
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, May 21, 1994                   TAG: 9405210037
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: DOUG DOUGHTY
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MEN HOPE TO STICK UNC

Self-respect will be one of the key motivating factors for Virginia today when it visits North Carolina at 1 p.m. in the second round of the NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament.

"I don't want to put any more pressure on us than we need," said Dom Starsia, UVa's coach, "but this is a very important game for us. I'm not talking about the absolute pressure of having to win, but the sense of going down there and putting our best foot forward."

The Cavaliers didn't distinguish themselves April 26, when they fell to North Carolina 15-7 in the ACC Tournament championship game in Charlottesville. Two weeks earlier, UVa had stomped the Tar Heels 16-6 in Chapel Hill, N.C.

As a result of the second game, fourth-seeded Carolina (10-4) received a first-round bye for the tournament. Fifth-seeded UVa (11-3) easily dispatched Notre Dame 23-4 in the first round.

"I think the difference between [Carolina and UVa] is somewhere in between the two games we've played," Starsia said.

"Carolina's been out of school for a while, they've played a couple of club teams, they've bounced around a little. But [the Tar Heels] have always shown the ability to pick themselves up and prepare for this tournament."

by CNB