University of North Carolina Athletics
On This Date In History....
April 16, 2002 | General
April 5
1979--Gallagher Whiffs 16 Blue Devils
Gallagher recorded 12 of his strikeouts in the first five innings as he improved to 5-1 for the season. He gave up six hits and walked six in the complete game victory. Gallagher leads the Atlantic Coast Conference with 60 strikeouts in 42 innings.
Atkinson hit his eighth homer of the season in the first inning after a single by Roy Clark. The home run was the 20th of Atkinson's career, tying the all-time Tar Heel record held by Connie Gravitte.
Carolina added two more run in the sixth. P.J. Gay doubled and scored on a base-hit by Scott Bradley. Bradley took third on a single by Jim Rouse and scored when Rouse got involved in a rundown between first and asecond.
Gay and Lloyd Brewer each had a pair of hits for the Tar Heels, while Bryan Tenney and Larry Doby had two hits each for the Blue Devils.
Carolina is now 18-11 and 2-3 in the ACC. Duke fell to 9-13 and 1-9 in conference play.
April 4
1993--Allen Johnson, Kevin Brown Set Track Records
Johnson qualified for the NCAA Championships with a 13.65 performance in the 110 hurdles. That also broke his own track record of 13.74
Brown qualified for the NCAA Championships with a school-record jump of 18-1 1/2 in the pole vault.
Other NCAA qualifiers were Phil Emery in the 1500 meters (2:07.75) and Andrea Green in the 800 (3:45.06). Both had second-place finishes.
Linda Lipson was Carolina's only double winner, taking the discus and the shot put. Also posting first-place finishes were Nikki Berry in the high jump, Ayo Attenberry in the 100 hurdles, Kelly Donahoe in the 1500 meters, Pam Morrison in the 100, Andre Williams in the 3000 and the 4x100 relay.
The Tar Heel women had a total of 119.5 points to beat Georgetown (73.5) and Wake Forest (40).
Tennessee won the men's competition with 102 points. Carolina was second with 73, followed by N.C. State (68), Georgetown (39) and Wake Forest (15).
The men's meet also was scored as a dual meet between the Tar Heels and the Wolfpack with Carolina winning, 87-74.
April 3
1994--Women Win NCAA Basketball Title
The Lady Techsters seemed to have the game won in the closing seconds. A jump shot by Pam Thomas gave Tech a 59-57 lead with 14 seconds left. Carolina's Tonya Sampson then missed a jumper and only 0.01 seconds remained as the ball fell out of bounds off a Tech player.
Stephanie Lawrence fired the inbounds pass to Smith who then hit her only three-pointer of the season from the top of the key.
The victory capped a 33-2 season for the Tar Heels and made Carolina the only school at the time to have won NCAA basketball titles in both men's and women's basketball.
Smith, the MVP of the Final Four, finished with 20 points and a Final Four record 23 rebounds. Sampson, an All-America forward, finished with 21 points and eight rebounds.
This game was close all the way. Tech had a five-point lead late in the first half. But two layups by Sampson in the last 33 seconds made it 32-32 at halftime.
Carolina led throughout the second half until Thomas finally put the Lady Techsters up 49-48 with a layup at the 7:18 mark. Tech then built a five-point lead with 5:06 on the clock.
But, Carolina then reeled off five straight to tie the game. Smith hit a driving layup, was fouled and added a free throw. Another basket by Smith made it 53-53.
Sampson and Sylvia Crawley scored to offset Tech field goals before Thomas hit her late go-ahead shot.
Thomas led the Tech scoring with 15 points.
Crawley added 14 points for Carolina.
April 2
1994--Tar Heel Women Advance to NCAA Finals
The Tar Heels had a narrow 39-37 lead at halftime before exploding for 50 points in the final 20 minutes. Carolina shot hit 16 of 32 shots in the opening period and then shot a sizzling 55.9 percent in the second half.
The Boilermakers had their only lead of the entire game, 47-45 with 16:41 remaining, before Carolina scored 12 straight points to build a 57-47 advantage.
Tonya Sampson tied the game with a layup at the 16:27 mark. A minute later the Tar Heels took the lead when Sylvia Crawley took a pass from Smith for a short jumper. Jones followed with jumper, Smith had a layup and Tonya Cooper drilled a jump shot, forcing a Purdue timeout.
A layup by Jones increased the Carolina lead to 57-47. A three-pointer by Cindy Lamping finally scored for the Boilermakers. Her three-pointer got Purdue to within 57-50.
But, that was the closest Purdue would get as Smith hit four straight jumpers for a 65-50 lead.
The win sends Carolina into the national championship game against Louisiana Tech, who won the first semifinal of the night.
Crawley had 10 points in the first half and Smith added nine as the Tar Heels took the lead they would hold at halftime.
Smith hit nine of 16 shots grabbed eight rebounds and handed out eight assists to help spark the win. Jones was eight-of-11 from the floor, had five assists and made six steals. Crawley and Sampson had 16 points each.
Leslie Johnson was the Purdue scoring leader with 16. Stacey Lovelace had 15 rebounds as the Boilermakers won the battle of the backboards, 45-36. But, the Tar Heels offset that by forcing 28 turnovers and holding Purdue to 44.3 percent shooting.
CHAPEL HILL--Freshman lefthander Bill Gallagher struck out 16 batters and third baseman Jim Atkinson slammed a two-run homer, powering North Carolina to a 4-2 victory over Duke at Cary Boshamer Stadium.
CHAPEL HILL--Hurdler Allen Johnson and pole vaulter Allen Brown turned in recording-setting performances and North Carolina won the women's team competition at the Fantastic Five-Way Track and Field Meet on the Belk Track.
RICHMOND, Va.--Charlotte Smith hit a three-point shot at the buzzer, lifting North Carolina to a stunning 60-59 victory over Louisiana Tech in the NCAA Women's basketball Championship game at the Richmond Coliseum.
RICHMOND, Va.--Charlotte Smith scored 23 points and Marion Jones added 19 as North Carolina advanced to the NCAA Women's Basketball Finals by defeating Purdue, 89-74, at the Richmond Coliseum.
