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The Daily Tar HeelThursday, May 30, 19917
Lacrosse wins NCAA title to end perfect
Goldstein scores 8 times taking MVP honors
By Stewart Chisam
Staff Writer
SYRACUSE, N.Y. Dennis
Goldstein, national champion after two
years of not-quite-good-enough fin
ishes, rolled his eyes. His coach, Dave
Klarmann, had interrupted the senior's
interview, mumbling some gibberish
about "teamwork epitomizing the whole
season." Goldstein feigned annoyance.
Then Goldstein's eyes twinkled at
the gibberish. He didn't mind the inter
ruption. Not after defeating Towson State
Monday, 18-13, to win the national
lacrosse title before 8,293 in the Carrier
Dome. Not after North Carolina had
swept to a school-record 16th victory,
against no losses, in Klarmann's first
season as head coach.
And certainly not two days after
UNC's bigger-than-life 19-13 victory
over host Syracuse in the semifinals.
On Memorial Day, everything
brought a twinkle to the senior's eyes. A
brilliant career had ended perfectly
Goldstein, the All-ACC attacker from
Stony Brook, N.Y., was on top of the
lacrosse world.
"I'vebeen here five years,"Goldstein
said. "I've lost the last two times in the
semifinals, and it's really tough to go
This North Carolina lacrosse team isn't afraid
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By Doug Hoogervorst
Sports Editor
They ran the Indianapolis 500 Sun
day and I missed it again. Oh well.
Missing the Indy 500 has almost be
come a yearly tradition for me. I can't
remember watching the winner take the
checkered flag since Gordon Johncock
beat Rick Mears by 16 one-thousandths
of a second in 1982. That was exciting,
but I've missed every race since.
I just cannot get motivated to sit in
front of the television for the two-plus
hours the race takes so I can watch
people drive in circles and listen to the
some old features about the Andrettis
and Unsers year after year.
Instead, I just read the next day's
newspaper, examine the results closely
and take notice of the oddities therein so
I won't sound foolish in sports circles.
For example, Willy T. Ribbs became
the first black driver to race in the Indy
Sunday, but his race didn't last long. He
was through by the fourth lap and fin
ished 32nd. If I hadn't told you I didn't
watch the race, you never would have
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out that way to end the season that
abruptly.
"To come here and win the national
championship, it'sjustagreat feeling."
Chalk up much of UNC's champion
ship success to Goldstein, who tallied a
school-record 47 goals on the season,
including eight over the weekend: four
each against both Towson and Syra
cuse. Goldy also dished out four assists
Monday mostly to hometowners Joe
Bedell and Eric Seremet, who both
fielded season highs over the weekend.
Seremet had an out-of-body experi
ence Monday, tallying three goals; the
hat trick was nearly half of the seven
goals he scored this season.
Bedell, who underwent an emergency
appendectomy April 26, was the hero
Saturday, notching a personal-best six
points (three goals and three assists)
despite being winded by heat and the
appendectomy's after effects.
"It's amazing how out of shape you
can get in just two weeks," said Bedell
about the surgery.
However, it was Goldstein who
shined brightest in the Carrier Dome's
greenhouse-like weather. He always was
drawing a crowd of defenders and giv
ing the Tar Heels an ever-consistent
presence around the net.
Monday, Goldstein attracted the brunt
to tell you how good they are; UNC won
known.
Still, one of these years, I've got to
grab a six-pack and a couple bags of
preztels and, after installing a seatbelt
on my recliner, strap myself in to watch
this great American race. But some
thing inside would rather watch the
meaningless Orioles-Yankees pregame
show, and I have come to question why
it is I cannot do what every true Ameri
can fan does watch the Indy.
To begin with, I have trouble classi
fying auto racing as a sport; it seems
more like a competition between me
chanics. This is the way I've felt for
about 22 years (though I'm but 20 and
349 days old), and it took some genius
to put it into words.
Comedian George Carlin is that ge
nius. He does a great routine where he
claims that only baseball, basketball
and football are real sports and the rest
are activities. Carlin likes to point out
that if everyone can do something, it is
not a sport and that almost any idiot can
get a driver's license.
I do appreciate the training these
drivers have to go through to have the
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of the Tiger defense, but managed to
dissect, and wear down, the Towson
man-to-man attack with steady, consis
tent passing.
With 8:40 remaining in the game,
TSU had closed an 1 1-4 Tar Heel half
time lead to 1 3-1 2 on the strength of its
man-to-man defense. In the first half,
the Tigers employed a disastrous zone
defense.
But the Tiger defenders began to
wear down, and Goldstein patiently
found the openings in the denial de
fense. With 5:34 remaining, the Tiger de
fense collapsed on Goldstein, who di
recting the offense from behind the net,
but Goldy found Bedell wide-open.
Bedell fired a rocket from 15 yards
out to tally his second goal of the day
and end the Tiger rally.
'That was the biggest goal of the
game," Goldstein said. "It knocked off
their rally. If they had tied up the game,
it would have been real tough to come
back."
Towson coach Carl Runk credited
Goldstein for ending the Tiger rally.
"We went into what we call our de
nial defense," Runk said. "But Goldstein
is an excellent lacrosse player. We felt
we could cut him off, but when young
sters are exhausted there's not much
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its first national championship since 1986
for great American race
endurance for a 500-mile race. I do
appreciate the hours spent on the car.
(Though it seems funny to call those
racing machines cars. My Chrysler
LeBaron is a car, and it doesn't do
anything close to 225 mph. It does closer
to 22.5 mph.)
I understand that the driver, the pit
crew and sponsor work together for all
of May to become a well-running team
in every sense of the concept. It always
seems that every five minutes I tune in
ABC to check up on who is winning.
Jack Arute gives this rehashed feature.
By the way, what does Jack Arute do
when the Indy is over?
My basic complaint with auto racing
is that the cars, and not the drivers, are
the competitors. This leads to
snoozevil le for me. The human element
is what makes sports exciting.
No matter how good the driver, if his
car doesn't go, he won't get the dough.
In basebal I, the players use tools such
as bats and gloves to accomplish their
goals, but the players don't have better
bats than one another. When Tony
G wynn gets a base hit off Doc Gooden,
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you can do."
Shortly after Bedell's goal, Tar Heel
freshman Ryan Wade swept across the
crease to knock in an unassisted goal.
Next Goldstein found an open Michael
Thomas for another score.
With the score 16-12 and 3:38 re
maining, only time stood between the
Tar Heels' fourth national title and the
team's first undefeated season since
1982.
"I never imagined in my wildest
dreams that we would go 16 and 0 and
win the national championship,"
Goldstein said. "I thought we might win
the national championship, but with the
schedule we had, playing Top 10 teams
week in and week out, it just shows that
we took it one game at a time."
Klarmann, ever cautious, attributed
some of the success to luck.
"It's just been one of those wonder
ful years when we have been fortunate
enough to win," Klarmann said. "Those
last two games against Towson State
and Syracuse we could have just as
easily not won one of those games."
Except for the fourth quarter scare by
Towson, UNC biggest scare came
against the Orangemen, whose 1 3 goals
more than doubled UNC's average of
6.3 goals-yielded per game.
SU slipped behind 16-9 on a Bedell
goal with 6:38 remaining in the game
but then began a rally that put the 14,544
fans in the Carrier Dome into a frenzy.
Syracuse rattled off four consecutive
goals, including its last score a Charlie
Lockwood to Dom Fin quick shot
with 2:17 remaining.
Fin's goal brought life into the
Orange's dreams of a record fourth
straight championship. But just 10 sec
onds after Syracuse's 1 3th goal, UNC's
Steve Speers who, like Bedell, is
from nearby Fayetteville, N.Y. scored
off a John Webster fast-break pass.
The goal snapped the Orange's back
and sent UNC into the championship
game one year after the Tar Heels had
fallen to Syracuse 21-10 in the national
semis.
"The worst thing that happened was
last year's semifinal loss," Goldstein
said. "Just to lose 21-10 in front of
20,000 people when we know that we
didn't play as well as we could ... I just
wanted to avenge that and that was
done Saturday."
Saturday's win also marked UNC's
1 5th victory of the season, a new school
record, eclipsing the mark set by the
1982 undefeated squad.
Klarmann, who is a perfect 1 6-0 as a
head coach, did not take credit for the
Tar Heels' incredible success.
"I bought new game shorts home
and away that's what I've done dif
ferent," Klarmann said. "You can ask
any player, any alumni. There's not that
much difference in what we do."
Except for the final result.
Luck or no luck. New shorts or old.
UNC stopped the jinx and brought home
the Gold(stein).
it's because of Gwynn's great reflexes
and physical skills; it's not because his
bat has been tuned so it hits the ball
better than Bob Uecker's.
Larry Bird might not be as fast or as
quick or as big as a lot of players, but he
beats those players because he's better
in his mind and has some skill that he
has practiced for hours.
If the drivers in auto racing could
make more of a visible difference in the
race i.e. make the car a tool, not the
competitor it would generate more
interest for a lot of people. It also would
stop auto racing from being the sport
fans attend just to see the crashes.
I'm not sure how this can be done, if
at all. Until then, I'll continue to try to
become an auto racing fan.
And maybe next May, it will have
another fan if I can ever find a
seatbelt to attach to my recliner.
Editor' snote Sports editor Doug
Hoogervorst will write a weekly col
umn of profound commentary (read:
dribble ) about the world of sports. He is
a rising senior from Marlborough,
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Golf finishes
qualifies for
By David J. Kupstas
Sports Editor
NEW HAVEN, Conn. The North
Carolina golf team qualified for the
NCAA Championships with a disap
pointing eighth-place finish at the 23
team East Regional at the Yale Golf
Club last weekend.
The Tar Heels finished the three-day
competition with a40-over-par 280, 28
strokes behind champion Georgia Tech.
Clemson, Wake Forest and N.C. State
were also among the 1 1 teams which
qualified for the NCAAs to be held June
5-8 in Monterey, Calif.
UNC head coach Devon Brouse was
glad to see his team' make the champi
onships, but he was not especially happy
with the way in which his team got it
done.
"We qualified, and that's what we
went up there to do primarily," Brouse
said. "We certainly were not playing
the kind of golf that we were capable of
playing. I think the fellows went into
the tournament with a little bit of the
wrong attitude. They were just trying to
qualify and maybe didn't have the focus
they needed."
The Tar Heels struggled to a 14th
place tie Thursday with a 19-over-par
299. Bill Smith led UNC with a 73.
However, North Carolina zoomed
into seventh place on Friday with a team
score of 282 Friday, the fourth-best
total of the day. Pat Moore led the way
with a two-under-par 68, followed by
Tom Scherrer and Tee Burton with 69
apiece.
On Saturday, UNC slipped one spot
to eighth with a dismal 299. The only
Tar Heel to break 75 was John Aber,
who shot a 72.
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mance, UNC had its back to the wall.
Thus, the goal changed from finishing
first in the regional to simply getting
into the top 1 1 and earning a berth in the
championships.
"If you're not in a position to win,
you've got to make at least the qualifier
because you know that everyone's start
ing over next week," Brouse said. "It
doesn't really matter whether you fin
ish second or 1 1th. If you look at the
scores, there's not a lot of difference
between second and 1 0th or 11th in
terms of how many strokes separate the
teams." '
Indeed, Georgia Tech ran away with
the regional title, finishing 13 shots
ahead of second-place Georgia. Nine
strokes separated Georgia and Central
Flordia, but there was only a seven-shot
difference between Central Florida and
ninth-place Florida.
One of the big questions entering the
regional was how losing the ACC Cham
pionship would affect the UNC team.
At Rocky Mount, the Tar Heels rallied
to just two shots behind Georgia Tech
after two days of play, but their efforts
went to waste when the th ird day of play
was cancelled by rain.
"Maybe we were denied at the ACC
there with the rainout, and I don't know
if that was the problem at the regionals
or not," Brouse said. "We certainly
didn't play as well."
Georgia Tech, on the other hand,
went nuts with the momentum it gath
ered from its ACCToumament victory,
which counts as a win, rain or no rain.
"I think I'd rather be in the position
Georgia Tech is where they are com
ing off two straight wins and are at the
top of their game going into the NCAA
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