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As a sophomore at the University of
Louisville in 1982, Sue Tonietto was the 14th
ranked all-around gymnast in the country and
was enjoying her finest year in the sport.
As a junior transfer at North Carolina in
1983, she was a spectator who could only
watch helplessly as her teammates barely miss
ed a trip to the NCAA regionals.
Near the end of her sophomore season at
Louisville, Tonietto tore a stabilizing ligament
in her left knee, confining her to a cast for six
weeks and to an extensive rehabilitation pro
gram that lasted, more than a year.
Also after her sophomore season, Louisville
discontinued its gymnastics program. That
was when Toniette began getting calls from
North Carolina gymnastics coach Derek
Galvin.
Galvin had been warned that the type of in
jury Toniettn had ;H:tain(1 k often
devastating to a gymnast's career, that she
might never be able to contribute to his pro
gram, that he might be wasting his time.
"Still," Galvin said, "I just had a gut in
stinct about her. I just knew that somehow,
some way, someday that girl.would make a big
contribution to this gymnastics program."
He has not been disappointed.
As the most consistent, versatile and,
perhaps, top all-around performer to date for
the Tar Heels, Tonietto is again striving for
the heights she reached as a sophomore at
Louisville.
"I'm as healthy as I was at Louisville," she
said. "Physically, I'm 100 percent. I just
haven't been able to tap that area that will
take me to where I was my sophomore year."
Tonietto said she never considered not com
peting again. "I had seen a lot of girls who
had had knee surgery, and they came back, so
I just expected to come back."
She did wonder, though, is she would be
able to regain her old form. "If it wasn't at
tainable, I could accept that," Tonietto said,
"but after the last couple of meets, maybe it
isn't so unattainable."
She finished first all-around against N.C.
State two weekends ago and third all-around
against Duke last weekend.
Maybe a complete comeback isn't so unat
tainable anymore, but Tonietto has not gained
sight of it without her share of hard work.
After spending six weeks in a cast, Tonietto
was faced with more than a year of
rehabilitative exercises and weightlifting to
strengthen the knee. At the same time, she was
trying to break into a new program at UNC.
"I was a little intimidated coming here,"
she said, "but when I watched the meets, I
couldn't wait to get out there again.
Sitting back and watching was hard.
"When I finally got to start again, I was a
little apprehensive about working out every
day and being sore all the time and being tired
all the time, but the competing has really kept
me going. I really love to compete."
Tonietto loves competing so much that she
believes the best way to get to know her is to
watch her at a meet. "I'd invite everyone to
come to a meet," she said. "I get along with
people very well, and the best way 1 show that
Ts through gymnastics. I love to show people
what I can do and how I feel."
She does indeed show how she feels. If you
have trouble picking out Tonietto at a meet,
she'll be the one distributing the most hugs,
cheering the loudest and jumping around the
most.
"I have fun out there, and hopefully it rubs
off on a few others," she said. "I really can't
relax until I show a little emotion. Some peo
ple psych themselves up by sitting in a corner
and staring off into space. That's fine for
them, but I psych myself up by jumping
around."
Which is understandable. As Tonietto will
tell you, jumping around is a lot more fun
than sitting around.
Cavs pull away in second half, stop UNC women
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In her first year of competition at UNC, Sue Tonietto
has come back strong from a serious knee injury.
By MICHAEL PERSINGER
Assistant Sports Editor
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. After
Saturday's 57-52 loss to Maryland, UNC
women's basketball coach Jennifer Alley said
the key to the game was the number of second
shots her team allowed the Terps.
That being the case, the Tar Heels concen
trated on rebounding in the practices that led
up to Thursday night's showdown with
league-leading Virginia.
For a half it looked as if the work UNC had
done would pay off, but the Cavaliers came
out in the second half and collapsed to the in
side, gathering in rebound after rebound on
both ends of the floor, and cruised to an 88-72
win.
Virginia, which never trailed in the game,
led by just three at the half, 42-39. But the
Cavaliers ran off 11 straight points after a
Pam Leake jumper had pulled the Tar Heels
to within one at 42-41. North Carolina spent
the rest of the game playing catchup.
The win improved the 14th-ranked
Cavaliers' record to 18-3 overall and 9-1 in the
ACC. Fifteenth-ranked North Carolina fell to
17-4 and 7-2 with its second straight con
ference loss.
Nancy Mayer led the Cavaliers with 21
points, while Cathy Grimes added 18 and Lyn
Anastasio had 15. Leake led the Tar Heels
with 19. '
Tresa Brown added 14 for UNC, but scored
just four points and didn't get a shot from the
field in the second half. Dawn Royster had 10
for UNC.
"I thought we were well prepared," Alley
said. "The first half we did a good job and I
thought our defense was good, but our re
bounding failed. Our practices leading up to
this game were aggressive and intense. We did
a good job practicing, and then it didn't carry
over into the game.
"The thing that really hurt us was our impa
tience," Alley said. "We were very impatient
during that stretch of about seven minutes in
the second half, and our starters were showing
a little fatigue.
"Virginia played real good defense and col
lapsed on Tresa on the inside. We let them
have too many second and third shots on the
offensive boards and we weren't getting the
same thing on our end."
The Cavaliers began the game in a full-court
zone press and jumped out to an 8-1 lead. The
Tar Heels closed to within one point only once
in the first half, at 36-35, on a pair of Marlene
List free throws. North Carolina had several
opportunities to take the lead, but was unable
to convert.
Virginia switched to a man-to-man defense
for the second half and Cavalier coach Debbie
Ryan said the change was the key to the
Virginia surge.
"I guess we should have been playing man-to-man
the whole game," Ryan said. "When
we went to the man-to-man we pressured the
ball more and forced more turnovers.
"We played very good defense on Tresa
Brown," Ryan said. "We were sagging with
two men instead of just one and I noticed that
whenever she got the ball there was a swarm of
white shirts around her."
UNC will try to get back into the win col
umn Saturday against N.C. State in Car
michael Auditorium. Game time is 2 p.m.
NORTH CAROLINA (72)
Royster 3-6 4-6 10, Killian 4-12 1-2 9, Brown
5-6 4-4 14, Leake 7-17 5-6 19, Hammond
1-2 0-0 2, Dingle 2-4 0-0 4, Cannon 0-3 0-0 0,
List 1-4 2-2 4, Israel 2-2 2-3 6, Mapp 2-3 0-0 4,
McCann 0-3 0-0 0.
Totals: 27-62 18-23 72
VIRGINIA (88)
Mayer 6-9 9-11 21, Grimes 6-15 6-6 18, LaPaglia
1- 3 2-2 4, Anastasio 7-9 1-2 15, Silloway
2- 6 5-8 9, Young 4-5 1-2 9, Lewis 1-2 0-0 2, Lank
3- 5 0-0 6, Thomas 1-2 2-3 4.
Totals: 31-58 26-34 88
Wrestlers edge Wolfpack
to break four-year slump
By BOB YOUNG
Staff Writer
The only thing more intense than
the crowd in the Carmichael
Auditorium bleachers Thursday night
was the intensity on the wrestling mat
as the North Carolina Tar Heels
defeated the 19th-ranked N.C. State
Wolfpack, 20-16.
The Tar Heels' most crucial victory
came in the 177 pound class as
freshman Craig Spivey pinned NorrtK
Corkhill with four seconds remaining
in the match to give UNC a 17-13 lead
with two matches remaining. This,
combined with a victory by Bob
Shriner over State's John Connelly at
190 gave the Tar Heels a lead that even
Ail-American Tab Thacker couldn't
overcome, as he struggled to beat
UNC's Tommy Gorry, 3-2.
The UNC wrestlers jumped out to a
quick lead when Chip McArdle and
John Aumiller scored victories at 128
and 126, respectively. The Tar Heels
then lost or tied their next five matches
until Spivey broke the dry spell with
his pin.
"It feels great," Spivey said.
"We've worked too hard these last
few days to give up on the mat
tonight. I decided not to let up even
though time was nearly up."
"That pin took a whole lot of
pressure off us," said coach Bill Lam.
"Especially for Bobby (Shriner) and
Tommy (Gorry)."
The win is the first UNC victory
over State in four years, and raised the
Tar Heels' record to 11-5 and 3-1 in
the ACC.
"I'm very happy right now," senior
Bill Gaffney said. "What makes it
eveh'better is that we beat their best
possible lineup tonight. These are the
guys who are going to wrestle in the
ACC tournament."
"We did a great job and wrestled
well," Bob Shriner said. "Now we
just have to take care of Virginia, but
we'll be ready." Virginia defeated
N.C. State earlier and is 4-0 in the
ACC.
Results: 118-McArdle (UNC) def.
Starke, 15; 126-Aumiller (UNC) def.
Wentz, 3-1; 134-Bynum (NCS) def..
Hallman, 9-6; 142-Turner (NCS) def.
Lowery, 13-7; 150-Mondragon (NCS)
def. Cardi, 7-5; 158-Wilson (UNC).
tied Murray, 6-6; 167-Gaffney (UNC)
tied Fatool, 2-2; 177-Spivey (UNQ
pinned Corkhill at 6:56; 190-Shriner
(UNQ def. Connelly, 4-1; HWT
Thacker (NCS) def. Gorry, 3-2.
Women 's swimming team defeats
South Carolina while men lose
The UNC men's and women's swimm
ing teams traveled to Columbia, S.C., to
swim against South Carolina Wednesday
and left with mixed results, as the women
won, 73-67, and the men lost, 59-54.
The loss dropped the men's dual meet
record to 8-3, and the women improved
their record to 9-0 in dual meets.
The women won both relay races with
Sue Walsh, Jenny Strickland, Betsy Mit
chell and Amy Pless winning the 400-yard
medley relay, and Pless, Mitchell, Walsh
and Sue Scott taking the 400-yard
freestyle.
Walsh, Strickland, Mitchell and Sarah
Durstein provided the individual wins for
the Tar Heels. Walsh won the 50-yard
freestyle and the 200-yard backstroke,
and Strickland won the 100- and 200-yard
breaststroke. Mithcell won the 100-yard
butterfly and the 100-yard backstroke,
and Durstein was the winner of the
1,000-yard freestyle.
The men's team also won both relay
races, as Eric Ericson, Doug Sawyer,
Dirk Marshall and Geoff Cassell took the
400-yard medley relay, and Ericson, Mar
shall, Cassell and Todd Deckman won
the 400-yard freestyle relay.
Individual winners for UNC were Chris
Stevenson in the 200-yard freestyle and
200-yard butterfly, Kevin O'Neal in the
50-yard freestyle, and Ericson in the
200-vard backstroke.
GLENN PETERSON
UNC Weekend Sports Calendar
Friday, Feb. 10: Men's and women's swim
ming at Southern Intercollegiate Champion
ships, Athens, Ga.
Saturday, Feb. 11: Women's basketball
vs. N.C. State in Carmichael Auditorium, 2:00
p.m. Women's fencing vs. Hollins (Va.)
College and Fairleigh Dickinson in Fetzer
Gym, 9:00 a.m. Gymnastics at Mid-South
Invitational, Jacksonville. Ala. Men's and
women's swimming at Southern Inter
collegiate Championships, Athens, Ga. Men's
and women's track Olympic Development
Meet in New Tin Can. Wrestling at
Virginia, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 12: Men's basketball at
Arkansas, 1:00 p.m. Wrestling at
Maryland, 4:30 p.m.
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