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10 • The Red and Black • Friday, February 9, 1990
■ FANFARE
SPORTS
This weekend, the Georgia men’s golf team competes at the
Gator Invitational In Florida. The Swim Dogs face Alabama at 11
a.m. Saturday at Stegeman Pool and the Georgia track teams
visit Gainesville, Fla, to compete In the Florida 10-Way Meet.
Georgia and Alabama clash
Dogs face intense challenge
By DAVID PACE
Sports Writer
One game out of first place in the
SEC and undefeated at home this
year, the Georgia men’s basketball
team faces its greatest challenge in
the Coliseum to date when it
squares off against league co
leader Alabama.
The Dogs, 7 4 in the conference
and 14-6 overall after battling past
Florida 70-65 on Tuesday, are
looking to extend their home win
ning streak to ten games.
Alabama, who streaked past the
Dogs in their first meeting this
year in Tuscaloosa 79-62, beat Ole
Miss 74-64 at home Wednesday
night to raise its record to 8-3 in
the conference and 17-5 overall.
The Crimson Tide is led by for
wards Melvin Chentum and Robert
Horry. Cheatum, a 6’8" junior, is
averaging 15.6 points per game
and 6.6 rebounds. Horry, a 6’9”
sophomore, is pumping in 12.8
points a game nnd 6.3 rebounds.
Alabama likes to run-and-gun
on offense and if the Dogs don’t
jump out to a quick start and ag
gressive defense, we may see a re
peat of the team’s first meeting
with the Tide.
‘They have one of the toughest,
if not the toughest defensive team
in the league," point guard Rod
Cole said. “Everyone on their team
gets after it."
After slow-down affairs with a
smaller Auburn squad and an out-
manned Florida team, Georgia is
welcoming the chance to play the
Tide, for the Dogs also enjoy an up
tempo game.
Tt will be a much eusier game to
play in," Litterial Green said. "I
would much rather piny a team
like Alabama. We’re a fust-break
bnllclub."
After a disappointing season last
year in which the Dogs lost several
close contests, Georgia has in
vented wuys to win with basically
the same lineup. In its last four
wins, the Dogs have either come
from behind or staved off late
rushes to earn the win. Purt of the
reason for the turnaround can be
attributed to the solid support the
students and the Coliseum throng
have given the Bulldogs during the
home contests. The chants and bar
king forced Florida’s Dwayne
Davis to miss two crucial free
throws, which would have tied the
game with less than a minute left
in the second half.
However, chalk most of the suc
cess to maturity.
“We’re much more mature,"
sophomore guard Litterial Green
said. “Last year we might not have
been able to come back nnd win
when we were down. We would
have done something stupid.”
Saturday’s game time has been
switched from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. to
accomodat television. At 3 p.m.
and again ht halftime, there will be
an alumni game, featuring ex-
Bulldog stars Lamar Heard, who
started for Georgia on their Final
Four team in 1983, and Chad
Kessler, brother of current all-star
candidate Alec Kessler.
The Gym Dog says to the Hoop Dog this Saturday:
“When you’re done — let me at 'em!”
in SEC action
Gym Dogs ready to rip Tide
By CHRIS LANCETTE
Sports Staff Writer
When the fourth-ranked Georgia
gymnastics team (10-0) competes
against second-ranked Alabama
and tenth-ranked Florida in Tusca
loosa on Saturday, it may not have
a leg to stand on — literally.
Nine of 12 Lady Dogs are pres
ently nursing at least one injury.
Among other injuries: Georgia’s
three freshman all-arounders, Jen
nifer Carbone, Sandv Rowlette nnd
Heather Stepp are hampered by a
number of lower leg problems. Se
nior Andrea Thomas is recovering
from a sprained ankle. Sophomore
Julie Ponstein went down with
back spasms in practice
Wednesday.
“It looks like everybody in the
gym needs crutches,” Georgia
coach Suzanne Yoculan said.
Despite the injuries, the Gym-
Dogs say they’re not going to let
pain prevent them from un
leashing a heap of good, old-fash
ioned hatred towards the Crimson
Tide, the Gym Dogs’ arch-rival nnd
1988 national champion.
‘The desire and the intensity to
beat Alabama is still there even
though we have a lot of injury prob
lems,” said sophomore Sophia
Royce, presently suffering from
chronic soldier problems, but is
training to go all-around if needed
for the first time since last season.
Sophomore Chris Rodis, who
hasn't competed all four events
since the first meet of last season,
may also go all-around.
Last season, Yoculan described
the intensity of the rivalry ns “ani
malistic." For this meet, Yoculan
knows that her charges are lim
ping but isn’t conceding defeat.
“I'm not writing us off but we
have to be realistic," she said.
“We’re hoping to go in there and hit
at least 20 routines. And we’re
going in there with the determin
ation the Georgia program is all
about.”
Not all news is bad news for the
Lady Dogs.
Senior Corrinne Wright returns
to the lineup after being benched
last week. The 1989 all-around
champion, looking very strong in
practice this week, is healthy and
is expected to do very well this
weekend.
Sophomore Missy DePaoli and
freshman Lisa Alicea have also
had a solid week of practice.
The best news for the Gym Dogs
is that the season is still young and
a loss at Alabama would damage
Bulldog pride more than its na
tional championship drive.
Georgia got hammered at UCLA
around this time last season before
it got on the road to the NCAA
title.
One meet matters little in the
sport.
The National Qualifying Score
and not the win/loss record deter
mines who goes to nationals. The
NQS is a statistical average of five
regular season meets that count
one-third of the NQS and the re
gional competition which counts
the other two-thirds of the score.
Netters win at Rolex tournament
By RANDY WALKER
Sports Writer
Georgia’s A1 Parker, Shannan
McCarthy and Stacey Schefllin all
won first round matches Thursday
at the Rolex Indoor Intercollegiate
Championships in Minneapolis,
Minn.
Parker, the top-seeded male, de
feated Southern Illinois-Carbon-
dale’s Mickey Maule 6-3, 6-1, while
McCarthy, the women’s second
.seed, edged Susan Williams of
Texas A&M 7-6, (7-5), 7-5. Schef-
f!in, seeded 5-8 defeated Danielle
Durak of William and Mary 6-4, 6-
0.
“A1 did not piny at his best, but it
was a good first-round match,”
Georgia men’s coach Manuel Diaz
said. “He was a little bit on the ner
vous side, but as the match went
on, he began to relax and his
groundstrokes began to find the
court a little more.”
Parker faces Michigan’s David
Kass in today’s Round of 16. Kass
was a 6-4, 7-5 victor over the Rolex
Small College champion, Joaquin
Lopez of Tyler (Texas) Jr. College.
After winning the opening set in
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in the seventh nnd 11th games to
win the second set 7-5.
“I played a IP tie inconsistently,”
McCarthy said. “I was never
grooved into the match nnd had
trouble concentrating. My conce-
tration got better in the end and I
made more first serves.”
McCarthy faces the winner of
the match between Florida’s Holly
Danforth and Janneke Garos of
Midland (Texas) Jr. College in to
day’s second round, while Schefflin
will play Jennie Moe of Minnesota.
Fifth-seeded Gilles Ameline of
Wake Forest, nnd seventh-seeded
Cha H(xm Im of Arkansas were
upset on the men’s side, while no
women’s seeds were defeated.
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Hoopsters’ defense stops Tigers
By ERIC GARBER
Sports Writer
All season, Georgia women’s
basketball coach Andy Landers
has expressed concern over his
team’s lack of defensive inten
sity.
Well, coach, how’s this for de
fense?
In Wednesday night’s surpris
ingly easy 75-52 win over
Clemson, the fourth-ranked Lady
Dogs held the Tigers’ leading
scorer, Kerry Boyatt (17.6 points
a game), to just 10 points. The
ACC’s leader in three-point accu
racy (50.2 per cent), Boyatt was
only one for three from outside
the arc.
“Georgia was extremely pre
pared both mentally and physi
cally," Clemson coach Jim Davis
said. “Their defense set the tone
from the outset and that took us
away from our original plan. As a
result we were forced to do things
we didn’t want to ”
Clemson forward Jackie
Farmer, who has averaged just
over 12 points a game this
season, hit on only three of eight
shots from the field and finished
with eight points.
Along with forcing 15 first-half
turnovers, the Lady Dogs’ aggres
sive defensive play caused
Clemson to shoot 23 percent from
the field. The Tigers only scored
19 points before intermission.
‘They forced our freshmen to
piny like freshmen and took ad
vantage of every mistake we
made," Davis said.
While Clemson was licking its
wounds, Georgia’s offense began
to tick ns it built a 10-point lend
midway through the first half
and never looked back. Georgia
forward Tnmmye Jenkins and
guard Lady Hardmon both fin
ished the game with 24 points.
“I’m not surprised that we
were able to control Clemson but
I am very pleased,” Georgia coach
Andy Landers said. “Basketball
can be a funny game sometimes.
You just have to find your
While Clemson was
licking its wounds,
Georgia’s offense
began to tick.
groove."
The Lady Dogs, fifth in the
SEC, can’t stop to rest as they
must now travel to Auburn Sat
urday to face the conference’s
second-place squad.
Last year, Georgia lost 86-76 to
an Auburn team that won the
SEC and made it all the way to
the NCAA championship before
falling to Tennessee 76-60. The
17-5 Lady Tigers (4-1 in SEC
play) are shooting for the team’s
fourth consecutive SEC
championship.
“Auburn has been one of the
five or six best teams in the na
tion the last few years," Landers
said. "However, if we don’t turn
the ball over, I think we can win.”
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