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Running backs earn win by an inch
McGill, Warren pace ground attack
BY BRIANA GORMAN
SPORTSATURDAY EDITOR
For a North Carolina football
team that has struggled to find a
ground game all season, it was
surprising Saturday against Duke
that the Tar Heels found their fate
in the hands of— or rather the feet
of— a running back.
Down four points with less than
five minutes left in the game and
facing a 4th-and-inches situation
after a failed quarterback keeper
the play before, UNC handed the
ball off to tailback Ronnie McGill.
The junior surged forward to
try and get the inches he needed
but didn’t get far before he was
wrapped up by Duke safety Chris
Davis. When McGill extracted
himself from the pile it was unclear
at first if he had gained enough
ground.
UNC guards must be on point
BY DEREK HOWLES
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Game and Time: Cleveland
State at North Carolina. Tipoff is
at 9 p.m.
Site: Smith Center
TV/Radio: The game will be
televised on ESPNU. The Tar Heel
Sports Network will provide radio
coverage; the game can be heard
on WCHL-AM1360 in the Chapel
Hill area.
Records: Cleveland State is 0-1.
North Carolina is 1-0.
Series: North Carolina leads,
2-0.
Probable Starters:
Cleveland State
G: Victor Morris, 6-1, Jr.
G: Steve Gansey, 6-3, So.
F: Raheem Moss, 6-5, Jr.
F: Frashon McGee, 6-7, Sr.
F: Patrick Tatham, 6-8, Jr.
North Carolina
G: Bobby Frasor, 6-3, Fr.
G: Marcus Ginyard, 6-5, Fr.
F: Reyshawn Terry, 6-8, Jr.
F: David Noel, 6-6, Sr.
F: Tyler Hansbrough, 6-9, Fr.
The Key Matchup: North
Carolina’s point guards against
themselves.
Despite doling out 11 assists
between them, freshman Bobby
Frasor and sophomore Quentin
Thomas looked woefully over
matched running the Tar Heel
offense in UNC’s win against
Gardner-Webb.
Aldermen to OK one more
Projects reflect town’s distinct values
BY RACHEL ULLRICH
STAFF WRITER
Anew development under con
sideration by the Carrboro Board of
Aldermen tonight comes at a time
when issues of affordable housing
and development seem to be sim
mering on the area front burner.
The aldermen will decide at
their meeting if they will grant
a local development company a
conditional use permit to build
the Claremont subdivision on
Homestead Road.
The development would add 79
housing units to the area.
The development, pitched by
Parker Louis, LLC, would be part
of a recent trend of growth and
expansion in the town.
Roy Williford, Carrboro’s plan
ning director, described several
efforts to create new communities,
citing the town’s Vision 2020 ini
tiative and the recently approved
Winmore development.
Graduation requirement called a disservice
Parents claim
standard too high
BY JESSICA SCHONBERG
STAFF WRITER
City schools’ differentiation
between service learning and vol
unteer work for credit toward high
school graduation is raising eye
brows among parents.
Some parents believe the dis
tinction disqualifies good activities
and makes fulfilling the 50-hour
service learning requirement too
difficult an issue addressed at
Thursday’s'Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Board of Education meeting.
The service learning component
was put in effect for the graduating
class 0f1997-
School board members said they
like the requirement but agreed to
continue monitoring how the ser
vice learning programs are imple
mented at the two high schools to
ensure consistency declining to
But then the referee placed the
ball on the 30-yard line and, after
a measurement that was almost
too close to call, signaled the first
down.
“When I first went down I didn’t
know where I was,” McGill said.
“When I first saw them spot
ting it I thought they were spot
ting it short. But he came in and
he adjusted it to where he figured
the ball was and then I knew we
had it.”
Five plays later, McGill ran three
yards into the end zone for the
game-winning touchdown, saving
the Tar Heels from an embarrass
ing loss to the 1-10 Blue Devils.
It was McGill’s best performance
of the season. He racked up 146 yards
on 28 carries, along with the TD. A
majority of the yards came in the
first quarter as McGill sliced apart
Both telegraphed passes as if
they worked for AT&T. Both made
poor decisions running the fast
break and the half-court offense.
And both tried again and again
to force plays that simply weren’t
there.
Maybe it was first-game jit
ters. Maybe it wasn’t. But either
way, North Carolina better hope it
gets a much improved effort from
its two-headed point guard duo
tonight not to mention the rest
of the season.
“We have to jump on a team,”
said UNC junior forward
Reyshawn Terry after the win
Saturday. “If they find any sense of
nervousness or fear, they’re gonna
come at us.”
But neither member of
Cleveland State’s starting back
court junior Victor Morris and
sophomore Steve Gansey figures
to apply the same level of defen
sive pressure as the Garnder-Webb
guards did Saturday. And Morris
isn’t even a true guard— he’s a
swingman who’s been converted
to the point.
So expect Frasor and Thomas to
be considerably less helter-skelter
tonight.
Final Analysis/Prediction:
While North Carolina struggled
down the stretch in its season
opener, any sort of competence
at the free throw line or confi
dence in the backcourt would
have equalled something closer
to a 10-point win.
“If you bring a lot of those poli
cies together, you’ll see that what
the town is doing is getting pretty
good control over community areas
in terms of their size,” he said, add
ing that much of the development
has been focused near major inter
sections.
Adhering to the town’s current
housing recommendation l5
percent set aside as affordable
Claremont would boast about 12
low-cost units.
The inclusion of affordable
housing recommendations is one
of Carrboro’s answers to the issue
of ensuring smart growth.
But Scott Kovens, president
of Chapel Hill-based Capkov
Ventures and Kovens Construction
Company, who is planning the
Winmore project, believes hous
ing problems in the town could be
handled more effectively.
“If they were willing to experi
ment, they would have a little more
form a committee to look into loos
ening the rules.
City schools spokeswoman
Stephanie Knott said a committee
would harm the district’s work to
close the minority student achieve
ment gap and improve high school
achievement.
“If they spend too much time on
service learning they would lose the
focus that we need to keep on those
more critical pieces,” she said.
But parents disagree.
Mary Passannante, whose
daughter is a sophomore at
Chapel Hill High School, said it’s
hard for busy students to meet
the requirement.
She wants volunteering as well
as service learning to count toward
the requirement. “Any volunteer
ing the kids are doing, they’re
learning.”
Students cannot count work that
benefits groups they belong to.
Alice Joyce, the service learn
ing coordinator at Chapel Hill
High School, said she thinks it’s
News
the Duke defense for 78 yards.
“(McGill) ran so hard today,” said
offensive tackle Skip Seagraves.
“Just having him around the team
is real positive, and when you get
him out there on the field, he’s defi
nitely a difference maker.”
While McGill’s performance
wasn’t all that unexpected because
he is the Tar Heels’ go-to running
back, another tailback turned even
more heads Saturday.
Sophomore Justin Warren, who
saw his first career carries in Kenan
Stadium, emerged as a promis
ing young running back. Warren
carried the ball four times for 43
yards, including a 31-yard sprint in
the second quarter —not bad for a
player who had carried the ball
only 10 times before Saturday.
The duo of McGill and Warren
were the only running backs to
see action Saturday as Barrington
Edwards did not play. Edwards and
freshman Cooter Arnold had been
THE LOWDOWN ON TODAY'S GAME
\ Cleveland State vs.
North Carolina
(0-1) Smith Center, 9 p.m. (1-0)
HEAD-TO-HEAD
Against Gardner-Webb, UNO's PG tandem of
Bobby Frasor and Quentin Thomas wrecked
Backcourt havoc. Problem was, most of It was on their
own team. Cleveland State's starting SG
was 1 -for-9 from 3 last game. Edge: UNC
Tyler Hansbrough lived up to the billing in
his first game in powder blue, pouring in 21
FrontCOUrt points despite touching the ball only sparse
ly in the second half. Expect both him and
David Noel to have big games. Edge: UNC
Danny Green came off the bench in the Tar
Heels' season opener and scored 17 points
Bench while looking decidedly un-freshman-like. The
Vikings play a lot of reserves, but none figure
to have a much of an impact. Edge: UNC
Cleveland State is coming off a loss to Florida
ASM, while UNC barely eked out a win in its
Intangibles opener. But CSU is no Gardner-Webb, and the
Tar Heels will be looking to prove the squeaker
against the Bulldogs was a fluke. Edge: UNC
The Bottom Line —North Carolina 86, Cleveland State 65
COMPILED BY DEREK HOWLES
Anddon’t forget, the Tar Heels
dominated Gardner-Webb —a
team that more than likely will be
in the NCAA Tournament for
several stretches during both
halves.
Cleveland State, on the other
diversity in affordable housing,”
Kovens said.
Kovens suggested more creativ
ity on the part of both towns in the
quest for a solution to affordable
housing. He said he would like to
avoid placing all the work on the
shoulders of the developers.
Affordable housing is a central
question before the area’s two prin
cipal communities.
Each has different hopes for its
growth that are often representa
tive of its personal identity.
“They both have their own chal
lenges and opportunities,” said
architect Josh Gurlitz, currently
hashing out the details behind
his proposed Shortbread Lofts on
Rosemary Street in Chapel Hill.
One of these challenges, Kovens
said, is the idea that the towns must
be careful to keep their clients in
mind when planning for growth.
“Both towns have realized that
we need to respect the client that
lives there,” Kovens said. “We’re
home to a world-class medical and
educational facility and an intema-
important to recognize the differ
ence between service learning and
volunteer work.
“(Service learning) should
involve working on the activity and
... thinking about how the activity
you did served another person or
another group with a community
need," she said.
Board members said Thursday
that they would rather focus on
making clearer which activities do
count than discuss which don’t.
Knott said she supports provid
ing a list of approved opportunities,
and Passannante said clarity would
be very helpful for parents.
Service learning coordinators
at both high schools will keep
meeting with the instructional
services division and dealing with
conflicts on a case-by-case basis,
Knott said.
Despite the controversy, school
administrators say the program’s
value goes beyond social benefits.
Ginny Valentin, senior assistant
director of admissions at UNC,
the primary tailbacks at the start of
the season, but McGill has solidi
fied himself as the starter after
returning from a pectoral injury he
suffered during the summer.
Despite churning out their sec
ond-highest rushing output of the
season, the Tar Heels still need to
be more consistent running the ball
if they want a legitimate chance to
beat Virginia Tech this weekend. The
game will start at 7:45 p.m. Saturday
and be televised on ESPN.
Most of UNC’s ground game came
in the first quarter, but after that the
Blue Devils blitzed frequently, clos
ing holes and stifling the run.
“We never stopped trying to run
the ball,” said UNC coach John
Bunting. “We probably should
have tried to keep throwing it
some more. They were bringing the
house to try to stop the run.”
Contact the Sports Editor
at sports@unc.edu.
hand, went 9-17 last year and is
picked to finish eighth in the nine
team Horizon League.
The Bottom Line: North
Carolina 86, Cleveland State 65
Compiled by Derek Howies
ATTEND THE MEETING
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Date: Today
Location: Carrboro Town Hall
Info: www.townofcarrboro.org
tionally known research triangle.”
Kovens continued that because
it is the youth of both towns that
will be making the decisions in
the future, this generation’s values
should be held as influential.
Gurlitz said developments to
spring up in each town should
place priority on maintaining indi
vidual goals.
And if they do focus on personal
goals, the way the towns will go
about achieving growth might be
very different.
“Each town has an image sort
of a vision —of itself and each town
would like to mold future devel
opment with that image,” Gurlitz
said.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
said service learning is a way for
students to differentiate them
selves when applying to colleges.
“I think what matters most to us
is how it has affected the student,”
she said.
Other graduation requirements
also garnered the school board’s
attention.
Students now will be required by
the state to pass end-of-course tests
in English I, U.S. history, biology,
civics and economics, and Algebra
I.
The state also will require stu
dents to complete a senior project.
Seniors must pass 10 end-of
course tests in order to receive
credit for the second semester of
those courses as per district rules.
City schools also will incorpo
rate grades from outside the dis
trict into the calculation of grade
point averages probably beginning
with the class of 2008.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2005
Tar Heels crack
Liberty’s bell
BY BRIANA GORMAN
SPORTSATURDAY EDITOR
North Carolina’s Ivory Latta
dodged a Liberty defender and put
in a layup off a give-and-go from
freshman Rashanda McCants.
As the crowd cheered, Latta
raised her fist in triumph, then
fell to the floor, favoring her right
leg. As quickly as Carmichael
Auditorium had filled with the
noise of the crowd, the gym fell
deathly silent as fans watched the
UNC star point guard limp off the
court.
Although Latta spent the last 10
minutes of the game watching her
team from the bench with an ice
pack on her leg, the No. 7 Tar Heels
already had amassed a comfortable
lead and cruised to an 87-36 vic
tory against Liberty.
“Well, I really felt like they
would give us a game,” said UNC
coach Sylvia Hatchell. “But a lot of
WOMEN'S
BASKETBALL have some of
Liberty 36 the best plays.
UNC 87 I* took us lon
ger to go over
the scouting report yesterday than
it ever does.”
The Lady Flames (1-1), who
reached the Sweet Sixteen last year,
were overwhelmed by the Tar Heels
in the lopsided victory. They didn’t
even score a bucket until four min
utes had ticked off the clock when
freshman Megan Frazee hit a 3 to
put the game at 9-3.
The speed and intense defense
of UNC (2-0) was on display as the
Tar Heels went on a 30-6 run in the
first half. Liberty could barely get
the ball near the basket as North
Carolina applied full-court pres
sure and double teams, forcing the
Lady Flames to turn the ball over
24 times in the first half alone.
Liberty didn’t even reach double
digits until Frazee once again hit a
3-pointer with roughly six minutes
left to play in the first half.
“I thought we had some good
defensive intensity, especially to
start the game,” Hatchell said. “We
worked on our traps a little bit and
our rotations and all. We’re start
ing to anticipate a little better and
not react but anticipate ahead of
time.”
The Tar Heels dominated the
game throughout the first half,
limiting Liberty to only five field
goals. Hatchell said she espe
cially was pleased by her team’s
intensity in diving for loose balls
and grabbing 17 steals in the first
half.
Despite being down 49-19 at
halftime, Liberty came out of the
locker room fired up the Tar
Heels didn’t score a field goal until
nearly three minutes had elapsed.
“I could tell when we first started
that we were a little laid back and
slack but we started to pick it up as
time progressed,” said Latta about
the slow start to the second half.
UNC fought through its sloppy
play, going 29-for-33 from the
free throw line and continued its
domination. The tenacious Tar
Heel defense only allowed Liberty
to shoot 18.9 percent from the
field.
Despite the huge margin of vic
tory, UNC only out-rebounded
Liberty by 10 boards, and Hatchell
noted it was something her team
needed to work on.
But the Lady Flames, who start
ed two sophomores and two fresh
men, were shocked by the quick
SPOiTS CALENDAR
MONDAY'S RESULTS
■ WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
UNC 87, Liberty 36
Carmichael Auditorium
■ CROSS COUNTRY
Women: 22nd
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■ MEN'S BASKETBALL
vs. Cleveland State, 9 p.m.
Smith Center
■ MEN'S SOCCER
vs. Providence, 6 p.m.
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North Carolina freshman
Christina Dewitt (15) soars for
the ball during UNC's 87-36 shel
lacking of Liberty on Tuesday
night in Carmichael Auditorium.
UNC 87, Liberty 36
Übertv 19 17 36
North Carolina 49 38 87
Liberty (36)
fg ft fb
min m-a m-e o-t a pf tp
Ptrkwcz 22 1-2 1-2 0-1 0 2 3
Lightfoot 26 2-6 0-1 3-5 1 'l4
Frazee. Me 32 3-13 5-6 7-15 0 1 13
Watkins 19 1-6. 1-2 0-113 4
Fasnacht 27 04 5-6 05 0 2 5
Jones 10 2-5 0-0 05 0 2 4
Parker 13 0-3 0-0 00 3 0 0
Feagin 15 o*s 0-0 1-3 0 2 0
Frazee. Mor9 0-0 0-0 1-2 1 4 0
Frazee. Mol 4 00 OO 00 0 1 0
Mkagbeisel3 05 1-2 00 0 2 1
Hammondß 14 00 00 0 2 2
Bream 2 00 01 1-1 0 0 0
Total 200 10-53 13-20 18-38 6 22 36
Percentage* FG .189, FT .650 43-pomt gods 3*13
.231 (Watkins 14. Frazee. Me. 2-3, Jones 0-2, Hammond
02. Lightfoot 01. Parker 01) Team rebounds 10.
Blocked shots —3. Turnovers 33 (Frazee, Me. 7.
Fasnacht 5. Parker 4. Watkins 3; Nikagbatse 3, Hammond
3. Ptotrkiewicz 2. Lightfoot 2. Jones 2, Frazee, Mor.
Frazee. Mol.). Steals 9 (Jones 3, Frazee, Me. 2,
Piotrkiewicz, Lightfoot, Fasnacht, Nikagbatse).
North Carolina (87
fg ft rb
min nva m-a o-t a pf tp
Little 26 14 OO 45 4 33
Larkins 21 5-8 55 3-7 1 1 15
Atkinson 14 4-10 2-2 4-7 3 0 10
Sell 6 02 OC 00 0 2 0
Latte 24 6-10 55 01 6 1 20
McCants 24 1-11 2 3 14 3 1 14
Pnngle 14 4-7 65 2-3 .0 2 14
Miller 15 03 2-2 01 1 1 2
Dewitt 8 1-2 OO OO 0 12
Neims 13 02 2-2 35 0 0 2
Claytor 13 25 1-2 01 0 1 7
McFarland 12 1-2 44 24 0 2 6
Austin 5 Ol 00 00 0 0 1
Wood 5 1-1 00 2-3 1 0 2
Total 200 2658 29-33 2148 19 16 87
Percentages FG .382. FT .879 3-point goals 6-21
.286 (latta 35. Claytor 25. McCants 05. Little 1-2. Sell
02. Miller 0-1, Austin 01). Team rebounds 7. Hocked
shots 8 (Pringle 4. Little, McCants, Nelms. Claytor).
Turnovers 16 (McCants 3, Latta 3. Little 3. Larkins 2.
Austin 2. Wood 2, Nelms. Sell). Steals 20 (Larkins 4,
McCants 4. Little 3, Latta 3, Dewitt 2. Atkinson, Pringle,
Nelms, MiHei).
Technical folds None. Attendance 1,829.
ness of the Tar Heels and many
times the defense would not be set
before UNC had scored and turned
to play defense themselves.
Liberty coach Carey Green said
his young team was not prepared
to handle the quickness of the Tar
Heels, yet it was a learning experi
ence nonetheless.
“It’s hard to simulate (the
speed) in practice,” Green said.
“What am I going to do? Bring
in the track team? Their speed is
undeniable.”
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FRIDAY
■ MEN'S BASKETBALL
vs. UC-Santa Barbara,
8:30 p.m.
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■ WOMEN'S SOCCER
vs. Florida St., 3 p.m.
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