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8 • The Red and Black • Wednesday. March 7. 1990
SPORTS
Greg Bowers of Greenville was the overall winner of the Univer
sity of Georgia 1990 Biathlon with a time of 1:32.02. Veronica
Maldonado of Athens won the women's 18-24 with a time of
2:01.48.
Georgia Ice Hockey club team: From left to right, Paul Barnett, Jason Daffin, Kevin
Hirsch, Larry Hall, and Warren Stevens are only five of the 22 members.
Ice not just for tea at Georgia
By GENE WILUAMS
Sports Editor
Although the prevailing attitude
around the South is that ice is used
only to keep tea cold, Larry Hall
and the University ice hockey team
are looking to change that senti
ment.
In its third year of puck pushing,
the Ice Dogs compete in the
Southern Collegiate Hockey Asso
ciation (SCHA) — a league com
posed of eight other southern club
teams including Kentucky,
Georgia Tech, and Georgia State.
“Hockey is a fast-moving game
with a lot of action without a lot of
whistles,” said Hall, the team's
captain “There is always a lot of
hurd-hitting and a few fights as
well.”
All of the team’s fighting hasn’t
been relegated to the rink, how
ever Hall admits that the road to
establishing the ice hockey club
team was a fight in itself.
“My father (Ron Hall) coached
Georgia State’s hockey team and
the commissioner of the SCHA was
at one of the games and I asked
him how we could start a hockey
team at Georgia.” Hall said
"During spring quarter of 1987, we
submitted a budget to the Rec
Spoits department, they approved
it, and we started competing in the
fall of 1987.”
Although the Ice Dogs received a
budget, the 22 team members have
to foot most of the bill.
‘The University gives us $1,200
a year, however, our expenses end
up being between $7,000 and
$9,000,” Hall said. "The closest
place we can play and practice is at
Stone Mountain and they charge
$125 an hour. We want everyone to
be on time, so we rent vans from
the University which costs $55-$60
a day. Then each player has to
furnish their own equipment and
that runs around $800."
Traditionally, ice hockey has not
been the focal subject of many
Southern sports discussions, but
the Ice Dogs have garnered a group
of dedicated fans hungry for the ex
citement of the rink and students
anxious for the chance to send the
puck flying through the net.
It was hard to get fans and
players at the beginning because
we were brand new,” Hall said.
“We had 15 guys to try out our first
season. But, this year we had 38-40
people try out for our 22 member
team.”
“We’ve now got a 24-member
Silver Blades booster club who go
to all the games and we sponsor
buses that transport fans to and
from games as well. We have a
great deal of support.”
Next on the horizon for the Ice
Dogs is a proposal for a budget sim
ilar to other schools they are com
peting with and eventually a
chance to compete on the Divison I-
A level.
But even if they don’t get the
money, Hall has already done a su
perb job making hockey visible at
Georgia.
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Diamond Dogs down Camels
By ERIC GARBER
Sports Writer
Like it has done all season, the
Georgia baseball team came to life
in the late innings Tuesday to
knock off Campbell University 6-4.
Trailing 4-2 in the eighth inning,
designated hitter Brian Jester hit
a long double to score center fielder
McKay Smith and third baseman
JefT Cooper. As Jester rounded
second, Campbell catcher J.C.
Hendrix overthrew third baseman
Ed Stanley. As the ball rolled into
short left field, Jester took off from
second and scored to make the
score 6-4.
‘When you can hang on in a ball-
game like that it makes you feel
good,” Georgia coach Steve Webber
said. “I don’t care who you’re
playing, every game is extremely
important for the development of a
team.”
Jester’s 2-for-4 plate perfor
mance Tuesday marks his eighth
multiple-hit game of the season.
Senior right-hander Matt
Hoitsma (1-0), who missed all of
the 1989 campaign with arm inju
ries, came in to relieve starter Joe
Kelly in the first and allowed only
one run through seven and two-
thirds innings to get the win.
Freshman Stan Payne retired
the Camels’ last three batters to
end the game. Hoitsma’s win is his
first since 1986 after being
redshirted in ’88 and ir\jured in ’89.
“I knew if I just hung in there,
we would get the runs to win,”
Hoitsma said. ‘We have a good hit
ting team that eventually will help
you out. I just tried to throw my
fastball and slider for strikes. Our
fielding was excellent.”
The Fighting Camels jumped all
over Kelly in the first inning as left
fielder Lee Cobbler led off the game
with a grounder that Georgia third
baseman Jeff Cooper couldn’t
handle. Center fielder Randy
Hood, who stole four bases during
the contest, followed with a double
to put runners on first and second.
Third baseman Ed Stanley then
walked to load the bases.
One batter later, shortstop Scott
Payton belted a single to left,
scoring both Cobbler and Hood.
When the inning finally ended,
Campbell was up 3-0 and looked to
be in gtxxi shape with pitcher Chris
Wagner on the mound.
‘We kept popping the ball up be
cause he (Wagner) pitched a super
game," Webber said. “His off-speed
stufThad our guys out in front of a
lot of balls and caused us to get
under his pitches.”
Wagner (0-2) allowed two runs
on seven hits through seven in
nings of work.
Georgia, ranked 17th by Bane-
ball America, has won nine out of
its last 10 and is now 11-4, one
game better than last season at
this time. Campbell University
falls to 1-5.
Georgia hosts the Fighting
Camels again today at 3 p.m.
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