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The Red and Black • Tuesday, October 3, 1989 • 7
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Intramural football
season begins play
Stuff Report*
Football i* definitely in the air.
The Dawgs are 2-1, the Falcon*
are ... well, playing, and flags are
now on sale in the University
Bookstore. Flags? Well, actually
their flag-belt* and they are the
all-important and only equipment
needed to play flag football.
Yes, it's here. The University**
intramural flag football season
began Monday with games slated
for 3:45 and 4:45 p.m.
"We’ve got more teams signed up
then usual,” Steve Mrowka, an in
tramural office graduate assistant
incharge of flag football, said. “It
should be a good season.”
The University’s intramural
season lasts four weeks and ends
in an open tournament to deter
mine a campus champion. Teams
are fielded for both men and
women, with the men divided into
independent a and b and Gover
nor’s and President’s leagues.
Mrowka said their will be a few
changes in this year’s program.
Rules prohibiting player* from
wearing shorts with open pockets
and belt loops, requiring team
mates to wear the same color flag
and insisting that opposing teams
wear cotrasting colored jerseys will
be more strictly enforced, he said.
In a new rule, defensive players
will not be allowed to come in con
tact with a quarterback’s throwing
arm at any time. The penalty will
cost a team 10 yards.
A sportsmanship award will also
be presented this year, Mrwoka
said. Intramural sports supervi
sors and officials will decide which
team gets the award at the end of
the season and that team will re
ceive an as-yet-undetermined
prize.
In one other change, the fields
will be marked off in orange paint
this year instead of white. Intra
mural director Kim Kolesnik said
the new orange lines will be easier
to see than the whit* lines when
the grass begins to die in the fall.
The difference is like night and
day,” she said.
In an area that never seems to
change, the program is in need of
more officials.
“We’re hurting for refs,” Mrowka
said.
Mrowka said the season should
be competitive, with no clear cut
powerhouse team emerging until a
couple of games into the season.
“It's just too early to tell any
thing,” he said. “We don’t know
whose coming back from last year,
so well have to wait and see.”
Last year's men’s champion, the
Eddies, has all but disbanded so a
new top team will be crowned come
tournament time. But who will
wear that crown?
One team that should be a
strong contender is Beta Theta Pi.
A final four team last year, the
Betas return a lot of people and
seem talented and experienced
enough to take the title.
Challenging the Betas sould be
the independent “A” league Pure
Penetrators. Winners of the title
two years ago, the Penetrators re
turn their entire squad from a year
ago. On paper, they look like a
team headed for the finals, but
that’s how they looked last year
but were upset 38-31 in the tourna
ment by eventual runner-up Bad
Assets.
Other independent A contenders
will be the ever strong BSU Elite,
the ominous Bad Company and
Primetime.
Among the fraternities, Alpha
Epsilon Pi should roll, while Pike,
Sigma Nu and Delta Tau Delta
should be powers to be reckoned
with.
Of course nothing is certain. The
season hasn't started yet and there
are a lot of teams out their. Whose
going to win? Who knows but that
team will earn the title.
Netters open up play
By RANDY WALKER
Sports Writer
Murphy Jensen's victory in the
“B” division of the Clemaon Fall
Classic highlighted the men’s
tennis team’s first weekend of
tournament action.
Jensen defeated Joran Berg-
wall of Anderson Junior College
6-0, 6-2 in his first tournamnet as
a Bulldog since transfering from
the University of Southern Cali
fornia. Also playing exceptional
for the Bulldogs at Clemson was
freshmen walk-on Marsh Butler
who reached the semi-finals of
the “B” division before losing to
Bergwall 6-2, 6-2. Sophomore
Jack Frierson and Freshmen
Hector Nevares were both
knocked out of the tournament in
the early rounds.
While Jensen, Butler, Frierson
and Nevares participated in
Clemson, A1 Parker, Jim Childs
and Mike Morrison played at the
Bay Point Invitational on the
shores of the Gulf of Mexico in
Panama City, FI.
Parker, the tournament’s no. 2
seed was defeated in the first
round by Miami’s Ernesto
Lindgen 1-6, 6-1, 7-6. Parker led
5-0 in the third set but Lindgen
was able to battle back to upset
the two-time All-American.
Third-seeded Stephans Simian of
South Carolina dispatached
Childs in the first round 6-1, 6-4,
while Mormison lost to Jose
Campos of South Florida in the
second round.
Parker and Child's first round
demises qualified them for the
consolation round where Parker
reached the semi-finals and
Childs reached the quarter-finals
before rain canceled play.
“Overall, I think we played
pretty well,” coach Manuel Diaz
said.
Diaz will now work his dogs
out this week and prepare for the
Southern Collegiate
Championships played in Athens
Friday through Monday.
USC defense prevails
By JONATHAN TULLY
Sports Writer
Somebody woke the Gamecock
defense on the wrong side of the
bed Saturday.
The Georgia Bulldogs were
ready to run rampant over a South
Carolina defense that had given up
an average of 430 yards a game, in
cluding 589 yards to West Virginia.
Then the Gamecocks woke up.
After falling behind at halftime
17-14 to the BulldogB, South Caro
lina’s defense choked the Georgia
attack, allowing just 96 yards total
offense and a measly three points
en route to a 24-20 win. This de
fensive onslaught came after
Georgia totalled up 196 offensive
yards in the first half.
Gamecock head coach Sparky
Woods was obviously pleasea with
his defense’s performance.
M I can’t say enough about our de
fense, especially in the second
half,” Woods said. They fought
back from adversity.
“We played so hard as a team. It
was a totally unselfish attitude on
the part of the team ”
In the third quarter, the defense
provided the impetus for the
Gamecocks to take the lead. Scott
Windsor and Joe Reaves each in
tercepted a pass and Corey Miller
recovered a fumble as the Bulldogs
turned the ball over on three con
secutive series.
Reaves’ interception was the big
play, because on the next series
quarterback Todd Ellis threw a
touchdown pass to Carl Platt
which proved to be the game
winner.
They were throwing the ball to
the tight end over the middle about
three or four times,” Reaves said
“We got a good jump on them, and
it was tipped. I was lucky to get the
ball.”
A illustrative example of how
well the defense did came in the
fourth quarter. With the Bulldogs
getting the ball after a USC punt,
the team had one more shot to
come back.
But on first down, defensive end
Scott Windsor tackled Rodney
Hampton for a 5-yard loss, then
nose tackle Tim High sacked Greg
Talley twice and forced Georgia
into a fourth-and-long situation
which they couldn’t convert.
Runners race through Tallahassee, Florida
By DEREK SMITH
Sports Writer
Despite a hot and humid day in
Tallahassee, Fla., the Bulldog
cross country team recorded an
other fine performance in Satur
day’s Florida State Invitational
In a field that included Florida,
Florida State, Miami, and South
Carolina, the women finished tied
with Florida for first place while
the men came in at fourth-place be
hind Florida, Florida State, and
UNC-Wilmington.
The Lady Bulldog distance team
had an especially strong meet,
placing three runners in the top
ten. Jolly Ann Earle was the first
Lady Dog to cross the finish and
was second overall. Coming in only
17 seconds later and finishing
fourth overall was Nancy
Freeman. Kathryn Kreiger fin
ished seventh overall and was only
21 seconds behind lead runner
Earle.
It was a homecoming of sorts for
Florida transfer Nancy Freeman.
Racing for the first time against
her old teammates, Freeman had a
good showing.
“She came by two of the Florida
girls right in the last quarter mile,”
assistant coach Claire Townsend.
“It was exciting."
The men's team raced well al
though they were without senior
lead runner John Hayes. Hayes,
who finished first for Georgia in
the first two meets, is out with a
bothered achilles tendon.
That affected the score signifi
cantly,” Coach John Mitchell said.
“I’m not sure where we would have
moved, maybe third.”
Mitchell said Hayes didn’t run at
all the end of last week and isn't
sure when he’ll be able to train
again.
Taking Hayes position’s as lead
runner was Bruce Stephens. Ste
phens had been running behind
Hayes in the two previous meets.
Eric Tyson came in second be
hind Stephens and freshman Jason
Wilcox continues to improve, fin
ishing third.
Next up for the Bulldog distance
team will be the Georgia Intercolle-
giates at the University golf course
on Saturday, Oct. 7. The meet will
feature Georgia Tech and other
schools from the state Races begin
at 10:30 AM.
“I assume both races!men's and
women’s)will be a contest us and
Georgia Tech,” Mitchell said.
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