6The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, April 18, 1984
Johnston returns to form after father's death
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By KIMBALL CROSSLEY
Staff Writer
"It's like losing the key to your
treasure chest and you have to find a way
to get back in."
That's how North Carolina sophomore
Cathy Johnston describes the loss of her
father to a heart attack at age 60 and its
subsequent effect on her golf career.
Johnston was coming out of high
school as the top ranked high school
female golfer in the nation, but just days
after graduating and two months after
signing a letter of intent to attend UNC,
Johnston's father died.
He was not just a father to Johnston,
but also her "best friend" and her private
golf coach.
"A day hasn't gone by since that I
haven't thought about him," Johnston
says. "And I haven't played a round of
golf since without thinking about him."
"Any time I ever played in a tourna
ment all I wanted to do was win so I
could come home and see him smiling.
After his death, I didn't care much if T
won or not."
Johnston's father was not just a
valuable aid in the area of inspiration, but
in the area of perspiration as well. He was
Arnold Palmer's coach at Wake Forest
and was a Kill Devil Hills club pro who
seemed to save his best advice for his
youngest daughter.
"He knew me so well," Johnston says.
"He would immediately spot what I was
doing wrong and tell me how to change
it."
Johnston's golf game suffered after her
father's death.
"I was scaied because he wasn't there
to tell me what I was doing wrong," she
says. "It was frustrating doing it on my
own.
"I thought maybe golf wasn't what I
wanted to do. That I couldn't be as good
without him. He used to tell me 'you can
do it... you're the greatest.' After a while
you begin to think maybe you're not."
For the first year and a half without her
father, Johnston shunned a private
teacher, but still played on the UNC
women's team.
Baseball
The top 20 college baseball teams, as selected by
Scoreboard
1. Arizona State (34-13)
2. Southern Cal (37-12)
3. Texrs (42-9)
QnltKoll 4. Oklahoma (30-5)
U I I UCI 1 1 5. San Diego St. (46-12)
6. Fresno State (37-10)
UNC 7, Liberty Baptist 2 7. Oklahoma St. (29-10)
8. Mississippi St. (28-9)
Liberty Baptist 000 101 0 2 4 3 9. North Carolina (37-9)
UNC 240 001 x 7 7 1 10. Cal St. Fullerton (42-15)
11. Texas A&M (33-8)
Leading hitters: Liberty Baptist Van Engen 1-4, Ford 12. Tulane (34-8)
2-4 (3b); UNC Gray 3-4 (RBI). Faircloth 1-3 (2 RBIs, 13. Nebraska -(32-10)
2b). .14. Rice (32-8)
WP Augusta. LP Bailey. 15. Stetson (37-6)
16. Pepperdine (32-12)
UNC 4, Liberty Baptist 3 17. Hawaii ' (29-13)
18. Brigham Young (25-11)
Liberty Baptist 201 000 0 3 5 3 19. Clemson (32-14)
UNC 010 010 2 4 6 2 20. N. Carolina St. 3M5)
Leading hitters: Liberty Baptist Van Engen 2-3,
Byrne 2-3 (2b); UNC Holt 2-4 (3b), Powers 1-2 (RBI).
WP Augusta (16-7). LP Bawalda
1 Records: Liberty Baptist 14-19; UNC 22-13
Calendar
Today
Lacrosse
Wake
The top 15 college lacrosse teams, as selected by the
United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association:
1. Syracuse (10) 7-0
2. Johns Hopkins 7-0
3. North Carolina 6-2
4. Virginia 6-1
5. Army 6-1
6. Pennsylvania 7-1
7. Rutgers 5-1
8. Towson State 7-1
9. Mary land 4-3
10. Brown 6-3
11. Navy 5-4
12. Delaware 6-2
13. Massachusetts 2-2
14. Hofstra 5-3
15. Adelphi 5-3
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Forest at Durham Athletic Park
LACROSSE vs. Roanoke, 3 p.m. at Fetzer Field
MEN'S and WOMEN'S TRACK in ACC championships.
noon at Fetzer Field
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Thursday
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MEN'S and WOMEN'S TRACK in ACC championships,
noon at Fetzer Field
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Athletic Park
MEN'S GOLF at ACC tournament. No. 2 Course,
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WOMEN'S GOLF at ACC tournament, Durham
MEN'S TENNIS at ACC tournament. College Park, Md.
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"I'm ten times worse now than I was '
two years ago," Johnston says matter-of-factly.
Johnston, it seems, had forgotten all
the times her father had told her to take
in other coaches. "He used to say all the
time, Tm not always going to be
around'."
Finally, eight months ago, Johnston
took in another coach, and with him
came a rebirth of her desire to be a pro
fessional golfer.
Johnston says that her two years at
UNC helped her to make the decision.
She calls it a growing period and a chance
to get over what happened.
"I realized that its not the end of the
world," she says. "That you still haye to
keep on going." Y
"I always thought that I had to do it
for him. I realized that I have to do it for
myself.
"I know I can be as good as I want to
be. If I work. I plan to put more time into
it."
But that time may riot all be spent at
UNC's Finley Golf Course. Johnston
said she has not had the best working
relationship with UNC coach Dot Gun
nells. Johnston only says she doesn't know
how longshe will remain at North
Carolina, and if she had it to do all over
again she's not so sure she would choose
UNC.
But she has made up her mind that the
rest of her life will indeed revolve around
golf, whether it's playing professionally,
coaching, or digging weeds around the
course.
Ideally, Johnston would like to return
to her form of just prior to her father's
death, when she was a member of the
PGA Junior Cup Team, and traveled the
world competing in tournaments. She
says now her inspiration comes from her
mother, four older sisters, and an older
brother, as well as from within.
"I would love to be able to do it all
over again," Johnston says.
Maybe that's the newfound key to her
treasure chest.
BP
Softball team sweeps two
By MIKE SANDERS
Staff Writer
The North Carolina softball team
swept both games of a doubleheader over
Liberty Baptist Tuesday in Chapel Hill,
7-2 and 4-3, despite playing a role that
would have made Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde proud.
The first game was all UNC, with the
Tar Heels scoring six of their seven runs
in the first two innings and pitcher
Virginia Augusta picking up 11
strikeouts. But in the second game the
Tar Heels had to stage a dramatic
seventh-inning comeback to defeat the
Lady Flames.
Jeanne Gray led off the first game for
UNC with a single to center. Maria
Powers then reached base on an error
and, with two outs, designated hitter
Susan Faircloth doubled in Gray and
Powers with a shot to right-center.
In the second inning, shortstop Candy
Jarrell singled to left and advanced to
third on a sacrifice bunt by Annie Loflin.
Second baseman Suzie Everette followed
with a bunt single to score Jarrell and ad
vanced to third on Gray's second hit of
the day, a double to right. Powers then
singled up the middle to score Everette
and advance Gray to third. A double steal
followed, with Powers taking second and
Gray coming home. An error on the cat
cher's throw allowed Powers to reach
third, and she came in on Kav Holt's
2 TERRIFIC FILMS
groundout to short for the Tar Heels'
fourth run of the inning. (.
The Tar Heels then went hitless until
the sixth, relying on good defense and
Augusta's strong pitching to keep them in
front. Augusta allowed only four hits in
the game, and no more than one in any
inning.
The second game was a different story
altogether, with the Lady Flames picking
up two quick runs in the first inning off
pitcher Marsha Brown and adding
another in the third. The Tar Heels pick
ed up one run in the second and another
in the fifth, but didn't play as aggresively
as they had in the opener.
During the fifth, UNC head coach
Susan Clark put Augusta back on the
mound with two outs, and Augusta
allowed only one hit through the final
two and one-third innings.
With the Tar Heels down 3-2 in the
bottom of the seventh, Amy Spelman hit
an infield single and advanced to second
on a wild pitch. Lorae Roukema then
singled to right to score Spelman and tie
the game, and Holt followed with a shot
through the shortstop's legs to allow
Roukema to score the winning run.
"We were fortunate to win the second
game," Clark said. "We just weren't hit
ting the ball."
The Tar Heels are now 22-13 and play
their final home game against Francis
Marion Tuesday at 3 p.m.
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