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Sports
Briefs
Women’s Tennis Loses
ACC Opener to Tigers
North Carolina’s women’s tennis
team dropped its ACC opener
Thursday, losing to Clemson 6-3 at
Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center.
UNC junior Courtney Zalinski
defeated the Tigers’ Christina Oldock
6-3, 6-0 at No. 5 singles, and freshman
Kate Pinchbeck knocked off Anna
Savitskaya 6-0, 7-6 at No. 6.
Zalinski also teamed with senior
Jessica Zaganczyk to claim a victory at
No. 3 doubles. The duo defeated
Clemson’s Savitskaya and Cynthia
Clausen 8-3.
“This loss today is a setback for our
program," UNC coach Roland
Thomqvist said.
The Heels (5-7,0-1 in the ACC) take
on No. 20 Florida State on Friday in
Raleigh.
Swimmers’ Best Times
Not Enough at NCAAs
North Carolina swimmers Stephen
Mohr and Dave Slawinski competed
Thursday in the preliminaries of the
2000 NCAA Division I Men’s
Swimming and Diving Championships
at the University of Minnesota
Natatorium.
Neither qualified for the finals, but
both did record career-best times in
their events in a long course pool.
Slawinski placed 38th in the 200-meter
individual medley with a time of
2:02.55.
Mohr recorded a time of 3:55.22 in
the 400-meter freestyle, finishing in
44th place.
Mohr and Slawinski will both swim
in the 400-meter individual medley in
today’s preliminaries. On Saturday,
Mohr will swim in the 1500-meter
freestyle, and Slawinski will be joined
by freshman Sean Quinn in the 200-
meter breaststroke.
Softball Leaves Furman
With Low-Scoring Split
North Carolina’s softball team split
its doubleheader against Furman on
Thursday in Greenville, S.C.
The far Heels (26-11) captured the
first game, shutting out the Paladins
3-0 behind the pitching of Radara
McHugh (11-4). Furman managed only
four base hits in the contest.
UNC dropped another pitchers’ duel
2-1 in the second game despite out-hit
ting the Paladins 5-4.
Chrissy Hacker (7-6) threw a com
plete game for the win.
Erin Joseph (8-4) took the loss for the
Tar Heels.
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UNC Tennis
Serves Up
ACC Bagel
UNC tennis coach Sam Paul
got a late birthday present
as the Tar Heels won their
sixth consecutive match.
By Ted Keith
Staff Writer
Sam Paul, North Carolina’s men’s
tennis coach, celebrated his 39th birth
day Wednesday but had to wait a day
for the gift he really wanted: a victory
against Wake
Forest.
His team
delivered,
slamming the
Demon
Men’s
Tennis
Wake Forest 0
UNC 7
Deacons 7-0 on Thursday at Cone-
Kenfield Tennis Center.
The Tar Heels won their sixth con
secutive match and moved to 9-2 over
all, 2-0 in ACC matches.
“It’s been great,” said Paul of his
team’s winning ways. “These guys were
ready to play. We knew we were going
to come out and play hard.”
UNC secured the doubles point with
two impressive comebacks. Senior
Assaf Drori and sophomore Marcio
Petrone clinched the point with a hard
fought 9-7 victory minutes after junior
David Cheatwood and sophomore Ben
Elix rallied for an 8-6 win.
“Those two were big,” said Paul.
“We’ve had trouble closing matches out,
which is tough, but we did that today.”
The momentum from doubles car
ried into singles play, with UNC win
ning all six matches. Drori and fellow
senior Tripp Phillips, UNC’s two top
seeds, rolled to identical 6-3, 6-0 wins
Michigan State, Purdue Advance in NCAA Tournament
The Spartans held Syracuse
scoreless for the final 5:54
after trailing the Orangemen
by as many as 14 points.
Associated Press
Mateen Cleaves and Michigan State
are still on a mission for a second
straight trip to the Final Four, thanks to
a defense that held Syracuse scoreless
for the last 5:54.
Charlie Bell, aching knee and all,
scored 12 points and sparked a second
half comeback as top-seeded Michigan
State, trailing by as many as 14, roared
back to beat Syracuse 75-58 on
Thursday night in the Midwest Regional
semifinals.
The Spartans (29-7) will play the
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Tar Heel sophomore Ben Elix, who was paired with David Cheatwood,
helped UNC capture an 8-6 victory at No. 2 doubles against Wake.
with impressive baseline games.
Paul stopped short of calling them
automatic, but he said their presence was
a confidence boost for their teammates.
Cheatwood supplied his own confi
dence, rallying from a 5-4 first-set deficit
to force a fiebreaker by running Wake’s
Raul Munoz ragged. Cheatwood won
the set and cruised 6-1 in the second set.
Meanwhile, Petrone and freshman
Trystan Meniane went the full three sets
before claiming victory. Petrone won a
third-set tiebreaker to claim a 7-6 (7-4),
2-6, 7-6 (7-5) victory.
“It was a lot closer than it looked,”
Paul said. “One break here or there and
(Wake Forest) is right back in it.”
Meniane adds crucial depth for a
UCLA-lowa State
winner Saturday
night for a trip to
the Final Four in
Indianapolis.
Syracuse (26-6)
looked ready to
run the Spartans
right out of The Palace, to the dismay of
a highly partisan Michigan State crowd.
But Cleaves, who returned for his senior
season with the express hope of winning
a national championship, wouldn’t let it
happen.
Cleaves, scoreless in the first half, had
10 points -most of them early in the
second half - to get the Spartans rolling.
Morris Peterson also had 16 of his 21
points in the second half.
But it was Bell - scoring nine of his
points in the second half - who put the
Orangemen away.
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team still searching for the team’s per
fect six-man singles rotation, making his
5-7, 7-6, 7-5 win perhaps the most pleas
ing of the day for Paul.
“We have a real good core group of
seven or eight guys that we can go to (in
singles),” Paul said.
UNC’s depth has been crucial. The
Tar Heels are in the midst of a nine
match stretch in which they play four
matches.
“This is a tough stretch,” Paul said.
“We have to manage ourselves well. We
did the right things today in the right sit
uations, so I’m certainly pleased.”
The Sports Editor can be reached at
sports@unc.edu.
Allen Griffin led Syracuse with 14
points, and point guard Jason Hart had
11 points and 10 assists.
Purdue Boils Gonzaga
Gonzaga is gone, done in by defense
and rebounding, and Purdue coach
Gene Keady is one victory from his first
trip to the Final Four.
Purdue slowed the game to a half
court pace and pestered Gonzaga’s
guards into a miserable shooting night to
beat the Bulldogs 75-66 on Thursday
night in the West Regional semifinals.
Jaraan Cornell, whose season-long
shooting slump came to an end when
the NCAA Tournament began, scored
18 points for the sixth-seeded
Boilermakers (24-9), who play the win
ner of the LSU-Wisconsin game in
Saturday’s regional final.
In Keady’s 20 seasons at Purdue, the
Tar Heels Seeking
ACC Redemption
After starting the season on
a 21-game winning streak,
the UNC baseball team was
swept by Georgia Tech.
By Will Kimmey
Assistant Sports Editor
Imagine a team that has a 21-game
winning streak to its credit and still finds
itself in the cellar.
No, it’s not an allusion to the Los
Angeles Clippers hitting a hot streak but
rather to the North Carolina baseball
team.
The Tar Heels (22-4,0-3 in the ACC)
opened conference play last weekend at
Georgia Tech, where the Yellowjackets
quickly showed them a broom and
swept the three-game series.
Actually, Georgia Tech showed the
UNC pitchers its bats. The Yellowjackets
scored 29 runs in the series against a Tar
Heel staff that had been allowing slight
ly more than four per contest.
“We just went out there and maybe
just didn’t have our best stuff,” said
pitcher Eric Henderson, who yielded
five earned runs in three innings of work
in Saturday’s 16-3 loss.
“We kind of all didn’t have it the
same weekend, which doesn’t happen a
lot.”
North Carolina coach Mike Fox was
n’t as quick to cast his mound men as the
only goats.
“We didn’t get good starting pitching
down there, but I don’t put the total
blame on those guys because we made
some critical mistakes defensively, and
we didn’t hit with people on base,” Fox
said. “We didn’t do the things you have
to do to win in this league.”
Boilermakers have been to the round of
16 five times, including the last three
years. But this will be just their second
appearance in a regional final in that
span. Purdue lost to Duke in the
Stptlieast final in 1994.
jCarson Cunningham added 14
pdnts, Greg McQuay scored 11, and
Brian Cardinal had 10 for Purdue.
Cardinal had eight rebounds, and
Cornell and McQuay grabbed seven
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Now, a team
that went unde
feated for seven
weeks stands bed
for last in its own
conference.
But Fox isn’t
worried.
“I don’t worry
about that too
much because we
play 24 games,”
Fox said. “The
standings fluctuate
a lot in the course
of the year. I’m
not really worried
Senior pitcher
Derrick DePriest
said no matter what
UNCs record was,
the Tar Heels always
got up for N.C. State.
too much about the standings right now.
I just want us to play better.”
Fox also wants his team to play with
the same intensity that it displayed in its
early season victories against top-10
opponents Miami, Rice and UCLA.
If the Tar Heels’ last game -a 25-2
spanking of Towson on Wednesday -
serves as any example, that intensity has
been rekindled.
WTien N.C. State (15-8, 4-2) heads
into Boshamer Stadium at 3 p.m. today
to kick off a three-game set, UNC
shouldn’t have any problem with moti
vation.
“We’re playing N.C. State, and
they’re our rivals,” senior Derrick
DePriest said.
“Whether we’re 0-3 or 3-0, it’s huge.
They’re 20 miles away from us, and we
don’t like them one bit, and I’m sure
they don’t like us one bit.”
Qne thing the Tar Heels would like,
however, is to get into the win column
in the ACC.
The Sports Editor can be reached at
sports@unc.edu.
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