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Exhibition Philadelphia 4 Boston 5 Los Angeles 4 Texas 3 Cleveland 15 Cubs 2 Baseball Houston 0 Toronto 4 N.Y. Yankees 3 White Sox 2 Oakland 7 San Francisco 1 Montreal 8 Pittsburgh 8 Cincinnati 4 N.Y. Mets 7 California 12 Cleveland 8 San Francisco 5 Atlanta 1 St. Louis 7 Detroit 2 Baltimore 3 Milwaukee 4 Oakland 4 Cubs 3 The inside scoop on the NCAA Final, page 5 10The Daily Tar HeelMonday, April 2, 1990 QiJLr lyJLni LI ax makes twerps off Terps, wto North Carolina's Jim Buczek (29) shields Gymnasts with bad in Rakish By BETHANY LITTON Staff Writer RALEIGH The UNC gymnas tics team showed Friday night that strength comes directly from hard ship.. In their last team competition of the season, the Tar Heels lost to strong opponents William and Mary, N.C. State and George Washington Uni versity in a four-way meet at N.C. State. UNC, however, collected its highest team score of the year for an away meet, and the individual scores of juniors Debbie Sigler and Carrie Suto should propel those two to NCAA regional competition. The women were competing with out the talents of sophomores Angie Denkins and Holly Joyner, who were both injured on March 18. Although UNC did not have the depth to keep up with the other three squads, head coach Derek Galvin said he was extremely pleased with the note on which the season ended. . "Our goal going into this meet was to carry ourselves like champions, and we really did that," Galvin said. "We scored up to our potential and looked very, very strong." William and Mary took the top spot in the meet with a team score of 183.8. State finished second at 182.8, George Washington grabbed third at 181.35 and UNC rounded out the list ; with a 179.85. ; ; The absence of Denkins, who won ;the all-around competition in three ;ineets earlier this season and com peted at the NCAA regional level last ; year as a freshman, has really hurt the ' team scores, and with her injury and I those to Joyner and senior Nancy I Johnson, who has been out all season, : Galvin has had barely enough people ; to compete in certain events. In order to give her team the five ; "gymnasts it needed to compete on the ; -uneven parallel bars, freshman Ann ; Hutchinson performed in the event, : -which she has never trained for, both Friday and last week in the ACC .Invitational. "The more adversity we faced, the : "stronger they got in the way they've supported one another," Galvin said. "I couldn't be any prouder of them. It's the best group I've had a chance to work with." .y The gymnasts knew that the better ' their scores were, the more they would his Terrapin defender from a loose take good fv w -'-.si 1. Carrie Suto push Sigler and Suto to excel, and in every event the other women came through for their two teammates, he said. Despitethe Tar Heels' fourth-place team finish, Suto took second in the all-around with a score of 37.45, and Sigler placed third (37.00), behind top all-arounder Karen Tart of N.C. State (37.75). Suto took control on the uneven parallel bars, executing a difficult routine with confidence and a flaw less dismount. Her efforts brought her a 9.55, allowing her to tie for first in the event with the Wolfpack's Jennifer Jansen. The final event, the balance beam, was the brightest spot of the evening for the Tar Heels, and their perform ance was made even more satisfying by the fact that they have had diffi culty on the beam in the past. The beam was also dominated by Suto. With complete concentration, she turned three consecutive back handsprings and made the audience forget she was tumbling on only a four-inch beam. Her wide smile and Galvin's "Yes!" after her dismount told the story her 9.6 earned first place in the event. Sigler showed confidence and flair as well with her strong 9.45 routine Sigler and Suto should travel to Gainesville, Fla., Thursday to begin NCAA regional competition. ball as Dan Donnelly (43) looks on in Tar Heels By A.J. BROWN Staff Writer RALEIGH The rain fell in spurts Saturday afternoon at the Raleigh Re lays held at N.C. State's Paul H. Derr Track, but the outstanding individual and team performances turned in by the UNC track team came in a downpour. The Tar Heels showered the 46-team field with 28 top-five finishes to close out the two-day meet. "We would' ve liked to have had better weather, but we didn't, so we had to the best with what we had," head coach Dennis Craddock said. The weather didn't seem to bother Baseball By SCOn GOLD Assistant Sports Editor Energizers. They keep going, and going and going. Student Body President elections. They keep going, and going and going. The UNC baseball team. It went, and went ... but finally lost. After winning 14 straight games and tying the school record in the process, the Tar Heels finally lost, falling to Wake Forest 10-7 Sunday afternoon in the finale of this weekend's three-game series. The Deacons' victory marked UNC's first conference loss of the year. North Carolina's record now stands at 26-5, 8-1 in the ACC. Wake rose to 20-14, 2-4 in the ACC. For the weekend, No. 1 1 UNC went 2-1, topping the Deacons 3-2 on Fri day afternoon at Wake and then again 5-2 on Saturday in Boshamer Sta dium. Saturday's victory tied the 14 game record streak accomplished by the 1 960 team, and marked the second time this season the Tar Heels have threatened the record winning streak. From Feb. 17 to Mar. 12, the Tar Heels put together 1 2 consecutive wins before falling to Tennessee. "I'm very proud that they've been stubborn at times like their coach," UNC head coach Mike Roberts said. "We've had a lot of injuries, but I'm not using injuries as an excuse, be cause this is a team game. We've had some young men fill in. Right now we cannot make many moves because of that, and the guys are just battling." Sunday, it looked like the Tar Heels' penchant for battling would carry them A ' : DTHP.J. Disclafani UNC's 12-7 win over No. 12 Maryland shower the men's team. Junior Sean Murray hurled the javelin 21 0'3" to take fifth in that event, and Eric Hichman finished second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a personal-best time of 8:52.01, knocking almost 10 seconds off his previous time. Distance coach Andrew Allden at tributed Hichman's faster time to his improved hurdling. "The steeplechase involves more than just running. Eric got over the hurdles better than he has been, and I think that was a factor in the faster time." UNC's 3,200-meter relay team of Clive Harriott, Andy Pflaum, Keith fiiiaEy falls 9 can't set record fHMP.MJg!I.M.niWWHDW.lll'JM!i'l HHHI'MI. "II I'll H'l 'I i I I IHIil 1'ill.m miiiii ii ijm pm iiiinmii;ijiiirTii H r immur urmin 1- - n r.wiBirr nail iminTrriffllwmriTMMMrMWraiwnrairi nl V" : y, -'v'' ; X'--i 's -'"-;, "'" - v ' -v, - Wv" "r Michael Hoog (17) sizes up his Deacon foe as Darren Villani (11) ponders through 15 wins. UNC took advantage of four walks in the second frame and scored three runs on a Don Leshnock double and a sacrifice fly by Steve Estroff. However, Wake's battalion soon showed that it was not going to be the one to allow the record-breaking game. deja w T-l r , 1 rive rourtn-Quarter scores , lock up 12-7 By JOHN BLAND Senior Writer It was almost, as the great Yogi Berra would say, like deja vu all over again. The last time the Maryland Terra pins played UNC in Chapel Hill, the Tar Heels came away with a convinc ing 12-6 win, scoring five unanswered goals in the fourth quarter for only the fifth victory against the Terps in 27 tries. Saturday afternoon the venue was a little different (Navy Field instead of Finley), but Willie Scroggs' fourth ranked Tar Heels got their sixth win over the Terrapins by a 12-7 margin, also scoring five goals in the fourth quarter to put Dick Edell's 1 2th-ranked team away for good. Even though the Tar Heels were ranked higher than the Terps in the latest U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association poll, UNC lacrosse fans knew that in a series like this, records didn't mean "diddly." Maryland jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first quarter while the Tar Heels tried to figure out some basic funda mentals of the game namely, throw ing and catching. "I think we were a little tentative, a little nervous, and we threw the ball away," Scroggs said. But the Tar Heels tied the game at the end of the quarter on two quick, quick, quick goals. Senior midfielder Steve Huff racked up the Tar Heels' first goal of the day with 32 seconds left, and 3 1 seconds later fellow senior middie Craig Hasslinger maneuvered in front of the cage, Kenny Anderson style, and fired the tying shot as the horn sounded. "They really helped us," Scroggs said. "I thought we were playing very tentative, and Steve Huff and Craig Hasslinger just did some individual things and we really needed that." Relay competition Mathis and Phil Hemery ran a 7:33.77 to finish third. UNC's 4x400 relay team finished fourth. Marvin Hembrick, Harriott, Donald Colson and Reggie Harris combined for a time of 3: 13.01. Colson and Harris also ran on the sixth place 4x100 relay team with Allen Johnson and Tyrone McFadden. The women's team had all of the right combinations. Kim Austin (13.80 seconds), Sharon Couch (14.00) and Sonya Thomas (14.22) took three of the top four spots in the 100-meter hurdles. Clemson's Marcia Fletcher edged Thomas by .02 for third place. But in the 400-meter hurdles it was all ft :-x:4.:y;-.-; 4- 4 'X , The Deacons exploded for six tallies in the fifth, the first on a Ross Restuccio double. Chris Kowilcik's grounder drove home Jake Austin, and Restuccio came across the slate on David Kennedy's RBI single. Brian Shabosky and Warren Sawkiw pushed back-to-back singles through to drive in the contest UNC victory:! With the momentum suddenly shift ing to UNC s side, the Tar Heels notched two more scores at the top of the second quarter. Freshman attackman Steve Speers took a feed from senior middie Andy Dunkerton at the 1 3:54 mark and converted it into a score, and sopho more middie Dan Donnelly added one more seven minutes later to give the Tar Heels a 4-2 edge. : But, as Yogi would say, it ain't over till it's over. Maryland's Chris Dail scored with 7:36 left to cut into the lead, and the Terps got an extra-man goal following a UNC penalty. UNC's John Webster gave the Tar Heels a 5-4 lead with 2:40 to go, but UNC could not capitalize on two si multaneous Maryland penalties, one of them on head coach Dick Edell for "bench violations" (i.e. running his mouth), and so the Tar Heels kept the one-goal lead at halftime. Maryland came out firing at the top of the second half, scoring at the 13:35 mark to tie the game at five apiece. That was the closest the Terps would get for the rest of the day. Huff got his second goal of the day with the help of a Dennis Goldstein feed, and a few minutes later Dunker ton, taking the initiative off of a busted play, scooped up the ball off the side line, took it to the cage and dumped the ball under the stick of Maryland goalie Matt Herrold. The intensity picked up at the top of the fourth quarter. The Tar Heels got two quick scores from Steve Speers and John Webster, but Maryland closed the gap to 9-6 with 6: 1 0 to go. The Tar Heels then scored three straight to pull away for good. Maryland's last goal, at 1:04, came too late for the Terps to make a run at it. Thomas, who crossed the finish line first with a time of 1 :00. 1 7. "Sonya had a very good meet," as sistant coach Charles Foster said. "She improved her split time in the 4x400 and knocked three-tenths off the 100 hurdles she ran last weekend in Wilmington." But Thomas wasn't the only one who performed well. Mia Pollard, Rebecca Russell, Cammie Putman and Kendra Mackey blazed through each leg of the 4x400 relay and set a new meet record of 3:40.43. UNC held the See RELAY, page 7 DTHAmi Vitale the situation in Saturday 5-2 victory i-.-nj.;..vji 1 1 t t f. I. final notches of the inning. UNC mounted a mini-revolution in the ensuing innings but couldn't overcome the early 7-3 deficit.' Leshnock ripped the first pitch of the sixth over the right field wall for his See BASEBALL, page 7
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