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SPORTS
Georgia women's basketball player Lady Hardmon was named
SEC Player of the Week. In three games last week, Hardmon
scored 42 points, Including 19 each In wins over Eastern Ken-
tucky and Tennessee.
Parker wins SEC title
By RANDY WALKER
Sports Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -
Georgia’s A1 Parker, the top-
ranked college tennis player in the
country, wasn’t feeling too confi
dent during the van ride here be
fore the start of the SEC Indoor
Tennis Championships this
weekend.
Four days later, he got back in
the van — this time as the confer
ence indoor champion.
He had just come off a winless
performance at the American Air
lines Classic in Chicago last
weekend, and wus suffering a sore
right arm.
In his first two matches as the
indoor tourney’s top-seed, he didn’t
play near his top form, but he won
the tournament.
Parker’s 6-4, 6-2 victory over
Keith Evans of Ole Miss in Mon
day’s SEC Indoor final at the Van
derbilt Tennis Center gave the
Bulldog netter his third tourna
ment victory of the season.
“I wasn’t feeling confident at all
going inU) the tournament,” said
Parker, who also won the Southern
Collegiate Championships and the
Volvo Championships this year. “I
really wasn’t playing at the top of
my game.”
Parker’s 68 percent first-serve
rate and consistent service returns
at the feet of the net-rushing
Evans enabled him to outslug the
hard-hitting Rebel.
Evans, who serves one of the
fastest balls in the country, felt the
failure of his weapon cost him the
match.
“My serve let me down,” said
Evans, who made only 50 percent
Al Parker: Still ranked 1
after SEC championship.
of his first serves "I was always
hitting second serves and that gave
Al a lot of opportunities to hit it at
my feet so I’d pop it up and get
passed."
In the semi-finals against Mis
sissippi State’s Mark Jeffrey,
Parker found himself down 6-2, 3-
0. However, it wasn’t due to poor
playing on Parker’s part.
"Jeffrey was playing out
standing,” Georgia conch Manuel
Diaz said. “Jeffrey had a lot of con
fidence. He was hitting his fore
hand better than he’s ever hit it
and hitting unbelievable passing
shots.”
When play was halted several
times due to line call disputes, Jef
frey became unnerved and began
making more errors.
Parker captured 12 of the last 13
games of the match, defeating Jef
frey 2-6, 6-4, 6-0 to advance to the
finals.
Durham’s hoopsters to take on Auburn tonight
By DAVID PACE
Sports Writer
Tonight, the Georgia men’s
basketball team will go for its
ninth straight home victory
against the Auburn Tigers. The
winning streak started with a
win over Auburn in last year’s
final regular-season SEC mat
chup
Tne Dogs, 12-5 overall and 5-3
in the conference, are coming off
of an 85-77 thumping of Ten
nessee Saturday and look to keep
building up the momentum
they’ve ridden on since upsetting
LSU last week. What the Dogs
don’t need is a lackluster perfor
mance against the Tigers.
“I don’t think well have a let
down,” Rod Cole said. “Every
body on this team realizes the
possibility of a letdown and that
will keep us up.”
Cole was named the SEC
Player of the Week for his perfor
mances in the LSU and Ten
nessee games.
The Tigers enter tonight’s
battle at 3-5 in the SEC and 6-12
overall. They lost Saturday on
the road to Alabama 78-59.
Under the direction of first year
head coach Tommy Joe Eagles,
the Tigers have struggled but
they are competitive.
'There are no easy games in
the SEC,” Hugh Durham said.
“Coach Eagles has done a great
job with their program. They've
had some key injuries and he has
them playing as well as they're
capable of playing.”
“Georgia is a very good basket
ball team," Eagles said. They
combine a good inside game with
a good perimeter.”
Auburn is led by 6’3” senior
forward Derrick Dennison from
Atlanta and 6’1” guard Ronnie
Battle, a freshman from
Pittsview, Alabama. Dennison is
averaging 15.2 points per game
Battle is averaging 17.0 points
per game for the Tigers.
The Dogs, at the top of the SEC
with a 4-1 run in conference play,
cannot rest on their collective
laurels if they intend to stay on
top. The challenge of winning
gets harder with each victory as
teams like Auburn, with nothing
to lose, are gunning to knock off
the Dogs.
“We’re not content," Litterial
Green said. “We’re happy with
the victories, but we don’t sit
around thinking about it too
much. Our next opponent is Au
burn and we’re going to play
them hard.”
The Dogs’ thin line-up got a
nice boost from Green Saturday
when he came off the bench to
score 15 points afler missing the
LSU game.
This game will be the 150th
meeting between the Dogs and
Tigers.
Gym Dogs win narrow victory at Utah
Alicea, Carbone lead team in total scoring
The Georgia gymnastics team
Monday night stumbled through
Provo, Utah, but still nixed the
BYU Cougars 187.0-186.8.
The highlight of the meet was
freshman Heather Stepp scoring a
37.5 and leading the team with her
third place finish in the all-around.
She won the uneven bars with a
9.75. Freshman Jennifer Carbone
was Georgia’s next highest scorer,
scoring a 36.75 in the all-around,
including a 9.55 second-place
finish on the floor.
The lowlight for the Lady Dogs
was a second-consecutive statis
tical showing of 45.8 on the balance
benm. Georgia had no score higher
than a 9.45. It faired better on the
vault, scoring a 46.3 — .2 higher
than BYU.
The Gym Dogs picked up the
pace on the other two events.
Freshman Lisa Alicea, who con
tinues to perform consistently,
scored a 9.35 to start the Lady
Dogs on the bars. Sophomore So
phia Royce followed with a 9.65 to-
take second on the apparatus. Two
performances later, Stepp nailed
her routine for top honors.
Georgia turned in a very solid
performance on the floor exercise.
Missy DePaoli, Chris Rodis,
Heather Stepp and Andrea
The lowlight for the
Dogs was a second-
consecutive showing of
45.8 on the balance
beam.
Thomas all scored 9.5s. Carbone’s
9.55 gave the Lady Dogs a score .10
higher than the Cougars’ bars.
Georgia’s next meet is Sunday’s
contest against Ohio State. The
meet starts at 2:30 p.m.
—Chris Lancette
Lisa Alicea: Continues to
perform consistently.
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Lady Bulldogs defeat D.C. 81-45
By ERIC GARBER
Sports Writer
Coming off a thrilling 81-76
upset victory of the third-ranked
Tennesse Volunteers Sunday, the
fourth-ranked Georgia Lady Bull
dogs defeated the District of Co
lumbia Lady Firebirds 81-45
Tuesday night. “We won the game
but I feel that we were short on ef
fort and intensity,” Georgia coach
Andy Landers said. “We really
should have scored every time
down the court.”
Forcing UDC into shooting just
25.6 percent from the floor in the
first half, Georgia managed to
spark the fast break as guard
Sharon Baldwin scored the game’s
first points and followed with a
steal to set up another basket.
It became evident early in the
game that whoever won the battle
of the forwards would win.
UDC forward Jackie McKinnon
and Georgia forward Stacey Ford
exchanged baskets in the first half
until Ford started to dominate,
leading Georgia with 18 points.
McKinnon led all scorers with 20
points.
“I feel like we had a little bit of a
letdown coming off our win against
Tennessee," Georgia guard Camille
Lowe said. “We needed to come in
here and do what we are capable
doing."
Georgia pulled away in the
second half as forwards Tam my e
Jenkins and Ford took control in
side, grabbing touch passes from
guards Baldwin and Camille Lowe.
Two layups after steals by guard
Adrienne Shuler gave Georgia a
66-37 lead with 7:10 remaining to
ice the win
It became evident early
in the game that
whoever won the battle
of the forwards would
win.
One impressive occurence last
night was the emergence of
Georgia forward Jessica Barr, who
only has averaged 5.7 points a
game this year. In a span of three
minutes in the first half, Barr bar
relled her way inside for six points.
“Barr kept the ball inside and put
up some good shots,” Landers said.
“I wish the rest of our players did
that."
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