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The Red and Black. Tuesday. Marin :». 197ti
Princeton upset
Netters move up in rankings
By PETE FOLEY
Georgia tennis coach Oan
Magiil put it perfectly. "It was
the finest tennis ever played at
llenry S. Keild Stadium,” Mag-
ill stated.
Georgia, owning a 12-1 dual
match record, upset number
nine ranked Princeton on Sun
day afternoon, knocking off the
previously unbeaten Tigers by
a count of 5-4. The win should
move the Dogs, ranked num
ber 10. up in the standings,
pending the outcome of Fri
day's big match with SEC
rival Florida . who is also
nationally ranked
"It has to rank as one of the
greatest Georgia victories,"
Magiil said. "It not the great
est .”
ALL EYES were on Prince
ton prior to the first serve
since the Lions were fresh off a
recent victory over national
power Miami and Georgia’s
usual number one singles play
er. Charlie Ellis, had to drop to
the fifth spot due to a shoulder
injury
'Charlie was in pain,” Mag-
ill explained "He has a rotar
cuff or some such thing on his
right shoulder and it hurts him
every time that he raises his
arm. so. as you can tell, he
really couldn’t serve or hit an
overhead effectively."
As a result of Ellis' injury.
Tim Delaney had been moved
up into the top spot.
Delaney nearly rose to the
occasion several times in his
match but couldn’t quite put
Princeton's top player. Bill
Dutton, away as the Lion
co-captain won in straight sets.
7-6, 6-3
In the first set. Delaney
jumped to an early two game
lead but Dutton broke service
as the pair then proceeded to
exchange games, calling for
the nine point tiebreaker.
Once again, Delaney pulled out
in front, this time 4-1 in the
deciding game of the first set.
However, he couldn’t find the
shot to put the last point away
as Dutton rallied from behind
to take the set.
IN TIIE SECOND set. Dutlon
broke Delaney's serve in the
sixth game and went on to take
the set and the match
Georgia captain. David Dick,
and Princeton cc-captain, Bob
Fisher, provided the real at
traction of the afternoon on the
number two singles court.
Neither player could mount
more than a one game lead as
the first set went to 6-6 before
Dick won the tie breaker to go
up one set in the match
Playing in much the same
manner, Dick and Fish‘-r con
tinued to seesaw back and
forth until Fisher took the
second set via the tie breaker.
7-6
Fisher ran Dick all over the
court throughout the first two
sets but just as Fisher thought
he had Dick at his mercy, the
blond Georgia hustler would
scramble back with a desper
ation, defensive lob then pro
ceed to take the point The
crowd of some 1800 filled the
air with rounds of sporadic
applause throughout the match
as both men hit unbelievable
shot after unbelievable shot.
UNFORTUNATELY for
Dick, the running style of the
first sets took its toll as Fisher
drilled Dick in the final set,
6-2, taking the match. 2-1.
“1 was just pooped after
those first two sets,” Dick
admitted after the match.
Perhaps the most unusual
match of the day occurred on
court three as Georgia's Tom
Von Dohlen and Princeton’s
Jon Gross exchanged long
strings of game victories in a
match that turned out to be
closer than anybody antici
pated
Von Dohlen totally domin
ated Gross in the first set, 6-0,
but the gutsy Princeton player
fought back from the potent
ially demoralizing situation to
take the second set. Down 4-2
in the set. Gross rallied for
[our consecutive games to even
the match at 1-1 with a 6-4 win.
GROSS’ hot streak carried
over into the first two games of
the final set but Von Dohlen
responded with five straight
games before taking the set.
6- 3. and the match. 2-1.
Georgia's number four play
er. Wesley Cash, finished early
with a relatively easy match
victory over Tom Brightfield.
7- 5. 6-4
Princeton’s John Hayes had
a rough time desDilc Ellis'
bum shoulder, but finally dis
posed of (lie Georgia star in
split sets. 6-7. 7-5 6-4
After losing a first sel tie
breaker to Joe Krakora. Geor
gia's number six player. Ricky
Diaz, came back with little
trouble to set the stage for a
doubles showdown that would
determine the winner of the
dual match. Diaz took the final
singles match, 6-7. 6-1, 6-2.
MOVING into the doubles
portion of the competiton tied
at 3-3, the team of Dick and
Delaney handily defeated
Princeton s number one doub
les team of Dutton and Fisher.
6-2. 6-3, to move the Rulldogs
closer to victory.
Ellis and Diaz sewed things
up for the Dogs by snatching a
pair of closely matched sets by
a surprisingly lop-sided score
of 6-1. 6-3.
In a match that Was in
progress after the winning
team had been determined, the
number two team of Cash and
A on Dohlen dropped a split sel
decision to Gross and Bright
field. 6-7. 6-3. 6-7.
Tankers just miss
By TIM JEFFREY
Three SEC teams were for
tunate enough to finish in the
top 2(1 of the NCAA Swimming
Championships this past week
end at Brown University in
Providence. Rhode Island, but
this provided little consolation
for Head Coach Pet Scholle’s
tankers, who failed in their bid
for national ranking. It was a
disappointing conclusion to an
otherwise blue chip season
"We swam well.” Scholle
said "I was disappointed that
we didn’t go ahead and score.
It's more or less a learning
experience for us ”
Southern California taught
Georgia and the rest of the
pack more than a few lessons
in swimming excellence as the
Trojans coasted to victory.
Tennessee beat out UCLA and
Indiana for the second place
spot. Other SEC finishers in
the lop 20 were Alabama
(fifth!, and Auburn (eighth!.
Of the six Georgia partici
pants in the meet, only senior
Bob Brown and junior Mike
llienen had previously seen
action in this post season
affair. For Bryan Schroeder,
one of the four Georgia rook
ies. it was indeed an awe-in
spiring event, complete with
Jim McKay and the ABC
camera crew filming all of
those bald headed pertormers.
"You walk in the door and
see all the athletes you've
heard about...it definitely has
an effect.” he said.
Scholle agreed with his
swimmer's appraisal of the
atmosphere at Brown Univer
sity.
“You have a tendency to get
lost in the lights and tinsel," he
agreed.
One of the few aspects of the
competition which wasn't def
initely first rate was the pool
itself, Scholle said The pool is
not known to be conducive to
record limes, and the Georgia
entrants, he added, may have
had an added disadvantage in
the lanes they swam in.
"We swam most races in the
first two lanes,” he said. “The
further outside lanes had more
open water next to them...it
was a faster area to swim in."
“That has a significance
when you're talking about a
tenth of a second,” he added.
Georgia's bid for a share of
the points was a fraction of a
second short in more than one
race. The top 12 finishers in
each event earned points, and
Georgia found itself an unlucky
13th in the medley relay.
The Dogs also finished a
respectable 16th in the 8(H) free
relay, setting a school record
in the process, but the effort
was again not of All-American
caliber on this particular oc
casion.
"We knew we had our best
chance in two relays...We
came very close in belli."
Closeness may count when
the swimmers are shaving
Gamble on Rapella
pays off for coach
Photo by CAROL ENNIS
RAPELLA SURVEYS SITUATION FROM COACHES BOX
Georgia third sacker looking toward good season
By JUDSON BIBB
It isn’t very often that a
gamble pays off. Last year,
baseball Coach Roy Umstattd
signed Stu Rapella straight out
of Broward Junior College just
on the JC coach's recommend
ation—without ever having
seen him play. The result was
a new starting third baseman
and lead off hitter voted the
outstanding fall quarter player
by the coaches.
Coach Umstattd is not com
plaining He feels he picked up
a hard working, all-around
quality player with a good
attitude about the game. Some
one he feels could be a future
key to the success of the
Georgia baseball team.
Of course Rapella is no
newcomer to baseball. He has
12 years experience behind
him from little league through
junior high and high school
where he was an all-county
short stop with a 428 batting
average
After such a good senior
year, scholarship offers fol
lowed He could have signed
with Florida State, Florida
International or Birmingham
Southern, but chose instead to
get more playing time and
accept the local junior col
lege’s offer.
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their heads, but it isn't good
enough when you're seeking
All American status In indie-
idua 1 events this fact was also
most evident for Georgia.
Bob Brown finished 25th in
both the 50 and HKi yard
freestyle races, but in the
shorter of the two his time of
21.05, which tied his best
previous showing in that race,
was a mere 21 seconds behind
the 12th place scorer
Meanwhile Schroeder was
taking a frustrating 16th in the
2(H) yard backstroke with a
time of 1:54.1. The junior had
bettered that mark on at least
three previous occasions dur
ing the season, but this week
end was a different story.
"I was a little disappointed,"
Schroeder said. "It seemed
everyone was a little slower."
"Everyone had to get up for
the conference meet.” Schroe
der said, in searching for
explanations for the slower
times. “They must have found
it hard to get up for the
nationals.",
Had Georgia scored points in
only one event, it may have
been sufficient to earn the
team a spot in the coveted top
20. Scholle said He noted that
only 23 or 24 teams tallied in
the meet.
Besides Brown, Schroeder,
and Hienen, the remaining trio
representing Georgia were
freshmen Ted Greve and Reid
Hansen, and second year
standout Jack Burton.
switched to third base and only
batted in the .300's; yet did
well enough to cause the coach
to send out letters of recom
mendation.
WHY GIVE UP the sun and
sand of Fort Lauderdale for
red clay? According to Rapella
the answer was simple "Flor :
ida’s great for Northerners to
come down to. but after you
live there for 12 years, you
have to get away.”
Despite earlier topnotch per
formances, Rapella, like the
rest of the team, has been off
to a shakey start. Currently
batting .228, with four stolen
bases and a pair of RBI’s, the
junior management major has
some definite ideas about the
team's problems.
In addition to inconsistency
and lack of hitting, he adds, “I
think we've tended to rely on
the big players. You know
Larry Littleton was all-SEC
and drafted by the Pittsburgh
Pirates. Bubba Wilson was
all-SEC. and Ted Deiter was
second in the SEC in batting
We’ve got to remember there
are nine people on a team "
Insisting that he is only one
of the regular guys on the
team, his only goal is to win
the SEC championship
And with Georgia in third
place in the Eastern Division
of the SEC, that might not be a
bad gamble.
Photo by BOB LYON
SETTER WESLEY CASH STRAINS TO RETURN VOLLEY
Freshman took straight set decision in upset of Princeton
Soccer club whips Tide
Alabama’s soccer clubs rolled into Athens
last .Saturday and were stopped by the clubs
from Georgia in matches played at the
intramural fields The B team defeated Ala
bama 2-0 and the A team avenged a loss to
Hama last fall by whipping the visitors. 6-0.
In the first game, the B team took the play to
Alabama lor most of the first half but was
unable to capitalize on several good scoring
chances. The scoreless tie was broken early in
the second hall when Fernando Hoyos scored
for Georgia on a well-placed shot to the wide
side of the goal Hoyos also added the insurance
goal for Georgia later in the game on another
picture-perfect shot
The A team started the second game with a
controlled passing attack This strategy paid
oft about 20 minutes into the first half when
Athens native, Craig Rudow, converted a
through pass into Georgia's first goal. Rudow
added another goal about 15 minutes later to
give Georgia a 2-0 lead at the half.
Alabama's tirst mistake in the second half
was taking the field, but they were quick to
follow with many more mistakes as well Even
Bama's ineptitude could not detract from the
prettiest play of the game, however. About Ml
minutes into the second hall, left wing Steve
Andrews took the ball for Georgia at.midfield.
Andrews worked the ball down the sideline,
past two Tide defenders Andrews then passed
to Tom Mangel who had broke to the endline.
Mangel centered the ball to waiting forward.
Tom Fisher. Fisher, a junior from Atlanta,
then eluded the last defender and the goalkeep
er by spinning around and firing a hard shot to
the corner of the net.
That play seemed to take most of the
remaining fight out of Alabama and a few
minutes later Mangel sel up another goal, with
speedy Richard Ray scoring this one. Mangel
closed out the scoring for Georgia with a pair
of goals of his own
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