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Brad Hutchens
Staff writer
GREENVILLE — Saturday night, the
UNC Wilmington men’s basketball team
made the two-hour trip to Greenville to chal
lenge East Carolina for the final time as a
conference foe. With emotions running high
in ECU’s Minges Coliseum, as it was Se
nior Night, the Seahawks spoiled the celebra
tion, winning the game, 78-69.
As the game began, a mckus Pirate crowd
supported their team as they jumped out to
an early 16-8 lead. UNCW struggled to find
a weakness in ECU’s game early on.
After tightening up their defense, UNCW
called on acouple of fieshmen to and a sopho
more standout to pull them back into the
game and take a lead. Freshman, Tim
Burnette drilled several essential shots along
with sophomore Brett Blizzard. Joel Justus,
another UNCW freshmen added a sohd
eight-point first half performance, including
atransition lay up with 7:17 remaining in the
half that gave the Seahawks the lead and
forced an ECU timeout.
“I was real relaxed,” Justus said. “I was
excited that 1 had a chance to play in such a
big game.. .1 just went in looking to contrib
ute.”
The Pirates cut the lead to two points be
fore the Seahawks finished with a steUar 10-
2 run to close out the half at a score of37-29.
Second half play began with a slight scare
for UNCW, as both Ed Williams and Marcus
Green contended with foul trouble. ECU
fought hard on
the heels of
junior guard
Fred Primus.
Primus hit sev
eral key shots,
as well as pro
duced some
great defensive
plays that
caused
UNCW to lose
their halftime
lead.
After ECU
led by one with
about 16:00
left to play, an
other unex-
p e c t e d
Seahawk hero
stepped from
behind the cur
tain. Sopho
more Craig
Callahan
drilled a three-
pointer fol
lowed by two
difficult three-
point plays that
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Freshman guard Tim Burnette dishes the ball inside, set
ting up a UNCW basket. Burnette added 18 points in
UNCW’s rout over ECU in Greenville last Saturday.
began to push UNCW away from the Pi
rates.
Bumette also dropped 10 points in the
second half to open the gap between the two
teams. With 4:01 to play. Green fouled out
for UNCW, forcing the rest of the team to
make up for his loss. UNCW acted accord
ingly, Lai by Bhzzard creating some big tum-
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Campus police facing personnel shortage
_ ™ r-nmp Npw Hanover Countv Sheriff’s agencies.
Thomas M. Ruyle
Editdr-in-Chief
The resignations of three UNCW po
lice officers last week are leaving the de
partment perilously short-staffed. Offic
ers Chris Anderson, Tracy Rackley and
Keith Petrocik left the department to be
come New Hanover County Sheriff’s
deputies.
UNCW Police Captain David
Donaldson said his department is having
a hard time retaining officers primarily due
to low salaries and the nature of the
department’s responsibilities as opposed
to more mainstream law enforcement
Thomas M. Seahawk
Recent resignations have left the UNCW Police Department short-
staffed. The department has been forced to contract with other local
law enfocement agencies to assist with event security and other duties.
agencies.
“Other (law enforcement agencies)
have starting salaries considerably higher
than ours,” he said. ‘To say that we have
a (staffing) crisis is not an exaggeration.
You can’t fault any individual for want
ing a higher salary.”
Several officers have resigned in recent
months to pursue higher-paying jobs else
where. Donaldson said that since Octo
ber, two other officers joined the New
Hanover County Sheriff’s Department and
one joined the Wilmington Police Depart
ment.
None of the five patrol squads at
UNCW are fully staffed. According to
Donaldson, each squad should have one
sergeant and three officers; three squads
have only one officer and a sergeant.
“We’re in a very tight spot,” Donaldson
said.
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