♦♦♦♦ a Tar Heels Hungry For Exposure At this moment, on college campuses across the nation, hundreds of women are lacing up their cleats with one lofty goal in mind. Bridesmaid. Leave it to Anson Dorrance to ruin a good old fashioned pep talk. Right now every other women’s soccer coach in the country has a conscience riddled with guilt. Logic dictates you tell your team it has a shot to win the national title. Logic also dic tates, with UNC in the running, that you have a better shot at hit ting the lottery. Once again, the sports world’s surest lock is set to hit CARTER TOOLE ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR the field once more, meaning the rest of the soccer world is vying for second. The North Carolina women’s soccer machine kicks off Sunday and the rest of the nation is desperately awaiting a governor’s pardon. To say the Tar Heels are favored to win the national title is, well, insulting. To say they might never trail in a game this season is more on taiget. Dorrance has quietly built a dynasty unmatched in college athletics, yet his pro gram still motors along in relative national obscurity. Essentially, Chapel Hill is host to the planet’s best soccer team each and every fall. Consider the statistics. The Tar Heels will be gunning for their eighth-straight NCAA title and 12th over all. They are currently riding a 58-game winning streak, a NCAA record. UNC has never lost at home —124-0- 2. In 14 years, Dorrance’s squad has won 275 games while dropping eight. Ouch. Dorrance also coaches the U.S. national team, which he led to the World Cup title in China. Nine of the 18 players on the roster were current or former Tar Heels. A Tar Heel has garnered National Player of the Year honors seven times. North Carolina outscored the opposi tion 132-11 in 25 games last season, while Player oftheYearMia Hamm, the nation’s leading goal scorer, outshot all of UNC’s opponents combined. Yeesh. And guess what? 10 starters return out of a possible 11, including Hamm and fellow first-team All-American Tisha Venturini. And with five new freshmen, all ofwhom play forthe U.S. Junior National Team, the most dominate team in college sports could very well improve on last year’s record-breaking showing. The one loss is Kristine Lilly, the only four-time, first-team Ail-America in league history. “Kristine is such an exceptional player we won’t be able to make up for her loss,” Dorrance said. “She is irreplaceable.” True. Then again, it seems Dorrance loses a bonafide superstar after every sea son. The results are not affected. His vir tual monopoly on the nation’s top high school talent ensures the talent pool is always filled to the brim. Mention Hamm as the best play er in the world right no w, and few would argue. She set four NCAA records last season and many more are within striking distance. Venturini, a junior, is a two-time, first team All-American who led the nation in scoring as a freshman. Four returning jun iors were All-ACC performers last year. The schedule is once again brutal on paper, but no one’s betting against a third straight undefeated season. “I’m expecting a couple of blemishes this year just because the schedule is de signed against the team,” Dorrance said before last year’s campaign. He designed a hellish nine-game road trip from Durham to San Francisco in which UNC played five teams in the top 20. The results? A coast-to-coast Tar Heel blitz UNC outscored its opposition 49- 5. Why the self-imposed harsh tests year in and year out? The tougher the tasks, the fewer the doubters. After UNC's dominating run last sea son, few can question the Tar Heels unprecedented superiority in the world’s most popular game. Then why don’t more people know about the Tar Heels? Perhaps because America lacks the rest of the free world’s fervor for soccer. Or perhaps because it’s a women’s sport. Regardless of the reason, it’s high time Dorrance and his players get the recogni tion they deserve not only as NCAA champions, but as torch-bearers for the worldwide progression of the sport. And the recognition should start right here on campus. The world’sbest women’s soccer team is on display at Fetzer Field this fall. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Seminoles Roll in Opener Florida State trounced a helpless Kansas squad en route to a 42-0 Kickoff Classic win at Giants Stadium. The Seminoles defense stuffed the Jayhawks 11 times within the five yard line in an impressive second quarter goal line stand. FSU is ranked No. 1 in both the AP and USA Today/CNN polls. Danielle Egan, Tisha Venturini, Kristine Lilly, Keri Sanchez, Roz Santana, Dawn Crow and Shelley Finger keyed the Tar Heels' 25-game romp through the 1992 schedule. Eight-peat? UNC Women’s Soccer Will Rely on a Cast of All-Americas to Extend Its Dynastic Reign BY JILL WEST STAFF WRITER The 1993 national champions open their sea son on September 5, against Maryland. Men’s basketball in September? No, but the 11-time national champion women’s soccer team begins its quest for an unprecedented eighth-straight national crown. The Tar Heels polished off last season’s 25-0 campaign with a 9-1 rout of the Duke Blue Devils in the national title game. UNC is cur rently riding a NCAA record 58-game winning streak. What can you expect from the reigning champs? “The team looks great, ” said freshman forward/midfielder Sarah Dacey. “I have confi dence that we can do it again.” And again, and again... Each year, no matter the personnel, the team manages to live up to, and surpass, UNC’s imposing tradition of domi nance. Head coach Anson Dorrance attributes his team’s success to several factors. First, Dorrance is also the head coach of the United States’ national women’s soccer team. He said his involvement with international soc cer gives him “an image of how the game is played at the highest level. “We try to replicate the international level with the college team,” he said. Seniors Mia Hamm and Zola Springer, and juniors Tisha Venturini, Kerry Sanchez and Danielle Egan have played with Team U.S.A., gaining experience thattheybringback to Chapel Hill in the fall. Junior Angela Kelly, a native of Brantford, Ontario, plays for the Canadian Na tional team. Dorrance also stresses physical conditioning. Atlanta Spanks Chicago, Stays Four Games Behind Giants in NL West THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA Tom Glavine and the Atlanta Braves have made a habit this season of getting into trouble and then escaping. David Justice hit a two-run homer, his fifth in five games, and Ron Gant drove in three runs with a pair of singles Sunday to back seven strong innings by Glavine as the Braves kept the pressure on the NL West-leading San Francisco Giants with an 8-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs. The Braves, idle Monday while the Giants and Marlins close out a three-game series, play host to the Giants for a three game set beginning Tuesday. “It’s going to be a big series, but there’s still a lot of baseball left when that series ends," Atlanta manager Bobby Cox said. “It doesn’t stop there.” Glavine (16-5) pitched seven innings for the win, giving up seven hits, five walks and three strikeouts. He was helped by three double plays as he won for the sixth time in his last seven decisions. “My best pitch was the ground ball when I got in trouble,” Glavine said. “I’ve had the uncanny ability this year to get into SPORTS MONDAY Che Unity