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10 * Th « Red and Black • Friday, April 13, 1990
SPORTS
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The University of Georgia Lacrosse Club travels to Grant Field to
morrow to take on the Rambling Wreck of Georgia Tech. The ac
tion gets underway at 1 p.m. The 16th Annual Southland
Stampede will continue through Saturday at the Coliseum.
Track coach glad to be back with his first love
By TREVOR PADGETT
Sports Editor
At this time last year, John
Mitchell was sitting behind a
desk running an athletic pro
gram. But his love of "kids’ and
competitive drive brought him
back to his first love — coaching.
“I missed the kids and 1 missed
the coaching,” the Georgia track
head coach said of his return to
coaching after two years as an as
sistant athletic director at
George Mason University. “I’m a
real competitive guy and you just
can’t get the same feel for the
sport from behind a desk."
Mitchell, who came to the Uni
versity of Georgia in July 1989 as
head coach of both the men’s and
women’s track teams, guided the
Crimson Tide of Alabama to five
SEC titles in his 18 years as head
coach there before his pencil
pushing days at GMU.
This weekend Mitchell will
guide the Track Dogs into Bir
mingham, Ala., for the Magic
City Vulcan Relays against 10
other teams, including SEC ri
vals Auburn and Ole Miss.
Also competing will be Ar
kansas State, Memphis State,
Murray State, Sam ford, South
east Louisiana, Southern Missi-
sippi and Tulane. Relays begin at
2 p.m. Friday, with the field
events and the remainder of the
relays being completed on Sat
urday.
Mitchell doesn’t consider this a
critical meet as far as winning
first-place goes, but rather he
sees it as a building block toward
the SEC Championship Meet,
which will be held May 17-20 at
Spec Towns Track in Athens.
“We entered our players where
we wanted them to compete
rather than have them double-up
on events in an effort to make a
run at first place,” Mitchell said.
“We did this partly because we
don’t know the other teams as
well and because we want to con
centrate on working each athlete
on his/her best event.
“But don’t worry well make a
good showing,” added Mitchell.
A big part in that showing fig
ures to be Bill Jones, who com
petes in the high jump.
Jones, a transfer from
Phoenix, Ariz., Junior College,
has twice cleared the bar at 7
feet, 1/4 inch this outdoor season
Bill Jones: One ‘kid’ who drew Mitchell back to coaching
to win at the Florida Relays and
Georgia Tech-Minnesota trian
gular meet.
With that height, Jones moved
to ninth in the Georgia record
books for high jump; he already
owned the eighth spot with a
high jump of 7 feet, 3/4 inches
last year.
“Bill is a competitive jumper
with a good chance at the SEC
championships and nationals,”
said Mitchell. ‘To say he’s enthu
siastic about jumping would be
an understatement.
“He’s a great natural athlete
who has been getting more and
more consistent in his jumps,
which will enable him to go
higher in the future,” said
Mitchell.
DOC RAP
By ERIC GARBER
Sports Writer
HoW does a coach react to a big
win? After the Georgia baseball
team squeaked by state rival
Georgia Tech Wednesday, players
hurriedly took their shots at emo
tionally unraveling the game’s
events to several newspaper and
radio people on the field. However,
Georgia coach Steve Webber sat
calmly in the dugout, seemingly un
aware that his squad just knocked
off a team that was ranked number
one in the country just two weeks
ago. Sports Writer Eric Garber had
a chance to exclusively chat with
Webber about his conservative atti
tude toward the 31-7 Diamond
Dogs before the squad left for Tus
caloosa to face Alabama for three
games this weekend.
The Red & Black: Your team
put up a fight to come away with
the win against Tech. How do you
manage to not get carried away
emotionally?
Webber: Generally, I approach
each game the same way. There
are a lot of ups and downs in this
game. Sure, I’m happy with our
performance, but if I or the team
get too excited, I fear that we could
stumble.
The Red & Black: How do you
instill that attitude your players?
Webber: My job is to let these
guys know that the only way to
consistently win is to look at the
season over the long haul. When
you win one day, you could lose the
next.
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The Red & Black: Alabama’s
Joe Vitiello and John Farrell have
hit a combined 17 home runs. Can
your offense back up any pitching
lapses you might face this
weekend?
Webber: I don’t know. Since the
midpoint of last year, Alabama has
been an excellent offensive team
that hits the ball hard.
The Red & Black: What about
its pitching?
Webber: I’ve got my eye on one
guy. Carrying over from last year,
Tommy Millstead has won seven
consecutive conference games.
Facing this guy will take concen
tration. That’s exactly why I try
not to get hung up on ‘today’s’ win.
The Red & Black: Your team
has stolen just 21 bases this season
and ranks among the slowest in
the SEC. How do you compensate
for this weakness?
Webber: As you have probably
noticed, my coaching philosophy
has little to do with running. Of
fensively, I’m a hitters coach.
The Red & Black: What will
happen if your team doesn’t hit?
Webber: I’m a hitters coach but
I am flexible. We do try to run guys
in selected situations. I’m confi
dent that we can make good use of
our baserunners by executing the
hit and run. If we can’t get that
many hits, we will try to make the
most of them.
The Red & Black: Do you re
alize that at this rate your team
will win 50 games, the most ever
for a Georgia team?
Webber: Really? No, that hasn’t
even entered my mind. That’s
something I don’t even want to
think about.
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DISPORTS
BARKER!!
FRIDAY
• Rodeo: The 16th Annual Southland Stam
pede continues tonight at 8 in the Coliseum.
SATURDAY
• Cycling: The University of Georgia Cy
cling Club will compete in the Southeastern
Conference Cycling Championships in and
around Athena beginning at 10 a.m.
• Lacrosse: The club team (4-2) faces
Georgia Tech at 1 p.m. in Bobby Dodd Sta
dium.
• Rugby: The Ruggers (3-0-1) tackle High
Country of Atlanta at 1 p.m. at the intra
mural hclda.
• Baseball: The Diamond Doga (31-7) play
two againat Alabama in Tuacaloosa at 5 p.m.
• Rodeo: The 16th Annual Southland Stam
pede's last night at the Coliseum begins at 8.
SUNDAY
• Cycling: The UGA Cycling Club competes
in the enteriums of the SECC at the South
Commuter Parking Lota beginning at 8 a.m.
• Tennis: The men and women netters face
Kentucky in Lexington at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.,
respectively.
• Baseball: The Diamond Doga complete
their weekend aeries in Tuscaloosa against
Alabama at 2 p.m.
MONDAY
• Tennis: The No. 3 men's team travels to
Knoxville to take on No. 2 Tennessee at 2
p.m.
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