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® • The Red end Black • Wednesday, October 24, 1990
SPORTS
Bulldogs face the mirror at Kentucky
By GENE WILLIAMS
Sports Writer
A* Georgia travels to Commonwealth Sta
dium Saturday night for a game against Ken
tucky, the Bulldog team will face a struggling
•quad that is a mirror image of itself.
"Statistically speaking, our team is compa
rable to Kentucky,” Go ft said. 'The only differ
ence between our two teams and our records is
that we have been fortunate to win the close
games and they haven't."
Georgia is ninth in the SEC in total offense
and rushing defense, eighth in scoring defense
and last in scoring offense. Meanwhile, Ken
tucky is last in total offense, eighth in rushing
defense and scoring offense and ninth in
scoring defense.
This isn’t exactly a battle of the top two pow
erhouses in the Southeastern Conference.
The Wildcats are 2-6 on the season (1-2 in
SEC play and 2-1 at home) with wins over Cen
tral Michigan and Misslssipj
i la
State. The Wild
cats have losses to Rutgsrs (by 16), Indiana (by
21), North Carolina (by 8), Ole Miss (by 6) and
LSU (by 10). Despite the tough schedule and
relatively close contests, Kentucky coach Bill
Curry isn’t making excuses.
“When the going gets tough, there's a ten
dency to search for a magic cure,” Curry said.
'There is no magic cure unless work ethic is a
magic cure. It’s the only way we are going to get
better.”
Georgia hasn’t found any type of magic cure
to stop the option offense, as opponents have
amassed hugs amounts of real estate against
the Bulldogs over the past fsw weeks. But the
Bulldogs will catch a break as the Wildcats
don't have the option at their disposal.
“Fortunately tor us Kentucky is not an option
team," Goff said. “They will run the shotgun
and several split back formations. They also
will line up and give the ball to A1 Baker who is
an excellent back.”
Baker is the Wildcats’ leading rusher and re
ceiver. Baker haB rushed for 386 yards on 87
carries and scored five touchdowns while
catching 28 passes for 234 yards and one touch
down.
The Kentucky passing attack is the fourth-
best in the conference and is led by quar
terbacks Brad Smith and Freddie Maggard.
Maggard was the starting ouarterback but
was sidelined with a separated shoulder after
the Cats’ fourth game of the season against
North Carolina. Maggard is healthy again, but
Smith has usurped the quarterbacking throne.
Smith, a sophomore, hae completed 70 of his
133 passes for 678 yards and four touchdowns,
but naB been intercepted six times, while Mag
gard, a junior, is 64 of 113 for 693 yardB, four
touchdowns and four interceptions.
Although the Dogs lead the overall series 33-
8 with two ties, Georgia’s last trip to Lexington
was unsuccessful as Kentucky came away with
a 16-10 victory.
Landers wary; Lady Dogs face hard schedule
By BILLY COPELAN
Sports Writer
Coach Andy Landers enters his
12th season at the helm of the
Lady Bulldog basketball team with
guarded optimism.
Many of the preseason polls
have ranked the Lady Dogs (25-6,
6-3 in the SEC last year) among
the nation’s top five teams, but
Landers puts little faith in the lofty
expectations.
"All the polls are going to do is
change," Landers said. 'They al
ways do.”
Landers knows that his team
has potential, but only time, and a
murdoroue early season schedule,
will tell if the Lady Dogs are
among the nation’s elite.
“I think we could be a great bas
ketball team, but we could be a
poor team, too,” said Landers, who
is 276-75 at Georgia.
plajin
The Lady Dogs will play a
stretch of 10 road games from Dec.
8 until Jan. 5 that could cause
Landers and his staff to grow more
than a few gray hairs.
Georgia will travel to Middle
Tennessee State, South Carolina,
Cincinnati and Ohio State before
ring in three tournaments.
Jn Dec. 21-22 the Lady Dogs
will play in the Cardinal Classic
hosted by defending NCAA cham
pion Stanford. The team then
travels to New Brunswick, N J. for
the Bell Atlantic Classic on Dec.
28-30 which features four Top 25
teams.
Georgia will be joined in New
Brunswick by Arkansas, who elim
inated the Lady Dogs 81-70 in the
second round of the NCAA tourna
ment last year.
Finally, the Lady Dogs end their
road trip with tne Big 10/SEC
Challenge at Iowa City, Iowa.
rgia
eyes followed by a game pitting Au
burn against Purdue.
One bright spot in the tough
schedule is that the Lady Dogs will
make history when they face Iowa.
The two gomes in the Big 10/SEC
Challenge will be the first national
telecast of a regular season
women’s basketball game. CBS-TV
will carry both gomes on Jan. 5.
In guard Lady Hardmon’s mind,
the loss to Arkansas at the NCAA
tournament last year serves as
great motivation for this season.
“I want to go farther in the
NCAA tournament,” she said.
Since Hardmon has been at
Georgia the Lady Dogs haven’t
achieved the lofty expectations of
the preseason. In Hardmon’s
freshman year, the Lady Dogs
reached the final 16 in the NCAA
tournament, but haven’t gone as
far since.
The Lady Dogs will play
a stretch of road games
that could cause
Landers and his staff to
grow more than a few
gray hairs.
Landers hopes the Lady Dogs
learned their lesson well in the
upset Iobb to Arkansas and can
build on it for a successful season.
'The players don’t go to bed
thinking about the loss to Ar
kansas, but they will remember it,”
Landers said.
Georgia opens their season on
Nov. 28 against N.E. Louisana at
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MIXED DRINKS
Georgia's Shawn McCarthy advanced Into the second round of
qualifying In the Rlverla All-American Championships in Los An
geles Tuesday. McCarthy defeated Linda Allred of USC 6-4, 6-4.
McCarthy's second-round match was played after press-time.
Hummings probable
in clash with Wildcats
Georgia eanior wida receiver
S«ar. Humming# la Bated as prob
able for Saturday night’s SEC
claah with Kentucky (8 p.m.).
At Tuesday*! practice, Hum
ming!, who attained the arch In
hie right foot laet week, euited
up, but didn't workout with the
team.
“Aa of now, it’a etiU eore,”
Humming! aaid of hie foot. *I’m
gonna come out tommorrow end
aee how it feela. It'e probably
gonna hurt, but I’m gonna play
on it ragardleaa.”
Georgia coach Ray Goff aaid
that Humming! wea ttdli Bated
ae day to day.
Freehman Andre Haetinge re
ceived hie first start at split end
Saturday against Vanderbilt and
responded with five receptions
for 133 yards and hie first colle
giate touchdown reception.
TD be glad to sea Been back,”
■aid Hastings, who is generally e
wide out. T had to work harder
because I didn't know the splitr
end position that well.”
Nose tackle Tracey Huule is
still ailing with a sprained ankle
suffered during the Ole Miss
game on Oct. 13. He’a lilted ae
uoubtftsl for Saturday.
Goff said that they only have
four linemen left to flu three posi
tion* and Huerta's recuperation
would be welcome to the Dog de
fense.
“It's tough to get better if you
can’t practice, and you can't prac
tice if you get injured,” Goff aaid
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