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The Red and Black
Friday. April 2. 1982
Dogs meet Kentucky in SEC cellar battle
By BRIAN R. MOER8CH
Ked and Black Mall Writer
It's time the Georgia baseball team gets down to business
This weekend Georgia hosts Southeastern Conference rival
Kentucky in an important Eastern Division matchup to see
which team will escape the division cellar Both teams enter
the series with identical 2-6 conference records.
Georgia Coach Steve Webber said Wednesday he thinks his
team must make a move now in the division or lose control of
its own destiny
“We can't wait much longer to get in the race,” Webber
said, "or we re gonna have to start to depend on the other
teams to help us out."
Kentucky finished last season 39-16-1 and were considered
by many as one of the top teams in the nation. They won four
of six games against the Dogs last year. This season has been
another story, however, as the Wildcats lost 13 players to
graduation
They do have excellent players returning in first baseman
Bill Sandry ' 372. 11 home runs, 52 RBI) and outfielder Mike
Botkin ( 346, 7 home runs), but the depth they possessed a
year ago is gone They also return two of their pitching aces,
Jeff Parrett (5-2) and Paul Kilgus (5-3). Webber said Ken
tucky and Georgia are similar teams this season and expects
three good games this weekend
"They have a young team," Webber said "They struggled
early but they're just starting to put it all together They have
a couple of outstanding pitchers and Coach (Keith) Madison
has done a great job building their program ”
Tim Barnette and Hugh Kemp will be the starting pitchers
for the Dogs in Saturday's double header The starter for
Sunday's game has not been decided
Florida and Tennessee lead the Eastern Division with 6-1
and 6-2 records, respectively Vanderbilt is in third place
with a 4-5 record, followed by Georgia and Kentucky. The
ilogs need at least two wins this weekend to tie Vandy in the
win column In order to win a trip to the SEC tournament
May 14-17, the Dogs must finish first or second in the division.
As was the case last year, the Dogs have had their pitching
problems this season Going into the weekend games the
Dogs are 10-12 overall, and the lack of consistant pitching can
be held responsible for most of those 12 losses. The team
earned run average stands at 5.36, while the Dogs have
averaged over nine and a half runs per game
Webber said in order for the Dogs to make a move in the
standings that they were going to have to get some good per
formances out of the starting pitchers
“It’s going to boil down to pitching," Webber said, “and
we’re going to have to get better performances out of more
people ”
So far this season Georgia pitchers have only registered
four complete games, and most games the starters haven't
lasted past three or four innings
The only two pitchers who have been consistent all season
are junior transfer Kemp, who is 3-3 on the season with a 4.50
ERA, and junior Barnette, who is 1-2 but owns a team-leading
2 52 ERA These two pitchers have the only complete games
this season for Georgia.
There have been a number of bright spots at the plate for
the Dogs this season. The most pleasant surprise has been
the play of sophomore Rick Fuentes, who is still among the
leading hitters of the SEC with a 433 average.
Fuentes also leads the Dogs into hits, doubles, RBI and total
bases Third baseman David Jackson has also blossomed in
to a fine leadoff hitter He is batting 402 and leads the Dogs in
runs scored and stolen bases Mike Wirth (.310), and John
Basco (.333), along with Jeff Treadway have also been hit
ting well lately.
The Dogs have been an inconsistent team all season They
have shown occasional signs of brilliance by beating teams
like Florida State and Clemson, but have also lost games to
Appalachian State and Columbus.
In order to get back into the SEC race, the Dogs’ pitchers
must vastly improve over their first half performance. The
offense and defense have been more than adequate, but the
pitching has been little more than mediocre.
Fifteen of the final 29 games are against SEC opponents,
and the pitching must come around or the Dogs will be in for
a long season.
Gymnasts bring youth to nationals
By CHARI.ES ODUM
Red and Black Stall Writer
The reward for the past
year of good recruiting, hard
work and continued im
provement will come today
and Saturday for the women
gymnasts when they com
pete in the Association for
Intercollegiate Athletics for
Women Nationals in
Memphis, Tenn.
Coach Rick Walton has
taken his team to the
nationals in only his second
year at Georgia, and has
managed this success with a
very young, but talented,
team. Seven freshmen and
two sophomores comprise
the nine-member squad,
which is 11-8 on the year
Georgia enters the tour
nament ranked fifth in the
12-team field, after being
ranked in the top 20 during
the season. Collegiate
women’s gymnastics, like
basketball, this season has
split into two groups, the
AIAW and the NCAA. The
AIAW has long been the
governing body of women’s
athletics, but it has seen the
NCAA weaken its monopoly
this season by holding an
NCAA tournament earlier
this year.
The AIAW still boasts a
strong field, however, with
Florida, Brigham Young,
Alabama, Oklahoma State
and Georgia the top seeds
Georgia defeated Alabama
on Jan. 23, but has lost to
Florida on three occasions.
Alabama also edged the
Georgia women at the AIAW
Region III Championships
held here on March 19-20
Georgia will again com
pete without the services of
Shelly Carney and Kathy
Overstreet because of in
juries. Laurie Jones, Kathy
Neibel, Laurie Reiff and
Kathy McMinn will be
counted on to lead Georgia
McMinn qualified last year
as an individual and is
looking forward to the team
competition this year. There
was a time, however, when
she didn't feel the team
would make it.
If the gymnasts are able to
beat top-seeded Florida this
year, McMinn and her young
teammates may walk away
with the national cham
pionship
Staff photo/Sam Walton
Barnette is one of few consistent performers
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With the Lady Gator and Georgia Invitational tournaments
out of the way, the Georgia women's track team travels to
Gainesville, Fla., Saturday for the outdoor season’s first dual
meet.
Coach Steve Sitler said his team needs to use the meet for
practical purposes. “We’re working through this meet,” he
said. “Our girls will be tired when they go into this meet. We
have Dogwood next weekend and Penn Relays after that, and
the girls, the good ones, will want to be ready to perform at
those meets. So we’ve got to get the work in now.”
Siller’s primary objective Saturday will be to win as a
team Florida is only allowing two individuals from each
school in each event, which narrows the possible scoring
points to a maximum of four
“So that means everybody counts,” Sitler said. He is,
however, also looking for some individual accomplishments
Key factors in Saturday's dual meet will lie in the hands of
Linda Detlefsen and Sabina Horne, who will carry the load in
the distance events.
“Where we put those two people, we’ve got to count on a
first place, and I think we can,” Sitler said.
The crucial area will be in the middle-distance events 1800-
meter through 3,000-meter). Florida has outstanding per
formers in those areas and Detlefsen and Horne will be
counted on to outscore Florida in those events.
Sitler said the Bulldog Babes should collect most of their
points in the sprints and fare favorably in the field events.
The discus throw will be an important event. Sitler is con
fident Georgia freshman Paula McGuire can win the event.
Georgia should have no problem in the high jump com
petition with Cynthia Gilbert. The Georgia junior recently
made a jump of 5-11 1 2 to shatter the old school record.
Sophomore long jumper Kathy Rankins, ranked second in
the nation with a recorded 20-1 DA collegiate jump, should
also finish strong.
Sitler has a variety of freshmen, some strong sophomores,
and one or two juniors on this year’s team He said the year
will be a transition period and rebuilding year combined,
“We’re young. We’re not as established as those other
programs are, but we are not that far behind it.” Said Sitler
of Saturday’s meet, “I’m looking for a close meet this
weekend, and I’m hoping to come out on top.”
Sports Shorts
Dogs tee-off for spring
Dick Copas and his men’s
golf team travel to Mon
tgomery, Ala., this
weekend for the Southern
Invitational Tournament.
The men finished sixth
out of a field of 25 teams
last year at the tournament
and hope to improve that
mark this year
Junior Jack Larkin was
low man for the Bulldogs
last year in Montgomery
with a three-day total of
217.
This year’s field boasts a
strong contingent of
Southeastern Conference
and Atlantic Coast Con
ference schools
The men are coming off a
disappointing finish in the
Furman Invitational. Play
for many of the players
was interrupted by winter
quarter final exams and
with the full squad
available for only the final
day, the Bulldogs could on
ly come away with a tie for
ninth.
Georgia traveled to
Dadeville, Ala , over the
break for the Southern
Junior-Senior Invitational
and had a much better
showing Mike Cook, from
Cartersville, took the in
dividual title and led the
Bulldogs to an impressive
second-place finish Wayne
Smith also had a good tour
nament as he finished se
cond for the Bulldogs, fifth
overall.
After such up and down
results at the Southern, this
weekend is crucial for the
Dogs to develop the con
sistency they will need as
they get into the meat of
their spring schedule
— Alan Johns
(V-
Dick Copas
Terranova picks
Georgia No. 1
recruiting school
Georgia’s football
recruiting year has been
named the best in the coun
try this year by Joe Ter
ranova, the nation’s
leading authority on high
school athletes
According to Terranova,
Georgia out recruited such
powers as Notre Dame,
Alabama, Michigan and
Oklahoma
Six Southeastern Con
ference teams made Ter-
ranova’s list of the 25 top
recruiting schools. Joining
No. 1 Georgia was Auburn
(No. 7), Florida (No 8),
Alabama (No. 15), Ten
nessee (No. 17) and
Louisana State (No. 24).
Defending national
champion Clemson was
ranked No. 18