NCAA Final FourFriday, November 16, 19843
UNC seeking fourth title
By KIMBALL CROSSLEY
SUCT Writer
If the coaches of the Cal.
Berkeley, U.Conn or U.Mass
women's soccer teams are up late
Friday night trying to devise a
method of unseating North Carol
ina in this weekend's NCAA Final
Four, the answer might be to hope
UNC runs into bad luck.
Because that's the only thing
UNC head coach Anson Dorrance
said can keep his team from
winning its fourth consecutive
national championship.
"Nothing else can stop us,"
Dorrance said after watching his
team defeat Central Florida, 4-1,
in last Saturday's second-round
match. "The only way (we can
lose) is if we outshoot a team
something like 20-10 and lose, 2
1." Dorrance said that before the
Central Florida game he was
worried that his team would either
play without intensity or play
afraid. But he said now he knew
that neither would happen.
"It's the ultimate embarrass
ment," he said, "to be rated No.
1 (in the Intercollegiate Soccer
Association of America's final
regular-season poll); hosting the
tournament, and then to have to
sit in the stands and watch it and
answer questions about what
happened."
Dorrance said UNC was
relieved now that it had reached
the Final Four because, win or
lose, everyone would know and see
the quality of the team.
Statistics, if nothing else, reveal
that this team might well be even
better than the three champion
No. Name Pos. Yr. Hometown
BethHuber G Sr. Williamsville, N.Y. 17 Kathy Kelly S Sr. Fairfax, Va.
Kathleen OTell G So. Annapolis, Md. 18 Keath Castelloe S-B Fr. Raleigh
2 April Heinrichs M-S So. Littleton, Colo. 19 Mary Smith D Jr. Dallas, Tex.
3 Nancy Slocum M So. Palo Alto. Calif. 20 Jo Boobas S So. McLean, Va.
4 Lisa Duffy M Fr. Raleigh 21 Marcia McDermott M So. McLean, Va.
5 Suzy Cobb M Sr. Great Falls, Va. 22 Susan Ellis B Sr. Chapel Hill
6 Stacy Nelson B Jr. Columbia. Md. 23 Dori Kovanen B Sr. Tacoma, Wash.
7 Senga Allan B Jr. New York, N.Y. 24 AJa Parsons S Fr. Miami. Ra.
8 Emily Pickering M Sr. Massapequa, N.Y. 25 Julie Ellis B Fr. Chapel Hill
9 Stacey Enos B Jr. Tampa, Fla. 26 Carrie Serwetnyk S Fr. Mississigua, Ontario
10 Diane Beatty B " Sr. Springfield. Va.
1 1 Betsy Johnson M Jr. Pond Eddy, N.Y. Letters won
12 Amy Machin , M-S" Sr. Dallas, Tex.
13 Jill McCartney M Fr. Tulsa, Okla. Head coach: Anson Dorrance
14 Tina Luft M Jr. Piano, Tex. Assistant coach: Bill Paladino
5 Sherri McDavid S-B Fr. Fairfax, Va. Graduate assistant: John Richards
16 Joan Dunlap S So. Seattle, Wash. Soccer staff: Winkie LaForce and Bob Peiffer
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ship teams before it. UNC's 22-0-1
record is second only to the
1981 team's 19-0-0 mark and was
compiled against a tougher sche
dule because of the overall
improvement of women's colle
giate soccer.
Also, in 23 games, the Tar Heels
have outscored the opposition
1 16-5, the five goals against being
the lowest total in the team's six
years of existence.
And, while the 1 16 goals scored
falls well below the 172 scored in
198 1, the total is deceptive because
Dorrance has often curtailed
scoring by placing restrictions on
the team to help it improve
skillwise without embarrassing the
opposition.
Susan Ellis, a fifth-year senior
defensive back, said that this year's
team was the best she had seen.
"This team is the best because
of the depth," Ellis said. "If we play
our best, we know no one can beat
us."
But why is this team so good?
Why is it unbeatable? And why
is it better than the other three
national champions?
First of all, there is the amazing
depth that Ellis said makes the
team so good.
Eighteen players have scored
goals for UNC this year. Dorrance
said some of his reserves could be
stars at other major programs. For
example, senior striker Amy
Machin, a two-time All-America,
had to fight for a starting position
this season and six times did not
start.
"The scrimmages at the end of
practice would be one of the best
games on our schedule," Dorrance
said.
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The remarkable depth, how
ever, has left many players
unhappy about playing time. Yet
Ellis said the negative effects of this
have been minimal.
"There will always be prob
lems," Ellis said, "But we've
handled them."
Dorrance said UNC's greatest
asset is its versatility.
"We seem to score goals in all
sorts of ways," he said. "We can
win in a variety of ways."
Heinrichs said the team's unity
was its biggest strength.
"Even if we weren't the best
team in the country talentwise,
. we'd still be up there because of
our personality. We don't accept
losing," she said.
Perhaps the most tangible rea
son for UNC's 1984 success is its
speed. Particularly the speed of the
forwards "Heinrichs, second
leading scorer Joan Dunlap and
Jo Boobas.
"So many balls are won just
because you're fast," Dorrance
said. "" AH things being equal, speed
is the deciding factor."
Heinrichs, Dunlap and Boobas,
a reserve forward and the team's
fifth leading scorer, are the three
fastest players on the team.
Ellis called Heinrichs the best
player in the country and said that
any team with Heinrichs alone had
a chance for the national
championship.
Dorrance has called Dunlap one
of the best athletes male or
female he has ever seen.
The final theory explaining
UNC's brilliance is a simple one,
offered by Dorrance: The players,
are champions.
"They have that special quality,"
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he said. "In an important game,
if we're tied or we're losing, there
is a surge. The surge that national
champions have."
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"We could play without Anson
being there," Ellis said.
Dorrance admitted that what
Ellis said was true and perhaps
himself has wondered what it
would take to defeat this team.
Like a few other coaches have
probably been wondering all week.
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