Welcome to a bustling Sports Monday edition of Tracking the Tar Heels.
Let's see what the Tar Heels have been up to:
- Sports Editor Grace Raynor and Senior Writer Aaron Dodson collaborate to describe Dean Smith's memorial service held in his namesake arena on Sunday.
- Also in Smith's honor, the men's basketball team ran the Four Corners offense on the first play of their 89-60 win over Georgia Tech on Saturday, notes Assistant Editor Carlos Collazo.
- The game was the Tar Heels' return home after a painful road stretch that featured two losses, Assistant Editor Brendan Marks details.
- On the women's side, two clutch free throws clinched Sunday's closely-contested 66-65 battle against Miami, Ben Coley writes.
- In the inaugural ACC Women's Fencing Champions on Sunday, senior Gill Litynski claimed the first ever sabre title in front of her home crowd, tells C Jackson Cowart.
- But for the male fencers on Saturday, injuries ravaged their performances with sprained ankles and thigh cramps, Cowart adds.
- Jane Zorowitz discusses the men's lacrosse team's hot performance on the cold Navy field in UNC's 13-11 win over Johns Hopkins on Saturday.
- After cold weather forced the baseball team to sunny Orlando, Jeremy Vernon describes how the big inning from the red-hot UCLA bruins over the weekend left the Tar Heels with their first two losses of the season.
- And when last-second cancellations led the softball team to the Eagle Classic II, UNC unleashed its pent-up energy into 30 runs in four wins, Logan Ulrich remarks.
- Senior Writer Danielle Herman notes how a strong bars performance fueled the comeback for the gymnastic team on Friday.
- Yet despite the ultimate team performance in the ACC championships, the women's swimming and diving team fell just short of the victory, explains Joey DeVito.
- Individual accolades highlighted UNC's performance in the Kent Taylor Invite, as Cameron Overstreet unknowingly broke the school's record for women's pole vault on Saturday, Chandler Carpenter writes.
- The women's tennis team was busy setting records of its own, starting 11-0 for the first time since 1998 with a 5-2 victory over Michigan on Sunday, tells Andrew Romaine.
- But success didn't come for the second-ranked women's lacrosse team, as the Tar Heels fell to former ACC rival Maryland in Sunday's snow-delayed 13-11 final, writes Patrick Ronan.
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