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(Eijp lailg (Ear Heel Tar Heels don’t get the point Starter still unknown after exhibition BY BRIAN MACPHERSON SENIOR WRITER No position is quite so integral to a Roy Williams offense as the start ing point guard, blit with two exhi bition games in the books, no one yet knows who that player will be. North Carolina overcame an early deficit and cruised to an 89-63 exhi bition victory against Catawba MEN'S BASKETBALL Catawba 63 UNC 89 on Saturday, but the game did little to reveal the iden tity of Williams’ quarterback. Freshman Bobby Frasor started for the Tar Heels, and he finished the game with four points, three assists and one turnover in 17 minutes of action. Quentin Thomas, playing through the pain of a foot injury suf fered Thursday in practice, scored four points with two assists and three turnovers in 20 minutes. But even the decision to start Frasor on Saturday shed no light on Williams’ upcoming decision. “Don’t read anything into that, about Bobby starting, because ‘Q’ didn’t practice yesterday,” Williams FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 “(Indiana) played tough,” said UNC coach Karen Shelton. “They’re having a Cinderella year, so to speak, and they got here and they scored on us, and I guess that loosened them up a little bit. ... They weren’t intimidated.” And if being outshot worse than General Custer at Little Bighorn doesn’t intimidate a team, what else will? UNC (14-7) peppered the Hoosier net with shot after shot after shot. They recorded 26 in all, half of which were on goal. But Indiana keeper Haley Exner, all 5 feet, 11 inches of her, managed to turn most of them away. “I remember when we played UVa. my sophomore year, we domi nated play,” said senior back Naomi Weatherald. “They had one shot on DUKE FROM PAGE 12 smaller size by pushing the Tar Heels around, though Bolowich refused to attribute any part of the loss to the size differential. “You will not find a goal all sea son long on a header in the box,” Bolowich said. “Not one. We are strong in there, and it has nothing to do with size. Our guys, they com pete. They win the headers that they need to win. Size doesn’t matter.” In the second half, UNC fresh man forward Stephen Bickford car ried the ball down the sideline look ing to cross, but a UNC attacker was taken down in the box by Duke defender Darrius Barnes —and the referees let play continue. After regulation, with North Carolina goalkeeper Justin Hughes injured with a pulled groin, UNC was forced to substitute in senior Ford Williams. Williams, who was the starter at the beginning of the season but lost the job because of poor play; came in and shut out the Blue Devils in overtime. “You try to prepare yourself mentally,” Williams said. “You always have to be ready, no mat ter what it is. It’s more than being physically ready to come into a situation like that you have to prepare yourself mentally.” Despite playing a man down after Blake Beach was ejected in the first overtime when he picked up his second yellow card of the match, UNC still had many chanc es to end the game. “I don’t think our players’ confi dence was affected by it,” Bolowich said. “Blake played hard. He had already a yellow card, and we wanted to go for it.” Cameron Lewis had a powerful shot saved, and Corey Ashe also had his chances in overtime. So, too, did super striker Ben Hunter, who has become the secret weapon for UNC lately. The British BAKER FROM PAGE 12 stepped up his play recently and has thrown only one interception in the last two games. “I don’t know if it’s the best he’s played,” said UNC coach John Bunting. “He played very well at the beginning of the season at times, and certainly the last two weeks he’s really picked it up. I’m really proud of his efforts he throws the ball really well.” With the Tar Heels trailing, 30- 27, and less than five minutes to go in the game, Baker got the ball and played nearly flawlessly on consecutive drives. He dropped back and hit wide receiver Jarwarski Pollock across the middle for a 35-yard comple tion —but Pollock coughed it up, said. “I don’t know that I’ve ever started a guy that didn’t practice the day before.” Frasor did little to help his case early, but the other four Tar Heels didn’t look much better. Catawba raced to an early 8-2 lead on the strength of three fast-break baskets and two free throws, clearly taking North Carolina by surprise. “They jumped out to a nice little lead,” said UNC forward David Noel, who scored a team-high 18 points. “We weren’t getting back on defense like we were supposed to, so that opened our eyes.” It wasn’t until the eight-minute mark of the first half, in fact, that the Tar Heels took their first lead. But after Danny Green converted a three-point play to put his team ahead, UNC never trailed again. “I liked the way (Catawba) ran the ball at us, made sure we ran back on the defensive end,” Williams said. “We did a nice job of running back after the first six or eight minutes of the game. They hit us between the eyes a couple of times.” The Tar Heels hit back in the opening minutes of the second half, goal. They won, 1-nil. If you don’t put the ball in the net... you’re not going to win.” On the other end of the field, meanwhile, UNC keeper Katy Tran, who also was playing in her final game as a Tar Heel, faced a mere five shots. Thing is, three went in. “I would rather have a lot of shots, because then you’re in it, and you’re focused, and you’re warm,” Tran said. “It’s almost like a placekicker. You only have so many opportunities to play the ball, so you have to make the most every time you play it.” Which is something the Tar Heels did not do. Even if you dominate time of possession and record nearly eight times as many penalty corners as your opponent (15 versus 2), you aren’t guaranteed a victory especially when “Lady Luck” is entrenched comfortably on the junior transfer scored all three goals for UNC in the tournament, and against Clemson in the semifinals he netted both goals and hit the post on an unbelievable bicycle kick that would have given him a hat trick. And Hunter, along with Hughes, midfielder Dax McCarty and defend er Andre Sherard, was named to the all-tournament team. To start the shootout, each team converted its first three shots. Michael Harrington made the fourth for UNC, but Kyle Helton missed for Duke to give McCarty a chance to win the game. But his shot was saved, and Duke extended it to an extra shooter. Surprisingly for the Tar Heels, junior forward Corey Ashe did not line up to take a shot. “At that point you don’t put the pressure on the guys,” Bolowich said. “The guys have to step for ward to feel comfortable and tell you that they are ready and willing to take the shot. “When I was looking around, certain guys stepped up and said ‘I want number one, I want num ber two, I want number three.’ So we went down the list, and that’s what I wrote down. I never force anybody to shoot if they’re not feel ing up to it.” Bickford shot sixth for UNC but had his shot saved as he aimed right at Duke goalkeeper Justin Papadakis who saved two straight during the shootout. After Papadakis stopped Bickford, Mike Grella put the ball past a diving Williams to give Duke the win and the ACC title. “With our guys, there is nobody to put at fault,” Bolowich said. “Not during the course of the match and certainly not during a PK shoot out.” If the Tar Heels secure a bye as a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, their first match will be Nov. 22. Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu. negating a pass that would have put the Tar Heels in perfect posi tion to, at worst, send the game into overtime. Nobody would have blamed Baker if that was the end for UNC. But, an inspired UNC defense held Maryland to a three-and-out to give UNC the ball back with a little more than two minutes remaining. Baker then did something almost nobody expected him to do. He showed poise in the pocket, put the Pollock fumble behind him and led the Tar Heels downfield once again. On the final drive, Baker threw for 56 yards on 6-for-ll passing, though two of those incomple tions came when Baker heaved the ball into the end zone as time was Sports a charge led primarily by Frasor. After Reyshawn Terry fed Noel for a layup, Frasor stole the inbounds pass and delivered the ball back to Noel for two more points. Forty sec onds later Frasor drove to the lane and banked the ball off the glass to give the Tar Heels a 12-point lead. “Bobby looks for his shot a little bit more, to drive to the hole a little bit more than ‘Q,’” Noel said. “‘Q’ is pass-first, -second, -third, -fourth, -fifth and -sixth.” Before he can do much more passing or shooting, however, Thomas needs his nagging foot injury to heal. An X-ray taken Thursday revealed nothing, but the pain still limited his playing time against the Indians. “When the season starts, I’m going to have to play with it because I need to be out there,” Thomas said. That season will start when Gardner-Webb arrives to challenge a team defending its NCAA title but unranked in the first national poll. Said Williams, “My team’s so young that when you say some thing about rank, they think you’re talking about the smell.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@une.edu. other team’s sideline. “I was proud of my team for getting 26 shots it’s one of our higher totals of the year,” Shelton said. “And 15 corners that’s a 10t.... “(Indiana was) opportunistic. During the course of the game the ball seemed to bounce their way a little bit. And that happens sometimes in sport. A rebound, a tip that goes to them instead of you.” And that’s exactly what hap pened on the first goal of the game for the No. 9 Hoosiers (17-4). Forward Lydia Schrott took a corner, and Tran made a div ing save. But the ball bounced off Tran’s leg and right onto Schrott’s stick, who stuck the rebound for a 1-0 lead just 19 minutes in. Schrott scored again to make it 2ro at 35:21, but the Tar Heels wasted no time in responding. Two minutes later, UNC mid fielder Kate Scholl scored off a Britt van Beek assist to cut the deficit in half, and van Beek, a midfielder, knocked home a goal of her own off a feed from midfielder Rachel Dawson 11 minutes after that to vcu FROM PAGE 12 start, it took 12 furious minutes for UNC (22-1) to put the game away. In the 26th minute Yael Averbuch lofted a perfect corner kick and Kendall Fletcher made a perfect run to the far post to head it home. 1-0. Six minutes later Lindsay Tarpley came down with a long ball from goalkeeper Aly Winget just outside the VCU box, and, with two defenders draped all over her, delivered a sliding, left-footed shot past a diving Lauren Hardison. 2-0. And six minutes after that, mid fielder Lori Chalupny took the ball upfield and fired a laser from 21 yards out into the left side netting. 3-0. Good night, Rams. But Tarpley wasn’t done. She struck again in the 71st minute, controlling a pass from Averbuch outside the box and nail ing the ball just under the crossbar. Then, with more than seven min utes to play, Tarpley took a pass from Corinne Black right in front of the goal, and all she had to do was finish for the hat trick. “Lindsay Tarpley had a magic shoe on, or something,” said VCU co head coach Denise Schilte-Brown. In five postseason games, Tarpley, who had been limited by injury much of the season, has six goals and three assists. Tarpley also has 13 career NCAA Tournament goals, putting her two behind Mia Hamm’s UNC record. “When she gets (the ball), that’s all she’s thinking of doing is shoot ing,” Dorrance said. “She under stands that fundamental concept of the game better than anyone I winding down. But while he was impressive through the air, Baker’s biggest contribution might have came with his legs. On second down from the Maryland 28, Baker dropped back looking as if he was going to throw. But he instead sprinted forward for 21 yards on the designed quar terback run his only rush of the day and the longest of his career. “I might have scored if I wasn’t so worried about getting stripped from behind,” Baker said. While Baker was unable to put the ball into the end zone on the final drive, it wasn’t because he was making bad throws. He tried to hit Jesse Holley in the end zone, but the pass was bro ken up by Maryland cornerback Gerrick McPhearson on a twisting, mm jjjpHy* ’i DTH/BRANOON SMITH North Carolina forward Reyshawn Terry soars for a dunk during UNC's 89-63 exhibition win against Catawba on Saturday. tie it at 2. But Schrott wasn’t done. With 24 minutes to play, she gradu ated from annoyance to full fledged thorn in UNC’s side, when she slapped yet another corner rebound past Tran for the final margin. So as the clock.ticked toward zero, with the sun setting on their season and the IU defense set tled into a groove, the Tar Heels launched a last-ditch round of volleys. They racked up five penalty cor ners in the final 18 minutes and had four great shots that could have tied the game at 3. But Exner saved the first three, including a 2-on-l UNC break away, and the fourth rolled just wide. “I felt like we just had to find a way to get the ball in the goal,” Tran said, her face covered in tears. “The more we let them hang and the more we let them hold on, the more dangerous they would be and the harder it would be to score.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu. have ever seen.” Winget also was on the road to recovery she had missed the last three games with a sore kneecap. But she was back in net Sunday, having successfully earned her job back from Anna Rodenbough, who started near the end of the regular season. “Aly is the starter,” Dorrance said. “And as soon as she regained her health we were going to put her back in.” Winget played solidly, but VCU (13-5-5) cracked the scoreboard in the second half when Stephanie Power stole the ball from defender Robyn Gayle and hit one home. The Rams then added another on a Sandra Anger penally kick. It was only the second time UNC had given up two goals in one game this season, the other being its loss to Duke on Oct. 9. “I think it will make us tighter for the rest of the tournament,” Fletcher said. “(It will) focus us up so we won’t give up those soft goals.” Friday against Western Carolina, the Tar Heels didn’t give up soft goals, or any goals at all, for that matter. The Catamounts provided a tough test, though, compensat ing for their lack of speed with aggressive and physical play. But North Carolina still prevailed, 2- 0, thanks to goals from Heather O’Reilly and Jaime Gilbert. The Tar Heels now advances to the round of 16 against fourth seeded Pepperdine on Saturday, once again at Fetzer Field. And Dorrance will be giving out those roses again. Just in case. Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu. leaping, last-ditch effort to bat the ball down. As Buhting put it, “That last pass to Jesse is a pretty doggone good throw.” Despite the effort from Baker, the Tar Heels eventually fell in overtime, and he was not interest ed in talking about his stats after the game. All he cared about was his team’s future and the upcoming games against Duke and Virginia Tech. “What I do is not a concern to me,” Baker said. “I try to win games. One pass here or there would have made the difference. Although the stats are nice, it really means nothing considering the loss.” Contact the Sports Editor atsports@unc.edu. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2005 UNC defense walks softly, carries big stick BY JESSE BAUMGARTNER STAFF WRITER CARY Soccer defenders learn early on that their position is not one of recognition and attention. The headline for most games is simple: Goals equal glory. But the defense on the North Carolina men’s soccer team seems to relish its position outside the spotlight. Anchored by a back line of juniors Ted Odgers, Michael Harrington and David Boole and sophomore Andre Sherard, the Tar Heels have given up no goals in their last seven games. “I know the guy to my right and the guy to my left are going to play for me,” Odgers said after Friday’s 2-0 win against Clemson in the ACC semifinals. “And if I mess up, I know each one of them are going to be there to cover for me.” UNC has recorded 15 shutouts on the season, with two different keepers Justin Hughes and Ford Williams in net. And its team average of 0.69 goals against led the ACC during the regular season. Those efforts finally were rewarded when Sherard and Harrington received second-team All-ACC honors last week and Sherard was named to the all-tour nament team during the weekend. Coach Elmar Bolowich pointed out that defenders often get over looked because of the dominance of offensive players in most statisti cal categories. “I really push hard to make sure that in our conference we also rec ognize defenders when they make outstanding plays or when they FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 “It’s just a matter of playing a coverage that we play frequently and maybe guessing a little bit and getting caught up,” said UNC coach John Bunting. “Give their quarter back and their staff some credit on the out-and-go.” Bunting’s team, though, fought back to even the score at 30 before regulation ended. Starting at the UNC 17-yard line, quarterback Matt Baker led the Tar Heels 76 yards toward the Maryland end zone including a 21-yard scram ble to give the Tar Heels first-and goal with 24 seconds to play. But after two incompletions, Bunting elected to send the field goal unit out for third down. Connor Barth’s successful kick knotted the game. The kicker could not drain a 38-yard field goal in overtime, however. After Maryland scored three points on its series, the Tar Heels garnered just four yards on two runs and an incompletion. Then, Barth’s 38-yard line drive sailed wide of the right upright, spark ing immediate jubilation from the Terrapin sideline. “I just didn’t keep my eye on it like I normally do,” Barth said. “Sucks I had to miss it on that one.” The fourth quarter epitomized a back-and-forth game that con tained five lead changes and two ties. Maryland tailback Lance Ball accumulated 111 rushing yards in the first half, accounting for 47 of Maryland’s 80 yards in its first touchdown drive. And Maryland scored its other three points of the opening half courtesy of a controversial penalty —a holding call on UNC freshman Nick Starcevic during a punt that gave the Terrapins an unusual first down. “I can only repeat what I remem ber (the referees) telling me, which was there was holding at the line of scrimmage, and therefore they were going to assess the penalty in favor of Maryland,” Bunting said. “I’ve never seen that in my life.” The Tar Heels bounced back to score two touchdowns in the sec ond half the first on a diving 19- yard catch by receiver Mike Mason in the end zone and the second on Taylor’s interception return. UNC had built a 10-point cushion. “It was like we were swimming upstream the whole game and C1,..| • 620 Market St. Lllllllllil v:t:ee: Take 15/501 South towards Pittsboro Exit Main St./Southern Village ZATHURAI9 ...1:15-400 7:15-9:30 DERAILED IB 1:30-4:10-7:20-9:45 CHICKEN LITTLE _l 00-3.00-500-7 00-910 LEGEND OF ZORRO M 1:154:16-7:104:40 HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE ADV TICKETS FOR AIL SHOWS NOW ON SALE ♦4MXS I DIO iTTI| SEATISfc have consistent good performance so I promoted our defenders,” he said. “I was pleased that the other coaches recognized the same thing and voted for them as well.” Coincidentally, all four defend ers are from either Greenville or Raleigh, and Bolowich takes great pride in the fact that the program has been able to recruit players close to home. “We are very proud of that, that we have also some in-state players that are very, very productive,” he said. Despite the team’s overtime loss to Duke on Sunday in the ACC title game, UNC heads into the NCAA Tournament with a lot of confi dence at the defensive end of the field. While Odgers has been pleased with the unit’s performance thus far, he said he feels the team still has a few things to fine-tune before the tournament. “We do have to prepare for the NCAA Tournament, so we’d like to continue our defensive stance,” he said. “And there are things that we do need to work on defensive ly” With no goals allowed in their last 727-plus minutes of play, the Tar Heels won’t need to change too much before they head off in pursuit of the national champion ship, however. And if UNC makes a run in this year’s tournament, it will be largely thanks to Odgers & Cos. Still, you probably won’t hear about them. But that’s nothing new. Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu. no matter how hard we kept try ing, we kept getting knocked back down,” said Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen. Friedgen’s team ultimately knocked the Tar Heels down —and spoiled a record-setting day for Tar Heel receiver Jarwarski Pollock. With a five-yard catch in the third quarter, Pollock broke Na Brown’s school record for career receptions with his 166th as a Tar Heel. “Getting the record doesn’t even matter right now, because we wanted to get this game,” Pollock said. “That would have put in us in a good position to win next week’s game to enable ourselves to go to a bowl game. “Now, our backs are to the wall, and we just have to go out and fight.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu. Maryland 33, UNC 30 Md. 7 3 7 13 3 33 UNC 3 10 7 10 0 30 Scoring Summary First Quarter UMC Barth 45 yd. field goal. 12:35 Md. Ball 1 yd. run (Ennis kick), 6:51 Second Quarter UNC McGill 6 yd. run (Barth kick), 4:22 Md, Ermis 37 yd. field goal, 1:11 UNC -Barth 41 yd. field goal, (MO Third Quarter Md. Davis 24 yd. pass from Nollenbach (Ermis kick), 8:57 UNC Mason 19 yd. pass from Baker (Barth kick). 2:52 Fourth Quarter UNC —K. Taylor 25 yd. interception return (Barth kick), 9:07 Md. —Walker 67 yd. pass from Holtenbach (Ennis kick), 7:26 Md. Melendez 80 yd. pass from Hoilenbach (Ermis miss), 3:52 UNC —Barth 24 yd. field goal 0:09 Overtime Md. Ermis 28 yd. field goal Attendance 50,000 Md. UNC First Downs 24 18 Reshes-Yards 49-150 28-89 Passing Yards 374 335 Comp-Att-Int 19-31-2 25-40-0 Total Yards 524 424 Punts-Avg 4-42.5 7-41.1 Fumbles-lost 0-0 2-1 Pendties-Yards 4-35 8-55 Time of Possession 31:59 28:01 Individual Leaders Rushing: UNC -McGill 22-65. Md.-Ball 39-161. Passing: UNC-Baker 25-4 M 335. Md.-Hoilenbach 19-31-2 374. Receiving: UNC—Holley 6-115. Md.-Davis 7-139. ft EE GAL CINEMAS DIG DIGITAL SOUND BARGAIN SHOWS IN I ) * Piss i Discount Ticket Restrictions Appl\ TIMBERLYNE 6 933^600 WpAvnr nairu at Airnnrt Rri fiiYI.CAWnAWr.n Tr4!VMEHCTgjinßnr:TaTi>MiriiH. i iiiii|r Adv. 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