I nursday, July 28, 1977 The Tar Heel 11
Hot bats lead Carolina to regular season
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Staff photo by L. C. Barbour
Mound ace Matt Wilson was one of three Carolina pitchers who remained
undefeated with four or more decisions coming into the last week of the season.
By JOHN MOORE
Staff Writer
Coach Mike Roberts' UNC baseball Tar
Heels finally put the rest of the teams in the
North Carolina Collegiate Baseball League
out of their misery by clinching the regular
season title Saturday night.
The clincher came at the expense of
Louisburg, 13-7. The Heels had defeated
Louisburg last Wednesday night to assure
them of at least a tie for the regular season
Championship.
The Tar Heels started out Saturday night
unlike a team that's won 24 out of 27 games
this summer. Louisburg got off to a 4-0 lead
in the first inning with the help of two UNC
errors and appeared to have the Heels in
command.
But just as they have done all summer, the
Heels came right back. This time they
unloaded five runs in their half of the first
with left fielder Steve Beach connecting on a
Kevin Niewalis fastball for a grand slam
home run. Niewalis, the Louisburg starter
had walked in UNC's first run before Beach's
blow.
Beach, who led UNC with a 3-for-5 night,
also homered again in the third inning
immediately following teammate Lloyd
Brewer's shot over the rightfield fence.
Designated hitter Laird Williams added a
fourth home run for the Tar Heels in the fifth
inning off Hurricane reliever Lyn Bradley.
Assistant coach Randy Warrick, who
along with Bobby Guthrie, led the team in
Roberts' absence, said he's never seen
anything like the UNC home run explosion
in his two years at Chapel Hill.
Eight different Tar Heels contributed to
the 11 hit attack. Beach added five more
RBI's for the night, hiking his total for the
season to 16. Brewer had a single to go along
with his home run and three RBI's. P. J. Gay
had two singles, scored three times and stole
two bases.
The only bright spot in the Louisburg
lineup was catcher John Gourley, who had
two doubles and a triple, but struck out his
last two times at bat.
UNC starter Monte DeRatt, who wasn't
particularly sharp, gave up nine hits and
seven walks, but managed to go the full nine
innings helped by the abundance of support
by his teammates' bats.
The Tar Heels had a much tougher time
with the second place Hurricanes in last
Wednesday night's road game. Led by Mike
Fox's homer, double, and single the Heels
managed a 5-4 victory.
Carrington Smith
Ardent Tar Heel supporter remained loya
While most of the populace of Chapel Hill
has been wavering in their opinion of the
performance of UNC head football coach
Bill Dooley and the football Tar Heels, there
was always one voice which remained in
Carolina's corner come feast or famine. His
name was E. Carrington Smith.
There was no room for pessimism in
Smith's life, a life dedicated to public service
in one aspect or another. He began with the
Carolina Theatre, a business he ran until the
last several years. He was always involved in
such civic functions as the March of Dimes
and the Rotary Club. He was concerned
about the community as no one person ever
could be. "Carrington" was probably
looking forward to this football season just
as he has anticipated the last 50.
U nf ortunately, he didn't get the chance to see
the 1977 Tar Heels.
Suffering from diabetes and failing
eyesight. Smith died Monday, his age a
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secret to himself and a birth certificate. Most
people estimated Smith to be in his seventies.
Though illness crept up on him,
Carrington never let it interfere with his
pursuit of Carolina football. He could only
recall twice ever missing a Carolina football
game, either home or on the road, truly a
remarkable record. In addition to his game
record, Smith could be seen attending
practices, a habit he has maintained for over
25 years.
When he wasn't chasing football in his
early days, he was running the Carolina
Theatre, a landmark in Chapel Hill. He
opened the theatre in 1927, showing silent
movies, but as the theatre business grew,
Smith grew with it. It was the first theatre in
the South to have Sunday performances, the
first outside New York to show foreign
language films, the first movie theatre in the
South to integrate its audiences, and the first
movie house to schedule double features.
Football, however, was the prime mover
in his life. Smith always showed up at
practices and made every game. When UNC
was showcasing such stars as George Barclay
and Paul Severin, Smith recognized a need
to help those and other athletes who had
come a long way from home to play here.
Thus, the Educational Foundation was
established.
"He wanted the University to have a real
good athletic program as well as good
academics," said Ernie Williamson, director
of the foundation. "I think he could see the
thing was going to grow."
Smith performed little favors for the
players that few of them will forget. When
Barclay and Severin came from the coal
mines of Pennsylvania, he went out of his
way to take them in and provide a sort of
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