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10 - The Red and Black • Wednesday, February 14, 1990
SPORTS
At the Barnett Bank Invitational Tournament In Gainesville, the
Georgia men's golf team shot 848, good for third place.
Georgia's top finishers were Junior Greg Kennedy and sopho
more Bill Brown.
1990 Georgia football season may hold promising players
We interrupt Durham’s basketball Bulldogs
SEC championship run-for-the-ring to bring a
report on Ray Goffs football Dogs.
There are only 175 days until Georgia takes
on the LSU Tigers on Sept. 8, but today is the
day when prep athletes from around the
country end months of speculation, sign their
names on the dotted lines and officially commit
to attend the college of their choice.
Once again, Goff and his staff have recruited
another excellent list of players. If everyone
signs ns they have indicated, Goff will nave
snagged the number one player in Georgia (tail
back Garrison Hearst), tne number one player
in Alabama (linebacker Mitch Davis), and two
USA Today All-American defensive linemen
(Bernard Williams and Troy Williams).
The most notable future Bulldog is Hearst, a
5-11, 190 pound speedster from Lincolnton.
Hearst is the heir apparent to the departed
Rodney Hampton, who left the Arches for the
greener grass of the NFL.
Hearst’s strength is his lightning-quick
speed, which can break a game wide open. In
one high school game last fall, Hearst carried
the ball 10 times and scored five touchdowns.
He is in the mold of New York Giants’ runner
Joe Morris and Jerry Mays of Georgia Tech.
Bulldog fans are already touting this guy to
be the next Herschel Walker and the person
who will lead the Bulldogs all the way to the
promised land of a national championship.
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runner, but he lacks the size to run between the
tackles play after play as Walker did. Although
this young man has immense potential, Bulldog
fans should not place the burden of winning
and losing on Hearst’s shoulders. Just ask last
year’s savior, Preston Jones, how harsh the
glare of the spotlight on the eyes of a freshman
can be. Hearst will be a gcx>d player, if used cor
rectly in the Bulldog offense, but he can’t play
offensive line, quarterback, or safety.
If I were offensive coordinator George
Ilaffner, I would use an offensive set with four
wide receivers and Hearst, Brian Cleveland, or
any of the other fine incoming freshman backs
(Frank Harvey or Mike Thornton).
Imagine. Second down and seven with
Georgia lining up at its own 30-yard line. In
stead of running the I-formation and pitching
the ball to the tailback of your choice, with Al-
phonso Ellis lead blocking, picture Greg Talley
or Preston Jones with the speedy waterbug
Hearst behind him ns the lone setback. Split
out on the right would be the sure-handed Sean
Hummings and Kevin Maxwell. On the left
side, picture shifty Arthur Marshall and either
Rodney McCoy or Damon Evans or....
Andre Hastings!
If the Bulldogs get a committment from Has
tings (their chances are about 50-50) they could
have the most potent set of wide-outs in the
country. Hastings, from Morrow, has world-
class speed, excellent hands, and already has
pro scouts drooling, even though he has never
suited up in a college jersey. With this guy
living in McWhorter Hall, whoever the Georgia
quarterback ends up being should start pre
paring their arm for some serious throwing.
Even without Hastings, the Bulldogs should
still use their talented receiving corps and send
the ball downfield.
With all this said, the Dogs will still have a
tough road to travel next season. They need to
develop consistency across the offensive and de
fensive lines and everyone will need to quickly
mature and play up to their press clippings.
That’s a lot of ifs, but stick with Coach Goff;
he is bringing talented players to Georgia and if
they are played where they can utilize their tal
ents, Georgia will be a legitimate contender for
the national crown by 1992.
Gene Williams is the sports editor of The Red
and Black.
Wallace’s and Diaz’s tennis teams stay on top in NCAA tourneys
By RANDY WALKER and
MICHELLE NOBLE
Sports Writers
In 1987, Tennis Magazine awarded the University
of Georgia and the Stanford University Tennis pro
grams its "Best in Tennis” award for best college
tennis program.
In the three Collegiate Grand Slam tournaments
this season, both the men’s and women’s teams at
Georgia have not proven the tennis publication
wrong. Two Dog male or female players have reached
at least the singles semi-finals, while A1 Parker won
the Volvo Tennis Collegiate Championships and
Caryn Moss was a finalist at the DuPont Cloy Court
Championships.
"Both men’s and women’s teams are extremely
tough this season,” Georgia Director of Tennis Dan
Magill said. “Both teams are something the Univer
sity con be proud of.”
At the Rolex National Intercollegiate Indoor
Championships this weekend in Minneapolis, Minn.,
Georgia’s Parker and Shannon McCarthy battled
through the draw before each were defeated in the
semi-finals.
Parker, the nation’s top-ranked player and the
tournament’s top seed was defeated by Steve Bryan of
Texas 7-6 (7-1), 6-4, while second-seeded McCarthy
fell to Florida’s Andrea Farley 6-7, (4-7), 6-3, 6-1.
Georgia’s other singles entrant, Stacey SchefTlin, was
defeated in the quarterfinals by the defending NCAA
singles champion Sandra Birch of Stanford 7-6 (7-4),
6-1.
In doubles action, the third-seeded tandem of
Parker and Murphy Jensen were defeated in the
quarterfinals by Mitch Michulka and Michael
Penman of Texas 6-3, 7-6 (7-0), while second-seeded
team of McCarthy and SchefTlin fell in the semi-finals
to eventual champions Susan Gilchnst and Joanna
Plautz, also of Texas.
Parker, also a semi-finalist at the DuPont Clay
Courts, shies away from emphasizing his individual
results.
"Doing well at the Grand Slams is great but what’s
really important is for me to help the team this spring
in dual matches,” Parker said.
Georgia women’s coach Jeff Wallace, the 1989 SEC
Coach of the Year, has yet to capture any national
title during his five-year reign but feels he will soon.
“I think we went up to the Rolex Championships
with high expectations of bringing back some titles,”
Wallace said. ‘We gave it every effort we possibly
could to atttain those titles. In our three losses over
the weekend, we basically got out-played.”
This weekend, both Wallace’s and men’s coach
Manuel Diaz’s squads will face stiff challenges. The
fourth-ranked Lady Netters wrestle arch-rival
Florida, the No. 3 ranked collegiate team, Friday af
ternoon at 2 p.m. The team then travels to Durham,
N.C. Sunday to battle Duke. Meanwhile, the men
travel to Alabama to square off against the 12th-
ranked Tide.
The Lady Netters must first face the Lady Hoakies
of Virgina Tech today at 2 p.m. at the women’s courts.
Tech chills Ice Dogs
By LANA BERMAN
Sports Writer
The Georgia Ice Dogs fought,
• rally and figuratively, against
Georgia Tech Friday and Sat
urday nights, but lost 3-2 and 5-
2, ns the two rivals accumulated
minutes of penalties.
The losses eliminated Georgia
from the playoffs.
In. Friday’s game, Georgia took
a quick lend in the first period ofT
a goal by Paul Barnett, assisted
by Geoff Harrow and Richard
Skaggs, but fell behind in the
next period when Tech scored
three unanswered goals.
"We lost the game in the
second period,” coach lion Hall
said. “If we had had 10 more min
utes to play the hockey game, we
would have won.”
During Friday’s contest,
Georgia lost one of its highest
scorers, Steve Mrowka, when the
referees ejected him nnd a Yellow
Jacket for fighting
The Tech guy injected the
butt end of the stick into my fore
hand,” Mrowka said. “He
A bench-clearing
brawl erupted
between the teams.
knocked my helmet off. I had to
defend mvself.”
Both Mrowka and his sparring
partner became ineligible to play
in Saturday’s game, but that
didn’t stop tempers from flaring.
With only a few minutes re
maining in the contest, Georgia
goalie John Coakley received a
misconduct penalty for con
testing a missed call bv the ref
eree which led to a Tech goal,
putting the Jackets ahead 3-2.
With only 35 seconds left to
play, a bench-clearing brawl er-
rupted between the two teams.
"It got ugly, tempers went up
and the referees lost all control of
the game,” Mrowka said.
“Georgia held complete compo
sure until Tech left their bench. I
had no choice but to let my
players defend their teammates,”
Hall said.
Dogs split with GSC
By ERIC GARBER
Sports Writer
Freshman left-hander Stan
Payne allowed just one earned run
through seven innings to help
Georgia defeat Georgia Southern
9-2 in Statesboro Monday for its
second win of the season.
Tuesday’s game was a different
story however, as the Diamond
Dogs fell short to the Eagles 8-4,
completing the team’s second se
ries split of the 1990 campaign.
“A definite state rivalry has de
veloped between these two
schools,” Georgia coach Steve
Webber said. “Georgia Southern
will be tough all season.”
In Payne’s first start for the
Bulldogs, he struck out four Eagles
while giving up only six hits.
Despite his impressive overall
performance, Payne was a bit
shaky early.
In the first inning, Southern
loaded the bases with no outs and
looked to be on its way to an early
lead. In response, Payne managed
to regain his control.
Payne (1-0) retired 16 out of the
r.ext 19 Southern batters he faced
before being taken out in the
eighth inning by Webber. Senior
Ray Kirschner finished the game
with two scoreless innings.
The Bulldog hitters knocked
Southern’s pitching for five extra
base hits during the game, in
cluding a two-run homer and
double from DH Brian Jester.
Georgia (2-2) looked like it was
destined for more success Tuesday
as it jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the
third inning on consecutive dou
bles by catcher Terry Childers and
shortstop J.R. Showalter.
However, the Dogs’ efforts
seemed to signal Southern’s wake-
up call. In the bottom of the third,
two Georgia errors led to three un
earned Eagle runs.
Southern’s Chad Sumner led off
the fourth with a solo home run,
setting the tone for another three-
run inning for the Eagles.
The Dogs managed to pick up
four in the eighth but it wasn’t
enough.
"Coming in, we knew Georgia
Southern would be ready to play,”
Webber said. ‘They are always pre
pared."
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