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"Here, there are real people ... At Wa.t if you don't wear your grandfather's letter jacket, you are nothing, Jim Buczek, VNC lacresss player PORTS The Daily Tar HeelThursday, April 16, 19925 , 11151 ltlifcHTl I Warren vl?T ynes f'jA s Sports J S Editor Tennis stars sparkle in hoops arena In place of the light-brown hard wood, a light-blue hardcourt graced the floor. Instead of press tables, sponsor billboards surrounded the court area. Where referees normally roam blowing whistles, line judges yelled, "Out!" Indeed, tennis looked a little funny in the basketball-rich Smith Center Wednesday night. The proximity of the stands to the court caused balls to go rocketing into the front row. The makeshift wall sur rounding the court had trouble staying up. Spectators had trouble sitting down while play was in progress. The ballgirls and ballboys sometimes forgot to throw the ball to servers. But when four tennis players hit that pseudo-court, none of those deficien cies mattered. The BMW Carolina Ten nis Shoot-Out was a men's tennis exhi bition, and Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Patrick McEnroe and Tim Mayotte displayed their showmanship in grand style. They tradedone-liners and backhands for 4 12 hours. There was Connors, the stand-up comic who moonlights as one of the greatest players in tennis history. There was John McEnroe, the fierce competitor whose serious demeanor has earned him 151 titles and the respect of all who, like him, are just sick of people who are wrong. There was Patrick McEnroe, the upstart 25 -year-old try ing to crawl out of his brother's shadow. And there was Mayotte, the 6-foot-3 veteran with the movie-star looks. For the record, the team of McEnroe and McEnroe won the event 4-2. But enough with the scores. Exhibi tion tennis is not about that. It is about players getting paid to go out and enter tain. It is about John McEnroe standing with a tennis ball in his mouth. It's about Tim Mayotte yelling to a fan, "Hey, Uecker!" It's about showing the lighter side of players who are often the most serious athletes around. In the Connors-Patrick McEnroe match, McEnroe jumped ahead 4-2 and led 40-0 in the seventh game. But Connors, as only he can, roared back to tie the game at 40-40. The two battled on, and after the game's fifth deuce, Connors plopped down in a chair in the corner of the court, taking a rest. The two dueled on, and after yet another deuce, Connors handed one of the ballboys his racket and tennis balls. Connors promptly stood in the ballboy 's spot, hands behind his back. Without skipping a beat, however, Patrick McEnroe handed his racket to 10-year-old ballgirl Abbie Gudeman. With McEnroe sitting in a chair, the 4- See PITCH, page 7 Say Happy Baskets, Easter Ornaments, Cards, Basket Staffers, Stuffed Animals, n & of course, Balloons! 3 We'll deliver or come by and tee our great 208 W. Main St, Carrboro (comer of Join "One of the areas top fine dining restaurants." -Spectator Magazine for GRADUATION WEEK MAKE RESREVATIONS 31 7 W. Main St, Durham, NC (919)688-7062 Devils tax By Eric David Assistant Sports Editor It took some great displays of athleticism and abit of luck, but the No. 2 UNC lacrosse team finally put away a pesky Duke squad Wednesday night before 2,000 at Fetzer Field. North Carolina moved to 7-2, 3-0 in the ACC. Duke fell to 4-5, and 1-2. Three times the Tar Heels forged three-goal leads only to see Duke pull back to within one. "They are a very resilient team," said UNC coach Dave Klarmann. "They weren't about to quit." Duke did get on the board first at the 11:54 mark, but North Carolina re sponded with four unanswered goals, highlighted by a spectacular goal by Blue-collar By Eric David Assistant Sports Editor In the rarefied air of Baltimore high school lacrosse, the blood is blue and the collars are white. The players come from the Gilman Country Day School for Boys, the Boys Latin School, the St. Paul's School for Boys and Loyola Blakefield. It is a tight-knit community of kids with simi lar backgrounds and living environ ments. It is in this very community that UNC senior lacrosse player Jim Buczek found himself in 1 984 as a high school fresh man at Loyola Blakefield. Buczek, though, never really fit in with the crowd. He didn't come from the rich neigh borhoods in and around Baltimore. Rather, he came from rural Howard County, located between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Buczek was more comfortable bowl ing or fishing than riding horseback. In short, Buczek felt like he was in a foreign environment. "My first few years at Loyola were hell," Buczek said. "I didn't live in the best part of town, and people looked down their noses a bit." Buczek reacted in a way that was natural for him he played sports. "I got back at them on the athletic field," he said. On the lacrosse field, Buczek, a midfielder, was a natural. He was an honorable-mention all-Metro selection as a junior, playing for a team that won the Maryland Scholastic Association championship, and he was a first-team choice as a senior. Every college lacrosse team in the country wanted Buczek, but North Caro lina got him over Virginia and Duke. In making his decision, Buczek remem bered the alienation he had felt at Loyola. "I am not a country club kind of guy, which is one reason I came to Caro lina," he said. "UVa. is a country-club school. There is probably a row of BMWs outside the locker room there. Here there are pickups and Jeeps." For Buczek, though, it was more than just lacrosse. "Here, there are real people,"Buczeksaid. "They don't judge you by the car you drive. I knew I would play sooner or later wherever I went, so I better be happy with the school, my teammates and friends. At UVa., if you don't wear your grandfather's letter Ea4te ish a election of fun ideas! 967-3433 Main & Weaver, diagonal form Town Hail) your friends j- J. i Crescent Cafe NOW DUKE ST. f lax: Heels win, 9-8 midfielder Jim Buczek. At the 10:10 mark of the first quarter with the score 1-1, Buczek got the ball at midfield, weaved through the entire Duke de fense and beat Blue Devil goalie Carter Hertzberg while falling into the crease. The play inspired UNC as the Tar Heels scored two more goals in the first quarter. "That was a very impressive display," Klarmann said of Buczek's mad dash. The Blue Devils fought back with two goals in the second quarter to make the score 4-3, while UNC was held scoreless for the full 15 minutes. The Tar Heels came storming out of the locker room with another three-goal run to put UNC up 7-3, but Duke gained momentum with a goal at the :02 mark Buczek feels jacket then you are nothing." At UNC, Buczek has con tinued to play as if trying to prove something to doubters. As a freshman he was named ACC Rookie of the Year, tallying Jim Buczek seven goals, seven assists and 71 groundballs. In 1990 he picked up his offensive game, scoring 15 goals and nine assists. Last year, though, Buczek came into his own. Playing on UNC's 16-0 na tional championship squad, Buczek was named second-team All-American. Al though his scoring totals dropped to nine goals and five assists, Buczek settled into his role as the premier de fensive midfielder in the country. In 1 992, Buczek has continued to be a steady force for second-ranked UNC (7-2 overall). He is sixth on the team in scoring (six goals and six assists) and leads the team with 46 groundballs (be fore Wednesday's game). According to UNC head coach Dave Klarmann, Buczek's contributions, while less eye-catching than some of his teammates', are essential to any success the team achieves. "His defense gives us immediate) offense much like Duke's defense makes their of fense in basketball," Klarmann said. The key to this ability is speed. Buczek is the fastest player on the team and one of the fastest in the country. "When he runs with you, no one can beat him," Klarmann said. One would think that someone with Buczek's talent would get frustrated playing defense, but not Buczek. "Not getting offense doesn't bother me as long as we are winning," he said. "I have no problem with Dan Donnelly and Ryan Wade scoring. I am totally happy doing my role, digging through the mud to get groundballs." Even if fans may not not ice, B uczek's s r. (graduates, Claire sMangum House Restaurant is the definitive place for Graduation Dinners. The charm of our old Southern mansion coupled with outstandingfood make Claire sMangum Howe Restaurant Easily reached from campus. Reserve early for Graduation. 2701ChapelHaiRoad,Durham,N.C. 4935721 nukim )jC not another oh yeah, yx j O Contact! Council Travel 703 Ninth Street, Suite B-2 Durham, NC 27705 (919) 286-4664 0 i J of the third quarter. Duke used this momentum going into the fourth quarter as it tallieft two more goals in the first 4:26 of the final stanza to pull the score to 7-6. Once more, the Tar Heels went on a run, scoring twice in 56 seconds. The streak began when UNC attackman Michael Thomas stripped Hertzberg of the ball on an attempted clear and fed defenseman Holmes Harden for an easy goal to push the Tar Heels ahead 8-6. Down 9-6 with 3:27 on the clock, Duke didn't quit as the Devils' Seth McCullough beat UNC's Billy Daye one-on-one to make the score 9-7. Blue Devil midfielder David Donovan fol lowed 1:23 later with his fifth goal of the game to pull Duke to 9-8. at home in peers do. "It takes courage to get groundballs," said Klarmann. "You have to be fearless. I think teammates and opponents sense that." As a sophomore, though, fear crept into Buczek's mind as he suffered from torn ligaments in his right shoulder. Catching and throwing were both ex tremely painful, but Buczek refused to sit out. "It would have to be that I couldn't run before I would toss it in," he said. Buczek hid the pain so well that Klarmann, who was the top assistant coach under Willie Scroggs at the time, did not even know he was hurt. On May 27 of last year, all the pain and hardship became a memory for Buczek, though, as he stood on the floor of the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y., celebrating UNC's 18-13 victory against Towson State for the national crown. Buczek made sure he was playing when the buzzer sounded, because he wanted the full experience. "I like to be Baseball sacks ECU; Athletes honored Staff reports ZEBULON The North Carolina baseball team used a three-run fourth inning, spurred by Bo Durkhac's two run double, to defeat East Carolina 5-1 Wednesday night at Five County Sta dium. The win upped North Carolina's record to 24-16. ECU fell to 21-16. The Tar Heels pounded 10 hits, the ' ninth straight time North Carolina has had double figures in hits. Four pitchers took the mound for the Tar Heels, allowing only six hits. Tar Heel Brian Willman picked up the win, upping his record to 3-1. Hollier earns Patterson Medal Dwight Hollier, the hulking line backer who was North Carolina's first two-time football captain since 1946, has earned the University's highest ath letic award. Hollier, a 6-foot-3, 238-pound se nior from Hampton, Va., was named Mobil Ixsvd ML ""' ' M.IIIIIII.II.LM- Tin- program thai cuts tliroimh Ihc ltd law ami allow you to work in: Britain Germany Ireland New Zealand Costa Rica Canada France Jamaica Open to all majors with am (IFA t.raduaiint; seniors, too! For more information and a live brochure, contact: Council on International Educational Exchange 205 East 42nd St.. New York, NY 100P V HOME LACROSSE in NCNBTriangle Lacrosse Classic (vs. vlllanova), Fetzer, Sun. 3 p.m. AWAY BASEBALL at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Fri. 7 pjn., Sat. 1 :30 p.m., Sun. 1:30 p.m. MEN'S GOLF at Sun DevilThunderbird Classic. Tempe, Ariz., Fri.-Sat., All Day WOMEN'S GOLF at ACC Championships, Winston Salem, Thurs. Sun., All Day LACROSSE at NCNBTriangle Lacrosse Classic (vs. Michigan State), Durham, Sat. 1 p.m. SOFTBALL at ACC Tournament, Tallahassee, Fla., Fri.-Sun., All Day MEN'S TENNIS at ACC Tournament, Charlotte (Renaissance Park), Thurs.-Sun., All Day WOMEN'S TENNIS at ACC Tournament, Charlotte, Fri.-Sun., All Day TRACK at ACC Championships, Tallahassee, Fla. Fri.-Sat., All Day Chapel Hill on the field at the end of the game," he said. "It's a feeling you don't get on the bench." Buczek knows that the national cham pionship may have been the high point of his athletic career. Playing lacrosse means giving up aspirations of being a professional athlete. "It's not like pro football or some thing where after you suck for a while then your career is over," he said. "In lacrosse, it's usually overaftercollege." Aftercollege, Buczek, apolitical sci ence major, is hoping to go to law school or to be a law clerk. But, for now, Buczek is content with his role on the UNC team. He no longer has to prove anything to anybody on the field. In fact, Buczek has little patience for those who are out to impress with flashy play and gaudy stat sheets. "I'll never understand people who play for records," Buczek said. "If that's all you're playing for, you are missing out." winner of the Patterson Medal, given each year to a UNC senior who has shown general athletic excellence throughout his or her career. Hollier led the Atlantic Coast Con ference in tackles in both his sopho more and junior seasons, earning first team All-ACC honors in 1990. His 502 career tackles are a school record and rank as the second-highest tackle total in ACC history. Entering his senior season, Hollier headed many preseason All-America teams, but a foot injury suffered before -the season kept him out of UNC's first four games and effectively ended his chances for postseason national honors. Earning a double major in speech communications and psychology, Hollier is a three-time member of the All-ACC Academic Team. Neely, Wood garner scholarships North Carolina women's tennis playerGigiNeelyandUNCmen'sgolfer JtllsKf ill Plain paper 4120 100 Cotton 8C CO. COPIES Open 7 days a week TU 10 pm Weekdays 169 E. FranMn Street Naar tie Post Office Ear rin flack Univaraity Detail ify i 3 UNC Scholar-Athletes Athlete Clint Gwaltney Amy Cox Cibbs Knotts Judith McCullough Miriam Fulford Ritchie Wachsman Louellen Poore Henrik Rddl Emily Johnson Eric Seremet Holly Joyner Ralph Vick Melissa Douse Drew Thompson Katie Sanborn Todd Hartung Cy Richardson Julie O'Shields David Wood Amber Marsh Bryan Jones Cigi Neely Keith Mathis Tisha Waller Sport Football Field Hockey Men's Cross Country Women's Cross Country Volleyball Men's Soccer Women's Soccer Men's Basketball Women's Basketball Lacrosse Gymnastics Men's Swimming Women's Swimming Men's Fencing Women's Fencing Wrestling Baseball Softball Men's Golf Women's Golf Men's Tennis Women's Tennis Men's Track Women's Track David Wood were honored with the two of the ACC's highest academic awards Monday at the annual UNC All-Sports Banquet in the Smith Center. Neely, a two-time ACC champion at No. 6 singles and future medical school attendee, earned the Marie James Post graduate Scholarship. Wood, currently studying Greek and Latin on the gradu ate level at UNC, won the Jim Weaver Postgraduate Scholarship. UNC senior Tisha Waller, the first Tar Heel woman ever to compete in the Track and Field World Championships, also was honored Monday, bringing home the Jim Tatum Award. The award is given annually to the student-athlete who has performed with distinction in sports while contributing to the Univer sity community by constructive partici pation in extra-curricular activities. 9UfJDAJ SPECIAL I Buy 2 Footlong Subs & Get I I I . 1 FREE EtolrMMv30.19tt Timberlvne Shoppina Center I 200 pin-930 pm Delivery Hours Vary I 967-7771 r; OnOff 'Qmpus :' in seeral stles 26-95 style shown Squara Chapel Hill S67-S93I 1 J -1 TeL (212) 661-1414
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