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By JASON BATES
Staff Writer
The North Carolina men's soccer
team had apparently run out of luck.
It hadn't won a conference game
since Sept. 12, dropping three straight
by a combined score, of 5-1. Even its
non-conference wins had not been very
satisfying; some had been downright
ugly. Six players (five starters) were out
with various injuries the only break
lately for UNC had been the one to
midfielder Grant Leroux's collarbone.
No w the team was about to be thrown
to the wolves the No. lOWolfpackof
N.C. State, a team that was definitely
hot.
Funny thing the Tar Heels won.
UNC's 2-0 shutout of the Wolfpack
before a vocal crowd estimated at 1 ,800
at newly-opened Fetzer Field could not
have been more timely. A struggling
Tar Heel squad improved to 1 1 -5, 2-4 in
. the ACC. The Wolfpack dropped to 1 1 -4
and 3-3.
. ."(We outplayed them) all-around,"
UNC goalkeeper Watson Jennison said.
"We out-muscled them, out-hustled
them, first to the ball every time. We
fought for it, and they didn't."
Head coach El mar Bolowich stressed
the fact that a team effort was needed if
the Tar Heels were to win.
"What we tried to work on this week
was the confidence of our players, that
they are capable of beating any team if
they play together," he said. "Today,
they proved that. They pulled together.
They played as a team, and that's what
we were looking for all season long.
Northwestern topples
N
o. 1 field hockey, 3-0
From staff reports
ST. LOUIS The North Carolina
field hockey team, ranked No. 1 in the
country, split its two contests over the
weekend. Northwestern, ranked fifth in
the nation, shut out the Tar Heels, 3-0,
Saturday, behind a pair of first-half goals
from Colleen Senich.
. Sunday, UNC rebounded with a 4-0
win over St. Louis behind a goal and an
assist from senior captain Laurel
Hefshey. Freshmen Stephanie Walsh
and Kelly Staley and junior Jennifer
Clark also added scores for North Caro
lina, now 14-3. UNC outshot the
Bil likens 17-8 and had 14 penalty cor
ners. On Clark's goal, Peggy Anthon a
senior from St. Louis tied the UNC
and ACC single-season assist mark of
24, set in 1987 by former Tar Heel star
airborn to give the Tar Heels a 13-10
State, 2-0
"Hopefully, now it will happen, and
it will be consistent."
Freshman Ankist Zadeyan scored the
first goal (the first of his collegiate
career) and senior David Merola scored
the second.
Sophomore keeper Watson Jennison
anchored the defense, collecting 11
saves to pick up his first shutout of the
season.
"He had played well so far, and what
he got today is what he deserves the
shutout and being great in the match,"
Bolowich said.
Injuries forced the Tar Heels to alter
their style of play, Bolowich said. In
stead of trying to dominate the entire
field, UNC relied more on a counter
attack strategy, trying to draw State into
the Tar Heel half of the field, win the
ball and quickly move the other way.
Bolowich said this style is the one
Tar Heel fans should expect to see the
rest of the year. And why not? It seemed
to work well enough.
After an even first half, the Tar Heels
opened the scoring at the 48:25 mark of
the second stanza. Zadeyan's goal, with
assists from Chris Lyn and Adam
Tinkham, gave UNC a lead it would
never relinquish.
For good measure, Merola added the
insurance goal at the 7 1 :30 mark. After
spliting the State fullbacks, he was on
his way to a one-on-one situation with
Wolfpack keeper Marc Gailey when he
was taken down from behind 10 yards
outside of the penalty box.
See SOCCER, page 11
Lori Bruney in 1987.
Volleyball drops five in Florida
GAINESVILLE, Ha. The UNC
volleyball team (11-13) lost five matches
this weekend, one at the University of
Florida and four in the South Florida
Showcase in Tampa, Fla. Sunday, the
Gators whipped North Carolina in three
games, 15-12, 15-11 and 15-5.
Saturday, the Tar Heels fell to East
ern Kentucky and Clemson in grueling
five-game matches. EKU defeated UNC
15-2, 7-15, 15-7, 4-15, 15-4, while the
Tigers nipped North Carolina 15-5, 15-10,6-15,15-17,15-5.
Friday, Syracuse and USF dropped
the Tar Heels. Syracuse defeated UNC
in four games, and South Florida took
yet another five-game contest, 3-15,
15-8,14-16,15-12,15-11.
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By WARREN HYNES
Staff Writer
The grass was green and lush. The
clean silver bleachers sparkled in the
glowing autumn sun. UNC's Fetzer
Field was a picture of beauty as it
reopened Saturday afternoon. It was
once again back in top form.
To the delight and relief of
the 2,200 present, the same could be
said for the home team.
The UNC women's soccer team,
fighting off any whispers of doubt,
rolled over the No. 1 Virginia Cava
liers 3-0 Saturday in a game that saw
the Tar Heels look dominant once
again.
"We had to come in here with the
mentality that we were going to
dominate the game," sweeper Louellen
Poore said. "Everyone knows now
how we can play and what our potential
is."
The contest was a matchup of giants.
The defending champion Tar Heels
entered the game never having lost to
Virginia. The Cavaliers walked on the
field never having lost this season. To
top it off, UNC had never lost a game
at home ever. Would this be the
game in which the Tar Heels were
finally grounded on their own turf?
Could Virginia pull it off?
They might be giants, but the Cavs
would soon realize that when the go
ing gets tough, the best get better.
UNC, now 14-1-1, lifted its un
beaten streak at home to 104, its un
beaten streak versus Virginia (now
1 6-1 ) to 1 4, and its shutout streak over
the Cavs to eight. More importantly,
the Tar Heels took a tremendous step
in receiving the top seed in next
weekend's ACC Tournament.
UNC began its assault with lightning-fast
quickness. With only 7:39
elapsed in the first half, midfielder Jill
Jakowich boomed a shot which Vir
ginia goalie Andrea Rippe dove for
and slapped away. With Rippe
sprawled on the ground, the ball
bounced in front of forward Kristine
Lilly who, from eight yards away,
booted the rebound in for a goal.
With the momentum climbing,
UNC did not take long to strike again.
This time, it took some fine headwork.
At the 1 8:08 mark, a corner kick by
midfielder Jane Vest sailed toward the
front of the UVa goal. Leaping into
the air, fullback Linda Hamilton
headed the ball perfectly from four
yards away. The ball snuck into the
goal on one hop to give the Tar. Heels
a 2-0 lead.
For Hamilton, a senior transfer from
N.C. State who is one of the game's
top players, it was her first goal and
first point as aTar Heel. She had taken
21 shots without a goal this season.
"It's about time is what I can say,"
Hamilton said afterward. "I feel like
Tech overwhelms Heels statistically;
UNC saved by defense, special teams
By MARK ANDERSON
Assistant Sports Editor
Georgia Tech outplayed North
Carolina statistically Saturday. Numbers
like 435-151 in total offense don't lie.
But so what? Everybody predicted
that before the game. The difference
was that some outstanding goal-line
defense and some opportune special
teams play gave the Tar Heels a 13-13
tie with the 1 lth-ranked Yellow Jackets
in Kenan Stadium. The Homecoming
crowd was a graciously estimated
48,000.
UNC's best game of the year put a
damper on Tech's postseason hopes.
The Yellow Jackets (5-0-1,3-0-1), now
unbeaten in 10 straight games, had hoped
to challenge No. 1 Virginia for both the
ACC and national titles Nov. 3 in
Charlottesville. The tie hit them like a
loss.
"We got a tie," Tech cornerback
Willie Clay said, "and it feels like a loss
to me and, I think, everyone else. We
came in heavily favored, and they beat
us. I really couldn't tell you how good
they feel.
"I just worry about us, and we don't
feel too good right now."
The tie left the young Tar Heels (4-2-1,
1-1-1) confused. On one hand, they
had just played their most impressive
game in the Mack Brown era. But they
also remembered the many missed op
portunities to knock off one of the
nation's best teams.
"We've made tremendous progress,"
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I've had some opportunities earlier in
the year to score, and I didn't make the
best of those. I guess tonight things
were going my way."
UNC controlled the rest of the first
half. The defense consistently kept the
ball on Virginia's half of the field. The
offense, led by a potent forward crew,
launched relentless charges at the UVa
goal. However, Rippe was able to keep
the score at 2-0 heading into halftime.
"That's about as well as I've ever
seen a forward line here play," UNC
coach Anson Dorrance said. "I thought
our frontrunners, Mia (Hamm), Kristine
and Rita (Tower), were awesome."
The second half saw Virginia give a
Cavalier comeback attempt, keeping
UNC on its toes. However, the Tar Heel
defense was too good, and the UNC
offense had yet another goal to tally.
At the 61:40 mark, Hamm's corner
kick soared toward the front of the UVa
goal. With her first-half score in mind,
Hamilton put her head back to work.
From eight yards away, she headed the
ball in again for her second goal of the
game, giving UNC a 3-0 lead.
UNC head coach Mack Brown said,
"but they're very disappointed in the
tie. I would worry about them if they
weren't. A tie is not the best thing in the
world, but it's a whole lot better than the
other option when you are 14-point
underdogs playing the 1 lth-best team
in the country."
Freshman tailback Natrone Means
said the team had mixed emotions.
"The team is disappointed that we
tied, because we think we should have
won," Means said. "We're not upset
with tying, because Georgia Tech is a
good team, 1 1 th in the country, so you
have to feel good about it.
"It's just that something is missing."
UNC's chance to win came from its
special teams. With 12 seconds left in
the third quarter and the Tar Heels
trailing 10-6, UNC's Rondell Jones cut
in front of Tech's Tom Covington,
picking off a Shawn Jones pass and
giving UNC the ball on the Yellow
Jacket 48.
But after an illegal motion penalty
wiped out a crucial third-down 1 2-yard
pass play to Deems May, it looked as if
the Tar Heel offense had again failed to
convert on good field position.
Enter punter Scott McAlister, who
pinned Tech inside its 20-yard line six
times Saturday. Tech's Clay fielded
McAlister's punt at his 10, but with
UNC's Reggie Clark bearing down on
him, Clay lost control of the ball. Clark,
who had almost separated Clay's head
from his body on an earlier punt return,
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"Hamilton was exceptional today,"
Dorrance said. "I think she's got to be a
serious consideration for ACC player
of the year."
Hamm's assist gave her 50 points.
She is the seventh player in UNC his
tory to reach that milestone in a season.
Despite the lone goal, Virginia coach
Lauren Gregg and UNC's Dorrance both
felt that the Cavaliers outplayed the Tar
Heels in the second half.
"We played excellent soccer in the
second half," Gregg said. "I thought we
played better soccer than Carolina."
The fact that such a valiant effort did
not produce a goal is simply a credit to
the Tar Heel defense. Before the game,
Dorrance had shuffled his backfield and
taken a chance.
"We switched Louellen Poore to
sweeper, which is a helluva risky move
before you play the No. 1 team in the
country," he said. "What it gave us was
the opportunity to send Hamilton for
ward more often. Now we have her on
the lip of our defense. It also gave
Louellen an opportunity basically to
become a vocal leader for us in the back.
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fell on the ball at the Tech 7.
Two plays later, Means put the Tar
Heels ahead 13-10 with a 6-yard dive
into the end zone at the 13:18 mark.
But twice down the stretch, Tech had
a chance to frustrate the Tar Heels to
hand them another one of the many late
game losses Brown's teams have en
dured. But both times, UNC's defense
rose to the occasion.
Tech answered the UNC score by
driving from its own 14 to first-and-goal
at the Tar Heel 4. The drive ate up
7:47,and tailback William Bell pounded
out 47 of the drive's 82 yards. On the
day. Bell had 123 yards on 21 carries.
Two plays left Tech with third-and-goal
from the 1 , when UNC's Dwight
Hollier stuffed Bell's charge up the
middle. On fourth down, the Yellow
Jackets sent fullback Stefen Scotton
over left guard, only to be smothered by
UNC's Eric Gash and host of tacklers.
But four UNC plays could only take
2:02 off the clock, and Tech took the
ball again at the Tar Heel 46 with 3:29
to play. Jones immediately hit a wide
open Covington for 38 yards over the
middle, setting up first-and-goal from
the 8.
Tailback Jeff Wright gained 3 yards,
but then Jones was dropped in the
backfield by Gash and Tommy Thigpen
for a 3 -yard loss. Th igpen ru ined Tech ' s
third-down screen to Scotton, nailing
him 2 yards behind the line. Tech was
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Saturday's 3-0 upset of No. 1 UVa.
This is sort of a back-handed com
pliment, but she's an outstanding nag.
Every time someone made a mistake,
she told them immediately.
"I thought verbally she was a great
organizer."
UNC's premier 'nag felt that the
Tar Heel effort was an uplifting one
for the team.
"We're very confident that we're
going to keep it up," Poore said. "As a
matter of fact, we're excited."
Hamm was also confident, but in a
cautious manner.
"We have to differentiate between
confidence and cockiness," she said.
"Right now, we can't get complacent.
We have a long week ahead of us."
Hamilton was excited as well but
felt that UNC has some definite im
provements to make if its bid for a
fifth straight national championship is
to be successful.
"I think we did some things really
well today," she said. "But I think that
we need to become tighter, and we
need to play with a little more rhythm
and enthusiasm."