6The Daily Tar HeelThursday, April 8, 1982
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By JACKIE BLACKBURN
, Assistant Sports Editor
The North Carolina baseball team just could not seem
to put their pitching and hitting together, nor could they
stop Campbell University as the Fighting Camels battled
from an 8-1 deficit in the fifth inning to drill the Tar
Heels 16-9 at Boshamer Stadium Wednesday.
In nine innings, six Tar Heel pitchers gave up 12 hits
and issued 17 walks. Ronnie Huffman, who came on in
the fifth to stop a Campbell rally, pitched two innings
but gave up seven runs to pick up his third loss of the
year.
"We ran into pitching problems even before the game
started. (Scott) Bankhead (who was supposed to have
started the Campbell game) got up with a stiff back this
morning. Droschak didn't know he was starting today's
game until 2:30," UNC head coach Mike Roberts said.
Campbell opened the scoring in the second. With run
ners on the corners and one out, Campbell leadof f hitter
Rodney Stovall stroked a Dave Droschak pitch to right
field, bringing in Herb Williams from third.
Droschak was then taken out of the game for Brad
Powell, and it looked like the Tar Heels were in control
of the ball game.
In the bottom half of the third, third baseman Jeff
Hubbard led off with a single to right field. A sacrifice
and a walk later, Campbell's second baseman Kelly
Hoffman threw wildly to first trying to complete a
double play, allowing two runs to score. Designated hit
ter John Marshall followed with an RBI double to drive
in Pete Kumiega, who had reached second on the throw
ing error. The five-run third was climaxed by Todd
Wilkenson's right field homer, his fourth of the year.
"I feel really good now (at the plate), and it's started
to show," Wilkenson, who is now batting .269 with 13
RBIs, said. "I used to chase a lot of bad pitches; now
I'm more selective."
Second baseman Mitch McCleney, not normally
known for his power, led the next Tar Heel offensive
spree with a solo homer to left-center field. An error by
the Campbell's first baseman allowed Tom Daily and
Barney Spocner to score to make it 8-1 in favor of UNC.
"We were up 8-1, but we just couldn't get them out.
We've been swinging the bats well. We just couldn't get
them out," Roberts said. -
The Campbell bats caught fire in the fifth and didn't
simmer until the ninth. Before Huffman relieved Powell
with one out in the fifth, the Camels had scored three
times, on a wild pitch, a hit to right and on a fielder's
choice.
The Camels overtook the Heels in the next inning with
five runs on three hits, capped off by a grand slam home
run by Campbell's Wayne Dale.
Over the next two innings, the Camels cushioned their
lead with seven runs on six hits off three pitchers. After a
three-run homer in the sixth, the Camels added four
more runs on a bases-loaded walk by Mench and a wild
pitch and two-run double given up by Geoff Redgrave.
The Tar Heels scored once more in the bottom of the
ninth when Chris Pittaro, who reached first on a walk
and was moved to third of a fielder's choice and the
third Campbell error of the game, scored on a fielder's
choice.
Sports
Baseball vs. Wake Forest, 3 p.m.
Men's tennis vs. Wake Forest, Hinton James
Courts, 2 p.m.
Soccer kicks off spring season
By FRANK KENNEDY
Staff Writer
Soccer in the spring? It's played in the
fall. Right? The UNC women won the
national championship in November.
Right?
Yes, the Tar Heels did win the national
title and yes, they won it last fall.
However, many fans may not be aware
that soccer is actually a year-round affair,
and both the men's and women's teams
are in action this spring, as well.
Of course, the current season is unof
ficial: No Top 20 polls, no conference
standings and no post-season tour
naments. However, UNC is competing in
many indoor events, intrasquad contests
and major invitationals. .
Head soccer coach Anson, Dorrance
feels that this four-month,, informal'
period (January- April) is a crucial part of
his team's training.
"Soccer is a sport which requires year
round play," Dorrance said. "Otherwise,
Pitcher switches caps in senior year
By MIKE DeSISTI
Staff Writer
When Sharon Speer came to Chapel
Hill from East Bend, N.C. four years
ago, she was ready to play ball. That
much she knew; but what she didn't
know was just what kind of ball to play.
Success had come year-round for
Speer. Playing on Forbush High's tennis
team during the fall, she had gone to the
state tournament in doubles competition
two years in a row. With winter came bas
ketball, and in both her junior and senior
years Speer was named to the High
School All-America team. Speer then
pitched Forbush to the state finals two
consecutive years, winning it all once with
Speer being selected to the All-State
team.
Luckily for UNC coach Susan Clark, it
was softball that eventually emerged as
Speer's favorite.
"We had a great team in high school,"
Speer said, "and that got my interest."
Clark made it even easier by offering
her a scholarship. Coming to Carolina
was never much of a decision for the
senior nursing major.
"I thought that the athletic department
here would give women a-fair -shake.
Visiting some other schools I got the im
pression that it might not be that way."
The whole attitude of many schools
. and students toward women's athletics in
general is frustrating to Speer.
"Some people can't understand," she
said. "You hear that old cliche that you
can't play ball and be a lady too, but you
can."
Speer has played consistently well dur
ing her career at UNC. She compiled a
22-11 record last year in helping the Tar
Heels to their AIAW Southern Region II
Championship and second-place finish in
the AIAW National Slow-Pitch Tourna
ment, earning a spot on the All-Regional
team for her efforts. Speer's record cur
rently stands at 12-6 for the 1982 season,
and her .323 batting average is particu
larly outstanding, unusually high for a
pitcher.
IN PROFILE:
Sharon Speer
"She's a very strong hitter ... a line
drive hitter," Clark said. "I'm sorry
Sharon doesn't play another position, we
could use her bat."
While softball plays an important part
in Speer's life and has certainly in
fluenced her choice of schools, Speer in
sists that athletics really come second to
academics as far as she's concerned and is
eagerly pursuing a career in nursing.
"Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted
to be a nurse," Speer said, "and Carolina
has an outstanding urogram."
Nursing seems to have been as good to
Speer as sports. She is currently a
member of Sigma Theta Tau, a nursing
honor society which judges its candidates
on personality, grades and clinical per
formance. And she has already lined up a
job in cancer nursing at South Memorial
Hospital in Winston-Salem, a career
which has interested her all along.
"I've been drawn to that field. I think
that people with cancer deserve special
care," she said..
But nursing, like most any major, is
not without its drawbacks. Speer finds it
hard to keep up with all the work and still
find time to play ball.
A typical day might involve working at
the clinic from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., prac
ticing from 4 to 6 p.m., and then heading
back to her room for some studying.
"Nursing school is so stressful; it's just
a massive amount of work," she said.
"Softball is a release, definitely a release.
I just come out here (to the field) and run
off my frustrations."
One of Speer's goals this year is to have
a repeat performance of the 1981 season,
when the Tar Heels finished second in the
nation.
"I'd like to finish as well or better than
last year," she said.
Clark remembers that successful sea
son, and talks of Speer's "finest hour":
"You had to see it," Clark said. "We
were playing in the semifinals (1981 Na
tional Tournament) against E.C.U. It
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UNC pitcher Sharon Speer on the mound
senior juggles demands of nursing and softball
was the last inning, the tying run was at
third and the winning run was at second.
Some girl lined a shot up the middle ... it
was just a shot, and Sharon (pitching)
reached up and grabbed it. Thanks to her
we finished as well as we did. She did the
job for us both on the mound and with
the bat."
When asked about her greatest mo
ment in softball, Speer smiles fondly.
"It was the E.C.U. game ... a line drive
up the middle ... it was a snow cone
catch..." s
I guess you had to see it.
The UNC softball team dropped a pair
of one-run games to N.C. State Wednes
day in Raleigh.
State took a 4-3 decision from the Tar
Heels in the first game. Pitcher Sharon
Speer, Marsha Brown and Kathy Mac
Farlane each had two hits for UNC.
Speer took the loss.
In the second game, the Wolfpack held
the Tar Heels scoreless, winning 1-0.
Susie Wilson was credited with the loss.
UNC dropped to 26-12-1 for the year,
arid returns to Raleigh this Friday to play
in the N.C.S.U. Invitational.
a player tends to lose some of his com
petitiveness. Last weekend the Tar Heel men took
part in the Clemson Invitational, a six
team affair comprised of some of the
Southeast powers.
"Clemson gave us a $1300 guarantee to
go down there," Dorrance said. "That's
how seriously considered the spring
season is."
Dorrance said that several other
schools have given UNC comparable
bonuses for appearing in such tourneys.
. The men's squad had a fine 1981 cam-:
paign (they were briefly ranked as high as
12th in the national polls), and after the
team concluded play in November, they
took a break until January and the start
of the spring semester.
Practice then began for what Dorrance
calls the "rain-snow-shine-sleet" season
"because we play in every conceivable
weather condition."
Indoor scrimmages in the Tin Can, in
trasquad competition and six- or seven
player contests on the Navy field usually
make up a large part of the winter
schedule.
Dorrance said that this was one of the
"best winters ever!' for his men's squad.
In addition to taking the top spot in the
George Washington University Invita
tional, the Tar Heels placed second in
both the Duke and Elon College Indoor
Invitationals.
The women's team had an equally im
pressive winter, capturing the Alabama
Invitational for the third straight year and
finishing second in tournaments at
George Washington University and Con
necticut. Following a midterm break, the squads
began a spring season which ; Dorrance
said is more formal than the winter
season. "We require attendance at prac
tice, and the practices themselves are
more structured to the players," he said.
The women are currently competing in
the Rainbow Soccer League, which in
cludes games against select teams each
weekend. Meanwhile, the men are taking
part in a series of multisquad invitational
tournaments.
In the Clemson tourney April 2-3, the
men suffered a pair of setbacks, losing to
South Carolina 2-0 and national
powerhouse Clemson 3-1.
In two weeks, the men's squad will be
on the road again, this time traveling to
Duke tor the Mayor s cup invitational, a
tourney Dorrance calls the Big Four of
soccer.
In three weeks the season will conclude
with the Heels hosting UNC-Greensboro,
Campbell and possibly Datagraphics of
Atlanta, one of the best soccer clubs in
the country.
When all is done and school is out for
the summer, Dorrance will be able to turn
his attention to the fall season. He said
that this has been the most successful
recruiting year ever for the men and
should make them even more competitive
when the games really count next fall.
Meanwhile, the women's team, also
coming off a fine recruiting year, will
prepare to defend its first national title.
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