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UNC Junks Jacket Jinx Down Stretch IHHpn l w iHKJSir aES&IL & -# nidif- DTH/SARAH DENT UNO's Rasheed Wallace (30) acts as a wall between Georgia Tech center Eddie Elisma (5) and the basket in the Tar Heels' 85-81 win in Atlanta Sunday afternoon. Elisma tallied six points while Wallace scored 27, including five dunks. ONTHEROAD ■■* Relay Team Breaks Record BOSTON—Fourmembersofthe UNC men’s track and field team, who set a school record in the 4x400 relay last week, broke their own record Saturday at the St. Valentine’s Day Boston University Track and Field Invitational. UNC’s Tony McCall, Milton Campbell, Henry McKoy and Ken Hamden won the event in 3:07.94, eclipsing the old mark of 3:10.24 set last week at George Mason’s Patriot Games. The mark automatically qualified the quartet for the NCAA Indoor Championships and set a Boston Univer sity Field House record. Hamden placed third in the 400 meters by running a career-best time 0f46.98, the second-fastest time in school history. Campbell took fourth in a season-best 46.99, the school’s third-fastest time. Those marks provisionally qualify Hamden and Campbell for the NCAA meet. Also on Saturday at the George Mason Winter Invitational in Fairfax, Va., UNC senior co-captain Shannon Pope finished Second in the pole vault and set a personal best with a vault of 17 feet, 7-1/4 inches. s^tisanottu Tiwaday, Fab. 14 Wractfing: vs. Duke, Carmichael Auditorium. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Fab. 15 Woman's Basketball: vs. Clemson, Carmichael Auditorium, 7 p.m. Thursday, Fab. 16 Man's Basketball: vs. Clemson, Smith Center, 7:30 p.m., ESPN Woman's Swimming: ACC Champion ships, Koury Natatorium, all day laeebaß: vs. George Washington. Boshamer Stadium. 3 p.m. Woman s Tennis: vs. Brigham Young, Cono-Kenfield Tennis Center, 2 p.m. Friday. Fob. 17 Woman's Swimming: ACC Champion ships, Koury Natatorium, all day Track ft Field: UNC Indoor Invitational, Hilton Indoor Complex, 3 p.m. Basobaß: vs. George Washington, Boshamer Stadium, 3 p.m. mnuiict Page 7 Flipped Out The UNC gymnastics team had its best effort of the season but still lost by just over a point to visiting Maryland on Sunday. Despite the loss. Tar Heel freshman Mary Jo Austin (left) won the all-around competition with a score of 37.75. UNC's Amanda Mitchell came in second. Pope’s leap was the second-highest in school history and provisionally qualified him for the NCAA meet. Baseball Drops 3 off 4 KISSIMMEE, Ha. The Georgia Bulldogs got some quick revenge against the North Carolina baseball team Sunday, dropping the Tar Heels 6-3 in the consola tion game of the sixth annual Olive Gar den Collegiate Baseball Classic. UNCcompileda l-3record in the round robin tournament, finishing fourth in the four-team event. The Tar Heels opened the tourney Friday by topping the Bulldogs 5- 2 behind the pitching of Brian Willman, who did not allow an earned run in his eight innings. Following that win, UNC was thumped 12-1 by No. 7 Miami, which limited the Tar Heels to just three hits. Saturday against toumament-host Cen tral Florida, the Tar Heels fell 11-5. The Knights broke a 5-5 tie in the bottom of the sixth inning with five runs. The Tar Heels open their home season at 3 p.m. Thursday against George Wash ington. FROM STAFF REPORTS Saturday, Fab. 18 Woman's Swimming: ACC Champion ships, Koury Natatorium, all day Baseball: vs. George Washington, Boshamer Stadium, 1 p.m. Gymnastics: atTowson Invitational, Towson, Md. Wrestling: at Navy, Annapolis, Md., 2 p.m. Wrestling: vs. Coppin State, Annapolis. Md., 4 p.m. Softball: at USL Tournament Lafayette, La. Sunday, Fab. 19 Man's Basketball: at Virginia. Charlottesville, Va., 3:45 p.m., ABC Woman's Baskatball: at N.C. State, Raleigh, Noon, ACC-TV Baseball: vs. Appalachian State, Boshamer Stadium. 1:30 p.m. Woman's Tennis: vs. Tennessee, Cone- Kenfield Tennis Center, 1 p.m. Softball: at USL Tournament Lafayette, La. SPORTS MONDAY Qtyr Daily ®ar Hrel mm "A Rl UTH/ERIK PEREL Charlotte Smith (23) launches one of her 10 missiles over Patriot forward Gretchen Lacey (41). Smith made seven of those shots and scored 17 points. BYJACSONLOWE SENIOR WRITER ATLANTA—Despite shooting a blis tering 33 of 60 from the field, No. 1 North Carolina had to battle for 19:27 to secure an 85-81 victory against No. 18 Georgia Tech. However, the 10,026 fans packed into Alexander Memorial Coliseum watched the Tar Heels (19-2, 9-2 in the ACC) run away during the last 33 ticks of the clock. The Yellow Jackets (15-8, 6-5) were down 79-75 with 43 seconds left when UNC’s Donald Williams missed the front end of a one-and-one. Tech’s Travis Best missed a 3-pointer on the other end, but sophomore C. J. Williams was there for the tap-in. Then the Ramblin’ Wreck blew a gasket around *turn lap Georgia Tech 81 “We wanted to pressure them into some kind of turnover, and if we didn’t get it, what we were looking to do was foul once they got it over halfcourt,” said Best, who ledTechwith2opoints. “(Jerry) Stackhouse went to the hole strong, and we had some guys lagging behind him who couldn’t catch up to foul him.” Stackhouse took the ball and pushed it ahead to Rasheed Wallace for two of his game-high 27 points. With 17 seconds left and UNC up 81-77, Williams stole the ball from Best and led Wallace to the hoop for one last jam to seal the victory. “That was really the key to the game,” Williams said. “We got a lot of easy bas kets." A couple of those “easy” ones came at crucial points in the game’s waning mo ments. Tar Heel senior Pearce Landry checked in for an injured Dante Calabria with 3:51 remaining and promptly hit a 3- pointer from the right side to put UNC ahead 77-73. The second came with just over a minute remaining, when Wallace found himself in trouble on the left wing. Williams came to his aid, took the ball, drove baseline and connected on an uncontested layup that put the Tar Heels ahead 79-75. “The story really came down near the end when we got a big basket from Pearce Landry for three,” UNC head coach Dean Smith said. “We got Rasheed’s two foul shots before that, and then the defensive stop when we were trying to scramble a little bit." NCAA Basketball Scores Oklahoma 76 UCLA 98 Oklahoma St. 79 Auburn 70 Kansas 93 Wash. St 83 Missouri 81 Mississippi St 69 UConn .........77 Michigan St.6B Stanford 70 Oregon St 86 Syracuse 70 Penn St 53 Arizona St ..79 0reg0n..... 107 UMass... 94 California.... 74 Villanova. 81 Alabama 74 SW Louisiana 63 Arizona 72 Seton Hall 67 LSU 66 Kentucky 97 Arkansas .....97 Nebraska 69 Purdue 73 Notre Dame ...58 Vanderbilt 94 lowa St 72 Indiana ........82 Wallace Takes Undersized Tech to School BYROBBIPICKERAL ASSISTANT SPORTS EDTOR ATLANTA With one of Georgia Tech’s All-America candidates, James Forrest, sidelined with a broken hand Sunday afternoon, it was more than ex pected that North Carolina’s big man would have a huge game. After all, with the 6-foot-8,255-pound power forward lounging on thd pine, that left only 6-9 sophomore center Eddie Elisma and 6-8 freshman for ward Michael Maddox protect ing the paint. And all those youngsters could do was take notes as the 6-10 Wallace schooled them with five jams and led both teams in scoring. “When any- Sensational sophomore RASHEED WALLACE made 12-of-14 shots. one on our team dunks, like when C.J. (Williams) dunked, it gives the team a lot of enthusiasm,” Yellow Jacket guard Matt Harpring said. “It’s the same as a 2- point shot, but it brings a lot more excite ment to the game, and it brings their team’s attitude and hype up.” Wallace was certainly hyped. Just eyeball the stats: 27 points on 12- of-14 shooting (that includes the pat ented “Ra-aaaaa” jams), three blocks, two assists, eight boards and a perfect 3 of 3 from the charity stripe. “It really did hurt us because we’re smaller (without Forrest),” Tech guard Travis Best said. “We’re smaller down low, and we don’t have the size inside to put a body on him. ... We were down low trying to help out on Rasheed so much that it was hard to concentrate on our perimeter game.” Tech’s loss was its first to a No. 1 team in its last five attempts—three of those five were against top-ranked Tar Heel squads. The Yellow Jackets upset UNC 77-75 in the 1993 ACC tournament finals, and they swept the Tar Heels last year—both times, North Carolina was No. 1. It looked as though Georgia Tech might extend its streak with its performance in UNC Uses Strong 4 D’ To Halt Patriot Revolt BY HEIDI C. SCHMITT STAFF WRITER When UNC freshman reserve forward Nicole Walker grabbed a rebound and hit the follow-up jumper with 0.1 seconds left against George Mason Saturday, the Tar Heel bench leapt up, thinking the game was over. It was an easy mistake to make, since the game had essentially been over since the beginning of the second half. Walker’s basket gave the Tar Heels (22- 3) an 84-47 victory over the Patriots (5-14) before 1,509 at Carmichael Auditorium. Women's Basketball during the first George Mason 47 half, holding UNC 84 UNC to 48.5 percent shooting from the floor. However, when Keri Chaconas, GMU’s leading scorer, left the game early in the second half with an injury, UNC went on a 17-4 run to open up a 57-29 lead at 13:31. “That’s what our goal was in the first couple minutes to build a lead,” Tar Heel head coach Sylvia Hatchell said. “We really wanted to go after them at first. The first half, they were sort of controlling the tempo a lot, and that was one reason we finally went to the traps to try to pick up the tempo.” In the first half, the Tar Heels played scrappy defense, grabbing 12 steals, but had problems converting at the other end. And rebounding plagued the Tar Heels throughout the game, as GMU grabbed 41 boards to North Carolina’s 35. Hatchell said this was something that UNC would be working on in the future. “I felt defensively we had some times when we did really well, and we had some good rotations on these guys,” she said. “The weakest part of our defense was re bounding I don’t know how many they got, but they got a ton of offensive re bounds, and I think right now, the thing our team needs to work on more than anything else is finishing things off.” The missed boards and conversions rep resent missing pieces to the overall puzzle. “We’re doing a really good job on parts See WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, Page 9 Monday, February 13,1995 It showed—and eventually, it exter minated the Yellow Jackets. "Basically, they were trying to play him one-on-one,” UNC guard Donald Williams said. “We know if anyone’s going to play Rasheed one-on-one, we’re going to get him the ball. When he gets the ball, ... good things are going to happen.” But Wallace’s biggest play was his role as a decoy. With 3:36 left and UNC ahead by one, point guard Jeff Mclnnis found Pearce Landry for a trey. Landry was virtually alone behind the arc be cause his man— Maddox stuck to Wallace in the paint and was late rotat ing to the shot. That shot put UN Cup by four, and it never looked back. “At the end we were in a zone trap, and Michael Maddox was supposed to rotate over, but he didn’t want to leave Wallace because Wallace was the tallest guy on the court,” Tech coach Bobby Cremins said. “Landry hit a great 3.” Elisma’s second foul, with 12:26 left in the first half, helped Wallace as Elisma could not be as aggressive. “(Elisma) is a tremendous shot blocker,” UNC coach Dean Smith said. “When he got two fouls, we really pounded it at him. If he hadn’t got the early foul trouble ... I don’t know. I thought Wallace was tremendous, one of his better games this year.” Wallace said both he and the team took advantage of Forrest’s absence. “I see myself as some kind of escape route when things don’t go right for us out on the wing and we can’t knock that 3 down, then we pump it inside,” he said. “If I can’t (make my shot), that’s when I kick it back out.” Tech never controlled Wallace. He capped his day with four points to se cure the win, and his last score was what else? —a jam, with emphasis. Williams said, “That’s what he does best.” the closing minutes of the first half. Sopho more Mike Maddox hit the first of his four 3-pointers with 4:33 to go in the first half. The shot gave Tech its first lead, 33-31, since an opening layup by Drew Barry made it 2-0. After Maddox’s basket, the Wreck put it in overdrive, outscoringUNC See MEN’S BASKETBALL, Page 6 Tar Heel Seniors Notch 100th Win With Frosh’s Help BY DLL SANTOPIETRO STAFF WRITER In a milestone nonconference romp against the overmatched George Ma son Patriots, North Carolina got spar kling performances from both ends of the experience spectrum. UNC seniors Charlotte Smith and Stephanie Lawrence and freshman Tracy Reid starred for UNC in its 84-47 victory Saturday at Carmichael Audi torium. The victory marked the 100th career victory for the Tar Heel seniors. They are the first group in UNC history to accomplish that feat. “I’d like to congratulate my seniors on their 100th game,” said head coach Sylvia Hatchell. “I just just told them in the locker room that hardly any play ers, college or high school, everwin 100 games within a four-year career.” Lawrence said the team was un aware of the significance of the game until afterward. “We didn’t even realize it until Coach Hatchell told us in the locker room after the game,” said Lawrence. “I think this is just a great accomplish ment for any group of seniors coming through such a great program as Caro lina. We’re very proud.” Both Hatchell and Smith agreed that while the accomplishment is tremen dous, they have another goal for the remainder of the season. “We want ittobe 113,” saidHatchell. Thirteen more wins would give the Tar Heels the ACC and NCAA cham pionships for the second consecutive year. Smith and Lawrence each contrib uted 17 points in Saturday’s win. 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