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_® • The Red and Black • Fnday, February 16, 1990
SPORTS
Gym Dogs to face Florida tonight
By CHRIS LANCETTE
Sports Staff Writer
The roller coaster ride that is
the Georgia gymnastics team’s
season thrills through SEC ac
tion this weekend.
The fourth-ranked Lady Dogs
(11-1) go Gator-hunting tonight
in Gainesville and return to the
Coliseum for a big meet against
the eighth-ranked LSU Lady Ti
gers on Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
The meets represent a hump
that the Gym Dogs must hurdle if
they are to gain the momentum
they need for a national
championship run. Georgia
sparked the “mo” last weekend
when Yoculan’s Dogs hobbled
into Alabama and hit 22 of a pos
sible 24 routines and scored a
season-high 190.85.
Although Georgia added one
more athlete to the injured list
when freshman Lisa Alicea se
verely sprained her ankle in
practice Wednesday, it will likely
pound the beleagured Gators
(who lost three starters prior to
the season).
The Gym Dogs won’t have it so
easily when they attempt to
crack Tiger jaws to finisn the
weekend’s one-two punch.
“If anyone can beat us at home,
it’s LSU or UCLA,” said Georgia
coach Suzanne Yoculan.
LSU should be well-rested and
ready to avenge last season’s loss
to the Lady Dogs in the Lady Ti
gers’ own Pete Maravich As
sembly Center. The Bayou
Bengafs are a rejuvenated SEC
power after internal problems
caged them last season.
They scored a 190.15 against
Kentucky last week ana one
week earlier, were only .10 be
hind Alabama until they blew the
balance beam event on the final
rotation.
Yoculan said her goal score is a
189 for the Florida meet and a
191 against LSU.
Barring another iryury, as
many as four Gym Dogs may go
all-around this weekend — senior
Corrinne Wright, sophomore
Chris Rodis, and freshmen
Heather Stepp and Sandy Row-
lette. The latter is expected to
throw her Schuschunova on bars
against LSU.
Rowlette became the first gym
nast in United States history to
hit this move, a release move
that’s a full-twisting pirouette off
a giant swing, in the first meet of
the season at Penn State. Injury
has prevented her from doing the
Schuschunova since then.
Rodis is looking very strong
this season as well. She hasn’t
missed (fallen during) a routine
yet this year.
“Chris is hitting 100 percent,”
Yoculan said. “She has not only
made a marked improvement in
that respect since last season but
she has made one step above the
rest of the lineup on floor.”
File
Lisa Alicea: Sprained
ankle won’t stop her
Yoculan said Rodis will likely
add a double-back on her last
tumbling pass on the floor.
Georgia sophomore team cap
tain Kathy Dwyer said the home
crowd may be the difference in
the LSU meet.
“We’re going to be a little tired
after travelling to Florida for that
first meet but well rest up on the
way home and be ready to go
Sunday,” she said. “But the home
crowd will help pull us through.”
That crowd may be more effec
tive as an official student-seating
section has been arranged.
Bleacher seats are being added to
the floor level of the Coliseum.
■ FANFARE
This weekend, the Georgia women's golf team begins its winter
season at the Lady Gator Invitational In Gainesville, Fla. The 12-
team field Includes many of the nation's best teams, Including
Tulsa and Oklahoma St.
Lady Dogs victorious, 72-57
Tammye Jenkins: 55 recovers a rebound
By ERIC GARBER
Sports Staff Writer
Guards Lady Hardmon and
Adrienne Shuler scored 18 and 17
points respectively to lead the
Georgia women’s basketball team
to a 72-57 victory over the Lady
Gamecocks of South Carolina at
the Coliseum Thursday night.
Several times in the second half,
the Lady Dogs built eight-point
cushions, but it took a jumper in
the lane from forward Tammye
Jenkins with 1:30 left to give the
Dogs the lead for good, 65-55.
“I liked the way we played to
night,” Georgia coach Andy
Landers said. “It was a slow-paced
game for a while but I was im
pressed with our team’s show of de
fensive pressure.”
Judging by both teams’ sloppy
offensive play in the first half, it
appeared that neither wanted to
win as the two Associated Press
Top 25 squads combined to score
just 19 points in the game’s first 10
minutes.
Georgia left the court at inter
mission with a slim 26-24 lead,
having hit on just 48 percent of its
shots from the field. USC was
worse, however, only shooting 36
percent before the break.
USC held Georgia’s two top
scorers, forwards Tammye Jenkins
and Stacey Ford, to just 3 com
bined points in the first half.
“Stacey was a little off so we got
some help from some of our other
players tonight,” Landers said.
“We needed it because South Caro
lina is a powerful te. m.”
If not for freshman forward Jes
sica Barr’s eight-point spurt in the
game’s first 15 minutes, Georgia
may have trailed at the half, con
sidering all of the team’s losses this
year have come after halflime defi
cits.
“I feel a lot more comfortable
shooting out there now,” Barr said.
“Now I’m in the habit of sprinting
up and down the floor and that
helps.”
Seventh-ranked Georgia now
stands at 21-3 for the season and
next plays Mississippi State at
7:30 p.m. here at the Coliseum.
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