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North Carolina's Tony Thomas joined with Tripp Phillips to capture the A-1
doubles championship in the Tar Heel Fall Invitational tennis tournament.
Volleyball rolls over State, Duke
By Kurt Tondorf
Staff Writer
The North Carolina volleyball team
maintained its inspired play by cruising
past N.C. State 15-12, 15-4, 15-8 Sept.
29 and squeaking by defending ACC
champion Duke 10-15,6-15,15-5,15-9,
16-14 the next evening.
UNC will host Virginia at Carmichael
today at 6 p.m.
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The two wins evened UNC’s confer
ence record (9-5, 2-2 in the ACC) and
affirmed the Tar Heels' belief that they
belong among the ACC’s top three teams.
Only Georgia Tech and Clemson, both
of which beat UNC last weekend, had
proven themselves worthy of being held
among the ACC’s three best teams.
But when senior Kristin Kruse re
jected a Blue Devil spike at 15-14 in the
fifth game to seal the victory, the Tar
UNC Sports
Itaio doubles tandems 2nd
at Tar Heel Fall Invitational
By Alec Morrison
Assistant Sports Editor
By the time David Britt exited Court 7
at Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center Sun
day, his face was barely discernible
through the beads of sweat that covered
it
Such was life at the Tar Heel Fall
Invitational.
The three-day men’s tennis tourna
ment culminated Sunday with six differ
ent UNC players taking the court for
various matches. Four Tar Heels reached
at least the semifinals of their respective
draws: Paul Harsanyi, the No. 2 seed in
A-1 Flight Singles, who lost in the final;
Britt and Robert Tedesco, both ofwhom
fell in the A-2 Flight semifinals; and Adam
McNabb, who had to retire from his
match in the B-2 Flight final.
But while no Tar Heels came away
Sunday with singles tides, two doubles
tandems were victorious. Tony Thomas
and Tripp Phillips paired to capture A-1
doubles, 8-4 over Virginia Tech’s An
drew Krafft and Chad Toleafoa, w'hile
Tedesco and Britt knocked off Scott
Heels joined the ACC elite and estab
lished bragging rights as the best team in
North Carolina.
“It means a whole lot to us to be 2-2 in
the conference right now,” said UNC
coach Joe Sagula, who considered the
UNC-Duke match one of the best in
which he has ever coached. “I’m so happy
that this team was able to get a win in
front of this crowd. My senses are just
dulled.”
“Dull” was a good way of describing
the Tar Heel attack as UNC dropped the
first two games.
Down 0-2, Sagula put a big and pow
erful lineup on the floor in which no one
stood below 5-foot-10. The Tar Heels
won the next three games and UNC
captured its first home win against the
Blue Devils since 1990.
On Sept. 29, UNC notched its first
ACC win in a straight-sets victory over
State. Jill Peden and Lindsay Smith led
the way with eight kills apiece.
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Lebovitz and Chris
Seeger of Virginia
8-4 in A-2 doubles.
After the
matches, UNC
coach Sam Paul
said the doubles
victories were a
leamingprocessfor
the tandems.
“We’re not
looking at winning
Paul Harsanyi
these two doubles so much as we’re look
ing at how they can become better teams
or play better tennis,” he said. “Obvi
ously, our doubles are gonna be high
because we’re playing at a national high,
high level. So that’s pleasing. I liked some
things that I saw, but we gotta get more
consistent.”
Thomas and Phillips found consistency
in a serve-and-volley game that tied op
ponents in knots all weekend. Thomas’
power serves and Phillips’ clutch volleys
were often more than Virginia Tech could
handle in the final.
“Tripp and I played pretty well to
gether, we connected well,” Thomas said.
“We do a lot of things to compliment one
another.”
Phillips, a freshman, said he enjoyed
playing with high-quality players such as
Thomas.
“It’s fun,” Phillips said. “All the guys
on the team, really, are rooting for each
other. It’s a good environment to play in,
and you learn a lot. It’s a lot better,
Tar Heel Notebook
Men's Soccer
CHARLESTON, S.C. North Carolina
lOth-ranked men’s soccer team suffered a stun
ning loss at the hands of College of Charleston 3-
0 on Wednesday night.
UNC outshot Charleston 12-7.
Star Tar Heel goalkeeper Dimitry Drouin
left the game early with an injury. Charleston
went on to slip three goals past backup goal
keeper Patrick Smith in the runaway win.
North Carolina will play at South Carolina
on Sunday at 2 p.m. The game will be televised
by Home Team Sports.
Field Hockey
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The No. 1 ranked
UNC field hockey team cruised to a 4-1 win
against American University Saturday and sur
vived overtime Sunday to defeat Maryland 2-1.
Freshman forward Nancy Pelligreen scored
with 10:44 remaining in the second overtime
against the Terps to improve the Tar Heels to
11-0 and 4-0 in the ACC.
The 11 consecutive wins to start the season
tied a school record that the Tar Heels set last
season.
Cross Country
AUBURN, Ala. The UNC men’s cross
country team finished second in a field of 27
Saturday, as junior David Mabe finished sev
enth overall with a time of 24:51.5.
Junior Brandon Coonse had the next-best
time for the Tar Heels in 25:10.8.
The women’s cross country team placed fifth
at the same meet, with junior Karen Godlock
finishing second in 17:21.9.
Women's Tennis
COLUMBIA, S.C The UNC women’s
tennis team wrapped up the South Carolina
1 s si t
because I’m not used to having 12, 13
good guys to go out and hit with.”
Tedesco said one key to his duo’s vic
tory their ability to return serve well.
“We returned well this tournament, so
... we knew we were gonna have a break
at least every eight-game pro set,” he
said.
In singles, Harsanyi had the most suc
cessful tournament of any Tar Heel,
reaching the finals of his draw before
fallingto South Carolina’sjorge Esqueda
6-4,6-3. Paul said Harsanyi played well,
but top-seeded Esqueda was too strong.
Britt’s semifinal matchup in A-2 singles
was a marathon. After bludgeoning his
opponents in the first two rounds, Britt
trailed Davidson’s Jon Pastel 1-5 in the
third set of their semifinal match.
But Britt put together a stunning come
back, winningfour straight games to even
the match at 5-5. The two went to a
tiebreak, and Britt opened a 3-1 lead.
Pastel recovered from Britt’s whirlwind
rally, however, and held on to take the
tiebreak and the match, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6.
“It could’ve gone either way. He played
a great match, but when I was up 3-1 (in
the tiebreak), I had a passing shot right
there, and I missed it by an inch or so. I
thought if I had made that shot and gone
up 4-1,1 thought that’d really have made
him go nuts,” Britt said.
McNab cruised through his B-2 singles
draw before facing something much
See TENNIS, Page 14
Invitational with a pair of second-place fin
ishes.
Freshman Sarah Hawkins placed second in
Flight C singles, while the doubles duo of
Robyn Gumey and Catherine Glass finished
second in Flight C doubles.
Elizabeth Webb and Gumey also posted
singles finishes, placing 15th in Flight B and
Flight D singles, respectively.
Women's Soccer
STANFORD, Calif.—The UNC women’s
soccer team shutout apairofWest Coast teams
this weekend. The Tar Heels (10-0) topped
ninth-ranked Stanford 3-0 on Sunday aifter
blanking No. 7 Santa Clara 2-0 on Friday.
In the Stanford win, all the UNC scoring
came in a span of 3:32 in the second half. At the
67:40 mark, Robin Confer scored off assists
from Debbie Keller and Cindy Parlow. Fresh
man midfielder Tiffany Roberts then scored
her second goal of the weekend, followed by
Keller’s 12th goal of the season at 71:12.
Men's Golf
ST. LOUIS North Carolina’s Mark
Wilson fired a three-day score of 6-under-par
207 to finish third individually and lead his
team to a third-place finish at the Missouri
Bluffs Intercollegiate.
The Tar Heels shot a team score 0f860,10
shots behind champion Oklahoma State and
four shots behind Wake Forest. UNC beat
perennial golf power Arizona State for fourth
by nine strokes.
Earlier this season, Wilson placed fourth at
the Ping-Golfweek Intercollegiate tournament.
Other UNC scores were: Rob Bradley 216,
Drew Scott 220, Lee McEntee 221 and Greg
DiDonna 223.
OSU’s Bo Van Pelt fired a 204 to win the
individual crown by one shot.