The Daily Tar Heel Friday, January 30, 19875
'Heels take oe Rivers off Somltli Bemd.
WE'RE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE
American Heart Association
By JAMES SUROVIECKI
Assistant Sports Editor
UNC plays a return engagement
Sunday (1 p.m., NBC) with the boys
who bear the name of the Emerald
Isle. Last year, the Fighting Irish
journeyed to Chapel Hill and
dropped a hardfought 73-61 deci
sion. That loss was primarily the
result of an Irish scoring drought of
eight minutes during the second half.
This year, Notre Dame will be
lucky if the game is close enough for
such a drought to matter. The Irish
lost to graduation silky smooth
forward Ken Barlow, inside banger
Tim Kempton and Jim Dolan, he
of the soft passes. As a result, the
bruising power game they played last
year has been lost.
In its place is a phenomenally
deliberate offense which stresses
taking only very good shots. The
offense, though, allows more free
lancing than in past years, primarily
w ith regard to Notre Dame's big gun,
junior David Rivers.
Rivers is Notre Dame's biggest
"weapon, and in some respects
appears to have improved his game
over last year despite suffering a
near-fatal car accident. He is scoring
slightly less, but has more assists,
more rebounds and more steals per
game. In addition, Rivers has not
ignored the possibilities of the three
point line.
The big man inside for the 10-5
Irish is senior captain Donald Royal,
a fine player in the paint who can
also put the ball on the floor when
needed. Royal is averaging 14.0
points and 6.3 rebounds a game.
Perhaps the outstanding character
istic of his game is his free-throw
shooting. The story goes that in a
high school game, Royal was fouled
by Benoit Benjamin (now of the
NBA) and had a chance to win the
game with a free throw. He missed,
and dedicated himself to becoming
awesome at the charity stripe.
The Irish have more than just
Royal and Rivers, though. Senior
guard Scott Hicks has found his
game offensively, averaging 1 1 .5
points a contest. Hicks now looks
comfortable shooting from down
town, and has improved his ballhan
dling enough to give Rivers a respite
at the point, from time to time.
The brightest prospect the Irish
have is sophomore swingman Mark
Stevenson. The 6-6 Philadelphia
product has continued to build upon
a solid, if unspectacular, rookie
campaign in which he shot .585 from
the field and .841 from the line. He
has shown a gift for inside play in
addition to his outside shooting and
averages 9.5 points a game.
Notre Dame knows what it is like
to be touched with the luck of the
Irish, something the Athletic and
Convocation Center will have to be
full of if an upset is to materialize.
That luck, perhaps better termed a
refusal to die, manifested itself in one
stretch this season when the Irish
won nine of 10 games, but disap
peared as they dropped two consec
utive close decisions.
The first was a heartbreaking 57
55 loss to Daryl Prue-led West
Virginia, and was followed by a
galling defeat in Pauley Pavilion.
That loss came courtesy of six
V
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David Rivers
leads Irish attack
turnovers in the final two minutes
and a 25-foot Reggie Miller bomb.
Notre Dame rebounded by rolling
over Dayton 66-55 on Tuesday night,
and played Marquette last night. The
Irish seem to be back on track, but
certainly a kiss on the Blarney Stone
couldnt hurt, either.
UNC teams competing in 'distant venues
By BOB YOUNG
Staff Writer
Well, it seems everybody involved
with North Carolina winter sports
will be working for the weekend.
Unfortunately for Tar Heel fans, all
the teams will be competing a long,
: long way from home.
Let us begin with action taking
! place on the hardwood. . . .
The men's basketball team will
: venture into the deepest corners of
i South Bend, Ind., on Sunday to
! square off with the Fighting Irish of
! Notre Dame, led by David (Old
! Man) Rivers. The game is scheduled
! to begin at 1 p.m. and will be shown
! nationally by NBC.
! The women's hoops team will also
! see action. The Tar Heels will be
'. playing in the House That Lefty Left
! as Maryland provides the opposition
1 Saturday at Cole Field House. UNC
will try to improve its 12-6 record
against the 25th-rated Terrapins at
7:30 p.m. .
Also competing on the boards will
be the members of the UNC track
team. Friday night, the two-mile
relay team of Johan Boakes, Clive
Harriott, Dave Fuhrmann and Kyle
Lowe, along with sprinter Brad
Sullivan represent UNC at the
Millrose Games in Madison Square
Garden, New York City. If they can
make it there, they can make it
anywhere. Other members of the
team will go to the Bud Light
Invitational in Fairfax, Va., on
Saturday.
But now, out of the hardwood and
onto the mats. ...
The fifth-ranked UNC wrestling
team will face the Clemson Tigers
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Saturday night at 7:30 in a matchup
of traditional ACC powers. The Tar
Heels will try to maintain their
undefeated record against Clemson,
which has failed to beat UNC in each
of their 12 previous meetings.
The fencing teams have quite
heavy schedules carved out for
themselves. The women's and men's
squads will face MIT, Brandeis,
Northwestern, St. John's, Wellesley
(for the women). Brown and Har
vard. The women compete against
the crowd in Waltham, Klass., on
Saturday, while the men go at it in
Cambridge, Mass., on Sunday. The
women then turn around and tussle
with Temple and Princeton on
Sunday.
That's it as far as mats and boards
go. On to things more liquid. . . .
The Tar Heel swimmers and divers
head for the hills of Charlottesville,
Va., to tangle With the Cavaliers on
Sunday. The women will get things
underway (and underwater) at 1 p.m.
followed by the men at 4 p.m.
That's the UNC sports agenda..
Unless you have wheels and time at.
your disposal, you're out of luck. No
wonder Genesis picked tonight,
tonight to play at the Smith Center,
it seems Phil & Co. are the only show
in town. .
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. . . takes wrestlers to Clemson
Womens's
basketball
beats USC
By MIKE BERARDINO
Assistant Sports Editor
Much like Dean & Crew did
against Clemson, the North Carolina
women's basketball team overcame
a sluggish start with a strong second
half to down South Carolina, 67-46,
Wednesday night in Columbia, S.C.
Dawn Royster led the Tar Heels
with 20 points and ll rebounds,
while reserve forward Chryss Watts
: scored all 17 of her points in the
'. decisive second half. Royster's board
. total gave her 1,001 in her college
career.
The win, North Carolina's third
in a row, left UNC with a 12-6 record.
The Lady Gamecocks dropped to 9-8.
Trailing by three early in the
-second half, the Tar Heels ripped off
. a 1 2-0 run over the next seven
minutes to go up 35-26 at the 10:47
mark. Watts capped the surge with
a 10-foot jumper.
Another UNC spurt, this one a
,9-0 number, made it a 55-36 game
with five minutes to play.
The game was tied at 21 after one
half, as neither team shot very well.
'. The Tar Heels went without a field
-,goal for the game's first 10 minutes
; en route to shooting 24 percent (6
; for-25) in the opening period. South
"f Carolina wasn't much better, hitting
just 29 percent from the floor before
I the break.
"They just controlled the tempo
; in the first half, so we thought we
would press them in the second half
'to make them pick up the tempo,"
said UNC coach Sylvia Rhyne
Hatchell.
; The adjustment apparently
C worked, as the prior effectiveness of
; South Carolina's slowdown tactics
was erased by the Tar Heels' def
ensive pressure. UNC shot an even
; 60 percent in the final 20 minutes.
: while limiting the hosts to 33 percent.
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