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If you can't watch this weekend's football game, but want to cheer
on the Dogs, the UGA women's soccer club will have its season
debut against the University of Tennessee Saturday at 2 p.m. The
game will be played at IM field No. 7, and admission is free.
Netters from around the South
converge for oldest tournament
By JOHN GIBSON ” "
Staff Writer
College tennis players from across the Southeast
will begin play Friday in the 25th Annual Southern
Collegiate Championships at Henry Feild Stadium.
The Southern Collegiates, the South’s oldest fall
tournament, was founded in 1968 by former Georgia
coach and current Director of Tennis Dan Magill.
“We originally wanted to take advantage of the good
tennis weather that the fall brings," Magill said. “Now
it’s become the premiere fall tournament because it
usually draws the best players from all the southern
states.”
The tournament, which attracts players from NCAA
Regions Two and Three, has been dominated by the
host Bulldogs since its founding. Georgia players have
won 10 of the singles titles and 14 of the doubles titles.
1992 looks to be no different, as Georgia fields the
l May, is the top seed. Sell is followed by
17th-ranked junior Bobby Mariencheck and sophomore
Craig Baskin.
Other seeded players include Cecil Brandon and
Rick Witsken of Alabama, Michael Kirsten of Alabama-
Birmingham, Peter Kuhn of South Alabama and Don
September of Samford.
Baskin, who hails from Marietta and is ranked 43rd,
transferred after playing his first year at Clemson. The
sophomore leads a strong trio of recruits that will de
but for the Bulldogs this weekend. Freshman Jamie
Laschinger will also be making his debut.
Freshman Albin Polonyl will miss the tournament
due to an injury sustained in practice this weekend.
Polonyl was scheduled to play in doubles competition
with All-American Mariencheck, and will be replaced
in doubles by senior Hector Nevares.
“Our staff is extremely excited to give our younger
players a chance to play in a real match,” said Coach
Manuel Diaz, who won the tournament as a player for
Georgia in 1973 and ’74.
“We’ve got a tremendous amount of young talented
players,” he said. “Whoever wins this tournament usu
ally gets off to a great start. It’s like a snowball effect.”
Georgia senior Wade McGuire will attest to Diaz’s
statement. The top-ranked 1992 player bowed out in
the finals to North Carolina’s Brian Jones. McGuire
went on to role up a 45-10 record en route to finishing
runner-up in the NCAA Singles tournament.
Diaz announced earlier this week that McGuire will
sit out the remainder of the fall season due to academ
ic conflicts. The third-ranked Bulldogs hope to have
McGuire back in time for team competition which be
gins in the winter quarter.
The tournament will feature two 64-man singles di
visions and two 32-team doubles divisions. Division A
singles competition begins at 11 a.m., with both dou
bles divisions slated to start at approximately 3 p.m.
Quarterfinal and semifinal action in both divisions of
singles and doubles is scheduled for Sunday afternoon
and the championships are scheduled for Monday.
LADY NETTERS NOTES: The 7th-ranked
Georgia women’s tennis team opens its 1992 season
this weekend at the USC Invitational in Columbia,
S.C.
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Jones out with shoulder injury
By LYA WODRASKA
Staff Writer
Bulldog fans could see three different play
ers lining up in the strong safety position
Saturday when Georgia plays Arkansas, since
starter Mike Jones is out with a dislocated
shoulder.
Georgia head coach Ray Goff said that
Jones, who injured his shoulder against Ole
Miss, is healing faster than expected but won’t
play against the Razorbacks.
Jones has no experienced clear-cut backup
and, as a result, there has been quite a bit of
jostling going on during practice this week.
Redshirt freshman Buster Owens was orig
inally slated to start in place of Jones.
However, senior A1 Jackson, who has started
at cornerback this year, will probably start at
strong safety. Jackson is no stranger to the po
sition since he played in all 11 games as the
strong safety during the 1991 season. During
that time he made 19 solo tackles and 12 as
sists. At cornerback this season, Jackson has
made 12 solo tackles and one assist.
“Well probably play A1 at strong safety and
at corner Saturday,” said Georgia defensive co
ordinator Richard Bell. “He played safety all of
last year and he’s shown a lot of recall in prac
tice this week.”
Owens, who has played in all four games so
far, will remain the second-string safety, an
idea that is a little disappointing to him.
Buster Owens
“I think I’m
ready to start, it
just depends on how
the coaches decide,”
Owens said. “I
thought I would
step up, but that
just goes with the
territory. Whatever
the coaches decide
is fine with me.”
“Buster realizes
that nothing is a
given,” Bell said.
“But he is a com
petitor and he’s go
ing to get in there.”
Also impressing the coaches in practice this
week was sophomore Will Muschamp.
Muschamp has played in all four games but
hasn’t seen much playing time. Nevertheless,
Bell said Muschamp has been impressive
enough in practice to play more against
Arkansas.
Backup cornerback Charles Pledger, who
has four tackles on the season, will get his first
start of the season if Jackson starts at safety.
“He’s been doing a good job in the backup
role for A1 and we aren’t concerned with play
ing him,” Bell said.
“I’ve been waiting for the opportunity and
I’m looking forward to the possibility of start
ing," Pledger said.
Mike Sell is the top seed in singles.
Ga. women run to win
By JOHN TURCO
Staff Writer
The Georgia women’s cross country
team is enjoying a successful season
with two firsts- and a second-place fin
ish to its credit after its first three
meets.
Leading the way is junior distance
runner Frida Thordardottir of
Mosfellsbae, Iceland, who has claimed
first place in her last two meets.
Thordardottir seems to have taken to
the five kilometer cross country style of
racing quite well, since she hadn’t run
for long distance before she came to
Georgia.
“In high school I ran the 800 and the
1,500 because we don’t really have a
cross country season,” Thordardottir
said. “We have road races (3k), but we
don’t have real cross country as we have
here. So, it was a little different coming
over here.”
The recruiting of Thordardottir hap
pened more through word of mouth
than anything else. Georgia head coach
John Mitchell, who previously coached
at Alabama, inquired through a former
Icelandic assistant coach about any pos
sible female distance runners he might
know of.
“Margret Brynjolfsdottir (a team
mate of Thordardottir’s) and I were
asked if we wanted to go to school in the
states,” Thordardottir said. “We had
been thinking about it for a while any
way because I’ve had this dream since I
was about 14 or 15 years old to go to the
states and go to school there and to
train there.”
Thordardottir has made her own
dream come true and has possibly
granted a few wishes of her middle dis
tance coach Kelli Bert.
“The fact that Frida is a very deter
mined runner is probably one of her best
assets,” Bert said. “She is also a very,
very coachable girl.”
Academically, Thordardottir plans to
graduate in the upcoming spring with a
degree in Dietetics and Institutional
Management, but will have another
year of eligibility to run track.
“I’m planrling on staying here next
year to start studying for my masters
degree in dietetics,” Thordardottir said.
“I want to stay here because I really like
it here. I love my team and my coaches
and I think Athens is so nice.”
Thordardottir, who is the reigning
SEC champion and an NCAA finalist in
the 3,000m, also owns the second best
time for the 1,500m in Georgia history
at 4:22.95, which she posted as a fresh
man in 1991.
Thordardottir and her teammates
will be traveling to Atlanta this week
end to compete in the Georgia
Intercollegiates on Saturday.
Lady Spikers
to face Gators
By JOSH KENDALL
Staff Writer
While most of the student
body attention is focused on ac
quiring tickets for the upcoming
Georgia-Florida fobtball game,
head volleyball coach Jim lams
is looking to a more immediate
confrontation with the Gators.
Barring a surprise from the
Lady Tigers of Auburn Friday,
the Lady Bulldogs will face their
first real SEC challenge on
Sunday afternoon at Florida.
“I’m very concerned about
Auburn because they always
play us close,” lams said, “but ev
erybody is concerned about
Florida”
The Lady Gators will enter
the contest ranked No. 9 by the
American Volleyball Coaches’
Association. The Ladv Bulldogs
are ranked 19th with an 11-2
record.
“They will be the best team
we have played this year,” lams
said.
Two elements of this game
worry lams. The first is experi
ence. “Florida has a lot of foreign
players which means more expe
rience in terms of playing time
and, in some cases, age, lams
said.
The second point that the
coach will be concentrating on is
serving and receiving serve.
“If we can serve and receive
effectively and win that bottle I
think we have a real shot at
ung
Coached
by 1991 SEC Coach
of the Year Mary Wise, the Lady
Gators are last season’s SEC co
champions (with LSU) and cur
rently possess a 12-1 record.
Their only loss came early in the
season against the No. 1 UCLA
Lady Bruins, who have dominat
ed women’s volleyball this sea
son.
lams feels that to improve on
last season’s third-place finish,
the Lady Bulldogs will have to
contend with more than just the
Lady Gators.
“Right now, based on pre-con
ference play, Florida, LSU,
Kentucky and ourselves are the
top four team’s in the SEC,"
lams said.
The Lady Wildcats are cur
rently ranked No. 22 by the
AVCA. LSU has dominated the
SEC in recentyears, winning the
last three SEC; volleyball tourna
ments, and is currently ranked
No. 12.
The Lady Bulldogs will not
face LSU until Oct. 25 and will
battle Kentucky Nov. 15, before
the SEC tournament Nov. 27
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