6The Daily Tar HeelMonday, March 3, 1986
Heels defeat Wake 67-65
to advance to A CC finals
By MIKE BERARDINO
Staff Writer
FAYETTEVILLE On a weekend
of upsets, in a tournament of under
dogs, one team that was supposed to
make it this far has barely. Coach
Jennifer Alley's 17th-ranked North
Carolina squad won its way into
tonight's ACC tournament final (7:15
on WXYC-FM 89.3) against Maryland
with a couple of hard-fought victories
over two of the scrappiest women's
basketball teams around.
Sunday's 67-65 UNC victory in the
semifinals over upstart Wake Forest put
the Tar Heels in the championship game
for the third consecutive year and was
as thrilling as the score would indicate.
Darlene Cannon's two free throws with
1:32 to go proved to be the winning
points for North Carolina (22-7), which
held Wake scoreless over the last four
minutes.
The second-seeded Tar Heels man
handled the smaller Deacons (16-13) in
the first half, running off the game's first
eight points and bolting to a 38-24 lead
at the intermission. All-America guard
Pam Leake ripped down six rebounds
and scored 1 1 points (she finished with
a game-high 21) in the opening half.
Leake's last basket of the half, a five
foot bank shot with 2:51 left, gave her
1,932 career points and broke 1984
graduate Tresa Brown's UNC career
scoring record.
Afterwards, the 5-7 Chapel Hill
native, who also wears North Carolina's
career assist crown, said she was quite
pleased with the accomplishment.
"(Breaking the record) was a goal of
mine," Leake said. "When I came here,
I said I wanted to be the greatest
(women's) player in (UNC) history. And
I wanted to be an All-America. I'm
definitely satisfied with what IVe done.
I'm not saying I'm complacent, but I
am happy."
Leake may not be complacent, but
her teammates certainly looked that
way at the start of the second half
against Wake. Coach Joe Sanchez's
sixth-seeded ,team, which knocked
Duke out 72-71 on a last second shot
Saturday night, appeared set to make
it two straight shockers when they
outscored the Tar Heels 29-9 in the first
Gymnasts set
By KATHY MULVEY
Staff Writer
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week by the UN'CTgymnastics team is
getting to sound like a broken record.
The UNC gymnastics team did it again
on Saturday night at Fetzer Gym with
a team total of 184.25 points that broke
the mark of 183.10 set earlier in the
season against N.C. State.
That score was also good enough to
defeat the University of West Virginia
by 5.05 points in dual-meet action,
extending the Tar Heels unblemished
record to 12-0.
Sophomore co-captain Stacy Kaplan
bettered her own school record in the
all-around set at the 1985 ACC Invi
tational with a score of 37.65. To make
the night complete, senior co-captain
Tammy Gilbert sparkled in her final
home meet, with a personal best of 9.60
in the floor, exercise and her highest
combined total in the three events in
which she competed: vaulting, balance
beam, and floor.
Kaplan's 9.45 gave her first on the
vault, while Amy Bincarousky and
Missy Shaffner completed an individual
sweep with scores of 9.40. The team
score of 46.20 gave UNC a comfortable
lead. Kaplan tallied 9.45 again on the
uneven parallel bars for another first
place and Kristen Bilotta's 9.30 was
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eight minutes to forge a 53-47 lead. Two
adjustments one defensive and one
offensive triggered the turnaround.
First, Sanchez moved Amy Privette
to the offensive point and sent Lisa
Stockton to the wing; Stockton (a
senior who finishes as Wake's career
leader in scoring and assists) responded
with 16 second-half points, mostly on
long jumpers, while Privette dished out
a game-high eight assists. Forward
Janice Collins led all Deacon scorers
with 19 points.
Second, Wake switched defenses
from a passive zone to a box-and-one
aimed at stopping Leake. It worked, as
UNC's bread-and-butter star accounted
for just four points during Wake's 29
9 spurt and ran her turnover total to
10. "I think the box-and-one confused
my teammates more than it did me,"
Leake said. "I guess they thought I
wasn't open, because it was very seldom
that I touched (the ball) in the second
half."
The Deacons led by as many as six,
the last time at 61-55 with 7:34 to play.
After a Kathy Wilson (14 points) layup
tied it at 61, Stockton and Collins
answered with a pair of jumpers from
downtown Fayetteville and ten feet,
respectively. But that would be all for
the gutty group that, as Alley noted,
"had nothing to lose but the ballgame."
Single free throws by Dawn Royster
and Liza Donnell bookended a Leake
jumper to tie the game at the 2:09 mark.
After Cannon hit her free throws to put
UNC in front, Collins missed twice on
separate possessions. Wake had one last
chance, but Stockton missed a 15-footer
and Privette, who beat Duke the night
before, was errant on an eight-foot
follow.
In Saturday's quarterfinals, North
Carolina overcame a five-point halftime
deficit to beat Clemson 87-82. Leake
led all scorers with 27 points.
Tonight, UNC must face a Maryland
team that is clearly running on all
cylinders, having whipped N.C. State
77-55 on Saturday and Virginia 92-68
on Sunday. Deana Tate scored 27
against the top-seeded Cavaliers, who
shot just 35 percent from the field. The
Tar Heels have won both previous
meetings with the , 16-12 Lady Terps.
more records
good for third behind Cathie Price of
WVU. By the end of the first two events
Jhe. Tar Heels had 92.30 points, , com
pared to the Mountaineers' 89.40.
As West Virginia performed tre
mendously on the floor exercise for a
team score of 46.60, UNC faced the
balance beam. Gilbert said, "We're
strongest on the floor, pretty consistent
on the vault, and we Ye been up and
down on the beam. But this time we
were able to stay on (the beam) and
put together a good team score."
Although WVU took first and second
with Price's superhuman 9.50 and
Tanya Barton's 9.20, Kaplan and
Shaffner both posted scores of 9.15 to
tie for third, leading UNC to a total
of 44.85 for the event.
The Tar Heels then showed why they
consider the floor exercise their best
event, racking up 47.60 points to thwart
West Virginia's hope of winning even
one of the four events. Shaffner's 9.55
gave her third place in the event and
a total score of 37.25 for the meet, her
best ever at UNC and third in the all
around competition behind Kaplan and
Price. Gilbert and Kaplan tied for first
at 9.60, the second-highest floor exercise
score in Tar Heel history, as the 1986
edition of UNC gymnastics continued
to cut a record of its own.
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Heels homer past Rutgers
By JAMES SUROWIECKI
Assistant Sports Editor
Baseball has returned to Boshamer
Stadium, and thanks to Devy Bell, Paul
Will and assorted other Tar Heels, it
has returned with a bang. Propelled by
eight home runs in three games and two
hardnosed pitching performances on
Friday and Sunday, UNC swept the
Scarlet Knights of Rutgers this weekend
and in the process firmly established
itself as an offensive powerhouse.
The Tar Heels went into Friday's
home opener with a record of 2-3 and
were somewhat shellshocked after a
series of late-inning losses. But starter
Ken Turner quickly quelled any UNC
butterflies. Turner gave up but one
extra-base hit and six overall and struck
out-.-, ten ..in;, eight shutoujt innings in
UNC's 6-0 win. . . '
Actually, the game was closer than
the score indicated. The Tar Heels
scrapped for their first three runs, but
finally blew the game open in the eighth
inning against reliever David Bauer.
Bauer walked the leadoff hitter, and
then Scott Johnson took him deep,
crushing a home run to right center.
Johnson was followed by sweet
swinging Devy Bell, who dropped one
over the fence in right to seal the win.
Saturday's game reflected the
weather: superb. This was the best game
of the series, a 6-5 UNC victory won
by the Tar Heels in the bottom of the
ninth after they had scored five runs
in the eighth.
Dave Trautwein started for UNC and
looked strong early. But he hit a batter
with an 0-2 pitch in the fifth inning and
gave up three consecutive hits to start
the sixth. By the time reliever Tim Kirk
picked two runners off first base to end
the inning, Rutgers led 3-0.
The Scarlet Knights added another
run in the eighth, so the Tar Heels went .
into the bottom of the inning down 4
0. UNC had been rather flat offensively 1
up to that point, but suddenly came to
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Rutgers starter Darrin Winston loaded
the bases and set the stage once more
for Bell.
Winston, a southpaw, had looked
good early, but was obviously tiring,
and should have never faced Bell.
Winston challenged Bell, and he
responded with a shot, a rising line drive
which cleared the fence in deep left
center with room to spare.
The grand slam knocked Winston
right into the shower and reliever Dan
Lengyel into the hot seat. Designated
hitter Paul Will gave Lengyel a rude
greeting by blasting one off the left-field
foul pole to put UNC up 5-4. Rutgers
came back with a run in the top of the
ninth, but Will responded by drawing
a bases-loaded -walk : to drive invihe
winning run. . . , ,-. .. .... . ,
As for Sunday's game, let the sta
tistics speak for themselves. Twelve runs
on 16 hits, including four home runs,
for UNC, no runs on just four hits for
Rutgers. The Tar Heels were sparked
by homers by Bell and Will, and by
Howard Freiling, who added a double
to his two four-baggers.
Freshman Chris Cornacchio started
for UNC, and after struggling early
seemed to find himself and pitched
seven strong innings. "After the first few
innings, I got into a good rhythm,"
Cornacchio said. "I was able to throw
my curveball for strikes, and that really
helped me a lot. And it's easy to pitch
with a big lead."
So in the end this series turned out
to be a splendid way for UNC to open
its home schedule. The starting pitching
looked good and of course the offense
was there. "We're playing with a lot
more confidence," coach Mike Roberts
said. "The longball really got us up, and
we knew going into today's game
(Sunday) if we jumped out on top early
we could stay there." With the way Bell
and Co. are hitting, jumping out on top
seems the least of UNC's problems.
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RALEIGH, N.C. UNC wrestling
coach Bill Lam dismissed the notion
early last week that his squad, after
going 6-0 in the conference, had the
ACC tournament wrapped up.
"Everyone thinks if you have a good
dual-match season, then youll win the
tournament," Lam said. "That's not
necessarily true. Tournaments are
different because a school may not have
an excellent dual-match team but may
have some good individuals. To win,
we must have seven wrestlers in the
finals."
Coach, you don't have a good
tournament team, you have a great
tournament team.
The seventh-ranked wrestlers of UNC
had eight wrestlers in the final 10
matches of the ACC tournament in
Raleigh Saturday and came away with
four ACC champions as the Tar Heels
rolled to an easy team victory. North
Carolina's total of 98 XA points was the
most since Virginia scored 124 14 in
1974.
At 118, Al Palacio was the first
champion crowned as he scored an 8
2 victory over N.C. State's Jim Best.
With his victory, Palacio became the
first ACC wrestler at the lowest weight
class (115 pounds until 1970, 118 since
then) and only the fourth UNC wrestler
at any class, to win the conference title
three times.
Senior John Aumiller wrestled for the
title at 126, but came up short against
the Wolfpack's Marc Sodano, 6-3.
In tue finals at 134, Enzo Catullo
faced N.'C. State's Dave Schneiderman,
the only ACC wrestler to beat Catullo
during the regular season. And it was
Schneiderman getting the victory here,
scoring a 5-2 decision.
At 142, UNC's Lenny Bernstein
earned his first ACC title by pulling
Final
Basketball
Team ACC Pet. Overall Pet.
Duke 12-2 .857 29-2 .935
Georgia Tech 11-3 .786 23-5 .821
North Carolina 10-4 .714 26-4 .867
Virginia 7-7 .500 18-9 .667
N.C. State 7-7 .538 18-11 .621
Maryland 6-8 .429 17-12 .586
Clemson 3-11 .214 17-13 .567
Wake Forest 0-14 .000 8-20 .286
Saturday's games
Oklahoma 72, N.C. State 69
Illinois 59. Georgia Tech 57
Maryland 87 Virginia 72 - 1 -Wake
Forest 69, Stetson 61
Swimmers edged at finish
By PHYLLIS A. FAIR
Staff Writer
After three days of "Swimmers come
down and take it steady", the men's
ACC swimming championship came to
a close with the Clemson Tigers break
ing the surface of the water and corning
out victorious with a score of 670. UNC
finished second with a total of 663,
trailing the Tigers by just seven points.
On the final day of competition the
Tar Heels not only won the 400-yard
freestyle relay, but the relay team set
a new school record and qualified for
the NCAAs with a time of 3:00.01. The
winning team consisted of Larry Bloch,
Marc Croggon, Chris Stevenson and
Dirk Marshall.
Stevenson was the hot man for the
Tar Heels. On the second day of
competition he finished second in the
100-yard butterfly, behind teammate
Marshall. He won the 100-yard back
stroke and was a member of the first
place 800-yard freestyle relay team. The
other members of that winning team
were Bloch, Marshall and Dan Flack
with a time of 6:40.64.
Along with the races already men
tioned, Stevenson was not finished, not
by a long shot. There was still the
question of who was the ACC Swimmer
of the Year.: When the swimmer was
named, there was no doubt that it had
to be Stevenson. With all the other
events he had won it was only fitting
that he would take the award.
UNC had several of its swimmers
either qualify for the NCAAs or set
records. Marshall, who was a member
of both the 400 and 800-yard freestyle
relay teams, won the aforementioned
100-yard butterfly with a time of 49.33.
His time set a new school record and
H eeeere 's Billy!
Yes, it's true, unbelievably enough
Billy Warden's wacky version of the
world of sports starts tomorrow on The
Daily Tar Heel sports page. His weekly
comics will be entitled Cartoons For
Goons.
We really dont know what Billy is
going to draw for us; his samples of
work included Bacon Ruth, the famous
home-run pig, and a variety of house
hold pets who were all named after Joe
Wolf. But we're taking a chance that
the man who proclaimed that he was
a squirrel and said he would solve the
University's parking problem by letting
people drive cars that turn into hats will
liven up our page a bit. Let us not forget
the two other new sports page cartoo
nists Bill DiPaolo and Greg Humph
reys, who both have already have had
some work exhibited. They will con
tinue to draw stuff for us which is
slightly more recognizable than
Warden's. .
away from Clemson's Mike Hampton
in the second period. The final score
was 7-5.
At 150, Jon Cardi, who lost a 15
13 semifinal decision to eventual champ
Joey McKenna of Clemson, beat
Duke's Tom Nugent in the consolation
finals to finish in third place.
Two sophomores, UNC's Rob Koll
and Maryland's Phil Brown, faced off
for the conference title at 158. And Koll
avenged a regular-season loss to Brown
with an 8-2 victory
The closest final match of the tour
nament was the battle at 167, as North
Carolina's Tad Wilson and Clemson's
Mark Litts ended in a 1-1 tie after three
periods. In overtime, the duo again
finished tied at one point each, but
Wilson was given the victory because
he accumulated 42 seconds of advan
tage time in overtime.
UNC's Davis brothers, Tracey and
Stacey, wrestled in the finals at 190 and
heavyweight, respectively. Each was
tied with his opponent in the third
period, but came up short in the closing
minute as N.C. State's Mike Lombardo
and Maryland's Tom Reese pulled out
victories by scores of 7-4 and 10-5.
UNC's team win was its third in a
row and its fifth since 1979. The victory
also moved coach Lam into second
place among ACC coaches in career
conference titles, with a total of five.
The next and last stop for the team
will be the NCAA Championships being
held in Iowa City, Iowa, March 13-15.
All eight wrestlers who made it to the
final round will compete, and coach
Lam has some high expectations for his
team.
"I don't think well win it," Lam said.
"But I do think we have a pretty good
shot at the top five."
But remember, coach, we're talking
about a great tournament team.
ACC
Standings
Sunday's games
Duke 82, North Carolina 74
Georgia Tech 74, Clemson 63
shattered the old ACC mark. Doug
Sawyer also set a new school record
with a time of 57.21 in the 100-yard
breaststroke.
On the second day of competition
UNC trailed Clemson by a point, 412
413, with the final day to be winner
take all. The second day began well for
the Tar Heels. Tim Shea gave UNC a
first place finish in the 400-yard
individual medley, while teammate
Chris Davis finished third in the 100
yard backstroke.
Picking up points in every event was
exactly what UNC needed to go ahead
of Clemson. The Tar Heels had
swimmers score in each of the events.
Whether they were first or fifth was
irrelevant, as long as UNC had
swimmers score.
The Tar Heels looked to take the lead
from Clemson at the end of the day,
but that was not to happen. When the
Tigers finished second in the 800-yard
freestyle relay, UNC's hopes of going
into the final day of competition ahead
of the Tigers diminished considerably.
That last day of competition began
in a similar fashion to the second. UNC
had swimmers scoring points in each
of the events, but in the end it was not
enough to overcome Clemson.
The only way that the Tar Heels could
have beaten the Tigers was to have them
disqualified from the final event of the
day, which was the 400-yard freestyle
relay. Obviously enough, that didn't
happen, and UNC's men fell just short
of duplicating the victory by the UNC
women in their ACC Championship.
The final team standings showed
Virginia third with 572 points, Mary
land fourth with 427.5, N.C. State fifth
with 391.5, Duke sixth with 127 and
Georgia Tech seventh with zero.
UNC chip shots
The UNC men's golf team finished
second out of 21 teams at the
ImperiaLakes-Florida Southern Invita
tional this weekend in Lakeland, Fla.
The Tar Heels' third-day score of 292
gave UNC a total of 870 placed them
six strokes behind team champion
Florida.
North Carolina was led by Kurt Beck,
whose three-day total of 216 tied him
for eighth place in the individual race.
The other scorers for UNC were John
Hughes (218), Bryan Sullivan (218).
Greg Parker (218) and Brendan
Kennedy (240).
The women's golf team didn't have
nearly the same success over the
weekend, fading to ninth out of 12
teams in the Patty Sheehan Invitational
at Monterey. Calif. No UNC golfer hot
under 81 on the par-72 course on the
final day. Host team San Jose State won
thetournev.