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Soccermen Blast State, 5-1

Booters Face Toughest Test
Today Against UNC Squad

By Winston Wood
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Soccer, unlike football, is a
game in which blubber and brawn
do not necessarily insure a winning
season. So the North Carolina State
soccer team found out when they
travelled to Charlottesville to meet
a considerably lighter Virginia
squad, as their gridiron counterpart
did last weekend. Coach Burris'
booters taught them their lesson
well yesterday, as they blasted the
visitors 5-1.

Boasting a line-up peppered with
unpronounceable Eastern European
names, the heavier Carolina team
came into the game with a 1-4
record for the season with losses to
Appalachia State (3-1), Maryland
(5-0), North Carolina (4-0), and
Southern Florida (10-0), winning
only against Pfeiffer College (1-0).
The Cavaliers laid a winning streak
of six games on the line, and
displaying a cool, calculating style
of play, they showed the Carolina
booters the reason they are
undefeated.

Sparked by Jay Conner on the
forward line, Dave Bowman in the
midfield, and Dan Abramson in the
goal, the Cavaliers completely dominated
the game, with the only
Wolfpack goal coming from a direct
penalty kick on goaled Jim Glaser
in the fourth quarter. Coach Burris
played two forward lines
interchangeably on offense, and it
was their hustle and teamwork
combined with the halfbacks that
kept the ball in front of the visitors'
goal more than two-thirds of the
game. So deserted did the Virginia
defensemen seem, that it was all
they could do just to keep warm in
the brisk 60 degree wind that
sometimes blew as hard as 15 miles
an hour.

The first Cavalier goal came with
just eight minutes gone in the first
quarter, on a high, hard, perfectly
placed kick by Kevin Kennelly
from a feed by right inside Conner.
Playing into the wind, the Virginia
offense was fed with high, lobbed
shots from the middles Bowman
and John Taylor, with damaging
effect on the Wolfpack defense.

With six minutes past in the
second period, Virginia scored
again, this time with the wind at
their back, when lineman Fred
McGlynn caught the goalie out of
position, and ran the ball into the
goal. The halfbacks found it hard to
keep feeding as they had in the first
quarter with the wind in their face,
and it was the line that took up the
slack to keep up the pressure on the
Carolina goal.

The Cavaliers opened things up
quickly in the third quarter, when
with only fifty seconds gone Phil
Crane popped one in the Wolfpack
goal to make it 3-0, favor Virginia.
It was at this point that the
Carolina coach replaced his shell-shocked
goalie, and Glaser went in
for Abramson. Having worn one
goalie out, the Cavalier attack then
decided not to stop there, and with
eleven minutes gone in the third
quarter, Kennely scored again,
unassisted, when the ball deflected
off the goalie's hands. Three minutes
later, Bowman headed one in

on a corner kick from Conner.

Glaser looked extremely bored
during the third period, as the ball
crossed into his side of the field
only twice that quarter. If
Abramson caught cold during the
first half, Glaser must have froze.
Things were not dull for long, as
the fourth quarter brought the
Wolfpack knocking at his door.
State's Barry Rock finally dented
the Virginia net with twelve minutes
gone in the fourth quarter, on the
above mentioned penalty kick. The
game then shifted to the midfield
area until time ran out.