The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, April 24, 19919
At last! Heels enjoy
- By Mark Anderson
' Sports Editor
The North Carolina baseball team
finally had the chance to enjoy a laugher.
"In the middle of their worst season in
.three years and after battling through
' three tough games with Georgia Tech,
the Tar Heels clubbed Coastal Carolina
,14-5 Tuesday at Boshamer Field.
UNC used a five-run third inning and
a six-run sixth to move to 28-1 8 on the
' year. The Chanticleers, who rested four
starters for a run at their conference title
' next weekend, fell to 26-21.
"What you see now is the team we
would have liked to put on the field
"when the conference started," UNC head
1 coach Mike Roberts said.
, Perhaps the most important part of
' that team is the return of reliever Paul
itting the
By Bryan Strickland
iuff Writer
No doubt, she's heard every pun and
read every witty headline under the sun.
There's not really much that she can do
r: ' about it. Except maybe char ee her name.
' f- Indeed, a coincidence such as this is
-the dream of every witty journalist. Her
'-"name is Jessica Wood and she plays
'"golf. You'd never have guessed it,
'wood" you?
"I get crazy little headlines all the
time," Wood said. But the fact is, Wood
' deserves every headline she gets. She
vhas been an outstanding golfer for
UNC's 22nd-ranked women's team.
T' The Buies Creek sophomore set the
! golf links on fire this past fall, posting a
-77.28 stroke average and winning two
! of five fall tournaments.
; Wood has been priming for such
! success for nearly 14 years. "I've lived
! on a golf course since I was six," she
! said. "I've been playing since then and
! before. I had my own little cut-off clubs."
I Her love of golf, instilled at an early
,' age by Wood's father, still survives
! today. Since the moment she blasted
her first tee shot, Wood has never gone
more than two months without the game.
I And, as she recalls, that two-month
! break came after her freshman year had
W
urray hopes year off
By Robert Brown
' Staff Writer
Something was missing from North
1 Cafolina's track team during last
! weekend's ACC Outdoor Track and
! Field Championships. Uh, make that
! someone.
Although he was present at the Irwin
! Belk Track with the rest of the Tar
!Heels, Sean Murray was noticeably
'absent from the men's roster. For the
1 first time in his four years at UNC, the
'. standout thrower was a spectator and
not a participant.
'. Instead of sporting his Carolina blue
I uniform, Murray was outfitted in a pair
! of jeans and a jacket.
! Instead of lugging around a javelin or
! a discus, he was carrying a walkie
' talkie.
! And instead of helping win the meet,
! Murray was helping run the show.
! After completing a successful, yet
! grueling, indoor track stason, the se
! nior decided to take a break from throw
! ing. He red-shirted this year's outdoor
'. campaign in order to better prepare him
! self for the javelin in the 1992 outdoor
! season.
I Of course, he had to get the blessing
! of head coach Dennis Craddock first.
! Although disappointed, Craddock gave
I him the go-ahead. "My first honest re
T action was, Oh no! There goes some
! points,'" Craddock said.
! Murray was a thrower capable of
Tscoring 14-18 outdoor points for the
! team in the discus and javelin, and
I Craddock hated to see him take a year
lJff. But like any understanding coach,
he gave his co-captain the OK.
, "I knew how hard he had worked and
J I didn't really think that was too much
r for him to ask," Craddock said.
For the past three and one-half years,
J Murray has been a versatile thrower for
J the Tar Heels. He has thrown the 35
J pound weight during the indoor season,
and switched to the javelin and discus
' during the outdoor season. But the de
J manding schedule finally took its toll
on the 6-foot-3, 225-pound senior.
J Citing the difficulty of throwing both
the 35-pound weight and the javelin in
the same year, Murray decided to tackle
J one event at a time.
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Shuey. After missing most of the sea
son with a knee injury, Shuey has struck
12 of the 15 batters he has faced since
returning Saturday. He entered the game
Tuesday with the bases loaded in the
eighth and struck out the next six men to
push his record to 5-1 on the year.
"I realized he was back on Satur
day," UNC catcher Donnie Leshnock
said. "Against Georgia Tech, he was
throwing very hard. As a catcher, it's
fun when you've got a pitcher who's
throwing hard and throwing strikes."
The previous Tar Heel pitchers hadn 't
thrown many strikes, walking ten and
hitting two batters. In fact, only 1 7 of 44
Chanticleer batters put the ball in play,
as UNC hurlers also struck out 15. Starter
Jay MacMillan threw 4 13 solid in
nings, allowing three earned runs and
striking out six in a row at one point.
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TlielSvbod File
Height: 5-foot-10
Hometown: Buies Creek
Class: Sophomore
Career Record
Season Tour. Rounds Strokes Ave.
1989- 90 5 14 1082 77.28
1990- 91 10 27 2143 79.37
Spring 1 991 : Posted an 1 8th-place finish
at the Woodbridge Intercollegiate.
Fall 1990: Won two individual titles, the
Lady Seminole Invitational and the Duke
Fall Invitational, both in sudden-death
playoffs.
Spring 1990: Finished sixth at the
Woodbridge Intercollegiate and the Peggy
Kirk Bell Tournament.
Fall 1 989: Competed in two tournaments
and finished 38th at the Memphis
Women's Intercollegiate.
become hard to handle.
"I was getting a little antsy after a
month and a half," Wood said. "But it
was very good for me. You appreciate
the game more after you haven't played
for about two months."
UNC head coach Dot Gunnells, who
The Murray File
Height 6-foot-3 -
Hometown: Florham Park, N.J.
Cla:'. f cnior
Major. Business Administration
The Skinny: Set new school record in 35
pound throw in 1 990 indoor season, toss
ing the weight 64 feet. Also won the ACC
title and qualified for the NCAAs in the
event ... Earned All-America honors in
the javelin at the 1990 outdoor cam
paign, finishing eighth at the NCAAs and
second at the ACCs ... Captured the ACC
crown in the 35-pound toss at the 1 990
indoor season and finished 1 6th at the
NCAAs ... All-American javelin thrower
in the 1989 spring campaign, placing
1 1 th at the NCAAs and first at the ACCs ...
Finished second in the javel in at the 1 988
ACC outdoor championships.
"The 35-pound throw and the javelin
are two events that require a lot of
attention if you're going to do real well
in them," Murray said. "It's tough to
compete in both in the same year."
The Florham Park, N.J., native de
cided to concentrate on the 35-pound
weight throw last fall and his hard work
was evident. In February, Murray broke
his own school record when he launched
the weight 64 feet at the Joe Hilton
Invitational in Chapel Hill. One month
later, he went on to claim the ACC title.
But despite the records, Murray
wasn't completely satisfied with his
performance in the weight throw. "I
didn'treallycompetewell intheNCAAs
and that's the true test of how good you
really are," he said.
It seems Murray just isn't content
unless he knows he's doing the best he
possibly can. That drive made him slow
down and focus on one event at a time.
"I think Sean is a very motivated
person," Craddock said. "I think he has
it in his mind that he is as good a javelin
thrower as anyone in the collegiate
ranks."
The javelin is Murray's specialty,
and he's hoping that a year of devotion
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The Tar Heels pounded out 15 hits,
three by Mark Kingston and two apiece
by Brad Woodall, Leshnock and Chris
Hamrick. Leshnock drove in three runs,
while Kingston and Darren Villani drove
in a pair each.
The Tar Heels broke the game open
in the bottom of the third, scoring five
runs to take a 6-2 lead. UNC's Chad
Holbrook led off with a sharp grounder
at first baseman Buddy Cribb, who made
an outstanding diving stop to his right
but threw the ball over starting pitcher
Chris Wilson's head for an error.
After Holbrook stole second, Wilson
(2-1) proceeded to walk the next two
hitters to load the bases. Leshnock fol
lowed with a single to center which
skipped under a charging Bob Lambert's
glove and rolled to the wall. Leshnock
wound up on third and three runs scored.
not a knock on Wood
will have her top five performers re
turning next season, said Wood is of
great value to her program.
"Jessica is very important to our
team," Gunnells said. "She doesn't re
alize how much natural ability she has."
As many female golfers are forced to
do, Wood competed on the men's team
in high school. In her junior year at
Harnett Central High School, Wood
captured the 1 987 women's state cham
pionship. The next year, she was the top
seed for the men's squad.
At UNC, Wood quickly realized that
her most difficult challenge was adjust
ing to the team mentality of college
golf. The adjustment now complete
she wouldn't have it any other way.
"We work together really well,"
Wood said of the four teammates she
has competed with throughout the spring
campaign. "I'd do anything in the world
for those four. We have a lot of trust in
each other and are really comfortable
with one another."
Despite the team-oriented approach,
Wood explained that the competitive
nature of golf is still present. "You want
your teammates to do well," Wood said.
"But you also want to beat them."
She beat her teammates and the
competition with regularity during
the fall season. But the autumn sched
tosses success his way
Sean Murray
to the event will help him add to his long
list of accomplishments. A two-time
All-America javelin thrower, he placed
eighth in the nation at last spring's
NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Murray also set the ACC record last
spring with a heave of 235-8 and fin
ished second at the ACC meet.
B ut although Murray' s distances have
steadily improved since he came out of
high school, he says he hasn't felt really
comfortable throwing the javelin since
his sophomore season, when he won his
first and only ACC championship.
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Chris Cox drove in Leshnock with a
single to left, then stole second. After
Villani struck out, Hector Ferrer drove
in the fifth run of the inning with a
ground single to center, chasing Wil
son. The Tar Heels put the game out of
reach with six runs in the sixth inning
off reliever Chris Hanrahan. Scott
Hughes led off the barrage with a double
into the right field corner. After
Holbrook was hit by a pitch, Woodall
sacrificed the runners. Kingston singled
to right through the pulled-in infield,
scoring both runners when the throw
got away.
Leshnock drove in his third run of the
night with a single to left, and Hamrick
followed with an instant replay to make
the score 1 1-5. Hanrahan tried to pick
Hamrick off first, only to find no one
ule certainly wasn't a breeze for her.
Wood entered the season opener, the
Lady Tar Heel Invitational, without a
spot in the Tar Heel top five. But
Gunnells and other coaches talked her
into competing as an individual com
petitor, and the encouragement may
have turned Wood's season around.
Wood was the second-highest Tar
Heel finisher in the tournament, and she
followed that performance with back-to-back
sudden death victories at the
Lady Seminole Invitational and the
Duke Fall Invitational.
She believes that experience was a
Vey in her improvement. "Every round
i jiolf, you're always learning some
thing about the way you play, about
your golf swing just about golf in
general," she said. "Maybe my scores
aren't much better than last year, but
I'm a much more mentally sound player
than last year."
Wood has followed her sparkling fall
with what she termed a disappointing
spring effort. She is currently working
on a swing change and hopes it will be
ready for an outstanding fall.
And if her autumn effort is anything
like last fall's, Wood will undoubtedly
see the headlines again.
It could be worse. Her name could be
Tee Burton.
"I'd like to start throwing the javelin
well again," he said. The past few
years I haven't had the years I would
have liked to have had."
Now, Murray wants to recapture that
feeling. He's been throwing since Spring
Break and is hoping that the opportu
nity to concentrate on just the javelin
will help him regain the form that has
made him one of the best javelin
throwers in ACC history.
If things work out, his thoughts may
drift to Barcelona and the 1992 Olym
pics. But Olympic throwers average
about 260-270 feet, a good 30 feet fur
ther than Murray's best toss.
Craddock said Murray should defi
nitely qualify for the Olympic Trials,
and believes Murray can make the
Olympic team if he can handle the men
tal pressure. "As far as speed and strength
and technique, he has the ability to be
that good," Craddock said. "Whether
you can be that good at age 21,1 don't
know. It's very demanding mentally."
For now, Murray is content with just
taking it easy and gearing up for next
year. The business administration ma
jor will graduate in May with the
highest grade point average of anyone
of the track team and he plans to
return for graduate school next year.
Meanwhile, he'll just keep taking
part in his favorite pastime eating
Flavor-ices. With 1 3 boxes in his refrig
erator and two new colors to keep him
entertained, Murray will probably be
back out on the track in no time.
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field. Villani drove both runners in with
a double into the right field corner, and
a Keith Grunewald single ended the
scoring.
The Chanticleers took an early lead,
scoring two runs in the first inning with
out hitting the ball hard.
MacMillan walked the leadoff man,
shortstop Ed Fortney, who was sacri
ficed to second. Shortstop Luis Lopez
blooped a Texas league popup over
second base, which fell in but failed to
advance Fortney. Hanrahan followed
with a perfectly placed soft liner down
the right field line, scoring Fortney and
moving Lopez to third.
MacMillan couldn't escape as left
handed hitter Cribb cued a ball past a
diving Cox at third, scoring Lopez to
make the score 2-0. The only hard-hit
IOC can't turn its back
after S. Africa's return
As the pillars of apartheid begin to
crumble, the International Olympic
Committee has told South Africa that
if reforms continue, the country will
be allowed to take part in this summer's
World Track and Field Champion
ships as well as next summer's Olym
pic Games.
After sending a delegation to South
Africa in late March, the IOC set sev
eral conditions for South Africa to
meet in order to return to the Olym
pics for the first time since 1960. The
primary conditions were the elimina
tion of apartheid and the unification of
the country's sports federations into
non-racial bodies.
South Africa President F.W. de
Klerk has promised the IOC that all
apartheid legislation will be gone by
the end of June.
But while changes appear to be
coming quickly, they can't be written
off as sure things. Not in South Africa.
While the IOC is playing a key role in
forcing the government to begin re
forms, it must realize that it has an
equally if not greater responsi
bility to ensure that the reforms are put
into full practice.
For even if the apartheid legislation
is gone by June and the sports federa
tions are unified, there is still much
more that must be done before South
African athletics is fair for all.
Most black South Africans have
obviously not lived in conditions that
have made athletic training even a
remote possibility. So while the gov
ernment reforms may provide an op
portunity for blacks to have sufficient
training in the future, that is clearly
not the case now, nor will it be by the
time the Olympics come around.
The number of black South Afri
cans found on the 1 992 Olympic team
will probably be substantially less than
the number of whites. After all, who's
got abetter chance of receiving Olym
pic training right now a young
white man or woman living in an
upper-middle class urban area or a
young black man or woman living in
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ball of the inning, a line drive at UNC
second baseman Ferrer, turned into an
inning-ending double play.
The Tar Heels answered with a run of
their own in the bottom of the first off
Wilson. With one out, ACC-player-of-the-week
Woodall lined a single to cen
ter. Leshnock drew a walk with two
outs, then both runners pulled off a
double steal. When Wilson threw a wild
pitch to Cox, Woodall scored to pull
UNC within 2-1.
UNC added two runs in the fourth off
Hanrahan. With one out, Holbrook
ground a single up the middle and went
to third when Woodall followed with a
perfect hit-and-run single. Holbrook
scored on Mark Kingston's line single
to center, and Leshnock drove in
Woodall with a sacrifice fly to make the
score 8-2.
Warren Hynes
Asst. Sports Editor
one of the immensely poor African
homelands?
The IOC is forcing South Africa to
remove racist legislation and to imple
ment reforms, something the commit
tee should be given much credit for. It
has added to the pressure that de Klerk
and the government face in making
change and making it now.
But what the IOC must also do is
place pressure on the government to
carry through with these reforms. It
must ensure that if the seeds for ending
segregation in South African athletics
are planted, the fruits of equal oppor
tunity will come to full bearing.
Allowing South Africa into the 1 99 1
World Track and Field Champion
ships in Tokyo and the 1992 Summer
Olympics in Barcelona would be a
start for the IOC. The committee must
fulfill a watchdog role for years to
come. It must continue to check the
progress made in South African ath
letics, and must not hesitate to punish
the nation again should this progress
be too slow in coming.
If the conditions are met and the
IOC makes the decision to allow South
Africa into international competition
this year, the decision will be a good
one. The Track and Field Champion
ships will give the IOC an opportunity
to see how many black South African
athletes have received Olympic train
ing in track and field thus far. The IOC
can then make further demands on the
country's sports federations.
And when 1992 rolls around and
the world gets all wrapped up in Olym
pic rings, one can only hope that the
voices of the Olympic Village and of
the world will be cheering for every
black South African athlete who com
petes, giving a cry for freedom that can
be heard from Barcelona to Pretoria.
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