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10 • The Red and Black • Thursday. May 24. 1990
SPORTS
Atlanta may never go to the Super Bowl, but the Super Bowl will
be coming to Atlanta for the first time In 1994. The NFL owners
voted Wednesday to award Super Bowl XXVII game to Atlanta.
The game will be played In the yet-to-be-built Georgia Dome.
Al Parker wins opener
By RANDY WALKER
Sports Writer
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. - It’s
said that the toughest game to
serve on is the one just after you
break your opponent’s serve.
Just ask Col-Santa Barbra’s
David Decret.
After breaking Georgia’s Al
Parker to go up 3-1 in the second
set, Decret lost his serve to allow
Parker back on serve. Parker went
on to win four of the last five games
to defeat Decret 6-2, 6-4 in the
opening round of the NCAA Sin
gles Championships.
"I didn’t serve well the whole
match," said Decret, a sophomore
•ransfer from Lander College. ‘The
whole match I tried to get together
on my serve."
Parker, seeded in the No. 5-8 po
sition, did not serve his best either,
making only 49 percent of his first
I didn’t get alot of first serves
in,” Parker said. T need to get a
•naf^r percentage to take the pres-
re on my second serve."
Parker came up with two clutch
serves when facing two break
?s .against him at 3-4 in the
Al Parker
would hit high top-spin shots.”
Parker said. ‘‘In the second set, he
played a similar style, but he’d
sneak into the net.”
Parker will now face Jason
Netter of UCLA in the second
round today. Netter, the No. 1
player for the Bruins, lost to
Parker in the opening round of last
year’s NCAA tournament in
straight sets.
Parker will also begin doubles
play with Murphy Jensen to
morrow as the Dogs’ No. 1 team
1990 NCAA
Women's
Golf Tournament I
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Dogs seek
By TREVOR PADGETT
Sports Editor
The optimism is still there, the
question is whether they can
make a comeback.
‘There’s still a lot of golf led to
play,” senior Anne Cain said fol
lowing the Lady Dogs’ opening
round 330 at the NCAA golf
championships on Hilton Head
Wednesday. “We played the
worst golf we’re gonna play today
and that’s it.”
The No. 10 women’s golf team
enters today’s second round in
16th place, trailing Texas by 31
strokes. There are 17 teams en
tered in the four-round tourna
ment, which concludes Saturday.
Cain, who has led the team all
spring, fired a 12-over par 84 on
the treacherous Arthur Mill
Country Club Wednesday,
placing her fourth on the five-
woman team. Jill Kinloch paced
the Dogs with an 80, while Tina
Paternostro and Kelly Kluska
carded 83s. Petra Rigby shot an
88.
comeback
Jill Kinloch: Shot a low
round for the Dogs
“I think we put too much pres
sure on ourselves,” Cain said
from the team’s condominium in
Palmetto Dunes. “No one could
quite get into their groove.”
According to Cain, playing a
huge part in the higher scores
was beginning on the more diffi
cult back nine.
“Trouble looms around every
comer,” Cain said. "There’s
water on every hole on the back,
which led to a lot of hold ups. And
waiting only makes you more
aware of the trouble.”
in the hole is an unfamiliar
spot for the Lady Dogs. Of their
10 tournaments prior to the
NCAAs this season, they have
finished first five times with
their worst finish being ninth out
of 15.
But Paternostro thinks the
poor round might be to the Lady
Dogs’ advantage.
“We don’t have anything to
lose now,” Paternostro said. “We
certainly didn’t want to have this
bad a round, but with the tough
ness of the course I believe ev
eryone will have a bad day.
“It’s better to get the bad day
out of the way early. I think we
can relax now and just let every
thing hang loose and go for it."
With only three rounds left
and 30 strokes to make up, the
Lady Dogs will indeed have to “go
for it” if they are to win their firt-
ever national championship.
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. oml set. Parker capitalized on
s third break point opportunity
the ninth game of the second set
break the Paris native. Parker
hen served out the match in the
ext pa me.
Decret, a Southern Collegiate
division doubles champion
Dole at Lander this fall, began to
r.ay more aggressive in the second
et, taking Parker’s loopy grounds-
rokes on the rise and moving into
he net successfully.-
“In the first set, he (Decret) just
takes on Jody Foley and Brad Kelly
of West Virginia in the first round.
NCAA NOTES: With a 15-17
singles record, defending NCAA
champion Donni Leaycraft of LSU
was almost not invited to defend
his title. Leaycrafl showed that his
invite was deserved as he upset
No. 4 seed Byron Black of USC in
the first round ... Jody Foley, No. 5-
8 seed from West Virginia, was
also upset in the first round by
Jared Palmer of Stanford 7-6 (7-5),
6-3.
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Sports Editor
The general consensus among
the No. 9 Golf Dogs is one of confi
dence going into today’s NCAA Re
gional Qualifier in Savannah. And
one look at the players’ record on
the Savannah Sheraton and Resort
Country Club (SSRCC) explains
why.
Of the four that have played the
course, each has shot under-par.
Only senior Antonio Barcellos has
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practicing on it yesterday, he finds
it to his liking.
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His teammates apparently like
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Junior Paul Claxton, who leads
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erage, shot a 4-under 68 at last
year’s Georgia State Open on the
course, while fellow junior
Franklin Langham carded a 67 en
route to the 1989 Georgia State
Open title.
More recently, Bill Brown shot a
67 at last month’s Eagle Invita
tional, while Neal Hendee scored a
71 at SSRCC.
“Having played on the course is
definitely a big advantage,”
Claxton said.
Langham echoed Claxton’s sen
timents, adding that being “com
fortable” with the course takes
some of the pressure off.
The team’s familiarity with
course coupled with the fact that it
is playing “soft” makes Georgia
coach Dick Copas conservatively
optimistic.
“Knowing the course certainly
helps,” the 20-year coach said.
“And the course is playing rela
tively easy because of the lack of
rain. But we still have to go out
and play to our capabilities.”
And that’s something the Dogs
didn’t do in their last trip to the
SSRCC for the Eagle Invitational.
Georgia finished a disappointing
fifth back on April 22.
Individually in the three-round
tournament, Langham paced the
Dogs with a 213. Brown and
Hendee finished two and four
strokes, respectively, behind him.
Claxton shot a 220. Barcellos did
not participate in the event.
“Last time we shot even par,”
Copas said. “But that won’t be
enough to win it.”
However, the Dogs need only to
place in the top 11 to make their
unprecendented ninth straight trip
to the NCAAs. In Copas’ 20 years,
the Dogs have made it to the
NCAAs 15 times with their best
finish coming in 1977 when they
tied for third. Last year, they fin
ished 10th.
In all, the Golf Dogs have been to
23 NCAA golf championships. Of
those 23 appearances, Georgia has
failed to finish in the top 10 only
three times.
Copas cautions that this year’s
squad has yet to gel.
“We haven’t reached the point
where everyone plays to their
fullest in the same tournament,”
Copas said. “We’ve been playing
well every week, but were not
there yet.”
The qualifier and the NCAAs
would be a good time to peak.
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