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The Red and Black
Thursday, May 7, IWil
Lady golfers drive toward a national tide
Staff photo Sally Kroehnke
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By ED LEGGE
Krd and Black Staff Writer
When the Georgia Bulldogs were campaigning for the na
tional football championship in 1980. Georgia women's golfer
Terri Moody admits that at times she pulled for the other
team. Not that she wanted the Bulldogs to lose or that she
didn't want them to win the national championship, she just
didn't want it to happen so soon
You see. no Georgia squad had ever won a national title
before, and Moody knew that if the football Bulldogs won it
her team, which is currently well on its way to its own na
tional championship, would then be the second team, not the
first, to linish number one
Of course. Moody ended up cheering on the Dogs. "When it
got down to the last two or three games, sure I started pulling
for them, "she said.
But the fact that the Bulldogs went ahead to win the first
national title in Bulldog history doesn't make the women's
golf team 's quest for the title any less significant. And there's
no doubt in Moody 's or anybody else’s mind that the women
can do it this year when they host the national tournament in
June at the University Golf Course,
“We ll never have a better chance to win than we do this
year,” Moody said “This is definitely the strongest team
we've ever had."
Women's coach Liz Murphey echoed Mood?, her top senior
player
“We will have a lot of competition, but yes, this is our best
chance, " Murphey said
Of course, one factor in favor of the women will be the
home course advantage. The women play the course every
day and know it better than anyone
The women are also loaded with talent — witness their re
cent victory in the Women’s Southern Intercollegiate Cham
pionship. where they finished 21 strokes ahead of a field
which included top-ranked Miami, number three Florida
State, fourth-ranked Tulsa, fifth-ranked Florida and sixth-
ranked Stanford.
Said Murphey. who has coached Georgia women's golf for
13 years, "This is the most talented group I’ve ever had the
opportunity to work with.”
Murphey and most of her squad agree that it's not just
talent which has enabled them to win five tournaments dur
ing the 1980-81 season. "This is truly a team," Murphey said.
“They get along very well together They care about one
another and their personalities are such that they com
municate so well."
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The players agreed with Murphey. "We all help each other
as far as giving each other support and things like that," said
Mitzi Edge, who recently won the WSIC individual champion
ship, finishing ahead of golfers like Patti Rizzo, the top
amateur in the nation
Edge said the individual talent still plays a big part in the
team's success, however.
“We all count as a team. We re all concerned about each
other after we get off the course and before we're on the
course," she said. "But there’s no way you can worry about
anyone else when you're out there playing. It’s hard enough,
just you and the course, without thinking about everybody
else.”
Said freshman Caroline Gowan, “You need to think of
yourself individaully That in turn helps the team. Good in
dividual scores make good team scores.”
Coaching a national contender is nothing new to Murphey,
whose teams have qualified for nationals every year she's
coached at Georgia. According to Murphey, one of the keys to
her success has been her tournament qualifying system, in
which team members compete with each other for the right
to compete in the tournament. The golfers play four rounds
(72 holes) and the low five players represent the Bulldogs in
that particular tournament Sometimes, the top finishers in
previous tournaments are exempt from qualifying, but every
golfer has to qualify at one time or another
The system has been a point of contention between the
players and coach, Murphey admitted. “I have individual
conferences with them at least once a month and quarterly
and I always ask what do you like about our program and
what don’t you like ' Probably the thing that comes out the
most is qualifying," Murphey said. "That’s probably the
toughest to handle because it makes you go against one
another.”
Murphey’s career record also vindicates her philosophy
“It may not be the best way, but I’ve been here over 20 years,
and I've found in coaching men and women that this seems to
be the fairest way,” she said.
While she has been coaching women’s golf for nearly 13 of
those 20 years, Murphey has never coached a national cham
pionship team. This year’s squad has the ability and the
desire to change that, however, and if the golfers live up to
their own expectations, Georgia will have yet another
number one team.
Schlechte’s bat leads Bulldog rout
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By JIM MANSOLR
Rrd and Black Staff Writer
It's always nice to repay old favors.
Baseball coach Steve Webber will
agree with that, especially after his
Dogs repaid one. They avenged an
earlier loss to Mercer by routing them
Tuesday night in Macon, 18-6
Mercer pitching ace Dan Fitzsim
mons probably wishes he had never
heard of Georgia. He bore the brunt of a
21-hit barrage that swamped the Trans-
America-Conference-champion Bears.
The Dogs, now 22-20, will try to keep
their momentum going today in Atlanta
when they meet Georgia Tech at 3:30
p.m.
Shortstop Doug Schlechte led
Georgia's attack with five hits in six at-
bats tying a school record for most hits
in a game. Third baseman John Basco
added three hits in four trips
"We hit the ball well all night," Web
ber said. However, in contrast to the
first game between the teams, he noted
that "This time, we got some hits that
counted.”
The runs came in bunches. Leading
1-0, Georgia got four runs in the fourth
inning, then added two in the fifth on a
homerun by catcher Bob White. The
Dogs exploded for seven runs in the
seventh, capped by a Mike Wirth three-
run double.
Including those seven runs, Georgia
amassed 11 runs in the final three in
nings. White and Wirth each had three
RBIs for the game.
Meanwhile, sophomore Tim Barnette
was pitching his best game of the year,
as he no-hit Mercer for five innings and
allowed only two runs in a 6 >3 innings
Steve Leavelle finished the game Web
ber said he hoped Barnette's per
formance would be a good omen for the
season’s last four games this week.
"Hopefully, this will show them (the
pitchers) that they can do it,” he said.
Freshman Spain plays for region crown
The Georgia women’s tennis team begins its quest for a
Region III championship today as the Lady Bulldogs com
pete in the team singles and double championships at Oxford,
Miss.
Freshman Lisa Spain of Georgia will be the only player
from Georgia in the singles draw while Spain and Leigh
Shepherd and Holly Mills and Jaime Kaplan will compete in
doubles.
The region tournament serves as a qualifying event for the
Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women national
tournament which will be held June 3-10 at Tempe, Ariz
Two teams will qualify for nationals as well as two singles
players and one doubles team
As a team. Georgia will have a tough time advancing
against the likes of Rollins, Florida and Miami. Lisa Spain
would appear to have the best chance of gaining a national
bid as she competes in the singles bracket
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