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The Daily Tar Heel
Thursday, March 11. 1971
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Coach Joe Hilton and four Tar Heel trackmen intend to score some points in the
NCAA Indoor Games in Detroit's Cobo Arena this weekend.
Triple jumper Darryl Kelly, shot putter John Jessup, half-miler Tony Waldrop
and two-miler Larry Widgeon will leave for Detroit tonight at 7:00 for the two-day
meet Friday and Saturday.
"I feel Darryl and Tony have equally good chances to place," says Hilton. It
will be a little harder for John and Larry to make the first six, but we're hoping to
get top performances out of them."
Carolina's four is the largest contingent from the ACC, outside of conference
champ Maryland. Although Duke finished second ahead of the Tar Heels in the
conference meet two weekends ago, the Blue Devils could qualify only three
representatives-hurdler Jeff Howser and distance men Mike Graves and Bob
Wheeler.
Kelly, a sophomore from Newport News, Va., has jumped 51'4" and was ranked
seventh in the country earlier this season by Track and Field News. He placed ninth
in the nationals as a freshman.
One of the most overlooked sports nationally, the triple jump contenders have
unfamiliar names, but closely bunched distances.
The best at mid-season was Cal Poly's Mohinder Gill, who jumped 53 feet. Other
contenders include Patrick Oryango of Wisconsin (5P11"), Robert Reader of
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Oregon State (5T 10"), Larry Vanley of Texas-El Paso (5T9"), and Barry McOure
of Middle Tennessee State (5 T9").
Waldrop chugged out a 1:51.7 mile earlier this year and stands a good chance to
break into the top six.
Top time among collegians at mid-season was Eamon O'Keefe of Florida, with
1:50.4. Terry Thomas of Minnesota and Wisconsin's Don Van drey were both under
1:52.
"Anytime you start running around 1:51 when you're a freshman," smiles
Hilton, "you're doing pretty good."
The task for Widgeon and Jessup will be much harder. Jessup's best heave of the
season was 58'5' a drop in the bucket compared to some of the elephants
competing in Detroit.
Karl Salb of Kansas has a 65'5" distance, three feet better than teammate Steve
Wilhelm. SMlTs Sam Walker threw 64'7" earlier this year, and Fred DiBernardini of
Texas-El Paso has a 63-foot distance.
However, Jessup has apparently improved with each performance this season and
Hilton hopes for a respectable showing this weekend.
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Rabb's mound staff key to Heel
by David Zucchino
Sports Writer
Solid pitching will take a baseball team
a long way and can do quite a bit to make
up for a ballclub's lack of consistent
hitting and run production.
Witness the 1963 World Series when
the Los Angeles Dodgers, who featured a
wafer-thin lineup of punch and judy
hitters which was lucky to squeeze out a
measly two runs per game, whipped the
power4aden New York Yankees in four
straight games behind the overpowering
throwing of fellows like Sandy Koufax,
Don Drysdale, and John Podres.
Carolina Coach Walter Rabb indicates
that the 1971 Tar Heels will go as far as
the pitching staff will carry them.
Although the beginning of spring is still
two full weeks away, the Tar Heels
appear to be blessed with a polished,
well-stocked mound corps.
Don't expect an unbroken string of
shutouts and no-hitters from UNC arms,
but do look for Tar Heel pitchers to
iower a few opposing batting averages.
Returning lettermen Greg Pavlick, Jim
Rhode? and Russell Prindle are back from
last year's staff and will probably share'
the mound duties in the Tar Heels'
opener next Wednesday versus State in
Raleigh.
Swi
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The UNC swimming team journeyed
to Philadelphia last night to compete in
the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming
Championships, which open today at the
University of Pennsylvania.
- Perennial champion Yale again figures
as' the prohibitive favorite, although UNC
coach Pat Earey predicts that the Elis
"will have tougher competition than ever
before," from hosting Pennsylvania and
Army.
"Our job is to make it even tougher
for Yale," says Earey, whose team usually
finishes in the top ten, despite sending a
squad only half as large as most of the
Northern schools.
In addition to individual performers,
the Tar Heels will be entering both a
freestyle and a medley relay team in an
attempt to qualify them for the NCAA
finals to be held later this month.
Carolina will be without the services of
some of its best swimmers because of an
Eastern rule which prohibits freshmen
from competing in the event.
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"All three of our lettermen pitchers
have been throwing well in practice," says
Rabb. "We won't have anyone ready to
go a full nine innings by next week, so
well give these three players the first shot
against State. They'll probably split the
game three ways and well see then how
they perform."
Joining righthanders Pavlick and
Rhodes and southpaw Prndle in the fight
for jobs in the Carolina starting rotation
will be a trio of talented freshmen
lefthanders.
Jim Chamberlain of Greensboro, John
Danneman of Norfolk, Va. and Fred
Gianiny of Wheaton, Md., most recently a
starting guard on the freshman basketball
squad, have already begun to receive a
little speculative fanfare. But Rabb
refuses to go overboard with praise for
the trio and is waiting instead to see how
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Carolina continues to dominate the
ACC statistics going into the tournament,
with three team championships and one
individual lead, but Charlie Davis of Wake
Forest has a chance to make history.
Davis seized the free throw shooting
accuracy lead from Carolina's Dennis
Wuycik this weekend. Should he hold it
(he's leading Wuycik .867 to .860) he will
be the first player in conference annals to
take that championship three years in
succession.
Davis can be the 14th ACC player to
score 700 points with 33 points in the
tournament. He has won the scoring title
with a 26.7 average. South Carolina's
John Roche is second at 22.8. - 1 -
Carolina is unchallenged for the team
scoring lead. The Tar Heels average 86.7
points a game compared to second-place
Duke's 81. South Carolina is third with
79.7.
UNC is shooting 52.8 from the field,
way ahead of Duke's 49.1 figure. The
only team title Carolina might lose is
average winning margin; the Heels
outscore their victims by 11.7 a game,
but South Carolina has an 11.5 "kill
ratio."
Clemson is the defensive leader,
holding opponents to 65.5 points a game.
South Carolina is second, Maryland third
and North Carolina seventh.
The Tar Heels are fourth in foul shot
accuracy with a 74.8 record. First is
Duke, with 77.5, and second is Virginia.
Maryland moved ahead of Duke in the
team rebounding race, with 45 captures
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Widgeon will be confronted with two of the best known track names i t" ;
country-celebrated two-mil ers Steve Prefontaine of Oregon and Marty Liuc-:i c f
VClanova.
Prefontaine, the prodigy of distinguished Oregon coach Bui Bowerrr.an. h:."
8:31 to his credit. Liquori, better known fct his mile exploits, sports an S:35.
Prefontaine's teammate Steve Savage has ran an S:45.2. Other two-mL'ns cf
note are Grant McLaurin of Western Ontario (8:43), Jerry Rkhey of Pitts!;
(8:44), and Dave Henley of Brigham Young (S:49).
Widgeon, who captained the cross-country team and punished himself ir.io
school records and ACC championships, has a top time of S.5 1.
"He'll have to have his best race in order to place," says Hilton, "We hope to
keep him up in the thick of things-maybe improve his time by five or six seconds.
The coach warns that all these opponent's times and distances were recorded
earlier in the season, and all may have improved in later meets.
But this is the strongest representation Carolina has had in the nationals in quite
a while, and since only Jessup is a senior, Hilton keeps looking ahead optimistically
season
the freshmen perform under fire.
"All ghree of our freshmen lefthanders
show great promise to become good, solid
varsity pitchers," claims Rabb. tsWe
expect to give them plenty of
opportunity during the early portion of
the season to see if they can earn a spot
in our starting rotation."
The emphasis on pitching effectiveness
in baseball is certainly more than
justified, but no team ever won a game,
much less a championship, without
scoring their share of runs. Hie Tar Heel
hitters will no doubt do their best to keep
the mound staff from taking up
permanent residence in the headlines and
Rabb thinks his current batch of
stickmen is an improvement over last
year's inconsistent crew of run-producers.
"Our hitting has been handicapped so
far, since we haven't had enough batting
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per contest compared to Duke's 44.6.
State is second (the only category in
which the Pack rands in the first division)
and Carolina fourth, with 42.9.
Duke's Randy Denton and South
Carolina's Tom Owens bring identical
12.6 rebound averages into the
tournament today.
Owens has won the title two straight
years, and has 289 rebounds in 23 games.
Denton has 315 rebounds in 25 contests.
Scott McCandlish of Virginia is third,
Gil McGregor of Wake Forest is fourth
and Virginia's Bill Gerry is fifth.
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practice because of the weather," says
Rabb. "We're hitting in practice now
much better than we did last year at this
corresponding time and two or three of
our boys are really hitting the ball well.
I'd have to say that our hitting looks very
encouraging at this point."
Players who currently have the best
shots at spots in the starting lineup
include catcher Mike Roberts, who was
voted All-ACC last year as a sophomore,
outfielders Ronald Cox, John Giliis and
Peter Franklin, along with senior
shortstop Bobby Elliott and sophomore
infielder Mickey Hickerson.
"I expect some improvement in our
defense," Rabb promises, "along with a
total pitching staff improvement. If we
can just develop a little consistency, well
aggravate a few of these other teams, even
if we don't beat them."
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In the scoring race, Denton ranks third
behind Davis and Roche with a 20.9
norm. Others in the top ten include
Wuycik (19.8), Jim O'Brien of Maryland
(16.7), Ed Leftwich of State (16.4),
Howard White of Maryland and Barry
Parkhill of Virginia (15.4), Owens (15.2)
and .McCnadlish (15.1).
Wuycik has a wide lead in field goal
accuracy, hitting 62.2 of his attempts.
Denton and Carolina's Bill Chamberlain
are tied for second with 56.1, with State's
Paul Coder and Carolina's George Karl
rpunding out the top five. r .
Chamberlain is tiedwith McGregor for
14th in the scoring race, at 13.7 points a
game. Karl and Lee Dedmon are tied for
20th with 123 averages. ;
Dedmon's 8.5 rebounds per game
make him seventh in the conference along
with Barry Yates of Maryland. Dedmon is
also 12th in free throw accruacy with a
72.5 percentage.
Among conference notables with low
field goal percentages include Leftwich,
no longer with the team (39.2), Parkhill
(41.1), Roche (44.3), Duke's Rich
O'Connor (39.4), and O'Brien (41.5).
Clemson, Carolina's first-round
opponent, has few representatives among
the individual leaders.
Center Dave Angel is 13th in scoring
with a 14 point average, seventh in field
goal percentage at 51.5 percent, and 13th
in rebounding with seven rebounds a
game.
Dave Thomas is 18th in scoring with a
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