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Thursday, November 2, 2000
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Stay Alive
In Singles
Nicholas Monroe, Max Hilkey
and Greg Archer advanced
to the second day of singles
qualifying with victories.
By Owen A. Hassell
Staff Writer
Nicholas Monroe knows he has no
choice but to play aggressive tennis.
And that’s just to qualify.
Knowing he may log overtime on the
court didn’t stop the North Carolina
freshman from posting an impressive
6-3, 6-2 win Wednesday afternoon
against East Tennessee State’s Juan
Yannuzzi.
Monroe will now move on in the
qualifying rounds of the Intercollegiate
Tennis Association South Atlantic
Regional Indoor Championships at
UNC’s Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center.
Tournament play begins at 8 a.m.
today.
If Monroe can reel off two more vic
tories today, he will earn the right to
play in the 64-player singles bracket,
which begins Friday.
Max Hilkey and Greg Archer, two of
Monroe’s teammates, also won their
opening qualifying matches. Next up for
Hilkey is Old Dominion’s Calin Milos,
and Archer will face Wake Forest’s
David Bere.
After some early jitters, Monroe said
he was able to get the upper edge.
“In every first match of a tourna
ment, I’m always tense,” Monroe said.
“The first few games I was kind of errat
ic, but I settled down and took advan
tage of some of his unforced errors.”
Monroe’s aggressive game plan was
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Freshman Nicholas Monroe advanced with a 6-3,6-2 win against East
Tennessee State's Juan Yannuzzi at UNC's Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center.
nfecessary to avoid falling into
Yannuzzi’s trap of long rallies.
“He’s a clay-court player, so he likes to
hit the balls up high and try to move the
other guy back,” Monroe said. “But when
he was hitting it high, I was stepping for
ward, and any short ball I got I was com
ing in, so I had to stay aggressive.”
Hilkey had little trouble in the begin
ning of his qualifying match, ending
points quickly with sharp net play to
take the opening set 6-2.
Yet it was a lack of consistency that
almost cost Hilkey, as opponent Joe
Brooks of William & Mary stormed
back to split sets before Hilkey closed it
out to win 6-2,3-6,6-3.
Archer also had trouble putting away
his match against Florida State’s
Rodrigo Lamb, ending play with a tight
6-1, 7-6 victory to move ahead.
A tiebreaker stumped UNC’s final
bid in qualifying. Chad Riley, down 2-6
to High Point’s Erik Petterson, pulled
himself back in the match in winning
the second set but fell via a third-set
tiebreaker 2-6,6-4, 6-7.
Riley also missed out on qualifying in
doubles. After he and teammate Trystan
Menaine won their first match, they lost
to Old Dominion’s Nichlas Hallberg
and Salman Mohammed 8-4.
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Tar Heels Head to ACCs
Looking for Redemption
Striker Susan Bush will have
knee surgery at 9 a.m., and
her teammates will take on
N.C. State four hours later.
By James Giza
Assistant Sport Saturday Editor
Following its worst ACC regular sea
son showing in history, the North
Carolina women’s soccer team has been
handed a clean slate for the conference
tournament this weekend.
But the third-seeded Tar Heels (13-3,
4-3 in the ACC) wiß have to take advan
tage of their fresh start without their
third-leading scorer.
Sophomore forward Susan Bush was
lost for the remainder of the season when
she tore the anterior cruciate ligament in
her right knee during practice on Oct 25.
Bush, who started 12 games this sea
son and tallied nine goals and four
assists, provided UNC with a source of
speed up front that will be sorely missed.
“The first thing we lose is she turns
the comer so quickly and so often and
so easily,” UNC coach Anson Dorrance
said. “I would say on an average, six
times a game, even against the best com
petition, she’s turned the comer.
“Whenever you turn the comer
against a team’s defense, they’re vulner-
Field Hockey Awaits Opponent
By Rachel Carter
Assistant Sports Editor
North Carolina field hockey coach
Karen Shelton has a saying she drills
into the heads of her players.
“(Shelton) always says, ‘Our most
important game is our next game,’”
sophomore goalkeeper Amy Tran said.
That means UNC’s most important
able. And she
does that so con
sistently, maybe
we took her for
granted because
you don’t find
many players that
have that ability.”
The Tar Heels
travel to Duke’s
Koskinen Stadium
today to face
sixth-seeded N.C.
State at 1 p.m. in
the quarterfinals
but will make the
trip without Bush,
who will be at UNC Hospitals for
surgery at 9 a.m.
The winner of today’s matchup will
face the winner of the Wake Forest-
Florida State game.
Bush tore the ligament during a
defensive back pressure exercise when
she turned to cross a ball and heard a
pop in her right knee.
Although tests revealed that she had
tom her ACL, Bush thought she might
be able to finish the season. However,
her mobility was hindered so much that
surgery became the only option. She will
face four to six months of rehabilitation.
“If I were to cut on the field, I would
probably just fall over," said Bush, who
missed time last season with injuries,
game is Friday at
7 p.m., when the
team plays in the
first round of the
ACC tournament.
After going
undefeated in
league play, UNC
earned the No. 1
seed and a game
against either
Duke or ninth
ranked Virginia.
UNC won’t
find out who its
semifinal oppo
nent is until the
Blue Devils and the Cavaliers battle at
2 p.m. today at Artificial Turf Stadium.
If Tran has her way, the Tar Heels
will play the Cavaliers. Tran’s selection
is surprising, considering Duke’s squad
hasn’t defeated the Tar Heels since 1981.
“We kind of struggled with Duke (in
the regular season), so I’d rather we play
Virginia,” said Tran, who finished the
regular season with seven shutouts.
UNC opened its season with a 3-0
defeat of Duke on Aug. 26. But the Tar
Heels had trouble putting Duke away
when the game counted toward ACC
standings, getting a 2-1 victory Oct. 1.
The Cavaliers have also been on the
losing end of both of their contests with
the Tar Heels. UNC stopped Virginia by
scores of 3-1 and 3-0 during the season.
Shelton doesn’t care which team it is.
She just wants her team to play well and
to not overlook Virginia or Duke.
“I think when you’re like our team and
you’ve earned the No. 1 seed - we didn’t
want to play Maryland, we didn’t want to
play Wake Forest - there’s a tendency to
overlook this team," Shelton said.
Even before the Tar Heels play in the
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including a medial collateral tear in her
right knee. “If I played, I wouldn’t be
that useful. I couldn’t be that effective.”
Filling in for Bush will be another
sophomore, Kim Patrick. Patrick has
played in all 16 of UNC’s contests this
season, tallying eight goals and five assists.
She doesn’t have the quickness Bush
possesses, but she does have a nose for
the goal. Her 18 goals and 42 points led
the Tar Heels last season, although she
started only 14 games.
“I’ve grown up that way. All coaches
have always told me that," Patrick said.
“I guess I feel most comfortable in front
of the goal. You won’t see me use light
ning speed to get past people, but once
I get in front of the goal I feel comfort
able. And hopefully, I can provide us
some goals this weekend.”
The sixth-ranked Tar Heels will need
all the scoring they can get Their three
conference losses at Clemson, FSU and
Wake Forest are their most ever.
Suddenly, a 12th consecutive ACC title
doesn’t seem like such a sure thing.
“We’re just going to try to take it one
game at a time, play hard, get focused and
hopefully win,” junior Anne Remy said
after UNC’s 6-0 win against Maryland on
Sunday. “Anson told us, from now on
after today, we lose and we’re out.”
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Sophomore forward
Kim Patrick
led UNC in scoring
last season and will
replace Susan Bush
in the starting lineup.
semifinals, they know whom they could
face in the championship game. Wake
Forest defeated defending NCAA cham
pion Maryland during the regular sea
son and earned the No. 2 seed.
“We’re happy we had the No. 1 seed ®;
because Wake and Maryland will knock |
each other out,” UNC senior forward |'
Kristen McCann said.
McCann hopes the Tar Heels make it
to Sunday’s 3:30 p.m. title game and
come face to face with Wake, a team
that has suddenly become a big rival.
Last season, the Demon Deacons
handed the Tar Heels a humiliating 6-1
loss in the ACC semifinals. McCann
said that won’t happen again and added
that she thought the Tar Heels-had
mental edge on the Deacons.
Both the Deacons and the Terrapins
took the Tar Heels to overtime this year,
but key goals from McCann
UNC victories in those games (4-3 and *•
1-0, respectively). The Tar Heels also
handed Wake a 3-2 loss Sept. 30.
Those games gave Tran more work
than usual. Maryland and Wake rely on
a high-scoring offense to take control of
games, but Tran said she’s not worried
about that.
“For the first time in my life, I feel
like it’s OK if I mess up and a goal
scores because I know we’ll score more
than they will,” Tran said.
For Shelton, getting to the title game
is important, but she wants to see the Tar
Heels play their best to get ready for the
upcoming NCAA tournament.
“I don’t think we’ve been playing well,”
Shelton said. “I just want us to get to the
championship game and play well - I
don’t care if we win or lose, just play well.”
The Sports Editor can be reached at
sports@unc.edu.
UNC goalkeeper
Amy Tran
finished the regular
season with seven
shutouts and a 0.93
goals-against average.
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