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By SCOn GOLD
Assistant Sports Editor
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. UNC
women's soccercoach Anson Dorrance
has always credited much of his team's
success to its 12th player on the field:
tradition.
; This weekend, while watching his
squad defeat Duke and Virginia en route
to its second consecutive ACC title, he
qredited something new: Lady Luck.
: All teams have her to some extent,
but for a team like North Carolina, she
usually sits on the bench. In the Tar
Heels' 2-0 squeaker against the Cavs
Sunday, however, she was in full force.
Sophomore Mia Hamm's game
winning goal at the 61:32 mark didn't
result from tradition or even from
practice. Her comer kick though
aimed for any UNC head or foot willing
to punch the ball into the Wahoo net
instead was blown across the mouth of
Her shey's
':- By STEWART CHISAM
. ' Staff Writer
':Boom. The North Carolina field
hockey team punched in a last-minute
goal Sunday afternoon on Navy Field to
lift the No. 2 Tar Heels past No. 19
Virginia and into the top slot in next
week's ACC Tournament.
With 1 :20 remaining and the score
deadlocked 1-1, UNCs Kelly Staley
and Laurel Hershey ricocheted the Tar
Heels' 14th penalty corner of the day
anto the net to give North Carolina the
pivotal 2-1 victory.
'. ; "The shot was on the keeper, and it
just rebounded off (the Virginia
goalkeeper's pads)," Hershey said. "It
was there, and boom Kelly Staley
and I rushed in on it. I assume we both
hit it at the same time. It was sort of a
mutual effort."
; In the scorebook, credit the goal to
Hershey and an assist to Staley.
" "It was just a tip-in," senior forward
Peggy Anthon said. "They gave (the
goal) to Laurel since she's a senior."
Since Hershey, Peggy Anthon, Terri
Buck and Beth Taterosian are seniors,
they were honored before the game,
their last regular-season home contest.
! - .' The victory was critical for the Tar
Heels (16-3, 2-1 in the ACC). A North
Carolina loss would have dropped UNC
to the last seed in the four-team con
ference tournament.
Instead, the victory rocketed the de
fending national champions into the
first seed and a matchup with Maryland
irt College Park this Saturday.
'Lady
Tar Heel defense that gave Maryland quarterback Scott Zolak fits Saturday
the goal and into the top right corner.
"Luck," Hamm said. "There's not
much else to say about it. All I'm trying
to do is get it in the vicinity of the box,
hoping that someone can put it in on the
face. Sheer luck. It really wasn't an
earned goal."
Hamm's tally her nation-leading
22nd of the year gave her 60 points
for the season, good enough to earn her
ACC player-of-the-year honors.
Dorrance took home the coach-of-the-year
plaque to boot.
North Carolina hammered Duke 5-0
in Saturday's semifinal. Two goals by
Rita Tower and a goal and an assist
from Carolyn Springer helped set up
Sunday's showdown with the Cavs.
UNC sophomore Kristine Lilly was
voted the tourney's most valuable
player, though she failed to register a
point in either game, only the fifth and
sixth time this year she had oeen neia
late charge propels
&at Virginia, 2-1
Earlier this year, the Terrapins upset
UNC 3-2 in Chapel Hill.
"Obviously we want to have another
shot at Maryland, and (the win) insures
that," North Carolina head coach Karen
Shelton said. "We knew that if we won
the game, we would play Maryland
first, and that's something we want to
do badly."
They also badly want to win their
eighth straight ACC championship and
second straight national title goals
Anthon felt would require a step-up in
intensity.
"We played well (today), but I think
we can play a lot better. We need to play
better in the ACC Tournament to come
out with the championship," she said.
More than anything, "playing better"
means capitalizing on offensive op
portunities. North Carolina outshot the
Cavaliers 30-9 Sunday but could rarely
stick the ball in the goal.
Hershey, a two-time honorable men
tion All-America, finally rocketed North
Carolina's first score from straight on
near the 25-yard line with 8:19 re
maining in the first half. The goal, as
sisted by Mary Hartzell, gave UNC the
lead until the Cavs' Andy Begel pow
ered the ball through a slew of defend
ers with 21 :00 left in the second half.
In the first half, UNC dominated the
Wahoos (13-5-2, 1-2), who had only
five shots on goal and rarely ventured to
its own side of the field. But the Cava
liers held tough on defense, holding
UNC to one score on its nine first-half
penalty corners and 1 8 shots.
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scoreless. But according to Dorrance,
this time her strengths had nothing to do
with numbers.
"She was like a fire chief," he said.
"Wherever we had a problem, we would
drop her. Wherever our problem was,
we threw her right into the fray and she
solved it. She might be the most versatile
player I've ever coached."
And Dorrance needed Lilly's versa
tility. Virginia (18-2-0) is one of the
greatest and most versatile teams he's
ever coached against.
Not only were the Tar Heels (17-1-1)
lucky to break the scoreless tie, they
were lucky they even had one to break.
Virginia came out of the gates firing
with a shockingly tenacious offense,
one that had the UNC defense scram
bling and panicking after only two
minutes of playing time.
Tar Heel goalie Meridee Proost was
even forced to come through with a
At the beginning of the second half,
Virginia began to control the ball for
longer and longer stretches. After
Begel's score, the Wahoos gained
confidence and continued to attack.
"Come on, guys be smart. Control
the ball," Shelton screamed from the
bench.
With 14 minutes remaining, the Tar
Heels responded to their coach's pleas
by producing another series of offensive
flurries. But again they couldn't put it
in.
Hershey weaved through a sea of
Cavaliers but missed outside.
Anthon exploded coast-to-coast, but
the Virginia defense held strong.
Hershey juked a Cavalier, stopped
on a dime, and dished to Nancy Lang.
Again, the shot went wide.
But with 1:20 left, the more-experienced
Tar Heels' tenacity finally paid
off.
Will this savvy be enough to lead
North Carolina to repeat as ACC and
national champions?
"(We have) one thing left," Anthon
said. "Another national championship.
It would be great to graduate with two
national championships and the ACC
also. We've never lost (the ACC), so
hopefully it won't happen this year."
Friday, the Tar Heels pounded on
non-conference foe Hofstra, 8-0. Anthon
broke the ACC season assist record
with her 25th of the year on UNCs
second goal. She added another assist
and pair of goals, while Lang scored
twice and had four assists.
UNC mi
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By JAMIE ROSENBERG
Sports Editor
A quarterback would lead them.
He would bring a team out of the
doldrums of past disappointments and
into the bowl picture with a dominant
effort in Saturday's ACC rendezvous in
Kenan Stadium.
He would shred the secondary, run
ning up the score against an opponent
known for its weakness against the pass.
Such were the expectations before
Saturday.
Such were the results, but most had
pegged the wrong signal-caller to be the
star.
Move over, Scott Zolak. Whatever
Zolak and the vaunted Maryland pass
ing attack could do Saturday, Todd
Burnett and his North Carolina coun
terparts proved they could do better,
and the surging Tar Heels thumped
Maryland 34-10 in the most surprising
game of a most surprising season
UNCs performance, in fact, was good
enough to earn the Tar Heels a tie with
Texas A&M for the No. 24 ranking in
the UPI weekly poll released Sunday,
marking the first time they have even
come close to national prominence in
head coach Mack Brown's three-year
tenure.
'This was a great win," Brown said,
choking back tears moments after the
final gun had sounded. "I'm so proud of
our team."
Brown's hair was wet, his shirt stained
a greenish-yellow from the Gatorade
bath he took at the hands of seniors
Dennis Tripp and Alex Simakas. He
seemed a little incredulous, still trying
rarity in North Carolina soccer a
crucial save midway through the
first stanza.
Virginia forward Cindi Kunihiro fired
a shot toward the Tar Heel goal that
ricocheted off UNC back Louellen
Poore's leg. Proost dove to her right,
barely nudging the ball around the post
for a Virginia corner kick. It was, in
fact, the first of seven saves the Cava
liers forced her to make during the game.
Virginia dominated for the full 45
minutes, in what Dorrance called the
"best half anyone has played against us
all year." The Cavaliers had outshot
UNC 6-3 by the break, and Dorrance
knew something had to change.
"We should have been down at the
half," Dorrance said. "We were lucky to
climb out of the first half without being
scored on. We were lucky to dodge
bullets in the first half, and Virginia was
unlucky to dodge ours in the second. I
North Carolina senior Peggy Anthon
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to digest the most complete effort his
team had put forth in three years.
"These guys amaze me every week,"
Brown said. "This team has defied ev
erything that should happen in college
football. They should not be doing some
of the things they've done."
Burnett, his quarterback, had re
bounded from an 8-for-20 showing the
week before against Georgia Tech to a
dominant 23-of-35 against the Terps
for 3 1 2 yards the fourth-highest total
in school history.
Natrone Means, his freshman
tailback, had ground out the second
100-yard rushing day of his young ca
reer, barreling for 1 1 1 yards on 25 car
ries. Clint Gwaltney, his placekicker, had
spanked four field goals through the
uprights, tying a school records
His team, down 10-9 at the half, had
emerged from the locker room chanting
"1-1-91" and proceeded to bowl over
the Terps with 22 points in the third
quarter while holding Maryland to 47
total yards in the second half.
'This is the first time since we've
been here that the entire team put
something together on one Saturday
against a very, very good Maryland
football team," Brown said.
This was a Tar Heel team, Brown did
not need reminding, that posted a 2-20
record over the past two years, that
humiliated itself against the Terps in
College Park last year, losing 38-0 and
committing nine turnovers. This same
team is now 5-2-1, 2-1-1 in the ACC.
Not only have the Tar Heels avoided a
fourth straight losing season, but bowl
basically told them that the nature of the
game wasn't like a soccer game. It was
more like individual combat."
Fortunately for Dorrance, UNC was
up for the challenge. The Tar Heels
came out in the second half infinitely
more organized, forcing persistent
pressure on Virginia until the final bell.
"He (Dorrance) basically told us at
halftime that we did well to survive the
assault that UVa. put on us," senior
sweeper Linda Hamilton said. "He said
we needed to come out and play a little
better and a little more organized and
try to relax a little bit."
And play better they did.
UNC fired 13 shots in the second
half; the Cavaliers managed three, two
of which came in the final minutes,
forced in frustration from close to 40
yards out. Proost could take it easy
again making only two saves
while VirginiagoalkeeperAndreaRippe
(left) battles Virginia's Kim Ray for
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hopes are no longer a silly motivational
tool. Any team that can rack up 520
yards of offense against a conference
foe, while giving up just 221 yards to a
team which boasts the ACC's passing
yardage leader, can certainly see itself
in the national picture.
"We were so far down," Brown said.
'To go from 2-20 to what these guys
have done just does not happen. No
body ever thought this could possibly
happen."
The numbers certainly defy what
should have happened. Maryland (5-4,
3-3) andZolak, the ACC's most prolific
passer with 1,997 yards heading into
Saturday, figured to feast on UNCs
young secondary, statistically the worst
in the conference. Burnett, whose 48
yard performance against Tech
prompted Brown to announce he would
turn to backup Chuckie Burnette if the
Tar Heels didn't move the ball early,
figured to struggle.
Instead, the established Zolak was
thoroughly frustrated by both the UNC
defense and his stone-handed receivers
completing just 15 of 38 passes for
205 yards and three interceptions
while the unproven Burnett showed up
his counterpart. Burnett's yardage total
marked the second highest in the ACC
this season, behind, of course, Zolak's
313 vs. West Virginia on Sept. 8.
"I think he (Burnett) was so frustrated
last week after playing well against
Wake Forest that he just told himself,
'Today, I'm going to come in here and
I'm going to play well,'" Brown said.
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had to make seven.
"Once they scored, it gave them some
momentum," UVa. coach Lauren Gregg
said. "I thought they were playing pretty
frantically in the first half. It's the most
frantic I've ever seen a Carolina team
play. I thought that was a sign of how
well we were playing. I'm sure the
second half we were doing our best to
hang in there, but fatigue has to set in at
some point. The second half we were
much less threatening."
North Carolina's second goal resulted
once again from a Hamm corner kick,
this time at the 82:12 mark. By that
time, though, the wind had died down a
bit, so Hamm needed a little help
namely freshman Paige Coley, who
headed the ball cleanly into the right
side for her fourth tally of the season.
UNC has a good chance of meeting
the Cavs again in the NCAA tourney,
which begins Nov. 4.
DTHSarah King
the ball in Sunday's 2-1 Tar Heel victory.
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