University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina Waterscapes Student-Athlete Of The Week: Laura Gerraughty
February 24, 2003 | Track & Field
Feb. 24, 2003
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 Laura Gerraughty |
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Gerraughty shattered the meet record in the shot put by more than five feet with the second longest throw in the nation this season at 57-9. In the weight throw Saturday, Gerraughty brought home her second ACC title with a throw of 64-10.
Other Nominees:
Baseball:
Junior Sammy Hewitt hit .571 while leading the team with a 1.071 slugging
percentage and 14 total bases. The Tar Heels have won four-straight to open
the season, including a three game sweep of Seton Hall. In 14 at bats last
week, Hewitt had seven runs, eight hits, six RBIs, two doubles, a triple and
a home run.
Men's Golf:
Dustin Bray got his spring season off to a
roaring start by tying for runner-up honors at the Mercedes-Benz Collegiate
Championship Feb. 17-18. Bray, a junior from Asheboro, N.C., and the
defending ACC Champion, was in a three-way tie for the championship at the
end of 54 holes, but lost to eventual champion D.J. Trahan of Clemson after
carding a par on the first playoff hole. Bray, Trahan and Duke's Ryan Blaum
all posted five-under-par 211 totals as Bray carded rounds of 69-67-75.
Carolina posted an 11th-place finish in the team championship.
Softball:
Freshman pitcher Crystal Cox threw two shutouts last week and finished the
week with a record of 2-1. Against UNC Wimington, Cox threw a one-hit
complete game shutout and struck out seven in five innings of work. In her
second game of the week, the freshman allowed three runs against the
12th-ranked Stanford Cardinals. The final game of the Leadoff Classic, the
Harrisburg, N.C., native shut down the Southern Mississippi throwing all
seven innings, allowing just two hits and struck out 11. Cox ended the week
pitching 15.0 innings, giving up seven hits, three runs, three earned runs,
walking three and striking out 22. She had an ERA of 1.40 for the three
games.
Waterscapes Nominees for February 24, 2003
Men's Lacrosse
Kyle Bell, senior midfielder from Baltimore, Md. (Loyola High School), rifled in three goals in the No. 9 Tar Heels' season opener as Carolina blasted No. 24 Bucknell by a 13-3 score at Henry Stadium this past Saturday. ell's three goals are only one short of the four he scored in the whole 2002 season.
Men's Tennis:
Derek Porter, freshman from Coral Springs, Fla. (Boca Raton Prep), scored
the clinching victory as No. 19 North Carolina upset No. 11 Auburn 5-1
Sunday afternoon at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center. UNC improved to 4-2 on
the season with the win by handing Auburn (6-1) its first loss of the year.
Porter stayed undefeated in singles this season at 4-0 as he rallied from a
set down to beat Markus Schiller of the Tigers, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 to score the
match's decisive point.
Women's Swimming and Diving:
Laura Collier, a senior from Bentwood, Tenn., surprised the field in the
finals of the 200-yard backstroke at the 2003 ACC Swimming & Diving
Championships by winning her first ever ACC individual title in her final
race as a Tar Heel. The only unshaved swimmer in the final field of eight,
Collier came in as the #5 seed but won with a time of 1:59.37. The race was
the most competitive of the Championships with the No. 1-No. 5 places
separated by only six-tenths of a second. Collier was seventh in the race
after 50 yards and still sixth after 100 yards but she split 1:00.58 in the
second half of the race to charge home for an unlikely victory.
Women's Lacrosse:
eth Ames, a junior midfielder from Liverpool, N.Y., scored four goals in
Carolina's 14-1 win over Davidson.
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