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6 • The Red and Black • Thursday, January 11, 1990
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Men’s basketball team loses another
SEC game to Alabama’s Crimson Tide
Dogs now 1-2 in conference
and dropping to 8-4 overall
ALL
SALES
FINA
By DAVID PACE
Sports Writer
Shooting just 23 percent from
the parquet floor in Tuscaloosa,
Ala., Wednesday night, the
Georgia men’s basketball team
dropped its second straight SEC
game of the year 79-62.
The loss drops the Dogs to 1-2 in
the conference and 8-4 overall.
The first 10 minutes of the first
half was a slow and low scoring
ballgame, not the type of basket
ball the run-and-gun Bulldogs
prefer to play. They were tied on
three different occasions and al
though Georgia never had the lead,
Alabama never led by more than
four.
Alabama’s man-to-man coverage
was simply too much for the Dogs.
Theyswarmed Alec Kessler and
Litterial Green, denying them the
basket. No one else for Georgia was
able to pick up the scoring slack.
The Dogs managed a feeble 16
points in the first half, shooting
only 18 percent.
But, as bad as the Dogs were of
fensively, their defense wasn’t as
bad. At the end of the first half, Al
abama led by 11 points, hardly an
insurmountable lead.
But, the funk the Dogs have
been in for the last two games con
tinued in the second half.
Increasing the tempo, they shot
41 percent in the final period and
scored 46 points. Georgia’s Green
led all scorers with 21 points. He
Women’s basketball team defeats Alabama
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Dicer recovering
from bike accident
had two assists, three rebounds
and one steal. He had one three
point basket in five attempts.
But Alabama was ud to speed.
The team had learned its lesson
and didn’t blow the lead as it did
when it had a 16 point advantage
over Vanderbilt. That game
brought the Tide’s first loss in 21
games on their home floor.
Alabama shot 58 percent in the
second half to wrap up a victory.
Georgia has defeated Alabama
only once in its last 12 attempts at
Coleman Coliseum.
Georgia finds itself searching for
an offense that seems to have
missed the plane for its road
games. The team that hit the floor
in Tuscaloosa was not the same
team we saw in Atlanta against
Georgia Tech.
Those Dogs were full of fire and
enthusiasm. They were aggressive
and most importantly their offense
was on.
In the last two games, Georgia
has come out fiat and timid. The
Dogs got behind early on the road
and had to play catch-up in hostile
territory. With no inside game to
speak of, they have been relying on
their outside shooting, which
hasn’t been there.
Rams traveling a lot,
but they’re not tired
ANAHEIM, Calif. - They’re
coming ofT a gruelling stretch of
three weeks traveling back and
forth to the East Coast. And
Sunday they play the 49ers at San
Francisco.
“Were not tired," Los Angeles
Rams coach John Robinson said
Tuesday. “I just say, ‘Hey, we’re
not going to be tired. It’s inconve
nient for us to be tired. This is the
way it is and we’ll make the best of
it.’*
“And if (we) walk off the field up
there and have lost, we won’t say it
was because we were tired.”
“Maybe there’s just a little jet
lag,” quarterback Jim Everett said,
“but all this stuff pulls you out of it.
“After all, this time we’re just
going up the block to play our ri
vals."
“I can’t imagine better circum
stances for a game,” Robinson said.
“This may be the best of all the
49ers teams. They’re playing at a
peak now, they’ve got (nose tackle)
Michael Carter back, they beat
Minnesota so easily ...
‘They set the standard and their
standard is not coming down; we’re
going to have to be up there with
them. If we want to be the best,
we’ve got to play against the best.”
The Rams have been pointing to
ward the game since they lost 30-
27 — after leading by 17 points in
the final quarter — to the 49ers in
a Monday night game at Anaheim
on Dec. 11.
The Associated Press
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The good news is that Georgia
returns home Saturday night to
play Vanderbilt. The bad news is
that this is the same Vandy team
that beat Alabama in Tuscaloosa
just last week.
Litterial Green: Led all scorers with 21 points
after being down by 15 during the in 2nd half
By GENE WILLIAMS
Sports Editor
University of Georgia sopho
more swimmer Don Dicer is
owlv recovering from a serious
bicycle accident. On his way to
study for exams last quarter,
Dicer had an accident and flipped
over his handlebars onto the
pavement.
Dicer spent the rest of the
month of December in intensive
care at an Athens hosptial with
serious injuries to his neck and
spine. He has already undergone
a tracheotomy and suffered pneu
monia, a serious ailment for he
was unable to swallow. But since
then, his condition has improved
well enough so that last
Thursday he was sent to Patricia
Neal Hospital in his hometown of
Knoxville, Tenn., to continue the
rapy During the first two weeks
after his injury, Dicer was in a
coma, but now, through the visits
of his family and friends, Dicer is
on the road back.
“He’s doing a lot better now,”
Carolyn Dicer, Don’s mother,
said. “He is going through the
rapy twice a day to strengthen
his upper body, his lower body
and his speech.”
His mother said Dicer, one the
nation’s six academic All-Amer
ican swimmers, has not been dis
couraged about his sudden
misfortune.
“He is very anxious to do the
weights and to do all the work
neccessary to get him back to top
shape. His swallowing is not good
and he is not talkingright now,
but he is working. That is his
long-term goal,” Carolyn Dicer
said.
Georgia swimming coach Jack
HU
Don Dicer
Bauerele echoed those comments
and said that Dicer is a fighter.
“He is very intelligent and
clever and one thing he will not
do and never has done is give up,”
Bauerele said.
As a swimmer, Dicer had an
excellent freshman season. He
was an NCAA qualifier in the 200
and 400 freestyle relays and fin
ished eighth in the 100 back-
stroke and 12th in the 200 at the
1989 SEC meet. His strength and
excellent physical condition has
helped Dicer recover quicker that
the average person.
Dicer’s doctors feel that be
cause of his swimming and his
excellent shape, he is recovering
quickly and has started four-hour
therapy workouts a day, Carolyn
Dicer said.
As far as Dicer’s teammates
are concerned, he is always in
their minds.
“Some of the athletes were
really hurt by his injury,” Baue
rele said. "But, Don is the type of
person who won’t get down on
nimself and would tell us to get
our butts in gear and get going
and I’m sure we will do that.”
By ERIC GARBER
Sports Writer
The Lady Dogs came away with
a 70-65 victory against Alabama
Tuesday night, but it was anything
but easy.
Down by 15 midway through the
second half, Georgia began chip
ping away at the Tide’s lead behind
Lady Hardmon’s 18 points, seven
of which came in the game’s final
five minutes.
“Georgia has so many good ath
letes,” Alabama Assistant Coach
Dottie Kelso said. “Still, I think we
were prepared well. I don’t think
they expected us to be that close ”
Alabama was more than just
close as it burst to a 17-2 advan
tage to start the game and didn’t
trail until Georgia finally took the
lead with 4:51 left in the contest.
Alabama sophomore forward
Laura Vaughn set the tone for
much of the game by hitting four
three-pointers, finishing with 22
points.
‘They jumped out on us early be
cause of their good shooting,”
Georgia Coach Andy Landers said.
“Fortunately, we settled down and
played with them. I’m happy with
the way we came together down
the stretch.”
Unlike previous Georgia oppo
nents, Alabama effectively con
trolled the Lady Dogs’ inside game
while grabbing 41 rebounds, eight
of which by Vaughn. Georgia se
cured 35 rebounds, but needed
clutch shooting down the stretch
from Miriam Lowe and Hardmon
to pull the game out.
“Everyone in the SEC knows
about Georgia’s inside game,”
Kelso said. “I think by blocking
their players out we helped our
selves stay in the game.”
Georgia also got solid scoring
from Tammye Jenkins (17) and
Stacey Ford (12).
“Our team did what it had to do
to win this game,” Landers said.
“We constantly cut the lead down
to five or six and then they would
go up by eight or nine again. To
win on any given night, you have to
do what it takes. We did that."
Alabama led 36-30 at halflime
and continued to build on its lead
well into the second half before
surrendering to Georgia.
The Tide is now 10-6 overall and
0-2 in the SEC. Third-ranked in
the Associated Press Top 25,
Georgia improves its record to 13-0
(2-0 in the SEC) and plays next in
Nashville, Tenn. against Vander
bilt.
“It doesn’t get any easier from
here," Landers said. “Vanderbilt
will be tough so I don’t want to
think past that game.”
Lady Hardmon: Seven points in final five minutes