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ACC Tournament Begins Today

Tar Heels Whip Netmen

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Before
traveling to Raleigh for today's
first round of the Atlantic
Coast Conference Tournament,
the Virginia tennis team stopped
off here yesterday only to
suffer their third setback at the
hands of the UNC Tar Heels.
With a final 14-3 dual match
record Coach Gordon Burris
and his netters will be contending
with Clemson, USC, and
UNC for top honors in the
season's finale.

The final verdict was 7-2 in
favor of the Tar Heels; however, the
competition was undoubtedly more
fiercely contested than that score
might indicate, for the actual match
began at 10 PM and lagged on for
six and one half hours to 4 PM and
included four three-set individual
matches.

According to Coach Burris the
Cavaliers have not come up against
any "really good tennis competition"
over the preceding few weeks,
and the consequences were evident.
Jeff Podesta and Andy Scheinman,
playing at the second and third
positions, "simply didn't get going",
and both dropped quick
matches in straight sets. Joe Dorn,
who most probably will be the
second seed in the tournament,
downed Podesta, 6-1, 6-4, and
Jimmy Corn, another probable high
seed, duplicated the score against
Scheinman.

At this point Virginia was down
2-0, but prospects were good as
Cavaliers Mike Eikenberry and John
Winter had both won their first
sets. However, unknown to them
the tides were about to turn.

Winter, having smashed Fred
Rawlings, 6-2, in the first, broke his
adversary's serve early in the second
set to take the lead, but later
tripped over a ball while serving and
sprained his ankle. As a result
Rawlings was able to rally to break
Winter's powerful service and take
the last two sets, 10-8, 8-6.

For Mike Eikenberry the story
was disappointingly the same. After
taking the first set, 6-3, the Cavalier
captain, lacking endurance on the
hot Carolina courts, dropped the
last two and the match to Lee
Langstroth at the number one
position.

In the third of the singles
three-setters Biff Cooper, playing
despite a pulled stomach muscle,
was nipped by the Tar Heels' Alan
Lassiter, 6-3, 7-9, 6-1. Meanwhile
on the next court undefeated Mike
Kemodle lashed into the Cavaliers'
first-year pride, Doug Waterman, to
finish the UNC singles sweep with a
6-3, 6-3 decision.

Having accustomed themselves
to the top notch competition which
had been missing on the Virginia
schedule since the early season ACC
contests, the Virginia netters teamed
to take two of the three doubles
matches. On the first court Eikenberry
and Podesta, playing better
together than they have all year,
downed one of the top ACC duos
in Langstroth and Crawford by the
score of 6-2, 6-4.

The number two doubles match
presented some great competition
as John Mertz and Biff Cooper fell
to UNC's Kemodle and Corn in a
15-13, 9-7 marathon. However
Andy Scheinman and John Winter
avenged that loss with Virginia's
final tally by virtue of a 0-6, 8-6,
6-2 decision over Carolina's Dorn
and Tate.

Cavalier Number Three Netter, Andy Scheinman, Hits Forehand Return In Early Season Action

Netmen Have Now Lost Two Conference Matches, Travel Over To Raleigh To Begin ACC Tourney.