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SCOREBOARD
CROSS COUNTRY ACC CHAMPIONSHIPS
Individual times spark results
BY GRANT FITZGERALD
STAFF WRITER
Imagine running a hilly 6K
course in 20 minutes. Then imag
ine running that course with the
clogged nose and sore throat of a
sinus infection.
Brie Felnagle managed to do both
early Saturday and still finish third
overall, with a time of20:23:00.
Felnagle led the women’s team
to a sixth-place finish overall in the
2008 ACC cross country champion
ships.
The men’s team finished in
eighth place in the conference, an
improvement over last year’s 10th
place showing. Senior Brock Baker
came in 30th for the top finish on
the Tar Heels’ squad.
Both Felnagle and junior
Lauren Holesh turned in extraor-
WAKE-UP CALL
UNC drops upset
bid in second half
DTH ONLINE: WFU learned how to
exploit UNC's defense late in the game.
BY PENN ELY
STAFF WRITER
The North Carolina men’s soc
cer team dominated 45 minutes of
play Saturday against No. 1 Wake
Forest.
But the final score wouldn’t
indicate that. The No. 7 Tar Heels
fell 4-2 despite
carrying a 1-0
lead into half
time.
“(Wake
Forest is) play-
MEN'S
SOCCER
Wake Forest 4
UNC 2
ing with a different level of con
fidence,” coach Elmar Bolowich
said.
“Everybody is gunning for them.
Everybody wants a shot at it. They
have their big target, but they are
dealing with it very well. You know,
it’s hard to rattle their cage.”
The statistics told a different
story, as well. The Tar Heels held
a 13-10 edge in shots and a 6-2
advantage in comers. UNC domi
nated the first half and did not
concede a shot the entire opening
period.
Sophomore Cameron Brown
gave the Tar Heels (11-4-1, 3-4
ACC) the goal advantage a minute
before halftime, thanks to some
crafty give-and-gos from striker
Brian Sh river.
The goal gave North Carolina
the momentum heading into half
time, in front of the third-largest
crowd in men’s soccer history.
“Obviously in the first half, we
did what we wanted to do,” senior
Mike Callahan said. “The second
half we actually came out, up until
they scored, and we were doing
really well.”
But as the old sports adage goes,
good teams always find a way to
win. Wake Forest (15-0-1, 5-0-1
ACC) did so in a dominating and
stunning fashion, scoring three
Tar Heels unbeaten in ACC
DTH ONLINE: The UNC senior corps
was glad to get a win on Senior Day.
BY DAVID REYNOLDS
SENIOR WRITER
The only number on the Fetzer
Field scoreboard that appeared to
work Sunday was the one register
ing UNC’s shots. ,
It certainly seemed that way for
the North Carolina women’s soccer
team, who need
ed 29 of them
before it finally
slipped one past
Miami keeper
Vikki Alonzo.
WOMEN'S
SOCCER
Miami 0
UNC 1
The Tar Heels edged the
Hurricanes 1-0, clinching the ACC
regular season title and the No. 1
seed in the conference tournament
The game matched up two, of
the ACC’s best units. Miami came
into the game ranked first in the
ACC in shutouts and second in
the conference in goals against
average while UNC ranked first in
every major offensive category.
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VOLLEYBALL UNC 3 Maryland 0
DTH ONLINE: Brock Baker led the pack
for the UNC men. See dailytarheel.com.
dinary runs on their way to earning
All-ACC awards.
Holesh, whose 20:36:00 run
earned a fifth-place finish, has
emerged this year as one of the elite
runners in the ACC after sitting out
last year’s conference champion
ships because of illness.
“She’s just had a tremendous
year. She was our sixth runner
last year, and she’s just improved
every single season,” coach Michael
Whittlesey said.
“She has just exuded confidence
and stepped her game up so much
over the past year. It’s been awe
some to watch.”
Finishing third for North
Carolina was senior Morgan Stengel
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goals in a six-minute span.
In the 64th minute, goalkeeper
Jacob Wescoe came out of the box
to challenge for a ball and Cody
Arnoux chipped a shot over his
head from nearly 25 yards out.
Just 53 seconds later, Zack
Schilawski buried his first goal off
a through ball from Arnoux. And
the Demon Deacons pulled the
plug in the 65th minute when a
Schilawski cross was deflected into
the back of the net.
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Striker Casey Nogueira scored the only goal in a 1-0 win against Miami
on Sunday, securing the Tar Heels' ACC regular season championship.
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at 29th overall with a 21:41.8 finish
time, followed by Ashley Verplank
who turned in a time of 22:07.6,
good for 47th. Callan Fike rounded
out the scoring for the Tar Heels at
22:38.1.
Coach Whittlesey attributed the
disappointing meet to injuries and
illness.
“The preparation hasn’t been the
way we wanted it the whole year just
because of injuries. We’ve been rid
dled by injuries all year,” he said.
“We only ran five at the pre
national meet because no one was
ready to go.”
The same thing could have been
said for the ACC championships.
Felnagle, a 2007 All-America
who finished 11th at the NCAA
Championships last year, ran in
spite of her infection.
Wake Forest was awarded a
penalty kick in the 80th minute,
and Sam Cronin buried it for a 4-1
lead.
The Tar Heels also were given
a penalty kick two minutes later,
and senior Michael Callahan, who
played his final match at Fetzer
Field, converted the spot kick to
cap the scoring at 4-2.
“I’m not really sure (what hap
pened),” Callahan said. “It just
kind of fell apart. It really came
Brie Felnagle
came in third
in the ACC
championship
meet despite
a sinus
infection.
“I’m pretty sick, so I just gave
it everything I had and definitely
did better than I thought I might
do” Felnagle said.
A third-place finish is not too
shabby considering that the first
and second-place runners were
fellow All-Americas and national
champions.
Yet this clearly was not the
ACC finale she had envisioned.
In a few weeks she will get her
opportunity at redemption.
down to a 15-minute lapse when
they started scoring.
“It’s just a matter of being able
to bring the way we played in the
first half and having the discipline
to do that for 90 minutes.”
The loss put the Tar Heels below
.500 in the conference again. But
North Carolina will finish its regu
lar season at Maryland on Friday,
looking to end a three-game losing
streak —and to bounce back from
this demoralizing loss.
Field hockey captures
Senior Day shutout
DTH ONLINE: Read more on UNC's
9-0 rout of Davidson this weekend.
BY ANNA KIM
STAFF WRITER
The last home game of the
North Carolina field hockey
team’s regular season was eerily
similar to its first —a high-scor
ing shut out.
But the 9-0
win against
Davidson rep
resented much
more, coach
Karen Shelton
said.
“We had a
FIELD
HOCKEY
UNC 3
ODU 1
Davidson 0
UNC 9
little slump in the middle of the
season,” she said. “I think we burst
out of it.”
And there is no better time for
the Tar Heels to be hitting their
stride.
Shelton attributed the struggles
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Holesh, Felnagle and Whittlesey
know they have been building the
program all year and are hoping to
continue that trend at the upcoming
regional qualifiers.
“Only two teams qualify for the
national championships at the
regionals, and we are looking for
ward to that,” Holesh said.
Whittlesey said a less-hilly
course at the qualifiers will benefit
the team.
“I know Morgan is going to step
up, I know Lauren is going to con
tinue to do her great job, and so is
Brie,” he said.
“There’s four teams that could
flip-flop with each other. I expect us
to go out there and win the race.”
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“You want to grow,” Bolowich
said. “You can look at it many
ways. You can say, ‘OK, we gave up
four goals and lost the game, the
whole negative connotation.
“But you also got to look at the
positives for us and say, ‘lf we can
play a half like that, then how
about next time, we’re going to put
90 minutes into it?’”
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Sophomore Casey Burns, a
Chapel Hill-native, passes
from the backfield against
Davidson at Henry Stadium.
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Hansbrough to miss
at least two weeks
North Carolina men’s bas
ketball senior forward Tyler
Hansbrough underwent a bone
scan Friday on his right shin that
confirmed he has a stress reac
tion, but there is not a fracture,
coach Roy Williams announced
in a press release.
'There is a great possibility
that we will hold Tyler out of
practice for the next two weeks,
then re-evaluate his condition at
that time,' Williams said in the
release.
Also out until December is
guard Marcus Ginyard, who had
surgery on his foot in October
to correct a stress fracture of
his own.
'Everybody on the roster has
the chance to play a little better
to help make up for the loss,"
Williams said.
> Check out more on
the men's and women's
teams with The Daily Tar
Heel's basketball season
preview, out Friday.
INSIDE ATHLETICS
Scoring
goals,
earning
degrees
Athletes graduate
at impressive rate
BY DANIEL PRICE
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
In a society where “student
athletes” are often scoffed at,
North Carolina is doing its part to
debunk the stereotype of the dumb
jock.
In the NCAA’s most recent
graduation success rates report
which included data from the
freshman classes of 1998-2001
it found UNC to have a success
rate of 85 percent, seven percent
age points higher than the average
for all Division I schools.
“I think it’s certainly a testa
ment to our student-athletes and
to our coaches as well,” said Robert
Mercer, director of UNC Academic
Support Services.
“If you’re looking for differences,
that’s probably it as far as compar
ing one program to the next.”
Five of UNC’s squads post
ed perfect rates while six more
reached at least the 90 percent
park.
“We’re very pleased with the
graduation success rates of our
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ACC SCORES
MIAMI 24,
VIRGINIA 17 (OT)
Jacory Harris threw a tying touch
down pass in the final minute and
another in overtime to propel Miami
to second in the Coastal division.
CLEMSON 27,
BOSTON COLLEGE 21
C J. Spilier caught six passes for 105
yards to lead the Tigers to their first
victory with interim coach Dabo
Swinney.
WAKE FOREST 33.
DUKE 30 (OT)
Shane Popham kicked a 28-yard field
goal andAlphonso Smith intercept
ed Thaddeus Lewis' last pass near
the goal line to seal an overtime
win and keep Duke in a nine-game
losing streak in the series.
NO. 22 GEORGIA TECH 31,
NO. 24 FLORIDA STATE 28
Marcus Sims fumbled into the end
zone to end then-No. 16 Florida
Slate’s comeback hopes in the final
minute
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NO. 23 MARYLAND,
NO. 19 NORTH CAROLINA,
N.C. STATE, VIRGINIA TECH