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Wednesday, March 31, 19H2
Dogs use doubles victories to nip Gemson
By JOHN CHILDERS
Km! »nd (Mark Staff Wrllar
The men’s tennis team
raised its record to 14-2
Tuesday by defeating sixth-
ranked Clemson 5-4 in a
thrilling match before 1,500
fans at Henry Feild stadium
The victory ended a drought
in which the Bulldogs lost to
Clemson two years in a row
The Bulldogs clinched the
win in the No 3 doubles
match when Tom Foster and
Deane Frey defeated the
Clemson duo of Ric Rudeen
and Miguel Nido 7-6,6-3 The
partisan Georgia crowd let
out a sigh of relief when
Foster and Frey finally
closed out the match in
which the momentum
changed courts constantly
throughout the day
Clemson took the early
lead when lOth-ranked Jean
Desdunes defeated eighth-
ranked Foster 6-3, 6-4 in the
No. 2 singles match Foster
could not overcome the
Clemson star's superior
quickness and ability to rush
the net, and Desdunes
avenged the setback he
suffered at Foster's hands in
the finals of the Southern
Intercollegiate Cham
pionship last fall
The Bulldogs quickly
evened the score when Frey
closed out a 7-5, 6-2 win over
Nido at No 5 singles. The
Georgia freshman played
consistently and took ad
vantage of the up-and-down
play of Nido
Frey’s win lifted the
Bulldog fans’ spirits and,
with John Mangan making a
comeback at No. 1, they
began to sense a Georgia
victory.
Clemson put a damper on
those spirits, though, when
Ric Rudeen captured a well-
earned 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 victory
over Allen Miller at No. 3
singles
Ola Malmqvist pulled the
Bulldogs even again with a 7-
6, 2-6,6-2 comeback win over
Greg Cooper Malmqvist
trailed 2-5 in the first set
before mounting a charge,
and he took five of the last
six games to take the set.
Georgia took its first lead
of the day when Mangan
closed out an emotional
performance with a 2-6, 6-4,
6-3 win over Uth-ranked
Mark Dickson. The Georgia
fans erupted when Mangan
wrapped up the win and
several Bulldog supporters
stormed the court to
congratulate the senior
"This is about the biggest
match of the year for us,"
Mangan said. “It's one of my
better wins. He (Dickson)
setved great in the first set,
but I knew that he couldn't
serve that way the whole
time.”
With the action finished on
the upper courts, the fans
turned to court 4 where
Georgia’s George Bezecny
was battling Richard Akel.
Bezecny had fought back to
capture the second set 7-5
after dropping the initial set
5-7.
Akel broke Bezecny's
serve in the ninth game of
the third set and went on to
take the match with a 6-4
win.
With the team score tied 3-
3 going into the doubles
competition, the tension
mounted in the darkening
grandstands. Clemson's
doubles teams are as
respected as the Bulldogs’,
and only time would tell
which would emerge the
victor.
Georgia’s No. 1 doubles
tandem of Miller and
Malmqvist overcame early
problems to put the Bulldogs
ahead with a 7-6,63 win over
Cooper and Desdunes.
Clemson's No. 2 team of
Dickson and Akel held off a
Dogs dump Mercer 15-7
late surge by Mangan and
Gerald Kleis to even the
match with a 6-4,7-6 win.
Frey and Foster were on a
roll, however, and the
‘We needed to
win one before a
good crowd.’
— Dan Magill
Georgia fans waited with
anticipation for the Bulldogs
to finally nail down the lid on
the pesky Tigers.
"It was another classic
match between two of the top
teams in the country," said
Georgia Coach Dan Magill
“We needed to win one
before a good crowd. I
couldn’t be prouder of our
team.”
Magill said he was com
fortable with the score being
tied at the end of the singles
matches. "We always like to
go into the doubles only
having to win two out of
three,” Magill said. "We feel
like we can win doubles from
anybody and we did.”
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Red and Black Staff Writer
Georgia left fielder John Basco drove in
five runs and collected four singles Tuesday
to lead the Bulldogs to a 15-7 win over Mercer
of Macon The win improved the Dog's
season record to 1612.
Basco, a senior who missed seven games
earlier this season due to academic dif
ficulties, singled four times in five plate ap
pearances to raise his average to .333 for the
season. Basco said it’s just a matter of time
before he gets his rhythm back and starts to
display the form that made him a .367 hitter
a year ago.
“You lay off a while and you lose your tim
ing and rhythm," Basco said "I'm swinging
at better pitches lately and I’m hitting the
ball real well. The layoff was real discourag
ing. You want to be playing. I tried to act like
it didn’t affect me so it wouldn't upset the
team. We’ll come around the second half of
the season.”
The Dogs took advantage of Mercer’s shod
dy fielding in the first two innings to jump out
to a 6-0 lead. The Bears committed three er
rors in the first two frames and five in the
game.
David Jackson, who came into the game
batting .402, opened the game with a double
to left center. Basco then singled to right to
give the Dogs a 1-0 lead. Basco advanced to
third on a walk and an error and scored on a
sacrifice fly by Jeff Treadway.
Georgia tallied four runs in the second inn
ing spurred by a two-run single by Basco.
First baseman Mike Wirth also had an RBI
single in the inning as the Dogs jumped out to
a big lead on Mercer starter Rob Stone, who
came into the game with a 6-0 record. But
Stone gave up nine earned runs in four and
one third innings pitched. He ended up the
loser.
Mercer came back and scored three runs
in the third inning off Georgia starter Guy
Stargell. The Dogs came back in the bottom
of the fourth to make the score 7-3 on Rick
Fuentes’s fourth homer of the season. The
Bears came back and added three runs in the
fifth to make the score 7-6 and chase Stargell.
Basco drove in another two Georgia runs
on an infield hit and the Dogs went ahead for
good, 10-6. Georgia added five insurance
runs in the eighth to put the icing on the cake.
Today the Dogs take on Georgia State in
Atlanta. Tim Greene, 2-3 on the year, will
start for the Dogs. He will be pitching against
a young State team that lost all three of its
outfielders last season. Second baseman
Brent McGuire ( .315 last season) anchors a
solid infield that also includes third baseman
Jim Hutchenson (.306). Last season the Pan
thers were 17-33 under Coach Jim Dorsey.
Webber said the game will not be any
breather for the Dogs
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