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10The Daily Tar HeelMonday, February 24, 1992
Women's basketball shakes senior blues, bruises Deacons 90-61
By John C Manuel
Staff Writer
Sometimes teams get emotional on
Senior Day.
Awards are given, parents walk out
to halfcourt with their children, and
tears make their way into the eyes of
'players. In this atmosphere, teams have
a tendency to come out flat.
Such was the case Sunday afternoon,
as the North Carolina women's basket
tall team overcame a lackluster first
half effort to blow out the Wake Forest
Demon Deacons 90-61 at Carmichael
Auditorium.
The contest was the last home game
for Tar Heel seniors LeAnn Kennedy,
Emily Johnson and Tonya Lamb, and
they were honored before the game.
Problem was. North Carolina seemed to
play as if the first half was an extension
of the pre-game festivities.
"We did a little check-up from the
neck up at half on what the season
.Heels
By Mark Anderson
Senior Writer
' Was it live or was it Memorex?
Did North Carolina and North Caro
lina State really play basketball Satur
day, or did 21,572 fans in the Smith
Center just have a tremendous deja vu
experience? Maybe N.C. State head
coach Les Robinson brought one of his
favorite videos over to Dean Smith's
house so everyone could watch.
Robinson could have picked either
of the Wolfpack's last two wins against
thcTar Heels from his video collection,
because State's 99-94 upset of No. 4
North Carolina Saturday was almost an
exact replica of those two outings. N.C.
State, which had not won since a 99-88
triumph versus UNC Jan. 22, stopped a
nine-game losing streak and swept the
Tar Heels for the first time in 1 8 years.
'This is a season that easily could
have gone by the wayside," Robinson
said. "This gives us hope. This gives us
something to play for."
Exactly a month since his last vic
tory, Robinson used a familiar game
plan to claim his third win in four tries
against Smith. N.C. State improved to
10-15, 4-8 in the ACC. Suddenly strug
gling UNC suffered its second straight
setback and is now 1 8-5, 8-4. The rivals
are in position to meet again in the first
round of the ACC Tournament.
Robinson credited the rivalry and the
fact that the young Wolfpack felt no
pressure, but still seemed at a loss to
explain his club's mastery of the more
talented Tar Heels.
"The thing that we had going for us is
that we had beaten this team," Robinson
said. "My players knew, their players
knew that we could beat them. We had
done it."
Smith, UNC's head coach, joked:
"Maybe they ought to try to schedule us
more than twice a year. It might bring
out the best."
The Tar Heels seem to have that
effect on the Wolfpack. Last season,
NCSU dropped 1 2 3-pointers and shot
54.8 percent from the field in a 97-91
upset Feb. 6 in Raleigh. In State's win
earlier this year, it stuck 14 treys and
The Tar Heels' hopes for a split with Coastal
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meant to us, and we came out with a lot
more intensity in the second half," said
UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell.
The win pushed the No. 23 Tar Heels
shot 55.6 percent. Saturday, N.C. State
hit 1 2 3-pointers and shot 60.6 percent.
Anyone see a pattern?
A downtrodden Wolfpack squad
fought off double-digit Tar Heel leads
in both halves Saturday. With confi
dence that only seems to surface against
UNC, N.C. State used a 15-4 run mid
way through the second half to put
North Carolina on its heels.
The method was simple and familiar.
Robinson spread the floor and ordered
his smaller, quicker squad to penetrate
and exploit UNC's trapping defense.
Once inside, State kicked the ball back
outside for unguarded 3-pointers.
"It was wide open," Robinson said in
disbelief. "It's like a free throw when
you're that open."
Mark Davis, who finished with 25
points, took care of the long-range shoot
ing. The freshman hit 7 of 10 treys,
including one with 1 :33 left that gave
State the lead for good.
"That epitomized our confidence
level today," Robinson said. "He didn't
hesitate; he didn't blink an eye. That's
growing up."
When UNC shut off the 3-point shot,
State drew UNC's big men, then dropped
the ball to Kevin Thompson for an easy
layup. Thompson took care of the in
side work, hitting 12 of 14 shots on his
way to a career-high 29 points.
"We were hesitant to play that pass
(to Thompson), apparently because of
the 3," Smith said. "But that's the pass
we've designed to steal the ball. We got
it about once and they got about 10
layups, so that isn't the way it's sup
posed to work."
Donnie Seale and Curtis Marshall
took care of the ballhandling. Seale
dished out 1 1 assists, and Marshall had
six assists and three 3-pointers. As usual,
Tom Gugliotta took care of everything
else with 24 points, seven rebounds,
four assists and four steals.
"Once they started hitting the 3s, we
tried to go out there and play them
outside," said UNC point guard Der
rick Phelps. "Once we started doing
that, they started throwing it down into
Thompson. He was hitting key baskets
for them, so we had to jam in and they'd
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to 19-6, 8-6 in the ACC, good for a
third-place tie with Clemson. The loss
dropped the Deacons to 10-15, 1-13 in
the conference.
tate of shock after 99-94 upset
throw it back out. They had a great
game plan."
State's second-half run started after
an Eric Montross slam gave UNC a 75
68 lead with 10: 1 3 remaining. Thomp
son hit a post layup, then Gugliotta
completed an old-fashioned three-point
play on the break. After a UNC turn
over, Thompson tied the game with a
spinning finger-roll.
UNC's Brian Reese, who scored 10
of his 12 points in the second half,
dropped two jumpers around a Thomp
son slam, but State was not finished.
Marshall and Gugliotta nailed 3-pointers
to give the Wolfpack an 83-79 lead
with 6: 18 left.
Hubert Davis scored eight of UNC's
next 13 points, and his 3-pointer gave
UNC a 92-90 lead at the 2:01 mark.
Davis matched his career-high with 30
points, 1 9 of them in the second half.
N.C. State's Davisansweredwithhis
final trey, and, for the second straight
game, UNC fell apart in the stretch. The
Tar Heels missed eight of their final
nine shots, including three Hubert Davis
3-point attempts.
Offensively, UNChit 52.8 percent of
its shots, but again went away from its
height advantage against the Wolfpack.
Montross opened the game ferociously
scoring six of UNC's first nine points
then took only four shots the rest of
the game. George Lynch finished with
13 points, 1 1 rebounds and eight assists,
but only five points, five rebounds and
three assists came after the break.
Phelps, who had seven assists, blamed
the State defense for UNC's inability to
dominate inside.
"They started jamming in more on
Eric once we started getting the ball in
and he was scoring easily," Phelps said.
"It was really hard to get the ball inside
because they were keying on that most
of the time. They did a great job doing
that, and we just weren't hitting the
outside shots."
That weakness continues to come to
the forefront for UNC. Besides Davis,
UNC was 2 of 9 from treyland.
Montross, who had 15 points and five
rebounds, said the Tar Heels abandoned
the inside game too quickly.
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The Tar Heels placed four players in
double figures, with freshman forward
Charlotte Smith setting the pace with 1 7
points. Smith also led UNC with eight
rebounds.
Sophomore Tonya Sampsonchipped
in 16, center Sylvia Crawley added IS
and Kennedy hit for 14.
Forward Laura Coakley scored 20 to
lead Wake Forest, while Vicki Inman
added 12. The team's leading scorer
this season, sophomore guard Nicole
Levesque, was held to 10.
North Carolina had a decided height
advantage on the smallish Deacons, but,
in the early going, found it rough inside
the paint. Wake rushed out to a 12-4
lead before Hatchell called timeout to
settle down her charges.
"We had to remember what we were
playing for," Hatchell said. "The 20
win season, the NCAA (Tournament)
bid ... I think we were thinking about
the Senior Day activities a little."
"Part of it may have been an adjust
ment, but another part may have been
that it was passed up," Montross said.
"It's not time to point fingers at all
because we are a team. It doesn't matter
who scores, but you do like to get it to
whoever is hot or whatever the other
team is allowing.
"It could have gone inside more than
it did in the second half. I'm not just
talking about myself when it went in
to the big people, they usually got things
done. That's just part of our learning
experience."
N.C. State 99, UNC 94
Saturday
N.C. STATE (99)
- fg ft rb
mln m-a m-a o-t pf tp
Davis 30 9-15 0-0 2-3 1 0 25
Gugliotta 40 9-17 4-5 4-7 4 1 24
Thompson 39 12-14 5-9 2-6 1 4 29
Seale 34 3-6 1-1 2-3 11 1 7
Marshall 35 3-5 3-4 0-2 6 3 12
Bakalli 10 0-2 0-0 2-3 5 0 0
McCulier 12 1-2 0-0 0-1 1 0 2
TOTALS 200 37-6113-1912-26 29 9 89
Percentages FG .606, FT .684. 3-point
goals 1 2-23, .522 (Davis 7-1 0, Marshall 3
5, Gugliotta 2-6, Seale 0-1, McCulier 0-1).
Team rebounds 4. Blocked shots 2
(Thompson 2). Turnovers 12 (Gugliotta 5,
Seale 2, Marshall 2, McCulier 2, Davis). Steals
6 (Gugliotta 4, Marshall 2).
UNC (94)
fg ft rb
mln m-a m-a o-t a pt tp
Rfidl 13 1-1 0-0 1-1 2 2 3
Lynch 30 6-10 1-2 6-11 : 8 5 13
Montross 27 5-7 5-5 3-5 2 3 15
Davis 34 10-18 5-5 0-2 2 2 30
Phelps 34 4-10 0-0 ; 0-1 7 2 8
Reese 20 6-13 0-0 3-3 0 0 12
Salvador! 14 2-3 0-0 2-5 0 2 4
Sullivan 22 3-7 0-0 2-4 2 2 7
Wenstrom 3 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
Williams 3 1-2 0-O 0-0 1 0 2
TOTALS 200 38-7211-1218-34 2419 94
Percentages FG .528, FT .917. 3-polnt
goals 7-1 9, .368 (Davis 5-10, Sullivan 1 -3,
ROdl 1-1. Phelps 0-2, Reese 0-2, Lynch 0-1 ).
Team rebounds 1. Blocked shots 3
(Montross, Phelps, Salvador!). Turnovers
11 (Sullivan 3, Rodl 2, Montross 2, Reese 2,
Lynch, Phelps). Steals 9 (Rod! 2, Lynch 2,
Davis 2, Phelps, Wenstrom, Williams).
N.C. State
North Carolina
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Technical Fouls none. Attendance -21.572
Baseball
By Stewart Chisam
Assistant Sports Editor
After breezing through its first three
games of the season, North Carolina
hoped to coast again this weekend.
However, Friday's battle with Vir
ginia Commonwealth provided some
rough riding for UNC, as the Tar Heels
picked up their first loss of the young
season in a 2-1 VCU triumph.
Perhaps contests against Coastal
Carolina Saturday and Sunday would
bring smooth sailing for the Tar Heels.
But a mess of muffed balls, a pesky
Chanticleer squad and a Sunday rainout
rocked the Tar Heels' boat some
whatas UNC fell toCoastal Carolina
12-9 Saturday.
Sunday's game with Coastal was
postponed because of rain after 1 12
innings and the score 3-3.
The loss was disappointing for UNC,
but perhaps not terribly surprising in
this, the rough-sailing waters of college
baseball.
"It was just one of those games that
happens," said UNC coach Mike Rob
erts. "In baseball, when you play a lot of
games on a daily basis, it can occur.
"We hope it's a one-day affair and
it's behind us."
The Tar Heels fell to 3-2 after the two
Boshamer Stadium setbacks. Coastal
Carolina moved to 4-5. Two of the
North Carolina regrouped and took
its first lead at the 7:40 mark of the first
stanza on a putback by Crawley, going
up 25-23. On the halfs final play.
Wake's Coakley caught an airball and
put it in, cutting the UNC lead to 40-36.
The Tar Heels then responded to
Hatchell' s prodding and ran the Dea
cons out of the gym with a 19-2 run to
open the second period. Kennedy, Smith
and Sampson had all of North Carolina's
points in the streak, which included two
3-pointers.
With the score 59-40, UNC went on
another spurt to put the game out of
reach. A 12-2 run was keyed by two
Crawley baskets and a 3-pointer by
freshman Stephanie Lawrence.
The Tar Heels went on to take a 34
point lead with 5: 1 7 left on a three-point
play by Crawley.
UNC travels to Charlottesville to take
on No. 1 Virginia Wednesday at 7:30
p.m.
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Chanticleers' losses came last week
end, when UNC swept Coastal in
Conway, S.C., by scores of 8-6 and 22
I. Another North Carolina rout was not
to be Saturday, though, as Coastal capi
talized on seven Tar Heel errors four
by shortstop Keith Grunewald to
tally 1 1 unearned runs on four different
pitchers. Coastal's first earned run did
not come until the eighth inning, when
UNC reliever Paul Shuey balked, send
ing in Chanticleer left fielder Stephen
Turner for the game's final run.
"It is frustrating when you struggle
with routine ground balls, that sort of
thing," Roberts said. "But we have a
great group of guys and they're very
confident and really work well together,
so I think they'll be fine."
UNC was almost fine Saturday, as
they attempted to engineer a furious
comeback in the fifth and sixth innings.
After three UNC pitchers combined
to give up four runs in the top of the
fifth, the North Carolina entered the
bottom of the inning trailing 1 1 -3. Then
the Tar Heels caught fire and the
Chanticleers caught UNC's penchant
for errors.
With North Carolina's Chad
Holbrook on first after a single to right
field, Chanticleer pitcher Dave Iorlano
tossed a wild pitch that moved Holbrook
to second. On the next pitch, Mark
North Carolina 90, Wake Forest 61
Sunday
Wake Forest (61)
Stone 2-9 4-5 9. Coakley 7-13 6-8 20, Inman
6-8 0-0 12, Thames 1-51-2 3, Levesque 3-103-510,
Boggs 0-10-00, Hammack 0-3 1 -2
1. Davis 1-3 0-1 2, Washington 2-3 0-04.
Totals 22-55 15-23 81.
North Carolina (90)
Kennedy 5-9 2-3 14, Bradley 2-2 0-0 4,
Smith 6-1 1 5-5 1 7, Lamb 2-5 0-2 4, Johnson
0-5 3-5 3, Sampson 5-1 0 3-5 16, Crawley 7
1 0 1 -1 1 5, McKee 2-4 2-2 6, Lawrence 2-3 2
2 8, Suddreth 0-2 1-21. Montgomery 1 -2 0
0 2, Turner 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 32-66 1 9-27 90.
Halttime North Carolina 40, Wake Forest
36. Fouled out - Coakley, Inman, Levesque.
3-polnt field goals - Wake Forest 2-11
(Levesque 1-3, Slone 1-5, Inman 0-1,
Thames 0-1 .Davis 0-1 ) North Carolina 7-1 8
(Sampson 3-5, Lawrence 2-3, Kennedy 2-4,
Suddreth 0-1. Johnson 0-2, Lamb 0-3). Re
bounds - Wake Forest 32 (Coakley 8). North
Carolina 43 (Smith 8). Assists - Wake Forest
1 2 (Levesque 6), North Carolina 22 (Johnson
9). Fouls - Wake Forest 22, North Carolina
23..
Attendance 2,750
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Gugliotta (24) for a rebound in Saturday's tilt
at home
Kingston belted a shot to shortstop Chris
Pond, who bungled the ball and then
tossed it over first baseman Chris
Hanrahan's head.
After another wild pitch sent
Holbrook to third and Kingston to sec
ond, designated hitter Manny DaSilva
belted a single off Pond's glove, and
Holbrook rounded home.
Tar Heel catcher Donnie Leshnock
followed with an RBI single to right
field, bringing in Kingston to make the
score 11-5.
A wild pitch and a walk later, the
bases were loaded with one out, butUNC
could bring in only DaSilva, who scored
off a Grunewald sacrifice fly.
Aftershutting out the Chanticleers in
the top of the sixth. North Carolina
brought the score to 11-9 with three
runs in the inning's bottom.
But the Tar Heels would come no
closer, as they failed to score in the final
three innings.
The loss, followed by the rain delay
Sunday, left UNC itching for some time
off to prepare for Wednesday's 3 p.m.
tilt with UNC-Greensboro, which has
been rescheduled to be played at
Boshamer Stadium.
"It would have been good for us to
play (Sunday)," Roberts said. "But we
also need some practice time, and this
gives us some time to work on some
things."