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6 • The Red and Black • Tuesday, January 8.1991
SPORTS
Last night, the Lady Dogs defended their territory In a game
against Ga. State. The Dogs defeated their opponent with a final
score of 77-45. Lady Dog Vicky Jones led the game with 20
points.
Three coaches join Georgia
By ERIK SCHMIDT
Sports Writer
The Georgia football team has
taken major steps in its attempt to
formulate a more potent offense
next season with the recent acqui
sitions of offensive coordinator
Wayne McDuffie, quarterback
coach Steve Ensminger and offen
sive line coach Mac McWhorter.
McDuffie replaces George
Haffner who has served as offen
sive coordinator of the Bulldogs
since 1980. McDuffie served as the
offensive line coach for the Atlanta
Falcons from 1982 to 1990 and held
the same position at Florida State
in 1973 and at Georgia under Vince
Dooley from 1977-1981.
McDuffie was offered the offen
sive coordinator’s post by Ray Goff
in earlv December but refused. Ul
timately though, McDuffie could
not refuse a return stint in Athens.
“Ray expected me to turn the job
down in December because I was
still working with the Falcons,”
McDuffie said. ‘The people of
Georgia made the decision for me.
It was tough, but its feels good to
be back home ”
McWhorter, a former All-South- ball.”
eastern Conference player for the
Bulldogs, coached under Barry
Wilson at Duke last season before
replacing Joe Hollis here. Hollis
was hired as the offensive line
coach at Ohio State last Thursday.
For the past three seasons
Ensminger was the offensive coor
dinator and quarterback coach at
Louisiana Tech. His use of the op
tion passing game utilizes all five
receivers in an attempt to achieve
a mismatch in the defensive sec
ondary.
Last season, Louisiana Tech
amassed 450 yards per game total
offense, 11th belt in the country.
(Georgia averaged 282 yards per
contest).
“I think Steve Ensminger is one
of the finest minds in football
today,” Louisiana Tech coach Joe
Raymond Peace said. “The Univer
sity of Georgia will see in the fu
ture what an excellent coordinator
with imagination can put to
gether.”
“I rate him as high as one could
possibly rate someone,” he said. “It
nurt me to lose him. He has made a
difference in Louisiana Tech foot-
Tech averaged over 30 points per
game in 1990 under Ensminger’s
program including a 34-34 tie with
the University of Maryland in the
Poulan Weedeater Independence
Bowl. In Tech’s biggest blowout of
the year, they trounced McNeese
State 51-3. Georgia’s highest
output was 39 points against Van
derbilt.
“He likes putting points on the
board and he can do it in a hurry,”
McNeese State coach Bobby
Keasler said.T think he’s very
knowledgeable in the passing
game.”
Tech’s quarterback Gene
Johnson passed for 2,129 yards
(147-296) in 1990 including 13
touchdown strikes. Their top two
receivers combined for 128 recep
tions.
Georgia quarterbacks Greg
Talley, Preston Jones and Joe Du
pree, who faced stiffer competition
than Johnson, passed for only 1,-
436 combined yards (115-237) and
six touchdowns. Georgia’s entire
receiving corps, running backs in
cluded, accounted for only 115 total
receptions.
Basinger lights up tennis stadium
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Movie actress and Athens native
Kim Basinger made a generous do
nation to the Georgia Athletic As
sociation to have lights installed at
Georgia’s Henry Feild Tennis Sta
dium.
In a press conference at the
Butts-Mehre Building on Dec. 11,
Basinger’s brother Mick, the ac
tress’s business manager, said that
the donation is a token of apprecia
tion for the time the Basinger
family have spent at the Stadium.
Kim and her two sisters often
sold drinks during tennis events at
the Stadium.
Construction has already begun
for the installation of the 60-foot
poles for supporting the 125-cand-
lepower lamps that will light all six
stadium courts.
There will be a dedication cere
mony in conjunction with a home
tennis match which Ms. Basinger
■ SPORTS BRIEFS
is expected to attend. The date has
yet to be determined.
ROYCE RETURNS - Junior
Sophia Royce has rejoined the
Georgia gymnastics team after
withdrawing from sch<x)l last No
vember.
Royce said she “just needed a
break” from gymnastics and sch(x>l
but is now ready for the upcoming
season.
Georgia gymnastics coach Suz
anne Yoculan said Royce definitely
has rededicated herself to the
team.
“She’s physically weak right now
but mentally she’s ready to go,” Yo
culan said. “It’s going to take her
another month to physically get
back to where she was.”
WEBBER: COACH OF THE
YEAR — Georgia baseball coach
Steve Webber was named Diamond
Lady Bulldogs claim victory
By BILLY COPELAN
Sports Water
The Georgia Lady Bulldog bas
ketball team earned itself a spot
in history Saturday by defeating
the 15th-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes
(6-4) 62-51 in the second game of
the inaugural Big Ten-SEC Chal
lenge held in Iowa City.
However, the ninth-ranked
Lady Dogs (9-2) were dealt two
serious blows en route to the his
toric victory.
CBS-TV broadcasted both
games on the Challenge live from
the University of Iowa’s Carver-
Ha wkeye Arena, marking the
first-ever national telecast of a
regular season women’s college
basketball game. The seventh-
ranked Auburn Lady Tigers de
feated third-ranked Purdue 75-
65 in the opening game to give
the SEC a clean sweep.
The Lady Dogs’ win wasn't
pretty, but it did give them their
first road victory over a Top 25
opponent in two years. However,
the win was costly as the Lady
Dogs’ thin front line was depleted
by two severe injuries.
Georgia’s only two legitimate
post players, All-SEC seniors
Stacey Ford and Tammye Jen
kins, suffered injuries that will
cause them to miss at least two
games.
Ford broke a bone in her right
(shooting) hand in the opening
five minutes of the game. Jenkins
suffered a broken nose with
about 11 minutes left in the game
in a collision with her own team
mate, sophomore guard Camille
Lowe. Ford did return to the
game with her hand heavily
taped when Jenkins was forced to
the locker room.
“It’s hard just to concentrate
on the game knowing what we
had to pay,” Landers said. ‘The
win is kind of meaningless in con
sideration of what happened.”
Georgia’s other post player,
Jessica Barr, was lost for the
season with a damaged ligament
in her left knee in the Lady Dogs
first game of the season against
N.E. Louisiana on Nov. 28.
Junior guard Lady Hardmon
led the Lady Dogs with 17 points.
Jenkins scored 12 points and
pulled down 10 rebounds and
Ford chipped in 10 points, four
coming after she returned to the
game with her hand taped. Toni
Foster led the Ha wkeye attack
with 13 points.
The first half was a defensive
struggle as both teams were cold
shooting from the floor. The Lady
Dogs only shot 33 percent while
Iowa nailed only 40 percent of
their shots.
‘This probably wasn’t the most
I thought we could
pressure them
defensively,
especially in the half
court
• Andy Sanders
Head Coach
appealing game for a television
audience, but it was a great,
great defensive game,” Landers
said. “I thought we could pres
sure them defensively, especially
in the half-court, and we did a
nice job with that.”
National Baseball Coach of the
Year by his fellow coaches last
weekend. In 1990, Webber led the
Diamond Dogs to its first-ever na
tional championship while
coaching the Dogs to a 52-19 re
cord.
GOETZE SIGNS - Athens
Academy senior Vicki Goetze an
nounced she will attend Georgia
next fall. Goetze was the first
person to win three junior PGA
Championships.
She was also recently awarded
the Dial Award.
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