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North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatched instructs her team Sunday. UNC
plays Georgia in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Tuesday.
HOT START
FROM PAGE 14
With 10 points, DeGraffenreid
was one of five UNC players in
double figures. Senior center
LaToya Pringle led the charge
with 19 points while l.arkins and
McCants each dropped 15 and
Jessica Breland added 14 off the
bench.
After a quiet first half. Breland
scored 12 in the second period,
including a stretch in which she
scored eight straight for the Tar
Heels. Her inside game, along with
that of the post starters, helped
UNC to a 44-18 scoring advantage
in the paint.
“I keep saying that's the strength
of our team is our balance and our
depth," UNC coach Sylvia Hatched
said. "Of course, everybody on the
team played, but it's good that we
spread out the scoring."
For Bucknell (16-16), the
woes began at the opening tip
and didn't get much better. The
Bison were held to just 26.7 per
cent shooting for the afternoon
as a relentless UNC attack wore
them down.
The Tar Heels began with a
full-court press after every made
basket and dead ball and kept up
the breakneck pace until the final
whistle.
“I guess we're just on the go,"
said DeGraffenreid, the speediest
of the Tar Heels. “(Hatchell’s) just
always like, 'Go, go, go.' So even if
you're tired, you just gotta suck it
up and just go."
But as the scoring margin con
tinued to swell, Hatched was dis
appointed with a drop in the sense
of urgency that her team demon
strated on the court.
"It’s been a couple of weeks
since we’ve played, and I think
it was pretty obvious at times
our intensity level wasn’t what it
needed to be and what the play
ers wanted it to be," she said after
the game.
Both Hatched and the players
emphasized the need to keep up
that intensity for all 40 minutes
in the later rounds of the tourna
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on the court in a game situation
will help.
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lot, but practice is nothing like
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gel together and get our chemistry
right before our next game. And
1 think it did us good because we
definitely have to work on our
intensity level. It just shows that
you definitely can’t take anything
lightly."
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Bosica vital in Tar Heel victory
UNC sophomore picks up 8 points
BY ANNA KIM
STAFF WRITER
After a tough 16-5 loss against
No. 3 Virginia last weekend, the
North Carolina women's lacrosse
team had a couple of goals head
ing into Saturday's home matchup
against Duke.
“Don't play on your heels. And
don't be overly crazy and desperate.
Just stay the course. Be composed.
Stick together. And get the balls,"
UNC coach Jenny Levy had told
her offense.
Sophomore Megan Bosica
helped the No. 8 Tar Heels reach
those goals with some of her own
four of them, to go along with
four assists.
After the 16-14 victory against
the No. 5 Blue Devils, Bosica
along with the rest of her team
mates wore a T-shirt with a two-
LACROSSE
FROM PAGE 14
20 turnovers with a high-pressure
defense that forced the Blue Devil
attackers to be especially careful
with the ball. And when an errant
pass saw the ball hit the turf, the
Tar Heels were quick to pounce
they netted 18 ground balls to
Duke's 10.
Unhappy with starting goalie
Kim Imbesi, Duke coach Kcrstin
Kimcl benched her with 20 min
utes remaining in the second half.
The Tar Heels continued scoring
PRINGLE
FROM PAGE 14
Carolina record books as the top
shot-blocker in team history.
“1 am excited. It hasn’t been
broken in 20-something years,"
Pringle said.
“Looking at myself, I didn’t think
1 could do it. I'm excited; I worked
hard to get it, and now I have to
celebrate."
While Pringle and her Tar Heel
teammates aren’t going to jump
for joy about anything short of a
national championship any
thing less is been there, done
that she did know what she was
about to accomplish.
After swatting her third shot of
the day and sending an ill-advised
Bison layup back to earth, Pringle
subbed out for a brief rest and sat
next to the scorer's table, where
North Carolina sports information
director Bobby Hundley leaned
over and told her that she was,
in fact, tied with Dawn Royster's
record 0f329 blocks.
It was fitting that as Bucknell
desperately tried to gain some
kind of momentum in the clos
ing seconds of the first half,
Andrea Wright’s jump-shot pro
vided the record-breaking block as
Pringle extinguished all hope of a
Cinderella upset.
“I know my teammates were
counting. My mom in the stands
was counting. ... (Assistant head
coach Andrew) Calder called me
over, and he let me know, “You got
two more two more,’* Pringle
said. “It’s a wonderful thing."
Pringle spent the next almost
15 minutes actually trying to bait
Bucknell into putting up a shot
that she could block —a tenden
cy that has rankled her coach all
year.
“Sometimes 1 get upset about
her letting her man catch the ball
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It"
“Every year we have a theme, a
saying we want to do for the sea
son," Bosica said.
“Before we get in the huddle we
scream, ‘Wreck it’. Like, go kick
some butt. Wreck it"
And in the two-goal win, the
Ellicott City, Md„ native did just
that.
“1 think the way we came out,
after that loss, Duke might have
thought they were going to cream
us like Virginia did," she said.
But Bosica wrecked any chances
of that, in high-scoring and high
intensity fashion.
Coming into the game, Bosica
had scored 14 goals in eight games
while tallying seven assists. With
her eight-point performance, she is
tied for second on the team with 18
on her backup, Regan Bosch, how
ever, ultimately reaching 16-11 with
10 minutes left.
But as with any Duke-UNC
game, the trailing team did not go
quietly.
Duke stormed back, powered
largely by Megan Del Monte,
w'ho scored two goals in a span
of 16 seconds, but ultimately the
Tar Heels were able to salt away
the clock to preserve the final two
goal margin.
North Carolina had to expect
such a game, because, after all,
11 of the last 20 matchups were
in the post because, you know, she
can’t block shots if they don’t try to
shoot." Sylvia Hatchell said.
“So sometimes, especially if it’s
a close game. I’ll say, ‘Alright Toya,
stop letting your man catch the ball
and blocking shots.”
With the record she strove for
all season now firmly hers and out
of the way, Pringle can focus even
more on locking down opposing
offenses —and making her coach
happier.
“Now' I can focus more on
not even letting my girl catch it
instead of trying to block shots,"
she said.
"Hopefully my post defense will
improve."
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MONDAY, MARCH 24. 2008
Sophomore
Megan Bosica
picked up four
goats and four
assists in UNC’s
two-goal ACC
win.
goals, and her four assists put her
atop the North Carolina stat sheet
in that category.
She appeared to be everywhere
on offense in the first half. She
scored her first goal unassisted at
the 19:44 mark and assisted Erica
LaGrow’s goal on the next UNC
possession.
At the 10:08 mark, Bosica assist
ed a goal by sophomore Kristen
Taylor and raced past defenders
off the next draw and shot the hall
with such authority that it rolled
into the net, even after the ball was
deflected.
“She played out of her mind."
“Oh my gosh! In those last four
minutes I was thinking. ‘We better not
lose this.'"
MEGAN BOSICA, UNC ATTACKER/MIDFIELDER
decided by two goals or less,
including nine of which where the
teams were separated by a single
goal.
“Oh my gosh!" Bosica said.
"In those last four minutes I was
thinking. 'We better not lose
this.'
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"We’ve been needing something
from that four spot, and 1 think
it’s about time, especially around
the tournament, that it steps up."
Stephcson said.
For Thompson, that step up
started with a different practice
strategy this week.
“We worked hard in practice
about shooting shots that he shoots
in the game," Williams said.
“1 even got a tape and showed
part of his routine for 10 straight
practices, and he was not shooting
the shots he shoots in a game, and
I think he got refocused."
Evidently, the pair is out of the
coach's doghouse.
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Taylor said of her teammate. “It
really jump-started our whole
offense."
Levy said she’s looked to a cou
ple of players to lead the offense,
namely Bosica, Taylor, senior Julia
Ryan and junior Chelsea Parks.
“After the loss against Virginia
last weekend, we really talked to
some kids and said that you have
to do certain things for our team
to be successful," Levy said. "And
Meggy rose to the challenge."
But Bosica wasn’t the only one.
The Tar Heels' up-tempo transition
attack included seven scorers. And
Kristen and Kelly Taylor added
three goals apiece to capture the
close win.
“(Bosica) is a special kid. and
she's a special player," Levy said.
“But 1 also feel like I have a lot of
kids on the field like that."
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“Thankfully, we were able to
hold it on offense and work it
around. I was like. 'There is no way.
We played so hard this entire game,
we cannot lose.™
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helped to have Dean and Alex get
ting rebounds, and it really does."
Williams said.
But there's always room to
improve Thompson grabbed
only a single rebound Sunday.
Or as Williams put it. “Deon only
got one more than my wife."
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Women s week begins
This year's theme is activism, and
the week is jam-packed with a vari
ety of events. See pg. :i for story.
Death penalty in OC?
Orange County jurors typically are
reticent to give capital punishment
for murder. See pg. 5 for story.
Disney internships
Disney will hold an interest
meeting Tuesday for its internship
program. See pg. 4 for story.
Marathon man
A UNC professor is training for
April's Boston Marathon. See pg.
6 for story .
Slipping through cracks
Eve Carson's murder sparks
a probe of the state’s probation
system. See pg. 1 for story.
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