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6 • The Red and Black • Thursday, February 8, 1990
No. 5 Baron commits
to play tennis next fall
By RANDY WALKER
Sports Writer
Ivan Baron, the No. 5 junior
tennis player in the country, ver
bally committed to play for the
Georgia men’s tennis team next
fall The Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. na
tive, chose Georgia over Stanford,
Fepperdine, UCLA, Cal-lrvine,
and Florida.
Baron joins Bobby Marien-
check of Memphis, Tenn. as the
two tennis recruits who have ver
bally committed to plav for
Georgia and coach Manuel Diaz
next season.
“I'm really excited," Baron
said. "Manuel and the guys on
the team are really great. The
Georgia tennis tradition is excel
lent, and the fans are really sup
portive to tennis and the team.
This summer Baron reached
the finals of two national junior
events. Alex Hombrecher, now of
Stanford, bested Baron in the fi
nals of the National Hardcourt
on ships, while Chris Co-
cotos, the nation’s No. 1 ranked
junior, defeated Baron in the fi-
s of the National Clay Court
Championships.
While never winning a na
tional singles title, Baron has
captured three Gold Balls in dou
bles. With partner Will Bull, he
won the 1988 National 16-and-
under Doubles Championship
and the 1988 National Clay
Courts while this summer
claiming the 18-and-under Na
tional Clay Courts.
Winning the Mexican Casa
blanca International Junior
Championships in 1989 was
Baron’s self-proclaimed career
highlight. Being the first Amer
ican to win the title, he defeated
Aki Rahunen, who is currently
ranked No. 135, and was mobbed
and cheered by the tennis fans of
Mexico City.
At the U.S. Open Junior
Championships this summer,
Baron fell in the second round to
eventual champion and now
Stanford University star Jona
than Stark 6-4 in the final set.
Baron will play the European
junior circuit competing at the
Junior Italian, French, and Bel
gium Opens and Junior Wimb
ledon before returning to the
United States to Dlav the U.S.
Open Junior Championship.
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Georgia Netters to vie for Rolex titles
By RANDY WALKER and MICHELLE
NOBLE
Sports Writers
Georgia men’s and women’s
tennis teams will be well rep
resented at the Rolex National In-
tercollegiate Indoor
Championships this weekend in
Minneapolis, Minn.
Manuel Diaz’s contingency con
sists of A1 Parker, the nation’s top-
ranked singles player and Parker
and Murphy Jensen, the second-
ranked doubles tandem. Women’s
coach Jeff Wallace will be sending
Shannan McCarthy and Stacey
Scheffiin to compete in singles and
doubles. Wallace’s top-ranked
netter, Cnryn Moss, ranked No. 4
in the nation, will not compete.
Parker will play Southern Uli-
nois-Carbondale’s Mickey Maule
Thursday in the opening round.
After winning the SEC Indoor
Championships two weeks ago,
Parker is primed to win his second
collegiate Grand Slam singles title
of the season. The Volvo Tennis
Collegiate Champion, however, is
very conscious of the quality of
players in the draw.
“Going into a Grand Slam tour
nament you can’t start off poorly.
You have to play great every match
to win," Parker said. "It’s a na
tional field and everybody’s a tough
player in the draw.”
With the faster indoor condi
tions, Parker will be looking to
serve-and-volley more often.
“I’ll mix it up but not serve and
File
Stacey Scheffiin: Ranked
No. 2 for Rolex action
volley all the time," Parker said.
“I’ll come in to the net when I feel
like I need to catch my opponent ofT
guard."
Parker and Jensen take on Wi
chita St.’s duo of Darren Price and
Paul Grubi in the first round. After
losing three of their last four
matches, Parker and Jensen have
been working on their returns of
serve and volleys. These let them
down in their quarterfinal loss to
Doug Flach and Fabio Silbeberg of
Tennessee at the SEC Indoors.
“Murphy has been working on
his returns and volleys the past
few weeks and Al’s net game has
gotten a little better," Diaz said of
the third-seeded team. "They’ve
have lost a few matches but they
have started to play a little better
with more confidence. I think
they’re ready for the tournament."
“After coming back from
Christmas break we were a little
foreign playing with each other,"
Jensen said. "We’re starting to
play well again and with a little
luck we can win the tournament
and come back National Indoor
Champs."
Sixth-ranked Shannan Mc
Carthy is the tournament’s No. 2
seed behind defending NCAA sin
gles champion Sandra Birch of
Stanford. McCarthy was a semi-fi
nalist at the first two collegiate
Grand Slam events this year,
falling to Meredith McGrath of
Stanford at the Volvo
Championships and to teammate
Caryn Moss at the DuPont Clay
Court Championships. McCarthy
faces Susan Williams of Texas
A&M in the first round Thursday.
“I’m comfortable with my ground
strokes right now," McCarthy said.
“But I’d also like to get a little bit
higher first serve percentage and
make my volleys more solid.”
Scheffiin, who is seeded 5-8,
takes on Danielle Durak of William
and Mary in her first round singles
match. Scheffiin won the SEC In
door Championship and was a
quarterfinalist at the Volvo
Championships this fall.
McCarthy and SchefTlin, the No.
2-ranked doubles duo in the na-
Rle
Al Parker: Nation’s No. 1
netter ready to play tough
tion, are seeded third behind Birch
and Debbie Graham of Stanford
and Stella Sampras and Mamie
Ceniza of UCLA. They face Deb
orah Edelman and Stephanie
Reece of Indiana in the first round
McCarthy and Scheffiin reached
the finals of the Volvo
Championships this fall where
they lost to Meredith McGrath and
Teri Whitlinger of Stanford.
“Shannon and Stacey have
played excellent doubles lately,"
Wallace said. “If they can continue
to play the way they are playing
right now they have a really good
chance of winning the tourna
ment.”
Georgia Ruggers to face own alumni Saturday
By GUTHRIE SCHAFFER
Contributing Sports Writer
On Saturday, the Georgia Rugby team will
take the field against itself.
Well, not exactly.
The current edition of the Georgia Ruggers
will take on a team of alumni ruggers in its an
nual match at 1:00 p.m. at the intramural field.
However, the affair won’t be a bunch of old
guys getting abused by some youngsters.
The alumni team, who go by the name The
Blind Pigs, play three to four games a year.
They annually play in a tournament in the
Caribbean over Thanksgiving and this week’s
game is a mere warm-up for a big tournament
in Savannah during the St. Patrick’s Day
weekend.
“What distinguishes this game from any
other we play is that we are going against our
own alumni, some of our ex-teammates,” Rugby
Club president Eric Fournier said.
The origin of the annual alumni game is not
quite clear, but it seems to have begun in the
mid-1970s.
The Blind Pigs played in the Savannah tour
nament and decided they could beat that year’s
squad.
‘The match is a lot friendlier than most,"
Fournier said. “However, we still want to win."
The Rugby Club has traditionally been
strong and the fall quarter was no exception.
The team went 8-3 over the quarter and fin
ished second in their conference.
They lost to their rivals LSU in Baton Rouge
in a tightly fought battle.
This quarter has not started off so rosy for
the Ruggers.
They have a 1-2 record and hope this game
can turn the season around. The team is com
posed of 15 men and they play year-round.
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