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Sunday, February 25, 1968 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Page 5 pwrnmesm LARRY KEITH sssss A -Pet Theory I Out The Window 1 Wake Forest's 72-66 victory over North Carolina State Satur day shot one pet theory out the window and gave new meaning to the upcoming Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. Little bugs me more than the coach who, sitting on top of the big rock candy mountain and looking down at the peons below, says, "Well, sir, you can just throw the records out the window for this one. When these two teams play, anything can happen." This hue and cry is especially prominent among the brothers of the Big Four. My apologies, then, to any coach I may have doubted. May there are situations when, heaven forbid, you can throw those ol won-loss records out the window. Wake Forest came into Saturday's game in the middle of an 11 game losing streak. The Deacons who had resorted to stalling tactics in a 50-41 defeat to Duke on Thursday night, were willing to play this one straight. So what happens? The Wolfpack, looking ahead to Duke and South Carolina next week, blow everything. Norm Sloan's team had a very remote chance of tying North Carolina for regular season honors but it was an even money pick for second place honors. . -Pairings Are Less Certain Pairings for the all important tournament in Charlotte are now even less certain than they were before. With tfie favored Tar Heels' defeat of Virginia and the Blue Devils' upset loss to South Carolina Saturday night,' the top four reads UNC (12-0), Duke (9-3), N.C. State (9-4) and South Carolina (8-4). Chances'are likely that they will remain in this order, a situa tion the Tar Heels can help insure by defeating South Carolina and Duke in their last two games. The bottom quartet could hardly be bunched any closer. Virginia is 4-9, Maryland, 3-9; Clemson, 3-9; and Wake Forest, 3 11. Both the Cavaliers and Clemson finish against Maryland, which could wind up as high as fifth or as low as tied for last. I like the way Tar Heel Coach Dean Smith described the situa tion recently. "I've been in the conference for 10 years," he said "and I don't believe I've ever seen things shape up in quite this way. -Any Of The Top Four Can Win "Usually there isn't such a great difference in the won-loss records of the first and second division teams. You have to con sider any of the top four as capable of winning. "And you never know when someone like Wake Forest might pull an upset." Well, there you have it, the kind of Big Rock Candy Moun tain predicting the future. Consider how close the Deacons came against Duke and their victory Saturday afternoon over State and very little is indeed, certain. This is what I like about the ACC tournament. The lesser teams, revitalized with the idea that anything, through prayer if not talent is possible, become more menacing as that date nears. The stronger teams can prove that they deserve their higher regular season ranking or more under the sternest of conditions. I am however, in disagreement to the basic idea that the tournament winner is the conference champion and thus its represenative into national warfare. The best team in the ACC right now is North Carolina. The Tar Heels should be the best after the championship ( game is played, too, although, if they haven't won they are out of the NCAA money. More about THAT later. G FG FT Pts. Avg. Rita Barnes 8 42 20-28 . 104 13.0 Rachel Gidney 8 30 13-19 73 9.1 Johanna Everett 8 25 9-20 73 . 9.1 Cindy Hubbard 7 19 5-9 43 6.1 Kay Johnson 8 8 16-22 32 4.0 Susan Culbreth 7 1 - 4-5 6 .9 Patsy Milstead 7 0 1-3 1 .1 TOTALS 8 130 70-110 330 41.3 r 1 r in T r rr . n Clinch 1 n "Wife UNC Breezes Past Cavaliers Behind Patented Trio9 92-74 4 Action In Two Mile Relay ... At Big Seven Track Meet Yesterday Hilton Lauds Showing UNC Runners win Easily In Big Seven Track Meet By DALE GIBSON Of The Daily Tar Heel Staff The North Carolina trackmen scored high in the field events and breezed to an easy win in the Big Seven track meet held in UNC's Tin Can yesterday. The Tar Heels accumulated 53 points in the 12 event meet for first spot. The closest to that was North Carolina College with 34. Duke finished third with 18. The win gave Carolina a 4-0 record. UNC track coach Joe Hilton was obviously pleased with bis team's showing but expressed apprehension about the Tar Heels' next competition which will be in the ACC indoor games next week in Woollen Gvm here. "It was a good showing," he said. "But, we have to look forward to next week when we meet such teams as Maryland which is really tough." In yesterday's meet Carolina jumped to an early lead in the shot put with Tony Blanchard heaving the put 51 feet 7 inches for eight points and first place. Second spot went to another Tar Heel, John Jessup, whose put went for 50 feet 2 1-2 in ches. Dennis Moody of East Carolina finished third. Lionel Urgan of NCC won first place in the broad jump event with a jump of 22 feet 10 3-4 : inches. Carolina's Gary Iverson finished second with a 22 feet 8 1-4 inches jump. UNC took the top four posi- . By OWES DAVIS Of The Daily Tar Heel Staff ' CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. It took a hot shooting second half after a miserable start to do it, but Carolina clinched its fifth Atlantic Coast Conference title by dumping Virginia 92-74 here Saturday night. , The Tar Heels began as though the basket had a lid on it, hitting a woeful 27.7 per cent from the field in the first half. But then Carolina turned on its patented three man blitz of Rusty Clark. Larry Miller and Charlie Scott and waltzed away in a 54 point second half, Clark finished with 27 points while Miller and Scott added 20 and 17 respectively. The Tar Heels copped the championship after South Carolina beat Duke to increase UNC's ACC lead to three games. Carolina ripped off its 20th straight victory for a 22-1 season's record, 11-0 in the conference. Virginia sank to 8-15, 3-9 in the ACC. The galloping spree early in the second half put the Heels ahead to stay after a tight first period. The score was tied 43-43 with just under three minutes gone when the Tar Heel trio went to work. Scott bit two buckets from outside and Clark finessed a three pointer as Carolina out scored the Cavaliers 16-4 in- a six minute spurt. By then it was 59-47 and Carolina tried to work the ball inside to Clark for most of the night and the big center ftfm Fayetteville responded with 10 of 18 from the field for 27 points, his second straight outstanding game. When they weren't shooting layuDs off the press, the Cavs let Tony Kinn and Mike Katos do the scoring. Katos put in 22 points and Kinn 14, all from outside 20 feet in the outer reaches of the court. The teams exchanged mis takes and baskets in the first half as the lead switched hands nine times and was tied on 13 occasions. The largest crowd ever to see a Virginia basketball game at 8000 seat University sensed an upset. Neither Scott nor Miller came close from the outside, while 50 percent-plush shooting by Virginia overcame their sloppy floor game. Tony Kinn tossed in a couple of 30 footers and only Gark's inside scoring salvaged it for the Tar Heels. The Tar Heels grabbed the largest lead of the half at 30 26 before Virginia retorted with five straight points and retired to the dressing room with a 39-33 halftime advant age. Then it was 43 all, before Virginia wilted and the bril liant trio of Clark. Scott and Miller packed it away. Free Tlirows UVa. 81-75 Give Win tion in the pole vault event. Rick Wilson led the way with a jump of 14 feet. He was follow ed bv Jeff Hilliker (13-6). Don Russ (12-6) and Lector Hvder Virginia was all but dead. Mil- (12-6). ler went inside and increased Lionel Urgon of. NCC the lead to a game high 19 snrinted fnr first nlape in the Doints before retiring to the Williams' 34 Points Pace West Virginia Barnes Tops Women Scoring The Women's basketball team, which takes a 5-3 record into Tuesday night's game here against St. Andrews, is currently led in scoring by Rita Barnes, who has a 13.0 average. . Team figures are: - 'MORGANTOWN, W. VA. (UPI) Ron Williams ended his regular season play here Saturday afternoon by turning in his highest point output ever at the WVU Fieldhouse to lead West Virginia to a 90-72 victory over George Washington. Williams received a two minute standing ovation from the 5,400 partial fans when he left the game with 34 points and less than- a minute to play. Not only was it the most points he had scored at home, it was th2 second highest total in three years. As a sophomore he scored 33 against Wisconsin in the Milwaukee Classic Tourney. Williams, getting 23 of his points in the second half, put the Mountaineers ahead to stay at 8-6. WVU doubled the score at 14-7, 10-10 and 24-12 before taking a 41-34 lead to the dressing room at the half. The 6-3, 190-pound senior hit eight of his first ten shots in the seconi half as W:st Virginia jumped to a 66-46 lead with nine minutes left. The biggest lead of the game for WVU was at 75-52 with 7:28 remaining, coming" on a three point play by Williams. G. W., lead by Garland Pinkston and Robert Dennis with 17. and. 16 points, respec tively, caught up briefly in the first half at 24-21 but fell to the seven point deficit at the half, . - Again in the second half the Colonials surged, cutting the Margin to two at 53-41. But West Virginia outscored GW 15-3 shortly thereafter for a commanding 66-46 margin. 60-yard dash with a time of 6.2 UNC's Floyd Williams finished close behind. Dich Trichter of State was third and Carolina's David Cannady finished fourth. John Stevenson of NCC and UNC's Herschell Sellers tied for top spot in the 600-yard run with identical 1 : 15.5 times. Duke's Edd Stenburg finish ed ahead of the pack in the mile run with a time of 4:16.1. followed by Carolina's Kenny Helms. The UNC team of Alex Cov 'ington, Larry Lynch, Charles Markman and Bob Autry took top -honors in - the two miles relay ; with a time of - 8 : 05.5. Duke was second. Carolina's Mike Williams finished first in the 2000 yard run with a time of 2:15.7 followed in second spot by bis teammate Bill Bassett. bench with 3:05 remaining. This was one of Carolina's poorest performances of the season , from the floor. The Tar Heels finished with -a 37.4 shooting mark and committed 14 floor mistakes. Virginia meanwhile was un able to cope with the UNC press and tossed the ball away 20 times. The Cavs shot a fair 44.9 from the field but only because the Heels allowed several easy layups on the press. By RICK BREWER Of The Daily Tar Heel Staff CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. John Hill calmly sank a pair of crucial free throws with 22 seconds to play here Saturday night and that paved the way to an 81-75 Virginia victory over the North Carolina Tar Babies. Hill's charity tosses gave the Caveyearlings a commanding four point lead at 79-75. The UVa. freshmen added two more free throws in the last 10 seconds for the six point win. The victory was the fifth in i4 outings for Virginia while the Heels suffered their fourth loss in 14 games. Carolina had beaten the Cavs handily earlier in the year 80-60 at Chapel Hill. But the Caveyearlings were a different club on their home court. With 6-7 center Bill Ger ry scoring 32 points and guard Kevin Kennelly tallying 14, the home crew squeezed out the victory. Carolina trailed most of the D eacon Free Throws Upset State, 72-66 RALEIGH (UPI) Wake Wake Forests Jim Hodgson Forest, hitting on 25 of 27 foul captured his team's only first place showing with a 9:09.4 finish in the two mile run. ECU'S Ken Voss was close behind in second place followed by Carolina's Truett. Goodwin. Terry Cole of NCC jumped 6 feet 4 inches to capture the high jump event. Dave Killard of UNC jumped 6 feet two in ches good enough for a se cond place tie with State's Graham Whitlwad. NCC's relay team of Lionel Urgan, Bill Reed, Frank Wilson and John Stevenson ran the two mile relay in a quick 3:25.8 for first spot. UNC finished second. shots in the second half, snap ped an 11-game losing streak with a 72-65 upsei win over North Carolina State here Saturday afternoon. The Deacons hit 23 foul shots in a row, Jerry Montgomery making 14 of them, to take their fifth win of the season, their third in the Atlantic Coast Conference in a regionally televised game. It was State's fourth loss in a row on television. Wake Forest surged to a 33 15 lead with five minutes left in the first half "behind the shooting of Dickie Walker, who finished the game with 21 points, and Montgomery. The Wolfpack stormed back with Joe Serdich hitting 16 straight points to take a 49-45 lead with 10 minutes left in the game. Then Montgomery put on a one-man foul shooting ex hibition, pushing the Deacons ahead for good 52-51 with slightly more than five minutes remaining. The diminuitive guard scored 15 of his 19 points on free throws, most of them in the final minutes, to wipe out State's hopes for a share of the Atlantic Coast Conference regular season title. Serdich led the Wolfpack with 23 points and Dick Braucher had 15 in their fourth ACC loss against eight wins. Reserve center Dan Ackley had 18 for the Deacons. C Tiny Lund Charge Falls Short Blackburn Races To Baytoiia Victory Black LABRADOR pups A-K.C. Registered. 6 weeks old, wormed. Evenings and 1AV " DAYTONA, BEACH, FLA. (UPI) Hometown star Bunkie Blackburn roard to vic tory in a 300-mile sportsman modified race Saturday after a wild charge by Dewayne "Tiny" Lund fell short with nine laps to go. Blackburn coasted to victory in his white 1965 Dodge when the 290-pound Lund blew his engine on the backstretch. . Lund, of Cross, S.C., had fought back to contention after running out of gas while leading at the midway point and pushing his car a half-mile into the pits to fuel up. Second behind Blackburn in a race run for 42,000 shivering fans in 41-degree weather was. Hoss Ellington, Wilmington, in a 1964 Ford. Bobby Allison of Hueytown, Ala. was third in his 1963 Ford. Blackburn, 30, driving a car engineered by super mechanic Ray Fox, ran the wreck-marred race at an average speed of 140.432 miles per hour, far short of the record 148.188 set last year by winner Jim Paschal. Blackburn won $8,000 for his first-place finish in the $43,000 race, a warmup for Sunday's $200,000 Daytona 500 stock car race, richest in stock racing history. But he is not qualified to run in the 500-miler. - . Only 21 of the 50 cars which started the race with Blackburn and Lund leading the pack finished . as frigid wind which gusted to 22-mile-an-hour whipped car after car against the wall. No drivers were hurt in the mishaps. Lund and Blackburn took turns in the lead in the firsthalf of the race as the lead changed hands eight . times V before 150 miles had been run. But Lund lost the lead for good when he had to push his red-and-white 3,850-pound 19 61 Ford into the pit without help. Finishing fourth was Jeff Hawkins, Greenville, S.C. in a 1960 Ford. .Fifth was Bill Wimble of Rome, N.Y., in a 1961Pontiac. REYNOLDS COLISEUM-Mon Mar. 4 N.C. STATE CAMPUS RALEIGH , DOORS OPEN AT 8 P.M. HEAVY-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP vs FRAZIER WATH1S MIDDLE-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP r vs I GRIFFITH BEMVENUTI ALL SEATS $5.00 ON SALE: COLISEUM BOX OFFICE; THIEM'S RECORD SHOP; PENNEY'S LAY-AWAY DEPT. IN CAMERON VILLAGE; THE RECORD BAR IN RALEIGH. DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL first half and was down 42-35 at intermission. However, UNC switched from a man-to-man to a zone defense in the second stanza and that change put the back in the game. The Tar Babies score eight consecutive points, going from 51-46 to 54-51, to lead by three midway through the final period. Dave Chadwick put UNC on top with a layup and Dale Gipple made that lead three with a 27-foot jumper. Kennelly got a three-point play to knot the score at 54. UVa regained the lead when Kennelly fed Bill Fulton for a layup and Gerry buried a 20-, footer. Carolina never led again, although they tied the score at 62, 64, 73, and 75. That last tie came on a Don Eggieston tap with 1:48 to play. Gerry, who hit 11 of 17 shots from the floor and 10 of 11 from the line, then connected on a turn around jumper from the lane to give the Cavs a 77 75 advantage. A three-second violation cost tne rar Barnes tne Daii and a chance to tie at 0:54. UNC wss then forced to foul and Hill converted both his chances for 79-75. The Heels turned the ball over without getting off a shot and Kennelly and Bill Creasor made free throws In the clos ing seconds for . the 81-71 final. Gipple topped the Tar Babie: attack with 20 points. Lee Ded mon had 14 although he fouled out with more than five minu tes to play. Richard Tuttle had 13, Eggieston 12, and Chadwick 10. Dedmon captured 14 re bounds, Chadwick had 13, and Tutle 11 for the Heels. Gerry pulled down 17 for Virginia. ' ' THIS WEEK IN THE OLD BOOK FEATURE CASE Scientific Stargazing A varied collection of books on sociology, political science, witchcraft, and other fields rela tive to man's desire to foretell the future. 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