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Fogleman And Kearney Named Progress Energy Performers Of The Week
Oct. 22, 2007
Carolina men's tennis players Taylor Fogleman and Chris Kearney won the doubles title at the Wilson/ITA Mideast Regional Tournament and are the Progress Energy Tar Heels of the Week for October 15-21, 2007. The duo went 5-0 through the main draw and won the doubles crown as an unseeded team. It was the third doubles team from UNC to reach the regional finals in the past five years and the second to win, the first since Derek Pomeroy and Geoff Boyd won in 2004. Fogleman, a junior from New Orleans, La., and Kearney, a sophomore from Irvine, Calif., now advance to the ITA National Indoors in Columbus, Ohio. Fogleman and Kearney defeated a team from Virginia in the championship match in a tiebreaker, rallying from a 4-2 deficit to win 7-5. Other Nominees: KATELYN FALGOWSKI Falgowski scored a goal and assisted on another as top-ranked UNC beat No. 2 Maryland 3-0 Saturday to finish ACC play undefeated and claim the No. 1 seed for the conference tournament. The Tar Heels now stand as the only unbeaten team in NCAA Division I. Falgowski leads the nation with 18 assists and also has five goals for 28 points, third on the team. CHIP PETERSON Chip Peterson placed second in the U.S. Trials for the 2008 Open Water World Championships to be held April 29-May 4 in Seville, Spain. Peterson earned one of the two American spots in the field for that event. The Top 10 finishers at the World Championships next spring will advance to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Peterson finished the 10-kilometer course Sunday in 1 hour, 57 minutes, 3.64 seconds, less than two seconds behind winner Mark Warkentin. WHITNEY SPRAGUE Tar Heel junior swimmer Whitney Sprague finished seventh in a field of 27 swimmers at the U.S. Trials for the 2008 World Open Water Swimming Championships to be held next spring in Spain. The seventh-place finish was the highest for Sprague in an open-water competition in her career after taking up the sport earlier in 2007. The top four finishers earned spots in the 10k and 5k races at the World Championships next spring. MEGHAN KLINGENBERG Meghan Klingenberg twice came off the bench this week to score the
game-winning goal for the North Carolina women's soccer team as the Tar
Heels defeated Boston College 1-0 in double overtime and Virginia Tech 4-1,
notching wins in their final two road games of the regular season and
extending their lead in the ACC team standings with 21 points. Klingenberg
scored in the 106th minute of UNC's 1-0 win at BC last Thursday and then
just minutes after being subbed into the game against the Hokies she scored
on a rebound midway through the first half in what was an eventual 4-1 win.
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