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8 » The Red and Black Weekend • Friday, March 5, 1993
Gym Dogs to win and lose
By JOSH KENDALL
Staff Writer
In all probability, the Lady
Bulldogs gymnastics team will pick
up three wins and improve their
record to 11-0 on Saturday night at
the Bulldog Invitational. But they
will lose a whole lot more.
The team will welcome Penn
State University, the University of
Massachusetts and West Virginia
University to the Coliseum for se
nior night.
In their first quad meet of the
season, the team will say goodbye
to three of the finest athletes ever
to attend the University, Jennifer
Carbone, Sandy Rowlette-Dill and
Heather Stepp.
“These three girls have, as a
group, established another era of
Georgia gymnastics that will be
coming to an end," Georgia head
coach Suzanne Yoculan said. “They
have been instrumental in estab
lishing Georgia gymnastics as a dy
nasty.”
“We have had an excellent re
cruiting year, but you do not re
place people like Sandy, Heather
and Jennifer,” Lady Bulldog assis
tant coach Jay Clark said.
The meet will be the last regu
lar season home meet for each of
the gymnasts who will compete in
the Coliseum one last time on April
3 in the NCAA Southeast
Regionals.
“The fact that they will compete
again in the Coliseum for the
Regionals will take some of the
edge off of the emotion,” Yoculan
said.
The athletes had mixed reac
tions about the culmination of their
gymnastics careers.
“It feels good, but it is sad at the
same time,” Rowlette-Dill said. “It
will be good to have more time for
other things like school.”
Carbone and Stepp echoed these
comments.
All three of the athletes have
contributed significantly to the
program since their freshmen
years.
“They have been the backbone
of this team since thpy were fresh
man,” Clark said. “It will be a big
loss.”
As for the competition,
Georgia’s stiffest competition
would seem to be the Penn State
Lady Nittany Lions.
“I think Penn State and West
Virginia will battle for second
place,” Clark said.
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Tennis team to play home opener
By JOHN GIBSON
Staff Writer
Manuel Diaz squirms around in his desk, trying
to find some comfort within the cluttered confines of
his office in the Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame.
The fifth-year Georgia tennis coach isn’t bothered
by the barrage of phone calls and mounting stacks
of letters from anxious parents wanting information
about Bulldog Tennis camp. Not even the gloomy
showers that are forcing him to hold practice inside
this week are bothering him.
Diaz simply can’t wait for No. 3 Georgia’s dual
match season to get underway. And rain or shine, it
will all begin with Georgia’s first home match of the
year against Miami at 2 p.m. today at Henry Feild
Stadium.
“We’ve got this team believing they can win a
championship,” Diaz said. “Our two goals are to win
a conference championship and to win the NCAA's,
and these guys really believe they can do it.”
The Bulldogs (3-1) actually opened the season
with a fifth place finish in the USTA/ITCA National
Indoor Championships two weeks ago, losing only to
PAC-10 power UCLA. They topped that off with a 7-
0 waxing of Georgia Tech Tuesday.
Georgia returns five of its six starters from a year
ago and a trio of talented newcomers which have
Diaz believing this may be Georgia’s deepest team
ever.
Diaz also can’t help but break into a giggling
smile when reminded that this is 1993. Georgia has
mysteriously owned college tennis in odd-numbered
years.
The Bulldogs won the SEC and finished runner-
ups in the NCAA Championships in both 1989 and
1991, after winning both titles in 1985 and 1987. In
fact, Georgia has won the SEC every odd-numbered
year since 1971 except 1983.
“Hey if it helps to look back on the numbers, then
we hope everyone is remembering them and knows
to be looking out for us this year,” Diaz said.
Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State and Tennessee
are picked to battle with Georgia for the SEC title.
Fourth-ranked Wade McGuire leads a veteran
squad which lost only captain Jack Frierson from
last year’s 17-5 team. Starters Mike Sell, Bobby
Mariencheck, Nirav Patel and Hector Nevares an
chor the rest of the team.
Freshman Jamie Laschinger has claimed the oth
ers singles slot, while teaming with freshman Albin
Poloyni for Georgia’s No. 2 doubles team.
Sophomore Craig Baskin, who transferred from
Clemson, will also see action this year.
“It’s going to be difficult to keep everybody hap
py this year,” Diaz said. “But that’s the luxary of
having this many unselfish players because the sea
son is long and every one of them will be called on
to contribute.”
Wade McGuire was called on most frequently last
season and responded with flying colors. The senior
returned from a near two-year absence from a ca
reer-threatening knee injury to roll up a 45-10
record and runner-up finish in the NCAA Singles
Tournament.
After missing most of the fall due to an elgibility
problem, McGuire has posted a 14-2 record as co
captain this year.
Sell and Mariencheck also return at the No. 2 and
3 singles slots. Sell, ranked No. 6 nationally, had a
brilliant fall and is 17-4 for the year.
Lashinger, Patel and Nevares are currently pen
ciled in at the No. 4,5 and 6 slots respectively, but
Diaz said that Baskin and Poloyni will see action as
well.
Georgia’s depth will come in especially handy this
year. Friday will mark the debut of the new NCAA
dual match format. The three doubles match will
now be played first, with the winner of at least two
of the the three doubles matches earning one point
toward the team score. Six singles matches will be
played after the completion of the three doubles
matches. The new format will shorten the length of
the overall match because the doubles matches are
one set instead of the best-of-three sets. The one
doubles set will be in the pro format, with the win
ner of 8 games winning the match.
Friday’s meet is the first of five upcoming home
meets. Students are admitted free to all home
matches with their Student ID and fees paid cards.
Hoop Dogs head
to Tennessee
After losing a heartbreaker to
Vanderbilt and pulling out last-
second wins over LSU and South
Carolina during a three-game
homestand, Georgia heads to
Tennessee Saturday to finish the
regular season against the
Volunteers at 2:00 p.m. in
Thompson-Boling Arena.
While an invitation to the
NCAAs is extremely unlikely at
this point, a win against the Vols
(12-15, 4-11 SEC) would all but as
sure the Dogs (13-12, 7-8 SEC) of a
bid to the National Invitational
Tournament.
“Anytime you’re dealing with a
committee, it’s hard to guarantee
anything,” said Jack Powers,
Executive Director of the NIT.
“But they look very good. We’ve
been watching them very closely.”
Powers said the committee re
lies heavily on RPI ratings which
are based on Division I, overall,
non-conference and road record
along with teams’ performances to
ward the end of the season.
That last criterion in particular
would help the Dogs’ chances. A
win over Tennessee would leave
Georgia with a 14-12 record and
five wins in their last seven games.
“That would be a good record for
them,” Powers said. He added that
finishing above .500 is the most
critical requirement for an invita
tion.
Georgia has not completely
abandoned hopes for the NCAA
tournament however.
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