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10The Daily Tar HeelMonday, December 5, 1988
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Fox wins MVP honors as Tar Heels
Missouri, Arizona in Tournament of
By MIKE BERARDINO
.' Sports Editor
: CHARLOTTE The Queen City
sure is a long way from the Big Apple.
'' That's what Missouri painfully
found out Saturday evening in the
new Charlotte Coliseum. Ten days
after cruising past North Carolina in
the Big Apple NIT semifinals in New
York City, the eighth-ranked Tigers
discovered first-hand just how
seriously these Tar Heels take this
revenge thing.
Playing for the first Tournament
of Champions title, lOth-ranked
UNC jumped all over Missouri in the
rematch, grabbing a remarkable 23
point halftime lead and coasting
home to a 76-60 victory before a
partisan crowd of 21,435.
Sophomore forward Rick Fox
struck for 24 points to earn tourney
MVP honors, and junior Kevin
Madden added 19 to help the Tar
Heels (6-1) avenge their only loss so
far this season. On Friday,. North
Carolina earned its way into the final
by fighting to a 79-72 win over 1 1th
ranked Arizona, the team which
clobbered UNC by 18 in the West
Regional Final last March.
"We didn't do anything different
than in New York same defense,
same offense, although we probably
shot better tonight," UNC coach
.Dean Smith said. "We just played
better. This is the best weVe played
this year. We're very pleased."
While the Tar Heels had the
revenge factor working for them,
Missouri was battling fatigue, having
been extended to double overtime the
night before by a pesky Temple
squad. That may have had something
to do with the whopping 28 turnovers
Mizzou committed against the trap
ping North Carolina defense.
"They surprised us a little bit in
New York," said Jeff Lebo, UNC's
senior guard. "They had their big
people bring the ball up, which we
weren't prepared for defensively.
Tonight, our defensive traps and our
Fireshmaim Johnson
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By NATALIE SEKICKY
Staff Writer
The young North Carolina wom
en's basketball team made it a clean
sweep for Tar Heels in weekend hoop
tournaments Sunday at Carmichael
Auditorium.
The Tar Heels hosted Indiana, St.
John's and East Tennessee State
Saturday and Sunday in the Carolina
Classic. And if you consider failing
to politely allow your guests to
triumph in competition bad etiquette,
then the Heels will definitely not be
going to Emily Post's Christmas party
this year.
UNC rudely defeated ETSU, 83
58, then dumped Indiana 80-75 in
Sunday's final.
Saturday's win set up the cham
pionship matchup with the Hoosiers,
who held off a scrambling St. John's
team in the first game Saturday, 72
68. This contest proved to be more
of a challenge, as UNC faced an
Indiana team experiencing a season
similar to that of the Tar Heels.
Like Carolina, the Hoosiers fin
ished sixth in a strong conference last
season, with an overall record of 12
16. Both teams are young, although
UNC wins the prize for most fresh
men, 6-4.
Not surprisingly, this game was a
much closer affair. UNC drew first
blood when Sheri Anderson hit a
three-foot jumper after Carolina won
the tip. But Indiana came out with
its outside game in high gear. A free
throw by Pam Fritz, a three-pointer
by guard Amy Cherubini and an 18
foot baseline jumper from Tisha Hill
gave Indiana a 6-2 lead at 17:59. The
Tar Heels could do no better for the
next 11 minutes than a 10-8 advan
tage at 16:28 after Merlaine Oden hit
from the low post.
, Indiana's lead reached six points
on several occasions throughout the
half until the Tar Heels, getting
buckets from six different players,,
closed in on the Hoosiers, 24-22, on
Friday
UNC 79, Arizona 71
Alteon ESioS 7-17 0-0 15. Buechter 5-11 4
4 14. Cook 2-7 1-2 5, Loflurt 3-7 Q-O &, Mason 4
, 14 1-3 10, Muehtebaoh 2-4 2-2 7, Cuny 5-5 1-1 11,
David 0-1 0-0 O. Rooks 0-2 1-2 1. Georgraon 0-1
0-0 a Totals 28- 10-14 72.
UNC Madden 3-13 5-6 11. ChilcuB 8-11 0-0
18, Wiiliams 7-15 3-4 17. Lebo 2-4 2-2 6, Rice 1
4 2-2 5, Denny 2-3 0-0 ft Bucknal 3-5 2-2 8, Daw
0-3 1-2 1. Fox 4-5 0-1 aToUs 30-63 15-21 7
Halftme Score: UNC 28-24. Three-point goals
Arizona 6-20 Slo8 2-7, Lofton 2-4, Mason 1-6, :
MueNebaen 1-3&. UNC 4-12 Madden 0-1. CNcutt 0
1 . WHams 0-1. Lebo 0- FSce 1 -2, Danny 2-3, BucknaS
0-1, Davis 0-1 Fox 1-2). Turnovers Arizona 14, UNC
2a Rebounds Arizona 31 (ESo BuecNer H UNC
40 (CnicuS 11). Assists Arizona 12 (MuehJebach
41 UNC 18 (FSce 6). Fouls- Arizona 19, UNC 15.
A 21X25.
intensity were there."
The Tigers stayed with UNC for
the first 10 minutes, pulling within
23-17 when Doug Smith hit from the
baseline at the 9:37 mark. But shortly
thereafter, a technical foul on Mis
souri coach Norm Stewart set off a
19-4 Tar Heel run.
Jeff Lebo hit both technical free
throws and Madden quickly pushed
the lead to double digits with a
turnaround from 10 feet. Three
straight Missouri turnovers followed,
but UNC was unable to add to its
advantage until Fox hit a follow shot
at 7:49.
After a Madden free throw, Fox
knocked in an eight-foot bank shot
and the lead was 15. Byron Irvin
broke the Missouri drought with a
pair of freebies at the 6:30 mark, but
Fox, who had made just two of five
three-point tries before Saturday, hit
back-to-back bonusphere bombs to
give UNC a 38-19 lead with 5:04 left.
But the surge of the gods wasnt
over quite yet. After Lee Coward hit
a pull-up jumper on Missouri's next
trip downcourt, Lebo canned two free
throws and Madden swished another
10-foot .turnaround to push the Tar
Heel advantage to 42-21 at the 4:01
mark.
The lead grew as large as 25 points,
at 48-23, when Lebo hit a fast-break
layup, before North Carolina settled
for a 48-25 margin at the intermission.
title over Hoosiers.
two free throws by freshman point
guard and tournament MVP Emily.
Johnson at the 8:26 mark. UNC tied
it up at 26 when Dawn Bradley gave
her defender a head fake and let fly
unmolested a six-footer from the
paint at 5:40. .
Two charity tosses by Anderson
gave UNC the lead it would never
relinquish with 4:28 left in the half.
Anderson came right back with a
jumper from 17 feet, Johnson added
a trey from the top of the key and
the Kennedys, LeAnn and Kellie (no
relation), each hit a hoop to give UNC
a 38-32 halftime advantage.
But try as they might, the Tar Heels
could not deliver the knockout punch
to the tenacious Hoosiers in the
second half. The lead fluctuated from
four to 10 points and Indiana was
making a game of it when' freshman
center Kareema Williams seized
control of the game at the 8:18 mark.
With Carolina up 57-52, she
grabbed an offensive rebound under
the basket and got the foul as she
muscled up the follow shot. The free
throw made the score 60-52. After
Indiana's Hill made one of two free
tosses, Williams gave the crowd a
serious case of deja vu when she
grabbed another board on the left
block, forced up the follow and
you guessed it was glad to hear
the referee's whistle as the ball
dropped through the net.
This time, Williams failed to
convert the freebie, though, and UNC
led 62-53.
But Williams was not finished. Liza
Donnell missed a layup, but Williams
was waiting with perfect rebounding
position. She snatched yet another
offensive board and hit the follow
up shot to make it 64-53 Tar Heels
with 7:30 left in the game.
Williams' offense proved to be
what UNC needed to win. Indiana's
long-range game, frustrated by the
multiple looks UNC gave on defense,
sputtered near the end, and the Tar
of
, . Saturday
j UNC 78, Missouri 60
Missouri Smart 5-10 0-Q 10. Sandbctw 2-3 0-.
0 4, Leonard 3-3 1-2 7, Coward 1-6 0-0 2, trvin 3- ;
" 12 2-2 8, Wawyniak 4-5 0-0 8, Horton 0-0 0-0 2.
Buntin 3-9 1-2 7, MdnJyre 0-1 0-0 0, Coieman 0-2
0-0 ft Church 1-2 0-0 2, Sutton 1-1 0-0 2. Peeler?
4-12 1-2 10. Totab 27-66 5-8 60
UNC BucknaS 4-11 2-4 10, CNIcutt 3-7 0-0 6,
!. Wiiliams 2-8 2-3 6 Lebo 1-6 6-6 8 FSce 0-3 0-0 0.
Denny 1-1 0-0 3 Madden 8-17 3-4 19, May 0-0 0- ;
0 0, Davis 0-3 0-0 ft Fox 9-11 4-5 24, Hensley 0
0 0-2 ft Akins 0-1 0-0 ft Greene 0-1 0-0 ft Totals
28-69 17-24 76.
HaiSme Score: UNC 48-25. Three-point goats
Missouri 110 (Peeter 1-3, Mdrrtyre 0-1, Coward 0-;
2. kvin 04). UNC 3-7 (Fox 2-2, Denny 1-1, BucknaR
0-1, FSce 0-1, Lebof2). Fouled out Smifo Turnovers.
Mssouri 14, UNC 2a Rebounds Missouri 48
BunSn 81 UNC 44 Chfcu 11).
Playing the second half was antic
limactic, but somebody had to do it.
Missouri freshman Anthony Peeler
did a nice job, scoring eight of his
10 points after the break, but the
Tigers were unable to pull any closer
than the final margin.
"North Carolina did a super job;
they just cjinpletely took us out of
the ballgame," Missouri coach Norm
Stewart said. "They just kind of
turned it up a notch. They pushed
the ball up the court and got a little
more on the exchanges. They did an
excellent job."
Stewart, good-natured despite his
first-half blowup, dismissed the
notion of a home-court advantage for
the Tar Heels as a possible difference
between the first and , second
meetings.
"This game could have been played
n.my.h.Qmjstown and itwouldrLlhaveL
made any difference," the 21st-year
Missouri coach said. "We have no
offense."
Peeler and Smith were the only
Tigers to reach double figures in
scoring, with 10 apiece. The vaunted
backcourt of Irvin and Coward, who
had ripped UNC for 38 points in the
first matchup, combined for just 10
points on 4-of-18 shooting Saturday.
Missouri shot 41 percent from the
floor (27-of-66), including a miserable
l-of-10 from three-point land.
UNC's shooting was equally poor
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Heels prevailed.
Oden was the lone Carolina repre
sentative on the All-Tournament
team, while Johnson, who seems to
leave her freshman qualities in the
locker room, took MVP honors.
In Saturday's game, UNC raced to
a 6-0 mark and then reached its
biggest first half lead of nine points
at the 14:45 mark. ETSU struggled
from the field in the initial minutes,
but the Bucs began to find the mark
after guard Nicole Hopson hit from
rtimp past
Champions
(28-of-69), but the Tar Heels got to
the foul line 16 more times than their
opponents, outscoring the Tigers at
the charity stripe 17-5. Missouri was
whistled for 21 personal fouls to
UNC's nine.
Those disparities, along with the
surprising difficulty the Tigers had
with North Carolina's press, perhaps
contributed to the amount of junk
talking and cheap-shotting Missouri
did Saturday.
"That doesn't show much class on
their part," said Madden, whose
uniform jersey sported a patch of
blood, thanks to a split lip suffered
under the boards. "When you're out
there, you let your game and your
play speak for you. Once you're out
there talking, you really lose your
composure. Once they started doing
that, I knew we had them in our back
pockets.
"When they got that tech, we
figured they were out of the game.
Their coach was worrying about the
referees, and their players were
worrying about the calls."
The outcome of Friday night's
tussle with the clean-playing Wildcats
was in doubt much longer. Displaying
a degree of tightness usually asso
ciated with the Final Four, the two
teams felt each other out for the first
half.
Sean Elliott, Arizona's 6-foot-9
All-American, hit a three-pointer and.
a couple of medium-range jumpers
to . iielp , the Wildcats ibuildlseveral
four-point leads: But two Jeff Denny
three-pointers keyed a late 9-0 UNC
spurt which enabled the Tar Heels
to take a 28-24 advantage into the
dressing room.
The game was still nip-and-tuck ,
when Elliott picked up his fourth foul
with 13:28 left and Arizona trailing
43-41. With their big man ' on the
bench, however, the Wildcats pulled
together and rallied into a 56-5 1 lead
at the 9:01 mark. Jud Buechler, who
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18 feet at 14:33.
Hopson's bucket was followed by
five unanswered jumpers, including
treys by guards Stephanie Freeman
and Jennifer Cooke. Freeman's three
pointer gave the Bucs their only lead
of the game, and Cooke's trey boosted
the advantage to 19-15.
UNC's Anderson broke the dry
spell at 10:59 to make the count 19
17. Oden then scored on a strong post
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By NEIL AMATO
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Following Friday's performan
ces against Penn State, North
Carolina swimming coach Frank
Comfort knew both his squads
understood the true meaning of
the word "team."
That's because both the Tar
Heel men's and women's teams
received quality contributions
from many swimmers and divers
to defeat the Nittany Lions, 146
97 and 161-139, respectively.
The Tar Heel women's squad
won 10 events and placed high in
numerous others to outdistance
Penn State by 22 points. The score
was closer than it should have been
because UNC, knowing it had
wrapped up the meet, swam many
of the later events as exhibitions,
meaning their places didn't count
for points.
"You need 151 points to win a
women's meet, and as soon as we
Texas beats'
in NCAA first round
From staff reports
Peggy Bradley-Doppes' first trip to
the NCAA Tournament didn't last
very long, as the No. 4 Texas Longh
orns bounced the Tar Heel volleyball
squad from the Tournament in the
first round Friday night in straight
sets, 15-7, 15-6, 15-6.
The Longhorns, who move on to
the second round of the tournament,
upped their record to 30-5. The Tar
Heels, who were looking to be only
the second ACC team to win a game
in the tournament, season ended at
27-9.
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got 151, we swam some exhibi
tions," Comfort said "Our women
swam really well."
Besides swimming well, some
team members also dove well. The
North Carolina divers, coached by
Randy Emerson, held four of the
top five slots in the one-meter
competition and three of the top
fou in the three-meter
competition. x
Senior co-captain Wendy Pow4
ers fared well in three events,
winning the 100-yard backstroke
in 1:00.09 and the 200-yard back
stroke in 2:07.85. Powers, an Ail
American from Baltimore, also;
finished second in the 200 IM.;
Placing third in the 200-yard IM
was freshman Lisa Brown, who
also won the 100-yard breaststroke
and captured second in the. 2Q0--yard
event.
Sophomore Heather Not-
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the Christians being thrown to the
lions, as a no-doubt partisan crowd
of 1,044 looked on in Austin, Texas.:
The Tar Heels weren't without
their bright spots, though. One was:
junior Sharon German, a 6-foot
Dillon, S.C., native who had 13 kills
on the night. Another was senior
Andrea Wells, who hails from Can-:
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16-14.