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Darren Royer's strong play in the nets has made him one of the nation's top goalkeepers
Royer hopes play in net will
help soccer improve on ;87
By DAVE GLENN
Assistant Sports Editor
He has been called one of the top
goalkeepers in the nation. His team's
2Q-5 record last year was the best in
the history of UNC men's soccer, and
he has high hopes for another suc
cessful season in 1988. He is a strong
candidate for the All-ACC team, and,
with an extraordinary year, All
America honors in his final season
hi a Tar Heel uniform.
J Meet Darren Royer, the last line
of defense for the UNC soccer team.
Royer, a 6-foot, 175-pounder from
$fcattle, Wash., began his assault on
tbe Tar Heel record books in 1985
v.!hen he took over a starting role eight
games into the season. Today, he
stands seven shutouts and less than
200 minutes away from UNC career
records in those categories. But
Rover's importance to his team can't
possibly be captured by statistics
alone.
A student of the game when he's
in the net, Royer studies political
science and philosophy in the class
room. His philosophy background
becomes evident when he discusses
his role on the field, and his political
sense comes through when he dis
cusses everything within the team
concept.
Royer himself realizes his leader
ship role in 1988. "It does add a little
to the pressures already involved in
being a goaltender," Royer says. "But
I'm used to being a leader on the field
and I'm just trying to continue doing
the same things that I've always
done."
; Royer's previous experience in goal
includes playing on a Washington
state select team and the U.S. Junior
National Team that recorded the first
international tournament victory ever
for a U.S. junior team.
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Royer realize that he would be able
to fulfill his dream of playing Division
I soccer in college. MIVe been playing
goalie since I was 11 years old, and
I gradually realized that I would be
able to play in college," Royer says,
"In high school, I made up a soccer
resume and sent it to UNC because
I knew that ACC competition would
really present me with a challenge."
Royer has met the challenge in the
eyes of head coach Anson Dorrance.
"Darren is one of the top keepers in
the ACC," Dorrance says. "He reads,
the game very well and he has worked
hard to become one of the top keepers
in the ACC. He has become a major
factor in our winning and losing.
"His challenge this year is to
become even better than he was last
year. With the loss of David Smyth
on defense, Darren's leadership
qualities have to come to fruition. He
must take over more and lead our
young defense. I think there is no
doubt that he will contend for not
only all-league but All-America as
well."
As a player who has a unique
vantage point from which to watch
the game, Royer knows that helping
his teammates is just as important as
making the big save. "I am always
watching the ball when I m in goal,
Royer says. "If the defenders let
down, I have to communicate with
them and tell them what is working
and what is not."
Though he may go an entire half
without having to make a save, Royer
believes that his position in goal
enables him to help his teammates
all the way upfield. "At the end of
the field, you can see everything,"
Royer says. "I may see things that
some guys can't see behind them or
across the field. That's one of the
main jobs that a goaltender has
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to direct the team and to tell them
what's happening."
The man with the 1 .75 goals against
average said he enjoys his spot on
the field because of the responsibility
that goes with it. "What I like most
about the position is that you're a
separate player from the rest of the
team," Royer says. "You're still a part
of the team, but you need unique
skills to play goal. You're the only
player who can use his hands."
Though he has already had a
successful career by any individual
standards, Royer constantly focuses
on the team's goals for 1988. "We
can't be satisfied with what we did
last year," he says. "People said we
were a surprise team in 1987. 1 don't
like that label. If we can do well again
this year, it could firmly establish us
as a team to be reckoned with."
Royer looks at his final season with
high hopes for a successful campaign,
but he's not worried about personal
honors or All-America talk.
"My highest priority is for the team
to do well," Royer says. "It just
follows naturally that if the team does
well, my personal honors will come,
too."
With all that Darren Royer has
going for him, that seems like a pretty
safe bet.
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Tar Heels
By JAY REED
Staff Writer
When the top two women's colle
giate soccer teams in the country,
North Carolina and California
Berkeley, face each other Saturday
at 3:30 p.m. on Fetzer Field, the Tar
Heels will not only enjoy the com
petition, they will also thrive on it.
Cal-Berkeley brings a well
seasoned squad into Chapel Hill once
again, with many top U.S. National
Team players, including forward Joy
Beefel and midfielder Annie Rotobal.
And the top-ranked Tar Heels have
just the team to dispose of Berkeley's
top players. Returning two first-team
All-Americans in the backfield, Lori
Henry and Carla Werden, and the
country's top goalkeeper in 1987,
Anne Sherow, UNC coach Anson
Dorrance's booters could stifle any
opponent's attackers.
Dorrance has built himself a
dynasty here in Chapel Hill. In the
nine years of the women's soccer
program, the Tar Heels have never
lost at home, running up a 78-0-2 tab
at Fetzer Field in that time. Cur
rently, they are in the midst of a 53
game unbeaten streak, which is just
four games shy of the NCAA record
set by guess who? UNC from
1983-85. Dorrance's career record for
the women's squad is a sparkling 164-7-4.
Saturday's game will mark the
fourth time since UNC began its
women's soccer program nine seasons
ago that these two teams have met.
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The Tar Heels have never lost to the
Bears, and in their last meeting UNC
pounded Berkeley, 4-0, in the frigid
semifinal game of the 1987 NCAA
Final Four in Amherst, Mass. No
doubt the Bears will be looking for
vengeance in this matchup.
The presence of the revenge factor
raises the adrenaline of the competing
players, but high intensity in this
game will be an advantage for the
Tar Heels, according to Dorrance.
"We enjoy games like these (against
top competition), because they
improve our play," Dorrance said,
"and put us in a position to make
ourselves better."
You might think that with the Tar
Heels' unbelievable success at the
sport they might be hard to motivate.
But anyone who has seen the squad
practice knows that that is just not
the case.
One change that will affect the Tar
Heels on Saturday will be the absence
of senior first-team All-ACC forward
Birthe Hegstad, who is touring with
the Swedish National Team in Eng
land this weekend. Of course, another
key Tar Heel still missing from the
lineup is senior Ail-American mid
fielder Tracey Bates, who broke a foot
in the offseason and will sit out the
entire season.
Dorrance has been searching hard
for a steady replacement in the
midfield for Bates. "We have not been
able to adjust yet without Tracey,"
he said. "But we have a fine crop of
freshmen that are starting to fill in
Campus Calendar
welcome.
8 p.m. Liberal Arts Edu
cation, a symposium
focusing on the human
ities and significant
changes in higher edu
cation in the last 20
years, will have its key
note address by Dr.
Richard Lanham of
UCLA in Hamilton
Hall. This three-day
forum is open to stu
dents, faculty, parents,
administrators, scho
lars and legislators.
9 p.m. Union Cabaret
Committee announ
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Crawford Group.
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Newman Catholic
. .. Center -will present
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the Center.
Sunday
5 p.m. WXYC will air 3030,
a weekly call-in sports
talk show. This week
UNC baseball coach
Mike Roberts and two
pre-teen ballplayers
from Chapel Hill will
talk about their trip to .
China this summer.
6 p.m. WXYC will have
Wynonia Brewington
Burke, the independent
candidate for Vice
President of the United
States, on "Northern
Hemispheres Live," a
call-in talk show.
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Two freshmen that have already
made an impact on the team are
forward Chris Huston, a Spring,
Texas, native and back Lisa Owen,
who comes to Chapel Hill from
Verga, N.J. These two have contrib
uted so far this season, but they have
yet to face top competition at the
collegiate level. No doubt that they
will Saturday.
One starter whose role will change
is senior keeper Sherow. Last year,
the Dayton, Ohio, native allowed
only one goal in 1,712 minutes in the
nets, a goals against average of .05,
and she posted 22 shutouts in the
process. She has not faced a fierce
offensive test yet this year, having
allowed only two goals, one last
Saturday against George Mason in
a 2-1 win and the other against
Cincinnati in a 4-1 overtime win.
However, Berkeley's offensive attack
will not be passive, and with many
top players up front, the Bears will
keep UNC's defense on its toes.
If the Tar Heels can make an early
offensive surge Saturday and then
maintain their nationally known field
poise, a victory for the Bears of
Berkeley will be nearly impossible.
No matter what, though, one thing
will occur Saturday. Not only will
both teams battle hard, with the truly ;
superior team exiting victorious, but .
all of the players will enjoy the game,
because these teams truly yearn for
good competition.
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committee. Applications and more 'j
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interested in running for open!
Student Congress districts in the fall
election. Petitions available in Suite
C in 217 D Union.
Minority Recruitment
Committee requests your help in
encouraging high school students to
apply to Carolina. Applications are
available in the BSM office, Suite A,
Union, until Sept. 19.
Residence Hall Association
is accepting applications for exec
utive secretary. Applications are
available in Suite B, Union, and must
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