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an jnpg m 1 Monday, September 25,2000 GJlje Baily (Ear Heel Sports Monday Women's Soccer Pitches 2 Shutouts By Matt Terry Assistant Sport Saturday Editor DURHAM - For a team like the North Carolina women’s soccer team, losing a midseason game perhaps isn’t such a bad thing. Just more than a week removed from Clemson’s upset win against the Tar Heels, UNC Women’s Soccer Texas Christian .. .0 UNC 6 UNC 4 William & Mary ..0 turned in perhaps its most dominating performances of the season in the Duke/adidas Classic. Friday, North Carolina beat William & Mary 4-0, and Sunday the Tar Heels dominated every facet of the game, cruising past Texas Christian 6-0. Clutch Curry Leads UNC Past Herd North Carolina quarterback Ronald Curry completed a career-high 24 passes, including two fourth-quarter touchdowns, in the win. By Will Kimmey Sport Saturday Editor Ronald Curry has had a knack for making big plays when North Carolina has needed them this season. The junior quarterback threw the game-winning touch down pass in the Tar Heels’ season opener against Tulsa and connected on two long scoring strikes in UNC’s win at Wake Forest two weeks ago. Curry did it again Saturday against Marshall to lead UNC to a 20-15 comeback victory in front of 53,000 fans. The win helped the Tar Heels (3-1, 1-1 in the ACC) put last week’s 49-point loss to Florida State behind them. “It’s big,” defensive end Julius Peppers said. “You’re talk ing bowl game and confidence. We needed that for our con fidence, really. After getting beat like that last week, we real ly needed to come back and get this game.” Curry threw for 292 yards and two touchdowns, with 24 completions on 39 attempts, both career highs. He went 6-for -8 for 100 yards in the fourth quarter, including both TD tosses. “He’s a great athlete,” Marshall coach Bob Pruett said. “That’s the reason they play fourth quarters. He had two big plays. We wanted to be able to control the big plays, but we weren’t able to do it." The biggest play of the night came early in the fourth quar ter. On third-and-10 from the Marshall 16, Curry eluded a Herd defender and lofted the ball to wideout Kory Bailey, who was waiting on the goal line. “I had an in route,” said Bailey, who made six catches for a career-high 101 yards. “He scrambled a little bit, and the safeties had come up a little bit, so I just backed up about 5 to 10 yards. I was standing right in the front of the end zone, and he hit me.” The touchdown allowed the Tar Heels to grab a 13-9 lead See FOOTBALL, Page 9 Offensive Line Opens Up Tar Heel Ground Attack By Rachel Carter Assistant Sports Editor Say “seven minutes” to a North Carolina football player, and he might think about those disastrous seven min utes in 1999 when Florida State inflicted 28-points worth of hurting on the Tar Heels at home. But now, “seven minutes” could mean something else altogether. The Tar Heels pulled together a seven-minute march on the strength of their young tailbacks in their 20-15 vic tory and effectively slammed the door jSßjglr '# 'i< OTH/RYAN VASAN Forward Chris Carrieri (left) can only watch as Virginia keeper Kyle Singer makes a play. Carrieri injured his right leg during the Tar Heels' 3-1 loss. After losing 2-1 to the Tigers on Sept. 13, No. 4 UNC has gone 4-0 and not conceded a goal “It was a good wake-up call,” fresh man Catherine Reddick said of the Clemson game. “We really needed a kick in the pants to get us playing like North Carolina normally does.” The Tar Heels certainly played that way Sunday. UNC (10-1) controlled the pace of the game from the opening whisde. Scoring chances abounded early and often. In the fourth minute, a Meredith Florance cross bounced into the penalty area, and Jena Kluegel’s shot from 12 yards was speared by TCU goalkeeper Shannon Wagner. Six minutes later, Kluegel held the ball along the endline, nutmegged her M Wt U K M JPtjr Jv iPW Hj If hIl % J|/s9E i% " W wt : P|w| . || % mk WF Rate B JF ■Jm" . w ■■■ : sßg ,| / jfl§- r w 2 /' Football Marshall IS UNC 20 DTH/KATE MEI.LNIK Curry drops back in the pocket against the Marshall defense. He threw for 292 yards, 100 of which came in the fourth quarter. on Marshall’s comeback hopes Saturday night at Kenan Stadium. With 7:42 left in the fourth quarter, Marshall quarterback Bryon Leftwich aired out a 37-yard pass to wideout Darius Watts. A play later, Brandon Carey scampered into the end zone to cap an 88-yard drive. UNC found itself on its own 22 with 7:09 to go. Then the running game took over. The Tar Heels rushed 11 out of 13 plays on the final drive before time expired with them on Marshall’s 8-yard line. marker and sent a tight-angled shot just wide of the far post UNC kept up its attacking pres sure and finally opened the scor ing in the 17th minute, thanks to a nice individual play by Tar Heel midfielder Raven McDonald. After collecting the ball near the left sideline, she Freshman forward Alyssa Ramsey had an assist in each of North Carolina's victories this weekend at Duke. then proceeded to dance around Texas Christian defenders Ali Schloegel and Jackie Rodriguez before finding Anne Remy at the top of the arc. Remy’s shot hit the crossbar, but The drive belonged to a pair of freshman tail backs, Brandon Russell and Andre Williams, who combined for 113 total rushing yards on the night. Russell led the team with 17 car ries, six of which came during those last seven min utes. Louis Marchetti said tailback Brandon Russell had an incredible night. Cavaliers Hand Men's Soccer Ist ACC Loss By lan Gordon Staff Writer It was two minutes in a season that has seen more than 700 minutes total. It was two minutes that flashed by in a . heartbeat. But it struck North Carolina like a heart attack. Virginia, Hen’s Soccer Virginia 3 UNC I ranked Bth in the country, scored goals in the 62nd and 64th minutes en route to a 3-1 win against No. 10 UNC at Fetzer Field on Sunday. The Tar Heels (6-2, 1-1 in the ACC) allowed 12 shots on goal in the second McDonald’s diving header on the rebound found the back of the net. The Tar Heels took a 2-0 lead in the 42nd minute after Kalli Kamholz, who appeared to settle the ball with her left arm, knocked home a loose ball near the TCU 6-yard box. UNC outshot the Homed Frogs 16-0 in the first half and could certainly have scored more than just two goals. “The first half, we had tons of balls served to the box, and we weren’t orga nized,” McDonald said. “We were let ting balls skip all the way through instead of just finishing.” The Tar Heels finished their chances in the second half to the tune of four goals. McDonald scored her second goal of the game just two minutes into the half, See WOMEN'S SOCCER, Page 11 “He took it upon his shoulder,” UNC offensive tackle Louis Marchetti said. “Blocking for him, even if there weren’t holes, he made people miss. He was incredible.” Russell got the start at tailback with Williams backing him up. Redshirt freshman Willie Parker, who entered fall practice as the Tar Heels’ starting tail back, did not take the field during the game. The young tailbacks had trouble in their first three games, forcing North Carolina to get much of its rushing yardage from quarterback Ronald Curry half, including a late counterattack score by Sheldon Barnes in the 88th minute. “It was not the two minutes, but the development that led up to the two min utes,” UNC coach Elmar Bolowich said. The Cavaliers (6-2,2-0) came out firing at the start of the second half. In the 61st minute, forward Alecko Eskandarian blasted a low shot from the left side of the 18-yard box that banged off the right post UVa. converted moments later. UNC defender David Stokes tried to track down a long ball in the right comer but was beaten to it by Steve Totten. Stokes lost his footing on the slick turf and Totten left him behind, feeding Ryan Gibbs in front of the net for the game-tying goal. “We just don’t know how to hold a Defense Rises, Helps UNC Grab 2 Wins The North Carolina volleyball team used a strong defensive effort to beat Georgia Tech and Clemson in its ACC season openers. See Page 11 iM-li " f .jtflvHp 5 B * : 7"€' , L ■pi \ j jb wzJ jggy DTH/SEFTONIPOCK Senior forward Meredith Florance battles a Texas Christian player for control of the ball. Florance had three goals in two games this weekend. and fullback Anthony Saunders. But those problems vanished. “We’ve struggled a little bit early in the season with our running game, but we put it together,” tight end Alge Cmmpler said. “Those seven minutes that we drove the ball, we really ran two plays. “That whole seven minutes, there was the offensive line up front. All five of those guys made up in their minds that they would block and block well, because they didn’t do anything to stop See DRIVE, Page 9 lead,” UNC forward Chris Carrieri said. “We do some mind-boggling things in the back and in the front.” The Cavaliers scored the game-winner when UNC was unable to clear the ball. Ryan Trout collected the ball and crossed to a waiting Eskandarian. It was virtually the same shot Eskandarian had when he hit the post. He didn’t miss this time, depositing the ball in the lower left comer. “I positioned myself in the same spot,” Eskandarian said. “The goalie didn’t have much of a chance.” From then on, neither did UNC. Its best chance came in the 87th minute, when Matt Crawford crossed into a crowd in the UVa. goalbox. The ball bounced off several players before being INSIDE: ■ Field hockey rolls through Virginia. Page 8 ■ Fair, Phillips take Patterson Medal. Page 8 ■ Men's golf to tee off at Duke. Page 8 Volleyball Serves Up ACC Wins North Carolina opened its ACC season with victories at home against Clemson and Georgia Tech. By Adam D. Hill Staff Writer North Carolina’s volleyball team spent the first month of its season refining its game in preparation for ACC play. It took two games with Georgia Tech on Friday for the Tar Heels’ hard work to fall into place. After drop ping its first two games to the Yellow Jackets, UNC Volleyball Clemson 0 UNC 3 Georgia Tech 2 UNC 3 roared back to win the match 3-2 (13-15, 9-15,15-12, 15-3,15-10). The Tar Heels didn’t have a letdown on Saturday afternoon, as they rolled past Clemson 3-0 (13-5, 17-15,15-8). The pair of victories moved UNC to 2-0 in ACC play and 9-2 overall. “The win over Georgia Tech was pretty exciting,” UNC coach Joe Sagula said. “A couple of times early in the game we put ourselves in a position to win, but we didn’t. At the end, though, we were close to the top of our game.” UNC was nowhere near the top of its game in the initial two games against the Yellowjackets. UNC played Georgia Tech close for the majority of the first two games, but it allowed Tech to squeeze out critical deciding points at the end. Despite an unusually rowdy atmos phere fueled by the UNC pep band, the Yellowjackets won game one by scor ing the final three points and game two by posting the last nine points. “Georgia Tech is a good team,” Sagula said. “But we didn’t capitalize when we could have, and we made some unforced errors. We needed to battle with them, and in the second half of the match we did.” UNC did indeed battle in the final three games of the match, displaying an urgency previously unseen from the tal ented unit. See VOLLEYBALL, Page 11 covered by Cavalier keeper Kyle Singer. But UNC did convert earlier in the match. In the 20th minute, Carrieri led Logan Pause for a goal on a give-and-go inside the 18-yard box. Pause was unable to play in the second half due to a hip flexor injury, and Carrieri caught a knee from UVa.’s Mike Feller on the scoring play. The injury to Carrieri’s tight leg rendered him ineffective, limiting him to two shots in the match. “I don’t feel like I was hurting the team, but I wasn’t 100 percent,” Carrieri said. “I couldn’t get in there and unbal ance the defense.” The Sports Editor cart be reached at sports@unc.edu. 14
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