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North Carolina is starting season on right path

By Graham Hays

Monday, September 7, 2009

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Perhaps No. 1 North Carolina isn't invincible, but any margin for error against the top-ranked team is increasingly miniscule. Against No. 2 Notre Dame, it lasted 23 seconds. In less time than Sylvia Hatchell's basketball Tar Heels might take to get off a shot, Courtney Jones put home a cross from Tobin Heath in the opening minute of North Carolina's eventual 6-0 rout of the Fighting Irish on Friday in the first women's game at new Alumni Stadium. 7-2 and 6-0. Those ar ...

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