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Thursday, November 10, 1983The Daily Tar Heel5 Sports Farmer races for fun of it By JOHN HACKNEY Sun Writer When Jim Farmer was in fourth grade, he used to sit on the infield and watch all of his classmates run around the track. They were constantly teasing him for not joining the race, so one day he decided to run along with them. He won. Having since run a 4:11 mile the ninth fastest prep mile in the nation in 1983 to win the state meet last year as a senior at Broughton High School in Raleigh, earning him All-American honors, Farmer is currently doing his running for the North Carolina cross country team. Farmer has consistently finished high enough to score points for the Tar Heels, including a 25:33 for five miles in the Nit tany Lion Classic, placing him third among his teammates and 27th overall. He finished 33rd in the ACC champion ships two weeks ago. "Cross country isn't really my main sport," said Farmer, who fancies himself a middle distance track runner. That may be the case, but cross countrytrack coach Don Lockerbie said Farmer is part of one of the finest cross country recruit ing classes in the nation this year. He said that Farmer exceeded expecta-, tions by performing well in the fall season, running the five-to-six mile races over rugged terrain with surprising suc cess for one whose reputation' was established in the mile. In his first three months at UNC, Farmer has already noticed a big dif ference between high school and college. "In high school," he said, "I wouldn't do the training if I didn't want to." He said that at UNC, everybody tried to take advantage of the workouts and the up perclassmen push the freshmen every day. He said all the training was not as taxing as it may sound, because there's talking and joking between teammates while they train. xt: ;x::xx;::;:-', i I . 'if'' fj ' " , V'A I H '- '$ ' it I '- - v " I ? .. ' - -fcmii imnor nnrnn im in r i m i mmiiiuirinr muniiiiiciiiw ml Jkk, -m'Tim mn ' in " " ' mm nnrtr OTHBryce Lankard Only a freshman, Jim Farmer is already one of UNC's top runners "I keep in mind how much they (workouts) will help me, because some day I hope to be really good," Farmer said. Lockerbie said Farmer is a national caliber athlete who has the tenacity it takes to be good. "He's one of the greatest racers I've ever seen," he-said. "He has the ability to rise to the occasion." Farmer said he motivates himself to win, but he really runs just because he likes racing. "That's what can really motivate me," he said. He attributes his success to natural talent and his coaches but makes it clear that his motivation is self-manufactured. "I'd like to become a world-class run ner," Farmer said. "Each year I want to keep going up, and not fluctuate between good and bad races like some great run ners do." Lockerbie said that a goal for Farmer is to be a sub-4-minute miler. "He has the talent to do that before he graduates." He said Farmer is a potential ACC cham pion who could be a collegiate All American miler. Jim Farmer doesn't sit in the infield anymore. His friends do. And they don't tease him anymore. UNC looking for 3rd title in a row By SCOTT SMITH Staff Writer When a team has won two consecutive national championships there isn't much it can do for an encore except to win another. , TTiat is. exactly what the second-ranked ; North Carolina women's soccer team will have on its mind Saturday, when it takes on fifth-ranked University of California Berkeley in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament at 2 p.m. on Fetzer Field. The Tar Heels, who received a bye in last weekend's first round of the tourna ment, have won 16 consecutive regular season games after losing their season opener to the tournament's top seed, the University of Connecticut. . It has been a season of dominance for UNC, as the team has won most of its games by one-sided margins. Still, coach Anson Dorrance feels his team will have no trouble finding motiva tion for the game against U. Cal.-Berkeley and for this year's tourna ment. "We lost five all-Americans from last year's team and we really expected to be rebuilding this year," Dorrance said. "For us to win it all in a building year would be a real significant accomplish ment." It is hard to believe that a team with a 16-1 record, ranked second in the coun try, could be rebuilding. But that is an in dication of how far the women's soccer program has come at UNC in three years. Dorrance believes UNC is playing its best soccer of the season and is poised to take the third straight national crown. "To be honest, we really haven't peak ed yet," he said. U. Cal.-Berkeley (10-1-3) brings im pressive credentials into Chapel Hill, hav ing tied third-ranked Massachusetts and narrowly losing to top-ranked Connecti cut in overtime. The Golden Bears are a "talented, but very young and inexperienced team," coach Bill Merrill said. Half of its starters are freshmen and the team as a whole is made up of predominantly first-year players. Merrill, whose squad defeated Cin cinnati (5-6) last weekend to advance to the quarterfinals, said inexperience has hurt his team at times this year. "Inconsistency against mediocre teams has hurt us in some of the games we tied," Merrill said. "But we seem to rise to the occasion in important games. Hopefully that will be the case against North Carolina." Respect and cautious optimism are words that describe Merrill's feelings about playing UNC. "They are an extremely well-coached club with a lot of depth, and should be No. 1 in the country," Merrill said. ATTENTION UNC STUDENTS BASKETBALL TICKETS Ik , , 1 yj Student tickets are available NOW for the second BlueWhite scheduled after the Duke football game and the exhibition with Yugoslavia on 112383. Present your student ID and athletic pass at the Carmichael Ticket Office between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm. ( I'M SORRY A ABOlT LAST J BY THE TIME I 60T YOUR SUPPER TO YOU, IT WAS COLD IT U)0N T happen fi yrv t a j j" DLCOr.l COUNTY by Derlic Breathed 1H13 6 MM. FRANKLY, I SUSPECT WF JUST fWMO ABtrm&atiep. rime. try rr. HSUJ, OPERATOR. wav'f herring ratAce," THAT'S 555-67f7. HAV5 A NIC6 rn 2 piece o' THAT. HEUO. LOOK IT UP. Crum owed an answer, not a smile By MICHAEL DeSISTI Sports Editor Almost two months ago at his Sept. 20 press conference, three days after a 48-17 win over Miami of Ohio (which followed big wins over Memphis State and South Carolina) and four days before a 51-20 win over William and Mary, North Carolina coach Dick Crum was asked if he saw any danger in his team's enjoying so much success so early in the season. "The object is to win the game," he said, eliciting enough laughter from those in attendance to embarrass and preclude clarification from the curious reporter who had asked the ques tion. "Now if we were 0-3, that would be a dangerous situ ation." The laughter increased and the question was evaded. It had been intended to determine what effects North Carolina's much-maligned non-conference schedule might have on the Tar Heels come Maryland, Clemson and November (in no particular order of potential threat). Commentary And, by mistake of the reporter, the question had been word ed to diminish the hostility with which it might be received. Crum had heard similar questions from the time preseason rankings had come out in late August and North Carolina was placed under national scrutiny for the first of many weeks to come. Immediately following the Tar Heels' 28-26 loss to Maryland Oct. 29 in College Park, the same reporter tried to see if Crum had developed any ideas on the subject. Once more the reporter made the mistake of trying to dress a wolf in a lamb's skin, of trying to inject Novocain with a lollipop. And once more the question wasn't answered, this time being cut off in midsentence. Q: "Do you think if this game had been played any earlier in the season " Crum: I don't know." North Carolina fell to 7-1 at Maryland (3-1 in the ACQ, and dropped from No. 3 to ninth and tenth in the wire service polls. Then came Clemson. The Tigers won 16-3 Saturday in Chapel Hfll; North Carolina slid to 7-2 and No. 19. This time, emotions were allowed to subside and the question was left until Tuesday. This time, it was clearly worded; there was no chance of ambiguity. And this time, for the first time with this particular reporter, the question was addressed: Did Crum think North Carolina's 1983 non-conference schedule, though obviously beneficial in the short run, may have cost the Tar Heels a spot in a major bowl and a shot at the na tional championship? Did he think sizable wins over South Carolina, Memphis State, Miami of Ohio and William and Mary may have given the players a false sense of security, the il lusion that their mistakes would bear no consequence? "No," he said. Did Crum think the effect may have been just the opposite? "That's hard to say," he said. "I really don't know." Dick Crum is not N.C. State's Jim Valvano ("It was just a good, old-fashioned butt-beating," he said after an 18-point loss in Carmichael Auditorium in February) or Tom Reed ("Do you play any quarterback?" he asked a reporter when asked in late August about his team's offensive prospectus). He's not St. John's Lou Carnesecca ("For chrissake, this is where they bring the elephants," he said upon entering Madison Square Garden's interview area before the Big East basketball tournament in March) or thejate Paul "Bear" Bryant (Boring or bland, if he said it, it was gold). Crum is the skipper of North Carolina's even-keeled schooner, the ship that serves tea on deck with 15-foot waves slapping over the starboard side. He's certainly not an out spoken man; his public utterances are usually comparable to vanilla-in-a-dish at the ice cream parlor with 32 wonderful flavors and three different cones to choose from. But it's hard to blame Crum for measuring his words these days. The media grumble when he's brief and insipid, which is often. Still others complain when he's not, which is rare. After speaking out about crowd control in College Park, Crum was greeted in The Washington Post with a cry of sour grapes from Maryland athletic director Dick Dull. Less than a week later, Raleigh's The News and Observer ran a story quoting Clemson defensive end Ray Brown as having said coach Danny Ford told the team Crum had "set the tempo" before Saturday's game with a remark nearly one month before about the Tigers' having "bought" their 1981 na tional championship. Ford is also quoted telling what happens to people who talk too much. It's always nice as a reporter to hear the inflammatory remarks, to get the volatile news' copy from the high-profile figure. People want to read it; it sells papers. But that doesn't mean newsworthiness is determined only by the ability to incite anger or make trouble, to raise eyebrows. It's not. An item is newsworthy if, among other things, it answers questions legitimate, well-justified questions a lot of people are interested in having answered. A good reporter, in doing his job, will ask these questions. Crum would not have invited the wrath of the athletic ad ministrations of four schools had he acknowledged that North Carolina's non-conference opponents were not of Top-20 (and that's generous) caliber. He would not have insulted his players had he expressed con cern at possible comnlacencv or nverrnnfidence with a schedule that would not require them to perform at maximum capacity for60 minutes in at least four of their first seven games. What he would have done is answer a question a legiti mate, well-justified question a lot of people were interested in having answered. The answer should have been obligatory. A smile was optional. Tar Heels earn NCAA soccer berth From staff reports The North Carolina men's soccer team defeated Campbell 5-2 Wednesday night in Buies Creek, and in the process earned a berth in the NCAA soccer tournament. Before the game, UNC soccer coach Anson Dorrance confirmed that a Tar Heel victory would ensure the bid. The Tar Heels raised their record to 15-3-2 with the victory, with only one game remaining on their regular season schedule. UNC hosts No. 1 -ranked and undefeated Duke Sunday at 2 p.m. on Fetzer Field. UNC broke a 2-2 halftime tie with Campbell with a goal by Chris Connolly on an assist from Robert Kelly, and that proved to be the decisive goal. Mark Devey paced the Tar Heels, scor ing the first and last goals of the game. Devey's goals gave him 34 points on the season, making him the second player this year to top the previous UNC season scoring record of 32 points. The North Carolina women's golf team took fourth place in the Lady Wolf pack Invitational, which ended Wednes day in Raleigh. The Tar Heels shot a team total of 322 in the final round for a three round 952, 40 strokes behind tournament champion Duke. Wake Forest finished second in the team race at 928, and North Carolina State fired a final round of 300 to finish third. Duke's Mary Anne Widman, who led throughout the tournament, captured the solo title by firing a 72 in the final round to finish at 215, four strokes under par. Wake Forest's Brenda Corrie came in se cond at 224 on the 5,925-yard, par 73 MacGregor Downs course. UNC's Kandi Kessler won a playoff on the first hole of sudden death to take third after she had tied N.C. State's Leslie Brown at 228. Kelly Black finished the tournament at 238 for UNC, while Kristie Kamal finish ed at 244 and Sue Hirsch came in at 247. Sue Redard carded a 249 for the Tar Heels. mi mmm mm wmm& Thursday-Saturday Tar Heel Coca-Cola Volleyball Classic Super Volleyball Action! Thursday 8:00 pm UNC vs. Rhode island Friday 9:30 am Duke us. FSU 11:30 am N.C. State vs. Rhode Island 1:30 am Georgia vs. FSU 3:30 pm Duke vs. Rhode Island 5:30 pm Georgia vs. N.C. State 8:00 pm UNC vs. FSU Court 3 Court 2 Court 1 Courts Court 1 Court 2 Court 3 Saturday Sponsored by 213 West Franklin St. & 1800 Chapel Hill-Durham Blvd. 10:00 am Georgia vs. Rhode Island Court 1 12 noon N.C. State vs. FSU Court 2 2:30 pm Duke vs. Georgia Court 1 4:00 pm FSU vs. Rhode Island Court 2 6:30 pm UNC vs. Georgia Court 3 'Courts 1 and 2 are in Fetzer Gymnasium Court 3 is in Carmichael Auditorium Cote, is it! V r Anns TTASTI h! (G FA Saturday, November 12 10AM-4PM at the New Harmony Farms in The Courtyard, Chapel Hill Come taste pastries and breads, soups and sauces, confections and confitures coffees, pastas and pates, tofu creations, all natural juices and sodas, imported "Seeing can be deceiving it's eating that's believing." James Thurber IfdP cneeses even IJr chewable vitamins And more! Just bring your appetite t-r and enjoy! Courtvard HARMOMY FARM5 TK? Courtyard Chapel ',:!! 942 5134 MorvWed 17, ThTri 12 9, f :.! 10 ft, f i 1. Creed.-noor Crossings Raleigh' 732-CCr,4 Mon-Fri 10-9, Sat lfVft, 5, n 12 , EE
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