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Efj p latly (Ear Hppl Lady Vols Dump 'Dogs in Tide Game THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTE Tennessee was big ger and stronger; Georgia was quicker. In this case, bigger was better. Tennessee dominated inside and got some inspired defense from Latina Davis in beating Southeastern Conference rival Georgia 83-65 Sunday night to win its fourth NCAA championship. Tennessee now has twice as many na- tional titles as any other school in 15 years of NCAA Championship Georgia 65 Tennessee 83 NCAA play. The Lady Vols won their previous championships in 1987,1989and 1991 all under current coach Pat Summitt. Tennessee’s players donned the tradi tional championship caps and pranced around the court in celebration. Summitt, wearing a burnt orange pantsuit, watched calmly from the sidelines and chatted with a television reporter. Tennessee’s Michelle Marciniak, who had 10 points, five assists and two steals, was named the outstanding player in the final four. She scored 21 in a semifinal Men’s Laxers Suffer Another 1-Goal Defeat *r: * fIW’JK ‘ M | gjK. jarJB \ * ji|§§f stJ-' -' fc * ■ m /wHBPSt ~~ . * jwmf | ■■ Jason Sanders, shown here against Maryland last week, scored one goal against the Blue jays”' Fonner Colleagues Face Off in Search for First Title THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK—Rick Pitino squirms in his seat, his face revealing a slight grin. He’s heard the jabs about being a genius without a portfolio, the slick taskmaster who’s engulfed himself in an Armani-clad cult of personality without leading even one team to a championship. “Two books, no championships,” he said, chuckling at a favorite line of his detractors. For Pitino, the only titles are “Bom to Coach” and “Full Court Pressure.” A title on the court is expected no, make that demanded—ofhftn when Kentucky meets Syracuse in the N CAA championship game Monday night. “Would I love to win this thing?” Pitino asked Sunday, not even pausing for the answer. “Yes, if just to stop the dumb questions about when am I going to win it all. Ifl knew the answerto that, I wouldsay something like, 'ln 1998, we’re definitely going to win it all.’ I wish I had an answer for that.” Of course, in the state of Kentucky, the answer to that question is quite clear. Even Pitino seems to realize the moment for reality to catch up with reputation is upon him. “You’d like to strike when the opportu nity is there,” he said. “And I don’t think I’m ever going to have as deep a team as this again.” Like Pitino, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim has never won an NCAA cham pionship. But he’s not carrying around the burden of win-or-else perhaps explain ing why his whiny, ornery tendencies have given way to downright lightheartedness. ROMANO’S PIZZA KITCHEN Fast, Free Delivery Lunch & 929-5005 Dinner! Fettuccine Alfredo *• 2. Grilled Chicken A1fred0................ $7.75 DISHES 3. Breaded Chicken Alfredo. $6.50 4. Broccoli A1fred0..................... $6.50 '( Alfredo dishes are Sliced Tomato Alfredo ...$6 50 Romano and Parmesan Cheese *■ B1 l ack ° Uve ™i 6M mixed with I Vegetable Alfredo $6.50 cream and poured over 9 Pepperonl Alfredo $6 .50 pasta noodles to create i O . Beef Alfredo $6.50 a mouthwatering 11. Meatball Alfredo.... $6.50 Italian dish, with your choice 12. Honey Baked Ham Alfredo $6.50 of a main topping.) 13- Veal Cutlet A1fred0.................... $7.75 14. Cheddar Alfredo $6.50 victory over defend ing champion Con necticut on Friday night. Abby Conklin helped with some timely 3-point shooting for the Lady Vols, who had lost at Georgia 77- 71 during the sea son. Tennessee outrebounded Georgia 63-30 in that game and en joyed another edge 9 Georgia's SAUDIA ROUNDTREE was held scoreless in the second half. on the boards Sunday, this time 54-39. That total included 21 offensive re bounds, which led to 17 second-chance points. Davis, Tennessee ’ s leading scorer in the tournament, stood out with her defense by shutting down Georgia’s All-American guard, Saudia Roundtree. Roundtree had promised coach Andy Landers a national championship when she signed with Geor gia out of junior college two years ago, but she couldn't make it happen. “Actually, Jim Boeheim is ex tremely funny,” Pitino said. “If you go to a party with him, it’s going to sound strange to you, but he’s the life of the party. He has a great personality, great wit, great charm.” Boeheim displayed the dry wit usually shown only to his friends, people like Pitino, who got his coaching break when Boeheim hired him as an assistant on Pitino’s wed ding day in 1976. On Sunday, both men enjoyed retelling the story of how their relationship got started shortly after Pitino and his wife, Joanne, checked in at the old Americana Hotel, eight blocks away. “I had literally carried my bride across the threshold,” Pitino remembered, “and the phone rang. I heard this whining voice at the other end, didn’t recognize it. And he said, ‘This is Jim Boeheim.’ “I’d like to talk to you,” Boeheim said that day. Pitino protested. “Jim, Ijust entered the room. Could we get together tomorrow morning?” Boeheim countered, “No, I have to go to Chicago tomorrow.” Finally, Pitino agreed to the meeting. After two hours, he accepted a $17,500-a --year post and immediately hit the recruit ing trail, leaving his bride to room with three of Boeheim’s buddies until he re turned. The 5-foot-7 senior, who had 63 points in her two previous tournament games, rarely was able to get Georgia into its deadly transition game and scored only eight points on 3-for-14 shooting. She went scoreless in the second half. Freshman Chamique Holdsclaw led Tennessee (32-4) with 16 points and 14 rebounds. Tiffani Johnson also scored 16 for the Lady Vols and Conklin added 14, including four 3-pointers. Pashen Thomp son had 12 points and 11 rebounds. La’Keshia Frett led Georgia (28-5) with 25 points but had only seven in the second half. Tracy Henderson scored 16. Ahead 42-37 at halftime despite shoot ing only 43 percent, Tennessee opened the second half with a 15-4 ran to increase its lead to 5741. Conklin hit two 3-pointers and four other Tennessee players scored as the Lady Vols took control. They also were doing it on the defensive end. Roundtree got nothing against Davis, and Frett, who missed only two shots in the first half, didn’t get a second-half bas ket untilscoringonaputbackwithjust 1:59 remaining. By then, it was over. It was such a frustrating half for Frett ■ The fourth-ranked Tar Heels allowed Johns Hopkins to score two quick goals with less than six minutes remaining Saturday to lose their third game by a single tally. STAFF REPORT The fourth-ranked North Carolina men’s lacrosse team fell to No. 6 Johns Hopkins 9-8 in front 0f3,789 fans at Homewood Field in Baltimore on Saturday afternoon. The loss was UNC’s third one goal defeat of the season. The Tar Heels (6-3) took an 8-7 lead against the Blue Jays (3- 2) when senior midfielder Rob Tobin found junior attackman Spencer Deering for a goal at 5:50 of the fourth period. But Hopkins responded with two goals overthenext 1:23, including the game winner by junior midfielder Bill Evans, to seal the victory. Jonathan Marcus turned in a spectacular performance in the net for the Blue Jays. Hopkins’ senior goaltender had 20 saves on 44 UNC shots, including 10 saves in the final period, as he held off the Tar Heels' desperation rally in the final minutes. UNC junior goaltender Brooks Brown was just as steady in the Tar Heel net, notching 18 saves on 37 shots. The Blue Jays jumped on the Tar Heels quickly in the first period, as goals by Evans and junior Werner Krueger gave Hopkins a 2-0 lead. North Carolina countered with four straight goals two by senior attackman Brendan Carey to finish the period with a 4-2 lead. Hopkins struck back in the next two periods, scoring four of the next six goals to forge a 6-6 tie at the end of the third. UNC fell behind 7-6 at 1:45 of the fourth on a goal by Hopkins’ attackman Dave Marr, but Tar Heel midfielder Jason Sanders tied the score a minute later. The Tar Heels outshot Hopkins 44-37 in the contest and won the ground-ball battle 6246, but the Blue Jays won 12 of 21 face offs. Carey led the Tar Heels with three scores and one assist, while Evans and Dan Denihan notched three goals each for Johns Hopkins. Marr also chipped in two goals and dished out a pair of assists. “She'smadeßickpaymany, manytimes for putting her in that house with those three guys,” Boeheim said. After Pitino moved on, Boeheim took Syracuse to the brink of a championship in 1987, when the Derrick Coleman-led Orangemen fell to Indiana on a last-second shot by Keith Smart. Now, a less-talented team is back again —as a 14-point under dog with nothing to lose, except a game no one expected them to be in anyway. “That’s the great, great thing about this whole trip and the fact that it was so unex pected, ” Boeheim said. “I think when some thing is expected and you walk downstairs Christmas morning and you know you’re going to get something that’s there under the tree, you’re not that happy. But if it’s something totally unexpected, it just makes you feel better.” Plus, Boeheim doesn’t have to contend with thousands of purveyors ofunsolicited advice. Pitino tells the story of a doctor from the University of Kentucky Medical School who sent him an urgent letter de tailing six things the Wildcats needed to do to win the national championship. Pitino sent a reply listing six things the doctor should improve before his next trip to the operating room. “Rick might be the only modem coach who can handle that job for this length of H Celebrate Passover atKC^n^ Reervatlon Required Call 942-4057 | '¥T* I V 1 ft* °Pn 7 Days A Week! j iMFfaa* 942-7177 JLNails ’Tanning‘Waxing’Massages | ■ / ■ n q 3 miles from campus, 15-501 S. & j L _ IFIP-9L. _, fjf. __.Smith. Level_Road at_Star£oint_ SPORTS that at one point, she missed a point-blank shot, got the rebound and then missed again from the same spot. Roundtree was equally frustrated. She had six assists but also six turnovers. A 7-0 run that included a 3-pointer by Kedra Holland drew Georgia to 5748, and the Lady Bulldogs trailed 61-52 after Henderson’s basket with 11:52 to play. But that’s as close as they would get. Tennessee scored the next seven points for a 68-52 lead, and as the Lady Vols kept pounding away inside, the lead kept grow ing. An 11-2 run made it 81-60 and Geor gia was finished, relegated to its second loss in as many appearances in the title game. The Lady Bulldogs lost to Old Do minion in the 1985 finals. The first half was a shootout between Frett and whoever was hot for Tennessee at the moment. But Frett alone wasn’t enough, and Tennessee never trailed after Holdsclaw converted a three-point play with 12:33 left to break a 14-14 tie. The Lady Vols stretched the lead to 28- 19 with the help of five points by Pashen Thompson and four by reserve Brynae Laxton. Men's Lacrosse UNC 8 Johns Hopkins.... 9 time (seven years),” Boeheim said. “I’m not sure that anybody else can handle that job.” Pitino points out that he’s not exactly losing the battle with time. He’s only 43 years old. He’s been a head coach at the college level for only 14 years, sandwiched around a couple of stints in the NBA. “I sometimes wonder why everybody seems to be in a rush,” he said. “I’ve only coached in six NCAA tournaments. And everybody says you have to win, you have to win. “We’d love to win. We want to win badly. But do we have to win? No. We’re still building.” MONEY FOR COLLEGE Hundreds & Thousands of Grants & Scholarships Available to All Students Immediate . jfcr Qualification No Repayments \ EVER Call . 1-800-585-BAIP thmmmckgiul ON THE, ROAD Women Place Fifth, Men Finish 10th in Raleigh TheNorthCarolinamen’sand women’s track and field teams competed in the Ra leigh and Florida Relays this weekend, with the Tar Heel women placing fifth and the men coming in 10th overall in Raleigh. The Florida Relays in Gainesville, Fla. were rained out on Sunday. Inßaleigh, UNC’s Jessica LaFene won her heat of the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:43.37, the best overall time in her section. The Tar Heel women’s time of 9:10.26 in the 4xßoo relay gar nered them first place. On the men’s side, UNC’s Jeff Connoly captured ffrstplaceinhisheat of the freshmen only 1,500-meter race in 4:03.96. He finished 15th over- PATRICK KRANICK placed first In the pole vault at the Florida Relays. all in the two-heat event. Tar Heel Shane Cotter turned in a sec ond-place finish in the men’s 1,500 meters with a time of 4:10.23. The Tar Heel men came in third in theft heat of the 4xßoo-meter relay, and UNC’s KendrickMorganplacedfourthinthetriple jump with a 51-foot effort. In the Florida Relays on Saturday, North Carolina sophomore Patrick Kranick placed first in the pole vault, registering a mark of 16 feet, five inches. On the day, UNC notched 10 top-10 finishes. The Tar Heel women’s 1600-meter sprint relay team placed first with a time of 3:46.86. Also, juniorTakeshia Quick came in second in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.83. Senior All-America Tyra Moore placed third in the 100-meter hurdles, com pleting the race in 14.16. Men's Tennis Posts Sweep The UNC men’s tennis team continued to demolish its ACC opponents this week end with a 6-1 victory at UVa. on Sunday and a 7-0 sweep at Maryland on Saturday. The No. 27 Tar Heels (14-2, 5-0 in the French Soccer Club President Killed in Post-Game Ambush THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOULON, France The president of aFrench soccer team was shot to death and a prominent coach was seriously wounded during an ambush outside a stadium after a game. Gunmen opened fire Saturday night on Dominique Rutily, the 34-year-old presi dent ofthesemipro club Calvi, andßolland Courbis, who has coached several top French teams. Courbis was wounded in the back and was recovering Sunday from surgery. His injuries do not appear life-threatening. The attack in this southern French city came minutes after Hyeres beat visiting Calvi 2-0 in “national three,” the lowest level of pro soccer in France. Police said they had no clear motive but were interviewing witnesses Sunday. One reported seeing as many as four gunmen converge on the pair outside the stadium. French media reports said Rutily may have been killed in a financial dispute. He had been investigated several years ago, but never charged, in connection with an brunch _ | i Roasted Leg of Lamb I displays Rosemary Au Jus Assorted Breads Stuffed Pork Loin with Apricots Sliced Fruits „,,, ™, A , International Cheese Display mui r*? r l\r *Li a Wild Mushroom Cream Sauce Fresh Vegetable Fillet of Salmon : Salads Lemon Linguini, Sun-Dried Tomato, r n c , . Marjoram, Buerre Blanc Lous Lous Salad c 11 jn „ „ r n , n Scalloped Potato Bell PeptrTnd Cdamn,^Vinaigrette ***** Lobster, Crab Meat and Tortellini Salad Carving Station Roma Tomato and Smoked Mozzarella Top Round of Beef in Balsamic Vinaigrette Smoked Ham Smoked Chicken and Granny Smith . Apples with Toasted Pecans IJCSSCVtH dj' SwCCtS Chef s Selection Seafood Station Smoked Salmon with Mini-Bagels $21.95 Spiced Shrimp Children 12 funder: SIZ9S Scallop and Shrimp Ceviche Senior Ciitzem: $19.95 Emotions a nwc —C ADOIiI NAn j 9/6-2777 (WW)& \ \ \ BIMUDANF*- AM) BAD | L ) Is Located in the Carolina Inn Chapel Hill | Monday, April 1,1996 ACC) suffered theft only match defeat of the weekend against the Cavaliers in Charlottesville, Va., when Paul Harsanyi lost to UVa.'s Bear Schofield at No. 4 singles 5-7, 7-6, 6-3. No. 1 seed David Caldwell and No. 5 Tripp Phillips each upped theft individual records to 13-1. Caldwell downed Ed Lewis 7-5,6-3, while Phillips breezed past Justin Smith 6-2, 6-3. Rob Tedesco, Brint Mor row andTony Thomas all hadtheirmatches extended to three sets. In doubles action, Caldwell and Mor row teamed to topple Virginia’s Lewis and Hyon Yoo 9-7 to capture the point. The other two doubles matcheswere suspended. On Saturday, the Tar Heels blitzed Maryland 7-0 in College Park, Md. No. 1 seeded Caldwell was the only UNC player to go to three sets, as he eventually downed Terry Schultz 6-1,5-7,6-1. North Carolina won all three doubles matches on theft way to capturing the doubles point. Gymnasts Finish Sixth The North Carolina women’s gymnas tics team placed sixth out of eight teams Saturday at the 1996 East Atlantic Gym nastics League Championships in Morgantown, W.Va. UNC, which failed to qualify for the NCAA regionals, finished with a team scoreof 189.3. West Virginia captured the title with a team score of 194.6, topping runner-up Towson State’s 193.725. Tar Heel coach Derek Galvin said UNC needed to beat Maryland by 0.95 to qualify for the regionals. But Galvin’s charges fin ished nearly three points behind fourth place Maryland’s 192.15. Golfers Tie for Second The North Carolina men’s golf team tied for second place at the Carpet Capital Collegiate in Dalton, Ga., on Sunday. UNC, which fired a three-day total ofBB3, finished in a second-place tie with Wake Forest. Clemson won the tournament with an 869. Tar Heel Rob Bradley tied for seventh among all individuals in the event, firing a 218. UNC’sMarkWilsonand Whit Staples came in tied for 15th and 18th, respec tively. N.C. State’s Tim Clark won indi vidual honors with his total of 212. FROM STAFF REPORTS armed robbery in southern France, and he once led a gang on the French Mediterra nean island of Corsica. After the shooting, the unidentified gun men fled immediately. Witnesses said they fired multiple rounds at the two men as they were getting into Rutily’s car, parked just outside Perruc Stadium. Rutily was hit with four slugs to the head and died instantly. His players were still inside the stadium and did not see the attack. “It all happened very, very quickly,” a bar owner who gave his name only as Jean- Pierre told French television. “I saw a man on the ground, crying out for help.” Courbis was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was being treated for a large caliber bullet wound in the back. “Because of his robust constitution, he seems to be out of danger,” the hospital said Sunday. Courbis is well-known in France for having coached, beginning in the 19705, such first-division teams as Toulon, Bor deaux and Toulouse. 7
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