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Tar Heel Swimmers Dominate Blue Devils
By Ben DeSantis
Staff Writer
Before the North Carolina-Duke
swimming and diving meet Tuesday at
Koury Natatorium, Duke’s team gath
ered around one of its swimmers while
he hit a pot
wifh a stick.
The Blue
Devils began
whooping and
hollering,
Men’s
Swimming
Duke 65
UNC 227
yelling “Go Duke.”
It would be about the most life Duke
would show all evening.
The UNC
men’s and
women’s
teams both
won their first
four races and
Women’s
Swimming
Duke 104
UNC 184
cruised to 227-65 and 184-104 wins,
respectively, against the Blue Devils.
The women’s team improved to 3-1
and 1-0 in the ACC with the win, while
the men are 2-2,1 -0. Duke’s women fell to
1 -3,0-3, while its men dropped to 0-4,0-3.
Sophomore Jessi Perruquet, who won
the 50-yard freestyle in 23.64 seconds
and was a member of the winning
200-freestyle and medley-relay teams,
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Deaths in their families have
caused Ronald Curry and
Darian Durant to return to
their respective hometowns.
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North Carolina quarterbacks Ronald
Curry and Darian Durant have left the
team to go to their respective home
towns after deaths in their families,
UNC coach John Bunting announced at
his weekly press conference Tuesday.
“It kind of puts football in perspec
tive of what’s important,” Bunting said.
“Our hearts and prayers go out to these
two gentlemen. Two fine, fine people
and their families.”
Durant left the team Saturday to be
with his family in Florence, S.C., after
the death of his stepmother. UNC offi
cials did not know her name or cause of
death.
Curry talked to Bunting at about
10:30 a.m. Tuesday and told Bunting
that his cousin died of asthma compli
cations and that he would be going
home to Hampton, Va.
How long until the two return is a
question for the Tar Heels, who have a
noon kickoff with Wake Forest on
Saturday at Kenan Stadium. Bunting
said third-string quarterback Aaron
Leak will take most of the snaps in prac
tice but that because Curry and Durant
have played so much, not being in prac
tice this week shouldn’t hurt them come
Saturday.
“Don’t know the status as of yet,”
Bunting said. “And not really concerned
about it right now, I’m concerned for
those two kids. I’ve told them they need
to take care of their families.”
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said the quick start was important to the
team’s success.
“We couldn’t take anything for grant
ed,” Perruquet said. “Duke is improving,
and they have some great swimmers.”
Juniors Janna Turner and Christy
Watkins, also members of the winning
relay teams, each won individual events.
Turner won the 200 butterfly in 2 min
utes, 10.01 seconds, and Watkins won
the 100 butterfly in 57.43.
UNC’s men were led by senior cap
tains Kert Johnson and Chris Helin.
Johnson swam on the victorious 200
freestyle and medley-relay teams, while
Helin won the 200 butterfly in 1:50.91 and
anchored the freestyle-relay team, which
won with a time of 1:26.38.
Johnson said he was impressed by the
team’s focus against a perennially weak
Duke squad.
“This year, it was probably tougher
than usual because we were coming off
the long weekend,” he said. “We just tried
to treat it the same as any other meet”
Johnson said the team now looks to
next weekend’s Nike Cup, UNC’s last
meet this fall.
“We’re getting faster every meet,” he
said. “And we should have a fast meet
come the Nike Cup, too.”
But Tuesday wasn’t all good for the
Volleyball Crushes 'Pack
Catherine deßoeck's two
aces sparked the Tar Heels
on an 18-0 run in the first
game against N.C. State.
By Aaron Fitt
Staff Writer
It was only fitting that the North
Carolina volleyball team’s victory
against N.C. State on Tuesday ended
with an ace.
After all, UNC’s serve dominated the
Wolfpack all night long.
The Tar
Heels made it
clear from the
very begin
ning that they
were ’in con-
Volleyball
N.C. State 0
UNC 3
trol and cruised to a 3-0 victory at
Carmichael Auditorium.
With the score tied at five in the first
game, UNC defensive specialist
Caroline deßoeck jump-started the Tar
Heels with back-to-back aces to begin an
18-0 run. Deßoeck’s serve befuddled the
Wolfpack (6-19,1-14 in the ACC) during
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North Carolina sophomore swimmer Courtney Lewis finished
the 200-meter freestyle in 2 minutes, 1.84 seconds.
UNC men’s team. Junior All-American
Sean Quinn broke his left foot Monday
night after stepping off of a curb.
UNC swimming coach Frank
Comfort said he wouldn’t comment on
Quinn’s status until after Quinn’s doc
tor’s appointment, scheduled for today.
Comfort said Quinn’s injury proves
much of the
streak.
“I’ve been
working a lot on
my serve in prac
tice,” deßoeck said.
“I’ve been trying to
concentrate on get
ting the ball high
and getting the ball
over the net”
Outside hitter
Laura Greene and
middle hitter
Aletha Green both
hit .500 during the
first game, tallying
Junior hitter
Malaika
Underwood
finished the Wolfpack
off with a six-point
service run.
nine kills between them. Greene also
had four consecutive aces near the end
of the game, putting UNC ahead 29-8.
The Tar Heels won 30-13.
It looked like North Carolina (20-6,
12-4) was going to breeze through the
second game as well. But down 19-9, the
Wolfpack did" its best to give the Tar
Heels a competitive game.
UNC committed five errors in the
next nine points, and N.C. State nar
rowed the Tar Heel lead to two. With
the score 23-21, the North Carolina
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his team can’t take its training or meets
against lesser opponents lightly.
He said, “You don’t know when you
might step off a curb and possibly have
your season come to an end.”
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serve again came to the rescue. Senior
Melissa Higgins, playing in her last
home match, recorded two aces as the
Tar Heels won six consecutive points en
route to a 30-22 win.
“Melissa, Laura and Caroline did a
really good job serving for us tonight,”
said UNC coach Joe Sagula. “(N.C.
State) couldn’t get the ball over the net
because we put so much pressure on
them with our serve."
The third game was all UNC. Led by
setter Malaika Underwood’s deep serve,
the Tar Heels took an early 9-1 lead and
never looked back.
Molly Pyles had five kills and recorded
a hitting percentage of .833, and Nicole
Reis notched three kills without an error.
Underwood finished the game with a six
point service run, ending with an ace. The
Wolfpack never got close, and the Tar
Heels cruised to a 30-12 victory.
UNC finished with 14 aces, its highest
total in a three-game match this season.
“We really came together tonight,”
Greene said. “When we come together
as a team, we’re unstoppable.”
The Sports Editor can be reached at
sports@unc.edu.
UNC 'Seizes the Moment'
Against Lower-Tier Foe
The swimming and diving
teams used the Duke meet
as an opportunity to shave
seconds off their times.
By Will Small
Staff Writer
When you’re swimming against a
team that hasn’t defeated you in more
than 60 years, it can be difficult to con
sider the competition anything more
than a glorified training session.
North Carolina’s swimming and div
ing team was in that situation Tuesday
when it hosted Duke. UNC’s coach,
Frank Comfort, said the Tar Heels
haven’t lost to Duke since 1938, when
the two schools met at a YMCA in
Durham.
UNC dominated Duke again, taking
first place in 24 of the 32 events.
North Carolina men’s team captain
Chris Helin described the competition
as an intense practice.
“It’s nothing really too big,” Helin
said. “It’s an opportunity for the guys
who didn’t get to (travel in the last meet)
to try and see what they can do.”
Comfort compared early season
meets to exhibition games.
“Two months later, no one will
remember who won the Nike Cup,”
Comfort said. UNC will compete in the
Nike Cup on Nov. 15,16 and 17.
However, Comfort went on to say
that the Nike Cup and matches with
teams like Duke are important
After the Nike Cup, UNC will not
compete again for nearly two months,
when it hosts Clemson on Jan. 13. With
such a large gap between competitions,
Comfort said his swimmers need to take
advantage of every meet they have,
even if it is against a team like Duke.
“(Against Duke) the excitement level
isn’t going to be as high as it is against
Georgia or Minnesota, but you only
have so many opportunities to compete,
and you dam well better do your best
when you get them,” Comfort said.
But in meets against lower-tier teams,
a win is almost inevitable, forcing
swimmers to look elsewhere for moti
vation. Often they focus on improving
their times.
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impressed with
the times that his
teammates were
posting, especially
because the team
has been having
double practices
for the past few
days.
“We don’t
expect to have too
many good swims
in a meet like
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In the men’s 500-yard freestyle, Seth
Laughlin shaved 1.56 seconds off of the
time he posted in Minnesota, touching
first in four minutes, 38.35 seconds.
Helin also had an impressive time
Tuesday with a 1:50.91 first-place finish
in the men’s 200 butterfly.
“If you’re swimming well while
you’re still training hard, it says some
thing about the kind of condition that
you’re in,” Helin said.
Comfort said he, too, was proud of
his team’s performance.
“We had a lot of really solid swims,”
Comfort said. “We seized the moment”
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