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bobrowski happy with new role
X-Country readies for Invitational
Dy SCOTT CANTERBERRY
Stuff Writer
After a season of frustration of trying to be at the top,
cross country runner Tom Bobrowski is content to be just
a member of the pack.
Bobrowski, a junior college transfer last year, said he
expected too much of himself last fall to be the team's top
runner.
But he now sees his role as a team leader and a member
of the rest of the pack, the second- through fifth-place team
finishers.
"I thought I had to prove myself the whole time last year,"
he said. "I thought if I ran to my potential, I should be
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the number one runner; but I ran second all year.
"It was a struggle."
Bobrowski came to UNC after two years at Grand Rapids
Junior College in Michigan because of the UNC coaching
staff and the "chance to be involved in a rebuilding team,"
he said.
"I could have gone to a school where I would have run
seventh or eighth, but I thought I could give more of myself
to rebuilding a program."
Instead, the adjustment from junior college running to
Division I cross country (primarily increased training
mileage), adaptations to a different coaching techniques, and
the pressures to be number one resulted in a frustrating season
for Bobrowski.
"The changes were just too much," he said. "It all just broke
down."
The addition of George Nicholas to this year's team eases
the pressure off Bobrowski to be the team penetrator - the
runner who is expected to challenge for first place.
The team opened the 1984 season impressively, taking
second to a strong Perm State team in the 15-team Western
Ontario Invitational last weekend. Bobrowski finished
seventh overall and second for the team while Nicholas raced
to the individual title.
And that's fine with Bobrowski. "I just want to be a good
nucleus for the second pack," he said. "How well we run
as a pack will determine how (the team) flnish(es) this year."
The top five team places are used for cross country scoring.
Holding that pack together will require the senior co
captain's leadership to a group of young runners, including
sophomores Mike Currinder, Bill Will, and Jim Farmer, he
said, stressing the importance of the younger team members
to the program.
A strong family nucleus provides the primary motivation
for his running, he said: Growing up in Comstock Park,
Mich., Bobrowski started running his freshman year at West
Catholic High at his father's encouragement.
"My dad would run four or five miles a day because he
had heart problems and would get me to run with him;
so I gave it a shot," he said.
Although far from home, Bobrowski still carries that family
pride with him, especially in his running.
"There's always that pride in the family name to do well
so my parents get some recognition," he said. "I feel I owe
them something for bringing me up in this world."
Bobrowski said he had no definite individual goals for
this fall; instead, he was more concerned with team success.
"We are at the threshhold of leaving the rebuilding stage
and start competing with major universities."
By SCOTT CANTERBERRY
Staff Writer
For those people who think the
"Ethan and Eddie football show" is the
only running game in town this wee
kend, try again.
The UNC men and women's cross
country teams will host some of the top
runners in the nation tomorrow at
Finley Golf Course in the Tar Heel
Invitational.
"This will be the biggest cross country
invitational in the South," said coach
Don Lockerbie. About 150 runners from
some of the nation's top teams will
compete in each race, he said.
Six teams currently ranked in the
nation's Top 20 will compete in the
women's three-mile race. Joining UNC,
ranked 19th, will be second-ranked
Clemson, Florida (6th), Brigham
Young (9th), N.C. State (10th), and
Tennessee (12th). Virginia, which
finished 14th in the NCAAs last year,
will also compete, as well as four other
teams.
Lockerbie said that with this field,
"The Tar Heel should be the finest
women's invitational in the nation."
The men's team enters the meet highly
confident after an impressive showing
in the Western Ontario Invitational last
weekend. They face an equally compet
itive field including Clemson, Virginia,
Fairleigh-Dickinson, and Brigham
Young.
Juniors Madlyn Morreale and H oily
Murray lead the women's team into
tomorrow's meet. Last week, Morreale
ran to the individual title in
Canada, while Murray finished third,
only five seconds behind.
Their finishes "should give them the
spark to be competitive this week." Ail
Americans Carey May and Aisling
Molloy of BYU and Tina Krebbs of
Clemson head the talented field, talent
meaning that each ranked school has
the potential to have three All
Americans, Lockerbie said.
George Nicholas, who outdistanced
the field by 55 seconds last week to win
in Canada, will be UNC's main threat
this weekend to finish at the top. The
defending NCAA 10,000 meter outdoor
champion, Ed Eyestone of BYU,
considered to be the top American
collegiate distance runner, will give
Nicholas a chance to see where the UNC
leader is on the national level, Lockerbie
said.
The women will run at 11:30 a.m.,
and the men's five-mile race will begin
at 12:30 p.m.
Struggling men's soccer plays Cavs
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By MIKE WATERS
Staff Writer
By now the North Carolina men's
soccer team has been analyzed, diag
nosed and proclaimed fit terminal (take
your pick) more times than the economy
or UNC's football team (again, take
your pick).
What the Tar Heels could use more
than anything else at this point is a win
to raise the record to 4-4 and get them
back on track. North Carolina plays at
home on Sunday for the first time since
its Sept. 9 win over South Carolina.
Perfect, you say? Think again. The Tar
Heels' opponent for the 2 p.m. game
is seventh-ranked Virginia.
Junior Mark Devey has felt the pain
and confusion of the 19 84 .campaign as
much as anyone associated with the
team. Last year Devey was the second
leading scorer with 37 points on 15 goals
and seven assists. This year Devey has
put the ball in the opponents' nets just
once and has but two assists.
"I look for answers and excuses but
we just haven't been lucky," Devey said.
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"I must have taken 50 shots (actually
37) so far and I have one goal. They
havent been falling. I think, and
everybody thinks, that itll change. I just
hope it changes on Sunday."
Everybody wants to know what's
wrong with the team, and that makes
it that much more frustrating for the
players when even they don't know after
seven games. Devey searched for the
reasons himself.
"When you lose a couple you almost
forget what it's like to win," Devey said.
"If we could get a couple under our
belt, we could be a strong competitor."
The Tar Heels 3-4 record to this point
shows just how tough a couple of wins
are to come by this season. And, yes,
Virginia will be no Santa Claus with
a gift win for North Carolina.
"Virginia's real tough, but the better
the team we play the better weVe been
playing," Devey said. They Ve got
almost everybody back. We havent
beaten them in a while. It's important
to the conference as well as trying to
reach the .500 mark."
Devey said the team's troubles could
be attributed to a number of factors.
The first-team conference selection at
forward last year, Devey said that the
Tar Heels were pressing, trying too hard
to make up for early losses.
Devey said it would take a combi
nation of team unity, more intensity and
better concentration in order to reach
the pre-season goal of establishing
North Carolina as a certified member
of the conference's elite.
"We have to all do what we do best,"
Devey said. "If we're not successful
then, we're not ever going to be
successful. If we lose then, we can't say
anything but that's not the case right
now.
"I think we're going to prove that on
Sunday and the Sundays after that. We
have a lot of pride. We're not going
to roll over and die. As far as getting
a (NCAA) bid is concerned there's not
much chance. Our goal is to prove that
we can play and win close games in the
conference."
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