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DURHAM Senior-laden Duke,
the nation's No. 1-ranked men's
lacrosse team, used its experience
edge to good advantage Saturday
as the Blue Devils defeated North
Carolina 19-9.
Duke broke open a close game
with six goals in a span of less than
10 minutes in the second quarter to
hand the Tar Heels their first loss of
the season.
Duke outshot the Tar Heels
47-46 and won the ground ball
battle 44-40. UNC dominated in
the face-off circle by winning 21
of 32 draws.
The Tar Heels host Marist at 7
p.m. Tuesday UNC then hosts ACC
rival Maryland on Saturday
WRESTLING
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. Junior
heavyweight Justin Dobies won his
first conference title, and four Tar
Heels posted runner-up finishes as
North Carolina placed third at the
2008 ACC Wrestling Championships
on Saturday at the University of
Maryland’s Comcast Center.
The win ensures several UNC
wrestlers will move on to this week
end's NCAAs
North Carolina junior 165-pound
er Keegan Mueller earned one of the
ACC's four wild card berths.
Both Dobies and Mueller, who are
ranked among the nation's top 20 in
their respective weight classes, will
be making their first appearances at
nationals.
Sophomore Dennis Drury is the
league's first alternate at 197.
WOMEN'S LACROSSE
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. The No.
3 Virginia women's lacrosse team
used a balanced scoring attack and
a strong defense to shut down the
No. 7 North Carolina Tar Heels, 16-5,
in Klockner Stadium on Sunday.
The win marks the seventh
straight for the Cavaliers at home
and improves Virginia to 6-1 on the
season, 2-1 in ACC contests. The Tar
Heels drop to 6-2 overall and 0-1 in
conference play.
Although the Cavaliers let in the
first goal of the game, 1:09 into play,
they responded with eight straight to
take an 8-1 advantage into halftime.
Corey Donohoe led the Tar Heel
attack with two goals and an assist.
Kristen Carr, Julia Ryan and Jenn
Russell all had one goal apiece.
THIS WEEK
TUESDAY
MEN S TENNIS
vs. Wake Forest
TIME: 3 p.m.
LOCATION: Cone-fenfieid Tennis
Center
MEN'S LACROSSE
vs. Marist
TUC; 7 p.m.
LOCATION: Fetzer Reid
BASEBALL
vs Princeton
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Cary
WEDNESDAY
BASEBALL
vs. Princeton
LOCATION: Cary
NCAA Women’s Championships
TME: 11 am. and 7 pm.
LOCATION: Columbus. Oftw £J
Sports Monday
MEN'S LACROSSE UNC 9 Duke 19
TWICE AS NICE
Tar Heels win
ACC Tourney
BY JESSE BAUMGARTNER
SENIOR WRITER
CHARLOTTE - North
Carolina point guard Ty Lawson
straggled into the locker room
Sunday afternoon sporting his
brand-new ACC Championship
apparel, the last player to reach
the room.
“Run," Roy
Williams com
manded. and
Lawson quickly
jogged through
the door.
MEN'S
BASKETBALL
Clemson 81
UNC 86
The coach might have wanted
more hustle then, but he got plen
ty from his floor general on the
court as Lawson raced through
the Clemson defense to dish out
eight assists and orchestrate an
86-81 win for LTNCs second con
secutive ACC Tournament title.
“It’s a great feeling for our kids,
and we beat a really, really good
Clemson team." Williams said.
“We were lucky the first two times
we beat them. Today. I think, we
played better than we did either
one of the two times."
Tournament MVP Tyler
Hansbrough, Marcus Ginyard
and Wayne Ellington all received
first-team All-Tournament hon
ors as UNC claimed its 11th
straight victory.
With two red-hot squads play
ing for the trophy, the fans didn't
have a chance to catch their breath
as both teams blitzed up and down
the court right from the start.
Ellington cemented his status
as “Mr. Clemson" by shredding
the nets for 14 points in the first
half and 24 in the game on 10-
for-13 shooting.
But even with Lawson back
in the lineup and feeling better,
Clemson created lots of problems
with its athletic press.
UNC gave the ball away 20 times
during the game, but that careless
ness was counteracted by the Tar
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Hansbrough to have jersey retired
BY JESSE BAUMGARTNER
SENIOR WRITER
All season Tyler Hansbrough
has been climbing up in the North
Carolina record books free
throws, points, rebounds. Now.
after winning the Sporting News
Player of the Sear award Tuesday,
he will finally be looking down.
Down from the rafters of the
Smith Center as only the eighth
retired jersey in North Carolina
history.
“I look at them often,*
Hansbrough said Wednesday.
“Even when I got here, it's kind of
a little bit of a dream to imagine
one day that my jersey would be
up there it’s an honor."
According to the UNC Athletic
Women roll to ACC crown
Larkins, Pringle
capture 4th title
BY MIKE EHRLICH
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
GREENSBORO - As the
three-time defending champion
of the ACC Tournament and
the owner of
a perfect 14-0
regular season
conference
record, the
North Carolina
WOMEN'S
BASKETBALL
Duke 73
UNC 86
women’s basketball team entered
this year s conference tournament
writh some lofty expectations.
And they didn’t disappoint.
The Tar Heels steamrolled
through three more ACC foes,
including Duke in the finals, to
bring home their fourth consecu
tive ACC title.
“This is the second historical
record that we've set in the past
two weeks," tournament MVP
Eriana Larkins said. “We finished
out the ACC 14-0, we had a great
Senior Night, and then we come
out here and face some great
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North Carolina coach Roy Williams accepts the ACC Tournament trophy from ACC Commissioner John Swofford after his Tar Heels defeated Clemson 86-
SI in the championship game. The championship was the second consecutive for the Tar Heels, and it helped them gamer a No. 1 NCAA Tournament seed.
Observations from
the ACC tournament
BY GRAY CALDWELL
SENIOR WRITER
CHARLOTTE No. 1 North Carolina
went into the weekend as the top seed in
the ACC Tournament —and came out as
ACC Champions for the second year in
a row.
It marks the first back-to-baek tour
nament titles for the Tar Heels since
19.97 and 1998. And it pushes their total
to 17 —one ahead of Duke.
Council policy', athletes have to be
the national player of the year to
have their number retired. The
Sporting News award was one of the
six awards approved by the council.
Hansbrough, No. 50, will
join some elite company on the
front row of the rafters: Jack
Cobb (did not wear a number),
George Glamack (No. 20), Lennie
Rosenbluth (No. 10), Phil Ford
(No. 12), James Worthy (No. 52),
Michael Jordan (No. 23) and
Antawn Jamison (No. 33).
“I’ve had players who are more
gifted l’ve never had a player
who wanted it more. I’ve never had
a player who did things every day to
try and be the best player he can be,"
coach Roy Williams said Saturdav.
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Senior Eriana Larkins elevates for a layup amid three Blue Devil
defenders in UNC’s 86-73 victory in the ACC Championship game.
competition, and we win the ACC
Championship.*
UNC took the crown in domi
nant fashion, defeating Clemson,
Virginia and then Duke in the
championship game by a com
bined margin of 48 points.
Larkins was joined on the All-
Tournament teams by Rashanda
McCants and LaToya Pringle
SOFTBALL Texas Tech 0 UNC 6
As UNC moves on to the NCAA
Tournament, here are a few things to
take away from the team's first net-cut
ting weekend:
■ The Tar Heels can win pretty, and
they can win sloppy. UNC was plagued
by turnovers for much of the weekend,
and against Virginia Tech on Saturday,
UNC shot only 40 percent from the
SEE OBSERVATIONS, PAGE 13
Tyler
Hansbrough
will have his
number retired
after being
named Player
of the Year.
“I’d be the best daggum coach
that’s ever lived if 1 could put that
kind of heart and desire into every
one of our players. But I’m also the
luckiest coach that I've got one like
that.”
Hansbrough. who ended the
regular season with averages of
23.1 points and 10.5 rebounds, has
been neck-and-neck for much of
the year with Kansas State fresh
(first team), as well as Cetera
DeGraffenreid (second team).
But it was an effort that w’ent
nine players deep that brought
UNC the title again.
"The strength of our team is our
depth and our balance, and they’re
so unselfish,' coach Sylvia Hatchell
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SOFTBALL UNC 5 Hawai'i 1
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UNC guard Ty Lawson dribbles past Clemson’s Trevor Booker
and James Mays. Lawson's speed was key in beating the press.
Hansbrough by the numbers
► 2,067 career points third all time m UNC history
► 7-time ACC player of the week tied for most in a single season
► 912 career attempted free throws (first all time in the ACC)
► 710 made free throws (second all time in the ACC)
man stud Michael Beasley.
After this weekend, Hansbrough
owns Player of the Year Honors
from The Sporting News, Sports
Illustrated and ESPN.com.
And he kept up the production in
the ACC Tournament with 22 points
against Florida State, 26 points and
the game-winning jumper with 0.8
seconds left against Virginia Tech,
and 18 more in the title game.
In the game against the Hokies,
UNC rides rotation
to sweep of Hokies
BY DANIEL PRICE
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
CARY ln its first week
end series at the USA Baseball
National Training Complex, the
North Carolina baseball team
improved its record to 14-3 (5-1
ACC) with a three-game sweep of
Virginia Tech (7-11,0-6).
The wins came in three rather
different fashions, but UNC coach
Mike Fox credited one aspect of
the play for all of them.
“I think the common denomi
nator of it all is pitching," he said.
“We pitched exceptionally well all
three games."
In the finale Sunday, a 6-0
UNC win. Tar Heel freshman
Matt Harvey made his fourth
start of the season, facing off
against Va. Tech freshman hurl
er and former high school team
mate Jesse Hahn something
Harvey said the two have been
waiting for since committing to
ACC schools.
“We talked about it a bunch,"
Harvey said. “We were kind of
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MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2008
Hansbrough moved into third
place on the UNC all-time scoring
list, with only Phil Ford and Sam
Perkins ahead of him.
He also is set to break the all
time record for free throws made
by an ACC player. Hansbrough has
710, trailing only Duke’s Christian
Laettner, who has 713.
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Freshman
pitcher Matt
Harvey had
his longest
outing of the
year in the
series finale.
going back and forth, *Who’s going
to win?’ I was like, ‘We’re going to
sweep you.”
And Harvey helped the Tar
Heels follow through on his pre
diction. pitching 6 1/3 innings of
shutout baseball en route to his
second win of the season.
Tar Heel closer Rob Wooten
back in the lineup after miss
ing three games with a tweaked
back - struck out the side in
the ninth inning to finish off the
Hokies.
“I had no idea he’d be available
for this weekend,” Fox said.
“Just able to get him out in that
situation where we had a little bit
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