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The Red and Black
Tuesday, May 17, 1983
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Golfers surge to capture SEC title
By BRIAN K. MOKKSCH
Krd ana Mart Wall Wrttrr
AUGUSTA, Ga, — It had been quite a Sunday afternoon for
Georgia's Wayne Smith
Smith's final round 3 under-par 69, the low round of the
day. had enabled Georgia's mens golf team to erase a nine-
shot Alabama lead and thrust the Dogs into a sudden-death
playoff with the Tide This, coupled with his previous rounds
of 73 and 71, had also tied him for the individual champion
ship
So it was only poetic justice that the silver-haired
Australian, standing before the large crowd of spectators
that surrounded the first green of the West Lake Country
Club course in Augusta. Ga , calmly rolled in an uphill four
footer to give Georgia its 20th Southeastern Conference golf
championship
The Dogs, tournament favorites, began Sunday s final
round nine shots behind Alabama and five shots behind
Florida The Crimson Tide, led by senior Lee Rinker who led
the tournament at the end of two rounds with a 4-under par
140 total, and sophomore Griff Rudolph, who wasn’t far
behind at 142, was playing inspired golf, and seemed a sure
bet to win its first conference title since 1979 With the Dogs
playing consistent but uneventful golf, no one gave them
much of a chance at catching Alabama, except the players
themselves
But it was evident after the first nine holes Sunday the
Dogs were not about to roll over and play dead Georgia had
cut Alabama's lead to four shots, behind the strong per
formances by sophomore Louis Brown, who carded a 35 on
the front nine, and Smith, who shot 34 With the team’s 2-
under par nine-hole performance, the Dogs had also dusted
Florida, which was in the midst of pulling one of the classic el
foldos in recent memory, finishing the day at 17-over-par 307
The scene then shiftMi to the 18th green, where with every
group through but one, it was finally decided that Georgia
owned a one-shot lead over Bama Rinker, who thought his
team was down by two shots, boldly charged in a 20-foot bir
die putt to tie the tournament Georgia's Wright Waddell,
who had the same notions as Rinker, calmly rolled in a three-
footer to send the event into sudden death
"I'm glad I didn't know I had to make that to tie," Waddell
said afterwards
After Smith's putt on the first playoff hole assured the Dogs
of the team title, and the celebration and high fires had sub
sided somewhat. Smith was taxied back to the first tee to
begin his second playoff of the afternoon, this time with Ole
Miss' David Peege for the individual title
On the first extra hole, Smith played a great second shot in
to the green but missed a birdie putt that would've given him
the title. On the second hole, a short par five, Peege hit a
super second shot, chipped up to within three feet, and sank
the putt for the win. Smith's attempt at birdie had slid by the
hole
Hobby ready for new start
TIPTON, Ga (API - Three years
ago, Ken Hobby, a sensational quar
terback out of Tift County High School,
was expected to lead Auburn to college
football's promised land It didn't work
that way at all
At Tift, Hobby's stats were im
pressive — 88 touchdowns (40 passing,
48 rushing i, 4,245 yards in the air and
2.048 yards on the ground He went to
Auburn, and quickly found himself the
No 2 quarterback early in his freshman
year
In the third game, he took over and
marched the War Kagles 77 yards into
position for a winning TD against
Tennessee, but one of his own linemen
knocked the ball out of his hands
It would be his shining hour in a sour
college career As the season wore on,
he threw one of every seven passes for
an interception As Auburn tried to beat
Alabama, he threw interceptions at the
Crimson Tide's 1-, 17 and 7-yard lines
In Auburn's A Day intrasquad battle
the next spring, Hobby’s problems
"surfaced," said Coach Pat Dye. With
the No 1 job his for the taking, he
tossed five interceptions
"Nobody had a good spring," Hobby
recalled. "I was belter than most But
Coach Dye based his decision on the
fact that Kandy Campbell (another
quarterback) didn't make mistakes."
Hobby’s horror continued. At the
beginning of summer practice, he was
out of action for three weeks with
testicular inflammation His grand
mother died And when he finally got to
practice, he found an unfamiliar jersey
in his locker on the second day It was
green, the shirt worn by players on the
scout team
The next day, he turned and walked
away
"It was embarrassing," Hobby said
"I couldn't work with the offense. I
didn't see any way to work my way
back up.”
Dye said Hobby’s troubles went
beyond the sidelines There was
academic trouble, a driving under-the-
influence charge, and the fact that
Hobby did not stay in Sewell Hall,
Auburn's athletic dorm
"Ken had all summer to do it," Dye
said "He could have come in with a
clean slate Instead, he got in a deeper
hole
"The green shirt was more or less to
notify him we weren't counting on
him "
Hobby was redshirted in the '82
season and did not play Over Christ
mas, he learned that his father had
cancer of the lymph nodes
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“That's OK,” Smith said after the playoff, “we won the ti
tle that counts.”
Waddell, a junior from Columbus, Ga., finished the tourna
ment in fifth place, firing rounds of 69-75-75. Waddell was also
named All-SEC after the tournament Sophomore Brown,
who carded an even-par 72 Sunday in winds that gusted to 20
mph, and senior Bob Wolcott, finished tied for 11th with 222
totals Hall Fowler shot an 80 Sunday, but made a critical par
on the playoff hole to help the Dogs win the championship
Florida edged Ole Miss by two shots to finish third, follow
ed by the Rebels, Tennessee and LSU.
Georgia head coach Dick Copas said after the tournament
the Dogs were fortunate to play so aggressively and win
“We went into Sunday’s round trailing by nine shots,"
Copas said, "so 1 just told the team to go out and play ag
gressively ”
Lady Dogs dominate
This past January, Hobby discovered
his name on the team's "make-up list "
Dye said the list involves Tunning
stadium steps 25 or 50 times "
“They make you get up early,”
Hobby said, "to do some grass rolls and
such They try to make you throw up "
His name was on the list two
Tuesdays running “I didn't show for
either one," Hobby said “I hadn't done
anything They added another, and I
just wasn't gomg to do it It was a
standoff for a while, then quarter break
came and I left "
Dye said Hobby's treatment was
"nothing more than the rest of our
players do We're not going to lower our
standards or soften our rules to keep
somebody around
Hobby, out of football for a year now.
plays softball on spring evenings and
works for a roofing company owned by
a friend's father He said he has con
tacted coaches at Georgia and Florida
State, even though transferring, under
college rules, would mean losing one of
his three remaining years of eligibility
"He needs to make a new start,” Dye
said. "He's worked himself into a
situation that we agree isn't
salvagable
By KEVIN PROCTER
H«l and Blank Statf Wrllrr
What was anticipated as a heated clash between rivals
Florida and Georgia at the Southeastern Conference
women's golf tournament envolved into a vicious rout
Entering the final day of competition with a 12-stroke lead,
the t^ady Dogs’ golf team captured their first SEC title by
outdistancing second place Florida by 16 strokes at Pine
Mountain, Ga
The tournament was supposed to be a battle between the
Lady Dogs and Lady Gators, but Georgia took the suspense
out of the tournament early by increasing its lead to 12
strokes on Saturday
Senior Cindy Pleger paced the Lady Dogs with a 22(1 over
the 54-hole tournament, finishing second overall to Florida's
Deb Richard
Georgia s Martha Stacy was tied for fourth with 223, and
Caroline Gowan was sixth with a 224 Sohpomore Cindy
Schreyer was next at 225 and Beans Kelly finished ninth at
230, as all five Lady Bulldog golfers finished in the top 10 in
dividually
Georgia finished with a 890 overall as the team broke ,300
each day Florida was second with 906, followed by Kentucky
(9151, Mississippi State (9441, and 125U (946i Two Alabama
players were injured in an automobile accident on qualifying
day and only three players were able to participate
Coach Liz Murphey said she was pleased with winning the
tournament because it increased the team’s confidence
“A lot of people expected us to win half of our tournaments
this year, and we only won two Everybody thought we
were having a bad year," Murphey said
“I was real proud of the way the girls didn't listen to
everybody and believed in themselves," Murphey added,
"and the win couldn't have come at a better time "
The SEC tittle was the fifth conference championship by a
Georgia team this year Georgia also claimed SEC titles in
football, men's and women’s basketball and men's golf
The reason the win came at a perfect time is because the
NCAA women's golf tournament will he played in Athens this
weekend 16 other teams will join the Lady Bulldogs in this 72
hole event The top 17 individuals whose teams didn't qualify
will also be here
LADY DOG NOTES - All-SEC members Pleger and
Gowan made the all-tournament team, along with Stacy for
Georgia This was only the third SEC tournament for the
women. Florida won the first two
Tracksters fourth in SEC
By P. MEKCHEI.LE
WELLS
Red and Hlark Hull H rttrr
While referees were on a
disqualification spree, the
Georgia men's track team
was busy finishing fourth at
the Southeastern Conference
track meet
As expected. Tennessee,
with 121 points, captured the
SEC title last weekend, the
Vols 18th title in the past 20
years Alabama and Florida
finished second and third,
respectively Alabama had
118 points, Florida 85
Georgia came in fourth with
73 points.
The disqualifications
began Friday when Georgia
long-distance runner Mark
Plaatjes of Johannesburg.
South Africa, tried to take
the inside lane in the 10,000-
meter run Scott Brantley of
Florida held the lead going
into the final turn when he
glided outside into the
second lane While Plaatjes
tried to take the inside,
Brantley inadvertently cut
Plaatjes off. forcing him off
the track for about five or six
steps
Plaatjes would have
finished second, but was
disqualified by track of
ficials Sean Nicholl of
Georgia finished fourth in
the controversial race with a
lime of 30:27, followed by
teammate Tom Briggs who
finished fifth with a time of
30:37 4
VYillbanks won the SEC high jump title
f
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In other disqualification
news, the Vols' 1.600 meter
relay team was ousted when
referees decided one of the
Volunteer members in
terfered with an Alabama
runner while the two were
jockeying for position
Amid officiating in-
ter upt ions, however,
Georgia did have two in
dividual SEC champions
Steve Burgess captured the
first in the 800-meter run in
1 49 83 Skipper Willbanks
captured the title in the high
jump with a jump of 7 feet 3-
inches.
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"I wasn't even sure I was
going to make the team,"
said Burgess, a non
scholarship walkon from a
junior college in New York
"This is totally unexpected
and unbelievable I guess all
the hard work paid off "
The other Georgia SEC
champ. Willbanks, is also a
newcomer "I was con
fident coming in until
everybody else started
jumping well." said the
freshman, who also won the
high jump at the SEC in
doors earlier this year “I
know I had to jump well just
to stay in it I would've liked
to have jumped 7-4 to get the
record, but I'll take the to
points for the team "
In other Bulldog
highlights, freshman
sprinter Stanley Blalock
finished second in the 200-
meter dash with a time of
20 73 and fifth in the 100-
meter dash with a time of
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jamin was second with a
combined distance of 52-feet
6-inches He was also third in
the long jump with a flight of
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