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Ronnie Bowen will compete on balance beam
Hawks eye playoffs
ATLANTA ' 1 1*1 > Atlanta Coach Huhic Brown, a
strong advocate of playing 10 players each game. said
Tuesday he believes lhal practice may In* a key element
in helping the Hawks in the upcoming playoffs.
“I keep getting asked all the time why do you play so
many players each game." Brown said "One reason is it
fils our style of play We want to keep the pressure on
with our trapping defense
But another reason we do it is for the injury situation
at playoff time I remember when I was at [Milwaukee
and Lucius Allen tore a knee cartilage in the last game of
the season." he recalled
"But all our guys have been playing together for H2
games I know our player can do the job even though he
is the eighth or 10th player on the team."
Brown, whose team is in a tight battle for the
home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs,
refused to discuss which team he would rather face
But getting that home court advantage is most
important for the Hawks, who are tied for the best home
record in the league 31-7. but are 11-27 on the road.
The top six teams in the NBA Eastern Conference make
the playoffs with the division winners getting first round
byes The two teams with the next best records get the
home-court advantage in the best-of-three first round
games
IMending champion Washington has won the Eastern
Conference and is assured of one bye but San Antonio.
Houston and Atlanta are battling for the Central Division
bye. and are also battling Eastern runner-up Philadelphia
for the home-court edge
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Lady gymnasts compete in nationals
By ANDY COOK
Assistant sports editor
Georgia's women's gymnastics team travels to Penn State this
weekend tor the national championship meet, but Georgia's shot
at the national title took quite a blow when top performer Cathy
Shotwell was injured in practice last week
Shot well who has consistently been the Bulldogs' number one
all around gymnast this year, sprained an ankle in practice
Friday and is not expected to be in top form for this Friday’s
meet
With Shotwell out of the picture. Coach Andy Long feels that
her team's chances of a high finish in the finals have diminished
significantly
"With Cathy, we could and we have beaten several of the
teams in the meet. Long said "Without her well I just don’t
know Hopefully we can finish out of sixteenth, but if Cathy
competes at all she definitely won't be at 100 percent "
Georgia qualified as one of the 16 teams in the nation invited to
the finals by winning their regional meet at Jacksonville State
during the spring break
The Bulldogs. 12-1 on the year, didn't win the regional meet in
any easy fashion, as they came from behind to edge Jacksonville
State by only 8 of a point for the victory.
After being beaten bv Jacksonville State on the horizontal bars
and in the vaulting event. Georgia tied State in the floor exercise
and entered the balance beam competition two points behind
Jacksonville
Paced by Diane Cantrell's 8 6 performance. Georgia went on to
post their best showing of the year on the beam, wtih a 33 33
beam score
While Cantrell was "hands down over everyone else" in the
balance beam competition. Cathy Shotwell led the team on the
horizontal bars >9.05) and in the floor exercises (9.0). while
Bonnie Bowen's 8 35 mark paced Georgia in the early vaulting
event.
Shotwell placed second in the all-around competition of the
regionals. and two more Georgia women. Becky Oppenheimer
and Terri Parsons finished fourth and sixth in the all-around
placement Shotwell. Oppenheimer and Parsons earned positions
on the All region squad as a result of their performances
In her three years of coaching at Georgia. Coach Long has seen
her teams come a long way.
From their initial 6-3 start under Long. the Bulldogs jumped to
14-2 last year and finished 12-1 this y.»ar. and I,ong is justly proud
of her team's accomplishments.
"As far as this team goes, we’ve only had one new routine
added since last year." Long noted, "the kids have just made
tremendous improvements over last year There was a new
system of scoring used this year, and we expected our scores to
Ik* lower, hut they were higher." she continued "They’re just a
tough group of competitors
The team left for Penn State yesterday and will compete in the
team all arounds Friday and in the individual events on
Saturday
Dooley’s
B> NORM KEII.LY
Assistant sports editor
Even though September 15
and a meeting with the Wake
Forest Deacons is more than
five months away. Vince
Dooley's Georgia Bulldogs are
already hard at work this week
going through their annual
spring training drills in pre
paration for the 1979 football
season.
Georgia will have a new look
on defense next season as
Dogs hard at work
defensive coordinator Erk Rus
sell will give up his wide-tack-
le-six defense—the defense
which the "Junkyard Dogs”
made famous Instead, the
Bulldogs will use a five-man
front with three down linemen.
Dooley is using quarterbacks
Davy Sawyer. Jeff Paulk, and
Guy Stargell during spring
practice because both Buck
Belue and Jeff Pyburn are
involved with baseball
Two of Georgia's top recruits
are participating in spring
drills, having graduated early
from high school. Linebacker
Will Forts from Fayette
County, was The AUllll
Jounal’s AAAA Lineman of
the Year while Fred "Peanut "
Lamar, a linebacker from
Atlanta's Roosevelt High
School, was the Greater
Atlanta Defensive Player of
the Year.
The Bulldogs will have
one-a-days up until the annual
G-Day game, which is sched
uled for Saturday. April 21.
Durham signs prep star Dominique Wilkins, two others
By FRANK MALLOY
Sports editor
While the Georgia Bulldog basketball team officially completed
their season three weeks ago in Birmingham, Ala., head coach
Hugh Durham and his staft of assistants have been busy
searching the backroads for high school talent.
And judging by the results of the past two weeks. Durham's
efforts are proving to be very beneficial.
Yesterday, the Bulldogs announced the signing of their third
highly-touted recruit when Durham disclosed that 6-foot-4 guard
Derrick Floyd had signed a basketball grant-in-aid.
Floyd will he coming to Georgia from Northwestern Miami
High School in Miami, Fla , where he averaged 28 points a game
this past season in leading his team to a 22-7 record. He was
named to almost every All-State squad in Florida and was
selected as a participant in next week’s Dapper Dan Basketball
Classic in Pittsburgh. Pa
"Derrick has the size, shooting and ball-handling ability to play
either guard position for us.” remarked Durham “He will be an
asset to our program ”
Floyd, who carries a 3.9 grade point average, served mainly as
the point guard for Northwestern Miami this past season
White i tie signing of Floyd should help alleviate the Bulldogs'
problems in the backcourt. Durham’s real recruiting coup
occurred over spring break when he landed Dominique Wilkins.
considered to be the best play er in the state of North Carolina and
one of the top prep stars m the COURtn
Wilkins, a 6-foot-7, 197-pound forward, was recently named to
Parade Magazine's First Team Prep All-American squad as well
as the McDonald's All-American team which was announced last
week
Last Friday night. Wilkins participated in the McDonald's
All-Star Classic in Charlotte. N.C. with a host of other prep
All-Americans and scored 16 points
The Washington. N.C. native averaged 29 points and 16
rebounds last season for Washington High School including
personal bests of 46 points and 30 rebounds in a single gume, both
school records
During Wilkins’ last three years at Washington, he scored over
1800 points and grabbed 970 rebounds while leading his school to
a 75-4 record, including a 55-game winning streak, and two
consecutive state championships the past two seasons
"Dominique is one of the most exciting players in the country."
commented Durham while adding that Wilkins is the type of
player who can help the Bulldogs become "challengers in the
SEC and on the national level "
Reports out of North Carolina last week indicated that Wilkins
might be having second thoughts about his decision to attend
Georgia, but he apparently squelched those rumors last Friday
when he reaffirmed his intentions of coming to the University in
the fall
I m going to Georgia, said Wilkins. "I signed a regional
hinder to go to Georgia."
Tin* regional binder is a SEC letter of intent which prevents
Wilkins from signing with a member of the Atlantic Coast
Conference to play basketball
Immediately after the Bulldogs announced the signing of
Wilkins, the AC( revealed that they would conduct an
investigation over the recruiting battle that went on for Wilkins’
services The ACC’s announcement angered Durham who lashed
out at the conference for investigating a player which the ACC
didn't sign
When North Carolina comes in to Georgia and signs an Al
Wood or when 1-mnsvillo comes in and gets a Derrick Smith
nntmdv ever says anything alniut them cheating, but we go up
into Carolina and beat the ACC schools on a kid and all of a
sudden they think we re cheating." said Durham. "We didn’t
cheat "
The final prospect ushered into the Bulldog s fold was 6-foot 5
swingman Mark I'pshaw from Columbus. Ga.
1'pshaw scored 27 points a game this season and hauled in 11
relxiunds and was named the Columbus ledger Enquirer Bi-City
Player of the Year
"Mark is a very talented player with the ability to play several
positions." said Durham
The three signings still leave the Bulldogs with three
scholarships available for the coming year
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