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fi • The Red and Black • Tuesday, February 20, 1990
Durham’s Dogs tied for No.l
Lady Hoopsters dunk MSU 101-64
By DAVID PACE
Sports Writer
The Georgia men’s basketball
team won its fourth consecutive
SEC game over Mississippi State
Saturday 82-74 in Starkville. The
win leaves the Dogs in a tie for first
place with LSU.
LSU defeated Vanderbilt 121-
108 on Sunday to keep pace with
Georgia.
“It was a team win," Cuach
Hugh Durham said. “Kessler and
Green provided us with some
points and Rod Cole played excel
lent defense.”
The Dogs, 10-4 in the conference
&nd 17-6 overall, were paced by 27
points from forward Alec Kessler
and 13 rebounds. Guard Litterial
Green pumped in 22 points.
Rod Cole scored six points and
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had five assists while snagging
seven rebounds.
Forward Marshall Wilson also
had a good game with 10 points
and five rebounds.
With center Neville Austin on
the bench in early foul trouble, re
serve forward Lem Howard gave
the Dogs a rntyjor lift with six
points and six rebounds.
Howard chipped the radius bone
in his left arm in last month’s win
over MSU here in Athens and is
wearing a soft cast.
“It doesn’t really bother me to
shoot the ball, since I’m right-
handed,’ Howard said. “It’s the in
tangibles like rebounding and grip
ping the ball with both hands that
is the most difficult and painful for
me.*
Georgia returns home for dates
this week with Ole Miss on
Wednesday and LSU on Sunday
before concluding the season with
rond dates against Tennessee and
Auburn.
The LSU game looms large for
the Dogs, but Ole Miss presents a
miyor hurdle. The Rebels won a
hard-fought contest over Georgia
last month in Oxford 84-74.
“I don’t think there is a problem
with us looking past Ole Miss to
LSU,’ Kessler said. “Beating Ole
Miss is just as important as
beating LSU."
Georgia hasn’t been in SEC’s
penthouse this late in the season
since the 1984-85 season, when
they were tied with LSU going into
the last game of the season. The
Dogs lost that final game and LSU
went on to win the conference. This
year, Georgia looks to stay atop the
SEC when the smoke clears.
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By CHRIS LANCETTE
Sports Staff Writer
In what may have been the
quickest thrashing in basketball
history, the seventh-ranked
Georgia women’s team (22-3)
scored two buckets, applied the
full court press and forced a be
littled Mississippi State team (9-
16) to call a timeout just 31 sec
onds into the first half in Sat
urday night’s contest at the
Coliseum.
Point guard Sharon Baldwin,
who scored nine of her Lady Dog
leading 15 points in the first
seven minutes, sparked Georgia
to the 101-64 whipping. Forward
Stacey Ford, who is the third-
highest field goal ohooter in the
country, added 13.
Forward Jessica Barr came off
the bench and sank all 10 of her
free throws en route to a 14-point
performance, while back-up
center Sherelle Warren scored 13
points.
Even though the Georgia of
fense racked up hefty scoring sta
tistics, coach Andy Landers was
most pleased with his team’s de
fensive performance.
“What really impressed me
was that our people away from
the boll in the press moved to the
L robable (pass) receivers,”
anders said. “I noticed that our
kids weren’t just looking in the
right place but were being in the
right place.”
In the first 4:45, Georgia as
phyxiated the MSU offense by
scoring 17 unanswered points
and with 10 minutes remaining
in the first half, Warren had
made a hook shot to boost
Georgia to a 39-4 advantage.
The quick blowout also gave
the Georgia starters a chance to
rest and the bench the opportu
nity to get some quality minutes.
Those two things may pay big
dividends when the Lady
Hoopsters travel to Florida State
before returning home Saturday
for a nationally-televised clash
with LSU.
In addition to nine points from
Barr and Warren, freshman
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Sherelle Warren: Scored
13 points off the bench
guard Angela Davis scored 11
f ioints in 12 minutes of play,
reshman Camille Lowe scored
10, and guard Kim Berry tallied
seven points.
“Our bench came in and out
played their (starting) bunch,”
Landers said. “I think that’s a
great compliment to our team
that they can play that way.”
Beam bolts Gym Dogs past LSU
By CHRIS LANCETTE
Sports Staff Writer
Rebounding from a controversial 188.70-188.65 loss
at Florida on Friday, the fourth-ranked Georgia gym
nastics team (12-2) edged out fifth-ranked LSU
191.15-189.60 in the Coliseum on Sunday.
The score was the Lady Dogs’ highest this season.
Senior Corrinne Wright’s 38.90 gave her the all-
around competition win while freshmen Jennifer Car
bone and Heather Stepp placed second and third with
scores of 38.40 and 37.90 respectively.
“I think we did the best we could do,” Georgia coach
Suzanne Yoculan said. “We did some less difficult rou
tines (because of injuries) but we hit.”
In Gainesville, the score was tied after the four ro
tations but Gator coach Ernestine Weaver formally
protested a Gator floor score by submitting a routine
review request to the judges. The judges ruled in her
favor and added .05 to Tracy Wilson’s floor score —
giving her a 9.45 and Florida a stunning upset.
The Gym Dogs’ scores on the beam (46.70) and un
even bars (46.60) only made matters worse.
The bars also caused problems Sunday. After Car
bone lend off with a 9.55, the next three gymnasts fell.
Stepp then hit her routine before Wright followed
with a career-high 9.85. The Lady Dogs salvaged a
47.0 on the event.
Yoculan commended the team for fighting back on
the event.
“I think they showed true grit after missing three
bars,” Yoculan said.
After bars, Georgia moved to the balance beam on
third rotation and hit all six routines — scoring a
48.35 and breaking by .05 the team’s previous on-ap
paratus record.
Georgia sophomore Sophia Royce said that after the
bars, when the Lady Dogs trailed by .50, the team
knew it was rally time.
“We were very psyched up after bars because it
wasn’t the best event for some of us and we wanted to
make it up,” Royce said.
The Gym Dogs’ bars gave them a .10 lead heading
into the final rotation. Georgia turned in a solid floor
exercise. Thomas, Wright and sophomore Chris Rodis
tied for third in the event.
Georgia started the meet on vault. Sophcmore team
captain Kathy Dwyer lead off with a 9.35 and started
a progression of scores that resulted in a 47.80.
The Gym Dogs now have two weeks off competition
before hosting the Bulldog Invitational, a six-way
meet, on March 3.
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