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ports Monday Carrieri's Goal Lifts Tar Heels in Upset of No. 4 Tigers Staff Report CLEMSON, S.C. - The North Carolina men’s soccer team opened its ACC season with a 2-1 upset of fourth ranked Clemson on Sunday at Piggs Field. Junior for ward Chris Carr i e r i scored the game-winner Men's Soccer ! UNC 2 | Clemson I at 85:03. Freshman defender David Stokes started the play with a cross to freshman midfielder Logan Pause, who UNC Defense Smothers Wake Forest North Carolina limited Wake to minus-2 yards rushing and sacked C.J. Leak 10 times in the 35-14 victory. By Mike Ogle Assistant Sports Editor WINSTON-SALEM - When North Carolina linebacker Sedrick Hodge chased down Wake Forest running back Jamie Scott early in the Demon Deacons’ first drive of the second half, the tables turned at Groves Stadium. Hodge caught Scott behind the left side of the line of scrim mage and Football I UNC 35 Wake Forest 14 wrapped the Demon Deacon up for a what appeared to be a loss. It was so much more. “I threw my hand around,” Hodge said. “I think Allen's Returns Help Tar Heels Stop Wake See Page 7 (the ball) just popped out while I was coming down on him.” UNC end Julius Peppers scooped up the fumble and scooted 12 yards into the end zone for a touchdown and Saturday evening’s final lead change. The Tar Heel defense continued to shut down Wake en route to a 35-14 conference victory in front of 30,087, the largest WFU crowd in 11 years. “(The fumble) was huge,” WFU defensive tackle Nathan Bolling said. “We had the momentum going for us. One play can make or break a game. When Peppers picked up that fumble, it was definitely a turning point in the game.” UNC (2-0,1-0 in the ACC) restricted the Deacons (0-2, 0-1) to 48 yards of offense in the second half - minus-43 rushing -and 162 total yards in the game. Wake Forest quarterback CJ. Leak found Tar Heel pass mshers in his face Women's Soccer Crushes Weekend Opponents North Carolina grabbed its first shutout of the season Sunday against the Ducks and outshot them 37-2. By James Giza Assistant Sport Saturday Editor So much for slow starts. The North Carolina women’s soccer team came out firing from the outset for the second straight game, defeating Oregon 6-0 Sunday in front of 2,265 at Fetzer Field in the Nike Carolina Classic. Women’s Soccer Oregon 0 UNC 6 South Carolina ... I UNC 9 The Tar Heels had fallen behind 1-0 in three of their first four games, only to come back and win each time. There was no such drama against the Ducks. Six different players scored for UNC (6-0,1-0 ACC), which outshot Oregon 37-2 en route to its first shutout of 2000. “I think it’s just a mentality that we have to have . very game: Everybody plays well against us, no matter who it is, and we have to respect everybody every time we play them,” midfielder Jena ■ ffi’ ■ headed backward to Carrieri. Carr i e r i knocked the ball past Clemson keeper Doug Warren into the net. UNC (3-1, 1-0 in the ACC) out shot Clemson 22-9. Carrieri led the Tar Heels with seven shots. He Junior forward Chris Carrieri beat the Tigers with a goal in the 86th minute of play. ■- mwr* ft jfi . p ~ ’"IP „* Mg Ik* M §ll *Jlil DTH/KATE MELLNIK UNC linebacker Sedrick Hodge forces Wake Forest tailback Jamie Scott to fumble in the third quarter. Julius Peppers picked up the ball for a 12-yard TD. all night and was unable to escape 10 times. Joey Evans, Ross McAllister, Ryan Sims and Peppers each picked up a pair of sacks. Hodge also recorded a sack and led the team with six tackles. “We tackled very poorly at the begin ning of the game; why I don’t know,” UNC coach Carl Torbush said. “After that, I thought we did a great job." Wake’s lone offensive score came midway through the first quarter to cap an 88-yard drive. The other touchdown came with 1:55 remaining in the first half when WFU end Bryan Ray caused Kluegel said. “And that’s coming out and playing hard from the whistle. It took us a few weekends, but now things are starting to fall together.” Alyssa Ramsey got UNC on the board first, send ing a header into the left side of the net off a Kluegel comer kick in the sixth minute. Freshman forward Alyssa Ramsey scored a goal and had an assist for UNC as it shut out Oregon on Sunday. A minute later, Ramsey took a lead from Kluegel to the end line on the left side of Oregon’s goal. Ramsey spun around a Duck defender and flipped a cross to Kim Patrick, who redirected the pass in for the score and a 2-0 lead. Even though the Tar Heels would go scoreless after that until the 51st minute, their defensive play ensured that the final outcome would never be in doubt. Doing their best to take the pressure off goalkeeper Kristin DePlatchett, who was starting her first game of the season, UNC kicked up its defensive intensity. With Meredith Florance leading the charge, the front line and the midfield ers fought for every loose ball and came up with just about all of them. has totaled 14 shots in North Carolina’s last two contests. Clemson (2-1, 0-1) got on the board first with a goal at 57:20. Ross Goodacre rocketed a 30-yard shot past North Carolina keeper Michael Ueltschey off a restart. But an owngoal by the Tigers at 71:42 allowed the Tar Heels to tie'the match. Pause sent a shot toward the net that hit the post and skimmed off Clemson defender Andy Heck. The ball then sailed into the back of the net. Warren made nine saves for the Tigers, while Ueltschey did not make a and fell on a Ronald Curry fumble in the end zone. North Carolina straggled to march the ball downfield as well but connected on deep pass plays to Sam Aiken and Bosley Allen for touchdowns of 46 and 60 yards, respectively. The Wake defense, expecting UNC to sit on its two-touchdown lead in the fourth quarter, bit on Curry’s play action fake to tailback Willie Parker and left Allen all alone. “I think we’re capable of going deep and just hitting teams from different to ww h w 1 Jr ■ aHL DTH/KATHERINE EAKER Freshman midfielder Hilary Young got off one shot against Oregon. Twelve reserves saw time for UNC in its 6-0 rout of the Ducks. “We were concerned about our defense earlier, and even though that’s still something that we’re going to work on, I was proud of the fact that Kristin DePlatchett got a shutout today,” UNC coach Anson Dorrance said. r. : .J, save for the Tar Heels. North Carolina’s Mike Gell, Ryan Kneipper, Caleb Norkus and Eddie Robinson had multiple shot attempts. UNC had eight comer kicks, compared to five for Clemson. Freshman midfielder Logan Pause assisted on the game-winning goal by Chris Carrieri. areas at any given time,” Curry said. “We’ve got playmakers out there.” The touchdown and ensuing extra point put the game on ice for the Tar Heels, who began the ACC season with a win for the first time in three years under Torbush. But with the offense still straggling to produce as hoped, the team views its start with reserved optimism. UNC ran for 129 yards on 49 attempts and heads to Florida State on Saturday still without a go-to tailback. Freshman Andre Williams became the UNC’s dominance allowed Dorrance to liberally insert many of his reserves. Backup midfielder/forward Carmen Watlev made a heads-up play in the 70th minute for the team’s fifth goal. UNC defender Julia Marslender sent Broken Ankle Leaves Perry Out for Year Senior Merceda Perry, left, broke his right ankle at Wake Forest. Perry, a starter at linebacker for UNC, will miss the rest of the season. See Page 7. Clemson totaled 21 fouls, while North Carolina had 19. The Tar Heels have defeated Clemson three consecutive times dating back early last season. The Tar Heels defeated the Tigers 2-1 during the regular season last year. North Carolina also registered a 1-0 victory in double-overtime against Clemson in the first round of the ACC tournament. Clemson had defeated UNC seven consecutive times before the start of the Tar Heels’ recent win streak. The Tigers lead the all-time series against North game’s leading rusher for Tar Heels’ with five carries for 40 yards as the clock wound down during the night’s final series. “I don’t think we improved as much as a football team this week as I thought we would from last week,” Torbush said. “But at the same time, we know how to win. And one great thing about this group is they’ve been through adversi ty before.” The Sports Editor can be reached at sports@unc.edu. a shot that hit Oregon goalkeeper Jeanine Norstad square in the chest. But Norstad bobbled the ball as she attempted to corral it in her arms and fell on the field to cover it. Wadey snuck in and kicked the ball out of Norstad’s hands, dumping in her second goal of the weekend. “Actually I thought (the referee) was going to call it back because I was pret ty sure she had it in her hands,” Wadey said. “But it just kind of slid into her, and she dropped it, so I just kept going with the hopes that it was going to go in die back of the net” UNC also used an early scoring bar rage Friday to stop South Carolina 9-1. UNC scored three times in the game’s opening nine minutes, and Florance had a career-high four goals - the first time a UNC player had done that since Debbie Keller in 1995. Sunday marked the beginning of a six-game hiatus for goalkeeper Jenni Branam, an alternate on the U.S. nation al team. Branam left to join the rest of the team in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday. “I’m sad to be heading out away from everybody from here, but of course I’m excited to get the chance to go to the Olympics,” Branam said Friday. “It’s going to be an unbelievable experience.” The Sports Editor can be reached at sports@unc.edu. INSIDE: ■ Field hockey stays unbeaten. Page 9 ■ Volleyball team places second in tournament. Page 9 ■ Men's golf finishes 14th in tourney. Page 9 Carolina 22-13-6. The Tar Heels have opened their ACC season against the Tigers each of the last 13 seasons. UNC has a 4-7-2 record in ACC openers during that span. UNC had lost four consecutive league openers from 1994-98, but it has won the last two. The Tar Heels take the field next against Davidson at home on Tuesday. The game will begin at Fetzer Field at 7 p.m. Clemson hosts Appalachian State on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. Indiana Removes Knight The university's president said Bob Knight was fired for a "continued pattern of unacceptable behavior." The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS - Bob Knight’s temper finally did him in. The basketball coach, already in trou ble for a history of misconduct, was fired by Indiana for grabbing a student by the arm last week to lecture him about man ners and violating the school's “zero-tol erance” conduct policy. The decision, announced by univer sity president Myles Brand at a news conference Sunday, ends Knight’s three tumultuous decades at a school where he was one of the game’s best coaches but also one of its most volatile. Brand, who criticized Knight for repeatedly flouting the school’s conduct policy since it was set in May, said he gave the coach the option of resigning. Knight refused and was instead fired for a “con tinued pattern of unacceptable behavior.” Brand stressed that Knight’s con frontation with freshman Kent Harvey was not the only reason for the dismissal of the 59-year-old Hall of Fame coach. “If that was only instance that took place you would not be here today,” Brand told reporters. The president said he stood by his decision for not firing Knight in May and instituting the conduct policy, calling it the “ethical and moral thing to do” because of Knight’s contributions to the school. “I still believe we had to give him one last chance," Brand said. “He failed to live up to that. That was his decision. “His unacceptable behavior not only continued since then but increased.” The search for anew coach will begin immediately, and Brand said he did not yet have any candidates. Knight, who reportedly was in Canada, where he often goes for hunting and fishing, will be paid for the final two years of his contract. Knight won three NCAA champi onships with the Hoosiers and guided the U.S. Olympic team to a gold medal in 1984. But his behavior, which has included verbal and physical abuse of players, has been a problem since he took over the Hoosiers in 1971. Knight has one of the game’s most notorious tempers - throwing chairs across the court, stuffing a fan in a garbage can, scuffling with Puerto Rico police and kicking his own son on the bench. Last spring, he was accused of chok ing one of his players during practice in 1997, an act caught on videotape. Following a school investigation into that claim and others, Indiana warned Knight in May that he must adhere to the zero-tolerance policy, which includ ed no “inappropriate” physical contact with students. Indiana University also suspended him for three games and fined him $30,000. Meanwhile, Harvey and his two brothers have received numerous threats by phone and e-mail, said their stepfather Mark Shaw. He said the teens never wanted to see Knight fired. An apology from the coach was all they wanted. Harvey and his brothers want to stay at Indiana, Shaw said, and school offi cials have assured their family they will do whatever is necessary to ensure the Harveys’ safety. “We’ll have to see how that plays out,” Shaw said. “It’s terrifying.” 12
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