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The Red and Black • Tuesday, January 30, 1990 • 3
ATHLETICS
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The modified version of the
rule also mandates athletes com-
pleting all fi na i exams to main
tain eligibility.
The policy is a compromise be
tween the GAA and an unnamed
student-athlete group consisting
of two representatives from each
sport. The co-educational group
formed so that athletes, many of
whom were initially unhappy
with the proposal, could effecti
vely express their thoughts to
Dooley. A women’s athletic
council already existed and
formed the nucleus of the new
group.
Dooley twice met with the new
organization, incorporating its
concerns with those of the faculty
committee. Dooley also had a
couple of discussions with all the
head coaches.
“I’m very pleased with the
rule,” Dooley said in an interview
after the GAA meeting. “And I’m
particularly pleased because the
student-athletes are pleased.”
Anne Caine, student-athlete
representative to the GAA, said
athletes now support the policy
because of the input they had in
making it.
“I think we first looked at it as
another restriction, another way
our lives were being put under
the microscope,” she said during
the meeting, held in the Georgia
Center for Continuing Education.
“After we approached Dooley, we
felt a lot better about it.”
Boyd McWhorter, special con
sultant to the president, said
after the meeting that the ath
letic association certainly isn’t at
tempting to add more restrictions
to athletes.
*This policy isn’t an attempt to
put more harnesses on the stu
dent-athlete but to help him
achieve his goals here — to learn
and to graduate,” McWhorter
said.
Asked if the policy is unfair be
cause it places restrictions on
student-athletes that aren’t
placed on students, McWhorter
said the two can’t be compared.
‘To say that an athlete is just
like a student just isn’t so,” he
said. “Til show a huge NCAA
manual full of restrictions on ath
letes that students don’t have.”
Georgia underdogs wax Tennessee Volunteers
in big upsets at the Coliseum over the weekend
7th ranked Lady Dogs batter Volunteers, 81-76
By CHRIS LANCETTE
Sports Staff Writer
The seventh-ranked Georgia
women’s basketball (17-2) team
Sunday battered third-ranked
Tennessee 81-76 in the Coliseum.
The Lady Dogs built a big lead in
the second half and then blocked a
Volunteer surge in the closing five
minutes to seal the victory.
It was the Lady Dogs first SEC
win in three tries. Georgia (3-2 in
conference play) now moves into
fourth place in the SEC.
“It was a great win for us,” said
guard Lady Hardmon. “The last
two losses in SEC games were
really tough. Beating the Volun
teers was a big confidence booster.”
Forward Stacey Ford and
Hardmon each scored 19 to lead all
scorers. Freshman forward Camile
Lowe and junior center Tammye
Jenkins each scored 13. Team cap
tain Sharon Baldwin, healthy for
the first time this season since
opening day, added 11.
The keys for Landers’ Dogs in
Saturday’s win were Georgia's of
fensive success in penetrating deep
into Tennessee’s defense — the
guards side-stepped the Vols pres
sure T>’ for either a driving layup
or a quick dish to the big people
down low.
“I thought our guards did a great
job of reading the defense and get
ting the ball into the post,” Jenkins
said.
Defensively, the Lady Dogs’ full-
court press during the first 12 min
utes of the second half bogged
down the Volunteer offense.
“I thought Georgia played ex
tremely well on both ends of the
floor,” said Tennessee coach Pat
Summitt. "Their post game and
their perimeter game was tougher
than ours ... Their defense in
fluenced our offense more than our
offense influenced their defense.”
Baldwin dominated the game
early in the first half, frequently
driving the baseline past Volunteer
defenders for easy layups.
“Coach told me before the game
they would try to pressure me up
top and that I’d be able to go
passed them,” Baldwin said.
In the second half, Georgia ap
plied full court pressure and went
up by 18 off a basket by Lady
Hardmon at the 8:04 mark.
‘The last thing I told the kids as
they were going back out for the
second half was that ‘I’m going to
juice you up, put you into the
press, said Georgia coach Andy
Landers.
Tennessee fought back, capital
izing on Georgia’s turnovers and
missed shots, and cut the gap to
three, 77-74.
“Another problem we had was
killing our dribble,” Landers said.
“When you kill your dribble
against Tennessee, you better have
some mayonnaise and mustard be
cause you’re going to eat the bas
ketball.”
Tennessee couldn’t draw any
closer as backup guard Adrienne
Schuler countered by driving by
the entire Volunteer defense for a
layup. Tennessee scored a quick
bucket on its next possession to
again pull to within three.
The Vols then made a huge
mental mistake by failing to foul
Schuler with 10 seconds re
maining. Schuler responded by
dribbling seven seconds off the
clock before driving down the lane
and dishing to Ford for a layup
with two seconds left.
The win was Landers’ 350th ca
reer victory.
Next up for the Lady Dogs is to
night’s home game against District
of Columbia. Tipoff is scheduled for
7:30.
Lady Hardmon: The Ga.
guard gets one past.
Durham’s Dogs upset Volunteers 85-77; now 12-5 overall
By DAVID PACE
Sports Writer
After a hard-fought 85-77 vic
tory over the Tennessee Volunteers
Saturday night in Athens, the
Georgia men’s basketball team
finds itself in the midst of a five
way tie for first place in the SEC.
The Dogs are now 12-5 overall
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Cole, who last week sank three
straight free throws to send the
LSU game into overtime, stole the
ball from Tennessee’s Allan
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the victory for the Dogs.
It was another team effort for
the Dogs. Alec Kessler scored 27
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Marshall Wilson, becoming in
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Litterial Green, who did not start
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Guard Jody Patton netted 12
points including three three-point
shots. Neville Austin hauled in 10
rebounds. He had one blocked shot
and two steals.
This was a big win for us,”
Wilson said. “My confidence level
has risen a lot and I’m not afraid to
make mistakes anymore because I
know that HI get the ball again.”
Georgia will go up against the
Auburn Tigers tomorrow night
here at the Coliseum. The Dogs
will have to avoid a letdown after
two big wins in order to stay atop
the SEC in the title-race.
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