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Sept. 30, 2013 Issue

Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football

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ND Sports Irish Topple Top-Ranked Tar Heels On The Road said. "Our kids have always felt we could win there." orth Carolina's Fetzer Field can be That's a good sign for No. 7 Notre intimidating. There are 5,025 seats Dame, which will be making many for Tar Heels fans to fill and cheer more trips down Tobacco Road in on their team. There's the nearby the near future as a newly minted sign that tracks all of the women's member of the ACC. The team won soccer team's national two games during its titles, which reads more first conference road trip like a calendar with a — the other a 3-1 victory couple pages torn out. over North Carolina And then there's the State — to improve to 6-1 top-ranked, previously this fall and announce unbeaten roster full of itself as a serious All-Americans ready national contender. to defend last year 's "I think we're a good championship. enough team where None of that seems to Sophomore defender Cari I think we can win the spook Notre Dame. The Roccaro's strong play helped No. whole thing," Waldrum Irish upset No. 1 North 7 Notre Dame upset No. 1 UNC said. "We needed that Carolina 1-0 in Chapel 1-0 Sept. 15. win for the players to photo courtesy Notre Dame Media Relations Hill Sept. 15 to add to the really, really buy in that list of impressive victories that have they can get it done." helped Randy Waldrum's program F re s h m a n M o rg a n A n d re w s feel right at home in the Tar Heel State. scored the game's only goal on a Waldrum's teams beat North Carolina header midway through the opening on its own turf in 2007 and 2008. He half. She leaped to connect with a also upset No. 1 Stanford just down cross from sophomore Brittany Von the road in Cary, N.C., to reach the Rueden and tucked it under the NCAA championship game in that crossbar. North Carolina reacted by 2008 season. The Irish have won on making early substitutions and trying four of their last five trips to Fetzer different formations to create offensive Field, which the coach attributes to an pressure. The Tar Heels outshot Notre attitude that started before he arrived. Dame 18-5 throughout the rest of the "I think probably credit goes to the game, but were never able to land an '95 team that won there the first time equalizer. and broke that Carolina mystique," he UNC senior Crystal Dunn, widely By Dan Murphy N

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