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Clip Daily oar Hppl Late rally saves Tar Heels BY MIKE EHRLICH ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR After earning its first top-25 ranking of the season, the North Carolina softball team should have entered Wednesdays contest with Elon with all the momentum in the world. But for the first five innings, it didn't play like it. After UNC’s bats were unchar acteristically silent through *h e first five frames, the No. 23 Tar Heels Elon 1 UNC 9 six innings came alive in the sixth to score nine runs en route to a 9-1 win at Anderson Stadium. The rally was started by a Hrcanna Brown single, and then the merry-go-round started on the basepaths. The inning included four RBI singles and an RBI double, and it was capped by a three-run home run by third baseman Alyssa Francona. “I think a lot of times it just takes one person kind of break ing it open,” UNC coach Donna J. Papa said. “It’s kind of a momentum thing, and 1 think Bree Brown did a real ly good job of getting that inning started. Then Cassie (Palmer) put a nice bunt down, and then we just had some timely hits." But the rally, though impressive, came much later than Papa would have liked. The Tar Heels (13-3) haw been an early-inning team this year. Entering Spring Break Is Only 10 Days Away... r w n T n , I 3 TANS Get Your Base Tan Before You | f o r Hit the Beaches in March! | SIO.OO I I 1 OS A Rams Plaza* 968-3377 • * I Triangle Institute for Security Studies and the Global Education Center at UNC present Bvzezinski [ f ! N } former US National If Security Advisor I speaking on “Global Security Challenges” at The Global Education Center UNC-Chapel Hill Campus March sth, 2008, 7:45 pm. Free to the public For more information visit: www.tiss-nc.org Wednesday. UNC had scored 66 runs in the first two innings to just 10 in the last two. But against Elon (6-5), it took a little longer. “I don’t think we were as disci plined as we normally are," Papa said. “I told them I was really dis appointed because I feel like we didn’t respect our opponent today. We went through the motions for five innings." The 1-0 deficit the Tar Heels faced could have been worse. Starting pitcher Amber Johnson was pulled after allowing the lone Elon run in three innings of work. But then freshman Faith Sutton came in and shut the door on the Phoenix bats. She pitched three innings and allowed just one hit, striking out six batters and keeping her season 0.00 ERA intact. “I just went as hard as 1 could, and just tried to keep it off the plate a little bit,” Sutton said. “And then go right at them instead of keeping the count high." With Sutton keeping Elon at bay, the door was open for a comeback. Emily Troup’s blooper scored Brown to tie the game at one apiece, and then a VWiitney Allen seeing-eye single got through the left side of the infield to knock across the go-ahead run. Up by a run, Francona stepped to the plate. One moonshot over the right-centerfield wall later, the Tar Heels were in the driver's seat with a four-run lead. And they didn’t look back, adding four more fife k = _ DTH/NICOLAS GUIIETT North Carolina freshman right hander Faith Sutton made a relief appearance in UNC's 9-1 victory against Elon on Wednesday. in the frame. “I was just trying to put the ball in play, and I knew we had some girls on base," Francona said of the home run. "Some of the pressure was off because we had already scored the winning run. I just wanted to keep the rally going.” Contact the Sportx Editor at sports(a unc.edu. DELIVERY 91M5M278 -SgggroJ" HOURS Mon-Wed 4pm-3am Thursday: 4pm-3 30am 306A W. Franklin St. Fri & Sat: Ham-3:3oam 3C ftft HI H Sun 11am~2am I 53.00 OFF , I HOME ALONE lßLGUUßjenuprjcej small 1-rra no* ANY SPECIALTY PIZZA “aES? or ANY 2-ITEM PIZZA BELLY BUSTERI 14 ” ul-nixed-up CHOOSE I TOR 17.11 LAKE 1 -ITEM PIZZA CHOOSE IFOF *26.90 + LAKE POKEY STIX CHOOSE All I *45.99 + WWWftWKS II i r laft IMI *ls BUFFALO WINES -1510NEIES WINGS AIL 5= C 9.99 - -14- POKEY STtX -14“ CINNAMON SWIRL Offers may expire without notice News National and World News FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Debate unlikely to sway Ohio voters CLEVELAND (AP) - Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama arc making their final pitches to voters in Ohio and Texas, must-win contests for Clinton, after a mostly somber and policy-filled debate that seemed unlikely to alter the political cal culus of the race. At the final debate before next Tuesday’s contests, which also include races in Vermont and Rhode Island, the two engaged in sometimes testy exchanges. The two sparred over health care, the war in Iraq and trade, particularly the North American Free Trade Agreement that was negotiated in her husband's first term but is seen by critics as a chief culprit in the loss of manu facturing jobs in Ohio. Clinton needs big wins after 11 successive Obama victories and after Obama’s steady increase in gathering delegates. It seemed unlikely the debate at Cleveland State University would provide that lift. CAROLINA CENTER fit r JEWISH STUDIES Jewish Music and All That \ Jazz < - y - v KAPLAN BRAUER LECTURE ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF JUDAISM TO CIVILIZATION 0 JOSHUA JACOBSON, Monday, March 3 Professor of Music and 7:30 P' m ‘ rv * c c-u ia.* •, • Sonja Haynes Stone Director of Choral Activities, . .. Center Theatre Northeastern University, ccjs.unc.edu will examine the impact (919) 962-1509 of American life on Jewish composers and the impact v of Jews on American music. fl ®{UNC COLLEGE OF I AMTS ft ICIINCB9 THURSDAY. FEBRUARY I 2H . 2008 Investigation probes Marines’failure to deliver requested trucks and lasers WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - An investigation into allegations that the Marine Corps delayed sending blast-resistant trucks to Iraq also will examine whether the Marines were negligent in delivering a laser to divert driv ers and people from checkpoints and convoys. Marines on the front lines sought the tool, known as a Compact High Power Laser Dazzler, but stateside acquisition officials didn't deliver Mohawk leads to school suspension PARMA, Ohio (AP) - A kin dergarten student with a freshly spiked Mohawk has been sus pended from school. Michelle Barile, the mother of 6-year-old Bryan Ruda. said nothing in the Parma Community School handbook prohibits mohawks. The school claims it’s distracting. Mohawks violate the school’s policy on proper grooming, school Principal Linda Gever said. I DOTT MBS THIS WEEKEND'S 1 I UNION FREE MOVIES I ••• Admission with UNC Student One Cart! ••• B I Friday, February 29 IWf 7pm...LARS& THE REAL GIRL 8 I 9:3 °P m - M,CHAEL CLAYTON S 'Jwm Saturday. March 1 9r B * fl 7pm...MICHAEL CLAYTON W 1 i y 9:3Opm...LARS& THE REAL GIRL 9 H presented by: Carolina union activities board film committee it. said a civilian Marine Corps official. A less capable laser was eventually sent, but delays of nearly 18 months may have led to an untold number of Iraqi civ iliun casualties. The deaths and injuries occurred when civilians mis taken as the enemy got too close to guarded areas and I!.S. troops lacked a non-dcadly way of forc ing them away, according to the official. Local tribes rule in Afghanistan WASHINGTON, D.C. \l> ; Mon- than six years after the i U.S. invaded to establish a st..l •! | central regime in Afghanistan | the Kabul government undei President Hamid Karzai conti | just 30 percent of the country. The resurgent Taliban control } 10 percent to ll percent ol the | country and Kar/ai's government ! controls 30 percent to 31 pent nt | The majority of Afghanistan’s I population and territory remains under local tribal control. 9
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