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Bennett not very happy after game
despite shattering passing records
Monday, November 21, 1983The Daily Tar Heel5
Women's soccer team
faces George Mason
for NCAA championship
By SCOTT SMITH
Staff Writer
The North Carolina women's soccer
team advanced to the finals of the NCAA
tournament Saturday with a 2-0 decision
over Massachusetts in Orlando, Fla.
The Tar Heels were scheduled to play
George Mason Sunday in the champion
ship game, but because of bad weather
the game was postponed until today at 1 1
a.m.
Despite playing with what veteran de
fender Suzy Cobb called a "lack of inten
sity in the first half," the UNC women
came out after the intermission and broke
the scoreless halftime deadlock with goals
from April Heinrichs and Amy Machin.
Heinrichs opened the scoring about
eight minutes into the second half when
she chased down a high Betsy Johnson
through pass in front of the Massachusetts
goal, went one-on-one with goalkeeper
Jeanne Paul and pushed it into the right
corner of the net from about three yards
out.
Machin sealed the game for the Tar
Heels with five minutes remaining with a
header from eight yards out.
Forward Joan Dunlap set up the
Machin goal when she dribbled the ball
down the right sidelines past three de
fenders and crossed the ball in front of
the Massachusetts goal to a waiting Ma
chin, whose flick header hit the left post
and bounced in.
The win put the UNC record at 18-1
for the season. The only Tar Heel loss
came at the hands of top-ranked Connec
ticut in the opening game of the season.
Unfortunately for the UNC women,
they well not be given the chance of
avenging that loss in the finals, as George
Mason knocked off previously unbeaten
UConn with a 1-0 victory in the other
semifinal game.
In George Mason, the Tar Heels will be
facing a team they have already beaten
twice this season by scores of 5-0 and 2-1 .
UNC will be the prohibitive favorite to
day and George Mason the heavy under
dog. Coach Anson Dorrance doesn't par
ticularly like that position.
"To be perfectly frank, I think we'd
rather have played Connecticut in the
final," said Dorrance. "We'd have had
the psychological advantage because they
beat us early on in the season and we
would have liked a chance to make up for
that. George Mason will have the psy
chological advantage coming in (Mon
day) because we'd beaten them twice."
Dorrance said that if the game had
been played under the rainy conditions
Sunday, George Mason would have had a
big advantage. He is confident about go
ing into today's game on a drier field.
"The conditions today (Sunday) would
have equalized things. Weather's a great
equalizer, and I think it's to our advan
tage to play on the drier field," said Dor
rance. A UNC win today would give the Tar"
Heel women their third-straight national
championship in as many years.
By MICHAEL PERSINGER
Staff Writer
Ben Bennett sat dejectedly in front of
his locker. More than 45 minutes had
passed since his last-ditch fourth and four
pass to fullback Joel Blunk fell incom-,
plete, ending Duke's hopes for an upset
of North Carolina Saturday.
After the post-game shower, the hugs
from teammates, the slow, methodical
ritual of dressing as he did on 43 previous
Saturdays during his college career, Ben
nett succumbed to the wishes of waiting
reporters.
He slowly walked to a trainer's table
and sat down.
"Hey, guys," he said. "Can I ask you
a favor? Don't ask me how I feel."
Bennett had every right to feel good.
He had passed for 323 yards, completing
27 of his 35 attempts. His performance
helped add to the long list of ACC and
NCAA records Bennett had already set.
Bennett finished with 9,614 yards pass
ing in his career, the most in NCAA
Division-I history. Bennett surpassed Jim
McMahon of Brigham Young, who
finished with 9,536.
Bennett also set an NCAA Division I-A "
record for most plays in a career with
1,582, surpassing Toledo's Gene Swick,
who had 1,579. He also set ACC stan
dards with 300 completions, 469 attempts
and 3,086 yards for the season.
He ended his career with 820 comple
tions in 1,375 attempts, both NCAA
Division I-A records. Bennett holds 13
ACC records, more than anyone else in
league history.
But even with his individual accom
plishments, Bennett was not happy. And
he blamed himself for his unhappiness.
"We didn't win any ACC champion
ships, we didn't go to any bowl games,
and we had only two winning seasons in
my four years here," Bennett said. "And
we didn't beat Carolina today, and if you
don't do that, you can't be happy with
anything. I blame myself for all that.
"Nothing else matters."
For Bennett, it sometimes seemed that
nothing in his life mattered more than
beating the Tar Heels. Four years ago,
when Bennett, a Greensboro native, was
a highly regarded high school senior com
ing out of San Francisco, he wrote a letter
to Dick Crum seeking a scholarship.
Crum payed little attention, and Bennett
signed with the Blue Devils.
Saturday, Crum showed Bennett the
respect he had denied that California high
school senior four years ago. On behalf
of the North Carolina team that spurned
him, Crum presented Bennett with the
game ball.
"All of our kids wanted to give Ben
Bennett one of the game balls," Crum
said. "We've played against him for four
years, and he's a great competitor and a
great quarterback."
Crum's presentation seemed to lessen
Bennett's animosity toward Crum and
the Tar Heels.
"When a class organization like the
Carolina football program sends its head
coach over to give you the game ball, it
makes you feel good," Bennett said.
Bennett wasn't feeling quite so good at
the end of the first quarter Saturday. At
that point, Duke was trailing 7-0, and
Bennett was tight and struggling in the
face of a strong pass rush. He had com
pleted just 3 of 6 passes in the quarter for
7 yards. But suddenly in the second
period, Bennett caught fire to finish the
half 11 of 17 for 104 yards and a TD.
"I was thinking a little bit about the
records," Bennett said. "But I finally
realized that the only reason we were here
was to beat Carolina. Once I got that into
my thick skull, I played better."
He also removed all doubt that he
would indeed get the yardage record.
Bennett came out in the second half and
. completed 16 of his 18 pass attempts, in
cluding his first 15. His 24-yard pass to
freshman wide receiver Doug Green with
11:12 left in the fourth quarter put him
ahead of McMahon.
When his accomplishment was an
nounced to the crowd of 49,500, Bennett
waved weakly in recognition of the ova
tion. "It's a very hollow feeling," Bennett
said of the passing record. "Everybody's
mind was on beating Carolina. We didn't
do that, so we can't be happy about
anything."
Tar Heels win ACC volleyball championship
By MIKE WATERS
Staff Writer
North Carolina's volleyball team captured its fourth
consecutive ACC championship in a four-game victory
over Duke Sunday in Durham.
For the second year in a row the Tar Heels and the
Blue Devils met in the tournament's final match. This
time UNC downed Duke 15-6, 11-15, 15-9 and 15-13.
Just as they had done in the semifinals 'last fall, the
Blue Devils upset powerful N.C. State in the semifinals
on Saturday. Duke continued to be N.C. State's Achilles
heel Saturday by rallying from a 2-1 deficit in games.
Duke coach Jon Wilson's pre-tournament prediction
that the team with the toughest semifinal game would be
at a disadvantage in the final came true, and to his
misfortune.
N.C. State was the tournament's top seed, but the
Blue Devils, who had defeated State in last year's
tourney and in their final regular season game could
hardly be counted out.
"The Devils struggled from behind to win 11-15, 15-11,
13-15, 15-13 and 15-8. UNC didn't have it much easier
on Saturday. The Tar Heels survived a tight five-game
match against Maryland 18-16, 16-14, 13-15, 13-15 and
15-11.
The tournament championship should qualify UNC
for the NCAA championship. North Carolina had
entered the tournament with a 6-1 conference record and
seeded second. UNC downed Wake Forest on Friday
while Duke advanced to its showdown with N.C. State
by beating Clemson.
Jordan scores 26 in Blue- White;
women 's basketball wins opener
From staff reports
Michael Jordan and Brad Daugherty
led the White team to a 77-69 victory with
26 and 22 points, respectively, in the se
cond Blue-White scrimmage Saturday.
However, coach Dean Smith was not par
ticularly pleased with what he saw.
"There were lots of exciting plays, but
not good basketball," Smith said.
"Unless our defense is far ahead of our
offense, we didn't execute our offenses
very well. We had a lot of mental lapses."
Smith's observations were backed up
by the fact that 37 turnovers were com
mitted in the game.
Warren Martin, who started in the pre
vious Blue-White game, sat out this con
test with leg injuries. Also, starting point
guard candidate Buzz Peterson had to sit
out the second half because of weakness
due to a bout with the flue. Peterson had 5
assists in the first half for the White team.
Sam Perkins led the Blue team with 25
points. He was followed by Cecil Exum
with 6 points; Dave Popson, 6; Curtis
Hunter, 15, Kenny Smith, 12; Steve Hale,
4 (first half); and Timo Makkonen, 1 (se
cond half).
For the White team, Jordan and
Daugherty were aided by Matt Doherty, 7
points; Joe Wolf, 11; Hale, 8 (second
half); and Makkonen, 3 (second half).
Tresa Brown scored 23 points and
grabbed seven rebounds to lead UNC to a
98-68 rout over Oklahoma City in the
championship game of the Lady Jayhawk
Tip-Off tournament Saturday in
Lawrence, Kan.
UNC reached the finals of the classic
by coming from behind to defeat North
western State 69-68 in Friday's opening
round.
Pam Hammond pushed the Tar Heels
to victory by converting a 15-foot jump
shot with eight seconds remaining.
Brown contributed 17 points and 1 1 re
bounds while Pam Leake chipped in 10
points for UNC. Kim Taylor's 16 points
topped Northwestern State, which had
four players in double figures.
Brown was named as the tournament's
MVP and was joined on the All-tourney
team by Leake, a sophomore guard.
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