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by David Zucchino
Sports Writer
Long distance runners are a rare breed.
Some people call them masochists and
;i fanatics, others admire their durability
and resistance to pain.
y. All agree that they must be blessed
. with a very special temperament. No
..runner can survive without it. Just what is
the singular ingredient that allows an
.athlete to subject himself to the
exhaustion and drudgery that successful
j Jong distance men must endure?
: "Dedication," says Carolina distance
( specialist Larry Widgeon. "Guts and
dedication is what track is all about. You
have to want to win badly enough to
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by Mark Whicker
Sports Editor
"We're still a long way from having a good offensive line," says new assistant coach
Bud Moore philosophically. "But these kids do have potential."
! Potential is a hard thing to measure, however. Three years ago, people like Paul
Hoolahan, Mike Bobbitt, Ron Gryzbowski, Jim Hambacher and Keith Hicks had
plenty of potential-and consummated it into a line that led the Tar Heels to 3,137
yards rushing.
Now those linemen, along with their supervisor, Jim Vickers, are all gone. In their
places are strong, fast candidates with one thing in common-they all lack experience.
-"ft usually takes about a year and a half to build a good line working together,"
;ays Moore. So far, he's only had 320 days.
Yet the Tar Heels already look respectable on the right side, with guard Ron
Rusnak.and tackle Jerry Sain. . . , v . . .
"Bjolh have -done a rreally fine jobiin, practice, and- both got some experience in
games last season," Moore comments:? - - ; - : f
Sain and Rusnak are juniors, weighing 230 and 222 respectively. Redshirt Joel
Bradshaw is fighting Sain for the regular right tackle position.
; The situation is a bit more unsettled on the left side, with tackle Reid Lookabill
and guard Bill Newton leading. . .
Newton is a 225-pound sophomore who has "gotten better every day," according
to his coach. Lookabill, a senior, is competing with 245-pound soph Robert Pratt and
converted defensive tackle Richard Grissom. -
Bob Thornton and Robert Walters are competing for the starting center job, while
Steve Hodgin will be around for punts.
. Walters, a redshirt from Concord, who specializes in hair-cutting off the field, has
impressed the coaches with his effort this spring. '
Bill Arnold and Bill Miller suffered ankle injuries earlier in the session and were set
back in their bids to win guard positions. .. .
Moore also mentions left tackle John Frerotte, a soph who was hurt last season, as a
contender for a position on the team.
"We've got to concentrate on quickness in getting off the ball," says Moore, "plus
the added effort it takes to maintain a block."
For last year's bunch, it seemed to come easy. Moore's crop of youngsters may be
as good someday, but maybe not as soon as Tar Heel fans are hoping.
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In its first intercollegiate competition
since its inception, the UNC Sailing Club
beat its Davidson counterpart last
Saturday at Lake Norman. The regatta
consisted of a closely fought best-of-seven
series which Carolina won 4-3.
The last and deciding race saw the
UNC team win by lA point after a protest
against the team had been disallowed. A
low-score wins system was used, awarding
XA point to the first-to-finish boat, 2 for
second, 3 for third, and so on.
Since there were three boats on each
team, Carolina had to place at least 2nd,
3rd and 5th in the last race. This, in fact,
is what they did in a very exciting finish
to the series.
Although the Sailing Club team had
not previously sailed together, the victory
was in many ways a true team effort as
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Widgeon, a junior English major out of
Norfolk, Va., has the intense look of a
born runner. Slender, tough and wiry,
he's the epitome of all those
determined-looking track team captains
you see in high school year books.
The "sacrifices" Widgeon talks about
are the hundreds of miles he's covered on
foot since the cross country season of his
freshman year. Widgeon averages close to
eight miles of road work a day and over
seventy miles per week, and that includes
weekends.
What's it all for? Sure, all the agony
that comes with running your life away
day in and day out can pay off in titles
and acclaim.
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Carolina changed skippers and crews in
order to gain as much experience as
possible. The club is extremely grateful to
the Davidson Sailing Club for permitting
this swapping and also for providing the
boats, water, and race committee for the
fledgling Carolina team.
Looking forward , to next year, the
Sailing Club hopes to have a better
prepared team which will sail against not
only Davidson, but also Duke, Clemson,
South Carolina and other members of the
South Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing
Association (SAISA). v .
Sailing for UNC's team in the weekend
regatta were Kathy Atwater, Don
DeBragga, Andrew Eddy, Sandra Hardee,
Larry Reid, Ian Stewart, Bart Stroup,
Bob Taylor and Nancy Watson.
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Widgeon has earned his share. There's
the third place ACC cross country finish
as a sophomore, the 1 5th place national
track ranking this season, and the UNC
records in the 2-mik, 3-mile and 6-mile
events.
The material rewards will come, then,
but there still has to be some sort of
elevated satisfaction to make the goals
worth of the sacrifices. There is.
"Winning in track is a clean,
constructive, noble feeling," . explains
Widgeon. "It makes every mile of running
and conditioning worthwhile."
Widgeon experienced this sort of
euphoria to the fullest earlier this season
in a m.-et against South Carolina, in
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Carolina loses third straight one-run game,
by Dan Collins
Sports Writer - ' -
It's a well known fact in baseball that
those tedious one-run games can either
make or break a ball team.
Unfortunately, they're breaking
Carolina.
The Heels, who as of Saturday were
6-2 in the conference and in excellent
shape in the standings, dropped their
third straight conference loss by one run
Wednesday, 5-4. The loss came to the
hands of league-leading Maryland and it
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A profitable trip into enemy territory
last weekend gave Maryland second
baseman Dave Sauve a commanding lead
in ACC batting statistics released this
week.
Sauve had 10 hits in 19 at bats in a
loss to State and a victory over Carolina.
He now owns a .488 average, way ahead
of second-place Chris Cammack of State,"
who bats .385.
Steve Sroba of Virginia is still
contending for second with a .377
average. Maryland's Harry Martell and
Gene Collins are tied for fourth with a
.370 mark.
Mike Roberts and Jack Gillis of the
Tar Heels are eighth and tentht
respectively. Roberts, the Carolina
catcher, is hitting .329 while outfielder
Gillis' average is -.3 13. .j
Doug Lanham and Bobby Elliott rank
fourteenth and fifteenth. Lanham's
average - is .302 and Elliott is batting an -even
.300.
Gillis yielded his grip on the ACC RBI
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Shaw Smith (left) and Len Featherstone will be playing their last game for the UNC
football club today. The club meets Central Piedmont Community College today at
3:30 on Ehringhaus Field. Smith is a senior free safety while Featherstone, going for
his master's in biochemistry, is a guard.
Girls travel
Four members of the UNC women's
tennis team will travel to Staunton, Va. 1
for the Middle Atlantic Collegiate '"
Women's Tennis championships April
29-May 2.
Laura DuPont, Carol Fite, Mary Norris
Preyer and Kay Kernodle will participate.
Laura is the defending champion.
The girls had a tough time defeating
UNCG this week 5-4 to stay undefeated.
Miss DuPont defeated Ellie Jones 6-0,
6-1 while Miss Kernodle, Miss Fite and
Brett Ellebash also won in two sets.
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which he entered both the mile and the
2-raIIe events. He came out on top in the
mile and led all the way in the 2-mHe run
until the bulk of the field caught him in
the last lap to set up a furious stretch run.
"My teammates and a lot of fans were
screaming for me," Widgeon recalls, "and
when I won, it had to be the most
beautiful feeling I've had in my life. It
was a tremendous experience."
Widgeon doesn't bottle up all this
exhilaration inside himself. A sort of
collective spirit exists within the long
distance fraternity and Larry is quick to
stress the significance of the
contributions made by miler teammate
Tony Waldrop, the reigning state cross
country champion.
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marked the second time in four days the
Terps had beaten the Heels by one run.
The hard-hitting Terps, who have three
of the league's top five hitters, upped
their conference record to 5-1 while the
Heels' record dropped - to 6-5 in the
conference. -
Maryland took the lead in the first
inning, never to lose it, when first'
baseman Jim Norris slammed , a solo
homer over the right field wall.
With the Heels going hitless for the
first five innings the Terps upped their
lead to 4-0 with a three run outburst in
afters
lead when UVa catcher Sam Beale hit a
two-run homer to beat Carolina Tuesday.
Beale now has 26 runs batted in to Gillis'
23.
Larry Kiser has tied Cammack for
second place in home runs with four.
South Carolina's Buddy Caldwell has had
six round-trippers.
State's ace southpaw, Mike Caldwell,
has an 8-0 record to pace conference
pitchers. He also leads in strikeouts now
with 86, one more than Clemson's Rusty
Gerhardt. '
Virginia's Mike Judkins got credit for
the win over UNC Tuesday, giving him a
4-0 record.
The Cavaliers' Ed Kihm also leads in
ERA, with a 0.57 average. Duke VA1
Schwartz has allowed 0.81 earned runs
for every nine irinmgs,, while Judkins'
ERA is 1 .00. . .' : ' ; '
Caldwell and Gerhardt are tied for the
most wins, with eight apiece, but the
Clemson lefty has lost two.
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"Although he's only a freshman, Tony
inspires me," says Widgeon. "He's an
extremely dedicated athlete and the
extent to which he tr&ins and conditions
himself is astounding."
Widgeon's regard for other runners
goes further. The school records that he
now holds in the 2-mile (8:51) and 3-nnle
(14:05.6) events were once the exclusive
property of Jim Beatty, the former
holder of five world records and the first
man in American to conquer the four
minute mile.
One can sense the mixture of pride
and awe that Widgeon holds for Beatty
and his records simply by talking to him.
The very fact that Larry stands a notch
the fifth. The big hit of the inning was a
run-scoring double by pitcher Rick Clee.
Leftfielder Jack Gillis finally broke
Carolina's hitless streak in a big way in
the sixth with his second home run of the
season.
Maryland scored what proved to be
the winning run of the contest in the
seventh when rightfielder Harry Martell
doubled to drive in Norris. Martell is
currently tied with teammate Gene
Collins for fourth place in the conference
batting with a torrid .370 average.
Carolina rallied for three runs in the
eighth before relief pitcher Pat Wieman
came in to put out the fire and save the
game for Clee.
Rusty Prindle, John Wilson and Larry
Kiser all had RBFs for the Heels in the
inning.
Righthander Greg Pavlick started for
the Tar Heels and went 6 23 innings
before giving way to reliefer Jim Rhodes.
Strong distance
feature Raleigh
by Mark Whicker
Sports Editor
The tri-meet in Raleigh between
-Carolina, Duke and State Saturday
afternoon will be more of a
distance-running festival than anything
else.
These three schools hold the lion's
share of distance talent, most of it in its
first year. C-. ; -
'Carolina' - will i bring j junior Laxry.
Widgeon and freshmen Mike Garcia and
Tony Waldrop. Waldrop is . a threat to
break the school 880 mark with each
appearance while Garcia won the mile run
at the Carolina Relays last week.
For the Blue Devils, Bob Wheeler will
be the top man. Wheeler, as a freshman,
won the NCAA indoor 1,000-yard title.
Mike Graves, Phil Wilson, Roger
Beardmore and Larry Forrester are
veterans in the long races for Duke. .
State freshman Jim Wilkins has the
best time for the mile in the ACC this
spring, a 4:07. Gareth Hayes and Neil
Ackley rank seventh and eighth.
The distance races will get the
majority of attention, and represent the
best chances for State and Duke to keep
the Tar Heels from running away with the
meet.
Carolina should be a heavy favorite in
most of the field events. John Jessup in
the shot put and Darryl Kelly in the triple
jump have little competition from the
Devils and Pack.
Charlie Bell, Carolina's improving high
jumper, and freshman teammate Bobby
Jones will face possible trouble from
State's Henry Edwards.
Danny Deacon and Jeff Hilliker,
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UNC record book b a pretty good
indication of the type rur.er he is.
Widgeon can talk non-stop about track
for hours. He knows exactly how to
condition himself in practice, how to
pace himself during competition, and just
about everything else that b humanly
possible to know about the art of
running.
Widgeon is a unique blend of physical
ability and mental fortitude. He doesn't
have blazing speed and his form is
nothing to get excited about, but when
you commit yourself to an ideal the way
he does, you come up a winner every
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5-4
Pavlick gave up five hits and nine walks
during his stint as he picked up his third
loss in only four decisions.
Clee, giving up only four hits in seven
innings, picked up his third victory of the
year. The righthander is now 3-1 .
Leading hitting honors were shared by
Maryland's Jim Norris and Bob Cilento.
Maryland's Dave Suave, who is leading
the conference in hitting at .4S8 did not
see action in the game.
All five of the Tar Heel hits were well
distributed with no getting over one.
Carolina will continue its conference
schedule on Saturday when they host the
Gamecocks of the University of SouJii
Carolina. The game, at Durham Athletic
Park, is scheduled to begin at 2:00. -
The Cocks, who defeated Carolina
earlier in the season, in Columbia, are
currently touting a 13-9 overall record
but their conference record is a mediocre
3-4.
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tri-meet
UNCs pole vaulters, will square off
against State's Larry Szabo.'
Duke's Ken Krueger, on previous
performances, should be favored in the
discus throw, but UNC's Hubert West is
the probable winner of the broad jump.
Ernie Jackson of Duke and Bill
Bennett of State are the chief sprint
threats to Carolina's West, Mike
Canzonieri and Hank Snowden. In the
440, the Devils' Mike Murphy and UNC's
Don Wheless will battle for the title.
The 120-yard hurdles will be the
exclusive property of Duke's
incomparable Jeff Howser, but State's
Steve Koob has a better intermediate
hurdle time than the Blue Devil star. Reid
Hilton and Craig Loudy are Carolina's
hurdlers.
The outcome may hinge on the relays,
with UNC favored in the 440 and Duke
given the nod in the mile.
JV baseball
Two losses last week lowered the
junior varsity baseball team's record to
3-6.
Carolina's pitchers had a rough week,
losing to Ferrum Junior College 8-4 and
Louisburg JC 1 5-2.
Durwood Powell, the UNC starter
against Ferrum, was ripped for 12 hits
and eight runs in the first four innings.
Powell and Bob Guthrie, now starring
at third base for the Tar Heel varsity, got
two hits apiece. The Tar Babies stranded
several runners, and Ferrum pitchers
recorded 12 strikeouts.
Bob Kleinman and Grant Moore hit
solo home runs for Carolina's only scores
against Louisburg.
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