.College N.C State. 83 Maryland 86 LSU 1T9 Princeton 68 . Syracuse 89, Alabama 97 j
Basketball Virginia 76 Wake Forest 78 Tennessee 87 Cornell 53 Pittsburgh 68 Miss. St. 72
Arizona :103 Wake Forest 81 Georgia Tech 82 Ohio St ,63 St. John's 57 Seton Hall 90 Georgetown 71:?
Duke GOT) 96 Ciemson 55 Louisville 69 Minnesota 62 Notre Dame 55 Villanova 73 Connecticut 57 I
poms Monday
Winning ACC Tournament ticket numbers:
7, 8, 15, 16, 31, 32; Alternates: 11, 22, 42
12The Daily Tar HeelMonday, January 25, 1991
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By Robert Brown
Staff Writer
t The North Carolina mens swimming
'and diving team didn't simply dump a
cooler of Gatorade on head coach Frank
Comfort's head after the Tar Heels
captured their 1 1th ACC Championship
- Sunday, they threw him in the pool.
; In fact, everything the 19th-ranked
Tar Heels did this weekend was extreme.
Extremely good.
En route to an astouding 256.5-point
win over N.C. State, UNC collected 14
first-place finishes, set 12 school
records, nine ACC Championship meet
records, seven ACC records and six
Koury Natatorium records.
; It was the Tar Heel's third ACC
Championship in the past four years.
Clemson's Dale Davis (center) corrals one
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Kingston keys Sunday's 8-5 triumph as Tar Heels sweep Pirates
ByJayExum
Staff Writer
Whew.
It looked for some time like the North
Carolina and Seton Hall baseball teams
wanted to make their three-game
weekend affair last as long as possible.
The first inning of Sunday's game
alone featured nearly 40 minutes of
potent offense and underwhelming
pitching, leaving the sparse crowd at
poshamer Stadium wondering whether
they would get home before dark.
But not to worry. After a frightening
beginning in which UNC freshman
pitcher John Rosengren gave up three
runs on three hits, both squads eventu
ally found pitchers who settled down
and moved the game on to a final score
jf 8-5 in favor of the Tar Heels,
t The win completed a UNC sweep of
the Hall during the weekend series. The
Tar Heels won by scores of 6-4 Friday
nd 10-4 Saturday. UNC upped its
record to 5-1 overall while the B ig East
champion Pirates fell to 1-5.
I Sunday, North Carolina answered the
tern, Davis lead
"A lot of really good things came
together at the right time," said Com
fort, who was named ACC Coach of the
Year for the fourth time. "We have
excellent talent, and they were ready to
go tonight."
UNC's meet-record 853 points was
followed by N.C State, 596.5 ; Virginia,
573.5; Ciemson, 534; Maryland, 437;
Duke, 263; and Georgia Tech, 125.
Not since 1977 had an ACC team
beat up on its opponents so badly.
After a heartbreaking three-point loss
to Virgina at last year's ACC Champi
onships, the Tar Heels came to this meet
focused and ready to win.
"We knew we could get (the ACC
title) back, but we didn't want to be too
overconfident," said sophomore David
Monasterio, who was named the meet's
of his 15 rebounds Saturday from the Tigers'
Pirates' burst of offense in the top of the
first with an explosion of its own.
The Tar Heels opened the game the
easy way the first two batters were
walked by Seton Hall starter Dan Welk.
Then with Chad Holbrook and Keith
Grunewald on first and second sec
ond baseman Darren Villani laid down
a bunt to advance both runners. A wild
pitch by Welk brought in Holbrook to
put UNC on the board and sent first
baseman Steve Estroff to first. Outfielder
Brad Woodall was hit by a pitch to load
the bases.
Welk after facing six batters
without registering a single at-bat
then watched designated hitter Mark
Kingston come to the plate.
Kingston, apparently, was tired of
letting Welk do all the work. The
Durham native dug in and sent a fastball
sailing well over the left field wall.
His grand slam gave UNC a total of
five runs on only one hit.
After yielding one more hit from
outfielder Matt Shuey, Welk was mer
cifully pulled from the game, and then
the pace picked up.
co-MVP with N.C. State's David Fox.
Although UNC wanted to make sure
this one didn't slip away, the truth of the
matter was that no one else really had a
chance.
In the first heat of the meet's first
event, every UNC swimmer finished in
a personal best time. "That got every
body fired up," senior co-captain John
Davis said.
Davis finished his ACC career with
a bang, capturing individual champi
onships in the 200 back, 100 back and
200 individual medley. Those three
championships gave him a total of 1 1
ACC championships in his career, more
than any other swimmer in ACC history.
Davis' win in the 100 backstroke
Saturday allowed him to break the pre
vious record of nine individual titles.
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Ricky Jones (left) and UNC's Pete Chilcutt
Rosengren was pulled in the second
after giving up a single and a double in
the top of the second, and Dale Odom
came in to make his first appearance of
the season. A sacrifice RBI by Pirate
Robert Sheppard brought the Hall to
within 5-4.
That would be the closest the Pirates
would come.
Villani led off the third with a double
to center field, and after the next two
batters were retired, Kingston came to
the plate and delivered again this
time with a single to score Villani.
Senior Rich Fernandez came in for
Odom in the fourth and managed to
hold the Pirates scoreless until the fifth, ,
when the Hall got their last run of the
game off of two hits.
Fastballer Paul Shuey came in for
Fernandez when he ran into some trouble
in the seventh and proceeded to throw
smoke by the Pirates for the next two
innings.
Shuey picked up the win, his second
of the season. . .
See BASEBALL, page 9
swimmers to ACC
Monasterio garnered MVP horrors
after winning three ACC champion
ships, including an ACC-record finish
in the 200 butterfly. He also captured
first place in the 200 free and 500 free,
breaking meet records in both.
UNC's Tod Schroeder finished sec
ond in the 50 freestyle and third in the
100 freestyle.
Co-captain Marc Ferguson started
things off well for the Tar Heels Sunday
night, winning the 1 ,650 freestyle, while
James Hamrick finished third in the
grueling 66-lap event.
Ferguson finished second in the 400
EM and fourth in the 500 freestyle.
Hamrick finished second in the 200
freestyle and 500 freestyle, as well as
swimming on the 800-yd freestyle relay.
Friday, UNC won the first event, the
Tar Heels
for 5th slraighl ACC triimpM
IMG ups record to 21-4 with sloppy 73-57 win
By Jamie Rosenberg
Senior Writer
It didn't take long for the Ciemson
Tigers to set the tone Saturday in the
Smith Center.
The moment Tiger players shed their
warmups, revealing Clemson's Day
Glo, bright orange road uniforms, one
could sense this game would be ugly.
And it was.
In perhaps the most unsightly sport
ing contest since the 1990 Sumo wres
tling championships, No. 6 North
Carolina grossed out the lowly Tigers,
73-57, before 20,148.
The teams combined for46 turnovers,
40 personal fouls and 44-percent
shooting from the floor. Nine players
had three or more turnovers, and only
two on each team reached double figures
in scoring.
Even some postgame comments
lacked basic aesthetic qualities. Ciemson
coach Cliff Ellis said, "The score is not
indicative of the outcome of this game."
Huh?
What Cliff meant to say, we assume,
is that the Tigers were actually within
striking range with two minutes to play.
When Andre Bovain flung in a 3-pointer
with 2: 1 1 remaining, Ciemson trailed
by only eight, 58-50, and the Tigers
were just a miracle or two away from an
upset.
But, keeping in character as the
ACC's worst team, Ciemson missed
five of its next seven shots including
a dunk while committing two turn
overs. Even a struggling Tar Heel of
fense couldn't match those miscues,
and UNC reluctantly built its edge to
68-53 before Dean Smith cleared his
bench at 1:07.
"We're glad to have the win, whether
it was ugly or not," UNC senior Rick
Fox said, "but you can't be that sloppy
against Tech."
The Tar Heels travel to Atlanta
Thursday, seeking revenge against the
Jackets and looking to stay on pace to
challenge Duke for the ACC regular
season title. Now 21-4 overall and 9-3
in the ACC, UNC is in prime position to
take the crown, which would mean a
first-round bye in the ACC Tournament
and a shot at a No. 1 seeding in the
NCAA East Regional.
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Heel first baseman Steve Estroff keeps
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200-yard freestyle relay, in an ACC
record setting time, and then continued
to dominate the competition. After the
first day, UNC held a commanding 278
164.5 lead over the Wolfpack.
At that point, UNC's objective was
no longer to win, but win by a lot, Davis
said. "After the first night, we said 'Let's
see how much we can win by.'"
After two days, the Tar Heels had
boosted their lead to a 565-387.5 ad
vantage over State.
UNC won all but two events on the
meet's last night, and all but six events
during the competition.
The Tar Heels swept all five relay
events, setting school records and
qualifying for the NCAA Champion
ships in each. Monasterio, Davis and
Schroeder each swam on four winning
sltoiiible
But for all this to happen, the Tar
Heels must alleviate the offensive woes
that allowed the Tigers ( 1 0-1 4, 1 -1 0) to
keep Saturday's game close. UNC shot
just 41 percent in the first half while
committing 1 1 turnovers. Luckily, the
Tigers "bettered" those numbers, hitting
just 9 of 25 shots in the period (36
percent) and coughing the ball up 16
times.
Such a lackluster spectacle provided
fans with apathetic 3 1 -22 halftime score.
North Carolina led by default uh,
defense.
"Thank heavens for our defense,"
Smith said. "I told Woody (Durham) on
the radio show before the game, I finally
feel comfortable with this team offen
sively. "I all of the sudden lost that confi
dence. It shows it's a crazy game."
North Carolina entered the game
having notched five straight blowouts
and six straight contests shooting above
50 percent. The squad seemed to be
revving its engines for the postseason
and figured to run over the cellar
dwelling Tigers.
But the Tar Heels struggled through
the mire of a slow-down Ciemson of
fense and a surprisingly quick Tiger
defense.
Smith implored writers tc credit
Ciemson for UNC's offensive slug
gishness "I think there's a tendency
for us to think we played poorly instead
of giving credit to where it's due with
Ciemson" but not all were so ac
cepting of that theory. :-
"We definitely shouldn't have played
that kind of basketball," point guard
King Rice said. "I think guys are trying
to do too much."
The Tigers seemed to lull the Tar
Heels into ugliness, using a patient
halfcourt offense to keep the score low
and boredom levelshigh. Things became
only remotely interesting when Ciemson
went into its inside monster, 6-foot-10
forward Dale Davis. Davis led all players
with 1 9 points and 1 5 rebounds and was
the only Tiger player to make more than
half of his shots.
North Carolina, meanwhile, passed
itself to oblivion. All too often, the Tar
Heels refused to take the open shot in
order to make things difficult and create
turnovers inside. If that was some sort
a Seton Hall runner close as UNC stole three
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relay squads, in addition to outstanding
individual performances. ;
Other winners for UNC included
Gary Gauch, who won the 100 breast
stroke in an ACC-record time, and swam
on two winning relay teams; John
Fischetti, winner of the 200 breaststroke
in a meet record time; and Mark Sedlak,
who swam on two winning relays, and
finished third in the 50-yd freestyle and
fourth in the 100-yd freestyle.
In diving action, UNC senior Nunzio
Esposto finished second in the 3-meter
with a total of 462.85, and sophomore
Joel Johnson finished fifth. Esposto
finished fourth in the 1 -meter diving:
The Tar Heels had a swimmer finish
in the top two spots in all but three of the
20 events. UNC qualified eight
swimmerls and five relays for NCAAsI
by Tigers
of strategy, it certainly worked against
a quick-handed Ciemson defense.
"We tried to become interior passers
in the second half," Smith said. "We'd
have a good shot and then try to pass for
another one. They probably haven't
heard me yell 'Shoot the ball so much
See CLEMSON, page 9
tUNC 73, Clomson 57
Saturday
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TOTALS 200 22-5710-1914-34 10 22 57
Percentages FG .386, FT .526. 3-point
goals 3-16. .188 (Bovain 2-5, Bruce 1-6.
Young 04, Burks 01 ),Tam rebounds 5,
Blocked Shots 3 Young 2. Davis).
Turnovers 28 (Jones 4, Bruce 4, Burks 4,
Bovain 4, Davis 3r Mason 3, Brown 2, Young
2). Steals 9 (Young 3,Davis 2. Bovain 2.
Burks, Mason).
UNC (73)
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Fox ' 31 5-12 2-4 1-5 2 3 12
Lynch 26 2-10 5-6 4-7 1 3 9
Chilcutt , 29 4-5 1-1 : 0-4 1 1 9
Davis , 27 5-8 2-2 ,0-0 0 4 13
Phelps 13 3-3 0-0 0-0 ,0 0 7
Rice ; 26; 2-5 ,4-4 0-1 4 18
Morrtrosa 141-3 5-6 1-3 0 2 7
R68 ,12 0-1 0-0 1-3 2 2 0
Reese ' 7 1-2 O-l 0-1012
Rosier ; 8 0-0 1-2 2-6 1 0 1
Saivactort 2 1-1 o-o 0-0002
Sullivan 2 0-0 0-0 0-1 1 0 0
Harris ; , ,1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0
Cherry 10-0 1-2 0-0 10 1
Wenstrom 1 1-1-0-0 0-0 0 1 2
TOTALS 200 25-512128 9-32 13 18 73
Percentages FG .490. FT .750. 3-point
goals 2-10, .200 (Phelps 1-1, Davis 1-3,
Fox 0-5 Rodl 0-1 ). Team rebounds 0.
Blocked Shots - 2 (Davis, Montross).
Turnovers 20 (Lynch 5, Fox 4, ROdl 3,
Chilcutt 2, Rozter 2, Davis, Rice. Reese,
Salvador)). Steals 13 (Fox 5. Lynch 3,
Phelps 2, Chilcutt. Rodl, Rozier).
Ciemson
UNC
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35 - 57
42-73
Technical Fouls
20.148.
none. Attendance
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