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Chicago 17 Green Bay 34 LA. Raiders ' 27- Washington 33 Denver 30 Miami 31 ; MFL Football Dallas 7 Minnesota 14 Kansas City 17 Phoenix 17 Atlanta .14 San Diego 28 ' New England 27 N.Y. Giants 30 Houston 34 Cleveland 19 San Francisco 24 Indianapolis 35 New Orleans 20 Cincinnati 21 Detroit 10 Pittsburgh 14 Philadelphia 3 LA Rams 21 Tampa Bay 31 Seattle 19 Field hockey, soccer and golf win, page 1 2 16The Daily Tar Heel Monday, October 17, 1988 o LI (0 .ft o Frustration continues to mount By MIKE BERARDINO Shorts Editor Dan Vooletich was close to tears. Standing before his locker in the UNC dressing room, the junior safety tried to explain his innermost feelings to the small gathering of reporters who had just watched the Tar Heels get thrashed by N.C. State, 48-3. The frustration of losing nine straight games (dating back to 1987) had taken an obvious toll on Voole tich's psyche, the strain of repeated public embarrassment showing in his face as he spoke of missed opportun ities and momentary lapses. "I'm frustrated, very frustrated," Vooletich said, his voice growing thick with emotion, nearly inaudible. "This is not an easy thing to go through. I believe in my teammates and in the coaching staff. We're going to keep fighting, that's all we can do." For Vooletich and his teammates, ; the ignominy of lopsided defeats on Saturdays is compounded during the week by the printed censures, the coaches lectures and the whispered jokes. Keeping the faith in an unsuc cessful football family can be extremely difficult. Yet that's exactly what Vooletich is trying to do. "Winning is what it's all about," he said. "But I can tell you one thing, I won't quit and my teammates won't either. That's one thing we take pride n in. At least now the pressure of pursuing an ACC .championship is gone. Mack Brown, UNC's unfortu nate first-year coach, relieved his team of that now-unrealistic goal in his postgame comments. "We would be fooling ourselves to think we're in the hunt for the ACC championship," Brown said. "There are a lot of teams in this league that are better than us. We can't worry about whether we win one, we don win any or if we win the last five. "Our problems are bigger than win loss record this year. Our problems are re-establishing ourselves and this program to f sf it back to where we can compete." For now, though, the -Tar Heels' record is all anyone wants to talk about. Winless in six games this year. Losers of their last three contests in 1987. Owners of the nation's fourth longest ongoing futility streak. Hey, have you heard the one about the judge and the custody case? It seems the judge asked this abused child who he wanted to live with. His father? "No, he beats me." His mother? "No, she beats me, too." Then who? "Mack Brown," came the answer. "He doesn't beat anybody." And so it goes for a once-proud program now considered the laughing stock of the ACC, and soon the whole nation. Brown's no idiot; he hears the whispers. "Anyone who wants to talk about our tough time right now can have a field day," Brown said. "We are struggling, there's no doubt about that. WeVe got a million miles to go and you normally look one place, and that's to me. I'm the head coach, and we haven't been in a ballgame. "It's a tough time for me, it's a tough time for our players' and for Carolina football. Everybody's expecting us to quit, but we're not going to." When asked if he remembered the last time UNC won a football game, Tar Heel linebacker Bernard Tim mons furrowed his brow and thought hard. "Was it (against) State last year?" he wondered aloud. "Or Maryland? That's what it was. . . . It's been a long time." Indeed, it has. So long, in fact, that one night last week Vooletich resorted to watching a videotape of UNC's 1987 win over the Wolfpack "just so I could know how that felt and what it was like to win." He smiled for a moment, then remembered that this is 1988, the 100th year of UNC football and, with sad irony, the longest as well. "Not that I'm living on last year or anything," Vooletich said.. "But State-Carolina, that's a big game. They just came over here and kicked our tails." His tears seemed close again. Uair . I 1 $ - ' , - T It (I v t J 5 ) X 1L k A Monmomery 3 TD passes loses ninth th rows as UNC in a row DTHDoug Habberstad N.C. State quarterback Shane Montgomery passes just before UNC's Antonio Goss zeroes in Women' soccer blanks U Mass By NATALIE SEKICKY Staff Writer Most people probably did not know there were two football games played on campus Saturday after noon. Both games were contested by teams clad in azure and red, and both involved the preservation of record streaks. There were soipe significant differ ences between the two games, how-N ever. First and foremost, the game played on Fetzer Field was football of the European sort, better known as soccer to American pigskin fans. Also, the crowd on hand was infi nitely smaller, but considerably happier, than the fans at Kenan Stadium. The top-ranked UNC women's soccer team cruised to a 4-0 victory over the third-ranked University of Massachusetts Minutewomen. While the noticeable lack of noise from Kenan Staduim suggested to soccer fans that UNC's gridders were on their way to their ninth consec utive loss and worst start in school history, the scoreboard at Fetzer and the smile on UNC head coach Anson Do nance's face proved that the Tar Heels had extended their season mark to 11-0-2, their unbeaten streak to 62 games and their all-time home record to 81-0-2. Despite playing without senior forward Wendy Gebauer, who suf fered a fractured jaw against Radford last Wednesday, the. Tar Heels man aged to dominate Massachusetts offensively throughout the match. The initial minutes of the game suggested perhaps another defensive struggle between the two heavy weights UNC triumphed in two 1-0 games against UMass last year, one of them in the 1987 NCAA championship match. - However, Tar Heel forward and Massachusetts native Julie Guarnotta initiated a UNC offensive display that eliminated any chance of an encore performance. , At the 21:08 mark, Guarnotta gave her fellow New Englanders something less than a warm Southern welcome when she took a pass from Carla Werden, beat her defender and drilled See SOCCER page 12 By DAVE GLENN Assistant Sports Editor If someone in Hollywood is bored enough to write a movie script for the 1988 UNC football season, they might just call it "Down and Out in Chapel Hill." Kenan Stadium was the stage for a Saturday afternoon Tar Heel massacre at the hands of the N.C. State Wolfpack. The game represented a new low in the short regime of UNC head coach Mack Brown. The final tally was 48-3, State the most lopsided victory in the history of a series that dates all the way back to 1894. The loss left the Tar Heels with an 0-6 record, 0-2 in the ACC, the worst start in the history of UNC football. The loss was the Tar Heels' ninth straight, including three from the Dick Crum era, and it represented the fourth-longest current losing streak in Divison I-A. N.C. State upped its record to 5 1 overall, 3-1 in conference play. The Wolfpack offense blew the game open early, using a hurry-up offense to score on five of its six first half possessions to take a 27-3 halftime lead. Surprise starter Shane , Montgomery, State's most efficient passing quarterback, made the most of his first start of the year, complet ing 19 of 27 passing attempts for 215 . yardTby the intermission. v The UNC defense was not prepared , for the early passing attack, as Montgomery found his receivers wide open on short- and medium-range passes against the confused Tar Heel defense. His primary target was All ACC flanker Naz Worthed who found the seams in the Tar Heel secondary for 90 yards receiving in the first half. ; . "The no-huddle was smart on their part," Brown said. "They could see people were throwing for 67 percent against us this year, so they put their thrower in the game and tried to get us where we couldn't coach our young guys very much. The no-huddle made us line up in a basic defense and play a lot of man-to-man. "Montgomery played like all of the quarterbacks have played against us this year. He didn't miss many." While Montgomery, Worthen and Co., were padding their statistics against a UNC defense that has given up an average of almost 40 points per game, the UNC offense floun dered against a defense that has surrendered only 8.5 points per game N.C State 48, UNC 3 NCSU UNC Rretdowns 24 12 Rushes-yards 44-161 43-116 I Passingyards 282 -62 Retumyards 88 44 v Passes 26-40-1 7-28-4;: Punts 2-51 6-47 M Fumbtes-tost 3-2 4-0 '- Penalties-yards 4-31 4-43 ' Time of possession 31:09 '2851 N.C State 10 17 7 14-tt North Caroina 0 3 0 0-3 ' NCSU Vam 2 pass from Montgomery (Hartmari kick) NCSU FG Hartman 44 UNC FQ GwaNney 33 -.-NCSU Corders 19 pass from Montgomery (Hartman kick) NCSU Crite 1 run (Hartman kick) NCSU -FG Hartman 54 NCSU Worthen 12 pass from Montgomery. (Hartman kick) NCSU T. Jackson 6 run (Harfrnan kick) . NCSU Davenport 3 run (Hartman kick) A 52508 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSUNG: N.C State T. Jackson 10-63, Williams 10-38, Crite 6-31, Hayden 5-21, Davenport 3-9, Vam 2- 4, Roxburgh 1-3, Sims 1-2, Saltey 2-rninus 1, Poag 1-minus 1, Montgomery 3-minus 8. No Caroina Dom 16-83, Martin 10-32, Thompson May 6-12, . Benefield 4-9, Hal 7-minus 20. PASSING N.C. State Montgomery 24-35-1-263, " Poag1-2-1-aDavenport1-2-0-iavarn0-1-0-a North Carolina Hal 5-19-1-47, May 2-9-3-15. .: RECEMNG: N.C. Stale Worthen 9-114, Corders 3- 41. Barrel 3-26, Peebles 2-21. SaBey 2-16. Crite 2 15, Santee 1-15, Petals 1-14, Harrison 1-10, WiSams 1-10 Vam 1-Z North Carolina Thompson 3-33, Marriott 3-24. Dom 1-S on the year. . Even after seeing his team give up 48 points, Brown was particularly unhappy with his teams 178 yards ' in total offense. - "Today was the worst offensive performance IVe been around as a. head football coach," Brown said. "The biggest glaring mistake for us today was our inability to throw the football." Quarterback Jonathan Hall com pleted only five passes out of 19 attempts for 47 yards on the day and was sacked three times by the blitzing Wolfpack defenders. Hall was willing to shoulder much of the blame for the team's offensive ineptitude. "I probably played the worst game IVe played ever," Hall said. "We needed everyone to play well today, , and my performance couldn't have come at a worse time." The crushing blow for Hall's offense if there can be one in a 45-point loss came on the Tar Heels' second possession of the day. Trailing 7-0 in the first quarter, the Tar Heels drove 79 yards to the State 1-yard line behind the powerful running of tailback Torin Dora. On See FOOTBALL page 1 2 " Volleyball beats Geoirgetowotheini loses to IRoce By DOUG HOOGERVORST Staff Writer The North Carolina volleyball team finished second in the All Academic volleyball tournament this weekend, beating Georgetown Friday but losing to Rice University on Saturday. To date, UNC's record is a sparkling 17-4. Against Georgetown, the Tar Heels played catch-up all night. They fell behind 8-2 early in Game 1, but they came back to win, 15-13. However, it was a costly win. Junior Lisa Joffs broke her pinky, forcing coach Peggy Bradley-Doppes to use freshman Alison Sommerstad as the middle blocker. Sommerstad responded with a terrific match, five solo blocks, four block assists and two aces. "Ali came off the bench and did a tremendous job," Bradley-Doppes said. "That's the best blocking weVe had all year, and this is probably one of the best offensive teams weVe played." But the Tar Heels seemed flat overall. The Hoyas took advantage, winning the next two games, 15-13 and 15-12. Georgetown's Catherine Taylor led the Hoyas with some incredible hitting, finishing with an amazing 37 kills. However, she tired late in the match and had only two kills in the decisive fifth game. The Hoyas seemed in control with a 9-4 lead in Game 4, but they began to tire. The Tar Heels and Hoyas exchanged points until the score stood 13-8, Hoyas. Time was running out on UNC. "It seems the kids play better when everything is stacked against them because then they really have to concentrate," Bradley-Doppes said. And concentrate they did. Sopho more Liz Berg stepped to the service line for UNC and handcuffed the Hoyas with a serve to cut the lead to four. Now, not even a pair of Georgetown timeouts could stop the Tar Heels. UNC's Andrea Wells' monstrous spike made the score 10-13 and the Tar Heels were back on top of their game. North Carolina completed the comeback to win 15-13. The Tar Heels rode their tide of emotion into the fifth game and steamrolled the Hoyas, 15-8. No single player starred; it was a team comeback. Wells led the team with a school record 35 kills and 22 digs in the five games. The scenario was similar Saturday night against Rice. The Tar . Heels squeaked out a narrow, 15-13 win in Game 1 and lost a close Game 2, 16 14, to the Owls. In Game 3, Rice held a 12-8 lead when Berg stepped to serve. Unlike the Georgetown match, there was no string of points this time. UNC closed See VOLLEYBALL page 12 1 J I I t y. i t S fe- s t . Lvv 1, I i . . I i I .1 i i DTH David Foster UNC's Allison Sommerstad (left) and Liz Berg block Casey Bradley's spike Friday night
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