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Tar Heel Rundown: May 12
May 12, 2014 | General
Basketball
You'll hear much more about this in November—the college basketball charging rule has changed for next year...Tar Heel seniors James Manor, Leslie McDonald, Wade Moody and Denzel Robinson graduated yesterday...It was a particularly meaningful graduation for McDonald, the first in his family to earn a college degree...A plaque honoring Dean Smith will be dedicated at his high school in Topeka this week (this is an impressive story worth reading with good quotes from Smith's longtime friend, the mayor of Topeka)...
Interesting ACC transfer: Maryland's Seth Allen will land with Buzz Williams at Virginia Tech...Danny Green had five points and three rebounds to help San Antonio to a 3-0 lead over Portland...George Karl is interested in getting back into coaching...
Football
One camp changed Eric Ebron's football future...The Cardinals snapped up Kareem Martin in the third round...Tre Boston was chosen by the Panthers in the fourth round...Russell Bodine might block for Gio Bernard again, as he was chosen by the Bengals in the fourth round...Jabari Price went to the Vikings in the seventh round...Bryn Renner signed with Denver and James Hurst signed with Baltimore...Carolina is one of only six programs in the nation with 20+ draft picks over the last four years...
Olympic sports
Women's tennis advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16 in Athens, Ga., with a pair of wins...Men's tennis will also be in Athens and will face the homestanding Bulldogs...The softball season ended with an ACC Tournament semifinal loss to Florida State...Women's golf finished 14th at the NCAA Central Regional, ending its season...Denver ended the men's lacrosse season, 9-5...Baseball got a big win against Florida State...Women's lacrosse beat Georgetown to advance to the NCAA quarterfinals, as Abbey Friend had a record-breaking day.
Today's games
None.
Tar Heels in MLB
Friday: Another scoreless 1.2 innings for Adam Warren...Brian Roberts had a hit and drove in a run...A hitless, scoreless inning for Rob Wooten...Dustin Ackley had a hit...
Saturday: Chris Iannetta bashed a homer...Andrew Miller struck out the only batter he faced...Dustin Ackley homered.
Sunday: Ackley homered twice more, and Kyle Seager added a homer of his own...Rob Wooten struck out the only man he faced...Adam Warren gave up one run in 1.2 innings...Andrew Miller struck out two in a hitless inning...Michael Morin closed out the ninth inning of an Angels win and then tweeted this:
Best Mother's Day of all time! pic.twitter.com/lgdevcTVNn
— Mike Morin (@MrMoosh28) May 11, 2014
You think Wooten had a pretty good weekend?
It was a great series win but it was also a true honor to play against Derek Jeter. Thanks Jeter. #legend #2 pic.twitter.com/NNU6LyYWVd
— Rob Wooten (@RobWooten35) May 11, 2014
Long read
It wasn't that long ago that Barry Svrluga was the Carolina beat writer for the local paper. OK, maybe it was a decade ago. He's now with the Washington Post, and wrote a terrific story on the realities of life as the family of a professional athlete.
