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MONDAY, APRIL 5, 2004
Dobson aims to recover
in time for ACC meet
BY KATHRYN GRIM
SENIOR WRITER
North Carolina runner Porscha
Dobson would rather be clearing
hurdles at the ACC Outdoor
Championship than watching
from the sidelines.
Despite a persistent hamstring
injury, the freshman hurdler is
determined to participate at the
conference meet in two weeks as
one of the 28 Tar Heel women who
will be chosen to compete.
This is the last time UNC will
host the ACC outdoor track cham
pionship for at least a decade as
well as die last ACC championship
before Miami and Virginia Tech
join the conference.
UNC track and field coach
Dennis Craddock will finalize deci
sions about who to bring to the
meet after he gauges team mem
bers’ performances Friday at the
Carolina Fast Times meet, also
held at UNC.
Whomever he chooses to chase
the title, Craddock said the team is
in a position to perform well.
“I think we’re right where we
should be,” he said.
Dobson said she believes she is
at the right stage of her recovery to
run Friday.
The meet is her last chance to
prove her mettle in competition
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“We won in Clemson’s home. Now that its
at our house, they’re going to try to do the
same thing. It’s going to he a lot of fun.”
PORSCHA DOBSON, UNC RUNNER
before the championship.
Dobson has had problems with
her left hamstring all season. But
she was forced out of competition
in the past three meets after her
injury prevented her from finish
ing the 100-meter hurdles race at
the Tar Heels Opener March 20.
“After I did it I could walk, but
barely,” Dobson said. “That week
end, I couldn’t do anything.”
Since then, Dobson has worked
her way from jogging to sprinting
at almost full speed. Dobson works
out every morning, visits the train
er before practice and runs with
the team in the afternoon.
Dobson said she hopes to
increase her visibility as a com
petitor at the Fast Times meet.
“My competition has been run
ning,” she said. “They’ve posted
some good times. People know I’m
out there, but I’m praying that
everything goes well.”
Her progression has been on
target to allow her to perform well
in tiie championship.
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“We want to win, so I want to be
a contributing factor to that,”
Dobson said.
Dobson’s contribution to the
UNC women’s track and field team
was evident in its 15th first-place
finish at the ACC indoor competi
tion in February at Clemson. She
took the bronze in the 60-meter
hurdles with a time of 8 minutes,
47 seconds.
Dobson said she looks forward
to participating in a championship
meet with the benefit of home-field
advantage.
But she said that after witness
ing UNC’s victory on Clemson’s
turf at the indoor championship,
other teams are hungry to defeat
UNC at the Irwin Belk Track.
“We won in Clemson’s home,”
Dobson said. “Now that it’s at our
house, they’re going to try to do the
same thing. It’s going to be a lot of
fun.”
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Tar Heels successful
at Duke, Texas meets
BY ALICIA JONES
STAFF WRITER
DURHAM - Wallace Wade
Stadium was swarming with team
colors as about 50 teams competed
at the Duke Invitational.
North Carolina’s baby blue was
slightly less prominent since part
of the UNC track and field team
traveled to Austin for competition
in the Texas Relays.
The team fared well at both
meets, with five individuals receiv
ing their first bids to the NCAA
Regionals this season and several
other qualifiers repeating.
Junior Laura Gerraughty placed
second in the discus in Texas with
a personal record of 174 feet, 4
inches and third in the hammer
throw.
The distance was enough to
qualify her for regionals although
Gerraughty had already received a
bid at a previous meet.
Sophomore Marija Kurtovic
also competed in the discus. Like
Gerraughty, she had qualified pre
viously, and she placed fourth with
another qualifying throw of 170
feet Friday.
UNC coach Dennis Craddock
chose to send certain athletes to
Texas based on the level of compe
tition for the throwers.
“There was going to be real good
national competition in Texas,”
Craddock said. “We wanted to get
the throwers in the same circles
Johns Hopkins edges UNC
FROM WIRE REPORTS
BALTIMORE Peter LeSueur
scored with 56 seconds remaining
to lift No. 2 Johns Hopkins to a 10-
9 victory against the No. 5 North
Carolina men's lacrosse on
Saturday.
The Blue Jays (6-1) have won 10
in a row with North Carolina (5-3).
The Tar Heels outshot the Blue
Jays 45-37 and won the faceoffbat
tle 13-10 but could never get a
comfortable lead in the game.
Jed Prossner led UNC with
three goals and an assist while
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they would be in for the national
championship.”
Back in Durham, Karen
Wyzykowski won the discus event
with a qualifying mark of 15-3.
She also had a throw of 137 feet in
the javelin, which earned her fifth
place.
Olympic hopeful Shalane
Flanagan, who is not competing as
a Tar Heel this season, took a break
from her rigorous national compe
titions and used the Duke
Invitational as part of her training
for the Olympic Trials.
She competed unattached in the
3,000-meter run, finishing with a
time of 8 minutes, 55:05 seconds,
a personal record.
“I thought that Shalane, even
though she’s running as a red
shirt, had a great time,” Craddock
said.
Tiffany Flomo qualified in the
400 hurdles with a time of 58.20,
joining the many Tar Heels who set
personal records at the meet.
Flopio’s time was the best in the
ACC this year.
Juniors Erin Donohue and
Carol Henry both qualified for
regionals in the 1,500-meter run
with times 0f4:23.46 and 4:27.52,
respectively.
Larger meets often yield faster
times and farther distances
because of the variety of competi
tion, and for that reason Craddock
sees competing at them as an
Mike McCall scored twice for
UNC, and Lance Zimmerman had
a goal and two assists at
Homewood Field.
Hopkins jumped out to a quick
2-0 lead, but a goals by Prossner
and McCall with 10 seconds left in
the first quarter tied the game.
UNC and Hopkins traded goals
in the second quarter, but a tally by
Zimmerman 2:17 before halftime
put the Tar Heels up 5-4.
When McCall scored his second
goal into the third, the Tar Heels
had their first two-goal lead of the
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advantage.
“We don’t get to see the Rutgers
and the Seton Halls,” Craddock
said. “We only see the ACC people
like Virginia and Duke and so
forth.
“That’s another reason we go out
to Texas with our throwers. We get
to see all those great throwers and
compete against them.”
The challenge will help the Tar
Heels as they prepare for the ACC
Championships, which will take
place after only one more regular
season meet.
“I think we’re always a favorite
to win it for girls because we’ve
always done so well as far as the
other schools are concerned,”
Craddock said.
Depth will continue to be a
deciding factor in the men’s suc
cess, but Craddock said he feels
more confident about his team’s
chances of placing higher than the
fourth place they earned at the
ACC Indoor Championships.
“I’m hoping we can get third in
the ACC for men,” he said. “We’re
red-shirting a few of our key ath
letes like Nick Owens to give them
an extra year of eligibility, but we
have others stepping up and com
ing together.
“I always expect us to finish in
the top half, no matter what.”
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contest. It was short-lived as the
Blue Jays scored back-to-back goals.
UNC retook a two-goal cushion
on goals by Prossner and Stephen
McElduff. But again JHU quickly
tied before the end of the third.
Hopkins took a 9-8 lead on a
goal by Conor Ford with 9:53 to
play, but UNC got an equalizer on
an individual play by Prossner.
UNC had several shots to take
the lead but could not find the back
of the goal. Eventually the Blue
Jays won possession and set up
with the winning play for LeSueur.