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ahr Daily oar Hrrl UNC falls to Terps in ACC play BY DANIEL PRICE ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Between the third and fourth quarters of the No. 4 North Carolina men's lacrosse team's home game against the Terrapins of Maryland, a cheer broke out. “T-E-R-P-S! TERPS! TERPS! TERPS!" With the vis iting fans chal lenging them, the Tar Heel faithful decided MEN'S LACROSSE Maryland 13 UNC 8 it was time to answer. “Tar Heels Tar Heels" was about all they could muster. That even more so than UNC’s 12 turnovers and 53 percent success rate on clears epitomized North Carolina's 13-8 loss that kept the Tar Heels (6-2,0-2 ACC) from picking up their first conference win. Every time Mary land challenged, UNC just couldn't do enough to get back into the game. “That was as poorly as we played all year," UNC coach John Haus said. “The way we played, we deserved to lose." UNC did score the first goal and led 2-1 with five minutes remaining UNC ends weekend on high note BY DAVID REYNOLDS STAFF WRITER Katrina Tsang watched her oppo nent's ball sail long and let out a veil of excitement before running to the net to shake hands. She had just clinched victory for the UNC women's tennis team against Clemson, its first vic tory against the Tigers in seven tries. Tsang won her singles match after losing the first set, a common theme for the Tar Heels, who needed three come-from bchind victories to complete the win Saturday. WOMEN'S TENNIS Ga. Tech 5 UNC 2 Clermon 3 UNC 4 ONLINE UNC 3-seed Austin Smith provides senior leadership for the Tar Heels. Tsang said she had to re-evaluate her strategy after falling behind. "1 really had to start over a new set and really focus on grinding out the points." she said. THERE IS A GENOCIDAL MOVEMENT AFOOT IN THE WORLD. ITS ADVOCATES ARE LEGION, ITS RESOURCES GREAT, ITS ATROCITIES MOUNTING. BUT AMERICANS STILL PRETEND THAT IT DOESN’T EXIST. THE SILENCE SPEAKS VOLUMES. AND WHAT IT SAYS IS BOTH DISTURBING AND OMINOUS. Therefore we are submitting this Declaration Against Genocide to student governments, to campus human rights organizations, to Muslim Students Associations and to individuals in the academic community, to join us in drawing a collective line in the sand against barbarism and to declare ourselves for civilization and hope. THE DECLARATION Whereas genocide - the murder, or plan to murder, an entire people - is a crime against all humanity; Whereas genocide is a crime that has metastasized in the modem era, leading to the murders of millions of Armenians, Cambodians, Tutsis, Sudanese, Bosnian Muslims and others; Whereas the largest and most devastating genocide on record is the Holocaust of European Jews; Whereas a new’ genocide of the Jews is being called for by Islamic leaders in the Middle East; Whereas global forces are being mobi lized by the Iranian regime to eliminate the Jewish state; Whereas the genocide of the Jews is called for in texts understood by some Muslims as authoritative and echoes through sermons in some mosques today, and is proclaimed by certain leaders of the Islamic religion; Whereas Catholicism and other Christian denominations have condemned the Holocaust and repudiated anti-Jewish pronouncements that have stained their religious past; We call on all Student Governments and campus Muslim groups to: 1. Condemn and repudiate the Hadith which reads: “Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me come and kill him " Sahih Muslim book 41, no. 6985 2. Condemn and repudiate the Hamas Charter which says: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” 3. Condemn Ahmadinejad who has said: “The accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible." 4. Condemn Hezbollah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah who has said: "The Jews are a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment." "There is no solution to the conflict except with the disappearance of Israel." “If they all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.” 5. Affirm: * The right of all people to live in freedom and dignity. * The freedom of the individual conscience: to change religions or have no religion at all. * The equal dignity of women and men. * The right of all people to live free from violence, intimidation, and coercion. We call upon all campus political, cultural, ethnic and religious groups to stand with us in opposing all forms of religious supremacism. violence and intimidation. For more information please contact Jeff at tapcoordinator@gmail.com Terrorism Awareness Project in the first quarter, but the Terps scored six of the next eight goals to take a 7-4 lead into halftime. “In a game like this, you have to sustain what you’re doing, and we didn’t do that in any phase of the game," Haus said. “In order to com pete at this level, you've got to be able to do those things. We didn’t" The Tar Heels opened the sec ond half with a goal by junior Ben Hunt, but then the route was on. The Terps scored five straight goals, giving themselves a 12-5 lead with 9:29 remaining in the game. “We didn't get stops when we needed them. Then when we did get stops we weren’t real successful clearing the ball,’ Haus said. “It’s been the same old for the last three or four games now. We’ve just played defense the whole game." As inconsistent as North Carolina was, Maryland was con stant with its strong attacks on goal, taking 35 shots, several com ing off of one-on-one power moves by Maryland attackers, most nota bly 6-foot-5, 240-pound Grant Catalino. “It’s kind of intimidating, but sometimes you’ve just got to belly Tar Heel coach Brian Kalbas said Tsang was able to overcome the deficit by playing smarter and working her opponent deep into the court before going for winners. The doubles team of Tsang and junior Austin Smith also registered a comeback victory, falling behind 4-6 before streaking to a 9-7 win to clinch the point for UNC (12-5,3-1 ACC). Playing the last of the three doubles matches to finish, they found themselves as the center of attention. Both teams surrounded the court, cheering their side on as the Tar Heels and Tigers (5-9,1-3) fought for a pivotal point. “It’s kind of exciting to be the last match out there, being the deciding match, you kind of know it's all on you," Smith said. Saturday's 4-3 win ended the weekend on a high note for the Tar Heels, who lost Friday to No. 2 Georgia Tech 5-2. The match's lone highlight was sophomore Sanaz Maraud defeating die fourth-ranked Amanda McDowell in straight sets. Kalbas said he was proud the A DECLARATION AGAINST GENOCIDE Sports o h| DTH/KEIVIN YEUNG The North Carolina defense struggled all night against No. 9 Maryland on Saturday at Fetzer Field. UNC lost its second game of the year. up,' UNC defenseman Brian Burke said. “That's something we’ve got to work on playing mentally tough and physically tough." And Burke has no doubt that he and his teammates will be toughing it out in practice all week UNC's first full week of practice since before Spring Break. ■ UNC sophomore Katrina Tsang clinched UNC’s win against Clemson, the team's first in seven matchups. team adjusted from the loss to Georgia Tech (11-3,3-0). “Yesterday we competed hard and kind of wore down in the rallies," he said Saturday. "Today we didn't wear down and were strong at the end of points and of the game, and obvi ously the end of sets and matches." Tsang said the comeback gives the team momentum for next week’s matches against highly ranked Florida State and Miami. “Actually sealing the deal in a match like this speaks volumes for the team and really helps bring us together. There was just so much heart into this match, and that’s what really made the difference." Contact the Sports Desk at sports@ unc.edu. PAID ADVERTISEMENT PATOADVERTTSEMENT “I can tell you it’s going to be a lot of running, a lot of hard prac tice," he said. And if the Tar Heels hope to bounce back next weekend, those practices will need to be effective, as they take a trip to Baltimore to face perennial power Johns Hopkins. And the Blue Jays will be ready to play as they are also coming off a loss. Virginia took them down 13- 12 in overtime Saturday. Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu Test Masters The finest and most comprehensive LSAT preparation course in the world. t c A Wednesday, March 26th free Lon i School of Law 2. Seminar! ? Room 5052 5 PM to 8 PM Learn some of our powerful methods and techniques from Palmer Heenan, a Test Masters LSAT instructor and extraordinary public speaker. www.testmasters 180. com 1-800-696-5728 MONDAY, MARCH 24. 2008 Softball scores weekend sweep of the Terrapins BY PENN ELY STAFF WRITER Hundreds gathered at Williams Field on a beautiful Saturday after noon to watch the No. 22 North Carolina softball team complete a three-game sweep of Maryland. "When we are home and have our home crowd, it’s nice." UNC coach Donna J. Papa said. "We haven't been beaten here, so this is our home." The Tar Heels (27-6-1,5- 1 ACC) are 13-0 in home games SOFTBALL Maryland 1 UNC 2 Maryland 1 UNC 5 Maryland 2 UNC 3 this season, and UNC sustained the impressive home streak. In the first game of the double header. junior Lisa Norris guided UNC to a 5-1 win. The right-hander struck out 10 and only allowed six hits in seven innings of work. With UNC down virtually the entire second game, the announce ment of Duke's early exit from the basketball tournament drew the crowd back into the game. Moments later, the Tar Heels were all smiles as Danielle Spaulding's RBI knock to left field in the bottom of the sixth inning gave North Carolina the go-ahead run. Amber Johnson finished the game, giving the Tar Heels a 3-2 victory and Johnson her sixth win of the season. “I really feel that our pitchers have really settled in," Papa said. “The team is confident behind them. I think when you get confi dence and for us to take the lead in a couple of games and to build on it, and then to be behind and come back, those are two differ ent scenarios, and I think we did a good job of handling both of those." The first game of the series kicked off Friday as Spaulding led the Tar Heels to a 2-1 victory. The junior went seven innings, striking out an impressive 13 and allowing only five hits. The Tar Heels are now on pace to achieve many team goals. While Papa keep* her team focused on win ning the regular season conference title and the postseason conference tournament, the Tar Heels are qui etly sliding up the rankings. “One of our goals is to get ranked," Papa said. “We re ranked right now, so we want to move up in the rankings. But we don't really focus on that, we don't talk about it. We just feel like if we play w ell that's going to come." Contact the Sports Editor at sports(a unc.edu 11
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