UNC uses composure, team unity to rally past Jackets
By Pete Zifchak
Staff Writer
Each time the North Carolina
women’s basketball team steps onto the
court, the first thing that is noticed is its
superior size and physical strength com
pared to the opposition.
But as the game progresses, it be
comes apparent that the Tar Heels’ stat
ure does not dominate the game. UNC’s
composure on the court is what sets it
apart from the other teams in the league.
That composure was never more
present than in Sunday’s 72-68 over
time defeat of Georgia Tech. The vic
tory was the team’s seventh conference
win in a row. The No. 16 Tar Heels now
stand at 16-2 overall and lead the ACC
with a 7-2 mark.
After being out-hustled on the offen
Wake
scored against Radford last month, tal
lied 15 Saturday. Nine of the 6-foot-9
center’s points came from the free-throw
line, as UNC continually fouled him
late in the game.
“Maybe they looked at the stats and
tried to figure out who had the lowest
free-throw percentage,” said Hicks, who
had entered the game averaging 70.6
percent from the charity stripe nei
ther his team’s worst nor its best mark.
Rogers added 17 points, and forward
Trelonnie Owens scored 16 —l2 in the
first half.
On the defensive end, Wake’s zone
shut down UNC’s inside game, limiting
Lynch and centers Eric Montross, Kevin
Sal vadori and Matt Wenstrom to a com
bined 18 points on 7-of-24 shooting.
“I think that what we’ve faced in the
past, they’ve really packed it in on us,”
Montross said. “They were holding a
lot. That’s not an excuse, that’s just a
part of it. They really were packing it
inside and we weren’t hitting our out
side shot”
North Carolina shot 32.5 percent from
the floor in the second half and 40.6
percent for the game. Only Brian Reese
(7-of-12 shooting), Derrick Phelps (4-
of-4) and Pat Sullivan (3-of-6) shot 50
percent or better.
To make matters worse for North
Carolina, Montross fouled out of the
game with four points and 11:45 re
maining. His final two fouls came in a
span of seven seconds.
“Once he got the ball, we just tried to
get down on him and try to maintain
him and not let him get in a position
where he wanted to be,” Rogers said. “It
caused him a little frustration and he
Track
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8 inches. Brian Snyder was fifth in the
men’s shot put with a throw of 54-7.
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sive boards 9-3 in the first half Sunday,
North Carolina knew physical strength
was not going to win the game. Some
thing deeper within needed to be mus
tered in order for the Tar Heels to pull
out a victory.
UNC knows that it can win any game
that it competes in whether it is at
home or away against No. 1 or No.
100. This knowledge is not arrogance.
It is a confidence in each other’s ability
to produce and make the right deci
sions.
This mutual confidence wins tough
overtime games.
UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell has
molded the Tar Heels to feel that if they
control their own game and their own
attitudes, then they don’t have to worry
about the other team.
Sophomore point guard Jill Suddreth
started pushing people. It got him out of
his game.
“From then on, we were able to take
control and put more points on the
board.”
Indeed, Rogers put 11 of his 17 points
on the board after Montross had fouled
out. Although UNC cut Wake’s lead to
15 with 10:00 left, the Tar Heels would
come no closer as Rogers scored five
straight points to give the Deacons a 67-
47 lead at the 8:18 mark.
Lynch said that unless UNC improved
its play against the zone defense, more
trouble may lurk ahead for his team.
“That was the first time we’ve really
seen a team play zone the entire game,”
he said. “In order for us to be a better
team, we have to prepare for that.”
As the final seconds ticked off the
clock, Wake fans, clad in black
“Screamin’ Demons” T-shirts, stood on
the scorer’s table, ready to jump onto
the court. When the buzzer sounded,
chaos abounded as they swarmed the
court, lifted Deacon players in the air
and climbed onto the baskets.
After finding his way off the court,
Odom warned against making too much
of one win. He remembers a similar
situation after Wake upset then-No. 1
Duke last Feb. 23. The Deacons then
lost five of six games to end the season.
“This is not the game,” Odom said. “I
don’t care how much our fans or any
other fans want to make it the game.”
In the UNC locker room, there were
no celebrations for Smith to worry about.
“I think we were ready to play,”
Montross said. “I thought we were.
Everybody seemed to be into it.
“But you never know, I guess.”
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Onesty Hall Pool.
The UNC men, ranked 15th, fell to 7-
4,3-1 in the ACC, as the Wahoos won
129-114. UVa. moved to 9-0, 3-0.
The Cavalier women defeated UNC
154-146, upping their record to 8-1,4-
1. The Tar Heel women, ranked 14th
entering the competition, are now 8-2,
3-1.
UNC’s Sarah Perroni starred on the
women’s side, winning the 50-, 100-,
and 200-yard freestyle events. Perroni
also anchored the victorious 400
freestyle relay. David Monasterio shined
for the Tar Heel men, winning the 200
individual medley and the 200 butter
fly.
SPORTS
knows the capabilities of the Tar Heels
and is ready for UNC’s next contest,
against 1 lth-ranked Virginia Wednes
day night.
“We’ve got to be focused and we’ve
got to come out there with fire in our
eyes, with a confidence that we can beat
them because we know in our hearts
that we can.”
Stephanie Lawrence, a 6-foot-1
sophomore who scored the Tar Heels’
final points in regulation on a 3-pointer,
realizes that it is not one player that
makes a team. UNC possesses the
conference’s leading scorer in Tonya
Sampson, but its gaudy record is truly a
team effort.
“We all understand that it takes five
of us to play defense and five to run the
plays and five of us just giving all we’ve
got to win the games,” Lawrence said.
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Wake 88, UNC 62
Saturday
UNC (62)
•B rb
min m-a m-a o-t apf tp
Lynch 29 5-13 1-1 3-9 0 3 12
Raesa 28 7-12 0-0 1-1 2 0 16
Montross 22 1-5 2-2 0-1 0 5 4
Phelps 27 4-4 0-0 2-4 4 3 8
R&fl 18 0-4 0-0 1-2 1 2 0
Sulßvan 18 3-6 0-0 2-3 1 3 7
Cheny 7 0-2 2-2 1-2 1 1 2
Williams 27 4-9 8-0 0-1 1 2 9
Sahradori 13 1-4 0-0 2-2 0 2 2
Wenstrom 7 0-2 0-0 0-2 0 0 0
Stephenson 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Davis 3 1-3 0-0 2-2 0 1 2
TOTALS 200 26-64 5-5 14-31 10 22 62
Percentages FG .406, FT 1.000.3-pobtt
goals —5-18, .278 (Reese 2-3, Williams 1 -4,
Lynch 1-2, Sullivan 1-2, RfldlO-4, Cherry 0-1,
Wenstrom 0-1, Davis 0-1). Team rebounds
2. Blocked Shots 1 (Lynch). Turn
overs l7 (Phelps 5, Reese 3, R6d 3,
Lynch 2, Montross 2, Williams, Team). Steals
8 (Phelps 3, Sullivan 2, Lynch. Williams,
Wenstrom).
WAKE FOREST (88)
l| It rt
min m-a m-a o-t apf tp
Rogers 36 6-12 5-7 1-4 33 17
Owens 31 8-15 0-0 2-6 2 2 16
Hicks 34 3-3 9-14 3-8 0 2 15
Childfess 37 9-13 2-3 1-5 33 27
Harrison 30 0-3 2-2 0-2 7 0 2
Banks 16 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 2
Blucas 11 2-2 0-1 0-1 10 6
Castle 1 1-1 0-00-0002
Laßue 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Rasmussen 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Fitzg&bons 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
King 1 0-0 1-2 0-10 11
TOTALS 200 30-5019-29 9-32 16 11 88
Percentages FG .600, FT .655. 3-polnt
goals - 9-14, .643 (Childress'7-9, Blucas 2-
2, Harrison 0-1, Rogers 0-2). Team rebounds
—5. Blocked Shots— 2 (Hicks, Rasmussen).
Turnovers l3 (Childress 4, Rogers 2,
Hicks 2, Banks 2, Owens, King, Team). Steals
—9(Rogers4,Chlltlrass2, Harrison 2, Banks).
North Carolina 30 32 - 62
Wake Forest 33 55 - 88
Technical Fouls none. Attendance—
-14.475.
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Suddreth also knows that Sampson ’ s
most valuable asset is not her prolific
scoring, but her team motivation.
“If you look at the whole picture,
each player on the floor kind of molds
together,” Suddreth said. “When Tonya
has a good game and she’s having fun
then we all get out there and it’s conta
gious.”
The fun is just beginning for UNC.
Virginia visits Chapel Hill Wednesday
night and the Tar Heels return the favpr
less than a week later in Charlottesville.
Jammed in between the Virginia con
tests is an away game against Wake
Forest.
The Tar Heels have a chance to prove
that they belong with the best in the
nation in the next two weeks. A win
against Virginia and they will be well
on their way.
Wrestling
At 142, UNC’s Josh Miller totally
controlled Brian Black 14-2, with
Black’s two points coming on escapes.
Mike Chase, David Reynolds and
Damon Michelsen all held on in close
matches to win in their divisions.
Wrestlers also top Clemson
CLEMSON, S.C. UNC’s Rick
Hall beat Clemson’s Scott Engel at the
Childress
sense that Childress was ready to take
over the game and put it out of reach in
one fell swoop.
“He came just in time,” Rogers said.
“When he hit his first one and then hit
his next one, it was like, ‘Get it back to
him and let him shoot some more.’”
Childress went on to score 15 of the
Deacons’ next 17 points, hitting six
consecutive 3-pointers in a 20-4 Wake
streak that sealed the deal at 59-36.
Late in the first half, Childress had
issued a warning of what was to come.
Childress’ 3-pointer at the 2:41 mark
put him in the scoring column for the
first time, giving Wake a 28-25 lead that
it would never relinquish.
The display was enough to send Wake
coach Dave Odom into an emotional
frenzy regarding his sophomore star.
“I think he (Childress) said to any
body that was watching or listening, ‘I
will not back off. I will not let my team
back off. And we may lose, but we’re
going to lose doing what we do best.’
“There are a lot of things he can
improve on. But he can never improve
on his nerve. There’s not a more nervy
player in this league not one.”
Saturday,Childress’ nerve—ormore
accurately the well-trained nerves in his
right arm put on a rarely seen show
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Tech
from page 10
The Tar Heels got the ball into
Sampson’s hands, but Georgia Tech
expected that and tightened up its de
fensive pressure. Sampson and the Tar
Heels couldn’t even get off a shot, and
the game went into overtime.
As for the first half, if you insert
Georgia Tech’s name for North
Carolina’s the story would read about
the same. The Jackets had their chances
to put UNC away, but they couldn’t hit
their shots. Georgia Tech hit just 31.5
percent of their shots for the day.
“We got all the shots we wanted,”
Berenato said. “I know we shot very
poorly in the first half, but we got all our
shots we wanted. We didn’t have to
change at all.”
heavyweight position to give the Tar
Heels a 20-18 win against the Tigers
Friday night.
Clemson maintained at least a four
point lead in the match until UNC’s
Damon Michelsen pinned Clemson’s
Aaron Strobel in the 190-pound weight
class at 5:40, pulling UNC within one
point.
North Carolina lost four of the first
from page 10
for the 14,475 fans. His streak was the
kind that great shooters come upon one
time or another during the course of a
season. It was the kind of streak that a
shooter like UNC’s Donald Williams
can relate to —and appreciate.
“I know the feeling it’s like you
can’t miss,” Williams said. “They kept
finding him. They knew he was hot.
“He wasn’t forcing it, though. He
just let the game come to him.”
Indeed, perhaps even more impres
sive than Childress’ shooting streak may
have been what followed. Despite be
ing convinced that his every shot would
find the bottom of the basket, Childress
resisted forcing the issue for seven min
utes following his six-pack.
“Each game, teams are coming after
me,” Childress said, “so I know I can’t
really force it too much— I don’t want
to force it. I just want to let everything
come to me.
“If you force anything, you’re going
to hurt your team. And that’s something
I don’t want to do—l don’t want to hurt
this team. I want to help them.
“It doesn’t matter to me I can go
30 minutes without a shot.”
In the wake of Saturday’s lights-out
display, the Tar Heels probably wish he
had done just that.
North Carolina 72, Goorgte Tech 68 <OT)
Georgia Tach
Weiss 3-14 5-7 11. Pierce 3-1S 8-10 14,
Kauffman 1-7 2-2 4, Caldwell 7-15 1-2 15,
Baldwin 3-9 4-411, Dortch 4-81-49, Wilson
0-0 0-0 0, Duggins 2-30-04, Fiacher 0-2 0-0
0, Finney 0-0 0-00. Totals 23-73 21 -29 68.
North Carolina (72)
Lawrence 3-8 0-0 8, Smith 6-11 1-2 13,
Crawley 6-9 1-2 13, Sampson 9-21 4-9 24,
Suddreth 2-7 1-3 7, Montgomery 0-3 1-2 1,
Gillingham 3-5 0-0 6, McKeeo-00-00. Totals
29-64 8-18 72.
Halftime —North Carolina 28, Georgia Tech
28. Fouled out—Weiss, Baldwin, Crawtey. 3-
pointfieidgoals—GeorgiaTch 1-6 (Bakhtin:
1-4, Caldwell 0-2), North Carolina 6-21
(Suddreth 2-4, Lawrenoe 2-7, Sampson 2-
10). Rebounds Georgia Tech 59 (Weiss
12), North Carolina 37 (Smith 12). Assists—
Georgia Tech 12 (Kauffman 3), Noth Caro
iina 18 (Sampson, Suddreth 5). Blocked shots
Georgia Tech 3 (Weiss 2), North Carolina
S (Gilingham 3). Turnovers— Georgia Tech
25 (Pierce 7), North Carolina 18 (Suddreth,
Crawtey 4). Steals—GeorgiaTech 13 (Pierce
3), North Carolina 14 (Sampson 8). Total
fouls—Georgia Tach 22, North CaroSna 21.
A —530 ■
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five weight classes, with only T.J.
Jaworsky (134) recording a 15-3 win
against Clemson’s Marcus Pollock.
The Tar Heels bounced back to win
four of the last five weight classes, with
Marc Taylor (158), Stan Banks (167),
Michelsen and Hall winning their
matches.
Clemson fell to 9-8-1 overall and 0-
1 in the ACC.
Bowl
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Haley knocked the ball loose from Kelly
at the goal line to defensive tackle
Jimmie Jones, who took two steps into
the end zone for the score that put the
Cowboys ahead for good.
With and without Kelly, who
reinjured his right knee with 6:52 left in
the first half, the Bills couldn’t produce
when they had to.
Frank Reich spelled Kelly and drove
Buffalo from its own 33 to the Dallas 3
and a Steve Christie field goal made it
14-10 with 3:24 left in the first half.
But Aikman drove Dallas 77 yards in
5 plays, hitting Irvin for a 19-yard TD
on his favorite slant across the middle.
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