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8 • The Red and Black • Friday, September 28, 1990
Georgia, LSU prepare for matchup
By LYA WODRASKA
Sports Writer
If you have a craving to see some
talented athletes in action and
can’t wait until Saturday’s football
game, come watch the Georgia vol
leyball team (12-5) take on LSU’s
squad (8-5) in the Women’s P.E.
Building tonight at 7:30.
Tonight’s confrontation is the
first conference match for both
teams, but it certainly has major
SEC implications. Last year the
Bulldogs finished second in the
SEC with their only loss being to
the eventual conference champs
LSU. This year, the two teams are
again the cream of the crop in the
conference.
The match-up is sure to be a
battle between Georgia’s offense,
which leads the SEC in kills with
15.38 per game, and LSU’s de
fense, which leads the SEC in
blocks with 5.5 per game.
“They (LSU) are a big, experi
enced team,” Georgia coach Jim
lams said. ‘The important thing
for us is to attack the blockers.
We’ve got to aggressively go after
the ball and not be intimidated by
them.”
Conversely, LSU has been pre
paring for Georgia’s potent offen
sive attack.
“We’ve been working on things
in practice to try and stop the of
fense,’’ LSU assistant coach
Frances Compton said. “Georgia is
always tough because they play
with a lot of fight.”
The Bulldog offense will be led
by Franci Hard who has produced a
hitting percentage of .216 and is
averaging three kills per game.
Rard also leads the defense with
3.15 digs per game.
Playing at home should be a big
advantage for the Lady Dogs.
“It makes a tremendous differ
ence for us,” lams said. “We had a
close match at home with Rice last
year and the players felt the crowd
really helped them win it.”
Compton agrees.
“Georgia is a hard place to play
because of the fans,” Compton said.
They have a strong tradition and
it will make for an exciting match.”
It is the first
conference match for
both teams.
Georgia should see limited ac
tion from Sue Novak who is re
turning to action after she
dislocated her shoulder in a freak
accident last week.
“I don’t have plans to start her,”
lams said, “but she is healthy
enough to play if a situation comes
up and we need her.”
Admission to tonight’s game is
free.
next candidate for SEC
West Virginia may be
Miami withdraws from consideration
By ERIK SCHMIDT
Sports Writer
With Miami’s withdrawal from
consideration as the next member
of the SEC, the conference may be
targeting Atlantic 10 school West
Virginia as its next possible en
trant.
Most of the rumors that sur
rounded a West Virginia confer
ence jump orginally centered
around a Super-Metro Conference
or a move to the Big East. The
hopes for a Super Metro bid fell
through when Florida State de
cided to join the ACC, and South
Carolina chose to enter the SEC.
Wednesday, Miami also dismissed
rumors it was considering joining
the Super Metro conference.
This leaves West Virginia as
somewhat of a free agent in the
conference draft pool .
According to West Virginia Ath
letic Director Ed Pastilong, the
SEC had requested athletic, aca
demic, and university information
about his school.
“We have furnished that (the in
formation) to them (the SEC) and
they have informed us that if they
do expand and if we were one they
would consider, they would cer
tainly get in touch with us,” he said
to W’est Virginia’s student news
paper, The Daily Athenaeum.
However, the entrance of the
Mountaineers to the SEC is not a
probable one according to Dan
Shrenski of the Dominion Post in
Morgantown, West. Va.
“1 think West Virginia is going to
be an independent,” he said.
There have only been a lot of spec-
ulatory articles about a Super
Metro conference.”
Ray Celia, the Director of Com
munications for the Atlantic 10,
said he was unaware of the SEC as
a possible choice for West Virginia.
“Everyone’s looking every
where,” he said. There’s a lot of
talk and no movement. We want to
keep the nine schools we have re
maining in our league.”
Brant James, sports editor of
The Athenaeum, believes that West
Virgina should ditch the Atlantic
10 and opt for a competitive confer
ence.
“The Atlantic 10 is a failing con
ference,” James said. “West Vir
ginia and Temple are the only
schools holding it up. I think they
(West Virginia) should look at the
ACC. In the long run, I think that
well get left out.”
West Virginia would certainly
bolster SEC football a notch as its
football team is consistently
ranked in the Top Twenty-Five.
The Mountaineers played for the
national title in the 1989 Fiesta
Bowl, where they fell to Notre
Dame.
During 1989, the men’s basket
ball team claimed the nation’s
longest winning streak with 22
straight victories, en route to the
NCAA Tournament where they fell
to Duke on national television.
“Whatever conference we do be
come a part of, our football, basket
ball, and non-revenue sports will
be given equal con si deration, "said
Pastilong to The Athenaeum.
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Golf team heads West
After a disappointing eighth-
place finish at the Carpet Capital
Collegiate Classic last weekend,
the Georgia men’s golf team will
join 14 other teams competing in
the Preview Classic in Pebble
Beach, Calif. Oct 1-2.
After holding down the fifth po
sition before the final round,
Georgia folded in the third round
and dropped to eighth.
Georgia coach Dick Copas hopes
his team will learn from their mis
takes at the Carpet Capital.
“We need to put (the Carpet
Capital Classic) behind us and
learn from it,” Copas said. “If we
can go out and play and compete, I
think well be okay,”
Georgia, ranked No. 10 by Golf-
week, joins seven other Top Ten
teams including top-ranked Okla
homa St., second-ranked Arizona
St. and third-ranked Arizona in
the one of the Fall’s tournaments.
Georgia, ranked No. 10
by Golfweek, joins
seven other Top Ten
teams including top-
ranked Oklahoma St.
The tournament will be played
on the Poppy Hills Golf Course
(6,865 yards, par 72) on the scenic
Monterey Peninsula. Six-man
teams will compete in the tourna
ment, with the low four scores
counting toward the team total.
Competing for Georgia will be
Paul Claxton, Greg Kennedy, Neal
Hendee, Franklin Langham, Bill
Brown and Matt Street.
— Randy Walker
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