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8 • The Red and Black • Wednesday, June 6, 1990
SPORTS
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Softball greats clash today
By ROBERT MCDONALD
Sports Writer
Surprise, surprise.
In the Pink and Two Days in
the Hole, the only teams to hold
the top ranking in men’s intra
mural softball this season, clash
today to finally settle who’s No. 1,
while the BSU Stammers, pre-
season favorites in women’s play,
take on the upstart Damage, Inc.
in the women’s championship.
The women get underway at
6:15 p.m. on Field 3 at the intra
mural fields. The men will begin
about 15 minutes after that game
ends.
Bo Harris, intramural softball
director, said the match-ups,
though not unexpected, should be
exciting.
‘Tm happy with the finals,”
Harris said. "The four best teams
will be playing. The games
should be competitive.”
Both games will be rematches
of games played during the third
week of the regular season. In
those contests, In the Pink
thumped then No. 1 Two Days
10-5, and the Stammers downed
Damage, Inc. 14-9.
Two Days, the defending men’s
champion, played uncharacteris
tically poor defense in their first
meeting with the boys in pink.
Chris Daniel, pitcher for In the
Pink, expects to face a different
Two Days squad this time
around.
'They’ll be ready, I’m sure,” he
said. ‘But so will we.”
Neither team has been hitting
the boll especially well of late,
but tight defenses by both squads
have helped pave the way to the
finals.
T think everybody is just
pressing, trying to do too much
with the bat,” Daniel said.
With Baptist Student Union
teams taking the women's flag-
football and basketball titles ear
lier this year, a Stammers win
today would put the finishing
touch on what for them has been
a dominant season in intramural
sports.
Donna Parker, a senior out
fielder for the Stammers, is one of
several players to play on all
three cnampionship-contending
BSU squads. Parker said today’s
game is one her team shouldn’t
lose.
“If we hit like we can, I think
well be OK,” she said.
Standing in their way will be a
Damage, Inc. squad that gave
Parker and her buddies a battle
in the first contest, despite
missing a couple of key players.
Harris said he expects a good
crowd for today’s games.
“A lot of people will come out to
see one of the teams win, but
some will also come out to see a
team lose,” he said. ‘JuBt as long
as they come out, 111 be happy.”
It’s decision time for 3 Diamond Dogs
By ERIC GARBER
Sports Writer
Should we stay or should we go?
That’s the question some of the Di
amond Dogs are asking themselves
this week.
While the Georgia baseball team
was busily preparing in Omaha,
Neb. early this week for tonight’s
CWS clash against Stanford, three
of the Dogs were drafted by major
league teams.
The Seattle Mariners chose ju
nior left-handed pitcher Dave
Fleming in the third round of the
1990 Major League Amateur Draft
Monday and the Boston Red Sox
drafted junior right fielder Bruce
Chick in the eighth. Shortstop J.R.
Showalter was taken in the tenth
round by the California Angels.
‘This is like a dream come true,”
Fleming (12-5, 2.91 ERA) said
Tuesday. “It’s something I’ve al
ways thought about and now it’s
actually happened.”
Players drafted by mtyor league
teams will hnve the option to re
main in school.
Fleming, who had been pre
dicted a first-round pick by Base
ball America, said he has not
decided where he will be next
season.
Fleming is 29-16 and has a 3.13
ERA in three seasons at Georgia.
He pitched his 12th complete game
of the season, a 3-0 shutout,
against Mississippi State Friday in
the CWS.
Scouts have coveted Fleming for
his control — he has 308 strikeouts
compared to just 132 walks in his
career — and his ability to consis
tently spot his breaking ball.
Chick is batting .307 this year
and is third on the team with 12
season.
Showalter is batting .342 and
has hit 14 homers, second on the
team to Brian Jester. In three sea
sons at Georgia he has a .338 av
erage and 30 home runs. Showalter
broke the Georgia record for most
RBI (71) in a season this past
weekend. He now has a record of
74 RBI.
Georgia’s 16-2 win over Stanford
last Sunday gave the team an extra
day ofT, which enabled Fleming to
return back as tonight’s starter.
Stanford defeated Mississippi
State 6-1 Tuesday to advance
against Georgia.
The Dogs (50-18) are 2-0 in the
double elimination series and need
just one win to reach their first na
tional championship game. Should
the Dogs lose tonight, they will
play the Cardinal again Friday af
ternoon.
Left fielder Ray Suplee said,
"We’ve got to keep this in perspec
tive. We are playing a team we’ve
played before. It’s a matter of
making sure we are ready.”
After Oklahoma State defeated
Louisiana State 7-1 Monday af
ternoon in the other bracket, it
finds itself in the same situation as
Georgia.
The Cowboys have to defeat to
day’s winner between The Citadel
and LSU Thursday to go to the
championship.
Diamond Dog Doings: Georgia
coach Steve Webber is now just
three wins away from tying the
school record for most wins as a
coach, currently held by Jim
Whatley ... Showalter has hit safely
in six straight games.
Brian Jester: Despite his 17 homers, the hard-hitting se
nior hasn’t been drafted by a major league team yet
homers. He has a .306 career bat
ting average at Georgia, and he
has 24 two-baggers. He is only one
double away from breaking Sho-
walter’s school record for most in a
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