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By ANDREW PODOLSKY
Staff Writer
"This is the strongest team we have
ever had." UN C field hockey coach
Karen Shelton.
It has been just about nine months
now since the UNC field hockey team
coasted into the slot of the third
ranked team in the nation in 1986.
On the surface, this was quite an
admirable accomplishment, but
seventh-year coach Karen Shelton
and the rest of the 1987 team head
into this season with a grim look of
determination. The 1986 team spent
all but one week atop the national
polls before losing to 14th-ranked
Northwestern in the last game of the
regular season.
Soon to follow was a 2-1 NCAA
semifinal loss to New Hampshire,
which had handed the Tar Heels their
first setback early in the season. That
loss, coupled with a 4-0 victory over
Perm State in the consolation game
of the Final Four, gave UNC a 19
3 final record.
But this year the team may finally
have the tools to go all the way.
" WeVe got depth, good leadership,
and we have another traditional
Carolina strong defensive squad,
Shelton said. "One of the big keys
is the leadership we need from our
many seniors."
In the last four years, UNC has
finished the season ranked 13th,
eighth, fifth and third. Judging by
that rate of improvement, the Tar
Heels could net their first national
championship.
The team lost only two starters
from last year, including star forward
Claire Dougherty, while picking up
a number of top recruits, including
forward Laurel Hershey, from Hum
mersville, Pa., goalkeeper Evelien
Spee, from The Netherlands, and
Summer
forward Peggy Anthon, of St. Louis.
"I feel really good about the
developing competition for the open
slots on the starting lineup, said
Shelton. "We had a taste of being on
top last year, and losing that will be
a big motivating force for the team
this season.
"We met all our goals last year,
and we're aiming a little higher this
year with a fifth consecutive ACC
championship, and making the Final
Four on the agenda. If we can get
to the Final Four this year, I think
we have a great shot at winning.
Because the team is senior
dominated, 1987 may be the last good
chance at a national championship
for a while. In the next few years,
sportswriters all over will be using
that fun phrase "rebuilding year to
describe the team's prospects.
But all that is down the line. More
important are the strengths of this
year's squad. A multitude of veterans
will lead this year's run for the title.
Sophomore sensation Julie Blaisse
comes off a freshman year in which
she scored a record-tying 21 goals.
Senior captain Ellen Bakken will
head a squad of seniors trying to win
it all. The goalkeeper waiting as the
final obstacle of the always-miserly
defense is Kathy Mulvey. Mulvey's
1986 season included nine shutouts
and a .73 goals allowed average.
Other returning players include
1986 first-team All-Americas Lori
Bruney and Maryellen Falcone, and
second-team All-American Tracey
Yurgin.
Bruney and Yurgin competed on
their home field this summer at the
U.S. Olympic Festival.
A fifth consecutive ACC cham
pionship shouldn't be too much
trouble this season. The Tar Heels
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Three UNC foes in AP
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Sophomore Julie Btaisse (9) will be essential to field hockey's success
host the tournament at AstroTurf
Field, with their main competition
coming from Maryland and Virginia.
The hunt for the national title will
be a bit rougher. Shelton expects the
Tar Heels to begin the season ranked
either second or third behind defend
ing national champion Iowa. '
Other competition nationally will
include Old Dominion, which holds
a 9-4 advantage in the series with the
Tar Heels since the rivalry began in
1978. In fact, up until two years ago,
ODU had defeated UNC nine straight
times.
"ODU is probably our biggest
rival, Shelton said. "They seem to
use selective excellence in their sports
programs. After turning their wom
en's basketball team into national
champions, they focused their atten
tion on field hockey and bang!, they
win three consecutive national cham
pionships. They also have the coach
who won all these titles returning this
year after a three-year absence."
Perhaps UNC's biggest game this
year will come against New Hamp
shire. The Penmen, of course, handed
UNC two of its three defeats last
season. UNC has never defeated the
Penmen, despite outshooting them
23-5 in their semifinal loss last year
and similarly dominating their first
contest.
From Associated Prs report
For the third year in a row and
the sixth time in Barry Switzer's 15
years as head coach, Oklahoma is the
pre-season choice in the Associated
press poll to win college football's
national championship.
Clemson, the only Atlantic Coast
Conference school ranked, is No. 9.
Maryland, Georgia Tech and North
Carolina received votes, but didn't
come close to cracking the Top 20.
North Carolina will meet the
Sooners Sep. 11 in Norman, Okla.,
and will also face Top 10 teams
Auburn and Clemson.
The Sooners were picked by an
overwhelming margin over Nebraska,
their annual rival for the Big Eight
championship.
This is only the fourth time since
the AP began its pre-season polls in
1950 that two teams from the same
conference have been ranked first and
second. Iowa and Ohio State of the
Big Ten were 1-2 in the 1961 pre
season poll, Nebraska and Colorado
of the Big Eight held the top spots
in 1972, and Nebraska and Oklahoma
led the way in 1983.
Oklahoma is the first school to be
ranked first in the pre-season poll
three consecutive years.
Defending national champion
Penn State, which must cope with the
loss of NFL iirst-round draft picks.
D.J. Dozier and Shane Conlan, is:
No. 11 having received one first-place
vote and 603 points.
I.Oklahoma (55)
2. Nebraska (3)
3. UCLA (1)
4. Ohio State
5. Auburn
6. Louisiana St
7. Michigan
8. Florida St
9. Clemson
10. Miami, Fla.
11. Penn. St (1)
12. Arkansas
13. Washington
14. Arizona St
15. Texas A&M
16. Iowa
17. Tennessee
18. Notre Dame
19. Southern Cal
20. Florida
(tie)Georgia
AP Top 20
11-1 1.193
10-2-0 1,005
8-3-1 935
10-3-0 906
10- 2-0 835
9-3-0 789
11- 2-0 754
7- 4-1 723
8- 2-2 CS2
11- 1-0 676
12- 0-0 603
9- 3-0 598
8- 3-1 521
10-1-1 443
9- 3-0 424
9-3-0 318
7-5-0 231
5- 6-0 207
7- 5-0 141
6- 5-0 127
8- 4-0 127
Others receiving votes: Pittsburgh 118,
Alabama 67, Colorado 41 , Michigan State
33, Mississippi 24, South Carolina 23. San
Diego St 17, Arizona 8. Brig ham Young
8, Stanford 8, Illinois 5, Maryland 3.
Syracuse 3, Boston Colege 2, Georgia
Tech 2, North Carolina 2, Oklahoma St
1.
" Baseball Draftees
Five Tar Heels were selected in the
June major league baseball draft,
including star shortstop Darin Camp
bell, who decided not to sign with
the Chicago Cubs in order to return
for his junior season.
The four UNC signees were first
baseman Howard Freiling (L. A.
Dodgers), and pitchers David Traut
wein (N. Y. Mets), . Doug , iTorborg
(Pittsburgh Pirates) and Tod Kopc
zynski (Texas Rangers).
Freiiine. who drove in a team-
leading 69 runs as a junior last season,
decided to pass up his senior year
after the Dodgers tabbed the Phila
delphia native in the eighth round.
Freiling has played this summer with
Vero Beach (Fla.) of the Class A
Florida State League.
Trautwein and Torborg have been
competitors in the New York-Perm
Summer A League, pitching for Little
Falls and Watertown, respectively.
Kopczynski, (who finished his
senior year with a flourish , of com
plete game victories, decided to put
medical school on hold to play for
the Gulf Coast (Fla.) Rangers rookie
league team.
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