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K.C. Rivers missed a scoop layup
to keep the score knotted and
send the game into overtime.
From there, it was a mix of
clutch 3-pointers, foul-outs and
pressure-packed free throws as the
two teams passed the lead back and
forth.
Throughout all the madness, the
one constant was Hansbrough.
The power forward finished
with 39 points, nailed 17 of 19 free
throws and put the Tar Heels (22-
2,7-2) on his back with his clutch
play, especially in extra time.
"When he leaves, I am going to
consider myself the luckiest guv in
the world to have coached him,"
Williams said of the UNC junior.
Not all of Hansbrough’s damage
was done in his usual home under
the hoop. He helped break the
press, drove to the hoop and hit a
free-throw line jump shot to open
the second overtime.
And his biggest play of all
came on the defensive end, when
he pressured Clemson's David
Potter, poked the ball away and
pounced on it to preserve a thin
Tar Heel lead.
“1 was in a dead sprint, felt pret
ty good about it and then dove,"
Hansbrough said.
Behind his effort, the Tar Heels
ran their record to an astounding
53-0 against Clemson in Chapel
Hill, which broke the NCAA
record for the longest home win
ning streak by one team over
another.
“To be honest, I didn't really
want to break the streak here,"
Hansbrough said. “1 don't want to
be on that team."
Clemson played like a team pos
sessed to change that history.
The Tigers attacked, trapped,
pressed and muscled the Tar Heels
for almost the entire game, trying
to avenge a 90-88 overtime loss to
UNC a month ago.
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sharpshooter knocked down five
of his nine attempted 3-pointers
en route to 28 points l7 after
halftime.
“1 was just taking shots in stride."
Ellington said. “I wasn’t taking any
thing rushed or forced. ... It came to
me, and 1 just knocked it down."
But while Ellington’s perfor
mance usually would have been
the story, it was Hansbrough and
his 39 points giving Ellington
and him 67 of UNC's 103 that
brought the Tar Heels back after
they seemed dead in the water.
Constantly attacking the talented
Clemson front line of James Mays
and Trevor Booker, Hansbrough
totaled 11 field goals and 17 free
throws. He added 13 rebounds, too,
good for his 14th double-double of
the year.
“I don’t know how much lon
ger I’m going to coach him." Roy
Williams said. “But I’d like to
coach that big sucker about 13
more years."
And after Ellington and
Hansbrough pulled UNC close, it
was the often-overlooked Thomas
who came through in the pinch.
Twice he bought North Carolina an
extra five minutes to put a stamp
SOFTBALL
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seven RBIs, nine runs and a home
run.
“Honestly, I didn't even think
about it. I was just trying to help
the team out and hit the ball,"
TVoup said.
“We worked really hard in the
offseason and took a lot of reps.
Our team collectively really hit
the ball well in the fall, and we
carried it into the first tourna
ment.”
Tar Heel right-hander Amber
Johnson, who earned her first vic
tory of the season against Kent
State, allowed only three runs in
her first two starts.
Johnson was one of five Tar
Heels to gamer post-tournament
honors.
Johnson was the beneficiary of
a major confidence boost on the
mound with some colossal run
support
“It’s huge,” Johnson said. “If we
have a run, I feel 10 times better.
More than one is nice, but it defi
nitely helps a lot”
In early tournament play, UNC
defeated East Carolina 5-1 Friday
and scored a victory against Kent
State on Saturday, winning 6-3.
*1 was really pleased with what
we did this weekend," Papa said.
“One of our goals going in was to
really establish ourselves in a dif
ferent way than we have in the
past, and I felt like going into the
season we had a lot more offensive
power.
“It was exciting and tilings just
happened. I thought we controlled
a lot at the plate."
The Tar Heels will look to con
tinue the momentum when the
team travels to UNC-Wilmington
for a doubleheader Wednesday.
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Sunday night crowd, the Tigers
got a heroic 31 points from Cliff
Hammonds and clutch offensive
rebounds from Trevor Booker,
but just couldn’t turn the tables
on the Tar Heels.
For a UNC team still smart
ing from a home loss to Duke on
Wednesday, the thrilling win was a
helpful dose of relief.
“Coach says you can enjoy it
until the clock hits (midnight),"
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going to enjoy this a little lon
ger."
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on his first victory as a starter.
First it was the end of regula
tion, when he fearlessly took the
ball to the hoop with UNC down
two points to send it to overtime.
“The play was designed to get the
ball to Wavne," Thomas said. “And I
saw that they had him covered, so I
just tried to be aggressive and got to
the basket, and luckily I made the
shot"
Then it was two critical free
throws in overtime with 38 sec
onds left to knot things up again.
Thomas, who also logged nine
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UNC extends streak to nine in a row
Rubin, Tar Heels excel against N.C. State
BY ANNA KIM
STAFF WRITER
N.C. State gymnasts took the
floor as Wolfpack howls boomed
from the loudspeakers, but North
Carolina's winning performance
spoke for itself.
The No. 21 Tar Heel gymnastics
team extended its nine-meet win
ning streak to start the season with
a 195.450-194.975 win against No.
25 N.C. State. Sunday at Carmichael
GYMNASTICS
NCSU 194.975 regular season
UNC 195.450 home meet,
UNC came out
with a strong performance to take
home the win.
The Tar Heels were coming
off a win in the Governor’s Cup,
where UNC teamed up with the
Wolfpack to win a first-place
ranking.
“We certainly want to do well
against them," North Carolina
coach Derek Galvin said.
“Our goal every year is to beat
the ACC teams, to beat all the teams
in the East Atlantic Gymnastics
League."
Galvin accredited the team’s
performance in vault as one of the
strongest he’s seen since the NCAA
championships last year.
And the other three routines
had strong performances as well.
Galvin attributed mistakes in bars,
beams and floor routines simply to
the nerves that accompany the first
home meet.
“Some of the mistakes we made
today were too much power,” Galvin
said. “They were too strong in some
cases."
But quality and execution gave
the Tar Heels the points they need
ed to overcome N.C. State.
assists, said he couldn't remember
the last time he had been in such a
pivotal end-of-game position.
And after Thomas gave UNC
new life, it was Hansbrough diving
after a loose ball on the floor and
Ellington jumping over the Clemson
front line for a final layup that sealed
an improbable outcome.
“There was never a point where
we thought we weren't going to win
this game," Ellington said.
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“We know* we’ve got room to
continue to grow and improve,"
Galvin said.
The Tar Heel faithful did not
disappoint, supplying the team
with an energetic home-court
advantage.
“Gymnasts love a crowd," Galvin
said.
“When they hear the people in
the audience, and in particular rec
ognize the voices up there and see
a lot of people in the stands, they
want to have an even stronger per
formance.”
Christine Nguyen, recently
named the EAGL Gymnast of the
Week, continued to lead UNC to
victory. The North Carolina sopho
more notched top scores for the Tar
Heels in every event
Senior Sarrie Rubin scored
9-85 in vault, her personal best
and tied with Nguyen as the
team’s leader.
After undergoing a shoulder sur
gery’, then an unexpected recovery
a few years ago. Rubin said, she is
taking full advantage of her final
Nguyen shines in UNC victory
Sophomore tops all performers
BY JOHN DOUGHERTY
STAFF WRITER
Ascending flawlessly over the
lower bar with only the slight
est hint of a push off, sophomore
Christine Nguyen began her assault
on the uneven bars.
Nguyen’s overall performance
Sunday against N.C. State mirrored
her uneven bar routine, rocketing
her leaps and bounds above the fel
low competition.
For the second week in a row,
Nguyen proved herself the stron
gest athlete in the gym, taking top
honors in every event and captur
ing the all-around high score.
Following UNC’s 195.450-
194.975 victory, the team’s second
against NCSU this season and first
in Carmichael Auditorium, coach
Derek Galvin praised Nguyen for
her natural gymnastics ability.
“I think she was really bom to do
this sport," Galvin said
Nguyen, named the EAGL
Gymnast of the Week for her efforts
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turns 90. Sec pg 3 for story.
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The North Carolina gymnastics team opened the regular season by
defeating N.C. State Sunday. It was the ninth-straight win in the series.
season.
“It’s a surprise that I was even
able to do gymnastics this long,"
Rubin said.
“Now that it’s my fifth year
I’m trying to go all out and show
everything off and show everyone
w hat I can do."
The Tar Heels (9-0) look to con
in the Governor’s Cup on Feb. 1,
improved drastically in nearly
every event this week.
In addition to her powerful
9-850 on vault and an equally
impressive uneven bars score of
9-825. Nguyen made solid progress
in her floor routine.
A week after placing 10th with a
floor exercise score of9 775, Nguyen
tied for the top spot Sunday, scor
ing 9-850. The performance even
warranted a fist pump from her
head coach.
“I always set goals to improve
from each week," Nguyen said.
“I don’t really come into a meet
expecting anything. I just try to
perform how I do in practice."
Ironically, the only event in
which Nguyen didn't best her mark
from last week was the balance
beam which many consider to
be her strongest.
“Balance beam is an amazing
event for her," said Galvin. “She
is one of the most beautiful beam
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tinue their undefeated record at
the upcoming meet hosted by West
Virginia at 8 p.m. Friday.
“I’m so excited,” Rubin said.
“We’re doing the best we’ve done
since I’ve gone to Carolina."
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performers I have ever seen."
Coming off last week's 9.875
showing on the beam, Nguyen man
aged only a 9-85 Sunday. But her
score still was good enough for first
place by a margin of .025 points.
Senior Sarrie Rubin said she
believes her team can take a lesson
from Nguyen’s beam exercises.
“She is so calm on beam." Rubin
said. “She is such a good motivator."
Rubin aLso commended Nguyen
for her work ethic in practice each
day and said she considers the soph
omore to be a leader by example.
As for the team as a whole, the
UNC star knows there is still room
for improvement.
And while she personally would
like to improve on her floor rou
tines. Nguyen said she has is moti
vated by the honor of being named
gymnast of the week.
“It gives me a lot of hope for what
will happen in the season to come,"
she said. “It just lets me know there
is more that we can do.“
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