to 4-0 in the ACC for the first time since 1995. The Terrapins fell to 4-3, 1-2.
Maryland jumped to a 14-3 lead behind first-half touchdown runs by Keon Lattimore and Lance Ball. But the Terrapins managed just one score after that, a 41-yard field goal by Obi Egekeze early in the third quarter that pushed the lead to 17-10.
Long helped change the momentum with his sack of Turner. Matched up one-on-one, Long blew by tackle Scott Burley to hit Turner.
"I didn't have time to react to that," Turner said. "It was just so fast."
Both teams suffered injuries to key players in the first half. Tight end Tom Santi, Virginia's leading receiver this season, left the game after the first play from scrimmage with an injury to the lower part of his right leg.
Maryland left guard Jaimie Thomas left the game early in the second quarter because of an injury to his lower leg. Friedgen said after the game Thomas suffered a broken leg and will miss the rest of the season.
It added up to what had already looked, in a way, predetermined. Virginia became the only team in the country to win five games by five or fewer points. And the Terrapins surrendered a double-digit lead for the fifth time this year.
"It's a humbling loss," Turner said. "We've just got to regroup, we've got to regroup. It doesn't feel good. It hurts."
Staff writer Adam Kilgore contributed to this report.
