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we just need to push together every
possession." Thomas said.
He certainly practiced what he
preached, dishing out six assists
and only committing two turnovers.
The Tar Heels will need Thomas'
smart play to continue, especially if
Lawson's ankle injury forces him to
miss an extended period of time.
‘l’m not going to take this and
just relax on this, I want to continue
to get better and do whatever I can
to help my team,” Thomas said.
Hansbrough said that imme
diately after the game ended, his
mind went to the Blue Devils.
Junior Danny Green agreed.
“I think they're No. 1 in our con
ference right now. We want to take
that spot"
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have only played together sparingly,
no amount of chemistry concerns
could prevent the two from securing
victories in both their matches.
Throughout the day the two
complemented each other in an
impressive fashion.
Fogleman consistently used
effective placement and timely
charges to the net to secure vital
points, while Kearney played the
drop shot to perfection to offset
any opponent net charges.
However, in their doubles match
Sunday, precision and power couldn't
save the two from defeat. The tan
dem forced a tiebreaker but were
unable to sustain their momentum
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said of Kinderwater. “He loves to
work: he’s very positive and very
focused. And it shows in his work."
The team refocused after the big
win quickly and celebrated its Senior
Day, beating Emory and Johns
Hopkins in a dual meet
“It’s just a good practice (for the
ACC Tournament) to have a night
swim, then get up the next morn
ing ready to swim again fast."
Swendiman said.
Funderburk was feeling espe
cially ready for the meet, as he
broke the North Carolina record
for 3-meter diving score in a single
meet, amassing 422.92 points. He
also volunteered to anchor the free
style relay, the last event of the day
VICTORIES
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victories.
The weekend was a chance for
Kalbas to tinker with his doubles
lineups in order to find the combi
nations for later in the season. One
pair he will not need to tinker with,
however, is the pairing of Marand
and junior Sophie Grabinski.
Marand and Grabinski rep
resent the ITA's No. 8-ranked
doubles team, and they showed
why by convincingly winning their
two matches. Marand credited the
pair's friendship as one reason for
their strong play.
“We’re good friends off the court
and we try to make each other
laugh and have fun," Marand said.
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finds her game
BY JOE MCLEAN
STAFF WRITER
Jelena Durisic's problem wasn’t
her feet, or her backhand or any of
the other essential parts of a tennis
game. It was her toss.
Again and again, as she lifted
it into the air, the ball would drift
just far enough to the left or right
to throw off her serve.
“I got nervous," Durisic said
Saturday. ‘You’ll notice if I’m ner
vous because the toss is going to be
a little bit off
Durisic was in a tight doubles
match against Minnesota's No. 2
pair, Karina Chiarelli and Lindsay
Risebrough. But more importantly,
the rest of her Tar Heel teammates
were following every movement,
which wasn’t helping her nerves.
Durisic's match, the last to finish,
took a full 20 minutes longer than
the other pairings.
So while the rest of her team
shouted words of encouragement
from the neighboring courts,
Durisic was rolling her eyes and
thrusting her arms out in disbelief
after each of her own mistakes.
“I’m one of those people who are
like, if I don’t perform, I get so pissed
off that I play much better." she said.
‘I sort of like to rip it to pieces, for
get about it, move on. Be aggressive,
because my game Ls aggressive."
Coach Brian Kalbas has been
impressed thus far with her style
of play.
‘She really puts people on their
heels with her big serve and her
big forehand," he said. “When she's
confident, she really can be over
powering and intimidating."
Nerves aren't typically an issue at
home matches, where most of the
spectators are friends and family.
For a freshman like Durisic, though,
the pressure of playing on a varsity
team can be surprising sometimes.
“It was something new," she said.
“I’m still not used to the whole
match phase because in the fall we
and eventually lost.
“I didn't think I returned well,"
Kearney said. "I need to go back to
the practice courts and work hard
er and get more consistent."
The rest of the matches against
Rice that day followed in much the
same manner with only Fogleman
and senior David Stone securing
victories in singles play.
Although the team lost, both
Hardy and Kearney took their top
-45 singles opponents to decisive
third sets before falling.
“I should’ve won, and I kind
of regret the last game I played,"
Hardy said. “It was kind of sloppy,
and the energy wasn’t there."
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something rare for a diver.
“Often the divers go far too
unnoticed because our attention is
on swimming," DeSelm said. “The
seniors came to me and asked if he
could anchor the relay. And with
out making a mockery of the meet,
I let them do it."
Even though the group of all
seniors was disqualified for a false
start, that did not seem to damper
the excitement among the other
swimmers.
“It was fun to watch Ryan anchor
the last leg," Morrissy said.
“It was a lot of fun joking around
with it... It was really exciting to
have the senior meet kind of sad
but a good experience."
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“We know each others strengths
and w eaknesses, and so we just try
to build each other up and tell each
other little things like to move your
feet if they’re a little down."
The weekend was also a showcase
for UNCs depth, as its four, five, and
six singles positions went undefeated
and failed to drop a set
Marand said these two wins will
give the team some momentum for
next week’s team ITA Nationals.
“It gives us confidence; we know
obviously we’re a good team," she
said.
“We just have to keep working
really hard and keep fighting for
every match."
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Even though the doubles point
had already been decided in favor
of UNC, both sides got emotion
ally involved in the third match as
momentum shifted back and forth.
Durisic and partner Katrina Tsang
had the advantage several times,
first at 4-3, then 6-5 and then 7-6,
only to lose in the tiebreak.
‘I think we just lost focus after
we were up 6-5," Durisic said. “We
started focusing too much about
certain things instead of just on our
shots and moving our feet. I got a
little nervous I have to say."
When the pressure eased off,
however, she had no problem dis
patching Danielle Mousseau in her
singles match. Durisic found her
way back in the kind of form that
earned her a No. 29 ITA singles
ranking in the fall.
She lost only two games en route
to that straight-set victory and fol
lowed it up on Sunday against
Michigan State with wins in both
her singles and doubles matches.
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Sossah gets NCAA provisional mark
BY PENN ELY
STAFF WRITER
The Eddie Smith Field House
was buzzing this weekend as 31
schools from across the Southeast
gathered to participate in the
Texas Roadhouse Carolina
Classic.
The North Carolina TYack and
Field team fared successfully amid
the competition. The Tar Heels
concluded the weekend with 11
first-place finishes in individual
events and also scored a first place
finish in the women’s 4-by-400
relay.
A host of UNC athletes put forth
strong individual performances. On
the men’s side, native Frenchman
Mateo Sossah finished first place in
the heptathlon.
He also placed first in the 60-
meter hurdles, second in the pole
vault and first in the 1,000 meter
dash. The finish was strong enough
to reach the NCAA provisional
mark.
Daniel Keller also achieved the
provisional mark for the heptath
lon.
On the women's side, freshman
Patience Coleman finished first
in the women's high jump with a
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2008
leap of 5 feet, 10 inches. Kimberly
Warren won the women’s shot put
with a toss of 45 feet, 4.25 inches.
Gabby Gioia won the women’s
long jump, reaching a mark of
5.20 meters, and also the wom
en’s 800 meter run with a time of
2:31.97-
The Tar Heels notably finished
strongly in the weekend’s fielding
events.
“We want a strong fielding pro
gram," UNC head coach Dennis
Craddock said. "There has got to be
a nucleus of something and so I’ve
always said, ‘Let’s be really strong
in our field events and see where
else we can be strong to compli
ment that.'
“It was a large meet and we
responded well to the good com
petition here."
The Tar Heels' strong showing is
largely attributed to its underclass
men.
All but one of North Carolina's
first-place finishers this weekend
were either freshmen or sopho
mores, and the men's roster only
has three seniors.
“The youth that we've brought
in are seasoned athletes." Craddock
said. “They've been to nationals,
and some have been to internation
als. They’re used to the arena they
are stepping into."
Next weekend the Tar Heels
travel to New York to participate
in the New Balance Invitational.
The meet will be the first time this
season that UNC will be scored as
a team.
“We’ll go to New York next
weekend and there will be all the
best schools on the east coast,"
Craddock said. “That will be our
real test because of the team
score."
But if the Tar Heels want to
continue to improve and be com
petitive in the ACC and beyond, the
team must see more success in the
track events.
“We are strong in field events,
but we’re getting stronger in other
events as we go along," Craddock
said.
And while the young talent has
been carrying the Tar Heel squad
thus far, Craddock knows that they
can’t be expected to shoulder all of
the weight.
“We’re not asking them to cam
the whole team," he said. "We just
want them to do the very best they
can and be competitive."
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at sports@ unc.edu.
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