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By MIKE DESISTI
Sports Editor
It seems as crazy as a notoriously poor performer
taking to tite stage in Elizabethan England, knowing
that if the demanding crowd before him, beside
him, everywhere but behind him wasn't pleased
with the play, rocks and bottles would fly and the ac
tors fall.
What kind of masochist, woven leather basket on
a stick, in hand, modified birdcage on head, would
stand in the way of a band of similarly dressed thugs
flinging rubber grenades at a net?
A sick, sick man. Or Tom Sears.
The goalkeeper for North Carolina's two-time de
fending national champion lacrosse team has more
than Americas Catalogue Store for a last name to
draw attention.
He's lost but one game in his last 27 times minding
the nets. He's a two-time all-ACC selection and 1982
Conference Player of the Year. He's a two-time Ail
American. He's won the Kenner's Award nation
wide Goalie of the Year in both the 1981 and 1982
seasons. He was the 1982 choice for the Enner's
Award, national Player of the Year. And he topped it
all off with a Most Valuable Player selection in the
1982 NCAA championship match.
The only thing close to being sick about Sears is
that he's humble still. And he has fun playing goal.
His way, at least.
. "People ask me why I always carry the ball up
field," he says. "It's no fun to just stand in the goaT
and get hit with the ball."
So he catches it. Then he initiates the attack with a
well-aimed pass to a teammate no one knew was on
the field, not until Sears had more or less laid the ball
in the player's web like Lady Diana setting Little Wil
liam in the cradle.
Or he runs.
Sears is known as well for his jaunts downfield
with the ball when his outlets are covered and ries
not as for his apparently self-sacrificing and un
doubtedly impeccable housekeeping in goal. He
doesn't like to shave much and wears his hair fairly
long by conservative standards, but Sears is a meticu
lous type of guy when it comes to lacrosse. He keeps
the opponents' side of the scoreboard clean.
In a game where 25 goals in 60 minutes is the rule
rather than the exception, Sears plays protege to Ebe
nezer Scrooge, having limited the Other Guys to a
miserly average of 6.8 goals per game in his last two
years as a Tar Heel.
But that's not the only eccentricity Sears has in
playing an eccentric's position. While the men tend
ing the nets in hockey get their shins spanked by
teammates' sticks before a game, while their soccer
counterparts are "often flopping around on the
ground before the kickoff like Mexican jumping
beans on a lawn fertilized with Spanish Fly, Sears
gets ready for a game in his own way. He relaxes.
"I feel I'm different in that I take a different view
of the game," he says. "I don't think there's any
pressure on me. Pressure's what you make it. The
calmer I can stay, the better I can react to the ball."
For Sears, playing goal is like sitting in front of the
studio switcher as a television director. Communica
tion is the key, and he holds it. He's in charge of the
defense and lets it know what's going on when it
would otherwise be playing in the dark.
"You're not assigned to one man," Sears says.
"And a lot of times they (his teammates) have to
listen to me to find out where the ball is."
He picks up all the loose ends. Yet it's the team
hardly a four-letter word to Sears that puts them
together. "It's just like a machine," he says. "We do
it together and don't rely on just one guy."
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the Holidays, sta
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1983 UNC Lacrosse - 11 Tim Mealey So. G 23 Bill Ness Sr. M 35 Randy Cox
12 Mac Ford So. A 24 JoeySeivold Fr. M 36 Steve Green
NO. NAME YR POS. 13 Tom Haus Fr. D 25 John Murphy Fr. M 37 ' John Haus
2 Mike Tummillo Fr. A 14 Terry Martinello Jr. M 26 Andy Smith Jr. M 38 Dean King
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7 Paul Hazelhurst Jr. D 19 Dave Wingate Sr. A 31 Ward Steidle Jr. M 43 Brent Voelk
8 Dan Weintraub So. M 20 Greg Cox So. M 32 Robby Russell Fr. M 44 Bill Eyre
9 Keith Braddish Jr. A .21 Pete Voelkel Sr. M 33 Dan Andrews Fr. D 45 James Craw
10 James Koester . Fr. M 22 Brian Rice . Jr. M 34 Taylor Classen Fr. D 46 Greg Heado
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