Sports Monday
UNC’s early lead, front line too big for Terps
Williams’ treys halt 2nd-half rally
By David J. Kupstas
Senior Writer
The Maryland Terrapins, trailing
by 22 at halftime Saturday to sixth
ranked North Carolina, could have
used at least two sources of inspiration
in their bid for a second-half come
back.
It was former Maryland quarter
back Frank Reich who led the Buffalo
Bills to their miraculous comeback
victory against the Houston Oilers last
week. More appropriately, the Terp
hoopsters could also draw from their
most recent meeting with the Tar Heels,
in which UNC rallied from a 22-point
deficit, only to lose by two in the final
seconds.
The Terrapins seemed to have one
or both of these episodes on their minds
early in the second half Saturday. In
creased defensive pressure by Mary
land led to a series of UNC turnovers,
andtheTerrapinshadcuttheleadto 14
barely two minutes into the second
half.
But there would be no miracle this
afternoon for the young Maryland
squad. Soon North Carolina went on a
19-2 run, allowing the restless Smith
Center crowd of 21,407 to breathe
easier. The Tar Heels cruised the rest
of the way in a 101-73 victory.
The win kept UNC perfect in ACC
play at 2-0 and gave it a 12-1 mark
overall heading into Wednesday’s
home meeting with Georgia Tech.
Maryland dropped to 8-3, 0-2 in the
conference.
“We had a letdown in the second
half, but maybe it was more Maryland’s
recovery,” said UNC head coach Dean
Smith. “(Maryland coach Gary Will
iams) had the team thinking comeback
like we did up at Maryland last year.”
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Cowboys, Dolphins cruise to conference finals
Aikman, Dallas to visit 49ers next
The Associated Press
Troy Aikman was pressure-proof in
his first playoff start. It was Randall
Cunningham who played like he had
rookie nerves.
Aikman dispelled any notions he
would feel the playoff heat by directing
four long touchdown drives as the Dal
las Cowboys rolled into the NFC cham
pionship game with a 34-10 victory
Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Cowboys (14-3) will play the
San Francisco 49ers next Sunday in the
NFC title game at Candlestick Park.
It will be the first NFC title appear
ance for Dallas since the Cowboys lost
20-7 to the Eagles in 1981. It was the
second NFL postseason coaching vic
tory for Jimmy Johnson, whose team
beat Chicago in last year’s first-round
before losing 38-6 to Detroit in the
divisional playoff.
Aikman and Emmitt Smith, who ran
23 yards for a touchdown and rushed for
114 yards, provided a one-two punch
that devastated the Eagles in the Cow
boys first home playoff game since 1983.
Aikman, who threw two touchdown
passes to his tight ends, got off to a 3-
for-10 start, then found 6-foot-4 Alvin
Harper being guarded by 5-7 Mark
McMillian on a 41-yard pass to set up
the Cowboys second TD. The Philadel
phia secondary never recovered.
Dallas scored 10 points in the last 47
seconds of the first half, then went 70
Holiday hoops wrapped-up’—page 9
UNC 101
MARYLAND 73
Center snoozers from this season, with
the Tar Heels racing out to a comfort
able early lead against an outmanned
opponent. UNC went into the locker
room with its biggest lead so far this
season, 53-31.
UNC came out a bit complacent in
the second half and had trouble beating
Maryland’s full-court press. Terp guard
Kevin McLinton, the key aggressor on
defense, went on a spree of nine points
in 82 seconds, bringing Maryland back
to within 56-42 with 17:57 remaining.
The teams traded baskets three times
until a TV timeout came with 15:23 left.
After the break, UNC went on the 19-2
explosion that erased any shadow of
hope for a Maryland miracle.
Williams said that a 22-point deficit
was simply too deep a hole for his
young squad to escape.
“When’s Carolina blown a 20-point
lead at halftime?” he said. “I don’t know
if they ever have. You put yourself in
that situation, you’re not going to win
unless something freaky happens.”
UNC pushed the lead back to 20 with
a pair of free throws by Derrick Phelps
and fast-break dunks from Pat Sullivan
and George Lynch. Sensing the game
was getting out of hand, Williams took
a timeout at the 13:38 mark.
After the timeout, UNC went to its
ace in the hole, sophomore guard Donald
Williams. The Donald electrified the
crowd with three 3-pointers and a fast
break layup in less than two minutes.
He buried two 3-pointers in a row from
practically the same spot to put UNC
ahead 81-50 with 10:43 left.
“When Donald starts hitting those
threes and the crowd starts going wild,
it’s just like a Duke-Carolina game,”
Phelps said.
DALL\S 34
PHILADELPHIA 10
yards on the opening drive of the second
half to put the game away on Smith’s
touchdown scamper.
The Cowboys, with the No. 1 de
fense in the NFL, sacked Cunningham
five times and held his famed scrambles
to a minimum.
Cunningham couldn’t get on track
until the final two minutes of the game,
when he drove the Eagles 70 yards
against a prevent defense and found
Calvin Williams with an 18-yard scor
ing pass with 50 seconds to play.
Aikman drove the Cowboys 54 yards
for a first-quarter TD after Roger
Ruzek’s 32-yard field goal put Phila
delphia ahead 3-0.
The payoff came on second down
from the Eagles 1 when tight end Derek
Tennell slipped unnoticed into the end
zone for the scoring pass from Aikman.
The Cowboys led 17-3 over the 6-
point underdog Eagles after they struck
for 10 points in less than a minute as the
first half was winding down.
Aikman took the Cowboys 67 yards
for a touchdown late in the second quar
ter. He hit Harper with a 41-yard pass,
scrambled for 8 yards, then flipped a 6-
yard scoring pass to tight end Jay
Novacek, who slipped away from line
backer William Tliomas.
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UNC's George Lynch lofts a shot past Terp Evers Burns Saturday at the Smith Center
Williams, who hit 5 of 8 3-pointers
Saturday, came off the bench and led
the Tar Heels with 20 points in just 21
minutes. He leads the team in scoring
with 16.8 points a game and is hitting 55
Dolphins end Chargers’ hot streak
The Associated Press
The Miami Dolphins played like they
did early in the season. So did the San
Diego Chargers.
Dominant defense by the Dolphins
and three touchdown passes by Dan
Marino in a six-minute span of the sec
ond quarter sparked a3l -0 victory over
San Diego on a rain-soaked Sunday in
the AFC playoffs. The postseason vic
tory was the most lopsided in Dolphins
history.
Miami will face AFC East rival Buf
falo for the conference championship
next Sunday at Joe Robbie Stadium,
with the winner advancing to the Super
Bowl.
Momentum the Chargers generated
following a remarkable October turn
around wasn’t enough to take them to
the AFC title game. San Diego lost its
first four games, then won 12 of 13,
including eight in a row the longest
winning streak for the franchise since
1961.
Miami won its first six games this
season but had struggled offensively in
recent weeks. Marino snapped the slump
with two touchdown throws to Keith
Jackson and one to Tony Paige, all
following interceptions.
The Dolphins’ defense, an unher
alded hero in their season, confused San
Diego quarterback Stan Humphries with
an eight-man front. Rookie comerback
Troy Vincent made two acrobatic inter-
percent of his treys.
“(Coach Smith) said if I’m open,
don’t hesitate, just go ahead and knock
See MARYLAND, page 9
FSU tops women in
rare televised game
North Carolina falls to 0-2 in ACC
By Bryan Strickland
Senior Writer
National television exposure is a rare
and cherished commodity in women’s
college basketball.
But it’s cherished only if your team
performs well under the searing heat of
the television lights.
Sunday afternoon, 15th-ranked North
Carolina appeared to melt under the
lights, falling 85-66 to ACC foe Florida
State before 854 fans at Carmichael
Auditorium. Not only did the Tar Heels
(9-2, 0-2 in the ACC) suffer their first
loss of the season at home, but they also
lost in the homes of countless TV view
ers on the Home Team Sports Network.
“I don’t think people realized just
how many homes this was going into,”
said UNC junior center Sylvia Crawley.
“I think some people might have played
a lot harder if they had thought about
MIAMI 31
SAN DIEGO 0
ceptions and linebacker Bryan Cox also
had a pickoff to give Miami possession
at the Chargers 48, 37 and 42.
Marino converted each chance into a
touchdown. The scores came in the fi
nal 6:30 of the first half to put Miami
ahead 21-0 —a huge lead in such rainy
weather.
First Marino hit Paige out of the
backfield for a 1-yard score. Then he
lobbed a 9-yard touchdown toss to Jack
son, who slipped behind safety Floyd
Fields.
Then came the play that broke the
Chargers—a 30-yard touchdown bomb
to Jackson, who lined up as a wide
receiver, raced down the middle of the
field and was left wide open by a con
fused secondary.
San Diego was stunned, Miami ec
static. The Dolphins offense had scored
just six touchdowns in their past six
games. Now, in a rainstorm, they had
struck like lightning.
The Chargers failed to mount a come
back bid in the second half. Much was
written last week about San Diego’s
memorable 41-38 overtime victory at
Miami in the playoffs 11 years ago, but
it might have taken the Chargers until
Super Sunday to score 41 points on
these Dolphins.
Hoyas hung out to diy
B.C. 57, Georgetown 56
Virginia 73 N.C. State 56 Michigan 98 Wisconsin 73
Florida State 74 Wake Forest 72 Kansas 78 lowa St. 71
Minnesota 81 Purdue 60 Indiana 105 Penn St. 57
Kentucky 84 Tennessee 70 Seton Hall 91 Providence 79
Tar Heels stifle
Maryland with
swats, turnovers
By Jeff McKinley
Staff Writer
The UNC defense must have learned
the true value of gift-giving this past
holiday season, keeping in mind the
old saying that it’s better to give than
to receive.
Especially when you’ re dealing with
blocked shots.
The Tar Heel big men handed Mary
land 12 rejections Saturday in a 101-
73 UNC victory at the Smith Center.
Junior center/forward Kevin Salvadori
stuffed the Terrapins six times, and
junior center Eric Montross pounded
away five shots.
Maryland also caught the gift-giv
ing spirit. The Terrapins rewarded the
Tar Heels’ hard work on defense by
giving UNC 23 turnovers, often the
result of point guard Derrick Phelps’
pressure.
When the Tar Heels’ generosity
ended and Maryland had no more turn
overs left to give, North Carolina got a
bit greedy and decided to do some
taking —as in 12 steals.
Once again, Dean Smith’s funda
mental team defense stifled the oppo
sition and allowed the Tar Heels to
coast to an easy victory. When the
team scores 100 points, though, some
times the defense gets overlooked.
“I thought the key was our defense,
led by Derrick Phelps,” Smith said.
“He had a lot of help. I thought Lynch
was very good defensively. This was
Kevin’s (Salvadori) best game.”
The Tar Heels h arras sed Maryland
from the start, particularly the Terra-
See DEFENSE, page 9
FLORIDA STATE 85
UNC 66
that.”
Crawley was one bright spot in the
Tar Heels’ second consecutive loss,
scoring 16 points and pulling down 10
rebounds. But aside from Crawley’s
showing andTonya Sampson’s 28-point
performance, UNC head coach Sylvia
Hatchell could find few positives in her
team’s play.
“I’m disappointed that we looked so
bad when we’ve worked so hard to get
the exposure that we got today,” Hatchell
said. “We didn’t play well overall. I
wasn’t pleased with any phase of our
game.”
Meanwhile, for the Seminoles (7-3,
2-2 in the ACC), the national exposure
See FSU, page 10
No-shows thin Tar Heel
fencing tournament field
Staff report
North Carolina’s fencing team was
supposed to host the Carolina Open
this weekend, with teams from Wofford
College, Duke, N.C. State and others
participating.
Instead, what amounted to a big
intrasquad competition took place, as
only UNC and Wofford showed.
UNC head coach Ron Miller was
disappointed in die no-shows but en
couraged about his team, which won
all three men’s weapon divisions as
well as the women’s competition.
“Well, Duke is not back in school
yet, so we aren’t surprised that they
didn’t come,” he said. "The loss of the
program at N.C. State (which folded)
is a disappointment and a loss.
"Then some teams from Georgia
and Tennessee that were supposed to
show didn’t, and so we basically had
intrasquad games.
“It’s never fun when you fence
against yourselves.”
UNC had competition from V/offotd
only in the men’s ep6e and foil divi
sions. North Carolina’s “A” team,
“Three Tired Guys,” with Reggie
O’Rourke, David Rosenberg andNiels
Larsen, won the epde Sunday as each
Tar Heel posted 8-1 records. UNC’s
“B” team took second, Wofford third
and North Carolina “C” fourth.
UNC’s “A” team also won
Tech tops
No. 1 Duke,
ends streak
Jackets survive
late comeback
GEORGIA TECH 80
DUKE 79
The Associated Press
Malcolm Mackey scored three clutch
free throws in the final 12 seconds and
No. 10 Georgia Tech survived a sec
ond-half scare to edge top-ranked Duke
80-79 Sunday to end the Blue Devils
23-game winning streak.
Tech (9-1 overall, 2-0 Atlantic Coast
Conference) blew a 15-point first half
lead when Duke (10-1,1-1) took its first
and only lead of the game at 60-59 with
9:20 to go on a basket by Grant Hill,
who had a career-high 29 points.
Duke, the two-time defending na
tional champion, hadn’t lost since a 72-
68 defeat by Wake Forest last Feb. 23.
The 23-game winning streak equalled a
school record set last season.
Tech, behind freshman Drew Barry
and Martice Moore, regained the lead
62-60 on a 3-point goal by Moore and
took the lead for good at 68-66 on
Mackey’s basket with 4:58 left.
Tech led 77-74 when Mackey, who
led the Yellow Jackets with 19 points,
connected on a pair of free throws with
12 seconds left.
Bobby Hurley hit a jumper to get
Duke within 79-76 with six seconds left
before Mackey converted one of two
free throws with five seconds left for an
80-76 lead.
Marty Clark hit a 3-point basket at
the buzzer for the Blue Devils.
Duke was within 76-74 on a basket
by Clark with 1:18 to go, but a free
throw by James Forrest with 42 seconds
left made it 77-74.
Tech took a 12-0 lead after only 3:35
as Duke missed its first five shots and
had five turnovers before Hurley hit a 3-
point shot 20 seconds later in front of a
noisy, sellout crowd of 10,125 at
Alexander Memorial Coliseum.
The Yellow Jackets opened the lead
to 19-5 after only 5:28 on a 3-point
basket by Travis Best, his eighth point
of the game.
Grant Hill then scored eight straight
points on a pair of baskets and four free
throws to get Duke within 19-13 less
than two minutes later.
Tech built its largest lead of the first
half at 34-19 after a 3-point basket by
Drew Barry with 6:08 left before inter
mission.
Duke got to within 44-37 at the half
by capitalizing on free throws.
The Blue Devils made 18 of 23 with
Grant Hill converting 10 of 10. Hurley
made only 3 of 7.
Duke shot 36.4 percent in the open
ing half, making 8 of 22 shots. Tech
shot 58.8 percent (20-34) and made its
only free throw attempt.
Tech had five players in double fig
ures.
Travis Best added 15, Forrest 14,
Bryan Hill and Barry each had 11.
Hurley added 18 points for the Blue
Devils. Clark had 14 and Thomas Hill
10.
Saturday’s saber competition, led by
All-American Mark Lattimore, who
won all nine of his matches. Nate
Pennell and Shimon Sarraf, an All-
American two years ago, rounded out
“Men Who’ll Respect You in the
Morning.” North Carolina’s “C” and
“B” teams were second and third.
“Mark’s been very consistent,”
Miller said. “He did a very good job all
weekend.”
In Saturday’s men’s foil, the Tar
Heels’ “A” team wot again. “Mickey
Mouse Club” took first as Craig
Harkins, Keith Lander and Kevin
Bruen cruised past UNC “B”, a team
of North Carolina graduate students
and Wofford.
“All our men’s teams have been
consistent this season,” Miller said.
“Our foil, which I felt was the best
team in the country last year, peaked
too early and didn’t make the NCAAs.
We’re more consistent this year.”
In the women’s competition Sun
day, which was an all-UNC affair, die
graduate team, “Old Farts,” took first
place. Assistant coach Karen
Herkstroeter was joined on die team
by Lisa Campi, Julie Woodcock and
Alex Cvijanovich.
“Actually,this weekend should help
us a lot in the women’s division, since
we didn’t really have what you’d call
a starting lineup yet,” Miller said.