6The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, November 2, 1988
Sports
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By DOUG HOOGERVORST
Staff Writer
The North Carolina and N.C. State
volleyball teams squared off on the
hardwood of Carmichael Auditorium
Tuesday night in a battle for the top
spot in the ACC. In a previous non
ACC match, the Tar Heels beat the
Wolfpack in four sets. State returned
the favor this time, trouncing UNC
in four sets, 15, 15-11, 13-15, 15
1. In beating UNC, State all but won
the ACC championship with a perfect
4-0 conference record. The Wolfpack,
15-8 overall, must win its two remain
ing ACC matchups before they can
be official regular-season champs.
The Southern Region's seventh
ranked Tar Heels had a five-game
winning streak snapped and fell to
Brown: Tiseirs are pheoommeinia
By MIKE BERARDINO
Sports Editor
The buzzword at Mack Brown's
press conference Tuesday was "phen
omenal." The recipient of this choice
of adjective was, more often than not,
the Clemson Tiger football team,
UNC's next opponent.
"They are so big and fast; it's like
playing Oklahoma when you play
Clemson," Brown said. "They wear
you down, make you tired. They're
so physical. Not only can they beat
you, they can hurt you.
"It's phenomenal."
And scary, too. Just think about
it. Those poor little 1-7 Tar Heels
having to step into Death Valley and
play the big, bad 6-2 Tigers, a team
that plays SEC-caliber football
against ACC opponents.
Sure, UNC took Maryland down
to the wire Saturday and, in fact,
should have handed the Terrapins
only their second conference loss of
the season. But Clemson is different.
Everybody knows that.
These guys are can we say it?
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Friday - 7:30 pm UNC
vs. Alabama-Birmingham
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22-7, 5-1 in the ACC.
State squashed any glimmer of
comeback hope the Tar Heels had
in Game 4, winning decisively, 15-1.
UNC had just won a squeaker in
Game 3, 15-13, and was on an
emotional high. The Wolfpack scored
the game's first five points before an
Andrea Wells kill made the score 5
1. Then there was no stopping State.
The Wolfpack's Patty Lake (four
service aces, 1 1 digs) stepped to the
service line with the score 9-1. She
had two aces in a string of five points
that saw smiles of celebration cross
the faces of the State players. UNC
stopped Lake's serve, but it was all
for naught, as State's Volire Tisdale
slammed match point down one serve
later.
Tisdale looked like she was related
phenomenal.
"The thing that's phenomenal
about their defense," Brown said, "is
that they have intercepted 1 1 passes
this year and returned them for 120
yards. That's phenomenal."
That statistic is, of course, a great
tribute to the Tigers super-athletic
secondary, led by senior cornerback
Donnell Woolford, a leading candi
date for the Thorpe Award. But
according to Brown, the Tigers may
be even stronger up front.
"Their strength is their defensive
line against the rush," Brown said.
"They play nine guys on the line, just
run 'em in and out, and they're all
very good. They've had 34 players on
defense make tackles this year. We
won't even have 34 players healthy
enough to bring down there.
"It's phenomenal."
Equally impressive is Clemson's 59
0 scoring advantage in first quarters
this season. Combined with UNC's
notorious slow starts (the Tar Heels
have been outscored 89-20 in the
opening period), Saturday's game
could be over shortly after the Tigers
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to the former Oklahoma hoop star,
Wayman Tisdale, with her leaping
performance. The 5-foot-8 senior was
jumping over tall buildings in a single
bound and led all hitters with 21 kills
in the four-set match.
"N.C. State definitely outplayed
us," coach Peggy Bradley-Doppes
said. "They played much better
defense and I felt they blocked better
and played with a little bit more
emotion. They played super. We
came into this match feeling we were
playing very good volleyball and we
did this past weekend (victories over
Clemson, Georgia and Georgia
Tech)."
Bradley-Doppes added, "I don't
want to say we looked past N.C. State
because I don't think anyone ever
looks past N.C. State. I think we
"I asked some of our people what
we should do about that, and they
said Show up in the second quar
ter, " Brown joshed. "Clemson's just
an outstanding football team. Like
Oklahoma, even though you know
they're going to run the football,
they Ve been good enough, successful
enough and dominant enough that it
doesn't matter. They are just a
dominant physical football team."
After establishing just. how good
he thinks Clemson is, Brown detailed
just how dinged up his own team is.
Starting cornerback Skeet Bald
win, who injured his knee against the
Terps, will definitely not play
Saturday.
Torin Dora, the Tar Heels' oft
injured tailback, was still in the
infirmary Tuesday nursing a bruised
back that flared up on the first series
of the Maryland game. Brown said
it's doubtful Dorn will play against
Clemson.
The good news is senior linebacker
Mitch Wike's return to the practice
field. Wike, who suffered a perforated
intestine when he was kicked in the
stomach in the season opener at
South Carolina, has worked his way
back and, though he's not ready for
contact drills, will participate in this
week's practices without gear.
Should he somehow return to game
action in the final three weeks, that
would be . . . well, phenomenal.
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thought it was going to be a good
match, but we'd work hard and we'd
win. We cant ever go in that way."
The Wolfpack put the Tar Heels
on the defensive immediately, scoring
points early and, often in Game 1.
State's Pam Vehling scored the
game's first two points with solo
blocks and UNC fell behind 7-0
before scoring its first point. The Tar
Heels had no chance in this game,
trailing by as much as 14-2 before
they tallied twice. State forced a Tar
Heel error to end the game, 15-4.
The start of the second game
looked like a replay of Game 1, as
the Wolfpack jumped on the Tar
Heels early for a 4-1 lead. North
Carolina looked cold and awkward.
No one person was taking charge,
though each hustled to her utmost.
"(State) did a very, very good job
of keying in on our players that
weren't playing well," Bradley
Doppes said. "You can get by when
you have one player cold, but when
you have three or four at once, you
can't. I certainly don't believe we
weren't trying. We were trying our
hearts out. I just think that N.C. State
put us on the defensive so early that
we could never establish ourselves."
UNC started to play better midway
through Game 2 but could not make
up the points they had spotted State.
In Game 3, North Carolina opened
up its first lead, but State would not
let them out of reach.
The Wolfpack regained the lead
late, 11-10, but improved UNC
hitting proved to be the difference.
Wells (16 kills), Liz Berg (12 kills, 13
digs) and Sharon German (11 digs)
helped the Tar Heels with kills from
all angles. North Carolina scored five
of the game's last seven points to win
15-13 and force the fourth game.
"air. Heels
By LANGSTON WERTZ
Staff Writer
The North Carolina men's basket
ball team proved three things during
its 109-100 exhibition win over
Marathon Oil in the Smith Center
Tuesday night.
B One, it's very early in the season,
and it was their first game against
outside competition.
B Two, they could get out and run
coach Dean Smith's new up-tempo,
Shoot-It-Before-You-Lose-It game
well albeit with 18 turnovers.
B And three, with J.R. Reid out
for two months wftn a stress fracture,
the Tar Heels have a new Mr.
Fantastic.
"It's a nice way to win, being down
late in the last 10 minutes," said
Smith, whose team will take on the
Russian National team on Nov. 12.
"(Playing against Marathon Oil) was
kind of like playing against a semi
pro team. But we had some bright
and low spots."
One of the shiniest Tar Heels was
sophomore forward Rick Fox. Fox
emerged from the muck of the sloppy
exhibition game where both teams
turned the ball over a combined 40
times and showed the sparse crowd
of 3,700 that even Reid-less, UNC still
On grinning and Bear-ing it
Being a sports fan and a pseudo
athlete all of my life, I subscribe
deeply to the sporting world's theory
of superstition. Namely, it accounts
for absolutely everything that occurs.
I'm writing this because I recently
caught myself basing my decisions on
pure statistics. And it hurt.
Growing up in Chicago has made
me a Bears fan through thick and thin
(mostly thin in fact, emaciated).
The last four years have afforded me
some cautious optimism. But on
Sunday, I read an article that said
the Las Vegas oddsmakers had
installed the Bears as favorites to win
the Super Bowl.
Now, no true sports fan really likes
to see their team picked as the clean
cut favorite. Oh, the kiss of death,
I said. Then that skepticism naturally
born into Chicago sports fans began
to seep out.
I thought, IVe been watching them
play and they haven't looked that
dominating. The defense has been
good, but the offense is only 17th in
the NFL. They were crushed by
division rival Minnesota. Sure, they
beat San Francisco, but they only
scored 10 points. Besides, we're only
halfway through the season. And
what do oddsmakers know about
football anyway?
After I finished whining, I read the
rest of the article. It listed all the
reasons the Bears deserved this praise
and, sure enough, I found myself
believing it. I hurried out to buy my
Super Bowl tickets.
And the game on Sunday? No
contest! They played the Patriots, the
last sacrificial lambs the NFL threw
to the Bears in 1985. Probably still
licking their wounds from that
thrashing, they were only 3-5 this
year.
Besides, all of their real quarter
backs were banged up, leaving the
duties to Doug Flutie, the evil anti-
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had a little electricity.
Fox went 5-for-ll and scored 10
points, but brought a little of the fan
pleasing, showtime-type plays that
UNC fans haven't seen since No. 23
trotted around Chapel Hill dunking
alley-oops with his tongue hanging
out.
Fox dunked the ball four times
Tuesday night, including one diving,
kiss-the-rim type, but it was his first
one that was the most important.
With UNC trailing 26-1 8, Jeff Lebo
hit Fox with a bounce pass that the
6-foot-7 forward turned into a wake
up call for the Tar Heels. The two
fisted crunch began a big Tar Heel
move that ended with them finally
gaining the lead following a Scott
Williams lay-in at 1:59 at 41-39.
Four straight Lebo points and a
Marathon layup by Bud Greer left
UNC with a curious 45-41 half time
lead.
"It's a change to go for 27 years
one way and then to speed it up,"
Smith said. "We always go fast,
though, but not this fast. But they
were supposed to be the old men. We
were the ones huffing and puffing."
UNC huffed and puffed in the
second half, but didn't come close to
Mark Anderson
Staff Writer
quarterback. Sure, his college career
was kind of cute, but as a pro, he's
been more of a comedic prop.
Unfortunately, I watched the game
Sunday. And reality proceeded to
shoot down those stats time after
time.
B This year, the Bears were Qnce
again the NFL's best ball-control
team, as they were in the champion
ship year of 1985.
Jinx: they had the ball for only
seven minutes, 40 seconds in the
second half.
B No team had scored more than
nine points in the last five games
against Chicago.
Jinx: the Patriots ripped them for
30.
B The top-ranked defense had not
allowed a 100-yard rusher in 31
games, while giving up an average of
only 66.3 yards on the ground.
Jinx: The Patriots' season-high,
185-yard rushing day was led by
rookie John Stephens' 124 yards on
35 carries.
B The Bears had shut down three
of the NFL's top quarterbacks
Dan Marino, Joe Montana and Jim
Kelly limiting them to 42-of- 88
passing for 555 yards, two touch
downs, two interceptions, 11 sacks
and three losses.
Jinx: The NFL's resident midget
didn't have much better stats (6-for-18,
165 yards, 80 of those on the first
play), but he did the job the others
couldn't no interceptions, four
touchdowns and one win.
B Finally, Jim McMahon had
remained relatively healthy over the
first eight games for the first time in
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blowing the Marathon house down.
Marathon Oil stayed right with the
Tar Heels in the second half
surviving three more Fox jams and
regained the lead at 79-77 after a
Darren Rowe layup with 10:26
remaining.
Kevin Madden, who finished with
14 points, two-hand-jammed the Tar
Heels into a tie and sent them on a
6-0 spurt and effectively seal the
curiously tight game.
The Tars Heels cruised home and
featured Fox who alley-ooped a
pass from Bucknall at 7:24 as UNC
went up 89-81, and crammed one
home left-handed at 5:31 to give the
Tar Heels a 93-85 lead.
"I think I've got to do things that
will help the team first," said Fox,
when asked about his penchant for
the spectacular. "But if, at the same
time, I can do the exciting things, too,
it's just great."
Pete Chilcutt played just great for
the Tar Heels Tuesday, leading UNC
with 23 points.
Center Scott Williams struggled
early, but finished with 22 points on
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was 2-of-5 from trifecta city, Bucknall
had 16 and Madden added 14.
Jinx: McMahon went down with;';
a strained right knee early in the
second quarter. He will be out at least .
four weeks a'nd, if ligament or
cartilage damage is found, Could be t
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So who are the real Bears?
Obviously, they are still a team to;:
be reckoned with. The offense will;!
be the key. It is stocked with the '
necessary weapons, but McMahon
has proven he is the general with the
finger on the button. Without him,
the offense is below average.
If McMahon is unable to return,
the defense must once again carry this
team. Fortunately, this has become
a role they seem to relish. It's an
attitude.
Note the San Francisco game. In
the waning minutes, the Bears had
a fourth-and-one on the 49ers' 45,.
holding a one-point lead. The book
and everything else told Ditka to punt
and let the 49ers try to drive the whole
field. But All-Pro linebacker Mike
Singletary told him, "Go for it, they
won't score on us!"
Caught in the emotion, Ditka went
for it and failed. But Singletary and '
the rest of the defense held true to-'
their word and shut down San.
Francisco. This kind of arrogance
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as a vehicle to shamelessly promote."
Chicago sports teams (Bulls, Bears)..
You re nght! I would have praised
the Cubs, seeing as they are the best'
team in baseball playing in the best'
park, but the season ended before I
could. "
Anyway, IVe learned my lesson the'
hard way once again, the one about
reading and believing. Oh, I still hope,
and believe the Bears will win the.
Super Bowl, I'm just not going to say
it out loud.