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n II II VSrfS VWf 1 El VNfflr 11 if V 4 H By JOEL BROADWAY Tar heel Sports Editor The UNC baseball team opens play today in the NCAA East Regionals in true "Little-Big Man" fashion. The Tar Heels, with the most wins ever in one season (41-8), will face underdog oppo nent William & Mary in the 7:30 p.m. game at Boshamer Stadium. While UNC qualified automatically for the regionals by winning the ACC tournament, William & Mary went about things the hard way. After being downed in the first game of the ECAC South tournament, the Indians scrapped their way out of the losers' bracket with four consecutive victories and into the automatic bid to the regionals with a 24-14 record. .. , The regionals begin today at Boshamer Stadium at 11 a.m, pitting the two at-large teams against one another. James Madison (33-1 1), the ECAC South regular season champion will play independent South Carolina (35-11), the winner of last year's regionals. ' Game No. 2 in the double-elimination tourney will have the Southern Conference champion, the Citadel (32-8), playing against East Coast champion Delaware (3444), The finals of the tournament will be played at 2 p.m. Sunday, with a second game pending. William & Mary Coach Ed Jones said he hoped that the .momentum of winning the conference tournament would carry through for his team. Righthander Alan Zoldork, the starting pitcher against North Carolina today, is much better than his 3-4 record shows, Jones said. UNC baseball Assistant Coach Howard McCullough said that the Tar Heels All-ACC pitcher, Scott Bankhead (8-0), would start against William and Mary. Since final exams, North Carolina has played 1 1 scrimmage games while preppihg for the tournament, while William and Mary have played none. Following five games with North Carolina Wesleyan and two games against, Spartanburg Junior College, the Tar Heels played a full weekend schedule. . Although the University of Maine had of fered to host North Carolina for two days of double-headers, they were forced to cancel on account of bad weather. McCullough said that the alternative games with Alabama had been just as beneficial, as the Tar Heels won three out of the four games. "We feel like the playing time we had against the competition was necessary," Mc Cullough said. "We swung the bat real well in Alabama." : Tickets are on sale now at the Carmichael Auditorium Ticket Office, for $3 per game for adults and students, and $1.50 for children under 12. Tournament passes are available at $20 for adults and students and $10 for children 12 and under. NCAA rules prohibit coolers in the stands. n u u C "3 SpsS . From staff and wire reports The UNC lacrosse team's reign over Johns Hopkins University, and the NCAA Division I Championship Tournament, came to an end as the Blue Jays defeated the Tar Heels 12-9 Saturday , in Baltimore. For Hopkins, it was the first victory in four matches against UNC in the past three sea sons. The victory sends the Blue Jays to the NCAA championship game Saturday against Syracuse, which defeated Maryland 12-5. The Tar Heels defeated Hopkins in each of "the past two NCAA championship games, 14-13 in 1981, and 7-5 in 1982. The team also defeated Hopkins 14-13 in a double-overtime victory in April. But the 1983 season has been different from the previous two seasons. UNC finished the past two years undefeated, starting slow but picking up momentum at midseason to come on strong down the stretch.: ' : , ; ; This year, the team suffered two early sea son losses to Hobart and Maryland. The Tar Heels bounced back with seven straight victo- ries, including the one over Hopkins, but then lost to Virginia the last of the season, 16-10. , According to head coach Willie Scroggs, the loss to Virginia hurt the team's momentum as it began preparation for the NCAA Tournament. "It was a bad time to lose," he said. "We're obviously a little disappointed in the way the game turned out, but I'm disappointed in the way we played. "That's probably as poorly as we've played since I've been here, in terms of our intensity and our enthusiasm," he said. Scroggs said the Tar Heels did not lose to Hopkins because of lack of enthusiasm, but simply because the Blue Jays played better. One of .the major factors was the faceoffs. The Blue Jays claimed an 18-7 advantage in that category. y ; "When there's a goal scored and you don't get possession, you can't get the ball many times in a row," Scroggs said. The Tar Heels finish the season 9-4. Serous said that while this year's team was different from the previous two, he was proud of what they accomplished. "Each team has to estab lish its own identity and make it own achieve ments," he said. "And it can't achieve off what last year's team did The senior class is a solid group of kids,", he said. "I would have liked them to have had as much success as the other classes have had their senior years. But you can't make that kind of stuff happen,'. iLU nOpii-yil US) V- Sly V 0 , S v. 1 9 S -V Pets 'zzY.:z o tha crcsco In April 0 v;!n ever Hc?!r3 .; ... but UNC fell to JHU 12-9 last Saturday in Baltimore By TOM MCNEIL Tar Heel Staff Writer Some reports indicate that 6-11 reserve cen-. ter for the UNC basketball ; team, John Brownlee, will not enroll for the fall semester at UNC. The UNC office of Sports Informa tion did not confirm this report but said that his not returning was a possibility. Some be lieve Brownlee will transfer to a school in the Southwest Conference. Brownlee, however, would not confirm these reports and declined comment on his enrollment status. , Ron Erskine, a junior on the UNC tennis team from Roswell, Ga., was the first UNC player in seven years chosen to compete in the NCAA championships. In the individual singles of the 99th NCAA Men's Tennis Champion ships last week in Athens, Ga., Erskine was defeated in the first round by Joe Teyze from Kentucky, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6. He was the first Tar Heel to participate in the 64-player tournment since Billy Brock in 1976. Erskine had a great season this past year, going undefeated in ACC singles play and fin ishing 25-4 overall. Three of. his ACC wins came in the ACC tennis tournament where he joined Ken Whitaker as UNCs first ACC flight champion since 1978. Carolina's head . basketball Coach Dean Smith was inducted into the Naismith Memo-: rial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. this month. Smith, who is widely con sidered to be one of the top coaches in Ameri ca, has led North Carolina to 496 victories and to postseason tournaments for the last 17 years in a row. : " . .'' Former baseball, player; Clyde King will be inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame later this fall. King joined the Brook lyn Dogers in 1944 and went on to manage the Atlanta Braves, the San Francisco Giants, and the New York Yankees. King is the only man to have managed both Hank Aaron and Willie Mays, and is presently working for Yankee owner George Steinbrenner.; . V:-. ' Willie Scroggs, University of North Caro lina lacrosse coach, has been selected as head coach for the South team in the 42nd annual North-South Senior All-Star Game scheduled for June 11, Scroggs will be assisted by BiU Reid of Hampton-Sydney and Bryan Mathews of Navy. The game will take place at Johns Hopkins Homewood Field in Baltimore, Md. Baseball American Lecgua , - - ...... ' . . East - W. L Pet GB Boston ' 22 16 .579 Toronto ?2 16 .579 Baltimore 23 17 .575 Milwaukee 20 16 .556 1 NeWYork , 20 18 .528 2 Cleveland 18 20 .474 4 Detroit 17 21 .447 5 WEST : California ,':. 21 18 .538 Texas 21 19 -.525 y? , Oakland 20 19 .513 1 Kansas City 17 18 .488 2 V Minnesota 19 23 .452 3 Chicago ' 15 22 .405 5 ; Seattle 15 , 27 .357 7V4 West Los Angeles 27 11 .711 Atlanta 28 13 .667 1V4 San Francisco " 19' 20 .487 8V4 , Cincinnati 19 . 22 .463 9 Vz San Diego 17 23 .46310 i Houston 18 24 .429 11 May 22: today's Game: May 29 Basketball NBA Championship Philadelphia 113, Los Angeles 107 . Los Angeles at Philadelphia, 9 p.m. Philadelphia at Los Angeles, 3:30 p.itr. Philadelphia at LOs" Angeles, 9 p.m. Los Angeles at Philadelphia, 9 p.m. Philadelphia af Los Angeles, 4 p.m. Los Angeles at-Philadelphia, 9 p.m. if necessary . 4 . . : ' May 31 June 2: June 5: 'June 6: Nations! Lccfjua Philadelphia St. Louis Montreal Pittsburgh New York ; Chicago .. .v East W 18 19 ,19 14 15 14 L ,15 17 20 22 23 : Pet. GB 28 : .4124 ' -.405 5 J-r J273 6 AttcntbrAi ? r There will be a meeting of the summer Tar Heel Sports staff to day at 6 p.m. in the sports office. All; writers must attend or call Joel at Jhe Tar Heel. t : i t 5 . ' Thursday; May 26, 1S33 The Tar Heel 15
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