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SPORTS
First SEC title looms larger for Dogs
FANFARE
Andre Hastings, the nation’s 12th-ranked prep football player
from Morrow, is expected to announce Wednesday a decision to
sign with either Georgia or Florida State. During his high school
career, he caught 184 passes for 3,132 yards and 41 TPs.
Never.
Not one single time has the Georgia men’s
basketball team won the SEC regular season
title Afler Saturday’s convincing 75-64 romp
over Alabama, the Dogs have a legitimate shot
at claiming the trophy they have not once
wrapped their paws around.
The Tide’s fourth-ranked defense couldn’t get
a handle on the Dogs. Sophomore guard Litte-
rial Green consistently shredded Alabama’s de
fense for 16 points and seven assists.
Green was the key for Georgia’s attack. He
pounded the lane all afternoon, attracting two
or three Alabama defenders at a time. This left
the lane open for easy layups and rebounds by
his teammates. Forward Alec Kessler re
sponded with 18 points and 17 rebounds. Rod
Cole, fast becoming one of the SEC’s premier
point guards, added 16 points and seven as
sists. Jody Patton popped in 12 points off the
bench.
“We had a hard time controlling Green,” Ala
bama Coach Wimp Sanderson said. “He drib
bles the ball so well against us."
It was impressive to see a sell-out crowd on
hand to deliriously cheer its Bulldogs to victory.
Usually, one doesn’t see a crowd as loud and as
active ns this one until football season.
It was a big game indeed, but don’t throw any
victory parties just yet. There are six confer
ence games remaining and each game will be
the biggest game of the year.
David
Pace
“We’ve got to go out and win three out of four on
the road to have a chance at the championship,”
Durham said. “Plus, we’ve got to win the rest of
our games at home.”
If the Dogs can do that it still won’t nec
essarily clinch the title. Georgia is one game be
hind LSU. The Tigers have not lost since
Georgia upset them in Baton Rouge last month.
If the Dogs win three of four on the road and
both their remaining home games, then that
one loss on the road could keep the Dogs one
game behind the Tigers (if LSU only loses to
Georgia). That scenario would leave LSU at 14-
4 and the Dogs at 13-5.
I say Georgia needs to win all of their re
maining games to win its first-ever SEC
championship. It’s a tall order, but one that is
worthwhile.
It should be a thrilling race to the finish. Ala
bama, tied with Georgia now at 8-4, plays four
of its final six at home. Included in those home
dates are LSU and Tennessee. LSU, like
Georgia, must play four of its final six on the
road. LSU is playing stronger than ever and it’s
possible they may not lose another game.
The Dogs’ first challenge is Vanderbilt; no
easy task in Nashville. Next up is Mississippi
State in Starkville before returning home to
play Ole Miss and then the showdown with
LSU. The Dogs will finish up with Tennessee
and Auburn on the road.
While the road to the SEC championship will be
an incredible struggle, it’s not impossible. The
keys will be the play of Marshall Wilson and
Neville Austin. Coach Durham said at the be
ginning of the season that Austin would have to
play well in order for the Dogs to compete this
year. He’s done that. He has quick hands and
hustles on defense. Marshall Wilson has been
inconsistent and it would be nice to see him ex
plode in the home stretch. The Dogs can’t al
ways rely on Kessler or Green to carry the
scoring load.
Nobody gave this team much of a chance but
here they are, fighting for respect at a school
pre-programmed for gridiron glories rather
than basketball triumphs. If you haven’t made
an efTort to see the Dogs play this year, you
really should. They’re pretty damned good.
Poor shooting percentage costs Dogs
By ERIC GARBER
Sports Writer
The Georgia women’s basketball
team had everything going for it
heading into its Saturday match
with Auburn.
• The team had won two
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Tennessee and Kentucky in recent
weeks to improve its conference re
cord to 4-2.
• Georgia was ranked fourth in
the Associated Press poll.
• It recently roughed up arch
rival Clemson 75-52 at the Tigers’
Littlejohn Coliseum.
None of that mattered, however,
as Auburn guards Carolyn Jones
and Lynn Stevenson combined to
hit 16 free throws in the last min
utes to give the 13th-ranked Lady
Tigers (second in the SEC) a 85-64
conference win over Georgia.
“Auburn did hit some big free
throws at the end but I feel the
game’s deciding factor was that
Auburn made us play the way thev
wanted us to play,” Georgia coach
Andy Landers said. ‘Their press
forced us to leave our plan. We
really shouldn’t have folded under
their pressure.”
Guard Lady Hardmon led
Georgia with 18 points, shooting
seven-for-15 from the field. As a
team however, Georgia shot a total
of just 41.9 percent from the field.
While Georgia (20-3) was strug
gling to pop the lid off the basket,
Auburn got balanced scoring from
its starting five and took a 40-28
lend into the intermission.
The Lady Dogs next play South
Carolina here at the Coliseum
Thursday night.
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Two more recruits commit
The Bulldogs gained more
verbal committments on Monday,
ns two prized prep recruits an
nounced their intentions of at
tending the University in the fall.
First, tailback Garrison Hearst
from Lincoln County, Gn. com
mitted, and is expected to fill the
shoes Rodney Hampton emptied
when he left Georgia to turn pro.
Hearst was voted the Georgia
State Plnyer-of-the-Yenr last
season.
Also, Mitch Davis, a 6-3 240-
pound defensive end from Pri
chard, Ala., apparently changed
his mind and verbally committed
to Georgia. He had earlier indi
cated a strong interest in Alabama.
Neither player could be reached
for comment.
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