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6The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, April 18, 1990 Baseball swamps UNC-W From staff reports WILMINGTON Freshman Chad Holbrook collected three RBIs, including a two-run single in the ninth inning, to give the UNC baseball team a 5-1 win over UNC-Wilming-tbn Tuesday night. J Hie Seahawks were leading 1-0 ioing into the seventh, when Holbrook hit a sacrifice fly to score Darren Villani. His one-out single in flie ninth determined the victory, bulling the Tar Heels ahead 3-1. The fourth and fifth runs were brought in by a Kurt Green single and a squeeze bunt by Matt Wooten to score Holbrook. WIEHDMrESDDAY IBASIEDBAILIL 3sD0 M losliamer Stadium The winning pitcher was junior Brad Woodall, who hurled two score less innings in relief of Frank Maney to improve his record to 6-0. Maney allowed one run on four hits and notched six strike outs in his seven innings of work. Senior shortstop Ron Maurer ex tended his hitting streak to 27 games with a leadoff single in the ninth in ning. Maurer wound up 1 for 3 on the night. With the win, North Carolina improved to 34-8 on the season. The Tar Heels square off against Davidson today at 3 p.m. in Boshamer Stadium. if lu tow 6ii Break t lite iMiiwro J II WIT II UK HOE JUlVllLk. , - we Even the hest relationships end this time of year. After all, it's time to blow outta town for a few months and you need your freedom. Aren't vou glad you can disconnect your phone service at a RightTouclvl? Center? It's perfectly painless. Just drop hy the Frank Porter Graham Student Union or Granville Towers West and hiss that phone service goodbye. Here's all you need to do: 1) Find your Personal Access Code in the Messages section on the last page of your most recent phone hill and take it to the RightTouch Center. 2) Decide on a date you want your service disconnected. 3) Have an address and phone number where you can he reached after vou've left school, so vou can receive vour final hill or refund. Big Doniger stands By LAURIE DHUE Staff Writer Debbie Doniger. Her name sounds like a reporter for The Daily Planet, doesn't it? Or maybe a CNN anchor. Regardless, it is a name that is not easily forgotten. Especially on the UNC golf circuit. Doniger, a diminutive (5-foot-3) sophomore from Greenwich, Conn., is the top returnee for the women's golf team this season. Although in jured at the start of her golfing career at UNC, Doniger bounced back to qualify for last spring's NCAA cham pionships. As a freshman, she led the Tar Heels to an eighth-place finish in the competition. Continuing her bril liance with a 79.3 stroke average, she was the top finisher in every tourna ment during the fall competition. This spring has not proven as suc cessful for the Tar Heels, and although Doniger has not played as well as in the fall, she still has led the team in each tournament. At the Josten's Invitational, hosted by San Jose State, Doniger finished 62nd. However, the competition was so tough that this was considered a strong finish. She rallied back to a sixth-place finish shortly thereafter at the Peggy Kirk Bell tournament at Rollins College. At the McDonald's Betsy Rawls Longhorn Classic in Austin, Texas, Doniger again gave UNC its highest finish by tying for 12th. "Debbie gets everything she can out of the game, especially for how tiny she is," head coach Dot Gunnells said. "She works hard and is a team leader. She's a good player now, but Southern Beir Urn name, little frame small but swings tall for UNC golf ft i -s&U ' I- n x . jliUj.-i.J'-' Debbie Doniger she can be an excellent player." Doniger came to UNC after "falling in love with the campus and the team" during her recruiting trip, which was the last one she made before deciding. "I was looking for a program that would suit me, and this one did," she said. "UNC had a good weight pro gram, a coach I wanted and a very self disciplined atmosphere, which is ex actly what I needed." Consistency is the name of Doniger's game. Though she's not a "big" hitter, meaning that her shots are not particularly long, her stroke is steady and straight enough to ensure accuracy. According to those who have watched her play day in and day out, her swing never changes, and her shots never stray Or, if you can't call it quits in per son, just dial 780-2500, and do it over the phone with Right Touch ,: bervice. It's available 24 hours a dav. And don t worrv. When vou come hack in the fall, you can pick up right where you left off. Because re connection is just as easy at your RightTouch Center. So Icicle up your heels and have a reat summer. Wlio says hreahin' up is hard to o 2 RighfToucli Center i ; m j pzzjf pi Sir - ' :! J , I out of the fairways. She also plays a' good short game, chipping being her forte. "My short game has to be strong to compensate for my lack of driving distance," Doniger said. "It's the strongest part of my game, and I spend double the time on it than everything else." Doniger attributed this consistency to her long-time devotion to the game. "I've been playing golf since I was eight, when I used to visit my grand parents out in California," she said. "I played other sports until I was 13, and then I concentrated on golf." And concentrate she certainly has. Doniger plays 1 1 months out of the year and has been known to practice from sunrise until dark every day during the summer months. This dedication and positive outlook have served her well at UNC. In a game that promotes frustration because of its mentally taxing nature, Doniger has maintained a good attitude about the team's play as well as her own. "I view golf as an individual game that's put in a team setting," she said. "You want your teammates to do well. It's hard to make golf a team sport, but you have to realize that everyone needs support to play well." Doniger has provided that support to all members of the team, being a well-respected, lively friend to her teammates. "In a word, she's fun," junior Dayna Baird said. "She's always upbeat and encouraging and has a smile for everyone. She tries to keep our morale up even if we're not play ing well."' Z 1990 Southern Bell Maryland wronged by NCAA Editor's note: It's no secret that money runs the world of sports, but every once in a while, its effects hit close to home. Over the past two weeks, ACC schools have served to remind us that kids' games have become big busi ness. This is the second in a four-part series ' By MARK ANDERSON Assistant Sports Editor Plenty of stories have been written about the effects of college basketball rule-breaking on the coaches and ath letes in the program. But last week at the University of Maryland, a new party became involved: non-revenue sports. Because of the hefty NCAA penal ties leveled on Terrapin basketball, the already debt-ridden athletic program has had to put a freeze on future varsity scholarships, honoring only those schol arships already accepted. Because the basketball and football teams have al ready allotted all of their scholarships for the upcoming year, the freeze pri marily affects non-revenue sports. That a lacrosse or a track program should have to bear the burden of its basketball counterpart's mistakes is ridiculous. But when money is the bottom line, fairness is a small consid- , eration. : Yet, Maryland is tough to paint as the villain here. If the athletic depart- ; ment had policed itself more efficiently, ; the violations may have never hap- ; pened. However, given the NCAA 1 penalties, Terrapin officials had few options open. But it is easy to paint the NCAA as the villain. By imposing such stiff monetary penalties, the NCAA not only ruined what was once one of the nation's top basketball programs, it may have destroyed an entire athletic department. Currently appealing the NCAA's rul ing, Maryland is now fighting for its athletic life. When former Terrapin basketball coach Bob Wade closed his three-year tenure with an 88-58 loss to North Carolina in the spring of 1989, Maryland's troubles were just begin ning. Under the threat of an NCAA investigation, Maryland fired Wade and his assistants, hiring well-respected alumnus Gary Williams. But before Williams could get settled, the NCAA dug in. Maryland cooper ated fully divulging information, imposing self-sanctions and volunteer ing penalties. Terrapin officials hoped that by purging the program they could avoid the heavy hand of the NCAA. In March, however, the NCAA handed down one of its stiffest sen tences in recent memory. Maryland's men's basketball team was barred from post-season play for the next two years and banned from live television ap pearances next season. Pending a deci sion by the ACC, this ruling could also bar the Terrapins from the ACC Tour nament because all tournament games are broadcast on television. Not only will Maryland lose pos sible future tournament revenue, the school has also been ordered to return $407,000 in basketball tournament receipts from Wade's tenure. Univer sity officials have estimated the total fiscal impact at $3 million to $3.8 mil lion. In addition, the athletic department is already operating with a sizable defi cit, estimated as high as $1 million, because of a shortfall in past football and basketball gate receipts. The Terra pin Club, the school's booster group, is not able to cover all scholarship costs. Like it or not, Maryland had little choice but to put a freeze on scholarships. All things considered, the NCAA's penalties were too harsh across the board. Maryland did everything a member school is supposed to do dur ing an investigation, including ridding itself of all parties involved in the vio lations; yet the NCAA handed down a penalty rivaling those given to uncoop erative schools. Most importantly, the NCAA failed to examine the impact its sanctions would have. Instead of non-monetary solutions such as limiting basketball scholarships, the NCAA chooseSto emphasize monetary penalties. A cliaser look would have shown that Maryland athletics could not afford the cost of these sanctions. By forcing a freeze on scholarships, the NCAA has made it impossible for Maryland non-revenue sports to recruit or plan for the future. Instead of puni'sh ing Maryland's basketball program, the NCAA forced hundreds of innocent athletes to bear the burden of one team's mistake. Mm
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