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cavalier sports 8 CAVALIER CORNER this month in uva history 2014 Was the last time UVA had a first-team All-ACC choice in men's soccer before third-year midfielder JEAN- CHRISTOPHE KOFFI earned those laurels this sea- son. He tallied a career-high 10 points while help- ing the Cavs reach the ACC championship game, where they fell to No. 1 Wake Forest by penalty kick shootout, and earn the No. 11 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Dec. 28, 2002 First-year running back WALI LUNDY set a UVA bowl record by scoring 24 points in a 48-22 win over West Virginia in the Continental Tire Bowl. The game MVP ran for a team-best 127 yards and two touchdowns, while he also led the team with five receptions, which gained 76 yards and included two scores. Additionally, he returned a kickoff 36 yards to total 239 all-purpose yards, a school record for freshmen, and help the squad finish 9-5 and rank No. 22 in the final Associated Press poll. Dec. 2, 1953 — Buzzy Wilkinson posts the first of his school- record 10 40-point games with 42 points in a 98-62 win over Hampden-Sydney to open the season. It was the first 40-point game in program annals and is still tied for the ninth-most points in a single game in UVA history. Despite playing just three years, Wilkinson ranks third on the Cavaliers' all-time scoring list (2,233 points) and has the highest per-game aver- age of any Wahoo (28.6). around the grounds Anytime you can win an award that is voted on by your peers and given to you at this level is a huge honor. It was just good to be healthy and go out there every day and play." — Washington Nationals and former UVA star Ryan Zimmerman on being selected the National League Comeback Player of the Year; the 33-year-old had perhaps his best season with the NL East champions, was the starting first baseman for the NL All-Star team and finished with a career-best 36 home runs 16th Was where the men's cross country team finished at the NCAA Cross Country Championships Nov. 18, the highest placement for the squad since 2013 (13th). Fourth-year Brent Demarest led the way by crossing the finish line 19th, tying for the second-best placement in program history and earning All-America honors. $1,000,000 Is former UVA and current Phila- delphia Eagles defensive end Chris Long's 2017 base salary, which he will donate to benefit education charities via the Chris Long Founda- tion. After his first six game checks were donated to fund scholarships to a private middle and high school in his hometown of Charlottesville (his alma mater, St. Anne's-Belfield School), his final 10 will go towards the "Pledge 10 For Tomorrow" cam- paign, which will support educational equality in the three cities he has spent his 10-year career playing in — Philadelphia, Boston and St. Louis. Long went on The Ellen Show to dis- cuss his plan in November, and host Ellen DeGeneres presented him with an additional $30,000 check.