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The Red and Black » Thursday. May 20,1993 » B
SPORTS
McGuire, Sell win first round
Mike Sell advances in the NCAA singles tournament.
One last chance
head to tournament
John Hill is a member of the Diamond Dogs pitching
staff—one of the only successful aspects of the team.
By JOSH KENDALL
Sports Editor
After Tuesday night’s heart
breaking loss to USC in the
NCAA finals on Tuesday night,
two Bulldogs bounced back strong
with first round wins in the sin
gles division of the tournament.
The country’s second-ranked
player, Wade McGuire, breezed to
an easy win against Washington’s
Chet Crile while Mike Sell took
three sets to finally eliminate
Steve Flannigan of West Virginia.
McGuire defeated Crile in
straight sets 6-1, 6-1. Crile was
ranked No. 19 in the country be
fore the tournament.
That match was for my team
mates who never gave up on me
all year and for Bobby
Mariencheck who got overlooked
for the singles tournament,"
McGuire said.
Mariencheck is ranked No. 43
and was not selected to partici
pate in the tournament.
Sell had played Crile before
and discussed Crile’s style with
McGuire before the match.
“We talked a little about it,"
McGuire said. “Mike said he was
a solid player and that was pret
ty much right on target.”
Despite the grueling recent
schedule and Tuesday night’s let
down, McGuire looked very sharp
in his victory.
“I felt really good out there,” he
said. “Fortunately, I was able to
dictate the pace.”
“(Wade) looked very comfort
able," Bulldog head coach Manuel
Diaz said. This was probably his
smoothest match all week.”
“Wade is even stronger than he
appears,” he said. “He showed a
lot of resiliency today.”
“What we played for (Tuesday)
night is what I came back to
school for and I’m just mentally
drained," McGuire said.
Thankfully, I was able to put
that aside today.”
McGuire will face University of
Alabama at Birmingham’s
Michael Kirsten at 11:00 a.m. to
day. Unfamiliar with Kirsten and
his style of play, McGuire said he
would rely on his coaches to pre
pare him.
“Ill just get the dope from my
coaches,” he said.
Sell whose match started just
after 4:30 finished a few short
minutes before McGuire who
didn’t start until 6:20. After a
long and grueling first set, Sell re
bounded to take the last two sets
in short order.
He defeated Flannigan 6-7, 6-
2, 6-2. The first set tiebreaker
score was 13-11 in favor of
Flannigan. Sell faced three set
points before finally double fault
ing to end the set.
He countered with a quick
break of serve in the second set
that seemed to weaken
Flannigan’s resolve.
“I think he was relieved (that
he won the tiebreaker),” Sell said.
“He got a little relaxed and I got
that break and he went down
from there.”
McGuire, who played
Flannigan earlier in the year,
gave Sell some tips on
Flannigan’s game, especially his
powerful serve.
“Wade told me to be light on
my feet because of his big serve,”
Sell said. “I knew if I could return
(his serve) low and consistent, 1
could win.”
Sell, who is a friend of
Flannigan’s, said that just added
another dimension to the match.
“Steve and I are friends, and it
is hard to play a friend,” he said.
Sell had to fight through the
same fatigue and disappointment
that McGuire did.
“I woke up sore this morning,”
he said. “Thank God it was a late
afternoon match.”
“Playing for the team is 10
times as nice as playing for my
self. But I am still representing
Georgia and I have to play tennis
as a Bulldog,” he said.
Sell will play Ernesto Diaz of
Boise St. at 12:30 today.
Bulldogs
Diamond
Dogs begin
SEC Tourney
in last place
By JOHN TURCO
Staff Writer
Up until a few years ago, when
September roiled around and the
baseball season was just begin
ning to heat up, the Atlanta
Braves were in the cellar with
their season long since finished.
That is the exact position the
Georgia Bulldogs find themselves
in as they begin play at the
University of South Carolina in
the 1993 SEC Tournament. The
college baseball season is just
heating up and the Dogs, with a
record of 28-27 (8-16 in the SEC),
are the cellar dwellers of the SEC
Eastern Division and have virtu
ally no opportunity to advance to
the NCAA Regional Tournament.
So the Dogs, just as the Braves
have done in years past, will be
playing for nothing more than
their pride.
Georgia, the sixth seed, will
play their first game at 7:30
tonight against top seed and host
South Carolina (38-16-1,15-8-1 in
the SEC). Georgia was 1-2 against
the Game Cocks in the regular
season. Being a double-elimina
tion tournament, the Dogs will
play at least two games. Win or
lose, the Dogs will play their sec
ond-round game on Friday. A win
in their first game will pit the
Dogs with the loser of the Florida-
Kentucky game. If the Dogs lose
their first game, they will take on
the loser of the Tennessee-
Vanderbilt game. If they can win
one game they will be garunteed a
.500 record on the season. If not,
the *93 Dogs will be only the sec
ond Georgia team to finish below
.500 since 1977. The other team
was the ’91 Dogs, who finished at
27-31.
Georgia is also entering the
tournament on a sour note, hav
ing dropped three straight games
to Vanderbilt to finish the season.
In fact, the Dogs have been losers
of all but three of their last 12
games.
Although the season was a sub-
par one for the Dogs in the win-
loss column, the Bulldog pitchers
posted the lowest ERA for a
Georgia staff since 1977. Their
mark of 3.97 ranks them fifth in
the SEC. Unfortunately the solid
pitching wasn’t given much sup
port, as the Dogs finished the sea
son last in the SEC with a .264
team batting average, which,
aside from the .255 they posted in
’91, is the lowest team average
they’ve had since they hit .252 in
1974. The Dogs also finished last
in the SEC with a .950 team field
ing percentage. Georgia averaged
just under two errors per game as
they committed 107 miscues in 55
games this season.
The injury list will also be
working against the Dogs going
into the tournament, as freshman
left fielder Chris Stowers is still
out with a broken hand, which he
sustained May 5. Right fielder
Reggie Ingram is listed as day-to-
day with a bruised shoulder. He
injured his shoulder when he
crashed into the outfield wall in a
game against Kentucky on May 9.
Ingram’s streak of 115 consecu
tive starts ended over the week
end, as he missed all three of the
games against Vanderbilt. Also
listed as day-to-day is freshman
designated hitter/third baseman
Jeff Roesler, who is suffering from
a pulled groin.
Intramural
notes
All of Wednesday’s washed
out intramural softball play
offs have been rescheduled for
today at the same time.
Wednesday’s early morn
ing thunderstorms essentially
moved the entire tournament
back one day, as the sched
uled Thursday games will be
played on Monday.
Over 160 teams are in the
single elimination tourna
ment in men’s, women’s and
coed divisions. Unless anoth
er storm hits, the tournament
should end around Memorial
Day weekend.
—J.J. Cooper
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