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* » The Red and Black • Thursday, January 25, 1990
SPORTS
Tennis Dogs to meet SEC foes in Tennessee
By RANDY WALKER
Sports Writer
The Georgia men’s tennis team
gets its first look at conference foes
most will generally show them
selves at the SEC Indoors. It’s such
a confidence booster to do well be-
this weekend at the SEC Indoor
Championships in Nashville,
Tenn.
Bulldog netters A1 Parker,
Hector Nevares, Mike Morrison,
and Jack Frierson will compete in
singles while the teams of Parker
cause it is the beginning of the
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and Murphy Jensen, and Nevares
and Jim Chil
hilds will play in the
doubles competition.
‘This is going to be a key perfor
mance in that we have to show the
SEC that this is not a rebuilding
year for Georgia,” Childs said.
“Even though we’re not as tough
as we were last year, we can still
win the Conference championship
in the spring. This is the time to
make that statement,” he said.
Every January, the Conference
Indoor Championships serves as a
preview to the upcoming SEC
season. Coaches and players size
up the new faces and gauge the im
provement of their returning oppo
nents.
“It’s kind of like the first round
in boxing,” Georgia coach Manuel
Diaz said. “Everybody’s kind of
feeling each other out. It’s a coming
out of sorts ”
“It’s usually the time when some
players pull ahead,” Frierson said.
“The ones that have proved the
season and it generally leads to
good results in the rest of the year *
Before the 1989 SEC Indoors,
Adam Malik of Kentucky was re
garded as a good number four sin
gles player. At the end of the event,
he found himself with the winner’s
trophy and a victory over Georgia’s
Parker in the finals.
Malik went on to a very suc
cessful season playing No. 1 for
Kentucky and is now playing pro
fessionally.
Tm looking for one of our guys
to break through,” Diaz said. T r m
hoping they make a big jump in
their games."
As well as Malik’s jump of a year
ago, the Georgia doubles team of
Jim Childs and TJ. Middleton
made a leap in their games to cap
ture the doubles title last year, de
feating Brice Karsh and John
Gibson of Tennessee. This year,
Nevares takes the place of Mid
dleton as Childs’ doubles partner.
Like Middleton, Nevares is a power
player and complements the touch
and placement of Childs.
“It was no accident that Manuel
paired us together,” Childs said.
“My strengths are my returns and
his strength is his serves, so we
make a good team together."
Wayne JaofcMfl/The Red and Black
Mike Morrison: Will compete this weekend in
Conference Indoor Championships
Lady Dogs to seek ‘Volunteer service’
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By ERIC GARBER
Sports Writer
Two teams, one goal.
Before the Super Bowl is played Sunday, the
Tennessee Lady Volunteers and the Georgia
Lady Dogs will go head to head in a game that
would give the winner an edge in the SEC race.
Although Georgia is only 2-2 in SEC play this
ndii
season, a win would make them second in total
SEC wins, only a game and a half behind con
ference leading Auburn (4-0).
The Volunteers come to the Coliseum as the
nation’s third best team (2-0 in SEC play) and
are led by junior center Deadra Charles.
Charles is the conference’s eighth-leading
scorer and fourth-leading rebounder, averaging
15.5 points and 8.5 rebounds per game.
“All of their players are tough, but you really
have got to look out for (Deadra) Charles,”
Georgia coach Andy Landers said. “She and the
rest of the team' do two things extremely well.
They play super basketball around the basket
and put good defensive pressure on opponents.”
The Lady Dogs counter the Vols’ attack with
the SEC leader in field goal accuracy, junior
forward Stacey Ford (64.3 percent), and its
fourth-leading shooter in terms of three-point
percentage, freshman guard Miriam Lowe.
“We are obviously extremely impressed with
Georgia’s talent,” Tennessee coach Pat Sum-
mitt said. “I’m not sure if we can handle their
big players underneath.”
Although Summitt is concerned about
Georgia’s size, her team’s resume is more im
pressive than she admits. Earlier in the season,
Tennessee defeated Stetson by a whopping 73-
point margin (112-39), while Georgia only man
aged a 16-point victory against Stetson.
Granted, Georgia did win the non-conference
game, but the fact is that Tennessee dominated
a team against which the Dogs struggled. This
illustrates Tennessee’s knack for putting oppo
nents away early and not blowing leads. This
concerns Coach Landers because his team has
had defensive lapses recently.
“Right now, our defense is struggling out of
lack of effort,” Landers said. “However, with
our balance and depth, we can pull together
and do what we need to do."
Georgia possesses the potential to give the
Volunteers fits, provided that junior guard Kim
Berry has the hot-hand from three-point land
and sophomore guard Lady Hardmon, the
team’s third-leading scorer (13.3 points), can
lead the fast break. In addition, junior forward
Tammye Jenkins must block out Charles.
Tennessee, 14-3 overall, has only beaten sev
enth-ranked Georgia (15-2) once in Athens, but
leads the overall series 12-7.Both of these
teams have been selected by SEC officials to
represent the conference in the first Big Ten-
SEC Challenge next season.
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Lady Hardmon: Lady Dogs’ third-
leading scorer prepares for a drive
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Golf team one of best
By OREO MACEWEN
Sports Writer
According_ to Beans Kelly,
t’s golf
coach of the Georgia women’e goli
team, the 1989-90 team is one of
the best she’s ever coached. After
being ranked No. 1 for most of the
fall, the team aims to win the
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‘This is a young team, but a
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Last season, the Lady Bulldogs
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