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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Kenny Williams III spent last season trying to keep his confidence up while buried on the bench for a deep, veteran North Carolina team.The first two games of his sophomore season are undoing some of that frustration.Williams had 11 points for the sixth-ranked Tar Heels in a 97-57 victory over Chattanooga on Sunday in the home opener.I think if you play with effort, then things will start going your way, Williams said. Shots will start going in. You start to get more steals and you start to get more fast-break layups. ... I think effort brings a lot of positivity to the game.Williams also finished with six rebounds, five assists and three steals in 20 minutes. And that came after he had five rebounds and four assists in the opener against Tulane on Friday for the Tar Heels (2-0), inheriting a larger role with junior swingman Theo Pinson out with a broken right foot.His play Sunday included a couple of dive-on-the-floor, active-hands moments that his Hall of Fame coach loves.Thats a Danny Green kind of stat sheet right there, Roy Williams said, where youre involved in a lot of good things.Joel Berry II scored 18 points to lead the Tar Heels, who shot 56 percent through the first 24 minutes in building a lopsided lead. They pushed ahead for good with a 21-5 run late in the first half for a 44-33 lead at the break, then scored nine straight out of the break to blow it open.Greg Pryor scored 17 points for the Mocs (1-1), who won Friday at Tennessee. But after a quick start, the preseason Southern Conference favorite just couldnt keep up with the Tar Heels.Chattanooga made 5 of 9 3-pointers in the first 10 minutes, but went 2-for-18 from behind the arc from there and shot 35 percent for the game.We got off to a great start which I thought was big, Chattanooga coach Matt McCall said. Unfortunately, they got settled in and really started turning up the heat, which made it difficult for us.BIG PICTUREChattanooga: It was a little too much to ask for Chattanooga to win both the Tennessee and UNC games to start the season, but earning the split against power-conference teams is a good start for a team that won 29 games last season and played in the NCAA Tournament.I think for us it is important for us to not let this take away from our win over Tennessee, McCall said.UNC: The Tar Heels had a lot of a balance in this one, and thats a promising sign for a team that must replace four-year starter Marcus Paige and Associated Press All-American Brice Johnson from a national runner-up.It was a team, it really was, Roy Williams said of last years NCAA finalist. Weve emphasized from Day One that this groups got to be a team now as well.POLL IMPLICATIONSUNCs first two games did nothing to undermine its No. 6 ranking in the AP Top 25 to start the season. Its a group with veteran scorers back in Berry and Justin Jackson as well as experience up front with Kennedy Meeks (14 points, 12 rebounds) and Isaiah Hicks (13 points), though its still sorting out playing rotations with Pinson out.FIRST LOOKIt was the first regular-season home game for UNCs latest freshman class.Big man Tony Bradley stood out with 12 points and eight rebounds in 15 minutes.It didnt go completely smoothly, though.Wing Brandon Robinson had five points and three rebounds, though he blew a breakaway layup. 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The Cleveland Indians, Tampa Bay Rays, and Texas Rangers all won on Sunday meaning the Rangers will host the Rays in a play-in game on Monday.RIO DE JANEIRO -- Defending Olympic champion Rosie MacLennan opted for her easier routine during womens trampoline finals on Friday, a rare moment of caution in a sport that thrives on daring.I was a lot more confident in it, MacLennan said. The other one was a little more shaky. I knew it would be a bit of a gamble and the Olympics isnt a time to gamble.Considering what MacLennan has been through over the last year as she recovered from a pair of concussions that threatened her career, hard to blame her. Yet she never lost faith, and it paid off with a second gold medal to bookend the one she captured in London.Soaring effortlessly and precisely through the air inside the Rio Olympic Arena, MacLennan posted a score of 56.465 to become the first Canadian athlete to win gold medals in consecutive summer games. Bryony Page of Great Britain was second, followed by Li Dan of China.Page admitted she was shellshocked and could barely stand after putting together the best set of her life, the 25-year-olds legs buckling when her score posted.MacLennans response was more measured. Shes been here before, even if she wasnt sure she would be back after sustaining two concussions in the span of a month in 2015. The first one came during a training mishap, the other when her head was smacked by a car door.Her recovery was slow. Though she managed to qqualify for Rio by finishing fourth at the world championships last November, she noticed an odd and troubling symptom when she ramped up her training program early this year: her eyes would start shaking in the middle of her routine.ddddddddddddIf you cant spot the trampoline you dont know where you are and I was afraid of getting lost in skills, MacLennan said. That fear and that uncertainty took a long time to get back.It wasnt until March that MacLennan felt her confidence return. Working methodically so she wouldnt get too far ahead of herself, MacLennan felt the trust in her talent return.In some ways it was really tough but it was also a reminder of how much I really did love the sport, she said. If I didnt I would have given up.Instead she pressed on in an event that requires gymnasts to leap two stories in the air 20-25 times over the course of a minute, getting scored on a combination of air time and their series of 10 connected flips and twists. MacLennan placed third in qualifying.Another shot at gold on the line, she could have taken the riskier route and hoped the difficulty would offset any mistakes in execution. Pragmatism won out, a decision that ended with her atop the medal stand once again. ' ' '