Friday, February 17, 1978 Weekender 7
Lamp, Cavs reaching
toward 20-win plateau
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John Virgil will be counted on for more scoring rjunch when Carolina takes on
Virginia at 2 p.m. Saturday in Carmichael Auditorium. He will have to help take up the
scoring slack left when Mike O'Koren was forced out of the Tar Heel lineup with an
ankle injury. Staff photo by Allen Jernigan.
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Phil Ford moves against Virginia in action last year. David Koesters (left), Mike
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action against Ford and the Tar Heels Saturday. Photo by David Da'ton.
Carolina
vs.UVa.
Saturday
By LEE PACE
Assistant Sports h'dilor
Jeff Lamp was in the seventh grade the last
time Virginia's basketball team won 20
games.
Barry Parkhill was a junior, and Wally
Walker was still a high school senior in 1972,
the year the Cavaliers went 2 1 -7 and earned a
berth in Madison Square Garden's National
Invitation Tournament.
Virginia is coming close to hitting the
magic 20-game mark again this year, as the
Cavs had collected 17 wins against four
losses entering their Wednesday night game
against Clemson. And their success is largely
because of Lamp, a 6-foot-5 guard w ho gives
Virginia a scoring replacement for Walker,
who left Charlottesville two years ago.
But the UVa. freshman isn't entirely
happy with the Cavs' record.
"I'm not really satisfied," he said from
Charlottesville Tuesday night. "We could
have done better. We didn't play too well in
one stretch; we had some problems. But 1
think we'll be right in there before it's over."
A freshman scoring 17.8 points a game
would have little trouble securing all
conference rookie honors in most
conferences, or even in the ACC in most
years.
But not thisycar.
With freshman competition like
Maryland's Al King and Duke's Gene
Banks, Lamp rates as merely one of three
leading candidates for this year's honor.
"I'm not worried about it," Lamp said.
"I'll let the writers worry about it. There are a
lot of great rookies in the league. I'd love to
have it, but I'm just going to go out and do
my best. I don't think I've done that well my
last few games."
Lamp is slowed by tendinitis in one ankle
and an Achilles tendon problem in the other.
Virginia was 5-4 in the ACC before its
game Wednesday with Clemson, with three
of its losses coming on the road. The Cavs
have won only once away from home, that
being a narrow 74-68 win at State. In their
last conference outing on the road, the Cavs
were demolished by Duke 100-75.
"Teamwise we were a little tired," Lamp
said. "We kinda went stale. The season was
dragging on, and we lost our concentration a
little. It all came to a head in that game. But
you can't be like that and win in the ACC. I
think it was good for us. It woke us up. We've
played better since then."
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Joining Lamp in the starting lineup at 8
p.m. Saturday in Carmichael Auditorium
will be forwards Mike lavaroni ( 10.6 points,
6.4 rebounds) and Mike Owens (11.8, 5.8);
center Steve Castellan (8.4, 8.5); and either
Bobby Stokes (5.6 points) or Tommy Hicks
at guard. Freshman Lee Raker, a high school
teammate of Lamp, and guard Dave
Koesters, an excellent outside shooter, will
supply bench strength.
The Tar Heels defeated Virginia 76-61 in
Charlottesville in early January as they hit 16
of 17 second half field goal attempts.
"T hey were amaing that game," Lamp
said. 'They played very well. I've got a lot of
respect for them. They've had a few
problems lately. 1 feel for them. We lost a
couple in a row early this year. They've had
two weekends in a row now with two games
each weekend. T hai's really hard to do."
The Tar Heels were 20-5 overall prior to
the home game Wednesday with Kent State
and 7-2 in the ACC.
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