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poirit' Sports shorts UNC coaches honored Former Carolina soccer coach Marvin Allen has been named soccer coach emeritus, and former baseball coach Walter Rabb named baseball coach emeritus at UNC. The University's athletic council honored the two former head coaches for their contributions - to the school's athletic program. Both men coached at Carolina for 31 years. Allen became coach of UNCs soccer club in 1945 and made it a varsity sport one year later. He is past president of the National Association of Soccer Coaches and a former member of the U.S. Olympic Soccer Committee. In 1968, Allen received the Honor Award of the N ASC, the highest individual award in collegiate soccer, for his contributions to the sport. Allen retired from coaching in 1976 with a 176-81-23 career record. Rabb is past president of the American Association of Baseball Coaches and has won both the Governor's Award and the Will Wynne Award for his contributions to baseball. Rabb was one of the main people responsible for the construction of Boshamer Stadium and a major organizer of the North Carolina Collegiate Summer League. , Rabb retired two years ago with a 528-342-9 career record. y - The Carolina women's golf team finished a disappointing 25th in last week's AIAW National' Collegiate Championships in Stillwater, Oklahoma. . The squad's finish was the lowest of the year for the Tar Heels. UNC did not make the 15-team cut after . last Friday's third round of play and was forced to watch the tourney's final 18 holes. Coach Dot Gunnell's squad won two tournaments during the spring and will return the top eight players next season. North Carolina's John McGough and Frank Fuhrer have been named to the 1979 , All-America Golf squads." McGough, a senior from Greenville, Mississippi, finished in a fifth-place tie in this year's NCAA tournament and won the 1979 North and South Amateur. He was named to the second team AU-American squad for the second straight year. Fuhrer, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, earned honorable-mention nonors tor his performance this past season. He led the Tar Heels during the spring averaging 73.6. The two players also keyed UNC to its sixth-place finish in last month's NCAA Tournament. John McGough found the going pretty IMs finish 4 t Walter Rabb tough in last week's United States Open Championship. McGough failed to make the cut after shooting a 81-77 for a 158 total on the very tough Inverness Country Club course in Toledo, Ohio! Hale Irwin won the prestigous tourney with an even-par four-day score of 284. McGough was the only amateur to qualify for the Open at the Charlotte qualifying round two weeks ago. Of the 71 teams that began the season in basketball and Softball, only two will be crowned champions today as first-season intramurals draw to a close. Basketball finals will be at 7 tonight in Woollen Gym. The softball finals will be at 5 p.m. today on the Carmichael intramural fields. The playoffs,, which started last week, included all the teams that competed during the regular season. According to the intramural department, the Law School and Auga are the teams to beat in basketball and softball, respectively. Individual finals in tennis, racquetball and golf are going on now and will end this week. Summer school intramural director Marty Pomerantz saw first-session activities as successful. A new rule in. softball which allows everyone to hit and the ten best fielders to remain in the game on defense, was especially effective.' "It was an interesting innovation we started this summer," Pomerantz said. "Most teams appreciated the fact that everyone got to play. It's gone over real well." Second-session activities will include competition in softball, volleyball, golf, handball, racquetball and tennis. Team entries for softball and volleyball will be due by July 5. Play will start with the first full week of classes. Officials will be needed in softball and volleyball. Clinics will be offered to go over the rules of each sport. Anyone interested should check by the intramural office. SAMMY BATTEN i : i i i i i-V: -' & . .: ..was. S ' f ? I 1 S 4Q. - f f j "I -," ! " f Iff Jftudent Stores on campus has just aijout everything you'll need this sun iiier top by sodDinio ypii Open 7:45 a.m.-5:G0 p.m Monday-Friday A ;1 14 The Summer Tar Heel Thursday, June 2!. 1979
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