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Dawson's Huge Night
Not Enough for Deacons
Wake Forest's Craig Dawson
kept his team competitive
with the Tar Heels early on
but faded down the stretch.
By T. Nolan Hayes
Senior Writer
WINSTON-SALEM - Wake Forest
guard Craig Dawson has a little extra
incentive to perform every time he
plays against North Carolina.
For one, Dawson wasn’t recruited by
UNC, the school his uncle and NBA
standout Jerry Stackhouse attended.
But Dawson also has other ties to the
Tar Heels.
He played AAU basketball with
UNC’s Brendan Haywood, Kris Lang
and Julius Peppers on the Carolina
Warriors.
Dawson almost gunned down his
friends in baby blue Wednesday night,
scoring a game-high 29 points as the
Demon Deacons fell to the Tar Heels
80-74.
“I have a lot of friends who play for
Carolina, so there’s a bit of a rivalry,”
said Dawson, who set a career high with
his 29 points.
“When the ball goes up, we’re not
friends anymore until that final buzzer
sounds.”
Dawson, who began the season as
Wake’s sixth man, earned a spot in the
starting lineup for the fifth consecutive
game in front of senior guard Robert
O’Kelley.
By the end of the first half, he had
firmly established himself as the Demon
Deacons go-to guy against the Tar
Heels.
He went to the locker room with 15
points on 7-of-ll shooting.
Dawson picked up in die second half
where he left off. He scored from all
over the court - except from behind the
arc. He had his mid-range jump shot
going but finished just l-for-7 from
downtown.
“I just felt really good tonight, and
my teammates did a great job of getting
me the ball,” said Dawson, who made
13 of his 19 2-point attempts.
“The 3s weren’t falling, so I tried to
take it inside and get some easy baskets
that way.”
The man responsible for stopping
Dawson much of the night was Joseph
Forte. But Dawson used his 6-foot-5,
205-pound frame to help him get looks
against Forte, who is listed at 192
pounds.
Twice in the second half Dawson
rebounded his own missed shot and
scored. With those garbage baskets
combined with layups and assorted
jump shots, Dawson got his points in an
efficient manner.
So efficient, in fact, that his buddy
Lang had no idea he had done so well.
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Wake Forest's Craig Dawson goes up for a lay-in against North Carolina.
Dawson finished with 29 points on 14-of-26 shooting.
“I didn’t know he had that many
points,” Lang said. “But on our AAU
team, Craig Dawson could take over
games for us. He’s just a great player,
and tonight he was feeling it.
“He’s such a great player that even if
you have a hand in his face, you can’t
stop him all the time.”
But the Tar Heels finally found a way
to slow Dawson down. Dawson scored
just four points in the game’s final nine
minutes.
Forte locked down on him, and
Wake had nowhere else to go. One man
had carried Wake offensively to a five
point lead with eight minutes remain
ing, but no one else was involved.
“That’s not something I want to get
into night in and night out, and that’s
not something he wants either,” Wake
Forest coach Dave Odom said. “That’s
a tough way to win games night in and
night out.”
It didn’t work for Dawson and the
Deacs on Tuesday.
That means Dawson will spend
today, his 21st birthday, with a smaller
smile on his face than he might have
had.
“I was excited to come out here and
play tonight,” Dawson said. “But I
would have been happier with the win.”
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sports@unc.edu.
UNC 80, Wake Forest 74
UNC 38 42 80
Wake Forest 37 37 74
UNC (80)
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mi" im tw M a pf tp
Forts 37 7-17 66 06 3 1 24
Lang 27 6-9 1-1 2-3 0 2 13
Haywood 34 6-7 3-7 2-4 6 3 13
Curry 33 2-3 0-0 1-5 5 0 6
Capel 31 3-8 5-7 1-10 5 3 13
Morrison 4 1-1 60 0-1 0 0 3
Owens rt 1-3 0-0 00 1 1 2
Boons 7 0-1 00 01 1 1 0
Peppers 16 3-3 00 35 0 5 6
Total 200 28-52 15-21 9-36 21 16 80
Percentages - FG 538, FT 714
3-poitrt goals - 9-20 450 (Forts 4-9. Curry 2-3. Caps! 2-4,
Morrison 1-1, Owens 0-2. Boone 01).
Team rebounds l.
Blockad shots 6 (Haywood 4 Peppers. Capel)
Turnovers 2O (Cape! 4, Forte 4 Haywood 4. Curry 3. Lang
3 Boons 2t
Steals lO (Forts 5. Capet Curry. Haywood. Lang, Peppers)
Wake (74)
fg ft rb
min m-a m-e o-t a pf tp
Howard 33 6-16 7-7 9-12 1 4 20
Songada 31 2-10 1-1 02 1 2 6
Shoemaker 18 3-3 01 36 2 4 6
Hicks 9 0-3 00 OO 1 0 0
Dawson 33 14-26 00 2-3 1 2 29
OKeSey 21 2-8 OO 01 2 3 4
Murray 24 2-3 2-2 1-3 5 0 6
Scott 7 04 OO 1-2 0 0 0
Vidaurrete 24 1-2 2-3 2-5 0 3 4
Total 200 30-75 12-14 18-34 13 18 74
Percentages - FG 400. FT .857
3i>otnt goals - 2-13,154 (Howard 1-2, Dawson 1-7, OKefiey
04).
Team rebounds 4.
Blocked shots —3 (Howard, Songaila. Scott)
Turnovers - 12 (Howard 4. SongaSa 3. Murfay 2, Dawson.
Hicks. Scott).
Steals - 13 (Howard 4. Songaila 3, Dawson, Hide, Murray,
O Kafiey. Shoemaker. Vtdaurrete)
Technical fouls None Attendance 14.407.
Sports
Wrestling Pummels Blue Devils
UNC lost only one match
and recorded two pins
while maintaining its
perfect record in the ACC.
By James Giza
Assistant Sports Editor
DURHAM Corey Bell admitted
he was a little apprehensive about trav
eling to Duke on Tuesday after North
Carolina’s basketball win last week.
His fears appeared to be confirmed
when he and the rest of the UNC
wrestling
team
approached
the doors of
Cameron
Indoor
Wrestling
UNC 35
Duke 3
Stadium and a group of Duke students
blocked the way.
“Nobody would let us in the door or
nothing,” Bell said. “They were yelling
at us, ‘What are y’all doing?’ ‘We’re just
trying to get in.’ I didn’t know what was
going on. I just wanted to get out of
here. I was like, ‘I hope nobody comes,
I don’t want no shooting.’ But it worked
out.”
The Duke fans were noticeably more
sedate inside the stadium as UNC
rolled to a 35-3 victory. Three of them
sat in the stands doing organic chem
istry problems, which easily provided
them more excitement than watching
their home team as the Tar. Heels (6-4 in
dual meets, 3-0 in the ACC) dominated
the match from the opening whistle.
North Carolina led 12-3 when back
to-back victories from heavyweight
Matt Kenny and 125-pounder Chris
Collins ripped open the scoring.
Kenny completely abused Duke’s
Levi Kamehm from the bout’s outset,
bullying his way to a win by technical
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fall in the second
period.
Within 30 sec
onds of the start of
the match, Kenny
led 5-0 after a
takedown and a
near fall. Another
near fall and two
takedowns later,
he carried an 11-2
advantage head
ing into the sec
ond round.
Fifteen seconds
into the second
period, Kenny
UNC senior wrestler
Corey Bell
overcame his fears
to defeat Duke's
Frank Comely 6-3
at 174 pounds.
picked Kamehm up off the floor and
slammed him on his back, scoring a
two-point near fall.
A pair of three-point near falls soon
followed, earning Kenny a 19-2 win
with 56 seconds left in the period.
“I wanted to work on my technique
more than anything,” Kenny said. “And
a main point was, endurance-wise, just
taking it to him. That’s why I let him up
a couple times - just to keep the pres
sure on him, and it paid off.”
Kenny’s win gave the Tar Heels a
17-3 advantage, and Coiiins strode onto
the mat to square off with the Blue
Devils’ Tommy Hoang.
Collins worked his way to a 2-1 lead,
and with 1:52 left in the second period,
he pinned Hoang with a lightning-quick
move he said he had been practicing
since the Tar Heels’ meet against
Virginia on Saturday.
“The guy stood up on all fours, and
I just cradled and rolled him through,”
Collins said. “It was kind of ironic how
we went over it in practice, and it came
today. The guy was supposedly sup
posed to beat me, so I got excited about
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UNC’sJason Wilson, filling in for the
injured Jake Reynolds in the 165-pound
slot, got out of a bind late in his match
and took a 6-5 decision against Tim
Marcantorio.
John Mark Bendey, ranked No. 7 in
the nation at 149 pounds, capped the
evening by pinning Andy Soliman with
one second left in the second period.
The lone blemish for the Tar Heels
on the day was a loss by sophomore
Nick Richmond.
The 184-pounder, who has been
mired by a shoulder injury, competed
Tuesday but clearly was not at full
strength during his 6-3 loss to Duke’s
Thomas Cass.
With challenging matches approach
ing against Navy (Feb. 10), Maryland
(Feb. 11) and N.C. State (Feb. 15), the
Tar Heels will need Richmond pain
free.
UNC coach Bill Lam said he expects
each of those meets to be decided by
one match. He said Richmond’s status
would be clear by the time practice
begins today after he is examined by
doctors.
“I’m real concerned about Nick’s
shoulder,” Lam said. “I hope that we’ll
have him because we can’t beat those
three teams without him.”
The Sports Editor can be reached at
sports@unc.edu.
WRESTLING
UNC 35, Duke 3
151; Muiseppe (UNC) M Stoidan 8-1.
165: Wikon (UNC) del. Marcanwnso 7-5
m Be* (UNC) tof Coroefy 6-3
184: Cass (Duke) d*f Ftahroond 12-6
197: Osborn (UNC) def. Smith 5-4
Hurt.: Kenny (UNC) def. Kamehm 19-2 (major).
125: Cofiw (UNC) pinned Hoang 3-09
133: Bysrs (UNO daf Meefcm 114 141: Booth (UNC) de*
Clad* 3-1.149: Sentfey (UNC) pmned Sobman 2 59
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