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MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2005
Florida Atlantic to hire
Doherty as head coach
FROM WIRE REPORTS
BOCA RATON, Fla. - It looks
like embattled former North
Carolina basketball coach Matt
Doherty will get another shot to
prove himself in college basketball.
Florida Atlantic scheduled a
news conference for Monday,
amid reports the school had hired
Doherty as its new basketball
coach.
Athletic department spokes
woman Katrina McCormick
would not confirm Doherty’s hir
ing Sunday, but said the new coach
would be introduced at the event.
Messages left by The Associated
Press on Doherty ’s cell phone were
not returned Sunday.
The Palm Beach Post and The
Boca Raton News, citing unidenti
fied sources, reported on their Web
sites on Saturday that Doherty had
ERRORS
FROM PAGE 16
was off and cost the Tar Heels the
first run of the game.
The third error of the day came
with two outs and runners on first
and second. Third baseman Webb
knocked down Braun’s hit with his
chest, but his throw to first was
high and sent Alex Garabedian
home to give Miami the lead in the
top of the fifth, 9-8.
Webb also let a hit go through
his legs to give Figueroa a double
in the top of the seventh.
“I’ve made my errors this week
end too, so it’s not like I can look
down on anybody,” Webb said. “It’s
just frustrating.... It’s all a learning
process.”
The Tar Heels continued their
bloopers —and not the kind you
hit into shallow right field in the
top of the ninth.
Kyle Shelton checked in at third
base and dove for Danny Valencia’s
hit with no one on base. He stopped
the ball but missed the throw to
first. That was the fifth error of the
game and a season-high for UNC
in any one game.
UNC subsequently upped that
record when Craig Corrado, filling
in at shortstop, tried to backhand
Roger Tomas’ hit, which bounced
off his glove. With two outs, the
error scored Miami’s 17th run of
the night.
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accepted the job and would replace
Sidney Green, who was fired last
month after three consecutive los
ing seasons.
Doherty toured the campus
Wednesday and met with athletic
director Craig Angelos and school
president Frank Brogan about the
position. McCormick said both
Angelos and Brogan would attend
Monday’s news conference.
Florida Atlantic would be the
third coaching stop for the 43-
year-old Doherty, who lasted three
seasons as Bill Guthridge’s succes
sor at North Carolina before being
forced to resign.
Doherty went 53-43 at North
Carolina. Many of his top recruits
helped the Tar Heels win this year’s
NCAA title. Doherty was a starter
on North Carolina’s 1982 national
championship team.
takes nobody’s perfect,” Corrado
said. “We’re a team, and we stick
behind each other.”
With so many slipups, the Tar
Heels can only go back to the draw
ing board.
“We’ll have some practices,”
Webb said. “Coach will get us out
on defense, make sure we’re con
centrating on watching the ball in
and throwing to bases.
“Practice makes perfect.”
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LACROSSE
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UNC also had problems clearing
the ball upfield against Maryland
as they only got the ball safely to
the other end 14 times out of 22
attempts.
It is the worst defeat of the sea
son for the Tar Heels, who previ
ously lost two games by one goal
and one game by six.
The loss also means the Tar
Heels finish fourth in the ACC and
now must compete in a play-in
game in the ACC Tournament.
“The ACC Tournament is up for
grabs,” Higgins said. “Whoever
improves their play and plays
consistently throughout the next
two weeks will come out.”
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The Miami baseball team celebrates after Danny Figueroa (2) scored the game-tying run in the ninth inning of Sunday's 7-7 tie with North Carolina.
Figueroa came home on an error by UNC third baseman Reid Frank. The game was called a tie after 10 innings because of the Hurricanes' travel curfew.
BASEBALL
FROM PAGE 16
earned runs on four hits and three
walks in 1 2/3 innings, and Miami
ran the final score to 18-9.
“(Bard and Miller) got them
selves behind in counts,” said
Hurricane coach Jim Morris.
“They’ve got great stuff, and both
of them are great pitchers, but you
can’t pitch that way.”
But for the first three innings
of Sunday’s game, it looked
as though UNC starter Adam
Kalkhof had discovered the secret.
He allowed a first-inning run on
a sacrifice fly, but he didn’t allow
his first hit until third baseman
Ryan Braun doubled in the top of
the fourth.
In the meantime, back-to-back
home runs in the third inning from
Justin Webb and Ellington staked
the Tar Heels to a 4-1 lead.
But that’s when their run of suc
cess ran out."
The Braun double knocked in
Paco Figueroa, who had walked,
and Miami hitters strung together
a walk and two singles to drive
Kalkhof from the game.
Danford then entered and
allowed single runs in the fifth and
the sixth before settling down. He
threw a season-high 6 1/3 innings.
The Tar Heels rallied in the bot
tom of the sixth. Seth Williams led
off the inning with a home run to
left field, and a Webb sacrifice fly
and an RBI single from Ellington
gave the Tar Heels a 7-6 lead.
The score held until the ninth.
Danford hit Miami center field
er Danny Figueroa with his second
pitch of the inning, and Figueroa
took first base.
Fox argued briefly that Figueroa
hadn’t made an effort to avoid the
pitch, but to no avail.
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“It’s disappointing. We had a chance to
win the game, and we probably should
have won the game ”
MIKE FOX, unc coach
“It’s a point of emphasis this
year in the rule book,” Fox said. “I
thought it was close.”
Paco Figueroa followed with a
sacrifice bunt to advance his twin
brother to second, and Braun hit
a grounder to shortstop to send
Danny Figueroa to third.
Danford ran the count to 0-2
against left fielder John Jay and
threw a breaking ball that missed
high barely.
“It’s breaking down by the time
the catcher catches it, so it may
appear as a strike, but I think the
umpire made the correct call,”
Danford said.
Jay then ripped a ground ball
through the legs of third baseman
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Reid Fronk to score Figueroa with
the tying run.
And when neither team could
push across a run in one extra
inning before the curfew ended
play, the game ended in a tie.
The result left both sides dis
satisfied, particularly a North
Carolina team that had the
Hurricanes down to their final
strike in the ninth.
Fox was asked point-blank if he
thought Danford’s 0-2 curve had
won his team the game.
“Yes,” he said.
His wry smile said the rest.
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