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By MIKE BERARDINO
Sports Editor
DURHAM How does that old
saying go? You can't keep a good man
down?
Anthony Dilweg, Duke's senior
! quarterback, reminded everyone , in
: Wallace Wade Stadium of that oft
: repeated maxim Saturday afternoon.
. In desperate danger of being shut out
in the second half by an inspired
North Carolina defense, Dilweg
; drove the Blue Devils 76 yards to the
.winning touchdown with just 23
; seconds left as Duke topped UNC,
35-29, in the season finale for both
teams.
UNC ended its worst season ever
at 1-10, while Duke ran its mark to
7-3-1 despite the sideline absence of
coach Steve Spurrier, whom the ACC
USC ends men's soccer
season in Columbia, 3-1
From staff reports
COLUMBIA, S.C. South
Carolina defeated the North Carolina
men's soccer team 3-1 Sunday after
noon to capture the South Region
in the NCAA Men's Soccer Tourna
ment and end the Tar Heels' hopes
at a second-straight dream season.
; Sunday's win at The Graveyard
propelled the 5th-ranked Gamecocks
Jo the tournament's round of eight,
while the 18th-ranked Tar Heels saw
their season end at 14-9-1.
USC, the top-ranked team in the
South Region, outshot UNC, No. 2
in the region, 18-7. The 13-3-4
pamecocks will now go on to face
Southern Methodist in the NCAA
quarterfinals at a sight to be named
later.
The win was a sort of revenge for
the Gamecocks. Last year, these same
two teams met at the same site in
the same round of the tournament.
The Tar Heels came up with the 2
1 upset victory to end USC's season,
and they later advanced to the
national semifinals before bowing out
to Clemson.
This year, the results were a bit
different. South Carolina jumped out
to a quick 2-0 lead in the first half
before UNC was able to muster a
comeback.
! USC sophomore Phil Seidenburg
opened the scoring at the 27:17 mark
when Clark Brisson fired a cross that
was deflected by Tar Heel goalie
Darren Royer. Seidenburg then rifled
the tipped pass into an empty net for
a 1-0 Gamecock advantage.
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Roger Boone's 6-yard jaunt up the
middle and the ensuing extra point
kick wiped out the one-point lead
UNC had grabbed with 10 minutes
to play. Moreover, the late score took
some of the joy out of Kennard
Martin's remarkable 291-yard rush-
ing performance,
Martin, who carried 39 times to
end his sophomore season with 1,146
rushing yards, posted a single-game
total second in conference annals only
to former UNC back Derrick
Fenner's 328 yards against Virginia
in 1986.
Boone, doubly dangerous as Mar
tin in Duke's many-faceted attack,
accounted for 295 yards of total
offense himself 157 rushing, 138
Pope scored the game-winner 11:20
later as goalkeeper Charles Arndt
punted from the goal to Pat Walsh.
Walsh then found Pope just inside
the six-yard line. The resulting goal
was Pope's fourth game-winner of the
season.
UNC waited most of the second
half to stage a comeback. The Tar
Heels cut that lead to 2-1 with 7:30
left to go in the game off a Derek
Missimo penalty kick. The opportun
ity arose when UNC's Donald Cogs
ville took a shot and USC's Mike
Gosselin was called for a handball.
The sophomore phenom then nailed
the penalty kick for his 12th goal of
the season.
Missimo led the Tar Heels with 12
goals and 12 assists for 36 points this
year. The Bedford, Texas, native now
has 25 goals and 17 assists for 67
points after just two years in Chapel
Hill, which is good for fifth on the
North Carolina all-time points list.
USC's Brisson gave the Game
cock's their second two-goal lead of
the game with 3:06 left to close out
the scoring. Pope assisted Brisson on
the goal, which came off a free kick
following a UNC foul.
South Carolina also dominated
most of the statistics on Sunday. The
uamecocks picked up six corner
kicks while North Carolina managed
but two. UNC goalie Royer made five
saves on the game while his coun
terpart, Arndt, rejected two.
As is typical for a UNC match, this
one was physical. Both teams picked
up 29 fouls apiece.
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receiving.
"Anthony Dilweg is just pheno-
menal," first-year UNC coach Mack
Brown said. "He's a leader. We got
after him, we rushed him. Our
defensive coaches disguised coverages
on him, they blitzed, they backed
off. ..."
And still, Dilweg, who wound up
with 362 passing yards and three
touchdown tosses, came through
when it counted most. Duke had
blown its 28-14 halftime lead as UNC
substituted Jonathan Hall for quar
terback Todd Burnett starting the
second half, then stayed with a
predominantly ground-oriented
offense.
Taking over on his own 24 with
4:05 to go, Dilweg delivered on two
big plays. First, on third-and-4 from
the Blue Devil 43, he hit fullback John
Rymiszweski across the middle to the
50. Dilweg's pass was nearly inter-
cepted by UNC linebacker Dwight
Hollier, but he had the ball ripped
out of his hands by the big Duke back
in the single most important play of
the game.
Two plays later, Dilweg dropped
back in the pocket and scanned the
field for what seemed like days before
rolling to his left and hitting Boone
along the sideline for a 29-yard gain.
Three more Boone carries put the ball
into the end zone, meaning acting
head coach Barry Wilson would not
have to fret about using Doug
Peterson, the Duke placekicker who
blew a 25-yard field goal back in the
third quarter.
As the Blue Devils were driving,
UNC decided to hold on to its three
timeouts, which left Hall less than an
NBA shot clock to work with. Four
passes fell incomplete, and the season
that wouldn't end finally did.
For the game, UNC passers went
just 4-for-16 for 19 yards and two
interceptions.
"It was a disappointing year for
me," Brown said. "I told the seniors
that I apologize to them as a head
football coach that I couldn't do
something to help them win more
football games. Starting Monday,
well get back in the weight room and
go back to work.
"When we ran the football, we were
very effective doing it. But we can't
just run the football. We need to be
more effective in the passing game."
In one stretch of the first half,
Brown kept the ball on the ground
lor 25 consecutive plays, spanning
40 . m.
four possessions. That included a
quick pitch to Martin on fourth-and-3
from the Duke 23 that came up
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Higgins' hat trick leads Tar Heels to
3rd straight NCAA title, 7th overall
By SCOTT GOLD
Staff Writer
Dynasty. It's the only description
possible.
The question was not whether or
not the women's soccer team would
have yet another amazing season
(they did). The question was not if
the Tar Heels would continue their
record 69-games-in-a-row-games-
without-a-loss streak (they did), or go
through their 89th home game with
out a loss (guess what?).
This one was for the national
championship. The Big One.
Whoever wins gets that free lift to
the big goal in the sky, to live in a
cloud-filled bliss and not get called
offsides for a year.
Top-ranked North Carolina, the
host of the Final Four, walloped
No. 2 N.C. State on Sunday 4-1 in
front of 3,500 exuberant fans. In
doing so the Tar Heels won their third
consecutive national title and their
seventh in eight years. Their seven
national titles are more than twice as
many as any other ACC club has ever
had.
A jubliant Anson Dorrance, the
Tar Heels' head coach, summed up
the day pretty easily. "There's no
question," he said. "It's the best
feeling after winning a national
championship IVe ever had.
"(We were) Playing at home,
playing in front of the largest crowd
IVe ever seen. . .the sun was out and
you're playing your rival, a team you
haven't beaten all year. You put all
those things together, and it's a great
feeling."
The game was a picture-perfect
ending to a near picture-perfect
season. The Tar Heels had met with
State on two occasions earlier this
year with both games ending in ties.
Most recently, on Oct. 30, State won
the ACC title on penalty kicks 4-3
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air of wins send UNC -to NYC
By MIKE BERARDINO
Sports Editor
The Tar Heels are going to the
Final Four!
No, not that Final Four, the one
UNC's basketball program hasn't
been back to since winning it all in
1982. Rather, by virtue of its 99-91
win over Georgia Sunday afternoon
in the Smith Center, sixth-ranked
North Carolina will head to New
York City this week for the semifinals
of the 1 6-team Big Apple National
Invitation Tournament.
Scott Williams scored 25 points
and grabbed nine rebounds, both
game highs, to help the Tar Heels,
2-0, beat back the Bulldogs and secure
a spot on the marquee at Madison
Square Garden Wednesday night.
On Friday, UNC opened its regular
season with a 1 1 1-84 pasting of
Tennessee-Chattanooga in the NIT's
first round. Jeff Lebo broke Phil
Ford's school record for single-game
assists with 17, many of them to Kevin
Madden and Rick Fox, who ripped
the Moccasins for 31 and 25 points,
respectively.
Both games were played before
sparse crowds as fans were apparently
turned off by the NIT-imposed ticket
prices. Friday night's game drew just
8,570, while Sunday's brought in
10,076.
"We're glad to be going to New
York; it's a great opportunity," UNC
coach Dean Smith said. "This way
well play two more games against
two excellent basketball teams."
UNC's semifinal opponent will be
Missouri, which knocked off Xavier
of Ohio, 83-71, Sunday night. The
other semifinal will pit Indiana, an
84-73 second-round winner over
Stanford, againstSyracuse, which
pummelled Wyoming, 107-81.
The winners advance to the cham
pionship game on Friday night, while
the losers will play in the consolation
game.
Whatever Georgia coach Hugh
Durham said in his locker room
speeches Sunday must not have been
very inspirational, for the Bulldogs
came out ana Dumoiea tneir way
through the opening few minutes of
each half.
In what Smith termed "an amazing
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in Raleigh. The loss of the title was
painful for North Carolina, and the
players all wanted revenge,
" Well, they got it.
Junior Shannon Higgins led the
way for UNC with her first career
three-goal game and later was voted
the most valuable offensive player in
the tournament. In the two games
North Carolina played this weekend,
Higgins scored four goals and totaled
two assists. She has scored in live ot
the last six tournament games for the
Tar Heels, including the game-winner
in last year's NCAA final against
Massachusetts.
Stacy Blazo added the final tally
of the match at the 88:15 mark.
Sophomore Pam Kalinoski assisted
on two of Higgins' three goals.
In semifinal action on Saturday,
UNC beat No. 8 Wisconsin 3-0 after
the Wolfpack had squeaked by No. 7
Cal-Berkeley 1 -0.
The Tar Heels were given a scare
by the Badgers. After a scoeless first
half, senior Birthe Hegstad finally
broke through at the 74:04 mark.
Following a corner kick by Hat-Trick
Higgins, Hegstad flew through a flock
of Wisconsin defenders to head the
ball into the net from five yards out.
Badger coach Greg Ryan was at
least one person who enjoyed the
wait. "I must admit it was kind of
fun to frustrate North Carolina for
an hour and 15 minutes," he said.
. Dorrance thought differently,
however. "I thought it was scary for
awhile," he said. "That's-the sort of
game you worry about, because even
the chances we were creating weren't
clear-cut, decisive ones."
After a Higgins-assisted goal by
Blazo and a penalty kick made good
by you-know-who, the Taf Heels
were on their way to the final.
Sunday's game was extremely
physical, as was expected out of the
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rivalry. Thirty-five fouls were called;
and there were many more available
if the referee had wanted a field dayJ
It wasn't a free-for-all, though. This
was definitely soccer, not football. t
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senior co-captain Lori Henry said.l
appreciate that."
Henry was involved in the most
interesting matchup of the day -A
fullback, she was marking State's
hard-nosed forward Charmaine
Hooper, the ACC's leading scorer
with 14 goals and 35 points. Both
players go into every game with the"
same hurry-up-and-abuse-yoUr?
body-before-your-mind-can-catchr
up-with-you idea, and both; can
singlehandedly turn any game into a'
physical one. ' " f.
Henry put in a masterful defensive
effort to stifle almost all of Hoopet
chances. "It was a classical matchup
between two players who aren't afraid;
of anything," Dorrance said. "It wEts!
like a battle of titans two gladiatorV
in a ring slugging it out.
Joined by Laura Boone and Carta:
Werden, the defensive MVP of the
tournament and one of the best;
central defenders in soccer, the;
miserly UNC defense allowed only
four shots all day one was a penalty
kick and two of the other three were
forced from outside the box.
Higgins scored the first goal of the
game at the 30:45 mark. After
Kalinosky worked her way through
a barrage of State defenders, she saw
she had no opportunity and then
squirted the ball back to Higgins, who
blasted it in from six yards out.
Kalinosky played an excellent
game but was taken out with six
minutes remaining when she collided
with Hooper. She was named later
to the all-tournament team.
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