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The Red and Black • Tuesday, September 18, 1990 ♦ 3B
Diamond Dogs facing struggle
to replace run-producing stars
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Sport* Writer
for every sucata* there Is • trade off.
»*•»:« the Georgia baaebal) team reached the ultimate
goal when it defeated Oklahoma State 8-1 in Omaha, Neb. to win
the national championship.
However, after the dust cleared and the players and coaches re
grouped, only a partial skeleton remained of the team that won B2
gamae and hit 86 homers.
Oecrtfa lost 6 starting position players and S pitchers to either
graduation or the major-league draft this summer, and the team
now finds iteelf rebuilding entering the 1991 campaign.
Among those Doge drafted by major-league teams in 1990 were:
PteWr* Dave flaming (Seattle Mariners) and Joe Kelly (Los An
geles Dodgers), outfielder Bruce Chick (Boston Red 8ar), ehortetop
J.R. Showriter (California Angela), first baseman Brian Jester (At
lanta Braves), and catcher Tommy Owen (Atlanta Braves.)
Second baseman Joey AHbnso, third bowman Jeff Cooper, out-
frMder McKay Smith, and pitchers Matt Hoitsma, Ray Kirschner,
and Mika Rebhan all graduated this past summer.
Ths departures drained from Oeargia a total of 60 1990 hora-
nruns and 340 RBI — 68 percent of the team’s run production.*We
know we’re losing some guys this year but I have a very good fading
about our new players," Georgia coach Stove Webber said.
It seem* likely that the vacancies left by last year’s one-two
punch on the mound, Fleming and Rebhan, will be filled by sopho
more Stan Payne and either sophomore Tracy Wildes or senior Tom
Zdanowk*. This creates ths opportunity for e freshman to step in a*
the team’s third starter.
Jim Musselwhita may fit that mold. Musselwhite, who was 8-2
last season at Apopka High School in Apopka, Fla., was drafted by
the New York Yankee* in the spring but chose to attend Georgia.
•Right now it’s just too early to toll,” Webber said of hie
freshman talent. *1 really have nothing to say except that we’re ex
cited.*
Outfielders Reggie Ingram, a Kansas City Royals draft choice
from Douglas, Ga., and John Ysalonia, a transfer from Florida In
ternational University, will fight for the center and right field spots
left open by the departure of Smith and Chick. Ray Suplee will moat
likely start his second consecutive season in left field.
Blaise Koteniensld, a transfer from Camden County College in
Blackwood, N J., will battle other infielder* far the shortstop posi
tion. With the low of Owen, Atlanta native Jeff Gray will compete
with junior Terry Childers for catching dutiee.
University swim team slgnees
to help Immediately, coach says
Sports Writer
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The University swim teams have strengthened their arsenals
for the 1990-91 season by rigning two outstanding high-school re-
H*ad swimming coach Jack Bausrl* announced the successful
signings of Carlton DsVooght, of Peoria, 111., and Jennifer Smith, of
Greenville. S.C. Both athletes competed in the 200-yard butterfly at
ths Junior National Long Count Championships in Boca Raton,
Ftorida-Bmith took hams first place in the women’s division addle
DsVooght placed tenth in ths men’s.
Although not haavily recruited, Bauer] e tees Smith as a strong
addition to the team. ‘Jenitifor is going to help us out a lot and will
b* instrumental in our success,” he arid.
Series winner Payne still gets jitters
By ERIC GARBER
Sports Writer
Stan Payne still greets each morning won
dering if he really accomplished what other
pitchers dream of.
After all, a year ago Payne came to the Uni
versity of Georgia as a left-handed freshman
pitcher, wishing only to acquaint himself subtly
with baseball at the college level.
Becoming the winning pitcher in a national
championship game was the last thing on his
mind.
Nine months later, he pitched six innings
and gave up only one run to Oklahoma State
University, a team that consistently had scored
in double figures throughout the College World
Series, and lead the Diamond Dogs to a 2-1 vic
tory and their first national championship.
“I couldn’t believe it when coach (Steve
Webber) told me I was starting the next day in
the championship,” Payne said reflecting on the
night before the OSU game. “I was excited, not
really nervous.”
Payne certainly sounded nervous that night.
As he talked to Athens radio announcers and
other media people who followed the team to
Omaha, Neb., the Athens native was visibly
shocked by Webber’s decision, and spoke
through a cracked voice.
‘1 guess I really did start to get the butterf
lies as the game approached,” Payne recollects.
“My adrenaline got going so fast that now I
really don’t remember much about the actual
game."
Georgia finished the season with 52 wins, the
most in Georgia history, largely because of
Payne’s consistency.
“When we looked at Payne’s stats, we knew
this guy was no longer a ‘freshman’,” said Okla
homa State assistant coach Tom Holiday.
“Since he hadn’t pitched in Omaha during the
series we thought we could take advantage of
him. He earned a lot of respect that day.”
Payne won a 5-4 decision against North Car
olina in the double-elimination Northeast re
gional a week before to allow the Diamond Dogs
to enter the region championship undefeated.
Georgia then lost to Rutgers once but won 20*9
in its second try to advance to the CWS.
“Stan proved himself as a starter all year and
we knew he could help us win in the end,”
Webber said. “If he got too nervous in the
championship we knew we had Dave (Fleming)
in the bullpen.”
Payne, now a sophomore, finished the 1990
season at 7-1 with a 4.24 ERA. He was third on
the team in strikeouts with 43.
Feeling jittery on the mound is not a new ex
perience for Payne. Even during his youth, the
Los Angeles Dodgers’ 1989 second-round draft
pick recalls “having the butterflies” before big
games.
“I started pitching when I was seven years
old and used to get hit pretty hard,” Payne
laughs. “I think my nerves caused me to get
stubborn. From then on I wouldn’t let myself
lose.”
This past summer, Payne released his stub
born aggression in the Stan Musial Amateur
League. He pitched in seven of 40 games and
helped his team make it to the league’s world
series in Battlecreek, Mich.
“We managed to get all the way to the end,
but this time we lost,” Payne said.
The league consisted of 30 percent college
players and Payne feels competing in that at
mosphere will keep him fresh on what is now a
Stan Payne: must lead title defense
very young Bulldog pitching staff.
Unlike last season, when he was a youngster
among giants looking to the veterans for advice,
Payne now will be looked at as a role model by
Georgia’s new signees.
Although Payne reached milestones last
season, he feels that there is much left to shoot
for in his remaining three years at Georgia.
“At the beginning of last season we had a
team meeting,” Payne said. “We really thought
we could compete with the big dogs. Now it’s
just another year. You never can win too many
championships.”
Cross country ’Dogs start '90 with new faces
By ERIK SCHMIDT
Sports Writer
The men’s and women’s cross
country teams kicked off their sea
sons at the Western Carolina Invi
tational in Cullowhee, North
Carolina during the weekend of the
eigth with both teams finishing
third.
Senior Eric Tyson waB the top
Georgia finisher on the men’s side
running the five mile course in
26:43 to take second place. Terry
Reed, a freshman from Scotland,
was the only other top 10 finisher
for the men running the course in
26:43. East Tennessee State won
the overall men’s meet.
Keli Butler paced the Bulldog
women, finishing fourth in 18:24
for the five kilometer course. The
junior from Cocoa Beach, Florida
was the only top ten women’s fin
isher for Georgia. Clemson took
home first place in the women’s di
vision.
Head Coach John Mitchell said
the meet was not a disappointment
at all, but was actually used as a
light workout day as the team
members only had to run one race,
as opposed to a longer training ses
sion.
The Bulldogs are in for some
stiff competition this sea::on as six
of the 10 A1I-SEC runners from last
year return to action in 1990. Todd
Williams of Tennessee, the winner
of the 1989 SEC Cross Country
Championship returns this year as
does SEC runner-up, Terry
Thornton ofLSU.
The SEC women also return
highly tauted performers including
Patty Wiegand of Tennessee, who
placed second in last year s SEC
championship.
Mitchell said that his teams are
both quite young this season, but
the freshman are talented.
He does remain optimistic, how
ever, as he said, “We have a shot.”
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