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freshman defender came to UNC from Scotland, via NYC
By MICHAEL PERSINGER
Staff Wriier -
The rolling hills of Scotland turned out to be no
place for Senga Allen. When the British invaded
Scotland in the 15th century, they were lost for days
in the hills around Glasgow. Even Allen was lost in
those hills once, when she was a child. But she found
herself, with the help of three men, in time to escape
the sexist overtones of her native land and come to
the United States to do what she does best: play soc
cer. . ' s
- In Britain, women have no place on the soccer
fielcL Allen had trouble finding places to play. Even :
in the parks of Glasgow she was not accepted. '
. "In the park, it was always all guys," Allen said.
"A'lot of them would just walk off the field if some
one let me play. Maybe they thought I would degrade
them," :
The same attitude was present in school. There was
no team for women interested in soccer, and even
though Allen was better than all but a few of the
players on her high school men's team, they refused
to let her play, "because I was a girl," she says.
Allen was born in Glasgow, Scotland, April 19,
1961, the youngest of 10 children. Her parents passed
away when she was four years old, and she was raised
by her sister, who has five kids of her own.
v When she was a child, she did the things that all
children do. She would ride her bicycle for hours on
the hills and quiet avenues that surrounded her
suburban Glasgow home. She. would fish and swim
in the locks near her home, even when the tempera
ture dipped to 40 degrees. "The weather in Britain
toughened me up," she said.
Allen has played soccer ever since she could stand
up. She played on her first team when she was 15. "I
improved by playing by myself. The boys wouldn't
let me play," she said. "They just don't promote
women's soccer in Britain, certainly not for under
!3's like they do here (in the United States)."
Allen was discouraged. It seemed there was no
place for a female soccer player of her calibre in Bri
tainrHer brother-in-law, Stuart Cameron, however,
pushed her forward.
"When I went to live with my sister, her husband
was an inspiration to me.. He played semi-pro soccer,
and he took the time to teach me," Allen said.
"If it had not been for him, I would have given
up. : . .
Cameron had replaced in Allen the will to succeed
in the sport. Under him, Allen's skills progressed
rapidly. When she was 17, a scout from Milan, Italy,
asked her to come and play for the professional
women's team in that city.
"My sister said 'no way'. She didn't want me to go
to a country where I didn't know, the language,''
Allen said. "Besides, I would have had to work in a
factory part time, and I didn't like that idea."
At the time, she was working for a lawyer, but she
grew tired of that and decided to follow, two of her
sisters to America.
One of her sisters helped her find a job at the
Canadian Consulate in New York City, where she
wrote out visas and checked passports for the immi
gration department.
Central Park in the middle of winter can be a cruel
place. The bitter cold bites relentlessly at those who
venture into its teeth. But the park was the setting for
destiny in the winter of 1981-82.
Tim Henkinson, former soccer coach at Alabama
A&M, was jogging in the park, and he stopped to
participate in a three-on-three pick-up soccer gaine.
He witnessed in that game a player of extraordinary
skill. That player was Senga Allen.
"I used to go (to Central Park) at night and on
Saturdays and Sundays to play with South
Americans," Allen said. "One day, this guy came up
to me and asked if I would like to play soccer for a
college team. I said yes, but I didn't know how to go
about it," she said. "He asked for my phone num
ber, but I thought he was trying to pick me up, so I
wouldn't give it to him. You just can't trust strangers
in New York." !
. She did take his number, however, and she called
him later about what he had said, and he had set up
two auditions for her, one at Central Florida and one
at UNC '
In February, 1982, she tried out at both schools.'
Both offered her scholarships. She chose Carolina.
"I felt that UNC was a better school academically
and. athletically," Allen said. "At the trials, I felt
more comfortable here (at UNC), and I didn't think I
would enjoy playing in the 90-degree heat in Florida.
"Anson Dorrancc (UNC soccer coach) is like a
godsend to me. If it weren't for him, I would have
nothing going for me," Allen said.
As it turned out, the whole episode has been
mutually beneficial. Allen gets the education she
wants, and the Tar Heels get an excellent soccer
player. And everybody is happy.
"I never experienced as much competition until I
came here. The teams in Britain are no comparison,"
Allen said. "That is mostly because they are not in
terested in women's soccer over there," she added.
Allen is happy that she chose UNC. "The team is
terrific, and the girls are nice. And they are all so
broad-minded," Allen said. "I guess they would
have to be to accept me." 1
Naturally a right wing, Allen was moved to back
early in the season, following an injury to Susan
Ellis, a starter for the past two seasons. Dorrance felt
she was the best player for the position.
"We were at a loss for who to put at the back, but
we felt she was the best choice. She is gaining con
fidence in her ability to play defense," Dorrance
said. "She had all the skills when she got here."
Allen said she thought the area in which she has
improved most is in the mental phase of the game.
"I never realized there were so many mental
aspects to soccer," she said. "I have never used so
many tactics."
Allen has had only two real problems since arriving
at UNC. She is having problems deciding on a major,
and early in the year she had problems with her
health or so they thought.
"At first I thought I would be a physical therapy
major, but I am not really interested in the zoology,"
. she said. "It sounded like the perfect job; the field is
wide open, and there 'is plenty of money in it. I'm
really confused about my major now. Now I think
that maybe it will be journalism. I enjoy writing."
Her health was less of a problem than everybody
thought. "When I got here, they thought I had TB,
then they thought I had hepatitis; they thought I had
everything," she said. "I thought, 'I wish I had
stayed in New York.' "
She was lost in the hills around Glasgow as a child,
but Allen is finally beginning to find herself and dis
cover her potential in the sport she loves, all in
Chapel Hfll.
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emon Deacons score first AGC goal
By MIKE DESISTI
, Staff Writer
' Pre-game goals are easily forgotten, whereas others go a long
way. George Kennedy, the men's head soccer coach at Wake
Forest, had three objectives heading into Sunday's matchup
with UNC.
; "Our goals coming into the game were to score an ACC goal,
get a conference win, and shut them (UNC) put," Kennedy said.
: After 90 minutes of play his team has achieved just two of
those goals, but it made no difference to Kennedy. It was the
three goals that wound up in the net that really mattered, as the
Demon Deacons upset the Tar Heels 3-1 in Chapel Hill.
Sometimes in soccer it's quality, not quantity, that counts.
UNC found out the hard way. The Tar Heels outshot Wake
Forest 14-1 in playing the Deacons scoreless the entire first half,
and ended up with a 21-10 shooting advantage for the game. But
as far as the books go, those are just secondary statistics.
! Wake Forest made good on two of its first four attempts in
the second periodand that was all it took to lift the Deacons to
8-9-2 on the year and wipe numbers one and two off of coach
Kennedy's checklist.
i Just 5:10 into the half, junior forward Mark Erwin took a
short chip from Gregg Goldsmith at the top of the box, settled
the ball and beat UNC keeper Bruce Talbot with a little slip shot
to the post for Wake Forest's first conference tally of the
season.
i A little more than two minutes later, Erwin sealed his team's
first conference win of the year, when he ran onto a ball on the
kft side, brought the charging Talbot to the ground with an in
side fake and then stepped around outside him and pushed the
ball into the net. .
The Tar Heels built their attack from the rear, playing pos
session ball and involving their defensive backs in their offensive
thrusts, .whereas Kennedy said he was emphasizing two-touch
soccer, holding onto the ball for a minimum amount of time in
the back before pushing it through.
"We started out (the second half) with some new tactical ad
justments. We changed the alignment and interchanged a few
players," Kennedy said.
Whatever the strategy was, it worked. With 12:39 left in the
game sophomore Robert Heileman worked a gjve-and-go with
Alex Chater on the left side of the box, beating Talbot in the
process, for the Deacon's third goal of the half and their last of
the game.
A late-game surge by the Tar Heels prevented Kennedy from
leaving the field a self-proclaimed prophet, as All-ACC forward
Billy Hartman netted a goal with 1:42 on the clock. Hartman
went up at the near post with a host of Wake Forest defenders
on Robert Kelles cross from the right corner, and nodded it
home. .
The goal did little to take the sting out of the loss for Hart
man, however, as his team fell to 10-6-4 on the season.
"It seems like we're all running on different tracks, we just
haven't been able to get it together," he said, referring to the
Tar Heels' inability of late to string together the passes necessary
to score. "And it's not just the forwards, it's all over the field."
UNC closes its home season on Wednesday with a match
against Campbell University at 3 p.m. on Fetzer field. '
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.. despije gutshooting the Demon Deacons 21-10, the Tar Heels dropped a 3-1 decision
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Ccck-up qucrtcrbcck Scott Stankavcga consoles injured starter Rod Elkins eight minutas into tha gama
...Elklns was 7for-7 with 70 yards in the air before he was sidelined with a twisted knee
The Tigers then drove 85 yards, with Chuck McSwain
leading the ground attack, and faced a third-and-goal at the
five-yard line. Quarterback Mike Eppley called an audible and
' flanker Frank Magwqpd. faked AJHC corner back Larry James
inside before heading for the right corner of the end zone,
where he pulled ia Eftpkv&tttttg&lpwn pass.
Eppley and Magwobd teamed up again for a 34-yard play
with 2:23 left in the half, sating up faulting' 42-yard field
goal. Reroberj's interception ended UNO threat to tie the
game. . , , n
Clemson's real bruiset. 32pdBhd William "G.E." Perry
made his rather large presence known when he levelled Smith '
for a 12-yard loss early in the third quarter. They say Perry
dunks basketballs when he's not slamming quarterbacks and
tailbacks around. He also has a daughter who weighed 13
pounds at birth.
. UNC got its only touchdown on the nest drive when Stan
kavage completed a three-yard pass to freshman Arnold
Franklin, and Clem son took the lead for good after McSwain
and Cliff Austin ran the Clemson offense within Paulling's
range for another 46-yarder. I
. Kelvin Bryant also had a fine game, rushing for 86 yards and
47 carries and catching five passes for 52 yards.
"We're still not the dominant team I thought we'd be, and
eiiher we've got to be the worst tackling team in the nation or
Bryant has to be one of the greatest runners," Clemson coach
Danny Ford said. "I'm inclined to believe-the latter." '
When it came down to the last few seconds, there was never
any question that Crum would go for the touchdown rather
than a tie.
"We were there and thought we could win," he said. "If we
had gone for the tie, I would have regretted it the rest of my life
and I think our kids would to." .
On Friday night, the team watched " Apocalypse Now," and
on Saturday the Tar Heels entered territory as forbidding as
thai which Captain Witlard encountered on his journey up
river. The orange horde overran Clemson's campus. Joe
Namath was there, rooting for old Alabama teammate Danny
Ford, and Bob Graham, governor of Florida, was there be
' cause he has daughters at both schools. But even he was wear
ing a Tiger pa on his lapel. Within Death Valley, 63,700
fanatics. IPTAY (I Pay Thousands A Year) members and
Bengal Babes were as loud as their clothes.
"Usually you can ignore the crowd." Stankavage said. "But
whenever Clemson mode a big play tliai's when it felt like
we were pteym all 60.0(10."
' There was no relief as the learn buses rolled la the Greenville
airport. A farmer on a tractor paused to shake his fist in the air
as the Tar Heels passed, and a young Ttuxr fan ran to the edge
f the road to slick oul his tongue. A glance around the South
1 Carolina countryside protklvd further proof thai fall is Clem
son's season. Even the trees were orange.
Volleyball team wins match
on numerous Terrapin errors
Assistant volleyball coach Judy
Martino expected Friday night's
match against Maryland to be a
tough one. But to her pleasant sur
prise, the Tar Heels breezed past the
Terrapins in a short-lived three-game
match, winning 15-11, 15-6 and
15-6. The Heels are now 5-0 in the
ACC, 21-12 overall.
"I thought they would be much
better," said Martino, adding that
the Maryland team may not have
recovered from a recent loss to
Duke.
In the first game, Carolina shot
out to a $-3 lead, but the Terrapins
recovered quickly and tied it at 9-9.
UNC couldn't stop a Maryland slam
and fumbled a serve reception to fall
behind by two points. But Sandy
Schmidt recovered the service with a
hard .smash and UNC scored off a
Terrapiri error to pull within one at
10-11. Two plays Later, Linda Kantz
knocked, a soft dump shot over
which began a UNC scoring spurt
leaving the opponents on the losing
end, 15-11.
- The score remained close in the se
cond game, although Maryland
couldn't take the I?3d. At 6-5, Kim
Rose, assisted by a short set by
Kantz, spiked one and the Terrapins
followed with three errors to fall
behind 5-10. Maryland finally scored
off a UNC spiking error, but were
stopped again by a Rose block and a
Donna Meier slam. Rose spiked it
and Maryland committed another
error as the Heels won 15-6.
Maryland revenged in the third
game, scoring the first five points to
Carolina's one. But the Terrapins
made too many mistakes to keep the
lead. UNC tied it at 6-6 off a Meier
slam and" Maryland made two ball
handling errors before they called a
quick timeout. However, 'back iin
the court, they made thrw-tetore
fumbles and UNC jumped put to an
11-6 lead. Maryland got the serve
back off a soft tap-in, but couldn't
hand onto it as Schmidt spiked the
next one. Laura Held killed one,
Mercedes Ballbe dumped one over
and Meier breezed a soft one in dur
ing the next few plays to lift the
Heels 15-6, and win the match. "
Carolina hosts Appalachian at 8
p.m. Tuesday. ,
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