Youth amid speed
Shelton's troops will need both to
overcome the heartbreak of 1 987
By ANDREW PODOLSKY
. Assistant Sports Editor
'. It has been nine months since the
North Carolina field hockey team
suffered a bitter 2-1 overtime loss to
; Maryland in the national champion
ship final. But still the memory
; lingers, even as the Tar Heels prepare
to open the 1988 season.
As head coach Karen Shelton
wistfully explained, UI really thought
we had that game won when it went
into overtime. It was disappointing,
we were just unlucky."
But the memory of that tough loss
in the finals is what sticks in people's
minds most, not the fact that the Tar
Heels are coming off a 19-2 season,
and had them pegged at No. 1 for
most of the season.
The last four years have seen steady
improvement in the program, but still
no national championship. UNC has
been ranked No. 1 at some point in
each of the last three years, and have
finished the past two seasons as the
top team at the end of the regular
season. The team keeps getting closer
and closer to the title, only to have
its hopes dashed in the semifinals or
finals of the national tournament,
Last year for instance, they spent
most of the year as the consensus No.
1-ranked team, but fell just short.
This year's national rankings will
place UNC in the top five, but it will
be the first time in three years that
UNC doesn't head into the season
holding down the top slot.
Unlucky? Yes. But has Shelton sat
idly by on her laurels during the
offseason? No.
The coach has recruited six fresh-
men to replace the five senior starters
(including two All-Amencans) that
graduated last year, and switched a
few positions around to try and get
the right mix to finally propel the Tar
Heels to that elusive national cham
pionship. "If we are going to be successful
this year, we will need communica
tion and leadership from our upper
classmen,
Shelton said. Specifically,
tne team win rely on juniors lracey ACC lournament. In addition to
Yurgin (sweeper), Leslie Lyness scoring 2,290 points, he ranks second
(midfielder), Julie Blaisse (center), all-time in assists at UNC.
and leading returning scorer Jennifer In 1976, he co-captained the gold
Anderson (back) to fill the void left winning U.S. Olympic men's basket
by recent graduates Lori Bruney, ball team at Montreal. He spent four
Betsy Gillespie and Maryellen seasons in the NBA, and he was the
Falcone. 1979 rookie of the year with the
They were three of the team's top Kansas City. Kings. ,...,
four scorers last year w accounting for
46 goals and 33 assists, more than
half of the team's total scoring.
Thus, the team that will make the
run this year can be best described
with two words: young and quick.
"We will definitly be a little
younger this year and we have good
overall speed " Shelton said. "I am
hoping that we will continually
improve as the year goes on. This
year's team has no problem with
motivation. Our seniors realize that
... .
this is their last shot at it, and I am
happy with the whole team's hard-
working attitude.
"They know that they are young,
and know that they are going to have
to steaaiiy improve as tne year
progresses. "
With the challenging schedule the
team faces early on this year, they
will have to start improving early.
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UNC travels to Boston for a tough
three-game weekend series (from
September 16-18) against Maine,
Northeastern, and the first real tester
of the season - New Hamphshire.
They won't get a break the follow
ing weekend, as they face what
Shelton terms "probably our biggest
weekend of the season" from Sep
tember 22-25. That weekend the Tar
Heels play Iowa, Old Dominion, and
defending national champions Mary
land in quick succession. Shelton
pointed out, "these will be especially
hard games. Iowa will be in the top
five, ODU came within a game of
getting into the final four last year,
and Maryland is always tough."
After that series, Shelton sees West
Chester, and Virginia as the toughest
opponents. "I feel pretty good about
our schedule, it's strong, and the fact
that we have three home weekends
in a row (in September and October)
will help us when we head into the
ACC tournament and the national
tournament," Shelton said,
After the three-week homestand,
the Tar Heels will play four away
games before the ACC tournament,
which will be held in Charlottesville,
Va., in the last weekend of October,
So let's take a look at the personnel
on the 1988 team. The starting lineup
will likely include four seniors, three
juniors, three sophomores and a
freshman. The co-captains are Yurgin
and Anderson. Only three players
return to the same starting positions
they had last year,
Tentatively, the front line will
include sophomore Peggy Anton on
the left wing, Blaisse (15 goals, 4
assists last year), and frosh Cathy
Osmers on the right with junior
Summer
Ford was an All-American in 1976, UNC junior J.R. Reid has made
77 and 78, and he won the John the squad, helping provide much
Wooden Award in 78. In 1975, he needed muscle underneath. Thomp
became the first freshman to be son made what was no doubt a
named most valuable player of the
He had recently been named color
commentator for the NBA expansion
Charlotte Hornets.
"IVe talked with the staff here in
the past about coaching, but it's a
dream come true to coach at my alma
mater and a great thrill to work with
coach Smith," Ford said. "He has
Dlaved a verv important role in mv
a
life and there is no one better with
whom I could begin my career.'
Many Tar Heel fans have spent the
summer tracking the U.S. Olympic
men's basketball squad, for a certain
flattopped player is weighing heavily
in coach John Thompson's plans for
the Seoul, South Korea, event.
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Sharon Ross (4g, la) seeing a lot of
action. Laurel Hershey (7g, 2a) moves
from forward to midfield this year,
and joins Lyness (lg, Oa), and Kathy
Staley (4g, 2a).
Virtually everyone is back on the
devensive squad. Leading returning
scorer Anderson (lg, 23a) and senior
Michelle Russell return to their
positions of last year, with the final
spot still up for grabs. Sophomore
Evelien Spee will take over the
goalkeeping duties after serving as
back-up last year, and Yurgin will be
the sweeper.
Shelton added "I feel pretty good
about our recruiting year as well. The
freshmen' may be able to bolster our
forwards." The most promising of the
slew of incoming freshmen are for
wards Osmers and Nancy Lang, who
hails from Killingsworth, Conn. The
rest of class of 1992 includes Jennifer
Clark, Mary Hartzell, Alisia Morgan,
and Maura Troy.
Turning to Spee, Shelton added,
"We are simply expecting her to come
up with the big saves. She has
excellent range, and flexibility. And
at 5-10, she is able to cover a lot of
ground in the goal. She is a game
player, and she is a competitor."
So another season begins with
UNC ranked in the top five (ho hum).
The regular season has never been a
problem. The team has been always
held steady until the post season,
when the team's season-long trend of
improvement suddenly disappears. A
disappointing loss always seems to
appear at the most inopportune time.
Shelton hopes that the team's new
look will allow the team to stay strong
through the year and, for once, to
peak at the right time.
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painful cut for him Saturday when
he axed Georgetown freshman
Alonzo Mourning, and the former
high school rival of Reid's was his
strongest competition in that role.
Of course, the squad has Danny
Manning, David Robinson and
Charles Smith (of Pittsburgh), but
their strengths are more as finesse
players . than r physical ones, Reid,
however, is at his strongest when
dominating a game from the paint,
Reid's teammates Jeff Lebo and
Scott Williams were also invited to
the tryouts back in May. But an ankle
injury leftover from the NCAAs kept
Lebo from participating, while Wil-
liams spent a day at Thompson's
camp before returnine home to attend
to "family matters."
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