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Spring Sports '90The Daily. Tar HeelWednesday,. February 28, 19907 Green golf team shoots for top 20 Youthful women aim to burn up links with balanced attack By BETHANY LITTON Start Writer Know ing that a fire can't get started without a spark, members of the UNC women's golf team hope they can ignite this spring. The three seniors who graduated last year - Donna Andrews, Suzy McGuire and Katie Peterson - were among the best women ever to play golf at UNC, and the team spent much of the fall part of the season adjust ing to their absence. "As a team, what we need to do is to start proving to ourselves that we can do it," sophomore Tara Hipp said. "We need to start playing good to gether, start lighting a fire a little bit, so that when we come into next fall, we can say, "Remember last spring, when we did this? We can do it again.'" With five freshmen and three sophomores, the team is extremely young, and this youth showed in the first five tournaments of the season, played in the fall. While the 1988-89 team won first place in four out of its five spring tournaments, the present group did not place higher than sev enth in any of its fall competitions. Head coach Dot Gunnells said the women were nervous during the fall tournaments, missing the leadership of the seniors, but their true potential will be realized this spring. "They've got the potential to be just as good, if not better, than the ones I lost," Gunnells said. "They just haven't had the experience. But we're better prepared than we've ever been going into the spring season." The loss of the three team stars served as a built-in excuse in the fall, Hipp said, and that attitude affected the Tar Heels' play. Qualifying scores for the first spring tournament, how ever, were exceilent, evidence of a new determination that was lacking a few months ago. There is no ACC or regional tour nament for women's golf, but the top 17 teams in the country qualify for the national tournament on the basis of the top 50 percent of scores shot throughout the season. Because the fall scores were relatively high. Coach Gunnells said, it is improbable that UNC will go to nationals as a team this year, although individual golfers can also qualify. "Our goal is to make the top 20," she said. "I don't know that we'll make it to nationals this year, but I guarantee we will the next three years." I lipp added: "At this point we have to be realistic, and to get to nationals, we have to play great every time we tee off this spring. That's not likely." The women's first tournament will See WOMEN'S GOLF, page 14 r,t7K. tastefully Ul- I different? Op ... t ! i I ct-HVH tm ...'.' ..... II I0IM ' W. 0km-- M : y : I i '( A J C I i u I : What mattes us DTH tile photo Junior Amber Marsh is an elder statesman on a young women's golf squad f is niii II I : n Better tasting yogurt delicious, rich flavors tansy fruit flavors More yogurt, less $ Healthier yogurt non-fat & lower calories "JUST 10" yogurt sweetened with NutraSweet & only 1 0 calories per ounce Trivia Tuesday Charming atmosphere If rrr on5! you graze in the background, step up and put a little "culture" in your life. 106 W. Franklin St. (next to Pizza Hut) Downtown Chapel Hill 942-PUMP 4711 Hope Valley Road (Hwy. 751)andHwy. 54 Woodcroft Shopping Center S. Durham 493-8594 11 pump 111 it k k i . k l i. k. i. k t k.:y...t. i.i.u.fj.i.t.. - iy i y s , j ' '
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