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Tourney time for baseball
BY T.P. LATIMER
SPORTS EDITOR
The No. 1 North Carolina base
ball team started its defense of the
ACC tournament title Wednesday,
sporting the top national ranking
after taking two of three games
from previous top dog Miami.
You could say that the Tar Heels
are peaking at the right time, or even
that their confidence must be sky
high right now after winning three
straight series against the ACC's
three toughest teams Miami.
Florida State and Virginia.
They really couldn't care less.
“I don't know if our team need
ed any more confidence," said a
bemused Mike Fox, UNC's head
coach. “It certainly can't hurt."
Such is the by-product of two
straight trips to Omaha, Neb. con
fidence comes with the uniform.
So it didn’t really matter that
UNC's pitching staff statistically
the best in the nation got shelled
for 29 runs in three games against
Miami. They still won the series.
It didn't really matter that UNC
entered the tournament as the third
overall seed, behind two teams they
defeated.
The seeding’s based on numbers,"
Fox said. “And based on the num
Tar Heel lax falls to ’Cuse in NCAAs
BY ANNA KIM
STAFF WRITER
A 13-11 loss meant the clock
struck midnight time to concede
the glass slipper. The unseeded
North Carolina women’s lacrosse
team saw the conclusion of its sea
son and tournament play against
No. 5 seed Syracuse in the NCAA
quarterfinals Saturday.
The Tar Heels (13-7, 4-4) faced
their second
consecutive
seeded oppo
nent on the road
in Syracuse,
N.Y. '
WOMEN'S
LACROSSE
UNC 11
Syracuse 13
But a valiant second half offen
sive charge led by sophomores
Megan Bosica and Kristen Taylor
was not enough to propel UNC into
the Final Four.
“It’s always a disappointment
to end the season earlier than we
hope for," Taylor said. “When you
arc committed and spend a whole
season working for that win. it’s a
disappointment."
In the first eight minutes, UNC
found itself in familiar territory—
an early two-goal deficit. But the
Tar Heels battled back, answering
each Syracuse run with one of their
own. North Carolina finished the
half trailing 6-4.
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bers. (Miami and Florida State are)
deserving of a higher seed than us."
Again, it doesn't really matter.
UNC hasn't lost a series ail season,
and they just bested the two teams
seeded ahead of them. As far as
the Tar Heels are concerned, the
ACC can put them anywhere in
the bracket.
“I don't believe it matters what
seed you are or in what bracket you
are." senior first baseman Chad Flack
said. “You have to be playing better
than all eight teams out here to win
it, so I don’t think we really care."
The reason? No matter what
happens in the ACC tournament
this week, the Tar Heels haw seen it
before. Getting to the College World
Series two years in a row tends to
take a little bit of perseverance.
“We know how to win, first of
all." Flack said. “We have a lot of
guys who have been in the biggest
stage in college baseball a couple of
years in a row.
“We've been down in games, and
we've been up in games we've
seen everything in the world happen
in different games. But we always
know how to come out on top."
Even if that includes having
a closer pitch middle relief and
a catcher close against the top-
UNC began to close the gap less
than five minutes into the half with
an unassisted goal by Julia Ryan.
Bosica made her scoring debut less
than one minute later, tying the
game at sL\.
The sophomore tandem of
Taylor and Bosica put on some late
fireworks, combining for five goals
in the second half.
"We both recognized that we
need to step up and score some
goals," Bosica said. “We got a little
momentum.'
The duo's attack followed a 3-
0 run by the Orange (18-2) with
21:09 remaining. Taylor and Bosica
controlled the board for the next
eight minutes, with four unassisted
goals to put UNC ahead by a goal.
“Meggy obviously had an amaz
ing second half," Taylor said. “Her
shots were just falling, and she was
taking some great looks on cage."
Syracuse answered the attack
with another three-goal run.
Bosica netted her final goal and
the team's last with 3:21 remaining.
One Syracuse goal with less than a
minute left sealed North Carolina’s
two-goal loss.
“1 mean, the end score showed
that we lost, but we left the game
feeling like we did the best that we
could possibly do," Bosica said. "I
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The UNC baseball team is entering the ACC tournament ranked as a
consensus No. 1 in the nation for the first time in program history.
ranked team in the nation.
That's exactly what UNC did to
close out game three of the Miami
series.
Rob Wooten, a candidate for the
Stopper of the Year award, pitched
the seventh, eighth and part of the
ninth innings.
Catcher Tim Federowicz came
in for the final two outs.
Unorthodox? Given that
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The unseeded North Carolina women's lacrosse team fell just short of
the NCAA Final Four with a loss to Syracuse on Saturday in New York.
think that was just as great as the
win itself."
North Carolina entered the ACC
tournament as a No. 5 seed matched
with fourth-seeded Boston College.
UNC avenged a double-overtime
loss earlier in the season with a 12-8
upset against the Eagles to advance
to the ACC semifinals to meet top
seeded Maryland. UM eliminated
the Tar Heels in a 6-4 loss.
UNC received a NCAA bid as an
unseeded opponent and met No.
4 seed Virginia in the first round.
Federowicz had pitched a grand
total of 6.2 innings this season, yes.
But, as Fox said, “the best thing
about our team the last three years
is that we have guys that are unself
ish; they just want to win."
And that's the only thing that
really matters.
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UNC upset the Cavaliers in a four
goal win before falling to Syracuse.
“We had a lot of ups and downs,
some losses we wish didn't hap
pen," Bosica said.
“But coming close to a Final Four,
even though people didn't think we
were going to get far, 1 think every
one is going to look back on our
season and be proud of one another
and what we accomplished."
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THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2008
UNC bows out
of NCAAs to
Ole Miss Rebels
Season ends in
the round of 16
BY DAVID REYNOLDS
STAFF WRITER
The doubles point didn’t pro
vide enough momentum for No.
12 North Carolina (21-6) to sneak
past No. 5 Mississippi in the round
of 16 in the NCAA men’s tennis
tournament Friday.
The Rebels (24-4) dominated
singles play, winning four out of
the first five singles matches to
come back against the Tar Heels
and advance to the quarterfinals.
The final score
was 4-2 in favor
of Ole Miss.
UNC seniors
David Stone
MEN’S TENNIS
UNC 2
Mississippi 4
and Tristan Heinrich started off
their last match in their respec
tive college careers well for the
Tar Heels with an 8-5 doubles vic
tory. Sophomores Clay Donato and
Stefan Hardy clinched the doubles
point shortly thereafter with an 8-6
1 win to put UNC up 1-0.
Singles looked to be a dogfight
early, with each team claiming
three first set wins, but Mississippi
slowly began to pull away during
the second sets. The Rebels regis
tered three straight set victories in
a row at No. 1,3 and 6 singles to
pull ahead 3-1.
The three Tar Heels who had
won their first sets all lost in their
second sets, setting up a scenario
in which UNC would have to win
| all of the three remaining sets to
i claim victory.
Donato broke through to snap
: Mississippi’s run and cut the
; Rebels’ lead to 3-2, but Hardy
| could not hold off Ole Miss'
Matthias Wellermann. ranked No.
31 in the country, at No. 2 singles,
and Mississippi clinched the match
4-2.
“You have to congratulate Ole
Miss." coach Sam Paul told tar
heelblue.com after the match.
“This was a great match. Ole Miss
just played better in the bigger
points. I’m just so proud of my
team. There were a lot of tears
talking to those guys.”
The loss concludes a highly suc
cessful year for the Tar Heels, who
finished the season ranked in the
top 12 for the third consecutive
season. The team will lose eight
| seniors, but returns four out of
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Benjamin Carlotti and 12-seed
North Carolina couldn't pull off
the upset at 5-seed Ole Miss in
the NCAA round of 16 on Friday.
six starters in both singles and
doubles.
The senior starters that will
depart are No. 1 singles player
Benjamin Carlotti, No. 6 singles
player Stone and the No. 3 doubles
team of Stone and Heinrich.
The 2008 season saw the Tar
Heels compile an impressive
11-match winning streak that
stretched close to two months
and a near-perfect 9-1 ACC con
ference regular-season mark that
allowed North Carolina to host
a regional NCAA match for the
fourth time in five years and third
consecutive time-
Three UNC players were hon
ored with spots on the All-ACC
team: Hardy, Donato, and Chris
Kearney. They combine for the
most selections UNC has had on
the team since 2004.
A victory over rival Duke
boosted UNC into the round of
16 in the NCAA tournament for
the second time in three years,
prompting senior David Stone
to call that victory “probably the
greatest feeling I’ve ever had in
my life," according to tarheelblue.
com
UNC’s only regular season con
ference loss was to No. 1 Virginia.
They also tied a school record with
nine ACC regular season wins for
the second year in a row.
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