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Take that. Dookics!
We at the Daily Tar Heel sports stall
were so impressed, even inspired, by the
odds-defying. Duke-denying anties of
Louisville's freshman center Pervis
l llison in Monday night's NCAA
championship that we proudly present
him with the prestigious UNC Athlete
of the Week award.
The sheer joy of the Cardinals' 72
69 w in ov er Duke of watching Coach
K writhe in defeat, of hearing Brent
Musburger try futilely to douse Duke's
vanquished seniors with sympathy
while getting in just a few more fawning
descriptions of Johnny Dawkins. - is
a feeling well cherish for years.
And it was all made possible by
Ellison's 25-point, II -rebound perfor
mance that left Duke center Jay (I now
know lH never play in the NBA) Bilas
emotionally scarred for life. When
"Never Nervous" Pervis, as teammate
Milt Wagner dubbed him, dropped
home the clinching free throws with
time running out, you could almost hear
the wicked Coach K wailing "I'm
melting, I'm melting!"
Thanks to our friend Pervis (who, as
you'll remember, also did a number on
the Tar Heels a few weeks ago), Duke's
most successful season ever ended in
bitter disappointment and the realiza-
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By SCOTT FOWLER
Sports Editor
DURHAM The pall that was cast
over Duke Monday night by Louisville
had not lifted by Tuesday afternoon,
and the UNC tennis team took full
advantage to upset Duke, 6-3, in its
biggest win of the season.
The Blue Devils came into this match
with a 17-6 record, a conference mark
blemished only by nationally-ranked
Clemson and a desire to avenge UNC's
mastery over Duke in past years.
The Tar Heels appeared- to be ripe
for their role. They had just come back
from a 1-3 road trip to Montgomery,
Ala. and had fallen to 9-1 1 on the year.
Last week UNC had also lost to Georgia
Tech 7-2 at home, a team that Duke
beat 5-4 earlier in the year.
But the Tar Heels ignored the odds,
playing inspired tennis and handily
doing in Duke to run their conference
record to 3-1.
UNC coach Allen Morris, who on
Sunday had watched his team pull an
upset of No. 22 University of California
at Irvine, wasn't expecting a win. "I'm
surprised," he admitted. "WeVe had a
lot of adversity this year, and I just give
all the credit in the world to these guys."
Duke coach Steve Strome was some
what less impressed with his charges.
"That was the worst performance lVe
seen in quite' awhile," he said. "It was
terrible. We absolutely did not come to
play, and it beats the shit out of me
why."
Maybe the UNC players had some
thing to do with it. Pollack, in partic
ular, was a force in the victory, as he
was instrumental in winning two of the
swing matches that the team score
would depend on.
The sophomore trailed 5-1 in the first
set. against Duke's Tom Frisher, but
rebounded to win 12 of the next 13
games for a stunning 7-5, 6-1 win at
No. 2 singles. "I wasn't up enough at
the beginning, but then it felt better and
I began to keep the ball in play more,"
he said.
Another big singles win came from
a somewhat unexpected source, as
Koley Keel lost the first set but then
pounded his way to a convincing 4-6,
6-1, 6-2 win over Duke's Phil Ragonetti
at No. 6 singles, a trouble spot for UNC
for much of the season. "I chipped and
came in on his backhand all day long,"
the lefthander Keel said.
Jeff Chambers took the No. 1 singles
over the Blue Devils always-emotional
Jeff Hersh, 6-2, 1-6, 6-2, and Mark
DeMattheis swept to a straight-set
victory over Ricky Peck, 7-5, 6-2, for
UNC's other two singles wins.
Weilbaecher lost his singles to Keith
Kambourian 6-2, 6-4, and Jon Coss was
beaten by Duke's Bob Williams 6-0, 7
5 in the other two singles.
After the six singles matches the Tar
Heels were up 4-2, needing only one
victory in the three doubles for a team
victory. They got two in impressive
fashion after Morris gave the team an
impromptu pep talk before the begin
ning of the doubles.
At No. 1 doubles. Chambers and
DeMattheis handily defeated Hersh and
Peck in a match marred by several
'disputes by the Duke tandem. Hersh
yelled a profanity, was assessed a
warning and called for an umpire, all
within the space of a minute early in
the second set.
Chambers and DeMattheis weren't
rattled in the slightest, promptly
breaking Hersh's serve and never
looking back on the way to a 6-4, 6-
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tion that the Blue Devils will probably
never come this close again.
With that established, we at the DTH
can only say "For all you do, Pervis,
this UNCAOTW is for you."
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North Carolina gymnasts won each
one of the individual events in capturing
another dual meet victory last weekend
over Kentucky and Radford. UNC's
Stacy Kaplan, who was third in the all
around competition, won the vault with
a 9.5. Kristin Bilotta took first in the
bars with a 9.3. Missy Shaffner won
the balance beam with a 9.35. And
Tammy Gilbert scored a 9.3 in the floor
exercise to take that event.
Outstanding individual performances
have been a way of life for the gym
nastics team. In a dual meet on Feb.
2, Kristin Bilotta set a UNC record in
the bars (9.7) and Stacy Kaplan also
set a school record in the floor exercise
(9.7). As a team, UNC sports a 12-2
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overall record which is good enough to
send it to the NCAA Regionals in
Morgantown, W.Va., beginning this
Friday.
The 16th-ranked Tar Heels wil face
No. 4 Georgia and No. 5 Florida as well
as Maryland, Kentucky and West
Virginia in the regionals. The UNC
team and individuals will be competing
to qualify for the NCAA Finals in
Gainesville, Fla., on April 18.
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Pollack teamed with Weilbaecher to
clinch the second doubles victory with
a hard-fought, 7-5, 6-4 win over Frisher
and Ragonetti at No. 2 doubles.
Williams and Kambourian teamed to
defeat Coss and Keel 6-4, 6-3 at No. 3
doubles in the last match.
The Tar Heels will in all likelihood
run their ACC record to 4-1 and even
their overall slate at 1 1-1 1 with a victory
over the always-abysmal N.C. State
Thursday. However, matches with
Maryland and Clemson loom on the
horizon Friday and Sunday,
respectively.
But they can worry about those later.
Tuesday was a time for celebration for
a team that hasn't had too many of those
this season.
Baseball picks
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Many sports fans agree that spring
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pitch on opening day of the Major
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the DTH who follow this edict will put
our battered reputations on the line
beginning tomorrow in an attempt to
prognosticate the outcomes of the four
divisions. Is this finally the year the
Cleveland Indians will jump into sixth
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