UNC stymies State with offensive blast
BY ALEC MORRISON
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
North Carolina’s offensive attack let
its defense off the hook Saturday.
The eighth-ranked Tar Heels (7-1,5-1
in the ACC) hammered arch-rival N.C.
State 52-20 before 47,000 at Kenan Sta
dium, but the game was hardly as lop-
sided as the
score. UNC’s
defense gave
up three
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scores for the first time all season and
struggled to solve State’s scrambling quar
terback and fleet ground game.
But whatever difficulties the defense
had, UNC’s offense had it covered. Tar
Heel QB Chris Keldorf continued his
amazing efficiency
by thro wing for 315
yards and three
touchdowns, set
ting a team record
with 20 TDs in one
season.
He wasn’t alone
in his offensive
prowess. Tailback
Leon Johnson
cruised for 90 rush
ing yards, caught
three passes for 69
yards and scored
four touchdowns
UNC quarterback
CHRIS KELDORF set
a school record with
20 TD passes in one
season.
—three on the ground and one on a punt
return.
“Keldorf finding me out of the
backfield, and the offensive line blocking
for me, along with the fullbacks, I think
as an offensive unit we played a complete
game,” Johnson said. “I think as a team
we went out there and performed
soundly."
Tar Heel defense struggles to get grip on elusive ’Pack QB
BY JOSEPH ROLISON
SPORTSATURDAY EDITOR
It was an all-or-nothing deal for the
North Carolina defense Saturday against
N.C. State.
Either the Tar Heels got in the backfield
and stuffed Wolfpack freshman quarter
back Jamie Barnette, or they chased after
him as he scampered about. And for
much of the first half, that’s what UNC
did sit and watch as Barnette rolled
out, ducked defenders and launched pass
after pass.
True, the Tar Heel ‘D’ rebounded in
the second half to shut State down and
Women’s soccer whips Wolfpack
behind Parlow’s scorching play
BYPAULSTRELOW
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
RALEIGH Several North Caro
lina women’s soccer players danced to
the loudspeaker’s music at halftime of
theii match
against N.C.
State, trying to
stay warm.
But UNC’s
Women's Soccer
UNC 4
N.C. State 1
Cindy Parlow refrained, probably be
cause she was already on fire.
Parlow’s torching of the opposing nets
continued Saturday night as the Tar Heels
SPORTS SCHEDULE
Tuesday
Volleyball vs. Duke, Carmichael
Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Wednesday
Men’s Tennis in Rolex Region II
Championships, Cone-Kenfield
Tennis Center, Chapel Hill, all day
Thursday
Men's Tennis in Rolex Region II
Championships, Cone-Kenfield
Tennis Center, all day
Women's Soccer at ACC Tournament
(Quarterfinal), Clemson, S.C., 1 p.m.
Friday
Field Hockey at ACC Tournament
(Quarterfinal). Durham, TBA
Men's Tennis in Rolex Region II
Championships, Cone-Kenfield
Tennis Center, all day
Swimming b Diving at Clemson,
Clemson, S.C., 3 p.m.
Women's Soccer at ACC Tournament
(Semifinal). Clemson, S.C., 7 p.m.
Volleyball vs. Clemson. Carmichael
Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Mill'S SOCCER Page 9
Back on track
The North Carolina men's soccer team
blanked Wake Forest 1-0 Sunday on Senior
Day to rebound from a 1-0 loss to Radford
last week. The game marked the final
home contest of the season, and goalie
Dimitry Drouin (left) posted a shutout.
All that offense nullified whatever State
(1-6, 1-4) was able to produce with the
ball in its hands. UNC mounted a 19-0
first-quarter lead, but defensive compla
cency seemed to set in as the Tar Heels
faced an unpredictable State attack led
by QB Jamie Barnette and tailback
Tremayne
Stephens.
“We need to
make all our
Barnes grabs pair
of TD passes
See Page 11
tackles,” UNC defensive end Greg Ellis
said. “Whenwedidmissatackle, wehad
people run him down, but it was after he
ran 15 more yards. We don’t need that to
happen.”
Barnette’s scrambling gave his receiv
ers time to find an opening and spread
UNC’sdefense across the field. Stephens,
meanwhile, racked up 100 rushing yards
in the first half— he finished the game
with 106—that included a 5 0-yard scam
per to set up State’s second touchdown.
Barnette scored on a three-yard run to cut
UNC’s lead to 26-14 with 6:29 left in the
second quarter.
Just three plays before Barnette’s TD
plunge, Johnson had taken a punt return
39 yards up the middle of the field to give
the Tar Heels a 26-7 lead. LJ had already
scored two touchdowns in the first quar
ter, both on 1-yard runs that moved the
UNC lead from 6-0 to 19-0.
But it wasn’t until late in the second
quarter that Keldorf & Cos. made a state
ment on offense. UNC began a drive on
its own 11-yard line with 2:35 left in the
half and marched 89 yards in four plays,
moving the ball at will on the Wolfpack
defense.
An illegal procedure penalty moved
the ball back to the UNC 6, and the Tar
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claim a 52-20 win. But until the 9:22
mark of the third quarter, the ‘Pack had
hung close with UNC, thanks mainly to
Barnette’s un-freshmanlike effort.
“We had good plays called, but ...
(the game) didn’t go our way,” Barnette
said. “We just didn’t execute. Overall,
we could’ve beaten them.”
Although Barnette pestered UNC
throughout the first half, the game began
ominously for him. On the first play from
scrimmage, Tar Heel defensive end
Vonnie Holliday slammed into Barnette
and jarred the ball loose.
UNClinebackerKivuusamaMaysfell
on the ball in the end zone, and it seemed
clawed past the Wolfpack 4-1 before a
crowd of 1,102 at Paul Derr Track Field.
The victory left UNC (17-1, 7-0 in the
ACC) unbeaten in conference play, while
the ‘Pack (11-7-1, 3-3-1) stayed in third
place.
Parlow burned State for two goals in
the first half, enabling the Tar Heels to
build an early cushion to fall back on.
The sophomore forward’s outing fol
lowed an impressive two-goal game
against Maryland on Wednesday.
“I’m starting to play a lot better be-
Sef. WOMEN’S SOCCER, Page 13
Saturday
Field Hockey at ACC Tournament
(Semifinal), Durham, TBA
Football vs. Louisville, Kenan Stadium,
1:30 p.m.
Men's Basketball in Blue/White
Game, Smith Center, 5 p.m.
Men's Tennis in Rolex Region II
Championships, Cone-Kenfield
Tennis Center, all day
Volleyball vs. Georgia Tech,
Carmichael Auditorium, 6 p.m.
Sunday
Field Hockey at ACC Tournament
(Championship). Durham, TBA
Men's Soccer at Maryland. College
Park, Md„ 7 p.m.
Men's Tennis in Rolex Region II
Championships, Cone-Kenfield
Tennis Center, all day
Women's Soccer at ACC Tournament
(Championship), Clemson. S.C.,
1 p.m.
SPORTS
MONDAY
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Tailback Leon Johnson (12) charges toward the end zone for one of his four touchdowns Saturday. IJ ran for 90 yards
Wolfpack quarterback
JAMIE BARNETTE
threw for two
touchdowns and ran
for another.
the slaughter had
ensued.
But while State’s
offensive line
couldn’t stave off
the blue blitz,
Barnette did his
part to delay the
‘Pack’s trip to the
butcher. When the
Tar Heel defensive
line charged athim,
he rolled out and
spread the‘D’thin.
And for a while,
he kept the UNC
Hockey completes regular season with sweep
■ The Tar Heels outscored
their opponents 11-1 in a
pair of wins this weekend.
BY JASON KNOTT
STAFF WRITER
Numbers can be deceptive.
Listening to North Carolina’s field
hockey team, one would assume that
Radford and James Madison came close
to pulling off upsets.
But the top
ranked Tar
Heels
outscored
their two op
ponents 11-1
this weekend
Field Hockey
Radford 1
UNC 5
James Madison 0
UNC 6
en route to victories th at closed out an 18-
1 regular season.
UNC shut down Radford (9-8) in the
Tar Heel goalie
JANA WITHROW set
a UNC record with her
36th career shutout.
second half to tri
umph 5-1 Sunday
at Navy Field. On
Saturday, the Tar
Heels knocked out
No. 16 JMU(I2-8)
6-0.
Although UNC
dominated on the
scoreboard,
Radford’s competi
tive play stunned
the Tar Heels. The
Lady Highlanders
capitalized on only
one of four shots offensively but forced
North Carolina to work harder than ex
pected with a strong defensive effort.
“I thought they’d be aggressive, but
they did some nice things,” UNC coach
Karen Shelton said. “Their goalkeeper
played well. You’ve got to give them
credit. They didn’t back down.”
In the first half, the Tar Heels jumped
defense rated second in the nation
backpedaling.
“The coaches told us to go out there
and attack and not get attacked by them, ’’
Barnette said. “This was a game we de
cided to (roll out) more, and it worked in
some cases, and in some cases it didn’t.”
Barnette’s rushing stats, hurt mostly
by the eight sacks UNC recorded, didn’t
reflect his impact on the game. But his
passing effort —165 yards and two touch
downs kept State afloat.
Trailing 19-0 in the second stanza,
Barnette engineered a 15-play, 78-yard
drive that culminated in a 12-yard TD
pass toTorry Holt. Throughout the drive,
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UNC sophomore Nancy Pelligreen (18) collides with a Radford defender in
Sunday's game at Navy Field. The Tar Heels topped the Highlanders 5-1.
up early on forward Kate Barber’s first
goal in the fourth minute of play. Radford
answered five minutes later when Holly
Osmond scored on a deflected penalty
comer.
Forward Nancy Pelligreen netted
UNC’s second goal over diving Radford
goalie Lindsay Watson. Susannah Schott
capped the first-half scoring with a goal
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Barnette rolled out and eluded UNC’s
defenders, throwing for 68 yards and two
key first downs.
Three minutes later, Barnette scored
from the three on a roll-out to make it 26
14.
And although UNC managed to ex
pand its lead back to 19 at half, Barnette
opened the third quarter with a 24-yard
TD strike to tight end Mark Thomas to
cut UNC’s lead to 13.
“I thought he was gonna be a little
nervous after that first one, because
Vonnie made the fumble, and we scored
See BARNETTE, Page 13
off a penalty comer to put North Caro
lina up 3-1.
In the second half, UNC took 24 shots
to Radford’s one and throttled any Lady
Highlander hopes of an upset. But
Watson’s nine saves prevented the Tar
Heels from expanding their lead.
Although UNC tallied 12 penalty cor
ners in the second stanza, the Radford
Monday, November 4,1996
Godlock
runs for
3rd title
II The UNC women finished
second and the men third at
this weekend s ACC cross
country meet in Maryland.
BY KURT TONDOItF
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
When North Carolina cross country
coach Joan Nesbit met her star distance
runner, Karen Godlock, at the finish line
of Saturday’s ACC championship
women’s SK, she told her pupil through
tears that she had
done it —Godlock
had become the
first everthree time
ACC champion in
the sport of
women’s cross
country.
“And Karen’s
like, ‘Oh, well,"’
Nesbit said. “She
really said that I
told her what a
gi eat thing she had
done, and that was
UNC senior runner
KAREN GODLOCK
finished the meet with
a time of 16:22.8.
her reaction.”
No one can fault Godlock’s stoic
celebratory remark. Perhaps being the
first to break the tape in each of the past
three ACC championships has become
routine for Godlock, who also became
the first runner in either the men’s or
women’s division to pull off the ACC
trifecta since Jim Beatty did so from
1953-55.
Godlock’s performance helped push
the Tar Heel women’s team to a second
place finish behind N.C. State, while the
UNC men’s squad garnered third place
behind Wake Forest and the champion
Wolfpack.
Godlock held off State freshman
Christy Nichols for the historic win, clock
ing a time of 16:22.8. Her Tar Heel team
mates, sophomore Sara Majka and se
nior Blake Phillips, finished fourth and
sixth, respectively.
Nichols darted early to the head of the
pack, while Godlock kept an even pace.
With approximately 300 meters remain
ing, the UNC senior began to make a
push past Nichols.
See GODLOCK, Page 13
defense nullified the opportunities by
blanketing Tar Heel attackers with tight
coverage.
“It would have made their year to
come out and beat us,” Barbersaid. “You
can’t underestimate a team like them,
because they’re the kind that would come
in and beat you.”
But the Radford defense could not
contain Barber, who has tallied eight
goals in the last five games. Barber scored
twice in the second half to complete her
hat trick, netting all three on open-field
shots in one-on-one opportunities.
Shelton said that her team talked about
the little things at halftime to turn things
around. The Tar Heels had plenty of
opportunities but could not make them
pay off.
We had some little mistakes in the
first half," she said. “We had some great
ball movement, working the ball well
from right to left. Our passing was good,
but it was just that final pass that was a
little off.”
The Tar Heels didn’t exhibit those
problems against James Madison, domi
nating the Dukes for the majority of the
game. UNC started slowly, as JMU held
its own for the first 15 minutes.
After the first ten minutes, I was
somewhat nervous,” Shelton said. “I
knew they would come out aggressive.
After we got a couple of goals, I knew
that that’s what it would take to get our
kids to relax.”
But the Tar Heels began attacking
more aggressively and scored four goals
in the next 11 minutes. Back Jennifer
DiCuollo scored the game-winner, and
Pelligreen fired two goals after breaking
past defenders for open shots. Barber,
Cindy Werley, and Moira McFadden
also added goals for North Carolina.
The win gave junior goalkeeper Jana
Withrow her 36th career shutout, break
ing the school record shared by Mary
Holzer and Evelien Spee.
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