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10 • The Red and Black • Tuesday, May 29, 1990
SPORTS
FANFARE
Randy Bell qualified for the NCAA track championships this past
weekend at a Last Chance Qualifying Meet in Atlanta. Bell,
whose 50.36 time qualified him In the 400-meter hurdles, joins
Jolly Earle and Hans Schmidt as the only Bulldog qualifiers.
UGA women’s golf finishes last
By TREVOR PADGETT
Sports Editor
Analysis
The Georgia women’s golf
team can take heart in Charles
Dickens’ opening lines to A Tale
of Two Cities For indeed, the
1989-90 season was the “best of
times” and “the worst of times”
for the Lady Dogs.
Coming off two consecutive
tournament victories, including
nn SEC championship, the 10th-
ranked golf team entered the
NCAA championships at Hilton
Head with high expectations.
And why not? They won three
tournaments in the spring, with
only a second-place finish pre
venting h fourth. Add two more
first-place finishes in the fall and
the Lady Dogs won five of the 10
tournaments they participated in
prior to the NCAAs.
What’s more, they’re worst
finish was ninth of 15 teams. Not
once had they finished last.
That is, until the NCAAs.
Something inexplicable hap
pened once the team crossed the
bridge and entered what to them
must have seemed more like the
twilight zone than Hilton Head
Island.
The team shot a whopping 330
in the first-round, but for this
team that had become so accus
tomed to winning this was but a
minor set back.
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Reans Kelly: Unique game
of golf holds surprises for
women’s coach
“There’s a lot of golf to be
played,” was the general con
sensus.
But come Thursday, a 324 wa
terlogged the team’s spirits.
Slowly but surely the team im
proved upon that nightmarish
first-round, shooting 319 and 312
to close the tournament, but in
the end the Ladv Dogs came up
seven strokes snort — of 16th
place, that is.
Only once in its 11 appear
ances had the team finished
worse and that was in its first
year in the championships. But
then again, only twice had a
Georgia team had a better overall
season.
“We’re definitely disap
pointed,” Georgia coach Beans
Kelly said from her home
Monday night. “But we’re not
going to let one tournament bring
us down. We started out poorly
on the first day and it snowballed
on us from there.”
But was the slide to be ex
pected?
The Lady Dogs had experi
enced a previous lapse between
fall and spring. Sandwiched in
between a first-place finish in the
Tiger-Tide Invitational on Oc
tober 29 and a first-place finish
in the South Carolina Invita
tional on March 25 were four
tournaments where the team fin
ished out of the top three.
The Lady Dogs finished 8th,
7th, 9th and 5th, respectively in
the four tournaments before
righting themselves and winning
three of their last four prior to
the NCAAs.
Mirroring the team’s spring of
hope was senior Anne Cain. After
struggling through the winter
months herself, Cain emerged as
the leader on the young team and
proceeded to capture her first
Only once In its 11
appearances had the
team finished worse
and that was in its first
year in the
championships.
three individual titles in the
spring.
But just as she mirrored the
team’s spring successes, she also
reflected the the team’s NCAA
frustrations.
Cain, ranked 11th in the na
tion, carded an inflated 84 on
Wednesday, then improved her
self by only one stroke on
Thursday. The senior came back
with a 74 on Friday, but then
slumped with a 76 in the final
rouna. She finished tied for 57th.
Much like Cain was in the
spring, Tina Paternostro was the
team’s leader in the fall. The
sophomore rose to the No. 1
ranking in the country following
her victory in the Tiger-Tide Invi
tational. But then she slumped in
the winter and spring.
Paternostro, however, made a
comeback of sorts in the NCAAs,
leading the team with a 315
score.
But through it all, Kelly has
kept her perspective.
“I was listening to Greg
Norman talking about his near
wins on TV yesterday and it
made me think what a unique
game golf is,” the fifth-year coach
said. “Just like that, one shot and
you lose.”
Kind of like the "best of times”
and the “worst of times.”
Golf Dogs in the championships;
Dick Copa’s 15th trip in 20 years
By TREVOR PADGETT
Sports Editor
The Georgia men’s golf team
qualified for its ninth straight trip
to the NCAA championships this
weekend, a feat any coach would be
satisfied with, right?
Not necessarily.
For Dick Copas, whose Bulldog
teams have made 15 trips to the
NCAAs in his 20 years as coach, a
trip to the college championships
hns become commonplace. So it is
understandable why he looks be
yond the berth.
The Golf Dogs, ranked
No. 9 nationally,
carded a three-round
864 to finish 16
strokes behind Auburn
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“Sure we qualified,” Copas said
of his team’s sixth-place finish Sat
urday in the NCAA East Regional
Qualifier in Savannah. “But we
could have done a lot better.”
The Golf Dogs, ranked No. 9 na
tionally, carded a three-round 864
to finish 16 strokes behind Auburn.
Florida State (851), Georgia Tech
(851), Florida (854) and Miami
(856) rounded out the top five.
The top 11 finishers qualified for
the NCAAs to be held June 6-9 in
Tarpon Springs, Fla..
“I can’t really complain about
the first two rounds,” Copas said of
Georgia’s rounds of 285 and 283
Thursday and Friday, respectively.
“We could’ve won it, but didn’t.”
But the third round is what hurt
Georgia. With the exception of
Neal Hendee, each Golf Dog had
his worst day.
Antonio Barcellos, playing in
only his second tournament of the
spring, shot a 75 after shooting a
68 Friday. Paul Claxton fired a 74
after rounds of 69 and 73, while
Bill Brown fired a 74 after two 73s.
But it was Franklin Langham
who fared worst on Saturday. The
Thomson native, who won the
Georgia State Open title on the
same course a year earlier, was at
three-under after two rounds, but
shot a 76 on the final day to kill
any chances for a second title at
the Savannah Sheraton Resort and
Country Club.
Overall, Barcellos and Claxton
paced the Dogs at 216, placing
them in a tie for 23rd. Langham
finished one shot back at 217,
while Brown placed 52nd with a
220.
Neal Hendee finished stronger
than any other Dog, shooting con
secutive 72s on Friday and Sat
urday, but a 79 on Thursday
doomed any chances he had at fin
ishing higher than 67th.
Copas said he noticed a lack of
“intensity” in his players at the
tournament which he feels was
detrimental to their effort.
‘We didn’t play as alertly or as
attentively as we needed to,” Copas
said. ‘We also didn’t play with any
emotion, and that really hurt us.”
Copas added that he thinks the
team may be a little tired and be
cause of that he will not practice
them as hard in preparation for the
NCAAs.
‘Well just work on the funda
mentals and try and hone our
skills,” he 9aid. “But our main
problem is that we’re just not
playing smart right now.”
‘We didn’t play as
alertly or as attentively
as we needed to.’
— Dick Copas
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Antonio Barcellos: Shot a
75 after shooting a 68
Friday
CHIP SHOTS: Paul Claxton
lends the Bulldogs heading into the
NCAAs with a 72.14 stroke av
erage ... SEC Tournament Cham
pion Tennessee failed to qualify for
the NCAAs by one stroke. Missis
sippi State also failed to make it to
the college championships ... Au
burn will be making its second
straight appearance in the NCAAs.
The Tigers finished in a tie for 29th
last year ... Florida will he making
its third straight appearance in the
championships and its 16th in the
last 20 years. The Gators have won
two national titles in golf.
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