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10 • The Red and Black • Tuesday, May 8. 1990
SPORTS
Both the men's and women's track teams finished second this
past weekend at the Minnesota Invitational. Nancy Freeman set
a new school record In the 10,000-meter run by four seconds
and Jolly Earle broke the 3000-meter run mark by 19 seconds.
Legends gather for stadium dedication
By ERIC GARBER
Sports Writer
It was like an open history book.
For one day, many legends who
are usually only read about in
media guides and programs came
together at Foley Field Saturday
for the dedication of the field’s new
stadium.
Players who were active at
Georgia decades before current
students were even bom came
from around the country to inaugu
rate the $3.5 million, 3200-seat
baseball park at a pre-game ban
quet on the porch of the Butts-
Mehre building.
’This stadium means a whole lot
to Georgia,” said Jim Whatley, who
coached baseball at Georgia from
1952-1975. “When you have a solid
program like we’ve had here, you
deserve the nationwide publicity
that this place can bring with tele
vision and other media coverage.”
Whatley is Georgia’s all-time
leader in wins with 334.
Among others who were part of
the resurrection of Georgia base-
bull’s past was Richard Morris.
Morris never played baseball at
Georgia, but his father was catcher
John Morris, one of the members of
Georgia’s first fielded teum in
1886.
“If Dad was still around, he
would have been the first one out
here to see this thing,” Morris said.
He was born during the Civil War
and they caught baseballs with
just a slab of leather.”
Morris said that in the late
1800’s, catchers cuught pitches on
a bounce, a detrimental situation
By ERIC GARBER
Sports Writer
History was made twice Sat
urday at Foley Field.
Not only was the new and im
proved stadium at the field un
veiled in a dedication ceremony,
but the Diamond Dogs also won the
first gnme of its doubleheader
against Ole Miss 6-1 to win its 43rd
game of the season, the most ever
in a season for a Georgia team.
The Dogs lost the second game 7-
2, murking just the sixth time
Georgia has been held to two runs
or less. However, the Diamond
Dogs got 10 runs in the first inning
considering that the catcher’s
mask had yet to be invented.
“Dad used to break his nose und
many fingers all the time,” Morris
said. “My mother said that each
time Dad broke his nose it made
him look a little better.”
John Morris went on to become
faculty chairman of athletics at the
University and a professor of
modem languages.
The young were also well rep-
Sunday to clinch a 15-4 win.
‘Today I was pretty relaxed out
there,” Sunday’s starter and game-
winner Stan Payne said. “After I
had the bad outing against Georgia
Tech last week, I knew I had to
play hurder this weekend.”
Georgia is now 44-12 and 18-6 in
the SEC, one game ahead of LSU,
who the Dogs must face in Baton
Rouge this coming weekend. How
ever, with losses against Georgia
Tech last week and the Rebels Sat
urday, the Dogs fell one spot to
sixth in the nation.
Payne (5-0) had allowed just one
run through eight innings Sunday
until Kirk Purdom hit a three-run
resented at the get-together.
Marguerite Carpenter, the
mother of Cris, who pitched on the
1987 College World Series team
and now is with the St. Louis Car
dinal organization, is pleused the
program’s support has paid off.
“We had a lot of fan support in
’87 and I think the big crowds since
then have had a lot to do with get
ting this stadium built,” Carpenter
said.
shot over the left-field wall to make
the score 15-4.
Georgia’s explosive first inning
was highlighted by J.R. Sho-
walter’s three-run homer to left,
his 13th overall.
“Baseball is a funny game,” DH
Brian Jester said. "Sometimes we
get some bleeder hits like bloop
singles and other times we hit long
homers. We need to get intense
mentally again.”
Jester, the SEC leader in
homers, hit a first-pitch two-run
double down the right-field line in
the sixth inning to give Georgia a
15-1 advantage.
Diamond Dogs make history once again
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Lady Golfers take SEC title
By TREVOR PADGETT
Sports Editor
One week before the SEC
women’s golf tournament,
Ceorgia couch Beans Kelly suid it
would take team rounds lower
than 300 to win. She’s happy she
was wrong.
“I really felt the scores would
be lower,” Kelly said. “But I’m
glad I was wrong.”
The No. 8 Lady Dogs carded
rounds of 306 and 301 to capture
the rain-shortened SEC women’s
golf championship this past
weekend in Greensboro. It marks
the fourth time in the ten-year
history of the championship that
Georgia has won the title.
For Kelly, it was her second
title as coach of the Lady Dogs.
“This one was a little sweeter
because of the people on the
team,” said Kelly, who also led
Georgia to the SEC title in 1988.
“Our whole team was great in '88
and we were expected to win.
“But this team fought and
showed it had guts and determin
ation. They are a “Bad News
Bears’ type of team.”
And the baddest “bear” of them
all is Anne Cain.
The senior scorched the Port
Armor course for a four-under 69
Sunday to capture the SEC indi
vidual title, becoming only the
second Lady Dog to do so. Cindy
Schreyer won in 1985.
Following Friday’s first round,
Cain and three others were tied
for the lead at 75. Then the rains
came, washing out Saturday’s
round.
"The rainout was kind of
weird," Cain said. “It didn't help
or hinder me. It was just strange
notpluying 54 holes.”
The layoff may not have had
an effect on Cain, but teammate
Petra Rigby did.
The freshman from Scotland
B layed her best golf as a Lady
log, matching Cain's 75 Friday,
but more important was Rigby’s
indirect spurring of Cain Sunday.
“I could tell by the roar of the
crowd that Petra was ahead of
me sinking putts,” Cain said.
“Knowing she was doing so well
made me concentrate that much
more. I knew I had to finish
strong to win."
And finish strong she did. Cain
birdied the last four holes
Sunday en route to the tourna
ment-low 69. Rigby finished with
a final round 73 to capture
second in her first SEC appear
ance.
CHIP SHOTS: Cain’s victory
marks the third time she has won
a tournament this Bpring. Sch
reyer holds the record for tourna
ment wins in a season (fall-
winter-spring) at four. Coinciden
tally, Schreyer won all four of her
tournaments in the spring.
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