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Tampa Bay 42 Miami 13 Minnesota 24 Philadelphia 21 Denver 15 San Francisco 24 NFL Football Chicago 35 Cleveland 10 Detroit 17 N.Y. Giants 19 San Diego 10 New Orleans 20 Indianapolis 37 Cincinnati 26 Green Bay 31 New England 23 Washington 30 Kansas City 20 LA. Rams 26 Buffalo 13 Pittsburgh 16 Dallas 13 Houston 13 Phoenix 28 Seattle 16 Atlanta 14 AL and NL play off results, page 5 NBAY 10The Daily Tar HeelMonday, October 9, 1989 SPORTS Ow Dnttftue -too late: Hall of a drive not enough By NEIL AMATO Staff Writer North Carolina, using what was previously a nonexistent passing attack, almost did it Saturday. "Almost only counts in hand gre nades and horseshoes," UNC quarter back Jonathan Hall's father said, as he waited patiently in the Tar Heel locker room for his much-maligned son to handle the postgame media barrage. Passing can be a two-edged sword, and on numerous occasions this year, airing it out was like back-stabbing for UNC. The Tar Heels didn't lose they elected to avoid the tie which meant they didn't win. The fact remains that they got in position to salvage a victory by throwing the ball. Hall hooked up with freshman flanker Randall Felton in the game's waning moments to put the Tar Heels in posi tion to win. The UNC duo almost stole the show from the Wake Forest pair of quarterback Phil Barnhill and wide receiver Ricky Proehl. It was the Barnhill-Proehl combina tion that connected for the game's winning touchdown with 2:37 left. "Ricky Proehl is one of the outstand ing receivers in the ACC, and Barnhill's got a really strong arm," Hall said. "They got the job done." They certainly did. All told, Proehl snared eight Barnhill heaves for 119 yards and the key touchdown. The Belle Mead, NJ., native now needs only four catches to become Wake Forest's all time leading receiver. After the Wake's score, Hall and Felton came right back. After a pass interference call moved the ball to the UNC 26, the Hall-Felton twosome combined for 60 yards on four passes, the highlight being a post pattern that moved UNC 24 yards to the Wake one yard line. That reception set up Mi chael Benefield's touchdown plunge that led to the two-point attempt. Despite the late heroics, the Durham native's first catch in the drive was his most spectacular. Hall threw over the middle to the sprinting Felton, who fully extended himself to make a fin gertip grab for a 20-yard gain. "I just had to catch the ball," Felton said of his leaping catch. "The middle was open. I had a chance to get it by diving and I caught it." But the damage had already been done by the Deacon duo, and Wake's signal caller discussed the winning combo. "They played a lot of man-toman coverage," Barnhill said. "They didn't stop anything we did going to Ricky and we took advantage." Barnhill's assessment was correct. Many times, Proehl would catch the ball and find nothing but open field ahead because of the cushion he was given by the Tar Heel defensive backs. On the touchdown play, Proehl who has scored an ACC-leading 11 touchdowns split UNC defenders Rondell Jones and Clarence Carter and Barnhill threaded the needle. Barnhill bestowed much of the credit to Proehl, who lunged to make the winning catch. "I just got my feet set and let it go," Barnhill said. "He ran a great route and made a great catch. But we expect it from him." During the Tar Heels' march toward possible victory, Proehl could only watch and pray. "It was a scary feeling," said Proehl, who sat in the visitor's locker room sipping a Coke while eye-black ran down his cheeks. "Hall definitely showed his experience." The fifth-year senior, who came in for injured freshman Chuckie Burnette in the fourth quarter, completed five passes in nine tries. The Vienna, Va., native performed flawlessly during the drive, throwing perfectly to Felton and scrambling once for 13 yards. "Jonathan did a great job taking us down the field," Felton said. "He kept us all calm." UNC head coach Mack Brown knew his quarterback was feeling pretty good during the march. 'To show Jonathan's confidence, he asked what the two-point play was during the drive," Brown said. Despite the loss, Hall could still hold his head high for a valiant effort in a pressure spot. "I feel comfortable in that situation," Hall said. "I hope I get a chance to do it again next week." A -y JP J vV, uJ 1 fa a 1mt w: ; A n 4 : Wake's Anthony Williams ran for Volleyball II crashes liberty, mips A&M By DJ. HOOGERVORST Staff Writer The North Carolina volleyball team continued to play its brand of strong volleyball in victories Friday and Sat urday over Liberty University andTexas A&M in Carmichael Auditorium. The Tar Heels, ranked 12th in the South Region, improved their record to 10-5 with the pair of wins. More impor tantly for Tar Heel fans, North Carolina played up to its potential in its four game victory over a nationally respected Texas A&M club. UNC's Friday evening contest with Liberty turned out to be nothing more than a tune up for the Tar Heels. Every North Carolina player helped defeat the overmatched Flames in three games, 15-4, 15-11, 15-6. Against the Texas A&M Aggies Saturday night, UNC split the first two games, 15-13 and 5-15, and fell behind 7-1 in game three when things came together on the serve of freshman Chris White. White, a starting middle blocker, aced and forced a serve-receive error with a tough serve to start a string of 12 unan Dyke hamids men's soccer 1st home By SCOTT GOLD Staff Writer "It's no big deal." "We'll bounce back." "It's good for us." "I'm not worried." These are merely a sample of the North Carolina men's soccer team's reactions to a 4-0 spanking suffered at the hands of Duke on Sunday at Finley Field. To some people, the squad has some proving to do. Team play was not ex actly stupendous in the match. At times, in fact, it appeared nonexistent. 'This is the worst we've been beaten in a while," senior midfielder Chad Ashton said. "It hurts from a pride point of view. This wasn't our team we weren't really there at all." The loss, UNC's worst since Duke toasted them 4-0 way back in 1985, leaves the Tar Heels with a disappoint ing 7-4-1 record and a blemish on their otherwise-perfect 5-1 record at home. UNC continued its schizophrenic ; spasms, a pattern that began early in the season and has continued since. Before this game, North Carolina's offense and defense had not only been avail able for duty, both were fairly produc tive. In its latest test, UNC calmly baked a powerful Coastal Carolina team 1-0, but moreover, in its last five games the team has recorded three shutouts. Sunday, however, that potent offense deflated. Chances were created often enough, but none were converted; Ei ther they were not realistic, in which case only a weak, misdirected shot could squirt towards the Duke goal, or they simply did not have the gusto and or ganization to find the back of the net. Derek Missimo, perhaps as or more schizo than his team, continued his hibernation that has now lasted for four games. Despite his dormant play, Mis DTHEvan Eile 132 yards Saturday as the Deacons stumbled past the Tar Heels swered points, five on her own serve. The Tar Heels rallied behind the spark of White (11 digs) and junior setter Patti Hopkins (20 assists, 2 solo blocks) to win the game in come-from-behind fashion, 15-8. North Carolina coach Peggy Bra-dley-Doppes praised the performances of White and Hopkins. "Chris (White) served unbelievably and she gave us some key digs. A&M ran a good middle (play) and she was frustrated, but she gave us a lot of key serves." About Hopkins, the Tar Heels' backup setter, Bradley-Doppes said: "She had an unbelievable match. When we couldn't get the chemistry and were a little lethargic in games one and two, I thought the passes were there, but we needed a change. So, I put in Patti. "Not only did she set, but she played defense, blocked the ball and gave us a lot of spark. Golly Moses. She played out of this world." Other players off the bench, Miriam Fulford, Summer Sieg and Carolyn Flanders, earned compliments from the Tar Heel mentor, too. "I got great play off my bench," simo still ranks among the nation's leaders in scoring with 27 points, on 12 goals and three assists. For the season, he has taken 43 shots, but has mustered only three in his last three games, in cluding two against the Blue Devils. Sunday, however, Missimo looked especially catatonic. At times in the match, the 6-foot-5 forward was nearly six inches taller than the tallest Duke player (besides goalkeeper Jonah Gold stein), yet he won less than 20 percent of the balls kicked to him in the air. Though at times the Tar Heel team relies on Missimo's talent to win matches, there are also times that Missimo's energy on the field seems dependent on the success and chemis try of his teammates. If the team is down, he plays even lower. He didn't have the team. The team didn't have him. It was all downhill from there. "I was very frustrated and disap pointed with our team," coach Elmar Bolowich said. "We never got into a rhythm. We didn't develop the ball into the attacking third of the field. "We had our chances. They had the edge, and the drive to stick it." Two-time All-ACC second team selection Robert Probst gave the Blue Devils all the offense they needed 1 9:05 into the game. All-American Joey Valenti, a severe offensive threat, drew the defense out from the goal as he drove through the middle. Realizing he was not going to get a clear shot, he dumped the ball to a forgotten Probst, -who knocked in his first goal of the year. ' Just to keep the game exciting for a while, Duk'e waited until the 52:3 1 mark to add some insurance to their slim 1-0 - See SOCCER, page 5 UNC 1f Bradley-Doppes said. "Every person I put in did their job. So, that eased the burden for the whole team down the strech." Texas A&M coach Al Givens said the Tar Heels run of points in game three keyed the victory for UNC. "I thought North Carolina began serving a lot tougher in the third and fourth games and it took us out of our offense," Givens said. "UNC played better than we did, and because of that, they won the match." In game three, the Aggies' offense was shut down by the extra-tough Tar Heel defense. The Texas A&M hitting percentage was a horrendous (.190) one with three kills and seven hitting errors on 21 total attempts. The sparks provided to UNC by White, Hopkins and the freshman Flan ders carried over into game four as did the sloppy play by A&M. Nonetheless, the Aggies hung tough early before UNC made its final run. Two offensive errors by A&M's Amy Cumings and a solo block by the 5-foot-5 Hopkins on a Cumings smash scored three points for North Carolina, Senior Nick Efthimou beat his . ' 1 M ' ::w :f,x:,:,x,:,:, : .. T ' . ' '''''X ' . :'':'::;':':': yf-'K: :;,ffmmMm Wake deals Heels 4th straight loss By JAMIE ROSENBERG Assistant Sports Editor For the second straight week, fans in Kenan Stadium rode the Carolina foot ball rollercoaster. And for the second straight week the Tar Heel express jumped the tracks at its most thrilling moment, leaving fans stranded in another losing effort. With the wounds from last week's heartbreaking loss to Navy just about Heeled, noble Kenan onlookers were starting to Wake up and smell a victory against the Demon Deacons Saturday when UNC rallied valiantly for a 90 yard touchdown drive in the game's final two minutes to bring the Tar Heels within one at 17-16. But North Carolina coach Mack Brown then elected to go for a two point conversion to win rather than a kick to tie, and the ride was over. Jon athan Hall's pass to fullback Mike Faulkerson was broken up in the end zone with 1:35 on the clock, and the score remained at 17-16, giving a stunned Tar Heel squad its fourth straight loss and second ACC defeat. "I told them afterwards that they making the score 8-5 Tar Heels. UNC earned its ninth and 10th points when Aggie outside hitter Krista Hier holzer hit long, and when Flanders and junior Paula Martin combined to block Hierholzer. North Carolina would not be denied despite a pair of timeouts called by Texas A&M. At this point, the Tar Heels were on such a roll that even the best of spikes by A&M were dug and turned into UNC points. At 12-6 in the fourth game, Aggy Kelli Kellen pounded a ball down to the 10-foot line which UNC's White made a stupendous dig on and returned. A shocked A&M squad couldn't put the White dig back over and the score climbed to 13-6. A tough serve by White resulted in a serve-receive error by the Aggies and a 14- 6 score. Texas A&M managed another point, but when Cumings hit long on UNC's serve, North Carolina had earned a 15 7 game four victory and a 15-13, 5-15, 15- 8, 15-7 match win. Bradley-Doppes said, "We played great ball to beat Texas A&M in four defender, but Duke still crushed the X"'5'"" i ' y earned a tie in the ballgame and that in turning around their program I made a decision that it would be better to win the ballgame than tie," Brown said. "I would do it again, because our program needs to win." A win seemed far from probable before the final drive began. With the score tied at 10, less than five minutes to play and the Tar Heels attempting to convert on a third-and-nine situation from their own 16-yard line, flanker Randall Felton swept across on the reverse but fumbled the exchange from quarterback Jonathan Hall. Felton bobbled the ball before finally snatch ing it up on the one, by which time a swarm of Deacs were upon him. Scott McAlister boomed a 51 -yard punt out of his own end zone to prevent disaster, but Wake still had excellent field position, starting its final, fateful scoring drive from the Tar Heels' 42. Deacs' quarterback Phillip Barnhill, who completed 15 of 29 passes for 233 yards on the day, needed just four plays and less than two minutes to capitalize. See WAKE, page 5 games, and to beat them the way we did shows a lot of character." UNC co-captain Sharon German and junior Liz Berg led the Tar Heels with 18 kills each, while German had 12 digs and Berg had IO. German said: "We played well to gether. There was a feeling of unity out on the court. On great plays, not only did everyone clap in the center (a rou tine for UNC), we were in there hug ging. We were just really intense." North Carolina's consistent strong play of late has been in direct contrast with the schizophrenic play that char acterized UNC play earlier this season. But, it parallels the increased experi ence of first-year starters White, Mar tin and setter Amy Peistrup and the molding of a team attitude. "We're a fighting team," Bradley Doppes said. "Even when we're get ting beat, that's what's happening; the other team is beating us, we're not losing. I think that shows we're a team with potential to do a lot of great things." UNC opens its ACC season against Virginia on Tuesday at Carmichael Au ditorium. loss, 4-0 5 ytT Ml V ' , s DTHDavid Surowieckl men's soccer team 4-0 on Sunday 1 f 4- ) i
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