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■ FANFARE
6 « The Red and Black « Tuesday. March 2, 1993
SPORTS
Tonight the Georgia Amateur Comedian Show runs at Hoyt
Street Station North. Showtime is 10:30 p.m., admission is $2
and ladies are admitted free. The first 20 people of age
through the door get a free pitcher of beer.
Alabama fans are brainless as usual
Josh
Kendall
First, let me congratulate the University of
Alabama’s gymnasts on their outstanding per
formance in Friday night’s loss to the Lady
Bulldogs, specifically, Dana Dobransky and Dee
Foster for their perfect 10’s, on the balance
beam and floor exercise, respectively.
Now, let me blast the behavior of the major
ity of the Crimson Tide fans.
For those of you who were not present at the
contest, let me explain. Somewhere during the
course of the meet, the Alabama fans obviously
decided it was their God-given right to score at
least one 10 every other routine.
Obviously, that’s what they have come to ex
pect in the friendly confines of Coleman
Coliseum.
Anyway, after Dee Foster received a score of
9.95 on her first vault of the evening, the na
tives became restless.
They began to heckle the judges unmerciful
ly, which I have absolutely no problem with.
In my opinion, all judges, umpires and refer
ees were put on this earth to receive abuse.
But then, when Hope Spivey-Sheeley was
given a much-deserved 10 on her vault, the
crowd crossed the line.
After the vault, Georgia moved to the floor
exercise where Lori Strong started the Lady
Bulldogs off with an impressive 9.70 routine.
Of course, the Alabama fans could not un
derstand this. Imagine that, somebody from
Alabama not being able to understand some
thing.
Anyway, senior Sandy Rowlette-Dill followed
Strong and had the misfortune of stepping out-
of-bounds on her first tumbling pass.
From then on she and the rest of the Georgia
squad heard applause from the crowd at the
slightest miscue.
Booing the judges is one thing, but applaud
ing when a stellar athlete makes a potentially
dangerous mistake is out of line.
“I felt it was an unsafe situation,” Georgia
head coach Suzanne Yoculan said. “They (gym
nasts in general) don’t need distractions to
make mistakes. They are going to make them
anyway.”
The situation only got worse on Georgia’s
next event, the balance beam. With the meet on
the line, the Alabama crowd became blood
thirsty.
On an apparatus where a fall is at the very
least, painful, the Lady Bulldogs were applaud
ed for the slightest wobble.
When Nneka Logan did fall the crowd erupt
ed in applause and laughter. I challenge any of
these people to come down and try to merely
walk across that four-inch wide piece of very
hard rubber.
Hell, I couldn’t even stand on the damn thing
without falling off and breaking my neck!
One particularly irate Bama fan was a mid
dle age man sitting to my left and cheering en
thusiastically for every Georgia miscue.
What made this man stand out was the fact
that he was holding his daughter, eight-years-
old at the most, and encouraging her to do the
same.
I would venture to guess that should his lit
tle girl grow up and, through all the necessary
hard work and sacrifice, achieve the success
that the Georgia gymnasts have, he would be
ready to strangle anyone who treated her with
the same casual disrespect when she was in
front of 9,513 people giving it every last thing
she had.
And, I feel, he would be completely justified
in doing just that.
Hello!
Alabama? Anybody home? You have a very
good team who, as shown on Friday, has the tal
ent to give Georgia everything they want and
more on any given night.
Appreciate this fact and use your energy sup
porting them rather than abusing athletes who
only differ from yours in the color leotard they
wear.
By the way, well be back for the SEC
Championships on March 20, try to straighten
up before then.
Golf team wins tourney
By TED KIAN
Staff Writer
The Georgia men’s golf team
won its first tournament in near
ly two years, over the weekend at
the South Florida Invitational in
Tampa. The Bulldogs scored a 7-
over-par 295 on Sunday to finish
the three day tournament at 886,
which was 17 strokes better than
second-place South Alabama.
“It was a good effort,” said
Georgia head coach Dick Copas.
“We did what we had to do win.”
The 6,850 yard USF Golf
Course is a tough course to play
on.
“It was a difficult course to
play on,” Copas said. “We played
well under the conditions.
Georgia was led by Senior
Matt Street and Sophomore
Brian Slevin, both scored a 220
for the tournament, finishing one
stroke behind the three golfers
who tied to win the individual
championship.
Street shot a 69 on the second
day, the lowest round scored by
any golfer for the whole tourna
ment.
“Matt started off real slow (78
on the first day),” Copas said.
“But he came back and had a
good second and third day and
played very well overall.”
Matt Street
“Slevin played steady for all
three days (72-73-75), Copas
said. “He had a good chance to
win the tournament at the end,
and he probably should have.”
Georgia’s Mark Spencer and
Neal Hendee each finished
among the top 12 finishers in the
individual standings.
Spencer tallied a 224 for the
tournament while Hendee fin
ished at 225.
Rob Butler rounded out the
Georgia scoring finishing with a
229.
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