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• • Ihe Red and Black • Thursday, January 18, 1990
SPORTS
FANFARE
The Georgia gymnastics team will open their home schedule this
Saturday against Auburn. Since Georgia didn't beat Auburn in
football this season, the Gym Dogs will be looking for payback
against the Lady Tigers. All the action begins at 7:30 pm.
Bulldogs stomp MSU 83-69
By DAVID PACE
Sports Writer
The Georgia men’s basketball team used a combi
nation of smothering pressure defense and offense to
beat the visiting Mississippi State Bulldogs
Wednesday night at home in the Coliseum 83-69.
The two ball-clubs were ice-cold in the opening min
utes of the contest, until the Dogs’ Rod Cole and Mar
shall Wilson got things going offensively with some
clutch field goals to compliment the stifling pressure
defense the Dogs were playing.
“We played good defense," said head coach Hugh
Durham. “That is everyone but Cameron Burns.”
Bums, MSU’s star forward, had 28 points for the
night and pulled down eight rebounds.
Georgia, playing with the same enthusiasm and ag
gressiveness that catapulted them last Saturday
night over the Vanderbilt Commodores, pressured
MSU’s guards in the backcourt to build a slight lead
early
Mississippi State battled back to pull within one
point, but then Georgia’s offense began to click.
Although offensively Georgia had no inside game in
the first half, guards Green and Cole consistently
knocked down their perimeter shots. Surprisingly,
forward Alec Kessler had no points and no rebounds
in the first half. But Marshall Wilson stepped in to
pick up the slack. Wilson finished with 14 points and
nine rebounds.
“I didn’t get a whole lot of shota in the first half,”
said forward Alec Kessler. They did a good job of
double-teaming.”
The Dogs came out in the second half and continued
to thwart MSU’s attempts to close the gap. They led
by as much as 20 points as Alec Kessler moved to the
perimeter and found his range. Kessler finished with
13 points.
Guard Litterial Green broke the seams of MSU’s
zone defense for 24 points, while point guard Rod Cole
finished the night with 13 points.
“I don’t think that we played at our best tonight,
said Cole.
Jones anticipates fall return
By GENE WILUAMS
Sports Editor
Georgia quarterback Preston
Jones underwent successful sur
gery on his right wrist Tuesday
evening to repair the navicular
bone that he first injured in last
year’s G-Day spring game.
“I’m a little sore right now, but
I’m doing alright,” Jones said.
According to team orthopedic
Dr. William Mulherin, Jones
probably re-ir\jured the wrist be
fore the Georgia Tech game when
he felt a sharp pain in his wrist
while lifting weights.
“He probably re-fractured it
(the wrist) then, but he didn’t in
dicate anything was wrong be
cause he wanted to play,”
Mulherin said.
After the Peach Bowl, the
wrist still bothered Jones so Mul
herin X-rayed it. The results
showed that one fragment in the
bone had not completely healed
and surgery was needed. Dr.
Frank McCue, a specialist in
Charlottesville, Virginia, per
formed the surgery.
‘The doctor took about a third
of the bone out and put a silicone
implant in because part of the
bone had died,” Jones said.
‘The plastic implant is a new
procedure,” Mulherin said. The
nealing process will probably
take between six to eight weeks
instead of three months.”
Jones will wear a cast for
about seven days before
switching to a movable splint
which he will wear until his wrist
completely heals. He most likely
will not practice in the spring.
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early. said Cole.
UCLA chosen preseason favorite for gymnastics nationals
By CHRIS LANCETTE signed to a scholarship is tremen- championship. 1988 U.S. Olympian Rhonda “Winning the national bama,” Oklahoma’s coach Buwick
Snorts Staff Writer dous. When vou consider how Four coaches were unavailable Faehn —the third Olympian to chamoionshio is not so much a said.
By CHRIS LANCETTE
Sports Staff Writer
The UCLA Lady Bruins are
again the preseason favorite to win
the notional championship,
according to interviews conducted
by The Red and Black with eight
coaches of last season’s Top 12
teams.
“Going into the season, UCLA
has to be the top team, without a
doubt,” said Utah coach Greg
Marsden. The potential of the four
kids (coach) Jerry Tomlinson
signed to a scholarship is tremen
dous. When you consider how
strong the team was last year, it’s
hard to imagine how good it will be
this season.”
Coaches of six of the eight teams
interviewed listed UCLA as the
preseason favorite. The coaches
represented the schools California
State-Fullerton, Georgia, Oregon
State, UCLA and Utah.
Arizona coach Jim Gault voted
for Georgia while Oklahoma coach
Rebecca Buwick selected Alabama
as her pick to win the
chain [
Four coaches were unavailable
for comment at press time.
The favored Lady Bruins last
season self-destructed and placed
second by .05 behind a charging
Georgia Bulldog squad at the na
tional championships in Athens.
UCLA lost to graduation the
services of all-arounder Tanya
Service, but seniors Jill Andrews
and Kim Hamilton and a highly-
touted freshman class will power
the Lady Bruin drive this sea
son.The best-known freshman is
1988 U.S. Olympian Rhonda
Faehn —the third Olympian to
compete in the West Coast power’s
program .Another factor in the
Lady Bruins’ favor is this season’s
nationals being held in another
Pac-10 school, Oregon State.
Historically, teams perform
better in the gyms of their own con
ference. UCLA’s road to victory
isn’t as clear as it may appear .The
Lady Bruins have been a pre-
season favorite for the last several
years, but each year have stumbled
late in the season.
“Winning the national
championship is not so much a
matter of consistency but of hitting
when it counts,” said Oregon State
coach Jim Turpin.
The Bruins are so good and so
strong this season that they
shouldn’t have a problem this year.
They just have to do the job at na
tionals.”
The coaches said that both Ala
bama and Georgia also have an ex
cellent chance to win the 1990
championship.
“My choice is definitely Ala-
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They look really strong, have no
injuries at present, and recruited a
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The Lady Dogs were listed third
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‘Tor every two steps we’re
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