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Women’s Soccer Loses
2nd Match of Season
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - An unassist
ed goal by defender Kristin Boyce with
6:58 left in the second overtime lifted No.
23-Florida State to a 3-2 overtime victo
ry against second-ranked North Carolina
id women’s soccer Tuesday night
The Seminoles (11-4-1, 2-2-1 in the
ACC) beat the Tar Heels (12-2-0,3-2-0)
for the first time in history.
UNC’s Meredith Florance put the
Tar Heels ahead at the 12:12 mark as
she scored on an assist by Maggie
Tomecka. Just more than two minutes
later, FSU tied the game as Marte Vik
Edvardson scored on a penalty kick past
UNC goalkeeper Kristin DePlatchett.
FSU went ahead at the 78:46 mark as
Cindy Schofield beat UNC goalie Jenni
Branam, who entered the game at half
time. Florance forced the game into
overtime with 5:01 to play in regulation.
Carrieri, Flanagan Nab
ACC Performer Honors
UNC junior forward Chris Carrieri
was named the ACC men’s soccer play
er of the week after leading the Tar
Heels to a 2-0 record last week. Carrieri
scored five goals and had three assists
for a total of 14 points as UNC defeated
Dartmouth 3-1 and Rider 11-0 at
UNC-Greensboro’s Spartan Classic.
UNC freshman Shalane Flanagan
has earned her third ACC cross country
performer of the week honor after her
strong finish in the NCAA Preview on
Saturday. Flanagan placed third in a
field of more than 300 runners.
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High-Flying Carter Stays Grounded in NBA
Former Tar Heel Vince Carter
returned to the Smith Center
in Monday's NBA exhibition
game and scored 38 points.
By Will Kimmey
Sport Saturday Editor
It was billed as an NBA preseason
exhibition game.
But most of the 5,588 people who
gathered in the Smith Center for the
Philadelphia 76ers-Toronto Raptors
matchup Monday night were there to
see one thing: the Vince Carter show.
With 7:42 remaining in the third
quarter, the fans got what they had come
for, something they had not seen in the
Chapel Hill since Carter left North
Carolina in 1998 after his junior season.
Carter ran down the left side of the
floor and converted a Corliss
Williamson pass into a windmill dunk.
The crowd erupted in cheers in
much the same way countless other
crowds have during Carter’s first two
seasons in the NBA.
Even some of his teammates and
coaches get caught up in watching the 6-
foot-7 swingman soar through the air.
He’s made Raptors point guard Mark
Jackson, who is entering his 14th season
in the NBA and signed with Toronto in
the off-season, watch in awe a few times.
“Sometimes you look at him and
you’re like, “Wow, it’s incredible,” but
you’ve got to keep playing,” Jackson says.
In his first season as Toronto’s coach,
Lenny Wilkens is looking forward to a
season full of Carter highlights after two
years of coaching against him.
“It’s going to be more fun to be on
his side than against him, so I’m looking
forward to it,” says Wilkens, who has
coached in the NBA since 1969.
Yet while Carter is glad the people
enjoy watching him play, he makes it
clear that he’s not about being the main
event. He’s about winning, he and was
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game. Carter is out to prove he's more than just an acrobatic dunker.
upset that his team was on the wrong
end of the 107-98 contest Monday.
“I’ve learned not to get caught up in
that,” says Carter, who led all scorers
with 38 points. “I’m not here to put on a
show. I’m here to get better, and I’m
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here to win. I’m here to play in front of
the crowd, yes, but not like that.”
Take Carter’s mind-blowing dunk in
the Olympics this summer. He jumped
over France’s 7-2 center Frederick Weis
and stuffed the ball home. Just like the
feats he pulled off to win last year’s
NBA slam dunk contest, Carter didn’t
plan that move. He just improvised on
the spot and now downplays the event.
He’s more excited that his team won the
gold medal.
“That’s all it was, just the act of the
moment,” says Carter, who led Team
USA with 14.2 points per game. “If it
happened three different times, I guar
antee you’d see three different things.
Next time I’d probably pull up, next
time I’d shoot a layup. You never know,
it’s a game-time decision.”
It’s plays like that which draw compar
isons to another former Tar Heel, Michael
Jordan. And Carter is none too shy about
shooting down those comparisons.
“It’s not a fair comparison,” he says.
“He’s who he is and has accomplished
what he’s accomplished. I’m only in my
third year. Trying to compare me to him,
it’s too early. I’m just going to try to con
tinue to play the way I play and just do
what I do and don’t worry about that”
Carter spends more time worrying
about his game, trying to improve.
He has focused on getting stronger,
physically and mentally, since he won
the NBA’s Rookie of the Year award
after the 1998-99 season. He says he is
aey UNC,
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just now starting to understand the NBA
game better -a scary proposition con
sidering Carter’s 25.7 points per game
last year ranked fourth in the league.
He piled up so many points largely
because of his improvement behind the
3-point line. Carter hit 40 percent of his
shots from behind the arc last season,
compared to 29 percent in his rookie
year. Now defenders have to check him
on the perimeter rather than focusing on
stopping his drives to the hoop.
“It makes me smile,” Carter says. “If
they don’t respect the jump shot or
whatever, it doesn’t bother me at all.
Most importandy, I’m learning to take
what the defense gives me and try to
make something happen with that”
While Carter will continue to fly high
on the court, he remains grounded off it
“Just because I’m in the NBA doesn’t
mean I have to change,” he says. “It
doesn’t mean I’m higher or better than
anybody. I’m just in the NBA doing
something I love. That’s all.
“The only thing that’s changed for
me is I have NBA behind my name
instead of North Carolina.”
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