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Tar Heels slip past Wolfpack
UNC to face Terps
in semis on Friday
BY BRANDON PARKER
SPORTSATURDAY EDITOR
CARY After failing to connect
on six first-half shots, it appeared
that the North Carolina men’s
soccer team would make like the
weather and go cold in its first
round ACC Tournament matchup
against N.C. State on Wednesday.
But the Tar Heels caught fire after
the break as they scored two goals in
an eight-minute span to defeat the
Wolfpack 2-0 at SAS Soccer Park.
UNC senior midfielder Andrew
Rhea registered the team’s first
goal in the 73rd minute. Tar Heel
sophomore Blake Beach squeaked
a dribbling pass by two Wolfpack
defenders, allowing Rhea to knock
a short shot into the left pocket of
the goal.
“I took a touch, and we’ve been
working on
those in prac
tice,” Rhea said.
“I’ve been dead
on on those,
and I was due
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SOCCER
N.C. State 0
UNC 2
to make one.”
Less than eight minutes later, Tar
Heel junior forward Jamie Watson
used his back foot to deflect a Dax
McCarty comer kick into the net
and put the game out of reach.
UNC controlled the ball for the
majority of the game, as it outshot
State by six shots and held the
Wolfpack to just one attempt on
goal in the first half.
“Our defense did a good job of
containing (State forward) Aaron
King, who is a threat for 90 minutes,”
said North Carolina coach Elmar
Bolowich. “Possessing the ball also
has to do with movement, and our
players did an excellent job of mak
ing it difficult for State to track us.”
But the Tar Heels squandered
scoring opportunities in the game’s
first half, as they were called for
three offsides penalties and sent a
number of shots wide of the goal.
“This is probably one of our bet
ter games this year as far as keep
ing possession in the first half,”
Watson said. “There were a couple
of chances we wished we could
have done better because our job
is to score.
“All game, we had been knock
ing at the door. So when (Rhea)
scored, we finally got the goal we
deserved.”
The Tar Heels had to play the
second half without its second
leading scorer, Corey Ashe.
The sophomore forward sus
tained a mild concussion after the
ball deflected off a ’Pack defender
and hit Ashe in the face in the 26th
minute. His status for the next
game is uncertain.
UNC and N.C. State also met in
the first round of last year’s ACC
Ramadan urges spiritual renewal
BY EMILY FISHER
STAFF WRITER
As cutout turkeys and cornu
copias replace Halloween candy
in drug store aisles nationwide, a
group of students at local universi
ties celebrates a holiday that hasn’t
bridged the commercial gap.
For Muslims around the world,
the holy month of Ramadan, which
began Oct. 15 and ends Nov. 14,
means sunrise-to-sundown fasting,
charity, spiritual renewal and the
gathering of friends and family.
Each night of Ramadan, a leader
reads one section of the Quran, the
holy book that Muslims believe was
revealed to Allah during the ninth
month of Islam’s lunar calendar.
“I can’t stress enough the impor
tance of this month,” said junior
Mahroo Ahsan, the secretary of
N.C. State University’s Muslim
Students Association.
Ahsan was one of about 50 peo
ple in attendance at the Triangle
Iftar, a sundown fast-breaking
hosted by UNC-Chapel Hill’s
Muslim student group on Nov. 4.
Buzzing conversation subsided
as the iftar, literally translated as
“breakfast,” opened with a sunset
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North Carolina forward Jamie Watson (5) looks to dribble away from N.C. State midfielder Santiago Fusilier
during the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament on Wednesday. Watson scored a goal in the Tar Heels' 2-0 win.
Tournament in a thrilling match
up that ended with the Wolfpack
winning on penalty kicks.
While last season’s loss was a
disappointment for the Tar Heels,
Rhea said that revenge was not the
focus for Wednesday’s game.
“We were thinking more down
the line of winning the ACC cham
pionship, making it to the (NCAA)
Tournament,” he said. “So it was
prayer by UNC-CH, N.C. State
and Duke University students
assembled on paper rugs in the
Carmichael Ballroom.
After the prayer, students passed
around dates, a traditional fast
breaking food, and enjoyed a meal
of bread, rice and chickpeas.
Taiyyaba Qureshi, a sophomore
political science major at UNC-CH,
said the month is about refraining
from negative feelings and actions,
in addition to the self-denial of food
and water during daylight hours.
“The whole month of Ramadan
is about simplicity,” Qureshi said.
“If you try it for a day, you real
ize how much your life revolves
around food.”
Adnan Mustafa, who said he
wasn’t particularly hungry, said
having self-control and discipline
in all parts of life is the hard part.
“For us it’s a time for soul search
ing and to get closer to God,” said
Mustafa, a senior health policy
major at UNC-CH.
Senior Mansoor Kazi, president
of UNC-CH’s Muslim Students
Association, said this year has been
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more so a drive to keep the year
going than getting revenge.”
The Tar Heels will face Maryland
in the semifinals of the ACC
Tournament at 8 p.m. Friday.
In their previous matchup this
season, the Terrapins prevailed 1-
0. In order to avoid a similar out
come, UNC will look to play 90
minutes of aggressive soccer.
“We need to make sure that we
*Ramadan is about simplicity. If you try
it for a day, you realize how much your
life revolves aroundfood”
TAIYYABA QURESHI, sophomore
since last year, and the first week of
Ramadan coincided with Islamic
Awareness Week on campus.
But being busy hasn’t stopped
Kazi from enjoying it. “This is one
month you really see everybody,” he
said. “I really look forward to it The
prayers at night are so beautiful.”
Kazi said thousands of people
filled the Raleigh mosque he attends
there is no mosque in Chapel Hill
—and he noted that the recitation of
the Quran was especially moving.
The final day of Ramadan closes
with the festival of Eid al-Fitr, one
of the two most important Islamic
celebrations the other occurs
after the Hajj, or pilgrimage to
Mecca. During Eid, friends and
families visit and share treats and
celebratory food and drink.
This year, most students will
celebrate Eid on the weekend in
their homes, Kazi said.
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don’t take the backseat,” Bolowich
said. “If the other team is in the
driver’s seat, they can sit back and
defend, and we will have to create,
which is always harder to do.
“The game should be a good
match, and we can win if we just
keep our focus better.”
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Sameer Syed, president of Duke’s
MSA, spent last Ramadan in Egypt
The streets were adorned with lights,
business hours changed to accom
modate nighttime activity, and the
poor lined up on streets where tables
were set up to provide them with a
free meal every day, he said.
In the United States, where
Ramadan is celebrated by a minor
ity, the challenge of fasting and
focusing spiritually is more dif
ficult and, thus, more rewarding,
Mustafa said.
Ibraheem Khalifa, the president
of N.C. State’s MSA, said Ramadan
is about renewal, regardless of
where it is celebrated.
“It’s not just fasting,” he said.
“You really get your spiritual ener
gy back.”
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2004
UNC moves closer
to tournament bid
BY DAVID MOSES
ASSISTANT SPORTSATURDAY EDITOR
CARY When the season
began, it seemed a formality that
the North Carolina men’s soccer
team would be playing deep into
the postseason.
But after the squad started the
season 2-5-2, it wasn’t clear wheth
er UNC would even qualify for the
NCAA Tournament.
Now, after losing their fifth
game —a heartbreaking loss to
rival Duke the Tar Heels have
won eight of their last 10 games.
Some of the early struggles for
UNC can be blamed on what coach
Elmar Bolowich called a “suicide
schedule.”
“We probably played 11 or 12
teams in the regular season that
will show up in the tournament,”
Bolowich said.
The early-season woes can also
be attributed to the youth of the Tar
Heel roster.
On Wednesday, only three seniors
Tim Merritt, Andrew Rhea and
Marcus Storey started for UNC.
“Our team has matured,” Bolowich
said. “We have gone through some
growing pains with a very young
team. They are coming together.”
The Tar Heels’ turnaround
largely can be credited to improved
defense.
In its last 10 games, UNC has
surrendered only six goals, posting
five shutouts during that stretch.
The defense has been looking to
play more aggressively on the field
and trying to set up more scoring
chances for the offense.
“Our defense and our midfield
created a lot of chances for us up top
because they were smart with the
UNC’s Gey follows in
her mother s footsteps
BY GABRIELLE DE ROSA
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
You’ve got your Bowdens and
your Mannings, but the North
Carolina field hockey team has its
own athletic dynasty.
Freshman Jesse Gey became the
first second-generation Tar Heel to
step onto Navy Field.
Kim Gey known as Kim
Knickerbocker when she played for
UNC was in her junior year when
Coach Karen Shelton came to North
Carolina in 1981. Her sister, Jamie,
joined the team the following year.
It’s an impressive occurrence,
given that the NCAA had its first
field hockey national champion
ship in 1981.
“To have the first second-gen
eration player, I kind of don’t want
to spread that around too much,”
Shelton said with a laugh.
“I am proud of their involvement
in our program in its developmental
stages. They were part of building
what has berome a great tradition.”
Kim’s post-college years were
spent officiating and playing club
field hockey.
When Jesse was born, Kim
brought her daughter to games,
including a UNC-Old Dominion
match. There, 4-month-old Jesse
fell into a coma and was rushed to a
Virginia Beach intensive care unit.
Jesse recovered a week later.
“I know she took me to a bunch
of games when I was little, but I
don’t remember them,” Jesse said. “I
didn’t have any interest in playing.”
Jesse played soccer until the sev
enth grade when she joined a com
munity field hockey league at the
casual suggestion of her mother.
A summer at UNC field hockey
camp followed, and as usual, it was
a family affair. Jesse’s aunt, who
now goes by Jamie Warren, had
been a coach at Shelton’s camps
since 1996.
Although Warren never coached
Jesse at camp, high school provid
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opportunities they were giving to
us,” said sophomore Jamie Watson.
With Wednesday’s 2-0 vic
tory against N.C. State in the ACC
Tournament, the Tar Heels have
almost guaranteed themselves a
spot in the NCAA Tournament.
“That’s not in my control,”
Bolowich said. “A lot depends what
happens in the south and how the
automatic bids go.”
While trying to avoid saying
directly that his team would make
the NCAA Tournament, Bolowich
seemed confident that his team
would be playing later this year.
“What is looked upon is how
well you do towards the end of the
season, and we have done a real,
real good job against very tough
opponents,” Bolowich said. “We
have gotten the results.”
Bolowich and the Tar Heels
would like to erase all doubt about
earning an NCAA Tournament bid
by winning the ACC Tournament
this weekend.
The Tar Heels will play
Maryland, who beat UNC 1-0 on
Oct. 10, in the semifinals Friday,
and Bolowich knows they can’t
take the Terps lightly.
“We can’t take the back seat,”
he said. “We need to start putting
together 90-minute games.”
Even if they aren’t able to win the
conference tournament, it seems as
if the Tar Heels have done enough
to secure themselves at least one
game in the NCAA Tournament.
“I’m looking forward to it,”
Bolowich said. “I think we are
going to the postseason.”
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ed an opportunity for the two to
work closely.
Warren was Jesse’s coach at
Christopher Dock High School in
Lansdale, Pa., for three years and
led the team to an undefeated sea
son during her senior year.
“We fought a lot, but it was good
because she really pushed me to
do better and work harder than
maybe I would have with a differ
ent coach,” Jesse said.
All that hard work paid off as
Jesse was the highest scorer on
Warren’s team that year.
“At times, it was difficult,” said
Warren, who is now coaching her
16-year-old daughter at Christopher
Dock. “(Jesse’s) junior year, you
could tell she was feeling me out as
a coach, but by her senior year, she
was a good coach on the field.”
But North Carolina was not on
Jesse’s college radar at the time.
“I was definitely going to play at
a D-I school, but it was probably
going to be in the Philadelphia
area,” Jesse said.
Her mother would have pre
ferred that Jesse stay close to home
but added that the decision was
Jesse’s and still was thrilled when
she committed to UNC.
Jesse expected to redshirt this
season, but Shelton felt her poten
tial warranted playing time this
season.
Kim recalled what it was like to
play for Shelton.
“She expects 100 percent, and
that’s apparent today,” Kim said.
“I learned a lot from her because
she brought a lot more knowledge
of the game to Carolina.”
While a few of the rules have
changed and the uniforms are
more stylish, two things remain
the same Shelton’s stellar coach
ing record and the athleticism that
runs in this family’s blood.
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