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April 12.2000 Wainwright s new recruits form strong bacldng for next season by ROSATYSOR ^rfonner. He was named to AU-C.ty and All- nounds " ^ u . u... . .u . .. . .. Staff Writer “Any time you are part of the first of anything, it’s always exciting. Making our first trip to the NCAA’s was very exciting.” Coach Jerry Wainwright, speaking of last month’s trip to the national championship, also has high hopes for another chance at glory in 2001. “You always want a repeaC’ he said. “You always want to go back.” But to keep the champion Seahawk men’s basketball team at full strength, Wainwright will have to replace some of the graduating seniors fiom this year with impressive and talented new players. “We want to have the same good people... [which means] we have to continue to recruit bet ter athletes,” Wainwright said. “We have to replace a lot of size with losing Vic and Oleg. That’s a big loss in terms of size.” Size is definitely a factor in the new recrxiits com ing in. Signees for the 2000-2001 season range in height from 6-1 to 6-9. “Without any hesitation, I can say in my wild est dreams that I didn’t think this could happen. People who see us play in the next few years are going to be really taken by these kids. They’ll help us attract people to Trask Coliseum and help us schedule at the next level.” Seahawk stars of tomorrow Tim Burnette, a 6’I”, 185 lb. guard from Judson High School in Converse, Texas aver aged 17.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists in his junior season. He is a two-time All-District performer. He was named to AU-City and All- Region teams and selected as Pre-Season All- State in the 5A classification. Tun is one of the top 15 players in the state of Texas. He may be the best athlete we recmited. He s quick and strong with tremendous jumping abUity. Playing behind Barron [Thelmon] in his first year will have a great impact on his growth,” said Wainwright. Joel Justus, a 6’5”, 190 lb. forward from Mt. Tabor High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, averaged 16.2 points, 3.1 rebounds and 4.2 assists last season for coach Andy Muse. He led his high school to an 18-12 recoid and the third round of the state playoffs last season. He shoots 47 percent, including 39 percent be hind the arc. He is the son of former UNCW Sports Information Director John Justus. “Joel reminds me of Stewart Hare in that he’s an extremely knowledgeable player who has tre mendous shooting abihty. Joel needs to add weight and will probably be redshirted in his freshman year. He has the potential to be an out standing swing man in the CAA,” said Wain- wiight Anthony Terrell, a6’6”, 215 lb. forward from Rowlett Jiigh School in Rowlett, Texas averaged 22 points and 11 rebounds last season. Mike Kunstadt’s Texas Basketball Review rates him among the Top 20 senior prospects in the state of Texas. Wainwright said of Terrell: “I’m very excited about Anthony because we probably haven’t had an athlete his size in our program since I’ve been here. Anthony has tremendous speed and jump- ing ability and the frame to easily add 15 or 20 UNCW baseball hopes for another conference champion title this year by AMANDA BREEDLOVE Correspondent Will the Seahawk baseball team go to regionals this year? The question is hanging on many people’s minds as the team goes into their last month of play this season. At press time the Seahawks were in the middle of a three game conference series at Old Domin ion, winning their first game on Friday night by a score of 8-7 and improving their record to 25-11 overall and boasting a 9-1 CAA record. The ‘Hawks win over Old Dominion and East Canalina's loss to Vuginia Commonwealth last Friday night moved UNCW to the conference leadership. ECU and UNCW each had one loss after Riday, but since UNCW has played more conference games than ECU, they own the con ference. Though UNCW is leading the confer ence, it will be a steady battle for them to con tinue to hold the top spot Head coach Mark Scalf talked about the tem’s status as they geared up for ODU. “We feel good going into another weekend series,” coach Scalf said, “We have to be dialed in mentally for the entire weekend though to be able to continue to win. We feel confident in tnir pitching and we match up pretty well against Old Dominion.” The Seahawk’s last home game for two weeks was last Wednesday night against the Campbell Camels. Though the Seahawks came away widi a 3-2 victory over the Camels to complete a five-game winning streak (the win against ODU Friday made six), it was the general agreement of everyone on and off the field that the team can do better. A fuTit class example was during the Campbell game the when the Seahawks twice loaded the bases with no outs and both times failed to score. ‘1 like the fact that we won the game,” Scalf said, ‘ “but oflFensively we had opportunities to drive in additional rxins and we weren’t able to do that.It came down to our pitching and defense. Fortu nately for us we pitched well. Charlie (Weatherby) and Brad (Overton) threw the baseball exception ally well.” Weatherby, who took the win for the Seahawks, pitched eight innings before being re lieved by^atoniiHhetopofdiyiM See BASEBALL, page 22 pounds.” "He's arguably one of the best players in the state of Texas. He will bring immediate rebound ing and defensive help to our fttmt cxxirt as a fitsh- man.” Ed Williams, a 6’6”, 225 pound forward from Irving High School and Ranger JuniorCoUege in Ranger, Texas is con.sidered one of the top JUCO players in the country. Familiar with both pt>sl and wing forward positioas, he averaged 22 points, 12 rebounds and four assists last season. He was named stxond-team Pre-Season All- America by NJCAA this year and first-team All- Conference and All-Region last season. He was al All-District player during his prep career at Irv ing High School. “[Williams] has the talent and potential to play at the next level. He’s a gifted athlete who can play two or three different positions. He’s an ex plosive scorer whose experience will ease the loss of four seniors,” said Wainwright. Brandon Clifford, a 6’9”, 215 lb. forward from Page High School in Greensbcwo, North Caro lina. averaged 21 points, II rebounds, four as sists and two blocks per game in his junior sea son. He made the All-Toumament team in the Bob Gibbons Tournament of Champioas last July He has an excellent range for a lai^ger player, and shoots over 50 percent from the fieli including 40 percent from the three-point range. “I’ve probably paid more attention to Bran don Qifford than my wife over the last tha-e years. Since Marcus Green, he’s the No. 1 North Caro lina kid we’ve recruited,” said Wainwright. ' “With a work ethic like Danny Davis and Brian Rowsom, he has a chance to be the best player ever seen al this school,” ■ “Our success this year has opeiKd nuire doors for U.S," the senior c-oach said of UNCW’s CAA title and NCAA bid. “It helps us in terms of recruiting people. Brandon Clifl'ord came hc-re instead of going to the ACC because he knows he has a chance to play hc*re [during his freshman year].” Wainwright s plan for 2000-2(X)I With all this talent coining in, coach Wain wright is ready to begin integrating the new play ers into his game plan al once. "Our new guys are really going to have tocxm- tribute right away. Next year we could have as many as 34 players playing major minutes who have never played college basketball before,” he said, adding that he will rely heavily on phenom Brett Blizzard in 2000. "He’s got to be more of a leader, even though hie’ll only be a sophomore, obvioasly he’s a proven player He’s going to have to be not just the go-to guy on the floor but a real leader off the flcx>r. [But] we can’t just rely on him to score.” "I tliink we’ll have more speed in next year’s team, and more athleticism, so we’ll really try to play more up tempo,’’ he said. “The thing we’re proudest of is we beat both hometown teams [in the CAA touniament], VCU and Richmond, and of course we beat the num ber I seed, Getii^e Mason, so there was no fluke in terms of us winning the tournament champi- oaship. We went right tJinxigh tJio tcxighest u-ams in the league." Basketball player honored Marcus Green joins Beta Gamma Sigma Staff Reports Marcus Green, a junior on the UNCW’s conference-champion bas ketball team, joined the Beta Gamma Sigma business honor fra ternity at the group’s induction cer emony recently. Green, a 6’9”, 230 lb. forward out of Wilmington Chris tian Academy, started 22 of 31 games this season for the Seahawks, averaging 3.6 points and 4.2 rebounds per game. Beta Gamma Sigma recognizes business students possess ing high scholarship and good character. Election to mem bership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest scholastic honor a student in the Cameron School of Business can achieve.
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