8The Daily Tar HeelFriday. November 9. 1984
Tech rides rollercoaster into Kenan
SPORTS
Women's
By MICHAEL PERSINGER
Staff Writer
The word for the week for the UNC women's soccer team
is "golden."
Head soccer coach Anson Dorrance told the team that
if they treated the ball like gold and didn't turn it over in
tomorrow's 11 a.m. NCAA quarterfinal matchup with
Central Florida on Fetzer Field, they would win.
So breakfast is Golden Grahams. And it's a golden
opportunity to begin the quest for a fourth consecutive
national title.
"We have to play a possessional game," Dorrance said.
"We can't just bang the ball around and expect to score.
If we can develop the ball and take care of it, well score."
The No. 2 seeded Tar Heels have faced UCF twice this
season, coming away with a 1-0 win in Orlando, Fla., in
October and a 3-1 win in the Tar Heel Invitational two
weeks ago. Dorrance said! playing UCF, a 3-1 winner over
William & Mary in last weekend's first round, might not
be the best thing for his team.
"You'd like to play different teams, because playing a team
that you have beaten twice gives them a motivational edge,"
Dorrance said. "But weVe been in this situation before. I'm
sure they might throw a new wrinkle or two at us, but even
if they don't, what they had before was certainly an excellent
system."
The title defense that begins this weekend is the last for
the group of seniors that came in four years- ago to form
the nucleus of what has been three times the best women's
soccer team in America. But senior midfielder Emily
Pickering said the seniors arent looking at this tournament
just as their last.
"It's the senior's fourth, but the freshmen have to realize
that it's their first," Pickering said. "We don't want to think
of it as being our last. We just want it to be a continuation
of what we have started. This is just the beginning for some
of them.
"All the teams in this tournament are more competitive.
All of the top 14 are competitive now, and four years ago
only the top four were."
Senior Betsy Johnson agreed that this year's tournament
is different from the past three because the level of
competition has increased.
"Each (national) tournament is different because each year
the team changes," Johnson said. "Each year more and more
teams are out for you.
"But it really doesn't matter who we play if we go in
with the right attitude."
Dorrance said that attitude is not a "must-win" attitude.
"We have tried to keep the pressure off by not consciously
making this a must-win game," Dorrance said. "Once you
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UNC faces Central Florida tomorrow at 11 a.m.
get into the knockout situation of a tournament like this
where you either win or you stay home, you aren't deluding
anyone. The team realizes that each game is important now.
"I wouldn't say motivation will be a problem for us.
Intensity could be a problem because the team could get
so excited that their intensity goes down. We have to make
sure we don't get overly excited."
Dorrance said that his program is continuing to evolve
even though the class that formed the basis for the national
titles will graduate. He said that, in some ways, this team
is better than the previous three.
"This team, with its experience, can do more things than
the other three," Dorrance said. "Every team we've had has
had a way that it could win. This group can win in a lot
of different ways."
Admission for the game is $2 for adults and $1 for UNC
students with IDs.
By SCOTT FOWLKR
Assistant Sports Rdilor
Georgia l ech hus been on a roller
coaster ride all season, and it's anyb
ody's guess as to whether they will be
coasting downhill or struggling uphill
when the 4-3-1 Yellow Jackets come to
Kenan Stadium lor a I p.m. homecom
ing kickoff against North Carolina.
The Rambling Wreck started off its
season with wins over Alabama. The
Citadel and Clemson. It was featured
in Sports Illustrated, ranked in the Top
20 and thought to be a strong contender
lor both the conference championship
and a major bowl berth.
And then the Yellow Jackets fell
apart. They went oh-lor-October. losing
to N.C. State. Auburn and Tennessee
and tying Virginia to fall to 3-3-1. Last
week they finally got back on the
winning track, pounding hapless Duke.
31-3.
Now. like North Carolina. Georgia
Tech is mathematically eliminated from
the race for the ACT championship and
certainly won't be receiving any major
bowl bids. Saturday s battle will be for
pride.
But according to Georgia Tech head
coach Bill Curry, the game is still
Soccer rivalry with Duke
By MIKE WATERS
Staff W riter
Some things just never change. One
of those things is the traditional season
ending game of the North Carolina
men's soccer season against Duke.
Once again Duke is very talented, but
there has been a drop-off from recent
years. The same could be said for the
Tar Heels, who struggled for most of
the season, but have been winning more
proficiently of late, including four of the
last five games.
Last year. North Carolina entered the
game against the Blue Devils with
definite playoff hopes and did upset
Duke, 2-1, but was denied a bid to the
NCAA tourney. This time around.
UNC is not a playoff contender, and
it is Duke that needs to win tonight's
7:30 game at Duke to earn a bid. The
Blue Devils are 12-4-3, but are in an
alley fight with South Carolina and
important. "It's a huge game for us,"
Curry said. "We haven't won in Chapel
Hill since I've been here (live years).
In fact, we haven't scratched."
Which is true. UNC has won the last
four meetings between the two schools,
and in the last two matchups in Chapel
Hill, in 1980 and 1982, the Tar Heels
whitewashed the Jackets 33-0 and 41
0. The Jackets haven't beaten UNC in
Kenan since 1945. But that could
change this year.
The Georgia Tech offense averages
more than 27 points per game and is
led by the fifth most efficient passer in
the country. John Dewberry, and the
ninth-leading rusher. Robert Lavette.
Dewberry has completed almost 61
percent of his passes this year and is
throwing for 173 yards per game.
"On offense we are going to have to
continue to throw the ball more to keep
the pressure off our defensive unit,"
Curry said. "Somehow we are going to
have to find a way to block Micah
Moon. No one has done that yet. We
obviously have someone in John Dew
berry who can hit receivers if they are
open."
UNC fans may be more familiar with
the heroics ol Lavette, who ran over
Clemson for the last two seeds in the
South region behind N.C. State and
Alabama A& M.
"They will definitely be playing with
the knowledge that if they don't play
well they probably won't get an NCAA
bid," UNC coach Anson Dorrance said
of the Blue Devils.
"We kind of feel it's a must-win
game," said Duke coach John Rennie.
"Last year we didn't feel that way.
"If we win we have a shot for a bid;
if we lose then we probably don't
deserve to get a bid."
Both coaches stressed that the records
of the two teams rarely mattered when
these two schools got together. The last
five meetings between UNC and Duke
have been decided by a total of eight
goals, and the last eight matches by 1 1
goals. That usually makes for some
exciting soccer.
"Duke's a great rival," Dorrance said.
"Some teams you just have no trouble
getting motivated for because of the
rivalry. (Duke) is going to have the
incentive of losing last year. But it still
means a lot to us because it's possible
to finish third in the conference, ahead
of Duke and Clemson."
"North Carolina has nothing to lose,"
Rennie said. "They'll be trying to end
the vear on a good note."
Athletics
is to narrow down a list of choices, and,
concentrate primarily on sticking within -the
school's region, Smith says.
Both the basketball and football
programs try to present a soft-sell image
of UNC. "We say, 'here's what our
program is, we'd like you to be a part
of it and please choose us,' "says Smith,
adding that the first considerations are
the player's academic status and then
whether or not he could fit into the Tar
Heel system.
Jack Himebauch, UNC's director of
football recruiting services, says the staff
emphasizes academics at the University
as much as athletics. "It's a beautiful
campus, and we let it sell itself," he says.
But occasionally, some recruiters go
beyond merely selling a school, and
choose instead to buy a player's loyalty.
NCAA laws are designed to keep scouts
from offering "fringe benefits" to prep
athletes, but violations do occur.
While commissioner James says he
believes recruiting violations in this
region of the country have decreased
in recent years, Adams insists that the
problem does still exist, and it puts the
high school prospect in quite a bind.
"Sometimes you deal with a kid who
doesn't have the monetary resources,
and he is offered all these material things
(cars, money, etc.)," Adams says. "If
they're from a lower economic level,
they're going to take what they can get."
Adams says high school coaches have
taken steps to shield players from that
sort of thing, and James notes that a
regulation passed years ago that ended
recruiting by alumni has cut back on
the problems.
Adams says that if athletes are
informed of what ,is legal and what is
not, they can more easily deal with
temptation.
Hunter said it was his attitude on the
matter that allowed him to deal with
the problem. "I wasn't going to let
anybody offer me anything, because I
knew it was illegal," he says.
Hunter says he experienced both the
soft-sell approach, such as that from
UNC, and the more aggressive tactics.
"I'd get things like, 'come on, we really
need you, you're going to play a lot,' "
he says, noting that he chose UNC
because coach Smith's staff looked at
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and through the far Heels last year for
141 yards to help the Jackets throw a
scare into then-undefeated UNC before
the Tar Heels scored 21 fourth-quarter
points to put the game away, 38-2 1 . This
year Lavette is averaging 1 14 yards per
game, second in the conference only to
UNC's Ethan Horton, and has scored
10 touchdowns. His 60 points leads the
Jackets.
On defense, Curry said the Jackets
must slow down, if not stop, the UNC
running game. "We're going to have to
play it very well in order to have a
chance to win," Curry said. "We cannot
let them just pound us with their big
offensive line. Ethan Horton is awe
some. Trying to tackle him is like trying
to tackle the Empire State building with
speed. We will have to force them into
long-yardage situations."
Three times this year the Rambling
Wreck has held opponents to less than
100 yards rushing. Georgia Tech's
defense is led by strong safety Cleve
Pounds and linebacker Pat Swilling.
Pound leads the Jackets in tackles and
has two interceptions and a fumble
recovery on the year, while Swilling has
caused four fumbles and is second on
the team in tackles.
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Duke is coming off a 4-3 loss to N.C.
State Sunday, and while the Blue Devils
are playing tonight, Clemson will go
hunting for its bid against N.C. State
on Sunday.
"We blew our golden opportunity
against State on Sunday," Rennie said.
"All we can do is hope to win Friday
and then hope for a bid. Well go out
and attack and put on as much pressure
as possible."
Attacking for Duke will be two of
the country's finest front-line players,
Tom Kain (12 gOals) and John Kerr
(two goals vs. N.C. State).
"The keys for us are going to be the
performance of (Larry) Goldberg in
goal and containing Kain and Kerr,"
Dorrance said. "Larry had an outstand
ing game last year to key the win."
Marking Kain and Kerr for the Tar
Heels will be Frank Gilhooly and Steve
Dragesics, a freshman who has been
drawing many of the toughest assign
ments all year, including N.C. State's
Sam Okpodu.
"We'll have to play very well,"
Dorrance said. "To beat them at Duke
is a challenge. We'll have to be very
secure in the back and not tee any balls
up for Duke. We're going to have to
play our best."
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him as a person first.
Reds.b.irt.:freshman. quarterback
Mark Maye was among the top five
recruited players in 1983 after an
amazing career at Charlotte Independ
ence High School, and he says there
were times when he had to leave the
phone off the hook. "It got kind of
hectic sometimes," he says. "You
couldn't get a lot done with all the
coaches calling. But I was very fortunate
in that no one ever tried to force me
into a decision at a certain time."
Adams says one of the biggest
problems with the Ail-American caliber
athlete is that all the attention some
times gives him an inflated opinion of
himself. "Some of them get inflated
egos, and then they come to some place
like Carolina and they realize they're
just numbers," he says. "They've been
living in a dream world. It takes an
unusual type of kid to handle all that
publicity."
Maye said he had felt the pressure
from recruiting early in his senior
season, but it died down after a while.
"I found out early that if you worry
about whose in the stands it detracts
from your performance," Maye says. "I
was very fortunate that I wasn't the kind
of person who gets a big head."
Some of the pressure of dealing with
recruits is alleviated by a regulation that
limits recruits to five official paid visits
to college campuses, with a maximum
of one visit per campus, James says.
But Adams notes that now recruiters
tend to follow athletes once they become
sophomores. "It used to be that they
only looked at seniors."
Himebauch said that's how UNC's
football system works. "Ninety percent
of them become prospects by the time
they're juniors," he says.
But the media is responsible for
making the athletes into celebrities to
begin with, Himebauch says. "They
build up some players who maybe aren't
as good as they're publicized to be," says
Himebauch, adding that the press must
take part of the blame for any pressure
placed on the athlete.
Adams says the high schools are
trying to regulate the pressure on
athletes as much as possible by keeping
them closer to the rest of the students.
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