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UNC avenges loss to N.C. State
BY BRIAN MACPHERSON
SPORTS EDITOR
When you don’t lose very much,
you don’t often get a chance for
revenge.
But such was the case Friday,
when N.C. State, the only team to
deal a regular
season loss to
the North
Carolina
women’s soccer
team last year,
WOMEN’S
SOCCER
N.C. State 1
UNC 4
visited Fetzer Field.
The Tar Heels started slowly, but
they broke though a persistent
Wolfpack defense for three second
half goals and came away with a 4-
1 win, as well as a little retribution.
“We definitely wanted to prove a
point when we came out here today,”
said sophomore defender Kendall
Fletcher. “It was on our field, and we
don’t lose on our field, and we defi
nitely don’t lose to State.”
When the game began, North
Carolina (14-0,3-0 in the ACC) did
not look like a team seeking
revenge. N.C. State (7-5-1,0-3) suc
cessfully defended each of the Tar
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Hamlett was open because of
ECU’s focus on the Tar Heel
ground game.
“When you have a running
game, it sets everything up,”
Durant said. “Play action and stuff
like that are much easier.”
On the ensuing possession, the
Pirates drove 74 yards for a touch
down to cut their deficit to 21-17
with 8:11 left in the game.
But the UNC offense was too
much. Starting from the 28, the Tar
Heels ran a bootleg pass to tight
end Bobby Blizzard for 12 yards.
Then, they ran the ball 10 times in
a row, capped off by a 1-yard TD
run by McGill, the third true fresh
man to score for UNC on the day.
After ECU was stopped on
downs, all the UNC offense had to
do was run the clock out, some
thing it hadn’t done since October
5, 2002, against Arizona State.
When Durant walked onto the
field, knowing his team had won,
he waved his arms in ecstasy, a
feeling his entire team shared. It
was a feeling his coach couldn’t
articulate after the game.
Said Bunting: “I can’t even tell
you how good I feel. It would be X
rated."
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Scott scored on an 8-yard touch
down run in the third quarter that
put the Tar Heels ahead 14-10, a
lead they wouldn't lose. It was his
first touchdown as a Tar Heel.
“Throughout the season my
opportunities have been kind of
limited,” Scott said. “Today they
gave me an opportunity to show
what I can do, and I took advan
tage of it.”
A third-quarter fumble was
Scott’s only glaring mistake, but he
said he was encouraged when the
coaches put him back in the game
after the turnover.
“I fumble 1 against Florida
State, and I got kind of down,”
Scott said. “I dropped a key pass
against Wisconsin, and I got kind
of down. The coaches always tell
me if you make a mistake, just go
out and play the next play. I believe
them putting me back in the game
boosted my confidence a lot.”
Saturday’s victory also was the
first time UNC's four-tailback rota
tion has been successful this season.
Scott, Ronnie McGill, Jacque
Lewis and Willie Parker all took
turns at blocking back and tail
back. UNC piled up 209 rushing
yards, with McGill leading the
team with 67 and Lewis right
behind him with 66.
“That’s been the plan for the
year, to get all four backs to play to
the best of their ability,” McGill
said. “We just haven’t had the
chance because different people
have been going in in different sit
uations, so nobody has really got to
run the ball much.”
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Heels’ seven first-half comer kicks
and limited most of UNC’s 16 shots
to the perimeter of the goal box.
“I thought we played relatively
lackluster,” said UNC coach Anson
Dorrance. “In fact, I was very dis
appointed that we played the way
we did.”
With less than 13 minutes left in
the half, UNC finally broke though.
Midfielder Kacey White took a
shot from the top of the box that
beat State goalkeeper Megan
Connors, but defender Megan
Buescher kicked the ball away from
the goal line. Tar Heel junior Mary
McDowell immediately played the
ball back into the box, and Lindsay
Tarpley deflected it past Connors
for the first goal of the game.
At the end of the half, though, the
Tar Heels still led by only one goal.
“We wanted to step up our play
a little more and bury them,”
Fletcher said. “It was only 1-0, and
we wanted to make sure we put
them away, scored two or three
more goals, and we did that.”
Less than eight minutes into the
second half, North Carolina finallv
UNC 28, ECU 17
UNC 0 7 7 14 28
ECU 0 10 0 7 17
Scoring Summary
Second Quarter
UNC Mason 34 yd. pass from Durant (Omer
kick), 12:42
ECU Broadwell 23 yd. field goal, 4:58
ECU Moye 3 yd. pass from Robinson
(Broadwell kick), 0:17
Third Quarter
UNC Scott 8 yd. run (Omer kick), 7:55
Fourth Quarter
UNC Hamlett 33 yd. pass from Durant (Omer
kick), 11:15
ECU Townes 26 yd. pass from Robinson
(Broadwell kick), 8:11
UNC - McGill 1 yd. run (Omer kick), 2:16
Attendance 44,040
UNC ECU
First Downs 16 16
Rushes-Yards 43 189 45-164
Passing Yards 198 125
Comp-Att-Int 15-25-0 13-17-0
Total Yards 387 289
Punts-Avg. 5-39,0 7-42.6
Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-1
Penalties-Yards 6-70 11-79
Time of Possession 30:58 29:02
Individual Leaders
Rushing: UNC McGill 13-67. ECU Townes
26-100.
Passing: UNC - Durant 15-25-0 198. ECU -
Robinson 13-17-0125.
Receiving: UNC Scott 3-63. ECU Copper
4-45.
McGill’s hard-nosed running
style was a valuable asset for the
Tar Heels on Saturday. He carried
the ball seven times and scored on
a 1-yard touchdown ran culminat
ing a 72-yard drive in the fourth
quarter that gave UNC a 28-17
lead and ended ECUs chances.
It seems likely the Tar Heels will
continue to platoon their quartet
of running backs at both blocking
back and tailback for the rest of
the season. Scott said it should not
be a problem for any of them to
make a smooth transition between
the two positions.
“We talk about just being there
for each other,” Scott said. “We’re
all going to be stuck in that situa
tion. It’s not like there's going to be
one designated guy doing it.”
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converted on a comer kick. Forward
Alyssa Ramsey served the ball into
the box to midfielder Maggie
Tomecka, who headed the ball for
ward. Defender Jessica Maxwell
then chipped the ball just under the
crossbar for her first career goal.
Late in the second half, the Tar
Heels put the game away. White
took a pass from Tarpley and tried
to cross the ball from the goal line,
but the ball deflected off a NCSU
defender and bounced into the net.
White scored again just 10 min
utes later when she took a cross
from McDowell, moved the ball
across her body to get inside her
defender and ripped a low shot
into the comer of the net.
“I didn’t have a very good angle,
so I wanted to create it myself,"
White said. “I had the confidence
that I could beat her inside.”
White’s first two-goal game
came as no surprise to her coach.
“Believe it or not, she’s capable
of doing that in every game,”
Dorrance said. “Her work rate,
speed and skill are absolutely
extraordinary, and if we can get her
Wolfpack defense
solid despite loss
BY BRIANA GORMAN
STAFF WRITER
A soggy N.C. State soccer team
walked off Fetzer Field on Friday
evening after losing to rival North
Carolina 4-1.
But the final score of a game can
never tell the full story.
After beating the Tar Heels for
the first time last year in Raleigh,
the ’Pack were looking for a repeat
of last year’s 2-1 victory.
Though the outcome of the
game wasn’t what State envi
sioned. it did prove their defensive
resilience against a potent Tar
Heel offense. North Carolina
struggled to score in the first half
and entered the second half with
only a 1-0 lead.
“A lot of times, they were
retreating back, so we had to real
ize that we couldn't play it over the
top,” said UNC midfielder Kacey
White. “It took us a while to get in
that rhythm to break down their
defense.”
The Tar Heels, known for their
ability to score quickly and often,
had problems finishing in the box
in the first half. Crosses were sent
in and repeatedly cleared by
Wolfpack defenders.
But in the second half, UNC
finally broke its opponent down
with Jessica Maxwell’s goal in the
52nd minute.
“They ended up scoring a couple
off crosses, and there are only so
many crosses you’ll clear before one
gets in,” said N.C. State coach Laura
Kerrigan. “You have to prevent
those crosses. I think for a while we
were able to keep it out and then
finally they broke through.”
The Tar Heels finished with 28
shots on goal for the night com
pared to the Wolfpack’s three.
But the ’Pack managed to hold
two Tar Heel star forwards.
Heather O’Reilly and Alyssa
Ramsey, to one and two shots,
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N.C. State got on the board with
less than five minutes remaining in
the game, the first goal allowed by
North Carolina goalkeeper Aly
Winget in more than 579 minutes
of play, when Adrienne Barnes
converted on a comer kick.
“We’re going to fight to the end,
and we’re never going to give up,”
said N.C. State coach Laura
Kerrigan. “That’s what I love about
my team.”
But the Tar Heels did what they
needed to do defend their home
turf against a tough conference
opponent and earn a measure of
revenge along the way.
“They were our only regular
season loss last year until the Final
Four, and our first loss in forever,
so that’s all that was in our minds,"
White said. “We knew we needed
to come out and reassert our
authority in the ACC.”
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respectively.
“We come out tough every
game, it doesn’t matter who it is,
even if it’s the number-one team in
the nation,” Crocker said. “I mean
it’s our rival, yeah, that’s makes us
want to win even more, but we
always come out tough.”
The Wolfpack managed to score
a goal in 85th minute and rob the
Tar Heels of their 12th shutout of
the season.
“They were well-organized,”
said UNC coach Anson Dorrance.
“Laura Kerrigan does a nice job
with her team and they had a good
game plan coming in.
“We credit their shape in the
back, but I think what I would cred
it more than their tactics, I would
credit their fighting and their com
mitment they played very hard.”
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2003
Women want exposure
denied to them in past
BY BRIAN MACPHERSON
SPORTS EDITOR
Spotlights and confetti will be
out in full force across the country
next week as basketball programs
kick off the 2003-04 season, and
North Carolina's celebration will
be no different.
But this year’s “Late Night with
Roy” event might include a group
of participants absent a year ago
the women’s basketball team.
Members of the women’s team
said they have felt brushed aside in
past years.
Even when they were included,
their level of involvement some
times was little more than an
introduction before the men’s team
took the court.
“We don’t want to come out
there, dolled up for people to see us,
because that’s not what that’s for,”
said senior center Carrie Davis.
“We’re basketball players, were ath
letes. Why can’t we do something
athletic instead of coming out there
and maybe throwing a T-shirt?”
The frustration culminated last
year in a boycott. The women’s
team declined to participate in the
event and instead distributed fly
ers in protest.
“Last year, we were told that we
were going to participate, and then
the week before, they took us out,"
Davis said.
Several members of the team
see this year’s program as no dif
ferent, and said they have not yet
decided whether to participate.
“We don’t want to take away
from the guys,” said senior
Candace Sutton. “We don’t want a
big part, but we just want some
thing.
“Maybe a 3-point contest against
the men, a free-throw contest, 2-
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20 seconds.
“I think that the second goal was
the key,” Bolowich said. “Mercer
came out very motivated in the
second half. They tried to press for
the equalizer and then when we
got the second goal, it deflated
them a little bit. The other goals
were results of great counterat
tacks on our part."
North Carolina finished out the
on-2. Just something to interact,
the men and the women together.”
Athletic department officials,
however, insist that the women’s
team will have an important role in
the “Late Night with Roy” program
this year.
“They’ll be out there from about
10:00 to 10:30, being introduced
and doing a variety of things,” said
Norwood Teague, associate athlet
ic director for marketing and pro
motions. “And then they’ll come
back closer to midnight.”
Teague said that Coach Roy
Williams’ arrival from Kansas and
the resulting changes in the pro
gram led to errant speculation dur
ing the planning stages.
“Some of that has leaked out
and been misconstrued,” Teague
said. “Some people have thought
they were getting less time, when
they were actually getting more
time.”
Many other schools include
their women’s basketball teams in
late-night kickoff programs,
including Williams’ Kansas teams
during his tenure. The Jayhawk
women’s basketball team will be
included this year as well.
Women’s basketball coach
Sylvia Hatchell said that the pro
gram is still in its planning stages,
and that she believes her team
28-6 a year ago, and ranked 10th
in one preseason poll will be
included to its satisfaction.
“They want to be involved, and I
think they will be involved,” she
said. “Were working on the plans,
and I feel confident that the girls
will be happy with their involve
ment.”
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weekend with seven different play
ers scoring goals. In addition, the
Tar Heels outshot their opponents
33-9 on the way to their victories
against Mercer and Kentucky.
“It’s a great achievement,”
Bolowich said. “That was another
adversity that, for our young guys,
was an invaluable lesson.
“Our guys hung in there and
that was very good to see."
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