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8 « The Red and Black • Tuesday, June 5, 1990
SPORTS
The Turbo Nerds captured the intramural softball coed
championship this Sunday at the Intramural Reids. The Nerds
pounded Green Eggs & Ham In the finals 15-1 to finish the
season with a perfect SO record.
Eleven runs in one inning; 16-2 final score
Diamond Dogs annihilate top-ranked Stanford in 2nd round
Joey Alfonso: Diamond Dogs' second baseman is a one-
man scoring machine
By ERIC GARBER
Sports Writer
The Georgia baseball team came
up with a solution to the problem of
facing the No. 1 team in the nation
in the second round of the College
World Series in Omaha, Neb.
Sunday night.
Just score 11 runs in one inning
against a pitcher considered a cer
tain number one draft pick, and
you should be OK.
With this prescribed solution,
the Diamond Dogs (50-18) romped
Stanford 16-2 to go 2-0 in the CWS.
Georgia will face the winner of the
Stanford-Mississippi State game
Wednesday at 8 p.m. Georgia
picked up its first win as Dave
Fleming pitched the first CWS
shutout since 1987 enabling the
Dogs to defeat Mississippi State 3-
0 Friday night.
The Dogs are now just one win
away from its first national
championship game.
In the Stanford rout Sunday, the
Dogs strung together eight consec
utive hits in the sixth, all but one a
single, to take an 11-2 lead in the
sixth. With Stanford up 2-0 that in
ning, Georgia left fielder Ray Su-
plee cracked a two-run double off
the wall in left to give the Dogs a 3-
2 advantage. When the inning fi
nally ended, 16 Georgia batters
had been to the plate.
Georgia’s 11 runs in the inning
ties the CWS record. Mississippi
State also became part-owner of
the record by scoring 11 in the first
inning en route to its elimination of
Georgia Southern earlier Sunday.
‘That was the biggest at bat in
my life," Suplee said about his trip
to the plate. "I don’t think anyone
here has imagined this in their
wildest dreams.”
It looked like the Dogs might be
in trouble against the Cardinal as
Stanford starter Mike Mussina
consistently threw in the mid 90s
and struck out the first six Georgia
batters he faced and eight of the
first 12. The Cardinal led 2-0 after
five.
Before Sunday’s game, Stanford,
the number one seed in the CWS,
was 41-0 after scoring first.
‘To Mussina’s credit, he pitched
well," Suplee said. ‘‘He had good
control early and coupled it with a
good change up. But our team
strength is that we can beat you in
so many ways.”
Starter Mike Rebhan, like in the
Northeast Regional, was shaky
early against Stanford. He walked
two Stanford players to set up the
Cardinal’s first run. With runners
on first and second, first baseman
Doug Radziewicz couldn’t handle a
Paul Carry grounder and threw
wide to Rebhan covering at first.
However, Rebhan settled down
to hold Stanford scoreless in seven
out of the next eight innings, al
lowing just four hits overall to pick
up his 12th win against five losses.
Rebhan’s eight complete games
this season are a personal best.
Over the weekend, Rebhan and
Fleming combined to allow two
runs on just eight hits.
“I probably had the best control
I’ve had all season,” Fleming (12-5)
said of the MSU game.
Fleming, who was concerned
that the strong winds at Rosen
blatt Stadium would give him
trouble Friday night, consistently
jumped in front of the Stanford hit
ters.
T didn’t feel loose early, perhaps
because of the wind,” Fleming said.
“1 then managed to throw strikes
and stay ahead of the batters.”
Fleming struckout 10 State bat
ters while walking just one,
keeping the speedy Bulldogs, who
had stolen 97 bases before the
CWS, off the base paths.
Georgia’s offensive surprise of
Road to the Eastern Division and
National Championships
game 6 (Sun.-June 3)
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defeats
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^ game 11 (Wed.-June 6)
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vs. game 13* (Fri.-Junc 8)
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* Game 13 is necessary if winner of game 9 also wins game 11
The winner of game 13 is the Eastern Division Champion and
will play the Western Division Champion on Sat., june 9 at
noon for the National Championship title.
Davis O’Keeffe /The Red & Black
represents the Stanford starter’s
earliest exit of 1990.
“Mussina pitched as fine of
pitching as I’ve seen,” said athletic
director Vince Dooley, who stopped
by the WRFC radio and ESPN tele
vision booth during the game. “But
our guys wouldn’t back down.”
Diamond Dogs Doings: Al
fonso a one-man scoring machine
— In the fifth inning against Mis
sissippi State Friday second
baseman Joey Alfonso, stretched a
single into a double after the wind
killed his hit in center field. The
next batter, McKay Smith, hit a
grounder to third. Even though
third baseman Burke Masters
looked Alfonso back before
throwing to first, Alfonso took off
on the throw and reached third
safely. He then scored on a Bobby
Reed wild pitch. Up to that point,
Cooper had accounted for the Dogs’
first run against MSU starter
Bobby Reed Friday by slamming
his 13th homer over the left field
wall.
‘I probably had the best
control I’ve had all
season.’
— pitcher Dave
Fleming
the weekend came against Stan
ford in the form of catcher Terry
Childers. Childers was the first to
get a hit against Mussina as he
blooped a single to right in the
third. For the game, the Augusta
native, who entered the CWS bat
ting just .181, was four for five and
knocked in a run.
“Every time Terry was at bat, he
hit the ball hard,” third baseman
JefF Cooper said. “By getting the
first hit off Mussina, Terry let us
know that this pitcher wasn’t un
touchable.”
Mussina was yanked in favor of
Brian Sackinsky in the sixth. That
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Ray Suplee: Dogs’ left fielder cracked a two-run double off the wall to give the Dogs a 3-2
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