Thursday, February 3, 1983The Daily Tar Heel7
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Determination to win is crucial for fencer
By LONNIE McCULLOUGH
Spcdal to the 7H
As I walked slowly to the strip, I could feel
the blood pounding in my temples. My mind
raced over the points of Strategy covered in the
previous week, of practice. "Lead with your
hand, Lonnie," Coach Miller said. "When
you are close enough, extend the. blade and let
your hand pull you into the attack. If you
miss, or if you're parried, be ready for the
riposte."
God, was I nervous. Stepping onto the strip
my attention focused on my opponent Brian
Bailley of Cornell University some 12 feet
away. As is common, I began to close out all
noise and commotion around the strip. Bailley
was a little larger and his mask was already
firmly affixed to his head: At first I was con
fused, then angry.
He had neglected one of the courtesies that
makes fencing a sport of gentlemen the
salute. Ignoring his rudeness and impatience, I
slowly saluted the director and each judge
around the strip. After doing so, I put on my
mask and awaited the director's signal to
fence.
In the brief moments before the bout began,
my mind drifted back to the day that I had ap
proached UNC head fencing coach Ron Miller
as a freshman. After I told him I had a serious
desire to fence, he chuckled. I supposed he
thought it humorous that a small-town boy
from rural North Carolina woul3 want to try
put for a sport dorninated. by athletes i front,
schools north of the Mason-Dixon. I was
wrong. Coach Miller was laughing at my ac
cent. "AH I'm looking for is a little athletic ability
and a big desire to win," he said. So with what
athletic ability I could muster and the desire to
win I've had all my life, I went out for the
team. That was three years ago.
"Fence!" the director shouted. Within an
instant Bailley was streaking toward me. I un-
'My blade literally flew toward his, and after a
successful parry, lashed out at his ribs. The con
tact made the sound of a hickory switch slapping
leather.'
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der estimated his quickness, and even as I '
started to retreat 1 knew i was too late.
As his blade lashed out at my head, I leaped ;
backwards in an attempt to parry it. He saw
my response, changed his hand position and
made a vicious cut for my midsection. I tensed
every muscle in my stomach as the blade sliced
across my jacket. I didn't bother to riposte (an
immediate counterattack).
The director called halt as Bailley yelled vic
toriously and returned to the en guarde line.
My side was on fire. Although you're hit like
that every day in practice, the pain is always
the same. The director awarded Bailley the at
tack, and I received the touch. What a
misnomer. It was a slash.
I walked back to the line near the center of
the strip and again awaited the director's sig
nal. I was angry because I had lost concentra
tion and because of the welt rising beneath my
jacket. But as is true in other sports anger y
must be channeled effectively or the coinpetir;
tive drive is lost. .'' :"V ;."."
. The bout continued at a rapid pace. I scored
three unanswered hits: We changed ends of the . :
strip as is customary when one fencer reaches
throe touches agajpslyw
Bailley's turn to get angry. He did so by scor
ing three consecutive touches. The score was
now four against me and only three against
Bailley. In a regular fencing bout the first
fencer giving away five touches loses.
My legs were beginning to shake from the
constant strain and rapid changes in direction.
Sweat poured from my brow into the corners
of my eyes and down across my upper lip? I
removed my mask momentarily to wipe the -
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sweat away and noticed that Bailley looked
much the same. I smiled slightly, realizing that
although no longer a sport with duels ending in
death, fencing is one of the truest forms of
competition. ...... r '
The director gave the signal, and just like
the first touch, Bailley came streaking toward
me. But this time I was ready. I retreated
rapidly. Just as I was about to reach the end of
the strip, he launched another attack for my
web-covered side. v
Z I hesitated momentarily, expecting his
original attack to.be a feint. It was. He chang
ed hand positions and his blade shot for my
head. My blade literally flew toward his, and
after a successful parry, lashed out at his ribs.
The contact made the sound of a hickory
switch,, slapping leather. The score was now
tied. The next touch would decide the bout,
and if I was lucky, the meet.
: . I called timeout and walked to the end of the
strip. I glanced at the bench and scanned the
faces of my teammates. A few smiled. Some
save the thumbs-up signal, while others just
stared confidently.
. ; I shook my head to regain concentration
:' a trotted back to the en guarde fine. I had
never fenced the deciding bout beforehand
fought to keep that thought out of my mind.
I crouched in the ready position, forced my
tensing muscles to relax and stared at Bailley. I
was determined to win.
Lonnie McCullough, a junior RTVMP major
. from Mocksville, did win the match. He is a
sabreman for the UNC fencing team.
UNC wrestlers
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regain top form
against Tigers
By MICHAEL PERSINGER "
Staff Writer
The North Carolina wrestling team re
bounded from last week's loss to N.C. State
with a close 21-20 win over perennial ACC
power Clemson, but the hero of the match was
an unlikely one.
Tim Plott, a junior from Bay Village, Ohio,
won at the 150-pound class, which very few
people expected him to do. Plott, who sported
a 7-13 record going in, whipped the Tiger's
Tom Carr, who entered the match with a 17-3
mark.
"Plott got the superior over an excellent
wrestler in Carr, and that was really the dif
ference in the match," said UNC coach Bill
Lam. "We won about the same matches that
we won against State, with the exception of
150, so that was a really big win," he added.
Lam said that he felt his team did not wrestle
particularly well, but he blamed part of that on
the scheduling problem.
"We waited until noon to leave because we
didn't want the kids to miss class," Lam said.
"That made it five hours in the car going down
and five hours coming back, with wrestling in
between. That doesn't make for a pleasant
trip."
The Tar Heels got wins from Al Palado at
US, John Aumiller at 126, Matt King at 142
and Jan Michaels at 177 in addition to Plott's
victory, but the key people at the higher weight
classes are continuing to slump.
"We wrestled well at the lower weight
classes, but our big guys are still not wrestling
well," Lam said. "I'm not really worried
about them though, because they were winning
earlier in the year. We do need them to come
back and start winning again, though."
upsetting." But Kawalec said the council knew many
of the problems existed before they were identified in
the management audit.
"I think the council has to take a lot of the blame
for the problems these departments are
experiencing," she said. "We promoted people who
shouldn't have been promoted."
Kawalec said she favored a recommendation by the
auditors to bring the town clerk and attorney under
the town manager's supervision. The ckrk and at
torney now report to the council.
The town recently adopted one of the study's
recommendations by hiring a full-time town attorney.
Previously, the town had been paying almost $88,500
in legal department costs. The full-time attorney,
Grainger Barrett, receives an annual salary of $35,000.
Council members disagree on the value and extent
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town operates."
Broadfoot said he would like to have seen more
study and recommendations on the Chapel Hill Hous
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problems to the resignation of the authority's ex
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