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Women’s basketball picks up first CAA win
Women’s Basketball
Record: 9-15 (1-12 CAA)
Thu. Feb. 15
Old Dominion 83 UNCW 32 (L)
Sun. Feb. 18
UNCW 52 AMERICAN 48 (W)
Men’s Basketball
Record: 16-9 (9-5 CAA)
Sat. Feb. 17
UNCW 78 East Carolina 69 (W)
Wed. Feb. 21
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH (Night)
Men’s Golf
Fri-Sun. Feb. 16-18
at Emerald Coast Intercollegiate
(Pensacola, Fla.)
Results; 304-303-300=907
2"“ out of 17 teams
Track & Field
Sat. Feb. 17
at George Mason Invitational
Results: see www.uncwil.edu/athletics
Men’s & Women’s Tennis
Men’s Record: 2-2
Women’s Record: 2-2
Fri. Feb. 16
at Coastal Carolina
Men: Coastal Carolina 4 UNCW 3 (L)
Women: Coastal Carolina 6 UNCW 1 (L)
Softball
Record: 1-4
Fri-Sun. Feb. 16-18
at UNC Triangle Invitational
Temple 3 UNCW 1 (L)
UNCW 4 Ohio 1 (W)
Minnesota 10 UNCW 7 (L)
Boston 8 UNCWO (L)
UNCG 8 UNCW 0 (L)
Wed. Feb. 21
ST.JOHN’S (DH) (Late)
Baseball
Record: 5-3
Sat. Feb. 17
UNCW 8-2 GWU 4-4 (DH) (W, L)
Sun. Feb. 18
UNCW 8 GWU 4 (W)
Tue. Feb. 20
COASTAL CAROLINA 6 UNCW 1 (L)
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Jessie Nunery
Ass’t Sports Editor
At some point during the course of
UNC Wilmington’s 12 game conference
losing streak, head coach Ann Hancock
probably daydreamed what it would be
like to get that first CAA win. She prob
ably did not envision what she saw Sun
day.
Despite shooting 32 percent from the
field and committing 25 turnovers,
UNCW defeated American, 52-45, Sun
day at Trask Coliseum.
“It wasn’t pretty, but I’ll take it,” said
Hancock. “It definitely beats the alter
native.”
The Seahawks might never have
been in position for their first win in the
Colonial Athletic Association if not for
two key reserves. Freshman guards Jan
Williams and Jennifer Kapper led the
Seahawks with 15 and 13 fwints, re
spectively.
With the Seahawks turning the ball
over on offense and unable to get the
ball inside to leading scorer Shameka
Montgomery, the Seahawks were forced
to take jumpers. This seemed to suit
Williams, who went 3-for-4 from be
hind the arc in the first half and effec
tively broke the Eagles 2-3 zone de
fense, just fine.
“That’s my specialty, shooting 3-
pointers,” said Williams, who finished
with 11 points in the half “I saw the zone
and said to myself, this is my time to
shine.”
Besides Williams’ accuracy from
long range, nothing else seemed to click
for both teams in the first half Passes
went awry, ball handling was sloppy and
GuardJennifer
Kapper, a
freshman from
Waynesville,
Ohio, protects
the basket
from American
guard Kaitlin
Schuyler.
Kapper added
a career-high
13 points and
four assists for
the Seahawks.
UNCW faces
East Carolina
in Greenville
tonight.
the officials blew their whistles on both
teams constantly.
American was able to post a 31-27
lead at the half behind forward Maria
Werries 11 points and was going a per
fect 11 for 11 from the foul line.
Both teams came out of the half
slowly and tried desperately to deny the
See Women’s, Page 1 8
Coastal Carolina tops Seahawks in tenth inning
Wes Melville
Staff Writer
In yet another tightly fought
match, the UNCW baseball team
fell last Tuesday for the second time
this season to Coastal Carolina (4-
5). In both contests, the Chanti
cleers won the game in their final
at bat. This time posting five runs
in the top of the 10"' and winning,
6-1.
“This was a typical Coastal-
UNCW game. It’s always close,”
coach Mark Scalf said.
Junior transfer Brian Whitaker
(1-0) started the game for the
Seahawks and pitched 6 2/3 innings,
only allowing one run on seven hits.
Despite the solid stats, Whitaker
struggled early, giving up six hits
in the first four innings.
“I really didn’t have any of my
good stuff like I had on Saturday,”
Whitaker said, referring to his four
innings of no-hit work against
George Washington.
In the top of the second, Whitaker
gave up singles to the first two bat
ters he faced, which then led to
sophomore shortstop Aaron
Mayhew’s RBI single. Again in the
fourth inning, Whitaker found him
self in a similar predicament, but
fortunately got Mayhew to ground
out in a bases-loaded, two-out situ
ation.
“I just tried to pitch through it and
let my defense help me out, and for
tunately they did,” Whitaker said.
The Seahawks answered in the
bottom half of that inning with
sophomore first baseman Matt
Wright’s leadoff walk. Wright then
advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt
and then single by senior David
Ange. With one out, junior catcher
Magnus Pilegard hit a deep fly to left
field, allowing Wright to tag up and
giving the Seahawks their only run
of the game.
After retiring his first two batters
in the top of the seventh, Whitaker
quickly allowed his next two batters
to reach base safely. With two on
and two out, senior Eric Johnson
was brought on in relief. Johnson
pitched masterfully, retiring the first
seven batters he faced, and giving
the Seahawk hitters ample opportu
nity to take control of the game.
“Our pitching kept us in [the
game] and gave us a great chance to
win,” senior Justin Wishon said.
However, Coastal’s Brian Fischer
entered the game in relief of starter
Brad Schuka and pitched five shut
out innings, scattering only three
hits. Fischer, a junior, recorded his
first win of the season.
In the late innings, UNCW
seemed to be picking up momentum
behind Eric Johnson’s pitching per
formance and began to get things
See Coastal, Page 1 B