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SPORTS
Lady Golfers jump into second
By MATTHEW A. BROWN
Staff Writer
The Georgia women’s golf
team, playing around a rain delay
of one hour and 45 minutes, made
a strong comeback from a disap
pointing 305 on Monday to post a
team low eleven-over-par 299
Tuesday at the second round of
the SEC women’s Championships
in Baton Rouge, La.
With that score, the Lady
Bulldogs jumped from fourth to
second place in the team stand
ings. They own a two-round total
of 604. They will trail the host
LSU Lady Tigers, who main
tained their first-round lead, by
seven shots going into today’s fi
nal round.
Freshman Vicki Goetze and se
nior Tina Patemostro were the
main reasons Georgia made their
big comeback. Goetze rebounded
from an uncharacteristic bad
round of 80 to poet the lowest
round of the day, a 71.
Patemostro bettered her opening
round score by 10, carding a 73.
Junior Sara Miley still leads
all Lady Bulldog golfers with a to
tal of 150, tied for sixth overall.
Goetze is now tied for ninth with
a 151 and Luciana Bemvenuti is
tied for 18th with a 154.
Patemostro and Kelly Kluska are
both tied for 22nd with scores of
156.
SEC MEN’S CHAMPI
ONSHIPS
The Georgia men’s golf team’s
valiant effort for the 22nd SEC
Championship in school history
came up short in the third round
Tuesday as the defending cham
pion Florida Gators made a
charge to take their second
straight conference title.
Having to wait over two hours
to begin play due to rain, Dick
Copas’ squad carded a third-
round total of 308 and fell to sixth
place with a total of 883. Florida’s
299 gave them a winning total of
876.
The Bulldogs had held first
place with a two-stroke over the
Gators at the end of the second
round.
Brian Slevin topped all
Georgia players with a 216, which
Tina Patemostro
tied for sixth place overall. Bill
Brown tied for 12th with a 222
and Rob Butler tied for 19th with
a 224.
University’s baseball bid a bust
By PHILUP RAMAT1
Staff Writer
In its first-ever bid to host an NCAA baseball re
gional, the Georgia dollar proposal struck out as three
Florida schools will host instead.
Georgia’s bid of approximately $50,000, roughly
$25,000 less than Clemson’s, was not even close to the
$150,000 offered to the NCAA by Florida and Miami, or
the $140,000 guaranteed by Florida State. Georgia
Tech, which was going to make a bid similar to
Georgia’s, ended up not going through with it.
“If the lowest bid is $140,000, I don’t think we can
ever do it," said Georgia assistant athletic director Greg
McGarity. These are astounding dollar figures. Teams
are basically buying the regionals."
To put in perspective the amount of the bids for base
ball, Georgia paid approximately $100,000 to host the
NCAA Tennis Championships, which will begin Friday
at Henry Field Stadium. With tennis, however, the
Georgia staff had more time to prepare a bid and line up
sponsors for the event.
Other schools that won bids include Mississippi State
and Louisiana State from the SEC, and Texas, Arizona
State and Wichita State.
In baseball, the regions are set up based on bids
rather than geographic location, thus explaining why so
many regions are in the southeastern area.
According to McGarity, to turn any profit at all,
teams in Florida State’s price range would have to make
$170,000 over the four days of the event.
“Either they’re getting corporate sponsorship, or its
something else," he said. “We will probably learn from
these other schools."
While most of the Georgia officials are out of town
and couldn’t be reached for comment, including baseball
coach Steve Webber, McGarity said that no one was dis
appointed in not winning the bid.
“I think we would have been more shocked if we had
gotten it," he said. “We knew it was a long shot."
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The No. 3 seed Diamond Dogs (33-21,12-11 in the SEC) will
take on No. 2 seed Mississippi State (37-18,15-9) Wednesday
night at the SEC tournament in the New Orleans Superdome.
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Athletes not the only winners
at the NCAA tennis tourney
By KELLY DANIEL
Contributing Writer
The University will serve up an
ace for Athens as two weeks of
NCAA men’s tennis brings thou
sands of tourist dollars to the city.
Tfie University will host the 1992
NCAA men’s tennis championships
at Henry Field Stadium May 15-24.
Players, coaches, families and fans
from across the nation will be on
hand, bringing a spring-time boom
to Athens hotels and restaurants.
Dan Magill, assistant athletic di
rector and head tennis coordinator,
estimated over 20,000 people will
watch some part of the tournament.
“We usually get between 2,000-
3,000 fans a day,” Magill said. Tfie
stadium’s seating capacity is 4,000.
Tfie University sells tickets and
snacks to the fans, but does not
make a big monetary profit from the
tournament. Of revenue from ticket
sales and concession stands,
$100,000 is guaranteed to the
NCAA to pay for each team’s partic
ipation.
Magill said the University re
ceives 15 percent of the net profits
but spends substantially more than
that in preparation for the tourna
ment.
“For example, if the total net is
$100,000, we get $15,000," Magill
said. “But we spend $25,000 every
other year to resurface the courts to
keep them in tournament condition.
The athletic association barely
breaks even."
Magill said the finals of the indi
vidual singles and doubles play, held
May 24, will be televised on ESPN
through an agreement with the
NCAA. The University, he said, will
not receive any money from the tele
vision coverage.
“We do think it is good for our
program and our tennis to be in the
spotlight and we all agreed we want
to put the tournament on,” Magill
said.
Magill said the real winners of
the championships are the local ho
tels and restaurants who stand to
benefit the most from the tennis
tourists.
Bill Wheeler, Holiday Inn sales
director, said his hotel will be com
pletely booked during the tourna
ment, estimating that 30 to 35 per
cent of his clients will be tennis fans.
“The NCAAs probably generate
$40,000 in room revenue for this ho
tel," Wheeler said.
Dot Williams, Best Western sales
representative, had a higher esti
mate, predicting that nearly 50 per
cent of the hotel’s business would
come from the tournament.
“In the past, several University
players’ families stayed with us,"
Williams said. “We also have the se
niors’ tournament players booked
with us."
Williams said the bulk of the
Best Western’s tennis bookings will
come during the championships’ fi
nal weekend when the individual
singles and doubles finals are held.
Ernelyn Wampler, sales and mar
keting director at the downtown
Days Inn, said a scheduling conflict
between the law school graduation
May 15 and the tennis tournament
kept her hotel from benefiting from
the matches. Wampler scud the ho-
Dan Magill
tel had received nearly $10,000
worth of room requests from four
schools who had to be turned down
due to booking restriction on the law
school weekend.
Athens’ restaurant owners ex
pect to see the most increase in sales
during the team competitions of the
tournament’s first week.
The first week is the best,”
Wilson Elder, manager of the
Varsity, said.
Elder said business drops as
teams begin to lose their matches,
but estimated the Varsity will see a
10 percent increase in sales during
the two weeks.
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tators and players to visit his
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