Tar Heels take on Tennessee Vols
By MICHAEL PKRSINCiKK
Staff rilcr
History usually isn't too important in athletics, and I INC
women's basketball coach Jennifer Alley hopes the past will
have no bearing on tonight's game with No. 14 Tennessee
in Knoxville.
That's because Alley's teams have had some bad
experiences against the Volunteers, of which Alley said the
most memorable - . or forgettable - was a 43-point loss
in Knoxville two years ago that Alley said was the worst
defeat suffered bv any team she has ever coached. The Vols
beat UNC 75-59 'in Chapel Hill last season.
"They always seem to play a great game against us," Alley
said. "They could be having all the problems in the world
and they'd put it all together against us. But I think that
if we get down there and play some good, fundamental
basketball, we have a shot at winning."
Fundamental basketball is something the Tar Heels have
been having trouble with of late. UNC won its first three
games but has since dropped games to Radford and Virginia
Tech to stand 3-2 on the year. Tennessee is 5-2.
"The first three games we shot extremely well, and the
last three games we haven't shot so well," Alley said. The
two games we lost, we gotr frustrated on offense because
our shots weren't falling and didn't make up for it on defense.
We didnt have the transition offense, and our younger kids
counted too heavily on the upperclassmen to carry the load."
UNC faces a team much like itself in Tennessee. The
Volunteers have an experienced backcourt but are young
up front. The Vols are led by center Lisa Webb (13.8 points,
6.7 rebounds a game) and shooting guard Sheila Collins
(13.2, 8.8).
The Tar Heels are led by Dawn Royster (23.2, 13.0) and
Pam Leake (19.0)
"Tennessee will play transition, but they are a very
disciplined team," Alley said. "If the break is there they will
take it, but if it's not, they'll look to the halfcourt game."
"I didnt think we'd be 3-2 at this point," Alley said. "I
thought potentially we could be 5-0, but I also knew that
we would have some real tight games. I'm extremely
disappointed. I thought we'd handle the close games better."
All in the family
By LEE ROBERTS
Assistant Sports Editor
Tomorrow's 7:30 p.m. basketball
tipoff between Oral Roberts Univer
sity and North Carolina in Carmi
chael Auditorium will be a family
affair of sorts.
You see, the Titan's coach, Dick
Acres, is the father of the Titan's
center, Mark Acres, who is the
brother of the Titan's forward, Jeff
Acres.
Add in the fact that UNC guard
Steve Hale's father used to be the
basketball coach at Oral Roberts,
and fans should expect a Saturday
night of family entertainment.
Neither team is exactly standing
on firm ground coming into this
gathering.
Oral Roberts, 21-10 last season,
returned more points per game this
fall than any other team in the
nation, and is expecting its biggest
year since it went 23-6 and lost in
the third round of the 1973 NCAA
Tournament. But things so far have
not turned out as planned. After an
easy win over Oklahoma Baptist, the
Titans have lost three close games
in a row to Tulsa, LSU and Texas
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2. Oklahoma
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ment shooting guard Charles Dor
sey's 10.5 average.
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3:30 p.m., Chs. 12 & 28, Kentucky at Indiana
9 p.m., Chs. 2 & 5, Virginia at Duke
Football
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Jets
1:30 p.m., Chs. 5 & 8, North-South Shrine Bowl
4 p.m., Chs. 2 & 1 1. Minnesota Vikings at San Fransicso
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Football
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Dawn Royster(21) is Turner's practice partner
UNC swimmer Chris Stevenson is a traveling man
By SCOTT CANTERBERRY
Staff Writer
Whether it's going home to San Jose,
Calif., spending the summer in Greece
or touching the wall after a 200-meter
swim, junior Chris Stevenson is a
traveling
Stevenson, who has lived in Greece,
Vienna, Virginia, Raleigh and now calls
San Jose home, will be counted on to
travel shorter distances faster, if not the
fastest, for the men's swimming team
this season.
Stevenson, after a sensational fresh
man season that included three individ
ual second-place finishes in the ACC
meet and being named the team's most
valuable performer, had a somewhat
disappointing second season that
resulted in two third-place and one
sixth-place finish in the ACC.
But a more relaxed attitude at the
end of the season could be the key for
i Stevenson Co haveheihd'ofear Tie"
expects from himself.
"I tended to overwork later on the
year last year, which you could see in
the ACCs," he said. "This year, 111 be
more laid back toward the end of the
season.
"I know it will be there if I give it
the chance; I'm just going to be more
relaxed."
Currently, Stevenson said that he was
tired from workouts, and hadn't per
formed as well in last week's South
Carolina Invitational as he had during
November. "But that isn't that bad this
time in the season," he said.
The school record-holder in the 200
and 1000-meter butterfly in the long
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Relaxed Turner improves
By MIKE SCHOOR
Staff Writer
Frances Turner stood 'scared to
death' at the free throw line and looked
to her older sister Meg, sitting in the
first row, for a wink of encouragement.
Meg mouthed the family code word,
'Relax,' and Frances suddenly felt calm
and easy. She swished her first collegiate
point, extending UNC's huge margin in
a forgettable, season-opening 100-50
thrashing of Delaware State.
"I saw her face light up. sopho,
more center Dawn Royster said with a
grin. I was saying, Oh yeah!"
Meg Turner was a legend at George
Wythe High School in Wytheville, Va.,
a little town in the mountains in the
state's Southwest corner. A high school
All-American, Meg scored 32 points a
game as a senior in 1981 and won a
scholarship to Vanderbilt, starting for
two seasons.
Frances was never a legend. That was
her choice.
She made the All-District squad as
a sophomore the season after Meg
graduated and Wytheville's 7,135
residents prepared to annoint her as the
second coming of Meg.
Frances wanted no part of that.
"After the success of my sophomore
year, the whole town expected me to
do as well as Meg ... and that was more
pressure than I could handle," UNC's
5-1 1 freshman walk-on said. "I'd go to
the grocery store and people would stop
me and ask me how many points I
scored. I was walking to my table one
day at lunch and a guy I didn't know
asked me how many points Meg
averaged and how many points I was
averaging. There was a constant com
parison between us."
Comparison, but never animosity.
course, Stevenson said he hoped to
make the NCAAs in both the fly and
the 100-meter backstroke this season.
He also said he would compete in some
freestyle and relay events.
After living in Greece for three years,
Stevenson was asked to compete on the
Greek Junior National Team. Since
moving back to the states, he has
returned to Greece during the last few
summers to compete for the Greek
National Team. He said that experience
helped him, particularly after last
season.
"I got a lot of confidence back this
summer when I was over there," he said.
"There was some good competition and
I did well."
Balancing a demanding academic
load with the rigors of swimming has
created problems, said Stevenson, a
chemistry major.
"1 can't take summer school since I'm
inGreece," heaid. Last year, I had
the willingness to only get two or three
hours of sleep a night trying to get
everything done. I just cant kill like that
anymore, and I have to be careful of
getting sick."
Life after swimming will still be a
busy one for Stevenson, who plans to
take an extra semester to earn his degree
and then to work in a lab. He said he
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Like that Nov. 20 experience at the free
throw line, Frances looked to Meg for
support "I never felt resentment or
anger," Frances said.
Curiously, Frances did not quit
basketball her junior year. Although the
pressure changed her attitude toward
the sport she loved most and reduced
her desire for success, she played and
excelled.
Yet she believed that the better she
played, the more the pressure would
mount. "I didn't go out on the court
and say 'I'm not going to do well,' "
she said. "I just didn't push myself as
hard. I didn't have the heart.
Wytheville realized Frances would
never be as good as Meg, and the
younger Turner sensed the pressure
declining.
Meg quit playing basketball before
her junior year at Vanderbilt. "It wasn't
fun for her anymore," Frances said.
Frances began playing basketball
with a refreshed attitude before her
freshman year at UNC. Her Virginia
AAU Junior Olympic team advanced
to the national tournament in New
Mexico last summer and Frances said
the experience was the most fun she had
ever had in basketball.
"Being there with (better) players
took away all the pressure," she said.
"I wasn't expected to have the most
points, the most rebounds."
A fourth-generation Tar Heel, Fran
ces had decided on attending UNC by
her junior year in high school. She never
dreamed of playing basketball there.
But North Carolina assistant coach
Mike Peckham scouted the AAUs in
New Mexico, and asked Turner to try
out in the fall.
"That's when I realized playing for
UNC was a possibility," Turner said.
eventually wanted to get a Ph.U. in
chemistry and go into research.
But, he said he was looking forward
to trying life without swimming after
college. "It will be a lot lower key after
college." said Stevenson, who has been
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"I am really cautious (about decisions),
though, and I don't like to do anything
half-heartedly. I wanted to be absolutely
sure that if they elected me to be on
the team and I made the commitment,
I wouldn't have any doubts."
Coach Jennifer Alley like Turner's
reinspired play and added her to the
roster. Turner's role was clearly defined
from day one. "She's a spirited, aggres
sive practice player," Alley said. "She
showed a strong interest and dedication
to being part of the team and was willing
to join us with that (practice) role in
mind."
Practice means guarding the 6-0
Royster, last season's ACC Rookie of
the Year. "She doesn't have a lot of
natural ability," Royster said. "She's
improved dramatically. I used to run
all around her and do what I wanted.
Now IH jump all over her and shell
box me out."
Turner said she's mastering skills now
that college coaches assumed were
drilled in high school. "I have to make
up for that with hustle and determina
tion. I don't consider myself a naturally
gifted athlete. (Not) when I'm out there
with Dawn and Pam Leake."
Nor does Royster consider Frances
the Ginger Rodgers of the Tar Heels.
"Her and Marlene (List) need to get a
little rhvthm." Rovster said.
"I think I dance OK," Turner said.
"I'm self-conscious about dancing in
front of the girls. They watch me to
see if I can hang with them. When I'm
singing or dancing, they'll say, 'Oooh,
quit it, you know Frances isn't over
there singin' and jammin'!"
But it is a happy Turner singin' and
jammin' in the locker room. The same
Turner who was once burdened by
basketball and pressures it brought.
swimming competitively since he was
eight. "I think 111 be ready to enjoy life
without swimming.
"It's not that I don't enjoy swimming;
there are just a lot of other
responsibilities."
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