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By SCOTT GREEN
Staff Writer
UNC cross country coaches Bill Lam and Hubert
West easily could have been talking about the same
team. "We could be a lot stronger this year," said
Lam, coach of the men's team. "We have six or seven
runners who are all about equal. If we're running
well, then the only two teams I'm concerned about
catching us are Clemson and Duke."
"We can run with anyone in this conference," said
West, coach of the women's team. "We've got more
depth; our top five runners are less than a minute
apart. We're much stronger than last year."
Lam and West weren't talking about the same
team, thoUgh. Instead, they were describing similar
teams that just might monopolize the men and
women's ACC titles in late October and early
November. Both teams open the season Saturday
against N.C. State and Virginia in Charlottesville.
The men's team, Lam said, could be superior to
last year's team that' went 5-0 during the regular
season. Top runner Ralph King, all AU-American
ranked fifth in the world a year ago at 5,000 meters, is
gone now, but UNCs depth should compensate for
the loss, Lam said. ;
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King's successor, junior Gary Hofstetter, leads a
young squad composed of four juniors, two
sophomores and three freshmenl Hofstetter is one of
the early favorites to capture the individual ACC
championship Nov. 4.
"Gary has an excellent chance of winning it," Lam
said. "I really don't feel anyone will beat him if he's
healthy."
Hofstettef's toughest competition could come senior.
from his own teammates. In the squad's first time
trial, only 1:18 separated the first five finishers.
Ranking just behind HofstettefWre Doug Slack,
Jimmy Cooper, Mark Thompson, David Hankins
and Ron Boatwright, all upperclassmen.
Completing the nine-man traveling 'squad are
freshmen Todd McCallister, John Clark and Mark
Whitney.
"They're capable of running up there with the top
five," Lam said. .
The women's team, entering its sec'ond year of
official competition, is deep and exceptionally
young. . y
"Last year, we had four seniors, two juniors and
one sophomore," West said. "This vear. hp havp in
our top six, three freshmen, two sophomores and one
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Leading the way are Lindy Appen and Nancy"
Radford, "two freshmen we just can't hold back,"
West said. Behind the pair are Dorothy Lend, Juiee
Briscoe, Nancy Pistroski and Linda Nehls.
Carolina should be a contender for the title. West
said, but may find the early competition and regional
tournament rough! UNC opens against N.C. State
and Virginia, then tests Maryland and Wake Forest a
. week later. ' .
"We're thrown into the fire right off," West said.
"We hit the top three teams in the conference in our
first two meets. The strongest team in the conference ;
right now is State."
. In regionals, UNC would be grouped with such!
nationally ranked foes as Tennessee and Eastern
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By BILL FIELDS
Surf Writer
A 10-day layoff for the UNC soccer team has
hurt the Tar Heels, literally.
Injuries which were not around after Carolina's
loss to UNC-Wilmington last Wednesday have
appeared on the scene in mass quantities.
Four Tar Heel regulars goalie Martin
Trimble, mid-fielder Roy Baroff, defenseman Ed
Fenimore and forward John Fernandez will be
absent from the Carolina lineup in Saturday's 4:30
p.m. home match with N.C. State, Coach Anson
Dorrance said Thursday. V; --' !
The loss of Trimble leaves perhaps the biggest
void on the team. Trimble has played every minute
of every game this season, and when he wis not
playing last year, it was Lee Horton, not Kevin
Kane who filled in. 'J.t' '.'r -.
Enter Kevin Kane, a sophomore .Who played
goalkeeper on the freshman team last xyear.
Dorrance said he has confidence in the 6-fppt-l,
160-pound Grand View, N.Y., sophomore.
"He plays a good goal. He has seen many Sf our
ames whether he's played in them or not. Kevin
did get to practice a good bit with the varsity last
year when Horton got hurt."
But Dorrance said he is more worried about the
Wolfpack's improvement than about how capable
his starting lineup will be on Saturday afternoon.
"They'll be a heckuva lot better this time," he said.
Carolina whipped State 5-0 in the inaugural
Mayor's cup tournament in Raleigh two weeks -ago.
The. Wolfpack were, and still are, a very
young team, with 12 freshmen on the roster. State
coach Larry Gross, in his first year as head coach,
said his team "is more cohesive now."
The Wolfpack has played two games since the
Mayor's Cup, claiming wins over UNC-Charlotte
and High Point. Like the Tar Heels, State holds a
3-1 record.
"We're playing better soccer," Gross said. uOur
freshmen have molded into a better group at this
time. The Carolina game showed us where
improvements had to be made."
The State-Carolina match will be played on
Fetzer Field, which is 1 VA yards less in width than
State's Varsity Field. Gross said the smaller field
shouldn't bother his squad, but said Carolina's
homefield would be an advantage for the Tar
Heels.
The Tar Heel injury situation makes it look like
Carolina has been playing war games, not soccer.
Besides the starters who are out. Butch Bernard
and Chris Brown also have injuries.
Bernard sustained a fractured arm against
UNC-W. but his cast is off now. Brown has
calcium deposits in his thigh and will be out for a
month or more. All the injuries have prompted
Dorrance to add two players to the varsity - Steve
Turner and Tom Cope.
Still, Dorrance said that the number of injured
players hasn't hurt the team's morale that much.
"Injuries only hurt a coaches' morale."
But Trimble's calcium deposits, Baroff s injured
knee, Fenimore's hamstring problem and
Fernandez's thigh contusion are for real.
Meanwhile, the healthy Tar Heels are trying to
stay that way.
"You better cut off your beard Steve." said
David Blum to Steve Scott before Thursday's
. practice. "Everyone with a beard (Trimble, Baroff.
Fenimore) has gotten hurt."
elsewhere.
The U NC women's golf team is competing in the
36-hole Michigan State Invitational Friday and
' Saturday in East Lansing, Mich. The tournament
features an 18-team field. Jill Nesbitt, Bonnie Bell,
Maureen Long, Page Kennedy, Sue Cary and
Cathy Graham are competing for Carolina.
Carolina's B team will compete in the Duke Fall
Invitational Friday.
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Virginia Tech's CIH Dcoldy
...as a Tar Heel last year
From staff and wire reports
BLACKSBURG Va. Bill Dooley, who once
lured the cream of Virginia's football crop to North
Carolina, is now telling the same boys to stay at
home.
"Keeping Virginia players in Virginia is one of my
goals," says Dooley, whose 1 1 years of recruiting for
UNC was well known among Virginia coaches.
Now Dooley is a Virginia coach himself. After
resigning his post as head Carolina football coach
last January, Dooley took the job as head football
coach and athletic director at Virginia Tech.
"Yeah," he smiles, "I'll be recruiting players in
North Carolina." .
Dooley led UNC teams-to six bowl games in the
last eight years but inherited a Tech team which went
3-7-1 last year. So far, the Gobblers are 1-1, having
blown a big lead against Tulsa and then defeating
Wake Forest the following week.
"I've been pleased with the attitude the players
have given. We've got some good football players.
We just don't have enough," Dooley said of his
rebuilding process. "We lack depth and we've got a
real tough schedule. We'll just have to recruit to get
some real good football players."
Recruiting possibilities aren't Dooley's only
reason for a continuing interest in North Carolina,
however.
"1've'got a lot of football players over there that
I'm going to be following for a long time," Dooley
said. "I've got a lifelong interest in the players I was
associated with at Carolina. After living in a place for
12 years you make a lot of friends. I've got a lot of
good friends in Chapel Hill."
When Dooley arrived in Chapel Hill in 1966,
Carolina was a loser, and there were only a handful
of players from North Carolina and Virginia. The
program flourished and Dooley was credited with
bringing respectability to the ACC. Even with an
overall record of 69-53-2 at UNC. Dooley has many
critics, and the opportunity to be athletic director at
Tech as well as football coach appealed to him.
"Heck no, I'm not bitter." Dooley said about
leaving the Tar Heels. "You're always going to have
some people saying things.The year we were 11-1 we
had people complaining. It just shows they're
interested in the program."
Dooley said he listened to about five minutes of the
Carolina-ECU game. "We went to the mqvies and
then had our pre-game meal, so 1 didn't get to listen
to much."
While the ties with North Carolina remain intact,
Dooley plans now to emphasize Virginia when it
comes to recruiting. .
"We want to keep the kids at home. We're a state
institution...,weJre the largest school in the slate.
Eighty percent of our students are from in-state.
We've got 20,000 students, good academics; it's a
good place to go to school. Anyone who lives in the
state has to consider Tech.
"I looked back at the best team VPI has had
recently," he said, "it was an 8-3 team recruited by
Charlie Coffey. Most of the player were Virginians."
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