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September28,2000
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Soccer loses to Citadel
PHOTO BY ANTHONY GRECO
Senior forward Kane Lawson heads the ball away from a
Citadel opponent during the game Sept. 20.
Luke Knox
staff Ulriter
The UNCA men’s soccer team
lost to Citadel 3-0 Sept. 20 at Green
wood Field.
“It was a disappointing loss,” said
head coach Steve Cornish. “It was
as difficult a loss as I have ever had
in my career, because we did not
play for 90 minutes to the best of
our ability. Too many players played
as individuals, not collectively.”
The Bulldogs (2-5-0) outplayed
Citadel (2-4-0) for most of the first
half, and outshot them 10 to 3 in
the half.
Citadel went ahead at 40:59 on a
goal from Johnnie Keen. Keen
stole a UNCA pass and scored from
25 yards out, giving Citadel a 1-0
lead going into halftime.
“Keen, who is a potential All-
American player, just caught the
goalkeeper a couple yards out,” said
Citadel head coach Joel Christy. “It
was an amazing shot. That gave us
a little bit of momentum.”
“From Citadel’s perspective, it was
a nice shot. From our perspective,
we gave him too much time,” Cor
nish said. “We really had sufficient
players around him to be able to
press him a bit more, but we did not
do it. We paid the price.”
“We did a good job of denying
him any forward progress, but we
never took the initiative to step up
and put him under pressure,” said
senior midfielder Jeremy Wisdo.
“We gave him five yards, and he
just had a go at it.”
“It was a simple mistake, and kind
of deflated us at halftime,” said
junior midfielder Mike Roach. “The
ball was not closed down fast
enough, and he fired a nice shot.”
Citadel increased their lead to 2-0
when Joseph Mosser scored on a
pass from Ham ilton Peters at 61:31.
Before the Bulldogs could counter.
Citadel scored again in the 65th
minute on a penalty kick. Ben Wil
son converted the penalty kick for
his first goal of the year, according
to Citadel’s Web site.
Much like the first goal scored by
Citadel, the penalty kick was a re
sult of a defensive lapse, according
to Cornish.
Ultimate frisbee begins
PHOTO BY ANTHONY GRECO
Two members of the Ultimate Frisbee team battle it out
during practice before their game at Warren Wilson
College.
“[Senior defender] Arin Glass
chose not to one-touch the ball out
of the back, which is what he would
normally do,” Cornish said. “For
some reason, he chose to control it
first, and the Citadel player came in
and took it. All of a sudden, we
were down 3-0.”
The Bulldogs received a scare in
the second half when sophomore
midfielder Brad Falk left the game
with a knee injury. Falk’s team
mates were concerned about the
loss of the University of Maryland
transfer, and they questioned
whether it was a legal tackle that
injured him.
“ [Citadel’s] player came in with a
dirty tackle and caught Brad’s knee
with his cleat,” said Roach. “We are
hoping Brad is going to be fine,
because he is a vital player for us.
We are crossing our fingers.”
“It looked like Brad got bladed a
bit. It was a dodgy tackle,” said
Wisdo. “He got cleared right on
top of the kneecap. That was a bad
tackle.”
“You cannot lose players who are
the quality of Falk and not feel
some impact,” Cornish said. “Credit
goes to the other players who came
in and tried to minimize that, but
we play better when he is in there.
It looks like a bruised patella ten
don.”
Despite the disappointing result
of the game, Cornish said that Colin
Barnes continues to play well and
improve.
“He is a competitive player who
has the ability to hurt other teams,”
Cornish said. “He hurts them with
his passing ability, his long range
shooting ability and his tenacity.
He played well and is developing
into a great player.”
“We have other players who can
hurt teams as well, but Barnes is
more consistent,” Cornish said. “I
think he played especially well.”
UNCA will focus on improving
its defense, based on the perfor
mance against Citadel.
“Defensively, we have still got to
be less porous than we are,” said
Cornish. “The tough thing about
being a defender is you can do the
right thing nine times out of 10,
but that one time you do it wrong
costs you the game. A 70 or 80
percent success rate from our de
fenders is completely unaccept
able.”
“The focus is on defensive com
munication,” Roach said. “We feel
really confident in our ability to
create through midfield. We are
just working on team defense and
closing people down really quickly.”
“We are trying to get our shape in
the back, and really work on our
defensive unit,” Wisdo said.
“We have had a little bit of inde
cision at times. Everybody has not
been on the same page, so we are
working on that,” Wisdo said.
UNCA will play Elon Sept. 30 at
2 p.m. at Greenwood Field.
Women of Wis
dom presents “A
Gathering of
Women” Oct. 5
from 7 to 9 p.m.
The presentation
will be given by
Sara Deutsch at
the Artists’ Loft,
located at 28 Wall
St. For more infor-
mation call 299-
4702 or 683-0166.
Sports Commentary
Who really deserves the
WWF championship title?
Lena Bums
Sports Editor
Ben Ezell
staff Writer
After the Fatal Fourway for the
World Wrestling Federation
Championship at the pay-per-view
event, “Unforgiven,” on Sept. 24,
The Rock once again retained the
championship.
The Fatal Fourway consisted of
Chris Benoit, The Rock, Kane and
the Undertaker all battling for The
Rock’s championship title.
The Rock has many qualities that
give him the right to be champion,
such as the people’s elbow, the rock
bottom and an uncanny ability to
stifle any competitor with his rau
cous dialogue (“Layeth the
smacketh down,” anyone?).
Despite The Rock’s unbelievable
popularity with the fans, he does
not deserve the championship sim
ply because he gets enough atten
tion as it is, and has been the cham
pion long enough.
So who really does deserve the
title? Benoit, Kane or the Under
taker?
Chris Benoit definitely does not
deserve it. Who does he think he is,
coming into the WWF from World
Championship Wrestling, or more
commonly known as “We Can’t
Wrestle”?
Benoit, with his crossface submis
sion move, has no real skills to even
qualify for the championship title.
His moves did not even work in
WCW, where he was unable to
attain the title. Unless he can spit
something effective out, such as the
choke-slam, or maybe even a Stone
Cold stunner, maybe he can be con
sidered qualifiable.
The Undertaker, who underwent
a complete personality change after
his long duration away from the
WWF to recover from groin sur
gery, does not deserve it either.
Think back to a couple years ago,
when the “Corporate Ministry” was
the big hoopla. Undertaker beat
Stone Cold Steve Austin for the
championship and retained the
championship for quite some time.
Undertaker has a cocky attitude
that says “I should be the champion
just because everyone thinks I’m
scary.” Uh, no. His youthfulness
has left him, and a champion over
the age of 50 is reserved for WCW.
Ifanyohe, the title belongs to Kane.
Kane has always been the neglected
one. Let’s not forget that Kane’s
supposed brother Undertaker
burned his face, leaving him scarred.
Also, up until recently, Kane would
not talk, and used a voice box in
stead. Let’s also not forget when
Kane’s only friend X-Pao suddenly
turned against him to rejoin De
generation X, and when Jfane’s girl
friend Tori left him forK-Pac not
too long ago.
Kane has only recentl)j been able
to overcome his heartaches and
emerge from his shell created by the
likes ofUndertaker,X-PJc and Tori.
He had the title for one day a few
years ago. His strength and phy
sique is immeasurable cijmpared to
several other wrestlers such as Triple
H, X-Pac, Stone Cold or the Un
dertaker.
Out of every single wrestler in the
WWF, Kane is the tHily one fit
enough, skilled enoughftnd deserv
ing enough of the title. J ake it away
from the People’s Chajmpion and
hand it over to the Bg Red Ma
chine.
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