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BY DANIEL MALLOY
SPORTS EDITOR
On a team headlined by two
senior stars, newcomers often get
lost in the shuffle.
But freshman Charlotte Tansill
has been on fire of late for the North
Carolina women’s tennis team, win
ning her last seven matches and
taking some of the spotlight away
from headliners
Aniela Mojzis
and Kendall
Cline.
Tansill was
solid again
Saturday as No.
9 UNC demol
ished UNC-
WOMEN'S
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UNC 7
UNC-W 0
UNC 7
Wilmington and East Carolina
both by the score of 7-0 at the
Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center.
The freshman won both of her
singles and doubles matches for
the day, all by wide margins.
Against UNC-W (4-3), she easily
dispatched Seahawk Cary Wyeth in
No. 5 singles 6-1,6-2.
In the second match of the day
against the Pirates (10-4), Tansill
was impressive again, taking
home her singles match 6-2, 6-2,
to improve her record to 19-6 on
the season. Even Tansill did not
anticipate such success.
“I’m really excited about it,”
Tansill said. “I definitely wasn’t
expecting to start.”
On the contrary, Tansill has
Werry plays big role on
faceoffs for Tar Heels
BY DAN SCHWIND
SENIOR WRITER
It’s never easy following in
someone’s footsteps.
It’s even harder when that some
one is an All-American who holds
several school records.
But in Saturday’s season opener
against No. 17 Denver, it was exact
ly what North Carolina junior Dave
Werry had to do.
One of the biggest questions
for the fifth-ranked UNC men’s
lacrosse team this season was the
hole at the faceoff-X, where the
team lost All-American Kevin Frew
to graduation.
Werry was tapped to fill the
void left by Frew, who finished his
career at UNC with a school record
446 faceoffs won, including 219
last season.
As if that wasn’t enough pres
sure, his first game taking over
that role came against Denver’s
faceoff tandem of Scott Davidson
and Geoff Snider, who combined
to win an impressive 177 of 313
faceoffs last season.
“I knew there was going to be
a lot of pressure on opening day,
especially filling the void of Kevin
Frew,” Werry said. “I knew coming
in that I was going to have to really
fight hard.”
Werry started the game off
strong, winning four of the game’s
first five faceoffs, but finished the
day 8-for-23.
But while those numbers might
not look impressive, Werry’s tough
ness at the faceoff-X was enough to
leave strong impressions.
“There were times where we held
our own,” said UNC coach John
Haus. “(Werry) went up against a
kid that is a senior that has been
around for a while for Denver, so I
think Dave did an okay job.”
Teammates credited Werry’s
tenacity in faceoffs as part of the rea
son the Tar Heels were able to slow
down Denver’s fast-break offense.
“The main thing that I was
thinking about today going out
there was keeping them off the fast
break,” Werry said.
“They did a lot of pushing the
fast break off the draw, even against
Kevin last year, and that’s pretty
dangerous for us. So, I was happy
that... we kept them from the fast
break for the most part.”
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anchored the back of the lineup for
the Tar Heels (11-3), rotating most
of her time between No. 5 and 6
singles and No. 3 doubles.
“You never know how much a
freshman can contribute, but she
has solidified the bottom of our
lineup this year,” said UNC coach
Brian Kalbas.
The Tar Heels have had no prob
lem solidifying the top, as Mojzis
and Cline rolled again. Neither
player surrendered more than four
games to an opponent Saturday, as
they both won in straight sets.
The pair traded the top two
spots in the singles order, with
Mojzis starting at No. 1 against the
Seahawks and Cline against the
Pirates. Cline is ranked higher in
the polls, but Mojzis was an All-
American last year.
“What I feel is that we have two
No. 1 players,” Kalbas said. “I’m going
to give them different chances to play
at No. 1. They both have earned it.”
Powered by the veterans at the
top and newcomers at the bottom,
the Tar Heels now will enter a brutal
stretch of the schedule. They play
five matches on the road three
against top-20 teams in March,
but that did not faze the freshman.
Said Tansill: “I think we’re right
there with pretty much anyone in
the country.”
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But despite how well the team
did against Denver’s strong faceoff
and midfield units, Werry said he
will have to win more faceoffs for
the team to beat second-ranked
Navy for the first time since 2002.
“The thing about the X is, the
more we get (the offense) the baii,
the better we’re going to be offen
sively,” he said. “So, that’s going to be
our focus going into next week.”
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Sports
Pitching key in three wins
BY MATT ESTREICH
STAFF WRITER
As the North Carolina baseball
team faced its toughest opponent
so far this season, the team’s usual
bright spots continued to shine
in a weekend sweep at Boshamer
Stadium of the reigning Big South
Conference
regular season
champions,
Birmingham
Southern.
Solid starting
pitching, several
nearly flawless
appearances
by the bull
pen and some
BASEBALL
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UNC 6
Birm. South. 2
UNC 3
Birm. South. 1
UNC 6
spectacular defensive plays pro
pelled the No. 10 Tar Heels to two
come-from-behind wins to remain
unbeaten at 8-0.
The series finale began as a
pitchers duel, with only three runs
scored between the two teams in
the first seven innings of play.
McCall scores six in rout of Denver
BY DEREK HOWLES
STAFF WRITER
Someone could have stolen the
North Carolina men’s lacrosse roster
from the Fetzer Field press box on
Saturday, and the announcer might
not have noticed. After all, he really
only needed to know three names for
much of the game.
In a brilliant
display of offen
sive firepower,
UNC starting
attackmen Jed
Prossner, Mike
MEN'S
LACROSSE
Denver 12
UNC 18
McCall and Ryan Blair had a hand in
all but two of their team’s goals, pro
pelling the No. 5 Tar Heels to an 18-
12 victory against No. 17 Denver in
the season opener for both squads.
“We played unselfish out there,”
Prossner said. “We moved (the
ball) to the next person, the next
open guy. We just really moved it
quickly. And if that happens, we’re
going to be able to score a lot.”
Prossner pumped in five goals
and wasn’t even UNC's most pro
lific scorer. That honor belonged to
McCall, who notched a career-best
six goals and tied a career high with
eight total points.
Freshman first baseman Chad
Flack started the scoring for the Tar
Heels by blasting a two-run home
run over the right field fence.
The Panthers answered in the
sixth inning with their only run of
the game, but threatened to add
more off North Carolina starter
Andrew Miller. After a trip to the
mound by UNC coach Mike Fox to
calm his sophomore hurler, Miller
needed only one pitch to induce
opposing pitcher Mac Godwin into
a rally-killing 4-6-3 double play.
“We’re cutting down on our errors,”
said sophomore pitcher Daniel Bard.
“Defense and pitching is what’s going
to win us a lot of games.”
The Tar Heels added four insur
ance runs off Godwin in the eighth
inning behind clutch run-produc
ing hits by freshman pinch hitter
Kyle Shelton and sophomore sec
ond baseman Bryan Steed.
“We hit some balls hard up until
then,” Fox said. “But those big two
out hits gave us some breathing
Not to be forgotten, Blair recorded
a hat trick and three assists en route
to six points also a career high.
“We have a pretty darn good
attack unit,” said UNC head coach
John Haus. “I mean, we have two
kids who have started from day
one here that now are seniors ...
and Ryan Blair does a fabulous job
back there with them.”
The trio got started a little more
than three minutes in when Prossner
took a pass from McCall, hugged the
left side of the crease and ducked in
front of the goal to deposit the ball
past Denver goalie Brian Sanders for
the game’s first score.
Less than a minute later, McCall
took a feed on the right side of the
field and buried a one-handed shot
for a 2-0 lead. It was the first of five
first-half goals for the senior.
“We were able to move the ball
around, and my job was just made
easy,” McCall said. “Everybody was
giving me good 100k5... and I (was)
able to capitalize on my shots.”
Still, not everything in the first
half or the game as a whole
worked out to Haus’ liking.
“Twelve goals that’s way too
many,” he said. “I think that we’re
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2005
room.”
Saturday’s game tested the mettle
of the unbeaten Tar Heels. For the
first time all season, North Carolina
needed all nine of their offensive
innings to put away an opponent.
With the bases loaded and one
out in the bottom of the ninth,
senior second baseman Greg
Mangum lofted a sacrifice fly to left
field that proved deep enough to
score junior Blair Waggett for the
decisive run in the 3-2 nail-biter.
The late-inning heroics might
never have happened were it not
for the perfect relief pitching effort
of Jonathan Hovis. In earning his
second win of the young season, the
5-11 junior retired all 12 Panthers
he faced —one of those outs being
a sparkling diving catch by sopho
more Jay Cox in left field.
“I knew I had to get ground balls,
keep the game close and the score
where it was,” Hovis said. “I knew
the guys would score later on.”
In the series opener Friday, Bard
capable of better ... All the poles,
the goalie everybody at that end
is gonna have to get better.”
When Denver cut UNC’s lead
to 11-7 early in the third quarter,
Prossner answered with a goal less
than a minute later. The preseason
All-American struck again about
four minutes after that to make
it 13-7 UNC, and Blair added two
scores later in the quarter to help
boost the margin to a comfortable
16-8 entering the final stanza.
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established North Carolina’s dom
ination of the Panthers from the
mound working seven innings
while surrendering one hit and one
earned run.
“We know what we’re going to
get out of (our starters) for the
most part,” Fox said. “They did
what they needed to.”
The Tar Heels responded
to Bard’s outing by tagging
Birmingham Southern (2-4) start
er Brandon Hynick for nine hits,
knocking him out of the game in
the fifth inning. Cox’s three hits
were as many as the Panthers could
muster as a team during the Tar
Heel’s 6-3 win.
With the pitching and defense
solid all weekend, the Tar Heel hit
ting proved key. If UNC’s bats can
stay hot, it will be tough to find an
aspect of North Carolina’s game
that doesn’t shine.
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was little more than a formality, it
did have at least a hint of drama.
With 46 seconds to go, Prossner fed
McCall for one final goal, a fitting
ending to a game they dominated.
“I know that there’s going to be a.
double-team immediately (when I.
have the ball),” Prossner said. “(If)j
they lock me off... Mike McCall is
gonna have eight points like hfi did
today. I’m proud of him.”
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