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Spokis Monday
Bills: Once, twice,
three times a loser
Dallas gives NFC 9th in a row
The Associated Press
PASADENA, Calif. With MVP
Troy Aikman throwing for four touch
downs and Charles Haley and Ken
Norton leading a defense that forced a
record nine turnovers, the Cowboys
rolled to a 52-17 victory over the Buf
falo Bills in Super Bowl XXVH.
That made Buffalo only the second
team ever to make it to three straight
Super Bowls the first team ever to
lose three straight.
Two of Aikman’s TD passes went to
Michael Irvin and one each to Jay
Novacek and Alvin Harper as the NFC
East won the Super Bowl for the third
straight year, a record. The three win
ners were different—Dallas, Washing
ton and the New York Giants —but the
victim each time was the Bills.
There was another first Jimmy
Johnson became the first coach ever to
win both a national college title and a
Wrestlers wax Wahoos,
win 7th straight match
Byjacson Lowe
Staff Writer
After being taken down early in the
first period by UNC’s Marc Taylor,
Virginia wrestler Trevor Johnson was a
little frustrated.
It showed.
Johnson shoved Taylor during the
158-pound match Saturday, epitomiz
ing the frustration of the Cavalier wres
tling team. Johnson went on to lose to
Taylor 16-10 for another individual vic
tory in the Tar Heels’ 37-3 spanking of
the Wahoos in Carmichael Auditorium.
The win moved the UNC to 8-4 over
all, 3-0 in the ACC. The Cavs (5-1,1 -1)
were the seventh straight victim for the
Tar Heels, who started the season los
ing three of their first four.
“We’ve come a long way, but we’ve
got a long way to go yet before we
become contenders,” UNC head coach
Bill Lam said. “I’ve been real pleased
with how they’ve matured and their
effort.”
Saturday’s lineup featured only one
senior and nine underclassmen. Miss
ing was sophomore Dave Leonardis,
Gymnasts
overcome
Radford
UNC 183.25
RADFORD 180.00
By Marc Franklin
Staff Writer
Usually when a team fails to capital
ize on the strongest aspect of its game,
it loses.
But the UNC gymnastics team over
came an uncharacteristically poor per
formance on the balance beam to edge
Radford University Friday night at
Carmichael Auditorium 183.25 to
180.00.
UNC (5-1) is regarded as a strong
squad on the balance beam, but against
the Lady Highlanders, treacherous foot
ing on the beam led to several falls in the
Tar Heels’ best event.
The key to the UNC victory was a
solid showing on the uneven bars, where
North Carolina swept the top four posi
tions. Sophomore Valerie Morgan took
first place with a 9.6, the Tar Heels’
highest score of the night as well as a
season best for Morgan.
One-tenth of point behind Morgan
was Shannon Stacy. Tracy Knowles
and Alisa Musser tied for third with a
9.35.
North Carolina head coach Derek
Galvin was not surprised by his team’s
showing on the uneven bars.
“Practice on the bars had been going
well and we were ready to bust loose,”
Galvin said.
Following the uneven bars, UNC led
Radford 92.0 to 89.15 with two of four
events completed. The Tar Heels were
excited about their success on the un
even bars as they headed to the balance
beam.
Too excited, according to Galvin.
“On the beam, you can’t let energy
run wild,” he said. “There was no time
to calm down (after the uneven bars).”
Galvin did not feel that his team’s
weak showing on the beam was due to
mistakes or lack of talent. “We had too
much power and momentum,” he said.
“We could have just as easily hit 5 of 6.”
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BUFFALO 17
Super Bowl just three years after he
began his pro coaching career with a 1 -
15 record. For Dallas, it was their third
Super Bowl victory—but the first in 15
years.
Emmitt Smith, the NFL’s leading
rusher, ran for 108 yards on 22 carries
and Aikman completed 22 of 30 passes
for 273 yards without an interception.
After spotting the Bills an early 7-0
lead on a TD set up by a blocked punt,
the Cowboys turned on the defense,
getting five of the turnovers in the first
half.
James Washington’s interception
against Jim Kelly set up a 23-yard TD
pass to Novacek. Fifteen seconds later,
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who has spent the last two days in the
hospital with blood poisoning.
Stan Banks defeated Howie Miller
11 -4 in the 167 class, sealing the victory
for the Tar Heels by giving them a 26-
3 lead.
Brian Famham (188) pushed Vir
ginia ahead 3-0 after defeating senior
Jeff Vasquez 10-5 in the meet’s first
match. But the UNC grapplers never
looked back, taking every other match
of the evening.
“They’ve got a well-balanced team
and they’re young,” Virginia coach
George Edwards said of the Tar Heels.
“They wrestled hard, took it to us and
they deserve a big win.”
The Tar Heels scored big early, as
Jared Ezzel (126) and T.J. Jaworsky
(134) gave UNC 12 straight points with
their individual pins. Heavyweight Scott
Greenberg also finished the night with a
pin.
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Unlike a three- or four-team meet, a
dual meet does not allow competitors
time to rest between events. Galvin felt
that the format of Friday ’ s meet, UNC ’ s
first dual meet of the season, led to the
Tar Heels’ woes on the beam.
Radford’s Amy Kable and Lisa Reed
tied for first on the beam with a 9.25.
Knowles and UNC teammate Dana
Silvio shared third place with the High
landers Christie Epperly.
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Childress reigns over UNC with shower of 2nd-half 3-pointers
By Bryan Strickland
Senior Writer
WINSTON-SALEM—Basketball
will never be considered an individual
sport, but there are moments within
every contest when one player has the
chance to step forward and assume a
leading role in the shaping of a game.
Saturday at Lawrence Joel Coli
seum, Wake Forest guard Randolph
Childress was that one man.
In a decisive five-minute stretch of
the second half, the formerly quiet
Childress took dead aim on No. 3 UNC
—and the center of the cylinder. In
The Radford effort was highlighted
by Epperly’s all-around title. She took
first in the floor exercise with a Radford
best 9.6 and topped the vault standings
with a 9.55. Her scores for the four
events totaled 37.55.
UNC claimed the next three slots in
the all-around competition. Musser fin
ished second with 36.95, followed by
Knowles’ 36.85 in third and Stacy’s
36.75 in fourth.
what must have
seemed a blur to
the visiting Tar
Heels, Childress
instantly brought
the game’s out
come into clear
focus with an elec
trifying 20-point
outburst.
Then, as the
team nature of bas
ketball dictates,
Randolph Childress
Childress slid quietly into the back
ground, not launching another shot for
nearly seven minutes.
Women deck Tech in OT
Tar Heels avenge early loss behind Sampson
By Jeff McKinley
Staff Writer
The second half of Sunday ’ s women’s
basketball game in Carmichael Audito
rium nearly mirrored the first half. But
after a 72-68 overtime victory against
Georgia Tech, UNC remained the fair
est in the ACC.
Tied at 61 at the beginning of over
time, UNC forward Stephanie Lawrence
popped a trey and turned the reins over
to UNC’s high scoring guard Tonya
Sampson, who had 24 points on the
afternoon. Sampson scored five in over
time, and her defense prevented Geor
gia Tech from possibly tying the game
again.
The victory improved the 16th
ranked Tar Heels to 16-2, and a confer
ence leading 7-2 in the ACC. Georgia
Tech dropped to 9-7,4-6 in ACC play.
Georgia Tech head coach Agnus
Berenato said she wasn’t surprised that
Sampson was the one the Tar Heels
looked to when the game was on the
line.
“She’s their high scorer, she’s their
leader, she’s the one that’s got the guts,”
Berenato said. “But Carolina—from A
No. 8 men’s tennis downs Fighting Irish
Staff reports
SOUTH BEND, Ind. UNC’s
eighth-ranked men ’ s tennis team opened
its 1993 campaign Saturday afternoon
with a 4-3 win against Notre Dame at
the Eck Tennis Pavilion on the Notre
Dame campus.
UNC (1-0) won three of six singles
matches from the Fighting Irish, an
NCAA finalist last season, and then
scored the deciding point by winning
two of three doubles matches.
In Saturday’s match, UNC gained
the upper hand by winning two of three
doubles, both by 8-6 scores. In singles,
UNC’s Roland Thomqvist, ranked No.
11 nationally, blasted Notre Dame’s
Will Forsyth, ranked 19th, 6-3, 6-1, at
No. 1 singles.
Two nationally ranked UNC players
were upset. Woody Webb, ranked 35th,
lost at No. 2 singles to Notre Dame’s
No. 1 falls In women’s hoops
Tennessee 73, Vanderbilt 68
Florida Stats 96 Georgia Tech 77
Virginia Tech 59 Virginia 53
Duke 78 Maryland 62
N.C. State 72 Clemson 70
UNC collapses in final stanza
By Warren Hynes
Senior Writer
WINSTON-SALEM—As his team
mates jogged down the runway toward
a second half of basketball on the
Lawrence Joel Coliseum court, UNC
senior forward George Lynch gave them
a few final words to remember.
“Let’s play defense,” Lynch said.
Those three words are so simple, so
much a motto of North Carolina men’s
basketball. OnemightthinkthatLynch’s
advice was almost unnecessary. Yet, in
the second half of Saturday afternoon’s
tilt with Wake Forest, “Let’s play de
fense” could not have been repeated
enough to the boys in blue and white.
Inspired by the near-perfect shooting
of sophomore guard Randolph
Childress, the Demon Deacons con
nected on 68 percent of their second
half shots and blew the No. 3 Tar Heels
out of Winston-Salem, 88-62.
“I feel like crying,” said Wake senior
center Derrick Hicks, moments after
fans had carried him on their shoulders
after storming the court. “This is prob
ably the biggest high I’ve ever had in
my entire life.”
The Deacons, now 13-3, 5-2 in the
ACC, claimed their fifth-straight con
ference win. It was Wake Forest’s first
defeat of North Carolina since an 83-80
win Jan. 28, 1988, and the margin of
victory tied for the Deacons’ largest
ever against the Tar Heels.
The Tar Heels, 17-2, 6-1, remain in
first place in the league, leading Florida
St. by 1/2 game.
“There’s certainly a tendency, any
time we have a game like this, to say,
And there was little need for him to
launch anymore—the damage already
had been done. Childress’ unbelievable
3-point onslaught turned a three-point
halftime lead into a 23-point laugher by
the 13:00 mark of the second half. The
Demons Deacons went on to take an 88-
62 victory, staking claim to second place
in the ACC along the way.
“I know that it’s a 40-minute game,
and that 20 minutes is only the mid
point,” Childress said. At the half,
Childress had just three points, not the
type of output expected from the ACC ’ s
leading scorer. But as the good players
must, he remained patient.
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to Z, one to 13—they have phenomenal
talent.”
UNC head coach Sylvia Hatchell said
her talent didn’t play up to its potential,
but she’ll take the win.
“You know, we were lucky to win
that,” Hatchell said. “Any time you get
beat on the boards by 22 and shoot foul
shots like we did, you better be thankful
for a win.
“But on the other side, I told my
team, when you play as poorly as we did
today, rebounding and shooting, and
you can still pull out a game like this,
then I guess there’s something to be
said. That’s mental toughness.”
Coming out of the locker room at
halftime, the Tar Heels took control of
a game that saw them trailing through
out much of the first half and tied at the
midpoint, 28 all. Somebody needed to
take charge, and Sampson stepped up
her game with 16 points after halftime.
Early second-half buckets by junior
center Sylvia Crawley and sophomore
forward Charlotte Smith sparked UNC
Chuck Coleman, 6-3,7-5, while David
Caldwell, ranked 21st, was downed at
No. 3 singles by Mark Schmidt.
But UNC’s Brint Morrow ground
out a 2-6, 7-6, 6-2 win at No. 5 singles
and Cooper Pulliam won 7-6,6-2 at the
No. 6 slot to even the match.
Under anew scoring format insti
tuted in 1993, teams will play three pro
set doubles matches with the squad win
ning at least two of the matches earning
one team point. The six singles matches
will then follow, all best of three sets
format, with each match worth one point.
Individuals shine at U.S. Air
Invitational
JOHNSON CITY, Term. Senior
Randy Jordan, who played tailback for
UNC’s football team, won the colle
giate division in the 55 meters at the US
Air Invitational at East Tennessee State
lowa 88 Michigan 80
Syracuse 76 SetonHall67
Indiana 93 Northwestern 71
Cincinnati 80 DePatri 54
WAKE FOREST 88
UNC 62
‘What’s wrong with Carolina?”’ said
UNC head coach Dean Smith. “Cer
tainly, much was wrong with Caro
lina. But much was very right about
Wake Forest.”
The Deacons led the Tar Heels 33-
30 at halftime but opened the second
stanza with a 26-6 run in less than
seven minutes. Five Wake steals
three by junior forward Rodney Rogers
led to 11 of the points in that drive.
But no one took control in the sec
ond half more than Childress. In five
minutes, nine seconds, Randolph
Childress scored 20 promts on six 3-
piointers and one layup. UNC could
not interrupt his flow, and before they
knew it, the Tar Heels trailed Childress
and friends 59-36 with 13:23 to go.
“The second half, with the score
being so close, I said, ‘l’m not even
involved in what’s going on,’”
Childress said. “I knew I needed to
force the issue a little more.
“I got two really good looks at the
basket, and that was really all I needed.”
UNC guard Donald Williams put it
bluntly. “He was hot. He was just on
and he wasn’t missing.”
For the game, Childress hit 9 of 13
field goals including 70f9 3-
pointers for 27 points.
But Childress was not the only De
mon Deacon lighting it up in the sec
ond half. Hicks, whose previous ca
reer high had been the 11 promts he
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“I just know that eventually every
thing will come around,” Childress
said. “I’ 11 get my looks at the basket—
I’ll creep in.”
With 18:32 remaining, Childress
began to creep in. A short one-hander
gave the Deacons a 37-30 lead and
gave Childress his fourth and fifth
proints of the game.
Then the floodgates oprened.
At the 17:16 mark, Childress started
his run by canning a 3-pxrinter from
the right comer. At that promt, Wake
Forest forward Rodney Rogers could
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to a 34-28 lead. Georgia Tech found
itself playing catch-up for the first time
all afternoon. The Tar Heels managed
to stay just out of reach of Georgia Tech
until midway through the second pre
riod.
The Yellow Jackets respronded with
proise. They hit key free throws and
followed their shots to get back in the
game. GeorgiaTechpxiunded the boards,
out-rebounding the Tar Heels 59-37.
Georgia Tech also outshot UNC at the
free throw line. The Lady Jackets shot a
solid 72.4 prercent, while UNC struggled
to a 44.4 prercent mark for the day.
With 1:47 left in regulation, Georgia
Tech’s tenacity paid off with a 59-58
lead on Anna Maria Duggins’ 15-footer.
UNC forward Stephanie Lawrence,
who had a 3-pointer each time UNC
needed one, drained her first “3” to give
the Tar Heels a two-point advantage.
With plenty of time remaining, the Jack
ets worked for a good shot. Perhaps
impatiently, Sampson fouled Georgia
Tech’s senior forward Aimee Weiss.
Weiss nailed both shots and tied the
game at 61 with 24 seconds to go.
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University Friday night in a blazing
6.19 seconds.
Jordan’stimeis.ol off NCAA Cham
pionships automatic standards and .02
behind UNC’s school record. This is
the first time the Manson native has ran
the event this year.
The only Tar Heel to have ever run a
faster 55 meters was Brad Sullivan,
who spied 6.17 seconds in 1987.
Senior Phil Hemery won the college
mile Friday in 4:06.1. Judith
McCullough was second in the 5,000-
meter individual in 17:22.91 and the
women’s two-mile relay team was sec
ond in 9:03.94. That quartet included
Trudy Stallings, Monique Hunt,
Stephanie Beckes and Leslie McCaskill.
In Saturday’s action, Keith Mathis
placed second in the 800 meters, Allen
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