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Kalbas, UNC rebound
after three-game skid
BY ANDY WALES
STAFF WRITER
Coach Brian Kalbas and the
North Carolina women’s tennis
team got a wakeup call three weeks
ago in the form of three consecu
tive losses to ranked opponents.
The slump provided motivation
for the Tar Heels to beat ACC foes
Virginia and Maryland this week
end 4-3 and 5-2, respectively.
After a 4-3 loss to then-No. 33
Wake Forest on March 24 the
Tar Heels’ third straight against
ranked opponents the team
needed to right the ship quickly
with matches against No. 35
Florida State and No. 23 Notre
Dame looming the next weekend.
Kalbas said he felt responsible
for the loss and had to fix it.
“(The Wake match) was the first
match where we didn’t show up to
play,” he said. “It’s my job to get
them ready.”
In a team meeting after the
match, Kalbas told the team what
it needed to hear.
“We can’t expect teams to roll
over for us,” he said.
The team previously suffered
defeats to No. 3 Florida and No. 5
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Duke, both by 7-0 scores. Kalbas
said the players felt the match
against Wake wouldn’t be that dif
ficult, but UNC’s misjudgment cost
the team its fifth loss of the season.
The message was heard loud
and clear. Although the team lost
two days later in Tallahassee,
Kalbas said the team competed
extremely well in the 4-3 match.
I\vo of the three UNC losses went
to three sets, and Sara Anundsen
lost a third-set tiebreak.
Two days after that, the team
knocked off Notre Dame at home,
5-0, and since has won three con
ference matches to improve to 17-6
(3-3 in the ACC).
This is the first year Kalbas has
coached UNC women’s tennis. But
his ability to turn a team around so
quickly did not develop overnight.
He coached William and Mary’s
women’s tennis team from 1992-
2003, taking the team to nine
Colonial Athletic Association titles
and eight NCAA Tournaments.
But Kalbas attributes his success
at UNC thus far to his stint as an
assistant coach at Notre Dame.
Though coaching at a high-profile
school like UNC often can be
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tough, Kalbas wasn’t worried
about coaching at a big-time ath
letic school because of his experi
ence at Notre Dame.
Kalbas carries the same coach
ing philosophy with him wherever
he goes. He wants to coach players
that can excel in the classroom and
on the tennis court.
“I’m a firm believer that if you
put quality time into one, you can
put it into the other,” he said.
On the court, Kalbas enjoys
coaching players that can think for
themselves and not just rely on
what their coaches say.
He doesn’t have a particular
technique with which he enjoys
coaching the most.
But in regard to shaping his ath
letes’ playing styles, he said, “I want
to turn weaknesses into strengths,
strengths into weapons.”
He believes that hard work is
the most important strength any
tennis player should have.
“If someone doesn’t want to
compete, then it doesn’t matter
what skills they have,” Kalbas said.
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Close games doom Tar Heels
Men’s lacrosse hopes to convert in clutch
BY MARY DUBY
STAFF WRITER
The North Carolina men’s
lacrosse team is becoming infa
mous for its suspenseful games.
Five of the No. 5 Tar Heels’
matches have been decided by one
goal. Unfortunately for UNC (5-3),
the team has been on the losing
end of three of those battles.
Facing N0.2 Johns Hopkins (6-
1) on Saturday turned out to be
another one-goal loss as the Tar
Heels fell 10-9 when Blue Jay Peter
LeSueur scored with just 56 sec
onds remaining in the game.
“It was a heartbreaking loss for
our team,” junior attackman Jed
Prossner said. “Every person put
forth a tremendous effort.”
The loss came just one week
after UNC lost to then-N0.2
Maryland, 10-9.
North Carolina outshot Hopkins
45-37 on Saturday and won 13 face
offs to the Blue Jays’ 10.
The game had sentimental value
for UNC coach John Haus, who was
the head coach at Hopkins from
1998 to 2000 but chose to return to
his alma mater, North Carolina.
“We really wanted this one for
Coach Haus. This is probably the
biggest win we could have gotten
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for him,” said Prossner, who led the
Tar Heels with three goals and one
assist. “It was really hard seeing
him so down after the game
because he did a fantastic job
coaching us on Saturday.”
Junior attackman Mike McCall
added two more goals for the Tar
Heels, while junior midfielder
Lance Zimmerman made a goal
and had two assists.
UNC led 6-4 after the first
minute of the third quarter, but the
Blue Jays responded with two
goals within 85 seconds. Prossner
retaliated with back-to-back goals
of his own, but he and the Tar
Heels could not hold off a Hopkins
4-1 run that decided the game.
“Once we had a two-goal lead
we might have been too relaxed,
which helped JHU get themselves
right back in it,” Prossner said.
This was not the first time
North Carolina had a game that
came down to the wire —a final
score of 10-9 is starting to become
somewhat of a UNC trademark.
On March 20, the Tar Heels
defeated Duke 10-9 in sudden
death overtime, a little more than
a week after beating Air Force by
the same score.
However, UNC often has been
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on the losing end of those close
battles. All three of the team’s loss
es have been one-goal margins.
“We have the experience, and we
know what it takes to win them,”
Prossner said. “It is time that we
start producing when the game is
on the line.”
Prossner had a chance with
2:40 remaining in the game to put
UNC ahead 10-9, but goalie Scott
Smith came up with the save.
“I am no longer a freshman,” he
said. “(I) know what needs to hap
pen when the game is on the line
and if we don’t come through, I
will take the blame.”
Along with one-goal losses to
Johns Hopkins and Maryland, the
Tar Heels lost to Navy 9-8 in
another intense overtime battle on
March 5.
The Tar Heels will have to find a
way to pull out the tight games
before Saturday if they hope to
defeat a Virginia squad that hand
ed the Blue Jays their only loss this
season.
“We just have to continue to
believe, and I think things will fall
into place,” Prossner said. “We have
great guys on the team and unlim
ited potential.
“Our time will come.”
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at sports@unc.edu.
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