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10 • The Red and Black » Tuesday, November 27, 1990
Junior Kell Butler/s 11th place time of 16:42 paced the Lady
Bulldog cross country team to ninth place out of 22 teams at the
NCAA Cross Country Invitational last Monday In Knoxville, Tenn.
Butler earned All-American honors.
Hoop Dogs ranked 17th after tournament routs
By DAVID PACE
Sports Writer
As a result of its impressive debut at the
Central Fidelity Holiday Classic this
weekend in Richmond, Va., the Georgia
men’s basketball team (2-0) jumped from
21st to 17th in the latest Associated Press
Top 25 basketball poll released Monday.
Georgia rewrote the Holiday Classic’s re
cord books, breaking 10 tournament records
enroute to beating Wichita State 89-58 and
doubling-up host Richmond 90-45. Team re
cords included most points in a game (90),
most field goals made (32), and most re
bounds with 49.
Individually, sophomore Shaun Golden
snatched six steals against Richmond for a
single game record and sophomore transfer
Antonio Harvey swatted seven blocks in two
games for a tournament record.
The highest individual accolade though
went to junior guard Litterial Green, who
came away with tournament MVP honors
after scoring 40 points in the tournament to
lead Georgia.
He accomplished this despite playing just
22 minutes in the Wichita State game and
21 minutes in the Richmond finale.
“I thought going up there that it would be
a lot closer than that," said Green, who
poured in 27 points in the title game against
the Spiders. “We came out there with a lot
of tenacity and then the second group came
in and did the job. That’s going to be the key
for us. We have a chance to be better than
we were last season because of our depth."
Defensively the Dogs were death for their
opponents. Consider that Wichita State
managed jbst 15 points in the first half
against Georgia, another tournament re
cord. Georgia held Richmond, which won 22
games last season and went to the NCAA
tournament, to just 45 points for a game,
also a tournament record.
The Dogs also allowed both their oppo
nents to shoot a mere 31.8 perecent from
the field during the tournament.
Standing out offensively for the Dogs be
sides Green was forward Marshall Wilson.
The 6-foot-8 inch senior scored 34 points
in the tournament including shooting four-
for-four from the three-point line in the
championship game.
Wilson’s four treys came at the outset of
the Richmond game, sparking a 14-3 run for
the Dogs.
“I know I can hit that shot,” said Wilson,
who lead Georgia with 20 points against
Wichita State. “I didn’t worry about it. 1 just
focused myself."
Wilson, who was Georgia’s third-leading
scorer last year (12 ppg), presents opposing
teams with the formidable task of guarding
a 6-8 power forward with a three-point gun
in his belt.
“I feel I can beat my man every time I
catch the ball,” Wilson said. ‘There’s going
to be a lot of teams having trouble matching
up with me.”
The Dogs open up the season at home
Wednesday night against Western Ken
tucky at 7:30 p.m. Georgia was a perfect 12-
0 at home last year.
HOOP NOTES: Before the season
opener against Wichita State, coach Hugh
Durham announced that freshmen Charles
Claxton and Marcel Kon would be red-
dhirted for the 1990-91 season. The 7-foot
Claxton, 225 lbs, averaged 18 points and 11
rebounds per game last year for Carol City
H.S. in Miami, Fla. Kon, 6-10, 205 lbs, aver
aged 13 points and eight rebounds for Boyd
Anderson H.S. in Plantation, Fla.
File
Litterial Green: Tournament MVP
Dog netters’ second-straight grand slam title
Arnold wins
By RANDY WALKER
Sports Editor
It seemed almost fitting that for
Thanksgiving dinner, Georgia
tennis coach Manuel Diaz had two
turkey legs.
After the fall season, Diaz saw
two of his players capture the first
two legs of the collegiate tennis
Grand Slam as Patricio Arnold
rode a wave of upsets to win the
DuPont Intercollegiate Clay Court
Championships in Panama City,
Fla. Nov. 16-18.
Arnold’s victory, coupled with A1
Parker’s victory at the Volvo
Tennis Collegiate Championships,
likely will place both Bulldog net
ters in the top three in the Volvo
Tennis rankings, to be released
Dec. 12.
“I’m extremely elated. You never
envision winning two national ti
tles in the fall," Diaz said.
Arnold’s Grand Slam title, his
first singles title in college, came as
a surprise. The sophomore from
Argentina entered the tournament
unseeded and unranked, and as
wildcard entry.
Before blasting Nick Barone of
Ole Miss 6-1, 6-2 in the finals, Ar
nold edged sixth-seeded Marcos
Garzo of Fresno State 6-3, 2-6, 7-5
in the first round after Garzo
served for the match a 5-4 in the
final set. He then upset Brice
Karsh of Tennessee also in three-
sets, before taking out defending
champion and clay-court guru
Jose-Luis Noriega of San Diego.
Arnold felt the win over the
second-seeded Peruvian was the
centerpiece to his tournament vic
tory.
“I started the tournament
playing good, but after I beat No
riega, everything fell together,”
said Arnold, who finished the fall
with an 18-4 record. “My confi
dence was so high in the next two
matches that I felt I could hit any
thing."
As Arnold’s confidence grew, his
groundstrokes became heavier and
harder. Following a 6-2, 6-3 victory
over Lou Gloria of South Carolina
in the semifinals, Georgia’s No. 2
man from a year ago began to roll
against Barone in the final.
While allowing the Ole Miss ju
nior only three games, Arnold hit
an incredible 38 winners on the
slow clay court.
‘Thirty-eight winners, that’s a
lot of winners,” Diaz said. “That
shows you the caliber of play Pat
ricio was performing at.”
In the past Arnold has exhibited
brilliant streaks of play, mixed
with concentration lapses sprin
kled with unforced errors, but Diaz
said his concentration improved as
the tournament progressed.
“Patricio’s problem is that he
can play brilliantly but will have
lapses of erratic play,” Diaz said.
“He was able to get through those
early in the tournament."
Going into DuPont, all eyes were
on the top-seeded Parker, fresh off
his Volvo triumph. However, heat
exhaustion and cramps claimed
the Georgia senior in the quarterfi
nals. Parker fell to Martin Persson
of Auburn 6-2, 6-3. Georgia
freshman Ivan Baron was a first-
round loser to Doug Livingston of
Arizona.
AP TOP 25
BASKETBALL
1
UNLV (45)
0-0
2
Arizona (19)
4-0
3
Arkansas
3-1
4
N. Carolina
1-0
5
Michigan St.
1-0
6
Alabama
1-0
7
Syracuse
3-0
8
Duke (1)
3-1
9
Georgetown
2-0
10
Indiana
2-1
11
Ohio St.
1-0
12
UCLA
2-0
13
Pittsburgh
1-0
14
Georgia Tech
1-0
15
Connecticut
1-0
16
Virginia
2-0
17
GEORGIA
2-0
18
Oklahoma
1-1
19
S. Mississippi
0-0
20
LSU
0-1
21
St. John's
2-0
22
Texas
0-0
23
Missouri
0-0
24
Villanova
1-0
25
Louisville
0-0
Stephen Moroekl/The Red and Black
‘You never envision
winning two national
titles in the fall.'
Manuel Diaz,
Georgia tennis coach
Parker finished the fall season
with a 13-2 record and two tourna
ment victories at the North River-
Clay Court Invitational in
Tuscaloosa, Ala., and the Volvo
Tennis Collegaite Championships
in Athens. Parker should become
the nation’s No. 1 ranked player in
the next Volvo Tennis rankings.
Netter reaches first major final
By RANDY WALKER
Sports Editor
Georgia netter Shan nan McCarthy broke
through and reached her first collegiate Grand
Slam singlet final at the DuPont Intercollegiate
Gay Court Championships last week in Panama
Gty, Fla.
However, the Bulldog junior failed in her at
tempt to become to the first Georgia woman to cap
ture a national collegiate tennis title since Lisa
Spain won the 1984 NCAA singles crown.
n 'hs sacond-seeded McCarthy was defeated by
P o’« Julie Exum 6-1, 2-6, 6-2 for the DuPont
t ", which is the second leg of the collegiate tennis
C nd Slam.
Getting to the finals is a good experience far
her," said Georgia coach Jeff Wallace.
McCarthy attributued the loss to a lack of ag
gression and consistency.
“I started to play more aggressively in the
second set but in the third set I wasn't as aggres
sive,” McCarthy said. “I need to be more consistent.
I would play a good point and then a sloppy point.
You can't get away with that against a good
player.”
For the match, McCarthy made 41 percent of her
first serves and committed seven double faults.
“When she gets her first serve in, she can be
more aggressive,” Wallace said.
Exum, who currently is not ranked by Volvo
Tennis, played No. 4 for the Blue Devils last year.
She said aha directed most of her shots away from
McCarthy’s powerful forehand.
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