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By OWEN DAVIS
of The Dally Tar Heel StaJJ
Rita Barnes wasn't the
typical little girl.
While her friends were
playing with dolls and makeup,
Rita was in the backyard
leading a fast break or setting
up a screen. She kept up her
interest in basketball until she
became the leading scorer on
Carolina's girls' team this
year.
"I have been playing basket
ball since the third grade," she
said. "I moved into a new
neighborhood with mostly boys
around, and they taught me
how to play."
Rita wasn't a slouch when it
came to shooting hoops either.
"I could outshoot the boys in
the neighborhood after
a while," she said. "They show
ed me everything, but then I
got to the point that I was as
good as they were.
"Basketball has always
come easy for me."
The 5-6 1-2 junior forward
from Raleigh wasn't goaded
into playing by a basketball
conscious family, either.
"Nobody in my family ever
played," she said. "I just
always enjoyed watching it so
much I decided to try it. I still
enjoy seeing the games.
"If I'm not there, I'm
watching it on television."
Rita has found instant suc
cess on the squad here,
averaging 13 points a game in
her first season. But she got
playing experience the hard
way.
"We never had a girls' team
in high school," she said. "I
used to shoot in the gym in my
free time after .school. Oc
casionally some girls would
divide into teams and we
would play, but we never had
it organized except in -tramurals."
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She attended Peace CoUege
for two years and played on
the team there before she
transferred to Chapel Hill.
Girls' basketball is not a
game for the timid, Rita
feels i
"It's rougher than boys
basketball," she said. "There
are a lot more jump balls, co -lisons
and fighting for the ball
among girls.
"Girls are plain out to get
the ball and will use elbows,
knees or anything to get it."
Rita, a forward now, played
rover until she sprained her
ankle last year. "I got to run
all over the court at rover,"
she said, "but my ankle slowed
me down."
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Comfort Feels Best
With Swimmers Gone
By JOE SANDERS
of The Dally Tar Heel Staff
This may sound all wet, but
there's a coach at UNC whose
job is to get rid of as many
athletes as he cin in mid
season. The coach is Frank Comfrot,
who heads the UNC freshman
swimming team, a group that
the ACC says shouldn't even be
around this year.
Last spring the ACC rules
committee voted 6-2 to elimin
ate freshman teams by making
all conference freshmen eligi
ble for varsity competition.
UNC and Clemson coaches
voted against the ruling,
saying that freshmen need an
extra year of competition
before they're ready for varsi
ty duties.
Varsity swimming coach Pat
Earey decided to keep his
freshman team, anyway,
despite a lack of conference
opponents. He hired Comfort
and gave him a schedule of
out-of-conference and high
school opponents.
"I was real happy with the
first part of this season," Com
fort said recently. He ha'd good
reason; his freshmen stomped
their first three foes, including
arch-rival Navy (64-49).
Then in January the NCAA
upheld the ACC ruling by mak
ing All U.S. freshmen eligible,
except those in football ancl
basketball.
Earey responded by moving
the six best freshman swim
mers up to the varsity. Com
fort tried to take it
philosophically: "This will give
some of the others a chance to
be the best man," he said. But
he grumped, "I never was able
to put our best boys together
for a good relay."
The talent that remained did
quite a job, however. T he
,decimated squad finished its
season undefeated " with its
closest scrape being a 65-30
victory over Marist school.
The 6-3 Comfort has a wife
and baby to feed, and a
healthy appetite himself (he
was a varsity simmer at
Syracuse), but Earey Plans to
keep him in eating money next
year.
So, UNC will have a frosh
swimming team next season.
The better he gets them into
shape, the faster they swim,
and the faster they swim the
more of them Earey will tap
for varsity squad mid-way
tnrough the season.
By RICK BREWER
,of The Daily Tar Heel Staff f
Lee Dedmon is not a great
basketball player but the 6-10
freshman from Baltimore is
quickly approaching that
level.
Unlike many basketball
players, Dedmon has only
recently taken up the game.
While most of today's college
stars began playing at an early
age, Dedmon has only four
years of basketball ex
perience. "I. had only played baseball
before I went to high school,"
explained Lee. "The day
before the basketball season
began during my sophomore
year, the coach stopped me in
the hall and asked me to come
out. I was about 6-5, so I did."
It didn't take Dedmon long
to learn the game. He was an
all-state selection his senior
year and he led his school to a
20-0 record and the city cham
pionship.. Several colleges sought the
services of the lanky
youngster, but only Carolina
had a chance to get him.
"When I visited Chapel Hill,
I fell in love with it," said Ded
mon. "The coaches were great
and I wanted to play for a win
ner. "I wanted to come here so
badly that I went to prep
school to bring up my grades,"
Lee added.
Dedmon attended Frederick
Military Academy. One of bis
teammates there was Neil
Pastushok, now a forward
for the Wake Forest frosh.
Lee has been averaging
around 14 or 15 points per
game for the Tar Babies this
season. But scoring is not the
only way Dedmon has con-
Peace Blasts
Carolina Girls
The UNC girl's basketball
team suffered its third defeat
of the season last night at
Peace College, 41-26.
The Carolina lassies, who
now have a 4-3 record took it
on the chin against the Peace
girls earlier in the season, 36
34. Rachael Gidney led the scor
ing for UNC with 14 followed
by Cindy Hubbard with five.
Byrd Viverette's 14 led Peace
scorers.
tributed to the Heels' 10-3
record.
"Blocking shots and making
good passes is more important
to me than scoring," revealed
Dedmon. "I think this is the
strongest part of my game
right now playing as a team
man.
"When I go up for a shot, the
last place I look is the basket,"
Lee went on. "I'm always
trying to find an open man. "
Some of Lee's teammates
think this is his biggest
weakness, however.
"Lee passes up shots he
should take just so he can pass
to somebody else," said guard
Richard Tuttle. "He's probably
leading the team in assists."
While he weighs only 203
pounds, Dedmon has more
than held his own against guys
like Duke's Randy Denton (6
10, 245) and Wake's Gil
McGregor (6-7, 245).
"At first I thought it might
be a problem having to face
guys like that," admitted Ded
mon, "but it wasn't."
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"Coach Bill Guthridge has
really helped me," smiled Lee.
"He gets on me pretty good
sometimes and I've had to run
those steps in Carmichael
Auditorium many a time for
doing something wrong."
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of The Daily Tar Heel Staff
m A scrappy bunch of
tramural all-stars took the
North Carolina Tar
cabiesdown . to the wire
Wednesday nigfat before the
iresnmen rallied for a W-62
win at Carmichael
Auditorium.
The all-stars took the lead
late in the first half and did not'
relinquish it until Richard Tut
tle hit a 20 foot jumper with
only 1:2Q to play. At one time
the intramural squad led by 10
at 43-33. 3
In fact, Carolina trailed by ;
nine 58-19, with only 3:40 left
m the game, However the Tar
Babies scored eight straight
Pomts to cut the lead to one.
Dale Gipple dropped in a 25
footer for a 53-51 score. Butch
Estes followed with" a push
shot from deep on the left to
cut the lead to five.
Gipple then stole the ball and
drove for a lay-up for a 58-55
count. At the .2:00 mark the
same guard buried a 27 foot
jumper to bring the frosh to
within one..
Dashing Danny Talbott got
r open inside and hit a short
jumper to send the all-stars'
back up three. Dave Chadwick
then canned a pair of free
throws for a 60-59 score.
Unable to move ,the ball
against a Tar Baby press, the
mural team gave up the 'ball
on a 10 second violation. It was
at this point that Tuttle.who
had a poor shooting night, gave
UNC the lead with a shot from
the top of the circle.
But Ron Hyatt's all-stars
were far from dead. Former
Carolina center Jim Hudock,
who looked like he could still
play for Dean Smith's Tar
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Gribble and Smithwick hit for
four each.
Gipple led . the Heels with 19
and Chadwick had 17. Tuttle
had 12 and Estes 5. The Tar
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59-58 with Hudock getting 13.
Chadwick was a terror on the
boards for the frosh with 24
recoveries.
lead.
With only 31 seconds left
Tuttle picked up a loose ball
under his own basket and layed
it in for a 63-62 score. Gipple
added a free throw 15 seconds
from the end for 64-62. -
Jim Smithwick got off an all
star shot with five seconds to
go, but it would not drop. A
couple of taps followed but the
buzzer killed the intramurals'
hopes of an upset.
Hudock led all the scorers
with his 31, hitting 11 of 16
shots from the- floor. Talbott
chipped in with 11 for the all
stars. Backcourt man Billy '
Travis added five and Dixon
DedmonwhQ fouled out with 15
minutes to play.
Both teams only hit 33 per
cent of their shots. The all
stars outrebounded the Heels
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