`Midnight With Heels' Set For Next Friday

Members of the UNC squad will be introduced to the crowd and play an intrasquad scrimmage in front of North Carolina students and Tar Heel fans.

Seating is limited, so spectators should arrive early. Admission is free, and all seating will be general admission. Doors open at 6 p.m. Doors will be closed when Carmichael reaches its capacity of 10,000.

Also part of the evening's festivities will be Tar Heel women's soccer and volleyball games. The women's soccer team will face nationally ranked Florida State at 7 p.m. at the adjacent Fetzer Field, and the volleyball team will square off with Kansas beginning at 9 p.m. in Carmichael.

Public parking will be available at the Ramshead, Boshamer Stadium, Bell Tower, Smith Center and N.C. 54 lots on the UNC campus.

"Midnight With the Heels" will begin at 11 p.m., or following the conclusion of the volleyball match should it run past 11 p.m.

Women's Golf Hosts Tourney

The North Carolina's women's golf team will play host to 13 teams in this year's Franklin Street Trust Tar Heel Invitational, which will take place Friday through Sunday at Finley Golf Course, a par-72, 6, 181-yard layout.

The 54-hole event will follow a format of 18 holes played each day. Tee times will begin at 9 a.m. each day, with teams starting on the No. 1 and No. 10 tees on Friday and Saturday. There will be a shotgun start on Sunday.

The public is invited to attend, and there is no admission fee.

This year's tournament will feature three top-10 teams and six top-20 teams in the latest Golfweek/Sagarin Collegiate Rankings. Vanderbilt is ranked second in the country, while Furman is ranked sixth, Georgia is ninth, Duke is 13th, North Carolina is 15th and Wake Forest is 20th.

Individually, there are six players ranked in the top 25 in the latest Golfweek/Sagarin Individual Collegiate Rankings. Jennifer Perri of Furman is ranked second, Nicki Cutler of Vanderbilt is ranked fifth, Meredith Ward of Vanderbilt is 18th, Kristin Tamulis of Florida State is 19th, Virada Nirapathpongporn of Duke is 20th and Summer Sirmons of Georgia is 21st.

UNC opened its fall campaign with a fifth-place finish at the Mason Rudolph Championships in Franklin, Tenn., firing a 902 total.

Branam Out 3-6 Weeks

The top-ranked North Carolina women's soccer program received some bad news Wednesday with the announcement that starting goalkeeper Jenni Branam will be lost to the team for three to six weeks.

Branam suffered a fractured left patella in Tuesday night's 3-1 victory at Duke when she collided with Duke's Sarah Pickens in the second half on a play in the box.

Branam stayed in the game for a few minutes after sustaining the injury, was substituted for and then went back into the game. But eventually she had to leave the game for good with less than four minutes remaining.

UNC women's soccer trainer Bill Prentice confirmed Branam's injury Wednesday. Depending on X-rays, team physician Bill Garrett will make a determination as to whether surgery is warranted in the next 24 hours.

Depending on Branam's recovery time, she could be back as early as UNC's game at Virginia on Oct. 25 or as late as the first week of NCAA Tournament play on Nov. 16 and 18.

Senior Kristin DePlatchett will start in Branam's place. The senior has started 17 matches in her career and has a career goals against average of 0.47 with 17 shutouts. Branam has 42 career starts with a goals against average of 0.51 and 23 shutouts.

Field Hockey Reschedules Games

The North Carolina field hockey team has rescheduled two games postponed in September. The Tar Heels will host Old Dominion at 1 p.m. Oct. 17 and Virginia at 4 p.m. Oct. 25. Both games will be played at Henry Stadium.

The Old Dominion and Virginia games originally were scheduled for Sept. 15 and 16 and were postponed following the tragedies of Sept. 11.

The Tar Heels (8-2, 1-0 in the ACC), ranked No. 2 in this week's national coaches' poll, travel to Winston-Salem on Saturday for an ACC matchup with Wake Forest. Game time is 11 a.m.