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• • The Red and Black • Friday, April 6, 1990
SPORTS
The Georgia men's and women's track teams will host a three-
way meet Saturday at Spec Towns Track. The field events
against Georgia Tech and Minnesota will get started at noon,
with the running events scheduled for a 1 p.m. start.
Vols’ speed threatens Dogs
STEVE WEBBER: Georgia
coach isn’t taking Ten
nessee lightly.
By ERIC GARBER
Sports Writer
Coming off of a 20-2 thrashing of
Augusta College Wednesday night,
the Diamond Dogs must not get too
confident against a vastly im
proved Tennessee squad this
weekend.
The Tennessee Volunteers bring
to Athens a threat the Georgia
baseball team has yet to face this
year — explosive team speed.
'They (Tennessee) are an ex
tremely fast team,” Georgia coach
Steve Webber said. To defeat
these guys, we will have to find a
way to hold their runners on.”
Webber’s concern is warranted.
Tennessee, who will clash with the
Diamond Dogs in a doubleheader
Saturday and a single game
Sunday, has stolen 78 total bases
out of 114 attempts (68 percent).
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Volunteer shortstop Danny Ram
irez has swiped 18 bases, one more
than the entire Georgia team.
Georgia will have to counter
with its power — hitting. The
team, with a season-high 21 hits in
Wednesday’s game, boasts nine ev
eryday players batting over .300.
Brian Jester, out for two weeks
with a pulled hamstring, leads the
Dogs with a .411 average. Jester is
also tied with Bruce Chick and Jeff
Cooper for the team lead in home
runs with seven.
The Vols have a new head coach
this year in Rod Delmonico, who
was an assistant coach at Florida
State last season. Under Delmo-
nico’s helm, the Vols have already
won more conference games this
year than last. At week’s end, Ten
nessee was 5-4 in SEC play com
pared to a overall 4-23 SEC mark
in 1989.
“Coach Delmonico has turned
that program around," Webber
said. “Tennessee has taken on a
whole new look."
A big part of the turn around is
junior college transfer Bob Dillon,
who has pitched a no-hitter and
aone-hitter in his last two starts.
Tennessee did not announce the
starters in the weekend series.
Georgia is now 27-7 overall and
stands in second place in the SEC
at 6-3, one game behind Missis
sippi State. The Volunteers are 17-
13 overall and are fourth in the
early SEC race.
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No. 3 Netters stunned
By RANDY WALKER
Sport* Writer
The 17th-ranked South Caro
lina men’s tennis team swept all
three doubles matches to upset
No. 3 Georgia 6-3 yesterday in
Columbia.
The No. 1 doubles team of Ste
phana Simian and David Hopper
clinched the match for the Game
cocks with a 6-7, 6-2, 6-3 victory
over A1 Parker and Murphy
Jensen.
"We fought a good fight but
things just didn't fall our way,”
said Georgia coach Manuel Diaz
from Columbia last night.
Georgia’s record dropB to 13-2,
but the team still leads the SEC
with a 5-0 record.
Georgia and South Carolina
split the winnings 3-3 after sin
gles as Simian, ranked No. 9 in
the latest Volvo Tennis Colle
giate singles rankings, bested the
fourth ranked Parker at the No.
1 singles position 6-2, 6-4.
The Bulldogs got victories from
Patricio Arnold at No. 3, Jensen
at No. 4 and Hector Nevares at
No. 6. Arnold defeated Hopper 6-
by Carolina
3, 7-5, while Nevares defeated
Dirk Hahneiser 3-6, 7-6, 6-4.
Junior netter Jensen won his
fifth straight singles match and
his 13th of his last 14 matches,
beating P.J. Langhone 4-6, 6-2,6-
4.
Mike Morrison was edged out
at No. 2 singles by Lou Gloria 6-4,
2-6, 6-4. Jim Childs, playing at
No. 5 lost to Mark Palus 6-1, 6-3.
NEXT FOR NETTERS: Georgia
hosts Furman at 2 p.m. on Sat
urday at Henry Feild Stadium.
Lady Netters travel to Mississippi
Take on MSU, Ole Miss
By RANDY WALKER
Sports Writer
The Georgia women’s tennis team (14-2) gets in the
van and travels to Mississippi this weekend to take on
Mississippi State Saturday and Ole Miss Sunday.
“Mississippi St. is not quite as strong as they were
last year, but Ole Miss is a bit better,” Georgia coach
Jeff Wallace said.
Mississippi St.’s most significant graduation losses
are Clare Pollard and Jackie Holden, who captured
last year’s NCAA Doubles Championship.
Georgia has not lost to Mississippi St. in their last
eight clashes, and has won their last five against the
Lady Rebels. Last year, the Lady Netters blanked
both teams 9-0.
“All conference matches are big,” Wallace said.
“You have to take every one seriously and we’re going
to have to go over there and play good tennis to win.”
After playing Georgia Teen in Atlanta on April 11,
Wallace’s squad will travel to Lexington, Ky. on April
15 to take on the 19th-ranked Lady Wildcats.
Georgia’s regular season will conclude with two home
matches —April 18 vs. Auburn and April 22 vs. No. 13
Tennessee.
GYMNASTS
From page 1
on the apparatus with a 9.78 av
erage — only .02 behind Oregon
State’s Joy Selig.
The strength and confidence
seen in Thomas’ routines in the
second half of this season are remi
niscent of her outstanding perfor
mances on the 1983 Canadian
world championship team.
Thomas and Georgia’s second-
ranked beam performance aren’t
the only things the Gym Dogs have
going for them.
The Lady Dogs also are ranked
third on the uneven bars, sixth On
the vault and seventh on the floor.
Florida is the only other Top 20
team in the Southeast Regional.
Although the Lady Gators upset
Georgia in Gainesville earlier this
season, the Gym Dog’s biggest com
petition will be in Los Angeles, Salt
Lake City, and Minneapolis —sites
of the Western, Midwestern and
Central regions, respectively.
The injury-plagued UCLA and
Oregon State squads (ranked sixth
and seventh, respectively) will
renew their Pac 10 rivalry in the
West. The Lady Bruins have the
depth to contend for a Super Six
seeding but it won’t be easy. And
Oregon State coach Jim Turpin
knows his team is “on the bubble.”
‘In reality, it might take us
doing the best we can and of the
other top teams not doing their
best for us to make it," Turpin said
in a telephone interview.
Twelfth-ranked California
State-Fullerton and 16th-ranked
Washington are also in that region.
The first-ranked Utes are likely
to dominate their Midwest re
gional, which boasts six Top 20
teams. But Utah coach Greg
Marsden, wearer of five NCAA
This is our best team
-Jim Turpin
Oregon State
gymnastics coach
championship rings, isn't taking
anything for granted.
"This is our best team, gymnas-
ticallv, in five years,” he said in a
telephone interview. “I think (fifth-
ranked) Nebraska is a darkhorse
and doesn’t get the respect it de
serves. ‘They almost beat us at re
gional last year.
The Central region pits second-
ranked Alabama against third-
ranked LSU. The Northeastern re
gional contains only one Top 20
team, 17th-ranked Penn State, and
has never sent a team to the Super
Six.
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