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■ The victory moved
Philadelphia into a tie for
first place in the NFC East.
a THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA Shocked in
losses in each of the past three weeks, the
Philadelphia Eagles defense lashed out
at a familiar foil—the New York Giants.
The Eagle defense limited the Giants
to 131 yards of offense and Ty Detmer
threw three touchdown passes as Phila
delphia moved into a tie atop the NFC
East with a 24-0 shutout of the Giants on
Sunday.
“We were making the plays instead of
having the plays happen and looking
around and saying, ‘Who’s responsibil
ity was that?”” defensive lineman Rhett
Hall said.
'Philadelphia, Dallas and Washington
slfere the division lead with 8-5 records.
With the loss, the Giants (5-8) were offi
cially eliminated from the playoffs. The
Cowboys defeated the Redskins 21-10
on Thanksgiving.
“They’re no juggernaut, but anytime
you can shut a team out, that’s big for a
teiam,” Eagles coach Ray Rhodes said.
Detmer completed 25 of 33 passes for
2(14 yards, throwing touchdown passes
to Jason Dunn, Irving Fryar and Chris T.
Jones. Ricky Watters had 104 yards on
29 carries and added 77 yards on six
catches. TheEaglesscoredalltheirpoints
iri the first half.
; Rookie linebacker Ray Farmer forced
two fumbles, recovered one and added
an interception and a sack as the Giants
reverted to form after their shocking 20-
6 victory over the Cowboys last week.
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even hitting his free throws.
The Tar Heel ‘D’ truly kicked in, too,
as the Panthers, who could play only
eight men, were simply tired out by
UNC’s scramble and buik.
•“With (Chad) Varga out and with
((Jerald) Jordan out, we don’t have the
physical bodies," Willard said. “I think
(Serge) Zwikker’s banging and Makhtar
(Ndiaye)’sbanging really, wore us down
a lot.”
'Jamison led UNCwith 17points dur
ing that final run. He capped his evening
off by hitting both of his charity shots
before joining Okulaja and Carter on the
bench as the subs finished off the game.
“It takes everybody stepping up some-
UNC 82, Pittsburgh 61
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Jamison’s offense makes Smith Center history
BY JOHN SWEENEY
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Twenty minutes after Friday night’s
game in the Smith Center had ended,
Pittsburgh coach Ralph Willard still
looked dazed.
“The thing that beat us in the game
tonight can be summed up in two words:
Antawn Jamison,” Willard said after
watching helplessly as the sophomore
forward dominated the second half in
UNC’s 82-61 win over the Panthers.
Jamison finished the contest with 15
rebounds and 36 points, the highest point
total ever by a UNC player in the Smith
Center. Perhaps even more impressive
was the fact that eight of those points
Panthers’ defense batters Buccaneers in 24-0 win
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTTE As time passes, it
would stand to reason that teams would
start coming closer to beating the Caro
lina Panthers at Ericsson Stadium. In
stead, just the opposite is happening.
Already established as a strong sec
ond-half team at home, Carolina ex
tended its dominance to four quarters
Sunday and produced the franchise’s first
shutout ever. The Panthers kept Trent
Differ on the run and converted three of
his turnovers into 21 points on the way to
a 24-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Buc
caneers.
“We have a lot of pride in defending
this stadium,” linebacker Sam Mills said
after the Panthers won for the sixth time
in as many games in their new $lB7
million facility.
The victory kept Carolina (94) solidly
in the hunt to become the only second
year expansion team in NFL history to
make the playoffs. Next up for the Pan
thers is a road game against the 49ers on
Sunday, with the winner likely getting
times ... everybody’s got to take that
responsibility to be a leader,” Okulaja
said.
Credit the Three Musketeers for this
one. They are, after all, Super Sophs.
Tar Heals tackle Wildcats tonight
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and two so-so enemies, the Tar Heels get
a breather tonight when they face
Bethune-Cookman.
Actually, it could be more like a sleeper
when UNC and the Wildcats tip off at
7:30 at the Smith Center.
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came at the charity stripe, where Jamison,
a dismal 43 percent at the line before
Friday night, was 8 for 11.
“I just told myself to calm down,”
Jamison said of his free-throw shooting
exhibition. “Shammond (Williams,
UNC’s point guard) told me I wasn’t
falling forward, I was falling back, and
once I did that, everything felt good.”
All the talk of records Jamison’s
scoring was second only to Kenny Smith’s
41 against Clemson in 1987 on UNC’s
all-time list—didn’tseemtointeresthim.
Instead, he was more concerned with
his rebounding, especially on the offen
sive end, where he hauled in 11. By
comparison, the entire Panther team had
only 12 offensive boards.
the NFC West crown.
“This gives us some momentum head
ing into our showdown with San Fran
cisco,” coach Dom Capers said. “The
feeling on our team is we’ve not accom
plished anything yet. We’re looking for
ward to playing our best football over the
next three weeks.”
The Panthers came into the game hav
ing allowed just 10 points in the second
half all season at home. But on a rainy,
windy afternoon, Differ and the Bucca
neers couldn’t generate much offense in
either half.
Differ was intercepted twice, lost one
fumble, was sacked five times and
knocked down 13 times as Tampa Bay
(4-9) lost for the first time in four games.
“Man, what a blast,” said outside line
backer Kevin Greene, who had five tack
les, one sack and recovered a fumble.
“Rooting around, having fun it was
like a hog going at a sweet potato in the
middle of the mud. ”
Carolina, which won its fourth in a
row, became the first team in eight games
players from last year’s 12-15 squad, so
Coach Tony Shields brought in five fresh
men to ease the burden.
But those freshmen flopped in the
Wildcats’ season-opening 68-59 loss to
Florida. To have even a slight chance
against North Carolina, Bethune-
Cookman can’t rely on its freshmen or its
guards to save the day.
Instead, the Wildcats must hope for
wards Richard Leonard, Reggie Bellamy
and Alstair Henry hold their ground
against UNC’s front line. Leonard and
Bellamy each pulled down over six re
bounds per game last season, and Henry
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came my way on
the offensive glass
rebound after re
bound, they just
kept coming my
way off the offen
sive glass,”he said.
“So my teammates
did a tremendous
job of finding me,
and we were just
out there having
fun.”
Willard saw
Sophomore forward
ANTAWN JAMISON
scored a career-high
36 points Saturday.
things a little differently.
“He’s one of those kids who just has a
nose for the ball,” Willard said. “He just
to score more than 17 points on Tampa
Bay.
Anthony Johnsonrushed for 111 yards
and one touchdown for Carolina, which
has outscored its opponents 167-50 at
home this season.
“I think they’re going to do some dam
age in the playoffs,” Tampa Bay coach
Tony Dungy said. “They’re a team that
nobody’s going to want to play because
of their defense.”
Tampa Bay did not get inside the Pan
thers’ 35 until the final play of the third
quarter.
The Buccaneers made it as far as the
27before four consecutive incompletions
killed the drive.
“Basically we lost today’s game like
we did early on in the season by self
destructing,” Differ said.
The Buccaneers’ final insult came
when they reached the Carolina 4 with
32 seconds left in the game, then called
three timeouts in what wound up being
an unsuccessful bid to score a touch
down.
averaged nine points per contest in 1995-
96.
Still, those stats came against much
easier competition than the likesofUNC.
Although guard play might not be the
Wildcats’ strong suit, senior Mario Miller
provides a scoring punch from the out
side. Last year, heaveraged 13pointsbut
will face a stiff test against North
Carolina’s trapping, pressure defense.
Zwikker could have a field day against
Bethune-Cookman rookie center Marcel
Seymour. Seymour is the only true cen
ter on the Wildcat roster, and he still
gives up six inches to Zwikker. - 3,c
Game: Bethune-Cookman at No. 12 UNC
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Dean E. Smith Center, Chapel Hill
Radio: WCHL 1360 AM
Television: None
Series Record: First meeting
Keys for Bethune-Cookman: Take advantage
of any and all opportunities. The Wildcats
don't have the talent to overpower North
Carolina, so they must make the most of
each Tar Heel mistake and hope that UNC
plays listlessly.
Keys for UNC: Jumping ahead early and not
looking back. The Tar Heels have started
each game slowly, and the longer Bethune-
Cookman can keep the game close, the
more its confidence will grow. But pouncing
on the 'Cats shouldn't be too difficult
Wildcat Bench: Freshman-laden. In addition
to starting Seymour, Coach Tony Shields
will look to four rookies for help. Senior
forward Richard Leonard is a rebounding
power off the bench.
Tar Heel Bench: After playing its first two
games without forward Makhtar Ndiaye,
UNC now has the junior forward at its
disposal. And while he and guard Ed Cota
didn't notch eye-popping stats Friday, they
can spark the Tar Heels.
Prediction: UNC 95, Bethune-Cookman 60.
COMPILED BY JOSEPH ROUSON
knows where it’s going.”
And that’s not even taking Jamison’s
quickness into account. A wiry 6-foot-9,
his size can be overcome. But finding
someone that big and fast is not so easy.
Time and again, Jamison was in the
air, looking for a second rebound, while
the Panthers’ big men were stuck to the
floor like they had, we 11... tar heels.
“Jamison’s quick anyway, but he
looked like lightning in the second half,”
Willard said. “It looked like everyone
was standing still and he was jumping.”
And then there was defense, where
Jamison came up with two steals, a block
and four boards. Even Tar Heel coach
Dean Smith, who has expressed con
cerns about UNC’s defense this season,
France grabs Davis Cup
with victory vs. Sweden
■ Arnaud Boetsch bested
Nicklas Kulti in five sets
to give France its first cup
title since 1991.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MALMO, Sweden—France won the
Davis Cup as Arnaud Boetsch outlasted
Sweden’s Nicklas Kulti 7-6 (7-2), 2-6,4-
6, 7-6 (7-5), 10-8 in the decisive fifth
match Sunday night.
Boetsch faced triple match point trail
ing 040 and 6-7 in the fifth set, but saved
them all as Kulti was struggling with
severe thigh cramps toward the end of
the match.
Between changeovers, Swedish cap
tain Carl-Axel Hageskog worked on
Kulti’s legs. It didn’t help.
He dropped his serve to fall behind 9-
8, then Boetsch went up 40-0 with service
and triple match point. Kulti fought off
the two first, but then hit a forehand long
clinching France’s eighth Davis Cup title.
The match lasted 4 hours, 47 minutes.
The triumph touched off wild celebra
tions among the 700 French flag-waving
fens in the sellout crowd of 5,600 in the
Malmo Convention Center.
France’s previous Davis Cup win came
in 1991 against the United States. France
won six straight Davis Cup titles be
tween 1927 apd 1932 during the era of
the renowned “Four Musketeers.”
Sunday’s final matches—lasting more
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At 10-1,1 lth-ranked Virginia Tech will
go to the Alliance, leaving the Gator
Bowl with a choice between Miami and
Syracuse.
All three Big East contenders finished
the season with one conference loss.
Since the Hurricanes beat the
Orangemen, they will likely be the pick
to face the Tar Heels in the Jan. 1 bowl
game, to be televised nationally on NBC.
The Gator Bowl will probably not choose
Syracuse, since UNC has already faced
the Orangemen, beating them 27-10 in a
Sept. 7 contest at the Carrier Dome.
The Tar Heels officially accepted an
invitation to play in the Gator Bowl Nov.
25 via a teleconference call with UNC
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praised Jamison.
“I know Antawn Jamison just was
fabulous on the backboards, but he’s also
excellent on the defensive end,” Smith
said.
But sooner or later some imagine
Jamison will develop into one or the
other a defensive player or an offensive
player, a scorer or a rebounder. Not so,
said Jamison. All aspects are related.
“My main objective is to get re
bounds,” he said. “And once that starts
happening and things start going my way,
I get happy and everything just takes care
of itself. And it seems like once I start
having fun on defense again, everyone
else and myself start having fun on of
fense again.”
than nine hours were two of the most
dramatic on the third and final day in
Davis Cup finals history. Never had the
last two matches gone five sets with the
series still to be decided.
Earlier, Sweden’s Thomas Enqvist
played one of the finest matches of his
career, rallying from two sets down and
2- in the fifth set to beat Cedric Pioline
3- 6-7 (8-10), 64, 64, 9-7. The first
meeting between the two lasted 4:26.
The quality was not top-notch, but it had
all the drama.
“ I think it was the longest match in my
career and one of the most important and
most emotional I’ve everplayed,” Enqvist
said.
“I played well and I fought hard. To
come back two sets to love and win is a
nice feeling.”
Piolinereceivedawamingby the chair
umpire in the final game when he knocked
a linesman’s chair over.
“It was a very tough and emotional
match,” Enqvist said. “It’s very easy to
get angry and upset. I think there were a
couple ofbad shots here and there. When
you play 4 1/2 hours, you get a little
upset. I don’t blame him.”
Kulti substituted for injured Stefen
Edberg. Edbeig twisted his right ankle in
the opening match Friday, when he lost
in straight sets to Pioline.
On Saturday, Guy Forget and
Guillaume Raoux gave France a 2-1 lead
by tackling Jonas Bjorkman and Kulti 6-
3,1-6,6-3,6-3.
coach Mack Brown, Director of Athlet
ics John Swofford and Gator Bowl offi
cials. North Carolina, 9-2 this season,
returns to the Gator Bowl for the first
time since 1993, when the Tar Heels lost
to Alabama 24-10.
This season, North Carolina roared to
a 3-1 start, beating bowl-bound squads
Clemson and Syracuse before falling to
No. 2 Florida State 13-0 in Tallahassee.
The Tar Heels were a dark-horse candi
date for an Alliance Bowl berth until
Virginia upset UNC 20-17 in
Charlottesville, Va., on Nov. 16 after
trailing 17-3 with 10 minutes left in the
game. One week later UNC completed
its season with a 27-10 rout of Duke.
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