 | The Cavalier daily Thursday, February 11, 1971 |  |
Tankers To Face UNC, N.C. State
By Jim Wilson
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer
The University of Virginia
swimming team ventures into the
land of the Carolina swimming
powers this weekend when they
take on the N.C. State Wolfpack on
Friday and the UNC Tar Heels on
Saturday. Both of these teams have
swimming scholarships, depth, and
talent above and beyond anything
that the Cavaliers have ever had,
have, or hope to have in the near
future.
The Cavalier mermen take on
the stronger Wolfpack swimmers
first. In a few races individual
Virginia swimmers will be right
with the State swimmers. These
races, however, are rather few and
far between as the quality of State
swimmers especially in the freestyle
of all distances, breaststroke, and
individually in the other events.
There will be several good races,
but their outcome will be placed
especially on Mark Berardino's
shoulders in the distance free and
butter. Nevertheless, other Cavalier
mermen will without a doubt take a
few places here and there. Deep in
all of the Cavalier swimmers' minds
is the fact that State crushed East
Carolina about as badly as ESU
crushed the Cavaliers.
The next afternoon of
swimming will be a little more in
the Cavaliers' class when they bus
down to Chapel Hill to meet the
Tar Heels in their home pool. The
Tar Heel team is not nearly the
powerhouse that State is, but it will
take the best times the Cavaliers
have done to date to challenge the
Tar Heels for a victory. The fact
that this effort has to be exerted on
the day after a very tough away
meet in yet another away meet
only compounds the difficulty
involved.
The Cavalier times are only a
few seconds behind the Tar Heels in
most of the events with the Tar
Heels with a clear edge, however, in
the freestyle events of all distances,
fly, and breast. The Carolina team
has the upper hand in most of the
remaining events except the back.
Photos By Howard Weinberg
Cavalier Forward Frank DeWitt Drives Against Maryland
6-5 Junior Tallied 16 Points As Virginia Won Easily, 78-63
| The Cavalier daily Thursday, February 11, 1971 | |