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■ f.JHp Williams’ Offensive Boost Lifts Tar Heels Over UVa. BYROBBIPICKERAL SPORTS EOTTOR North Carolina needed an offensive surge, and Coach Dean Smith knew it. Down by one with less than six minutes remaining in Saturday’s game against Vir ginia, the Tar Heels had battled back from an eight-point deficit, but the score kept bouncing back and forth like a great big pendulum. BaeLatkall UNC just couldn’t seem y,'lSL nia §5 to break the ••••••••••—•••■••■ ' deficit, failing to rally an offensive burst to put them over the top. “I looked at (assistant) coach (Bill) Guthridge and said, ‘We can’t score,’” Smith said. “He said, ‘Maybe Shammond can.’” So Tar Heel sophomore Shammond Williams hopped off the bench, listened to his instructions, trotted to the scorer’s table and checked into the game. Fourteen seconds later, he buried a shot from behind the arc. Thirty-four seconds after that, he con verted a breakaway jam off a Jeff Mclnnis steal. And with less than a minute left in the game, he swished 5 of 5 charity shots to seal No. 17UNC’s(18-7,94intheACC) win against the Cavaliers (11-12, 5-8) 71- 66 in front of 21,572 at the Smith Center. “They all seem to go down to the wire forus,” Smith said. “That’s almostablow out.” But Williams’ role in the game’s home stretch was not new—or unexpected. The guard from Greenville, S.C., had played an active role near the end of three games prior to Saturday’s win. At Reynolds Coliseum against N.C. State on Feb. 3, Williams missed a shot that would have sent the game into over time. The next game, vs. Maryland at the Smith Center, Williams dribbled the ball off his foot, halting a 17-point comeback. “Those two games maybe got me down alittle bit,” Williamssaid. “Thenlhadthe opportunity to help us win at Clemson...” And he did, burying two of three free throws in the waning moments last Wednesday night. That win snapped UNC’s three-game losing streak. “I’m glad to be getting my confidence back, and hopefully I can continue playing well and help the team whenever I can, because it’s a team effort,” Williams said. Indeed, the Tar Heels looked more con cise Saturday than they have since the beginning of the season. Four players Dante Calabria (16 points), Mclnnis (13), Williams (12) and Ademola Okulaja (11) scored in double figures, and the Tar Heels forced 12 Cavalier turnovers in the Women Upset 'Pack, Snap 3-Game Skid BY JOSEPH ROUSON ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Finally, the North Carolina women’s basketball team has wrested the monkey from its back. Since their 93-68 trouncing of then-No. 23 Clemson on Jan. 13, the Tar Heels had not managed to topple a Women's Basketball ranked oppo- N.C. State 65 nent. First, UNC 75 UNC lost to then-14th-ranked North Carolina State 76- 72onJan. 17. Near-miss lossesto then-No. 13 Duke, top-ranked Georgia and No. 21 Clemson followed. It appeared that no matter how close the Tar Heels came to defeating a ranked op pone it, they were hexed by a spell that would not allow an upset. But Sunday before 6,837 at Carmichael Auditorium, North Carolina “ISIS (13-11,8-6 mthe Key Tar Neel Win ACC) ended its See Page 9 jinx with a 75-65 win over No. 16 N.C. State (17-7,94). The win snapped a three-game losing skid that included the 79-78 overtime loss to Clemson last Wednesday. “We felt like (Clemson) was a game we should have had,” North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell said. “We’vehadplentyof those. “I knew eventually (a big win) would happen. ... We’ve been in a lot of these situations. That’s just going to make us better down the stretch. ” The most ironic aspect of the Tar Heels’ win was that much of the game resembled the two teams’ January matchup in Ra leigh. On Sunday, North Carolina fell be hind early, clawed back to claim a slim SOFTBALL Page 8 Doubleheader Dominance The North Carolina softball team swept a doubleheader vs. Furman on Sunday, winning 2-1 and 40. Brandy Arthur (left) pitched a two-hitter in the second game to record the shutout for the Tar Heels. second half. But for the seventh straight game, UNC had to rally from a halftime deffdt via a lackadaisical first stanza in which the Cavs were 6 of 12 from 3-point land. “Weplayedpoorly the first half,” Smith said. “I think we were lucky to only be down two. Dante had to hit a tough 3 from the comer (before halftime) to do that.” Coming out of intermission, one of the Tar Peels’ main goals was to shut down guard Curtis Staples, who converted four treys in the first stanza. “We promised at the half that we were UNC Zone Picks Up Pace, Derails Wahoos in 2nd Half BYTODD GRAFF ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Playing zone can be a drudging task —a laborious process of planting one’s feet on defense and guarding space. There are no individual battles to excite inten sity, and success hinges on deception— looking as wide and inflated as possible to cover the gaps. On the other hand, man-to-man de fense can be tiresome, chasing an oppo nent through mazes of screens or hur- tling a body at a hulking forward on the blocks. In either scheme, the men tality is some what passive, re acting rather than pressing, all the while allowing the opponent to dictate play. North Caro lina knows all about these schemes. DANTE CALABRIA had two steals Saturday vs. the Cavs. Through three-quarters of Saturday’s 71-66 win, UNC allowed Virginia to weave in and out of zones and roll off screens for 11 3-pointers, two-thirds of the Cavs’ total. “For some reason, we just didn’t have the enthusiasm in the first half,” UNC forward Antawn Jamison said. And with less than nine minutes to play, North Carolina found itself trail ing 50-46 to UVa., a team invariably content to shorten the court, slow the tempo and ceaselessly search for its snip ers to fire open 3s. 'i SJtBFfHL. s£ |rxf ® # "' JTIf ML - Tfy^SP DTH/JASON KIRK UNC forward Tracy Reid (00) drives for a layup Saturday as N.C. State's Jennifer Howard looks on. Reid scored 30 as the Tar Heels won 75-65. halftime margin and increased its lead to begin the second half. But unlike the matchup in Reynolds Coliseum, UNC quashed State’s hopes for a comeback after the Tar Heels exploded on a 12-2 run that put them up 51-36 with 12:55 left in the game. MONDiff Sljp Bath} (Far Uppl going to be this dose to (Staples) when he got it, ” Smith said, holding his hands about two feet apart, then shortening the distance as he continued. “Antawn (Jamison), two times, let him have about this much, and he made two. And from then on, you saw this streak coming out—it was Antawn— to make sure he wouldn’t get any more shots off.” Staples was 3 of 8 from behind the arc in the second stanza as he scored on UVa.’s first three possessions of the second half. See MEN’S BASKETBALL, Pagell The Cavs had made only five buckets in the second half, but four of those were 3-pointers, and they had limited UNC to five baskets in increasing their half time lead by two. “We pretty much controlled three quarters ofthe game,” UVa. guard Curtis Staples said. “It was that one quarter that hurt us.” So after Serge Zwikker lofted a hook over Chris Alexander to cut the lead to 5048, UNC forced a change in the game’s pace by abandoning its passiv ity. The Tar Heels scrambled in the front court and in the backcourt, forcing five turnovers and allowing only six Cava lier shots over the next eight minutes. “I guess you could say that you’ve got to concentrate more (when trap ping),’’UNC guard Dante Calabria said. “You’ve got to be more into what we’re doing, because it’s not just going back into man-to-man or into zone. We’re putting something on, and you’ve got to concentrate and be in the right area.” From the 8:55 mark until just under the one minute mark, the Tar Heels ran off an 18-3 run with a collapsing defense that forced UVa. point guard Harold Deane into three turnovers. Courtney Alexander turned the ball over three times in the run, and the Tar Heels forced a shot-clock violation. “When they start panicking and start rushing things, and we start running up and down the court, it’s fun, and you feel more relaxed,” Jamison said. The backcourt threesome of Calabria, JeffMclnnis and Shammond Williams led the charge, totaling 14 points, four assists and four steals. SeeDEFENSE, Page 11 “They came out prepared and ready to go,” N.C. State coach Kay Yow said. “We weren’t in high gear, and they were. They made their ran then, and that was the difference.” See WOMEN'S BASKETBALL, Page 9 ■ It- AjCjUM ml'' ' V I*'' I -jN Ifefc' jggggMlpNViMM 1 K jnO*. i * Hi I mi l " IH* m ' H|, . / mKr ni h DTH/JASON HRK North Carolina point guard Jeff Mclnnis (5) shoots for two of his 13 points Saturday. UNC beat UVa. 71-66. Men’s Netters VanquishVCU, Rout Tribe to Stay Undefeated BYPAULSTRELOW STAFF WRITER North Carolina’s men’s tennis team may not have passed its first test of the season with flying colors, but it still received a passing grade from its teacher. The No. 20 Tar Heels (4-0) defeated 18 th ranked Vir ginia Com monwealth 5-2 on Sunday at Men's Tennis VCU 2 UNC 5 William & Mary 0 UNC 7 Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center. The win marks UNC’s first victory over a ranked opponent this season. The win also rounded out a weekend sweep for the Tar Heels, who crushed William & Mary 7-0 on Sat urday. UNC coach Sam Paul, who earlier called the VCU match his team’s first big test, said he was happy with the results. >SWPIMW M 8 5 < Tuesday Baseball at Campbell, Buies Creek, TBA Wednesday Women’s Basketball vs. Maryland, Carmichael Auditorium. 7 p.m. Thursday Men’s Tennis vs. UNC-Charlotte, Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center, 2:30 p.m. i Softball vs. Minnesota, Finley Field, 2:30 p.m. Baseball vs. UNC-Asheville, Boshamer Stadium, TBA Men’s Basketball vs. VMI, Smith Center, 7:30 p.m. NCAA Basketball Scores Indiana 75 Michigan .....80 UMass 74 Va. Tech 58 Kentucky ....90 Tennessee 50 Notre Dame.. 65 UConn 85 N.C. State 76 Duke 79 Missouri 72 Maryland 91 Wake Forest. 63 Ga. Tech 64 Florida State. 59 Clemson 67 KjfcrZ? Jpr 1 “I’m very pleased with some things, but we’ve still got some to im prove on," Paul said. “We knew it wouldbe a dogfight. For our first pres sure situation, I’m very pleased." Tripp Phillips, the No. 6 seed in singles, came back after losing a first set tiebreaker to de feat Pascal Salasca DAVID CALDWELL went undefeated in both singles and doubles this weekend. 6-7,64,6-3. Phillips’ win ensured the Tar Heels a victory over the Rams. “I started off a little bit slow,” said Phillips, a freshman from Charlotte. “It was a close first set, and it came down to the wire. Then I got a little more deter mined and came out fired up. SPORTS SCHEDULE Friday Indoor Track and Field at ACC day Stadium, TBA ssizr women s dukvipiii ai uuko, Durham. 7:30 p.m. Saturday Indoor Track and Raid at ACC Championships, Greensboro. All day Fencing at Princeton Dual Meets. Princeton, N.J.. All day Memphis 60 Georgetown 81 Stanford 62 Oregon 64 Boston Coll. 70 Providence.... 68 Miss.St 64 Mississippi..7l Villanova .....67 Pittsburgh 64 Kansas 61 lowa State 50 Cincinnati ...87 DePaul 60 Arizona 86 use 72 Monday, February 19,1996 “I let him dictate (the first set). That was the difference in the second and the third. I thought I dictated more.” Paul said Phillips responded well in his first pressure situation, apositionhe will be in often during his UNC career. “That’s one reason we like him here,” Paulsaid. “He stepped up today, and that’s the way he was in his junior career.” Phillips’ victory overshadowed domi nant singles performances by David Caldwell and Paul Harsanyi. Caldwell; the No. 1 seed, routed Boris Kodjoe 6-2,6- 2, while No. 4 Harsanyi topped Sebastian Preauchat 6-2,63. “I played real well in singles and doubles,” Caldwell said. “I thought I was moving well, and that dictated my play. Once I got up on him I felt pretty good and felt in control of the match. ” Paul agreed with his senior co-captain, See MEN’S TENNIS, Page 9 Men’s Basketball vs. Florida State, Smith Center, 2 p.m. Baseball vs. Seton Hall, Boshamer Stadium, TBA Softball at Triangle invitational, Raleigh. TBA Sunday Man’s Lacrosse vs. Radford. Fetzer Field. 2 p.m. Baseball vs. Seton Hall. Boshamer Stadium. TBA soRDaH at inangle Invitational, TBA 14
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