10B
SPORTS/The Charlotte Post
Thursday,February 22, 1996
Panthers sign All-pro corner Eric Davis
. Continued From 8B
; games over the last four sea-
; sons. Davis led San Francisco
: in passes defensed and inter-
; cepted four passes in the 1994
postseason, with two (includ
ing a touchdown return)
against Dallas in the NFC
championship game and one
against San Diego in the
Super Bowl.
“Eric Daivs has played at the
premier level in this league,”
Capers said. “He has excep
tional cover skills, is a good
tackier and has the ability to
make the big play on defense.
He is an outstanding addition
to this football team.”
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Phifer, Lewis and Whiteside have their eyes on another state
title.
focused on the task ahead.
Phifer, Lewis and Whiteside
make sure of that. They lead
the team in scoring; Phifer at
18.1 points per game,
Whiteside at 13.9 and Lewis at
9.3. They’ve played on the var
sity team since ninth grade, so
their experience makes them
the natural team leaders. But
the Hawks are much more
than just three players.
■ “I stress the team concept.
Everybody plays on this team,
all 11 players,” rookie head
coach Eric Smith said. “We
have a good team. All three of
them are excellent players, but
we’ve won some games with
out them playing their best.
We don’t have any set plays for
them. We run a basic offense
and whoever gets open, we
expect them to shoot the ball.”
Latin has shot and defended
well, losing only to Raleigh
Ravenscroft 60-56 and
Heathwood Hall 52-48. If
there’s one obstacle in the
Hawks’ run for two straight,
it’s Heathwood Hall, which
plays a bigger lineup.
“We lost against Ravenscroft
but that was a game we could
have won,” Whiteside said. “I
guess it iust wasn’t meant to
be but Heathwood, probably
gave us the most trouble. We
aren’t a team of a lot of height
and size and that was the most
difficult game this season.
There’s no substitute for
experience, and that’s what
the Hawks will have going for
them in the state playoffs.
They beat Asheville,
Heathwood Hall and Durham
Academy to win the title last
year. That experience could be
the difference this year.
“I think we know what to
expect now, that first round
might be easy but you still
have to go out there and play,”
Phifer said. “Now that you
know what to expect, the com
petition and all that, you’re
more prepared for it now.”
“After winning it all last
year, we were all sophomores
and it was kind new to all of
us,” Lewis said. “'There wasn’t
any pressure and this year.
Now that we’ve got all our
players back, we’re starting -
at least I’m starting - to feel
pressure,” Lewis said.
The pressure isn’t coming
from Smith, who was an assis
tant coach at Latin last year.
He’s not surprised the team is
20-2 but he “feels fortunate.
They’ve played some good
teams and (he’s) thankful
they’ve played as well as they
have.
“I’ve tried not to put any
pressure on the kids. I think
they’ve put some pressure on
themselves, they are very com
petitive and they do not want
to lose...but we’ve tried to do
the same things we did last
year to win,” Smith said.
The team has received noth
ing but great support from fel
low students and family.
Whiteside, bom and raised in
Charlotte, says her family has
Tar Heels form dynamic duo
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has
defender whose offense
carried North Carolina.
! In the Tar Heels’ come from
behind victory over Wake
Forest, he reminded some
observers of former Winston-
Salem State guard Earl
Monroe with 360 degree spins,
Hump shots and finger roll in
jthe waning moments over the
[outstretched arms of Wake
jForest center ’Tim Duncan. In
•the win over Clemson,
Mclnnis hit 8 of 8 shots from
three-point range. Mclnnis is
dishing out assists at the rate
of 5.2 per game, which is third
best in the ACC.
Jamison, a freshman who
played at Providence High, is
playing like a veteran per
former and the 6-8 forward
has be'en named freshman of
Jamison
the week several times this
season. But the astounding
statistic is that Jamieson can
become the first freshman to
lead the conference in field
goal percentage. Jamison has
converted .624 percent of his
shots, tops in the conference
and second in Tar Heel history
behind Sam Perkins.
Jamison recorded a career
high 31 points in North
Carolina’s ' victory over
Maryland in early January
and set his career high in
rebounding against Virginia
with 20. When it comes to dou-
bles-doub^, Jamieson has
passed J.K* Reid’s freshman
campaign of nine to move into
UNC’s top spot with 10.
Jamieson ranks third in the
ACC in double-doubles behind
’Tim Duncan and N.C. State’s
Todd Fuller.
Jamison is averaging 15.5
points per game but scores at a
rate of 17.4 against ACC
teams. His 9.7 rebounds a
game ranks him behind
Duncan and Fuller.
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been sqaurely behind her,
right from her first dribble.
“My dad, my mom and my
sisters and my aunt, they’ve
always been there, ever since I
started, since I was about 5 at
the Y,” Whiteside said.
“They’ve always
supported me and come to all
the games,” Whiteside said.
Phifer, also from Charlotte,
got a later start. She didn’t
play basketbal until the eighth
grade, but has deveolped a
love for the game.
“I learned from my uncle and
I have a lot of support from my
mother,” she said. “We’re tight
and there’s no pressure from
her. If I want to continue play
ing basketball I can. If I don’t,
I don’t have to. That’s why I
love her,” Phifer said .
Lewis is the only one bom
out of state, in Atlanta. She
also spent several years in
Dallas, Texas.
“My parents are very, very
supportive,” she said. They
come to all my games and they
support me financially too,
when I do outside sports like
AAU basketball, they
don’tlput any pressure on me,
they’re just always there,”
Lewis said.
As the reguleir season winds
down, Lewis points to the
team’s added experience but
and a special closeness, which
gives the Hawks a great shot
at another championship.
“I think that our team has
great chemistry and I think
that’s one of the strongest
things you can have in trying
to seek a state championship
because your unity is most
important,” Lewis said
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