A team that started the season with too many quarterbacks found itself with none Wednesday. Only a gutsy effort by Jameel Sewell, who wasn’t supposed to play, kept Virginia in yesterday’s game. Ultimately, he fell 2 inches short on a fourth-down play, Boston College’s Dave Shinskie picked up those inches on his fourth-down run, and the Eagles prevailed 14-10.

When: 3:30 p.m. Tickets: $42 all seats O n the air: Online - ESPN360.com; radio -WRVA (1140), 2:30 p.m.
  Records: Virginia 2-3 ACC, 3-6 overall; Boston College 3-2, 6-3
  Players to watch: U.Va. - LB Darren Childs, 68 tackles, career-high 15 last week; WR Kris Burd, 21 receptions, team-high 283 yards; QB Jameel Sewell, needs 9 passing yards to move into fifth in career yardage at U.Va. BC - QB David Shinskie, 1,356 yards, 11 TDs, 54.5 completion percentage; RB Montel Harris, 930 yards, 13 TDs; CB Donnie Fletcher, 41 tackles, 1 INT.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—Jacory Harris threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Travis Benjamin with 1:08 left, and No. 18 Miami rallied to beat Wake Forest 28-27 yesterday. Harris threw for 330 yards and three TDs for the Hurricanes (3-2, 6-2), who trailed 27-14 going into the fourth quarter. Miami took advantage of a muffed punt to score a TD, then took its first lead when Harris directed an 82-yard scoring drive in the final minutes.

BOSTON—Boston College’s Montel Harris set two school records with 264 yards rushing and five touchdowns to lead the Eagles to a 52-20 win over North Carolina State yesterday. Ten players previously had four touchdown runs for Boston College; the last was Darnell Campbell in 1993. Harris set the yardage record with a 9-yarder early in the final quarter, surpassing the previous mark of 253, set by Phil Bennett in 1972. He had one more run before leaving for good.

By halftime yesterday, Virginia Tech had held Boston College to 3 yards on 21 plays—an average of 5 inches per play. By midway through the third quarter, the Hokies trotted out their backup quarterback. And by the Eagles’ final drive, Tech was playing six defenders who aren’t even on the two-deep. In a 48-14 win at Lane Stadium, the Hokies performed like the nation’s fifth-ranked team—something they didn’t do in last week’s 34-26 victory at Duke. They entered the regular season’s midpoint with a 5-1 record (2-0 ACC) by essentially ending the game in the first half, after which they led 34-0.

Tyrod Taylor, Ryan Williams and No. 5 Virginia Tech’s swarming defense made sure the Hokies’ regular season losing streak against Boston College ended. Tyrod Taylor threw two touchdown passes, and Ryan Williams ran for 159 yards and a TD as Va Tech beat Boston College 48-14 against the Eagles.

The day a doctor found the tumor his left thigh, Mark Herzlich went home and lay in bed for two hours. He thought about his future—what chemotherapy and radiation treatments would be like, and how they might affect his chances of playing in the NFL. A few months earlier, Herzlich, a linebacker, finished the best season of his life. He led Boston College in tackles and was named the ACC’s defensive player of the year and a third-team All-American. This fall, as a senior, he was going to be one of the nation’s best defensive players, certainly a high pick in the 2010 NFL draft.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Robert Griffin completed his first eight passes, finishing with 136 yards passing and a touchdown, to help Baylor beat Wake Forest 24-21 yesterday. Kendall Wright ran for a TD, wide receiver Ernest Smith passed for a score and David Gettis caught one for the Bears, who opened last season with a 41-13 home loss to the Demon Deacons.

ATLANTA—Gerald Henderson scored the go-ahead basket with 34.8 seconds remaining and No. 9 Duke held on for a 66-65 ACC tournament victory over Boston College on Friday night. Rakim Sanders missed a last-second 3-pointer for Boston College after missing a jumper with 17.8 seconds left. Kyle Singler matched his career high with 26 points, Henderson had 16 and Jon Scheyer had 14 for Duke (26-6), which will face Maryland in the Atlantic Coast Conference semifinals on Saturday.

ATLANTA—In an arena that by the end was nearly empty, the University of Virginia men’s basketball team refused to go quietly in its 2008-09 finale late Thursday night. Time and again in the second half, the Cavaliers fought back against Boston College. The Eagles parried each thrust, though, and the game ended the way most did for Virginia in its miserable season: with fourth-year coach Dave Leitao’s team a loser.

The sound of the final horn last night bounced off the ceiling and empty seats at Georgia Dome, where but a few thousand people bothered to stick around to watch the unceremonious end of the University of Virginia’s worst men’s basketball season in more than four decades.

Mamadi Diane never stopped working, even when his prospects looked bleak. His teammates have shown perseverance throughout a disappointing men’s basketball season for the University of Virginia. Case in point: reserve guard Mustapha Farrakhan. After barely playing in the previous eight games, including four in which he never left the bench, the 6-4 sophomore found himself on the court Saturday during key stretches of U.Va.‘s regular-season finale against Maryland.

CHARLOTTESVILLE - If Boston College point guard Tyrese Rice’s illustrious college career ends late Thursday night, the University of Virginia men’s basketball team will be delighted. That’s because the Cavaliers will be victorious. Florida State’s win over Virginia Tech yesterday locked Boston College into the No. 6 seed in the ACC tournament, which starts Thursday at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. No. 11 seed U.Va. (4-12 ACC, 10-17 overall) and BC (9-7, 21-10) will meet in a first-round game that’s likely to start no earlier than 9:30 p.m.

BOSTON - Boston College point guard Tyrese Rice, a former L.C. Bird star, scored 21 points, topped 2,000 for his career and led the Eagles to an 80-74 victory over No. 6 Duke yesterday in an ACC game. Reggie Jackson broke the game’s final tie with a drive with 47.2 seconds left, and Boston College scored the final six points to register its first win over the Blue Devils in 24 years.

The group that took the floor for the University of Virginia at the start of the second half prompted double takes. On the bench were Sammy Zeglinski, Mike Scott, Jamil Tucker and Mamadi Diane, starters last night against ACC rival Boston College. In their stead, U.Va. coach Dave Leitao sent out freshman Assane Sene, sophomore Jeff Jones and juniors Solomon Tat and Calvin Baker to play with freshman Sylven Landesberg.