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MONDAY
Women's hoops tonight
at 7:30 in Carmichael
10The Daily Tar HeelMonday, November 27, 1989
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Basketball sneaks
Villanova in Maui
Note: The UNC-Missouri final of the
Maui Classic began last night at 1 am.
EST i the story will run in Tuesday's
edition.
By DAVE GLENN
Sports Editor
LA MAIN A, Hawaii For the sec
ond day in a row, when the going got
tough, the Tar Heels got going.
Trailing Villanova by three points
with seven minutes left in the game, the
Tar Heels pulled off a perfectly exe
cuted 1 1-0 run over the next six min
utes to carry them to an exhilarating 78
68 victory in the semifinals of the Maui
Classic before 3,000 at the Lahaina
Civic Center.
After leading for the entire first half,
UNC found itself trailing, 65-62, late in
the second stanza.
-' From that point on, the Tar Heels put
on a show good enough to write the first
words in the 1989 chapter of 'Text
book, Basketball: The Carolina Way."
Even UNC head coach Dean Smith,
usually not one to publicly praise his
team, was impressed.
'.The key was the last four minutes,"
Smith said. "We really executed from
that point forward.
."That's the key to having a good
season to be able to execute like that
in the last five minutes."
And execute the Tar Heels did.
They went inside Kevin Madden
sliced through the lane for a 10-foot
jumper to draw UNC to within one.
They went outside Rick Fox, who
led the Tar Heels with 23 points on a
sizzling 8 of 9 from the field, buried a
three-pointer from the left wing to put
UNC back up by two at 67-65. The
Wildcats never regained the lead.
They diditon defense Vox knocked
the ball loose from Villanova forward
Marc Dowdell and made a diving stab
to knock it toward midcourt. Hubert
Davis took it from there for a lei-up to
put the Tar Heels up by three with three
minutes to play.
After UNC freshman George Lynch
rebounded a Lance Miller trey attempt
that drew iron, Davis went to work
again. This time he took it inside and
drained a 10-foot baseline jumper with
six Wildcat arms in his face to put UNC
up and away at 71-65.
"Hubert made a big basket," Smith
said.: "He was supposed to take an out
side shot, but they came flying at him.
So he took it inside and made a tough
shot."
. Davis finished the afternoon with a
career-high 16 points on 7-of-13 shoot-
Soccer and Rogefs don't mix well
By SCOTT GOLD
Assistant Sports Editor
As I sped down 1-40 late, of
course (this was Sunday morning)
on my way to Raleigh for the final
game of the women's soccer season, I
was already considering various leads
for my story on the eventual national
champion Tar Heels. I assumed, of
course, that they were going to win, just
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Trom staff reports
The UNC women's basketball team
opened up its 1989-90 season with a
1 02-63 destruction of the Coastal Carolina-Chanticleers
Saturday night in
darmichael Auditorium.
The Tar Heels had six players in
double figures, using what head coach
Sylvia Hatchell called "an organized
'fastbreak" to build a 55-36 halftime
lead-
; . The Tar Heels were led by senior
guard Sheri Anderson, who had 20
points to lead all scorers.
: Freshman forward Heather Th
ompson added 17 points and pulled
down 9 rebounds.
Other double-figure scorers for the :
Tar Heels were Emily Johnson (11),
Tanya Lamb (12), Kim Oden (10) and
Kareema Williams (12).
Sophomore shooting guard LeAnn
Kennedy added 8 points and 7 assists.
As a team, the Tar Heels out-rebounded
the Chanticleers 50-30 and
also collected 17 steals.
'' Coastal Carolina was led by Shelly
Leonard with 14 points and Stacy
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ing from the field. Lynch pitched in
with nine points to go with his team
high nine rebounds.
Villanova's 7-foot-3 center Tom
Greis led the Wildcats with seven re
bounds and was second to freshman
forward Arron Bain with 16 points.
Bain, a high school teammate of
Lynch's at Flint Hill Prep in Falls
Church, Va., led Rollie Massimino's
squad with 17 points on 7-of-10 shoot
ing from the field.
0,2 vis said Greis' presence contrib
uted to the Tar Heels' penchant for the
outside shot.
"With Greis in there at 7-3, we wanted
to open up the outside," Davis said.
"We had to initiate the outside game,
then throw it inside, which is our main
strength."
Smith said the Tar Heels, who hit 7
of 15 three-pointers on the day, needed
to be tough from the outside because of
Villanova's defense.
"Their zone is very impressive,"
Smith said. "I'm glad we can play
against a team like that with some degree
of success."
The Tar Heels opened the game with
a flurry, using tight man-to-man de
fense and a fine blend of inside and
outside shooting to race out to an eight
point lead in the opening four minutes
of play.
But the Wildcats clawed their way
into the game with a 10-2 run, beating
UNC's trapping defense in the process.
Greis tossed in two early lei-ups and,
when Miller turned a steal into a coast-to-coast
score, Villanova had pulled to
within two at 16-14.
like everybody else did. It was only
natural. They had already won the last
three titles, and there was no indication
that the pattern was going to broken.
I thought of something catchy about
reaching for my Roget's Thesaurus and
looking under "dominating." and
then explaining how I was out of de
scriptive words for this team. I had
already used domineering, frustrating,
first game
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North Carolina gradually rebuilt its
lead to six points, largely on the strength
of the inside play of Lynch and a pair of
three-point bombs from Rice and Fox.
When Madden canned a 14-footer in
the lane with five minutes left in the
half, UNC was up by a score of 34-28.
Villanova pulled even for the first
time with two minutes remaining when
Bain followed a missed lei-up with a
simple deuce to tie the score at 35.
But UNC freshman center Matt
Wenstrom knocked in a 10-foot jumper
from the left baseline and later added a
free throw to send the Tar Heels into the
locker room with a 38-35 advantage.
As Smith wrapped up his postgame
press conference Friday afternoon, in
the wake of the Tar Heels' 80-79 last
second victory over former Maryland
coach Lefty Driesell's James Madison
squad, he saw Rice leaving the room.
"Hey, King," Smith yelled, smiling.
"If the team bus is gone, my car is
parked next to the TV truck outside. I'll
take you ... if you promise to hit
another one like that."
"That" was Rice's you-had-to-see-it-to-believe-it
scoop shot at the buzzer
that capped the Tar Heels' fast and
furious comeback from a nine-point
deficit in the final minute of play.
With four seconds remaining and
the Tar Heels trailing by one, Rice took
an inbound pass from outside the three
point line, drove into a triangle of JMU
defenders and offered up an off-balance,
two-handed prayer.
The answer came as Rice's toss
drifted high into the air, glanced off the
top of the backboard and dropped
cleanly through the net to give UNC a
season-opening victory.
Rice, who finished with 13 points in
a team-high 36 minutes of action, said
his game-winner didn't go exactly as
planned. In fact, he called the wrong
play.
UNC's third-year point guard said
the final play was actually supposed to
go to Kevin Madden or Rick Fox, who
led the Tar Heels with 1 9 and 1 8 points,
respectively.
"I thought Coach Smith made one
call, and he made another one," Rice
said. "I was supposed to screen for Rick
to get the ball in the corner.
"But I called a different play by
mistake. It was for me to get the ball,
penetrate and hit Rick. But when time
was running down, I knew I had to
shoot the ball."
amazing, stupendous, tremendous and
a slew of others that had been beaten to
death by my feeble attempts to sum up
a juggernaut like this on paper.
Domineering. . . overbearing. . .
tyrannizing. . predominating. . . over
coming. . . ascendant. . . unquelled. . .
flushed with success. . .
No, those weren't going to work. I
had used those. I looked up "victory."
Triumph. . . conquest. . . a feather in
one's cap. . . KO. . . landslide. . .
Cadmean victory. . .mastery. . .
I had used most of those, too, and I
had to draw the line somewhere before
the Cadmean border.
Well, I figured it would come to me
eventually.
Finally, after my fingers had all but
frozen off, I had lost my ability to write,
and I found out that those little sand
wiches they were giving the press
needed more mustard, the match started.
Ahhhhh. . . that old contented feeling
rushed over me. I saw players cruising
across the field, setting up plays that no
mortal defense could stop. Goals were
going to rack up; I knewUNC was
going to score at least six or seven
tim
Suddenly, that rush began to reverse
itself. I saw the team's speedsters get
ting beaten to balls they would have
normally gotten to 10 feet before their
foes. I saw masters of undulation (foot
work, for you laymen) get picked apart
by the Tiger defense.
Was I dreaming? Was it the mus
tard? I slowly came to the realization
that the beloved Tar Heels, winners of
eight of the last nine titles. . . might lose.
More than that, if they did lose, I had
to high-tail it back to Chapel Hill and
write the best story of my life. Thoughts
once again raced through my head.
I've eaten about 20 cookies over my
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Lady luck shined on King Rice
Shoot it Rice did, as he slashed
through the lane, lowering his shoulder
and attempting to draw a foul. There
was no whistle, however, only a buzzer
as the ball sailed toward the hoop with
the difference between a win and a loss
hanging in the balance.
"I got pushed a little bit as I shot,"
Rice said. "I think that caused the bank.
I just tried to get it high off the glass
because I've working on that in prac
tice with Coach (Phil) Ford.
"At first I didn't think it was going
in, but I saw where it hit off the glass
and I thought that it definitely had a
chance."
But at least one person on the court
didn't see it that way.
"I really thought we had the ball
game won," Driesell said. "That last
shot I though it was going over the
top of the backboard.
"I can't remember losing too many
games like this one."
The Tar Heels' chances seemed to
quota . . . I've never written about a
losing team before. I don't even know
how . . . and what about the streaks?
How can I write a story without adding
in at least one obnoxious stat about not
losing since Hoover's term or some
thing? . . . how can you learn to play
soccer like this in 50 feet of snow? . . .
what am I going to do? ... my Roget's
Thesaurus isn't going to help me now .
. . or is it?
Madly, I searched through my pack,
past the tape recorders, past the napkin
full of cookies I had stolen, past the
note pads, the stacks of literature I had
received over the weekend. Finally, I
had it in my sights.
I yanked it out and searched. I looked
up "lose." Who am I kidding? This is
hardly just another loss.
Dashed hope . . . blighted hope . '. .
buffet . . . comedown . . . setback . . .
fallen countenance . . . balked, bilked,
dished, foiled . . . HOISTED BY
ONE'S OWN PETARD??!!
These weren't going to cover it. "I'm
just not a 'hoisted by one's own petard'
kind of guy," I thought. I was sunk.
There was not a word invented yet in
the English language that adequately
described the situation.
I sweated. I was pained, grieved,
mauled, cut to the quick, stung, an
guished, aching, bleeding. I couldn't
even describe myself anymore; my life
was falling apart just because of some
rinky-dink college in Colorado and
some weirdo linguist named Roget.
This lasted for 70 minutes. And 28
seconds. The Tar Heels scored. Then
they scored again. Then the game was
over. I was rescued. I was healed. Sal
vaged. Extricated. Snatched from the
jaws of death. My bacon was saved.
And I got to write a winning story
one more time.
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Friday
UNC 80, JMU 79
JMU Hood 1 4-20 2-5 32, Davis 9-10 2-2 20,
Irvin 5-1 0 3-4 1 3, Fedor 2-4 2-3 6. Coles 2-8 0
3 4, Brooks 1-2 0-0 2, Sostic 0-0 2-2 2, Cun
nings 01 0-0 0, Ferdinand 0-3 00 0. Cham
bers 0-1 0-0 0, Brown 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-59
11-1979.
UNC Madden 7-11 5-519, Fox 7-1 14-418.
Rice 5-8 1-213, Chilcutt 5-8 0-111, Lynch 4-6
3-3 1 1. Davis 2-91-2 6. Rodl 1-2 0-0 2, Denny
0-0 0-0 0, Wenstrom 0-0 0-0 0, Totals 31-55 1 4
17 80.
Halftime Score: JMU 40-31. Three-point goals
JMU 2-6 (Hood 2-5. Brooks 0-1 ), UNC 4-1 1
(Rice 2-3, Chilcutt 1 -2, Davis 1 -4, Fox 0-2).
Turnovers JMU 17, UNC 19. Rebounds
JMU 27 (Coles 7), UNC 26 (Chilcutt 7). Assists
JMU 13 (Irvin 8), UNC 16 (Madden 4). Fouls
JMU 17, UNC 18.
be somewhere between slim and none
when they trailed by nine with less than
a minute to play.
The Dukes led 79-70 before Fox
nailed a 19-footer with 48 seconds left
to bring UNC within seven.
Then, while JMU became unraveled
on inbounds plays and at the free-throw
line, Hubert Davis and Pete Chilcutt
n a m n
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By JASON BATES
Staff Writer
For those of you who are tired of
turkey leftovers, the North Carolina
wrestling team gave a few lessons in
how to cook up 10 tough Beavers in
Carmichael Auditorium Sunday af
ternoon. In a little over two hours, the Tar
Heels handed Oregon St. a 24-17
defeat and then headed off to their
team Thanksgiving dinner with a
brand new I -0 record under their belts.
It was not all a cakewalk for the Tar
Heels, and the opening match gave an
indication of how tough this species
of Beaver might be.
UNC freshman Jeff Vasquez never
trailed against OSU's Randy Price.
He led 4-3 going into the third period
and extended the lead to 5-3 with an
escape 10 seconds into the final pe
riod. Price pulled off a takedown right
before the buzzer, and the match ended
in a draw.
'That hurt us," UNC head coach
Bill Lam said. "I thought we had
outwrestled him the whole time, and
I didn't like to tie there.
"Jeff did a good job. He wrestled
really well, then he relaxed at the end
and it cost him the match. I felt he
went a little defensive. You cannot
try and protect a lead. You have to
stay offensive."
In the 1 26-pound match, senior co
captain Doug Wyland gave the Tar
Heels a lead they would never lose
and gave Beaver freshman Lee
MacDiarmid a lesson in collegiate
wrestling.
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in Friday's mircale win over JMU
Saturday
UNC 78, Villanova 68
Villanova Bain 7-1 03-417, Greis 5-7 6-6 1 6,
Walker 5-14 2-2 14, Miller 3-8 0-0 7, Taylor 2
3 1-3 5, Woodard 2-6 0-0 4, Byrd 1-21-2 3,
Bryson 1-2 0-0 2. Dowdell 0-5 0-1, Masotti 0-0
0- 0 0, Vrtnd 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 26-57 13-18 68.
UNC Fox 8-9 48 23, Davis 7-1 30-116, Rice
2-6 4-6 1 0. Madden 4-7 1 -2 9, Lynch 4-7 1 -3 9.
Williams 1 -2 4-6 6. Wenstrom 1 -1 1-2 3. Chilcutt
1- 4 0-0 2. Denny 0-1 0-0 0, Rodl 0-1 0-0 0.
Totals 28-51 11-19 78.
Halftime Score: UNC 38-35. Three-point goals
Villanova 3-1 1 (Walker 2-7. Miller 1-1.
Woodard 0-1, Dowdell 0-1, Bain 0-1), UNC 7
15 (Fox 3-3, Rice 2-4. Davis 2-6. Denny 0-1,
Madden 0-1). Turnovers Villanova15, UNC
14. Rebounds Villanova 30 (Greis 7), UNC
31 (Fox 7). Assists Villanova 13 (Walker 6),
UNC 9 (Rice 5). Fouls Villanova 25. UNC 1 8.
buried tough three-pointers to bring the
Tar Heels to within one. Chilcutt's trey
with nine seconds remaining made it
79-78 in favor of the Dukes.
JMU forward Steve Hood, who
scorched UNC for 32 points on 14-of-20
shooting, then missed the front end
of a one-and-one opportunity to set up
Rice's heroic scene.
sizzies in
Oreson St.
Wyland dominated throughout the
short match, running up a 7-1 match
lead before pinning MacDiarmid with
five seconds to go in the first period.
The Tar Heels entered the 134
pound match with an 8-2 lead, and
senior co-captain John Welch tacked
on four more points with a 14-2 major
decision over OSU's Steve Thorpe.
Welch scored four takedowns and
two two-point near falls in the match
and never trailed.
"Once I got past a certain score, I
knew I could take him down all day,"
Welch said. "I was dominating him
on top.
The Beavers pulled the score back
to 12-5 after junior Neil Russo deci
sioned UNC freshman Carmen
Catullo, 2-1.
The match ended in a 1-1 draw as
each wrestler could only manage an
escape during the match, but Russo
gained the winning point on riding
time advantage.
"Carmen did a good job," Lam
said. "He got stereotyped in his holds
and couldn't change them.
"His effort was good. We can
improve his wrestling, but we can't
change his attitude. As long as he
gives me a good effort then I don't
worry about technique mistakes this
early in the season."
Freshman Dean Moscovic gave
the Tar Heels a 1 5-5 advantage at the
halfway point, capturing an 8-5 deci
sion in the 150-pound match.
"He did a great job," Lam said.
See WRESTLING, page 7