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No. 2 Tar Heels Fall To No. 3 Duke, 5-0
October 18, 2003 | Field Hockey
Oct. 18, 2003
DURHAM, N.C. - The second-ranked North Carolina field hockey team lost Saturday for just the second time this season, 5-0 to No. 3 Duke at Williams Field. With the loss, which broke a 49-game Carolina field hockey winning streak against Duke, the Tar Heels are 13-2 on the season. Duke is 12-2.
North Carolina returns to action Sunday, hosting top-ranked Wake Forest at Francis E. Henry Stadium. "We don't have any time to dwell on this," UNC coach Karen Shelton said, "but you do learn lessons from every loss."
The statistics were fairly even, with Duke leading 16-12 in shots and UNC ahead 9-7 on corners, but the Blue Devils were the only team to turn its chances into goals. They scored their first goal on a penalty stroke by Johanna Bischof with 2:34 to play in the first half, then came up with four in the second half. Nicole Dudek scored an unassisted goal with 22:08 remaining in the game then assisted on a goal by Katie Grant with 15:15 on the clock. Jessica Fluck's unassisted goal made the score 4-0 with 14:48 to play, and Duke tacked on its final goal on a penalty corner with 4:26 remaining in the game. Gracie Sorbello scored the goal, assisted by Grant and Bischof.
"We've had some close games this season when we haven't played as well but have pulled it out," Shelton said. "This is bound to happen when you face a tough team with things not going your way, and things were not going our way today.
"Duke is a good, strong program. We weren't able to exploit their weaknesses and they were able to exploit ours. Give them all the credit in the world."
Duke's last win against Carolina was on Oct. 13, 1981, when the Blue Devils claimed a 3-2 victory in Shelton's first season as the Tar Heels' coach. UNC defeated Duke 4-1 in this season's first meeting, on Oct. 3 in Chapel Hill.
The shutout was the first against the Tar Heels since midway through the 2002 season. The last time they lost by as large a margin was in the 1999 ACC Tournament, when Wake Forest won 6-1.
Saturday's game did not count in the Atlantic Coast Conference standings (the teams' Oct. 3 matchup in Chapel Hill was this year's designated ACC game), but did allow Duke to grab back a half point in the standings for the Carlyle Cup, the annual all-sports battle between Duke and UNC. The Tar Heels now lead 3.5 to 0.5.
No. 3 Duke 5, No. 2 North Carolina 0
Scoring:
DU - Johanna Bischoff (penalty stroke), 1st, 2:34
DU - Nicole Dudek, 2nd, 22:08
DU - Katie Grant (Dudek), 2nd, 15:15
DU - Jessica Fluck, 2nd, 14:48
DU - Gracie Sorbello (Grant, Bischof), 2nd, 4:26
Shots: UNC 12, DU 16
Penalty corners: UNC 9, DU 7
Goalkeeper saves: UNC (Katy Tran) 4, DU (Christy Morgan) 4
Attendance:400
UNC starters: Carey Fetting-Smith, Naomi Weatherald, Brooke Miller, Rachel Dawson, Kelsey Keeran, Katy Potter, Laree Beans, Ashley Judge, Kerry Falgowski, Laura Douglas, Katy Tran
UNC substitutes: Karen Mann, Amber Chambers, Mary Havell
