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6 • The Red and Black • Tuesday, July 3 1990
SPORTS
Baltimore shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. set an American League re
cord with his 73rd consecutive errorless game on Sunday night.
Ripken, who handled two chances, surpassed Ed Brinkman's
mark of 72 errorless games In 1972.
■SPORTS SHORTS
Former Diamond Dog goes from rags to riches
Parker named top student-athlete
Georgia tennis player A1 Parker was named the overall at-large Aca
demic All-American of the year by GTE and the College Sports Informa
tion Directors of America, which recognizes student-athletes in every
sport excluding football, basketball and baseball.
Parker, who will enter his senior year this fall at Georgia, carries a
4.0 grade point average in finance. He completed his 1990 season with a
39-14 record in singles matches, and with doubles partner Murphy
Jensen put together a mark of 20-10 in doubles matcnes. He finisned
the season as the No. 7 singles and doubles player in the nation, and
helped the Bulldogs to a 21-5 mark and a No. 5 national ranking.
Parker and teammate Jim Childs were named to the 10-member
GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-America At-Large first team. This is Childs’
second appearance on the first team.
— Jon Tully
Moore prepares for Olympic Festival
Georgia volleyball star Jill Moore will be participating in the 1990 U.S.
Olympic Festival volleyball tournament. Competition will begin July 11
in Minneapolis.
This is Mtxire’s second Olympic Festival. Last year, she competed
for the gold medal-winning South team in Seattle. This year, shell be a
setter on the North squad.
— Jon Tully
Fresh blood for the Bulldogs
By DAVID PACE
Sports Writer
First there was Herschel.
Then came a string of tailbacks
with blazing speed and power. Lars
Tate. Tim Worley. Rodney
Hampton.
Now, incoming freshman Gar
rison Hearst hopes to follow in the
footsteps of these previous gridiron
gallopers.
Hearst led Lincoln County High
School to the State A title, then
gave a preview of what he hopes to
do at Georgia in the sixth annual
Georgia-Florida high school All-
Star game in Orlando, carrying the
ball 21 times for 186 yards. Now,
Hearst is aiming to bust a move on
the SEC.
He’s got the speed, the power
and the moves. Most of all he’s got
the desire. But he’s got to prove to
the Georgia coaching staff that he’s
got what it takes in brutal SEC
combat.
“I think the running backs at
Georgia now are really good, but
I’m not putting them in front of
myself,” Hearst said. “I know that
Larry Ware is in front of me at tail
back, but I’m coming in there
looking to start.”
Of course Ware and the rest of
the returning running backs have
a completely different idea about
Hearst. They aren’t going to roll
out the red carpet and hand over
the keys to the tailback slot
without a fight. And there are
fellow freshman recruits Frank
Harvey and Mike Thornton hoping
to earn a spot on the Dog roster at
either tailback or fullback.
The opportunity to start is what
helped convince Hearst that
Georgia was where he wanted to
play The departure of Rodney
Hampton to the NFL didn’t hurt a
bit either.
“First of all, Georgia is closer to
home,” Hearst said. “After Rodney
left I knew Td have a better chance
to play. The coaches told me just
come in and do my best and I would
get a good shot at starting.”
Hearst will stay at home in Lin
coln County this summer working
out and running until it’s time for
him to report with the other
freshmen in August.
At 5’11”, he’s currently at 190
lbs. and anticipates staying at that
weight for the fall. As for the pit-
falls and pressures
heralded recruits,
expect any problems being touted
as the next great running back at
Georgia.
Hearst said,“I think I can handle
it.”
awaiting highly
Hearst doesn’t
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By DAVID PACE
Sports Writer
In the daily soap opera of Major
League Baseball, athletes come
and go and deals are cut at the
drop of a hat.
C)ne day you’re the toast of the
town and the next you’re in a new
city struggling to establish your
self.
Former Georgia baseball
standout Jeff Treadway knows the
struggle. After five years working
his way up through the Cincinnati
Reds organization, Treadway
found himself in the bargain base
ment of Major League Baseball.
He had separated his left
shoulder in a home plate collision
with St. Louis Cardinal catcher
Tom Pagnozzi on August 27, 1988.
It ended his season and ultimately
his career with the Reds. The fol
lowing spring, Treadway’s contract
was picked up by the Atlanta
Braves for $50,000, a mere pit
tance in professional sports.
While some may have felt that
Cincinnati showed little regard for
Treadway’s talents, the hard-hit
ting second baseman sees it differ
ently.
“It was just after my rookie
season and I had a mediocre year,
plus I had injured my shoulder,”
Treadway said. ‘They showed me a
lot of respect by offering me to an
other ballclub instead of sending
me bock down to the minors.”
It was one move Braves General
Manager/Field Manager Bobby
Cox didn’t have to make excuses
for.
“He has quickly become one of
the more solid second basemen in
the league,” Cox said. “He turns
the double play as well as any
second baseman in baseball today.”
For a team searching for a
second baseman in 1988 to replace
Glenn Hubbard, Treadway was a
godsend. He recorded a .277 bat
ting average with 58 runs scored
and 40 runs batted in. That was
the highest batting average for a
Braves’ second baseman since
Felix Millan hit .289 in 1971.
Meanwhile, Treadway’s defense
was outstanding.
This year, he has 38 RBI and 31
runs scored with a .303 batting av
erage, the second highest average
on the team behind outfielder Ron
Gant at .309.
Another big surprise this season
has been Treadway’s home run
production. Before this season
eight round trippers were the most
totaled by Treadway. Through
Sunday’s game in Montreal,
Treadway has already homered
seven times, including blasting
three in one game.
While Treadway wasn’t highly
touted coming out of Georgia, he
made rapid advancement through
the minors after signing with Cin
cinnati as a free agent in January
of 1984. He reported to the Florida
State League at Tampa, making
the the All-Star team while being
voted best defensive third
baseman.
From Tampa, he moved up to
the Reds’ AA team in Burlington,
Vt., the Vermont Reds. Another
All-Star team selection ensued and
it was on to Denver after hitting
.336 in 33 games for Vermont in
1986. In 1987 at AAA Nashville,
Treadway finished 9th in batting
average at .315 in the American
Association.
‘There’s a lot of ups and downs,”
Tread wav said. “You have to be pa
tient and realize that you’re going
to have to spend some time in the
minors.”
On September 4, 1987,
Treadway made his major league
debut with Cincinnati. He collected
two hits in his first game against
the Chicago Cubs and went on to
hit .333 in 23 games for the Reds
that year.
Being a Georgia native,
Treadway enjoys playing for the
Braves. He grew up admiring
players like Darrell Evans and
Dale Murphy. He would love to
spend the rest of his career in At
lanta, but he knows that in the ma
jors, nothing is definite and every
player is subject to trade no matter
who you are.
“You never can really get used to
a situation like this,” Treadway
said. “Sometimes you can have a
really good year and that might
make you more tradeable.”
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