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PAGE 10 SCOREBOARD BASKETBALL Roster melds talent, experience BY RACHEL ULLRICH SPORTS EDITOR Don’t ask Roy Williams whether his team is going to win them all. Seriously. Just don’t do it. “First of all, I think it’s sort of stupid to talk about,” he said at Friday’s media day press confer ence. “I did say sort of stupid, so if you talk about it, you don’t have to say I said you were stupid. I said you were sort of stupid,” he clarified. “But I don’t think anybody can in today’s game.” There are too many good teams out there, and North Carolina, this year, has too large a target on its back. Returning all five of last year’s starters and bringing in a group of four high school all-stars will do FUMBLED AWAY Tar Heels fall to UVa. in overtime , OTH ONLINE: Check out a [Si slideshow of pictures from the " —> UVa. game at dailytarheel.com. BY POWELL LATIMER ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Just inches away. With Virginia down one point and needing an extra point to complete an astonishing late- game comeback against No. 18 North Carolina, Deu n t a Williams gave a superhuman FOOTBALL UNC 13 Virginia 16 OVERTIME leap and got one hand on the ball. The kick turned into a wounded duck and fell just inches above the crossbar. On to overtime, in which half back Cedric Peerman’s two-yard run trumped a UNC field goal, giving UVa. the come-from behind 16-13 victory against North Carolina. That late-game surge is dou bly painful for UNC since the Tar Heels locked down the Cavaliers for 57 minutes of play. In fact, the only sustained drive Virginia had was its 82-yard march in the game’s final two and a half minutes. “It’s frustrating, losing a game that you’ve led for the majority of SEE FOOTBALL, PAGE 9 Tar Heels struggle to finish in UVa. territory vim. I jfLgJ DTH/ANTHONY HARRIS Though Anthony Elzy and the running game excelled on UNC's side of the field, the Tar Heel offense struggled inside the Virginia 40. Scholl’s goals lead UNC to two victories this weekend BY DANIEL PRICE ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Something had to break. The North Carolina field hockey team faced off against No. 6 James Madison on Sunday in a clash of styles bound to produce some exciting play. JMU led the nation in goals against average at 0.79 heading into the game, while the No. FIELD HOCKEY Virginia 0 UNC 3 JMU 0 UNC 1 7 Tar Heels ranked second in the ACC in goals scored, with nearly four goals per contest. ‘lt was kind of a little bit of a chess match in the first half," UNC Sports Monday FIELD HOCKEY UNC 1 JMU 0 ; UNC 3 UVa. 0 that to a program. And though they won’t go unde feated, it’s the depth that roster brings that Williams expects to help his team win games. “If we get the game where the seventh man, eighth man, ninth man is a huge factor, I don’t know of many teams that can be as tal ented and as experienced,” he said. North Carolina’s depth was con sidered one of its biggest strengths last year, and this season it will increase with the addition of the new guys or, as Williams calls them, “those young rascals.” And these Tar Heels won’t have any baptism by fire but will have a chance to adapt to the college game at a comfortable pace. When Deon Thompson and ' Jr' JP m SB I \ \aLoK . .. ' | jfl fuJfej* \\ W ■§ r -n Hl Jk 'MP % WF* wL. HBri tlt DTH/ANTHONY HARRIS Hakeem Nicks drops a fumble late in the third quarter of UNC's matchup with Virginia on Saturday. The Tar Heels committed three turnovers in the game; bringing them to minus five in their two losses. "The turnover battle," Cameron Sexton said, "today, that's why we lost.” coach Karen Shelton said. “Both teams were kind of trying to figure each other out.” The Tar Heels ended up beating the Dukes at their own game, tak ing a 1-0 victory UNC’s second of the weekend against a top-15 team. The Tar Heels defeated No. 13 Virginia 3-0 Saturday. The game Sunday was con trolled by JMU in the first hal as pressure on North Carolina’s for wards kept the ball on the Dukes’ side of the field for most of the game. “They’re a really good team and a really aggressive team,” senior Kate Scholl said. “So we knew that they were going to come out hard www.dailytarheelxom his class came into the program in 2006, only five upperclassmen were on the roster. “When we came in, our seniors were just sophomores,” Thompson said. “With us now being juniors (and seniors), it just gives them time to grow into things and not have a heavy expectations or burden on them to play and do great things as soon as they get here.” For a while this summer, it looked as though the newbies on the roster might have some pretty big shoes to fill, as several on the team eyed their chances in the NBA. Then the unthinkable hap pened. The entire class of 2009 SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 9 BY DANIEL PRICE ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - It looked easy. Shaun Draughn for seven yards, eight yards, 18 yards. Line ’em up. Knock ’em down. Ten plays. Eighty-three yards (48 from Draughn). Touchdown Tar Heels. North Carolina 7, Virginia 0. After a Virginia three-and-out, the second in as many opportuni ties the UNC defense had seen, the Tar Heels were headed for an ACC rout. Or so it seemed. While UVa.’s offense was sput tering early, UNC’s seemed unstop pable even without Brandon Tate. But with the Tar Heels on the verge of penetrating deep into so we just really focused on pass ing it around and working it to our strong side.” The second half was a different story. A strong Tar Heels attack saw North Carolina take penalty cor ner after penalty corner, eventu ally scoring on a rebounded comer from Scholl. “The corner we called didn’t really work,” Scholl said. “So it was just kind of improv.” The goal was Scholl’s second of the weekend as she got her first of the season against Virginia. “It’s been a very long streak, actually, since I’ve scored,” Scholl SEE HOCKEY, PAGE 9 VOLLEYBALL UNC 3 FSU 2 ; Miami 3 UNC 1 RMI JJhHI g rfiii 1,, r* BI , ’ v RRS ’’ I ‘i m DTH/DAVID ENARSON North Carolina returns all of last year's starters, plus a talented fresh man foursome. Coach Roy Williams calls it "the best of both worlds." Cavalier territory for the second straight drive, it happened. The UVa. 40-yard line bulked up, and the Cavalier 3-4 defense in front of it shut UNC down. In the shadow of its own goal post, UNC amassed impressive numbers. Most of Draughn’s career-high 138 yards came on that side of midfield. Discounting the first down field march of the game, only 15 of Draughn’s yards in regulation came on UVa.’s side of the field. Inside Virginia’s 40, Draughn had one carry —a rush for loss. “We as a team just have to capi talize on opportunities,” Draughn said. “We had a lot of opportuni ties. We just didn’t capitalize on them.” DTH FILE/KAITUN MCKEOWN Senior Kate Scholl scored her first goal of the season against Virginia and backed that up with the game-winner against JMU on Sunday. North Carolina only crossed the UVa. 40-yard-line three times in regulation after that first scoring drive —and only put three points on the board in those chances. “Too many of our drives ended at about fourth and three at about the 40-yard line and having to punt and trying to down it inside the five,” UNC coach Butch Davis said. “Every time that you don’t take advantage of really good field posi tion by capitalizing on it by scoring touchdowns ... or putting yourself in position to kick field goals, it’ll come back to haunt you. I’ve seen it way too many times.” He saw it again in Charlottesville. SEE DRIVES, PAGE 9 uty? iatlg (Tar Urrl MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2008 MEN'S SOCCER UNC 3 VT 2 INSIDE ATHLETICS Just part of the team Walk-ons are key playmakers for some UNC sports BY JOE MCLEAN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR In the world of sports, where the greatest stories focus on the underdog, the walk-on athlete has a special place of honor. The champion example for walk-ons is Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger, a 165-pound defensive end whose story was told in the 1993 film “Rudy.” The undersized player who dreamed of playing for Notre Dame earned a spot on the prac tice squad and was allowed to suit up for his final home game as a senior in 1975. Ruettiger finished his college career with just two plays on the field, but some walk-ons at North Carolina play a more concrete role on their teams. Rookie place-kicker Casey Barth has stepped right in to fill the shoes of his older brother, Connor, who kicked for the Tar Heels from 2004-07. Since the team already had redshirt freshman Jay Wooten on scholarship, the UNC coaches couldn’t offer one to another kick er. But they recruited Barth and gave him the next best thing an offer to play on the team. He weighed the decision of walking on at UNC against his alternatives, but he said North Carolina just “felt like home.” “I got offered by Air Force. That was probably my other option, but I didn’t really want to go to a military academy, so this was the next best thing,” Barth said. “I got offers from some smaller schools, but I was try ing to play Division I football.” Football remains a decent oppor tunity for walk-ons because of the SEE WALK-ONS, PAGE 9 INSIDESPORTS The men's soccer team got an ACC win off an own goal by Virginia Tech on Saturday. See pg. 9 for the story. Casey Nogueira scored four goals to lead the Tar Heels to a 5-0 win at N.C. State on Friday. See pg. 9 for the brief. Check up on the men's cross country and swimming teams' results this week end. See pg. 9 for the briefs. ACC SCORES FLORIDA STATE 26. N.C. STATE 17 Christian Ponder threw for the go-ahead touchdown and Antone Smith ran for a score Thursday. GEORGIA TECH 21, CLEMSON 17 Josh Nesbitt threw for one TD and rushed for another to iead Tech to a 21-17 victory against Clemson's new coach Dabo Swinney, MARYLAND 26, WAKE FOREST 0 Chris Turner threw for 321 yards to back a strong defensive showing by Maryland, which struck a high note in an up-and-down seasort by beat ing No. 21 Wake Forest. MIAMI 49, DUKE 31 Jacory Harris threw four touch down passes and ran for another, accounting for three third-quarter TDs. BOSTON COLLEGE 28, VIRGINIA TECH 23 - Rich Gunnel! returned a punt 65 yards for a touchdown, and Boston College overcame an off-night by quarterback Chris Crane to beat No. 17 Virginia Tech.
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