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;NPAA East: Duke 81 Southeast: Michigan 76 NPAA East: Virginia 65 Midwest: SW Mo. St. 72 ii 1 Tonight at 9:22 I 5 J, " (Stanford 78 : Mens ' , u , . Channels 2 and 5 ,,, , l ,, . , Women S UVa.'sStaley ends career W. Kentucky 62 Kim Pehlke leads W. Kentucky . P:ol Duke'sHUrleyscore526po,nts UMnneiS dn" M,ch,gan's 5 freshmen: 61 po.nU with 19-poin. game TL , f . wi.h30points "nal Minneapolis ... . . rinal " 6 The Cardinal's 2nd .... .... f , Four West: Indiana 78 MPtmrlnmP Midwest: Cincinnati 72 pour West: Stanford 66 title in 3 years 1 Mideast: W. Kentucky 84 Monday Men's tennis vs. Clemson, 2:30 p.m., Tennis Center PORTS 10The Daily Tar HeelMonday, April 6, 1992 3) Tar Heels By Brian Mcjunkln Staff Writer On a windy Sunday afternoon, the North Carolina men's track and field team blew away N.C. State 95-57 in a dual meet at Belk Track. The lopsided victory was achieved despite the absence of UNC's NCAA titlist Allen Johnson, who was sidelined with a lower abdominal muscle injury that he incurred earlier this week in practice. UNC head coach Dennis Craddock said that with a healthy Johnson the Tar Heels would have won three additional events. As it was, North Carolina won 14 of 19 events, finished second in 10 events and placed third in nine others. '-' "We're satisfied (with the victory)," Craddock said. "We know N.C. State is down they just don't have the bodies but the guys are always happy to beat State, since we are so close (geographi cally), and they see each other a lot. This is for bragging rights." Pacing the Tar Heels were double winners Reggie Harris and Kevin Brown. Harris won the 1 00-meter sprint with a time of 10.55 seconds and the 200 in 21.07. Brown took the pole vault with a vault of 17 feet, 2 34 inches and the 1 10 high hurdles in 14.63. Of his pole vault performance, Brown said, "I'm satisfied." Brown was trying to reach the 18-1 3 4 mark that would have assured him a spot at the NCAA Championships, but his effort was thwarted by equipment problems. "I was using a new pole," he said. UNC junior William Darity tied his own school-record outdoor high-jump mark of 7-3, qualifying him provision ally for the NCAAs. Junior Jerod Neas completed the 3,000 steeplechase in an ACC season best time of 9:05.6. "I didn't think (the competition) Women ace By John C Manuel Staff Writer North Carolina women's tennis coach Kitty Harrison could see it com ing; her Tar Heels had taken the lead against Clemson in singles matches, but holding that lead would be a differ ent matter, as evidenced by a March 29 loss to the University of Miami. Not to worry, Kitty. UNC, tied at No. 25 with Clemson and South Caro lina in the ITCAVolvo poll, bested the Tigers 5-4 at the UNC Tennis Center on a sun-splashed Sunday. UNC moved to 11-7, 4-2 in the ACC. Clemson fell to 14-6, 4-2. ' Junior CindaGumey and freshman Angie Bernal paced UNC. Gurney overpowered Clemson sophomore Mindy Weiner 6-3, 6-3 in a match wrought with tension. Weiner, grunting throughout the match, berated herself at every point After cramping up late in the second set, Clemson coach Andy Johnston approached her to help, but she shrieked, "Don't touch me!" Johnston obliged his pouting star. After losing, Weiner stomped off the court, only to find her coach in her face telling her, "If you don't Control your UNC Ail-American relief pitcher Paul Shuey t 1 S t ' jt ... .. knock 'Pack off (Belk) track Tar Heel pole vaulter Maxwell Thompson would be that close," said Neas, who was try ing to break the 9:00 mark. "With 200 meters left, they were yelling out the times, and I was trying to pick it up. I lost my footing right before the (water) jump it was ugly." Neas managed to regain his momen tum and win the race by 4.2 seconds. "It's a big grudge match," Neas said. "Everybody really puts it on the line." Wolfpack Coach Rollie Geiger said Tigers, 5-4 temper, just leave, you understand? Leave!" And off went Weiner. Johnston declined comment on the episode, while players from both sides buzzed with the word "transfer." Harrison said that while it was dis tracting, it wasnot unexpected. "We're used to that, we knew what to expect," she said, apparently referring to last year's ACC Tournament, in which Weiner broke a racket in disgust. Back on the courts, BernaPs gutty play provided no surprises, only solid play. She rallied to defeat Mimi Burgos, an All-ACC performer last season, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. Bernal was back on the court later, teaming with fellow frosh Freddie 1 Uihlein at No. 2 doubles to secure the UNC win with a 6-3, 6-1 defeat of Amy Hise and Carolina Jutklewicz. UNC's other singles wins came at the Nos. 3 and 5 spots. Alisha Portnoy grunted her way past Amy Young in a two-hourmatcn, 6-4, 6-4. Meanwhile, Thomas downed Hise 6-2, 6-2. Gigi Neely, switched to the No. 4 slot with the loss of NicoleTransou to what Harrison termed a "temporary suspension," took a loss to lefty Shan- See TENNIS, page 7 saw spot duty at first base in Saturday's 7-1 If v 1 f tWHf . ; joins his teammates in soaring above N.C. that the Tar Heels had been the favorites coming into the match because they had a good program and possessed more top athletes. 'Track and field (funding) has been cut to the bone," Geiger said. "We can offer only 12.6 scholarships to compete in 19 events. It's very difficult to run a full program." The Wolfpack was not able to field anyone competitive in the pole vault. No. 8 men's tennis By Carter Toole Staff Writer It was a good start to a hellish week. The UNC men's tennis team, on the strength of a devastating doubles sweep, spanked the Georgia Tech Yellow Jack ets 7-2 Sunday to remain undefeated in the ACC. The eighth-ranked Tar Heels moved to 16-4 overall, 3-0 in conference play with Sunday's win at the UNC Tennis Center. Georgia Tech fell to 1 1-8 over all and 2-3 in the ACC. But North Carolina can't rest on its laurels. In fact, it can't rest period. Sunday's match was one of six confer ence tilts on tap for the Tar Heels this week alone. UNC faces Clemson at home today, travels to Duke Tuesday, hosts Wake Forest Thursday and faces Virginia and Maryland in successive road matches next weekend. "I'm glad that we came to play today because we've got a real tough week ahead of us," said UNC head coach Allen Morris. "I was a little worried about this match, at how charged up our guys would be, but they really re sponded." The Tar Heels' top two singles play DTHMndrewCtine Clemson victory at Boshamer Stadium DTHlemifer Dickens State in Sunday's UNC victory at Belk Track But the Tar Heels did not enter anyone in the triple jump because of Johnson's injury. Johnson, who is the indoor NCAA champion in the 55-meter high hurdles, said abstaining from Sunday's meet was mostly a precautionary measure. "The ACC championship meet is coming up in two weeks, and it's the most important," Johnson said. "I'll be back hopefully by next week." ers struggled early before pulling out straight-set victo ries. Roland Thornq vist, ranked No. 14 na tionally, topped the Yellow Jack ets' Rob Givone 7 5, 6-3 at No. 1 singles, and Bryan Jones beat Scot: Cotton at No. 2 Roland Thomqvist singles, 7-6(10-8), 6-3. Thomqvist and Givone traded blows throughout the opening set, until Thomqvist reeled of f four straight points on Givone's serve at 6-5 to gain the first service break of the match and take the set. He grabbed an early break in the second stanza and cruised to the vic tory. Jones fell behind quickly in his first set tie-breaker but saved three set points to pull even at 6-6. Jones finally closed out the set on his third set point, ripping a forehand winner to win 10-8. "I didn't play a good breaker at first, but he seemed to get nervous and he missed some easy balls," Jones said. "Once I got to 6-6, though, I thought I was in good shape." Clemson hammers By Stewart Chisam Assistant Sports Editor Even when they're on the road, the Clemson Tigers tend to leave their op ponents in a deathly valley. The Tiger baseball squad, running away with the ACC title at 3 1 -5, 1 6-2 in the league, swept into Boshamer Sta dium this weekend and promptly swept away with three blowout victories. The Tigers upended North Carolina 10-4 Friday, 7-1 Saturday and 12-5 Sunday. The Tar Heels, who have lost five of their last six games since closing an eight-game win streak March 24, dropped to 18-14, 6-9 in the ACC. "Right now, there's no doubt we're in a little bit of a valley that we haven't been in in several years," said UNC head coach Mike Roberts Saturday. Sunday, the Tar Heels tried franti cally to climb out of that valley, but soon discovered a doctrine passed on from builders of the ancient city-states of Rome and Greece: It's hard to attack from the valley when your opponent is firmly fortressed on the mountain. The Tar Heels sent wave after wave of valley-dwelling hitters at the top-of-the-mountain Tigers, landing more than a few successes as UNC jumped to a 5 2 advantage heading into the seventh inning. Lacrosse tosses No. 3 Hopkins Staff reports BALTIMORE- Two North Caro lina attackmen combined for 10 points as the UNC lacrosse team pounded No. 3 Johns Hopkins 14-8 Saturday. : Steve Speers and Michael Thomas led the fourth-ranked Tar Heels to their third straight victory, improving the team's record to 5-2. The Blue Jays, losing for the first time this year on Homewood Field, fell to 3-2. Speers tallied a carter-high four goals, three corning in the fourth quar ter. Thomas had a career-high six poults on three goals and three assists. Midfieldej Dan Donnelly notched a hat trick as well. The Tar Heels outshot the Blue Jays 4734 and scooped up 49 groundballs to JHU's 35. UNC goal keeper Billy Daye made 11 saves, while Hopkins' Scott Giardina stopped 14 UNC shots. UNC sprinted out to a 6-1 lead 2:22 into me second quarter, jjui aner lour unanswered JHU goals, the Blue Jay s were down by just one 3:31 into the second half. UNC countered with three goals in ; the third period, jumping back ahead 9-5. In the final period, UNC outscored JHU 5-3 to ice the game. Lipson breaks ACC record KNOXVILLE, Tenn. UNC thrower Lynda Lipson set an ACC record in the discus Saturday as the ; North Carolina women's track team won the University of Tennessee Women's Quadrangular Meet Lipson 's toss of 178 feet, 2 inches shattered a nine-year-old record of 170-5 set by Marita Walton of May land. The toss automatically qualified Lipson for the NCAA Outdoor Chain- jolts Jackets, 7-2 The second set was swamped with constant arguments between the two players over line calls. Jones said the quarrels gave him extra incentive to bury Cotton quickly. "I was repeatedly getting question able calls, but it fired me up and I served unbelievably in the last two games," Jones said. "It feels real good to get out of here with a win." UNC's Sean Steinour crushed Matt Ottinger at No. 4 singles 6-4, 6-1, and senior tri-captain Joe Frierson posted an easy 6-1, 6-2 win against Rodney Nilson at No. 6 singles. Both of the Yellow Jackets' victories came in singles. Paul Stevens beat UNC's Woody Webb 6-3, 6-0 at No. 3 singles, and Joe Nickels battled from a 5-3 deficit in the third set to beat the Tar Heels' Chris Mumford 7-6, 3-6, 7-5 at No. 5 singles. North Carolina thus had a 4-2 lead heading into the doubles, needing one win to clinch the match. The Tar Heels took care of business quickly. Thomqvist and Mumford, ranked 22nd nationally in doubles, destroyed Givone and Nickels 6-1, 6-1 at No. 1 doubles to ice the match. "The guys played well in singles, but Still, the Tigers had more ammuni tion, bombing the Tar Heels for seven runs in the seventh to seal the victory. "You've got to be able to hammer it home to be a good team," Roberts said, "and we're not hammering it home right now." The hammer behind Clemson's win was Tiger designated hitter Jeff Morris, who followed a leadoff single in the seventh with a three-run triple at the end of the inning that brought the Tigers ahead 9-5, all but nailing the door shut for UNC. Morris ended the game with three hits, two triples and four runs batted in. Squeezed in between Morris' seventh-inning heroics was the batting of Trent Hackle, who tagged a three-run double that tied the score at 5-5. Making Clemson's seventh-inning onslaught even more painful, and sur prising, was that the brunt of it came against Tar Heel ace reliever and All American Paul Shuey. "We showed a lot of confidence early in the ballgame," Roberts said. "But as soon as that triple was hit off Paul Shuey to make it 5-5, you seemed to feel like it was dwindling away." All seven Tiger runs in the inning came with Shuey on the mound, al though the UNC reliever was charged with only five of them (the other two pionships, to be held June 3-6. Lipson also won the javelin Satur day with a season-best throw of 1 58-5 and placed third in the shot put. UNC won the four-team meet with 57 points, followedby Tennessee (46), Clemson (40) and Auburn (31). Other first-place finishers for UNC were Tisha Waller in the high jump, Rebecca Russell in the 400-meter hurdles and Melissa Benner in the 1500-meter run. Softball takes Spring Fling GREENVILLE, S.C. The UNC Softball team outscored its opponents . 19-4 at this weekend's Furman Spring Fling.going 5-0 and claiming the tour nament title. The Tar Heels clinched the title with a 5-0 blanking of East Carolina Saturday night EarlierSaturday, UNC, now 33-10, downed Georgia Tech 6-0 and host Furman 2-1. Tax Heel sophomorepitcher Beverly Smith picked up her 15th win in the victory against ECU. : Against Georgia Tech, UNC center fielder TheiesaBuscemi led the charge, going 2 for 2 with a home run and four runs batted in. The Tar Heels needed eight innings to subdue Furman. The Paladins pushed across the game's first run in the top of the eighth, but UNC coun tered with two in the bottom half of the inning. Amy Cole smacked the game winning single. In Friday's first-round games, UNC shut out Georgia Tech 2-0 and squeezed by Coastal Carolina 4-3 in eight innings. UNC sophomore hurler Paige Lauby picked up the victory in See SOFTBALL, page 7 Bryan Jones I was really pleased with the doubles," Morris said. "Our one and two teams were outstanding." Frierson and Jones ripped Cotton and Ottinger 6-2, 6-3 at No. 2 doubles, and Steinour and Webbcompleted the sweep with a hard-fought 6-0, 3-6, 6-3 win at No. 3 doubles. Tar Heels Friday . Clemson 024 210 010 10 18 2 North Carolina 101 001010 4 61 s Phillips, Eggleston (6) and Monln; Johnson. Ferrer (4) and Leshnock. W-PhllHps (2-0). L Johnson (4-3). Sv-Eggleston (1). HRa- I Clemson, Satterfietd (3), Miller (2); UNC. ' Richardson (1). Saturday Clemson 000024 001 711 1 i North Carolina 000001 000 1 44 Briley. JersDd (9) and Lockhart; Chrlsmon, Shuey (6), Kfifty (8) and Leshnock. lewis (6), DaSilva (8). W-Briley (3-0). L-Chrlsmon (4-2). HRs-UNC,Cox(11). Sunday Clemson 000 020 703 1 2 14 3 North CaroBna 010301000 511 3 : Angel, Sauve(5).Jersild(7) and Monln, Carter (3), Lockhart (5); MacMillan, Willman (5), . Shuey (7) and Lewis, DaSilva (5). W-Sauve (1 -O). t-Shuey (3-2). HRs-none. belonging to reliever Brian Willman). Three of the runs charged to Shuey were unearned. Shuey later allowed the Tigers to pound three runs off him in the ninth. "He is struggling a little bit and our guys made him pay," said Clemson head coach Bill Wilhelm. "It was just our day this time." Roberts apparently thought the um piring had something to do with Shuey 's slump. AfteranumberofShuey's light See CLEMSON, page 7 'i
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