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• • The Red and Black • Monday, April 29. 1996
SPORTS
Brown, Bobo impress
in G-Day scrimmage
By ROB KITCHEL
Staff Writer
No Georgia football player is more
excited about a week ofT after
Saturday's G-Day spring football scrim
mage than Larry Brown
Brown caught three passes for 56
yards as his Rt*l team rolled to a 25-0
victory in front of more than 10.000
people at Clarke Central High School’s
Death Valley. Now the tight end/bas
ketball forward is looking forward to a
week of relaxing after a grueling season
of basketball conditioning, followed by
two weeks of football practice
‘He should have been
going to the prom tonight
instead of playing in an
SEC game.’
- Georgia coach Jim
Donnan on freshman
Michael Usry’s G-Day
performance
“I’m looking forward to resting for a
while." Brown said. “I had to go from
basketball shape to football shape very
quickly. Now I have a week to relax be
fore hitting the weight room."
Brown will have a chance to gamer
All-SEC honors on the football field this
fall. New Georgia coach Jim Donnan
said he likes to get his tight ends in
volved in the game, and he likes what
he has seen from Brown so far
“I was real happy with Larry,"
Donnan said. “He dropped one pass,
but he came back after that. He looked
real good out there "
Brown wasn’t the only player who
caught Donnan’s attention Starting
quarterback Mike Bobo looked sharp in
his first action in front of fans since
breaking his leg against Ole Miss last
year. Bobo completed 9-of-21 passes for
133 yards, and several of the incomple
tions were dropped.
Michael Usry, a freshman who grad
uated from high school early to be at
spring practice, played well. Usry, who
is competing for Bobo’s backup role,
completed 8-of-14 passes for 98 yards.
He also led his team to one touchdown.
“He should have been going to the
prom tonight instead of playing in an
SEC game." Donnan said. “We’re real
happy to have him in here."
Senior running back Odell Collins
carried most of the running load in the
absence of Georgia’s top two returning
backs. Robert Edwards is recovering
from a broken foot and twisted ankle,
and Torin Kirtsey sat out because of a
pulled hamstring. Collins, who gained
only 41 yards last season, ran for 98
yards in the scrimmage.
“1 thought his ability to break tack
les was good." Donnan said. “But he
GAVIN AVERIU./Ttir Red and Black
Marisa Simpson tries to break a tackle in Saturday’s G-Day
game. Simpson rushed for 28 yards and a touchdown.
showed some quickness too."
The defensive secondary also played
played well, intercepting six passes.
Sophomore Kirby Smart had two of the
picks, including one he returned 25
yards for a touchdown.
The kicking game was the only area
that wasn’t impressive Saturday. Dax
Langley, the punter, missed a 26-yard
field goal and kicked an extra-point at
tempt under the cross bar. Andy
Kardian, a walk-on last year with a
strong leg. attempted a 47-yarder late
in the game. The kick floated, twisted
and hit the crossbar before bouncing
over for three points.
“Hopefully that last kick was sym
bolic of what our season will be like."
Donnan said. “Hopefully we’ll get a lot
of good bounces.”
FANFARE
Top-ranked Florida swept Vanderbilt en route to the SEC
Women's Tennis Championship in Gainesville. Fla., Sunday.
The Lady Gators didn’t need to play the doubles matches, as
they won all six singles matches to clinch the title.
Lady Netters fall
in SEC semifinal'
By DANIEL POUNSKY
Staff Writer
Although his team didn’t win the Southeastern
Conference Tennis Championship over the weekend, head
coach Jeff Wallace said he was satisfied with the effort of the
Lady Netters.
“We’ve had more of our share of bad breaks this season,
but we saved our best for last,” Wallace said.
Starting the season ranked No. 5 in the ITA poll, the Lady
Netters slipped to No. 17 before the start of the SEC
Tournament. With a first-round loss, the team might have
been in jeopardy of missing out on the NCAA Tournament.
However, Wallace’s team came out fighting and took two
matches before eventually falling in the semifinals.
Friday afternoon, Georgia (11-13 overall, 6-8 SEC) took on
No. 14 South Carolina, a team that had beaten the Lady
Netters 6-3 earlier this season in Athens.
As in the previous match, both squads garnered three*
points in singles as Michelle Anderson, Jane Reid and
Nadine van de Walle all won for the I^ady Bulldogs. However,
unlike last time when the Lady Gamecocks swept Georgia,
the Lady Netters won two of the three doubles matches to
pull out a 5-4 win.
“It’s about time we won a 5-4 match,” Wallace said. “This
is the second win in this tournament over a team that we lost
to in the regular season. It shows that our players are work
ing on the things that they need to get better."
Saturday against No. 10 Vanderbilt (21-5, 11-2) was a dif
ferent story for the Lady Netters. Georgia managed to extend
the match to doubles, arguably its strongest area. But the
team couldn’t recover from singles losses.
“I really thought that we needed to win more singles
matches," Wallace said. “We were playing good doubles at
one and three, but they were playing very good at No. 2. Our
No. 2 team hasn’t been dominated like that all year long."
The I^ady Netters must wait now to find out if they will
play in the NCAA Tournament, which begins May 17 in
Tallahassee, Fla.
All is not lost: Brown wins vault title
By ANDREW HEALAN
Staff Writer
The Gym Dogs didn't leave
Tuscaloosa with the team title,
but did return to Athens with a
National Champion.
Leah Brown won the NCAA ti
tle on the vault. She bested de
fending champion Jenny Hansen
of Kentucky, who finished second.
Kim Arnold joined Brown with
All-American status on the vault,
placing sixth. Georgia got second-
place finishes from Jenni
Beathard on the uneven parallel
bars and Lori Strong and Karin
Lichey on the balance beam.
Brown also finished seventh on
beam.
Brown continued her domina
tion of Coleman Coliseum with
two vaults averaging a 9.95. the
first being a 10. Unlike team com
petition where only the best vault
score counts, in individual compe
tition both vaults are averaged to
gether to determine the gym
nast’s score.
Brown scored a 10 every time
she went down the runway in
Tuscaloosa this season, with a 10
in Georgia’s March 1 dual meet at
Alabama, a 10 in Thursday’s pre
liminaries and a 10 in Friday’s
team finals.
“I can vault here any day,”
Brown said. “I was really excited
to be able to hit when I needed
to.”
Brown, considered one of the
nation's top vaulters since scoring
a 10 in her first meet as a fresh
man. had never won a postseason
vault title until she took first at
this year’s SEC Championships.
“Leah was definitely in the
zone all weekend on vault,” head
coach Suzanne Yoculan said. “She
was pretty much in total control
of what she was doing."
Saturday also marked the end
of an era in Georgia gymnastics,
as Strong put on the velvet and
sequins one last time. After hit
ting a solid beam routine for a 9.9,
Strong turned and waved
farewell to the cheering Georgia
faithful.
“I was very happy to end on a
positive note," Strong said. “That
was my main goal. I had fun.”
But Strong said the individual
honors didn’t take away the sting
of Friday night’s disappointing
third-place team finish.
“Nothing is a consolation," she
said. “Winning a team champi
onship is the best, and not win
ning is not so great. I look at
things in the big picture. I look at
my performance on the beam, the
season and all four years, and
that’s what I’ll look at in a couple
of months when I sit back and an
alyze my career."
Strong and Lichey tied
UCLA’s Stella Umeh as beam
runners-up, while Utah freshman
Summer Reid claimed the title
with a 9.925.
Beathard tied for second on
bars with Heather Bennett of
Oregon State with a 9.95, as
Alabama’s Stephanie Woods took
top honors with a 9.975.
For the first time since 1990,
the Gym Dogs didn't have an ath
lete in the floor exercise finals.
The floor title was shared by Kim
Kelly of Alabama and Heidi
Hombeek of Arizona.
MARK ADAMS/The Red and Black
Suzanne Yoculan and Leah Brown celebrate Brown's 10 in Friday
night's team finals. Brown won the NCAA vault title with an average
of 9.95 for her two vaults in Saturday's individual competition.
Late-inning troubles still doom Diamond Dogs
By ROB KITCHEL
Staff Writer
The Diamond Dogs lost two of
three games to No. 3 Florida in
Gainesville, Fla., over the weekend,
edging closer to elimination from the
Southeastern Conference
Tournament. With only six games re
maining, the Dogs are four games out
of eighth place, the final tourney spot
in the SEC.
The Dogs dropped to 21-25 overall
and 7-17 in the SEC.
The Dogs were in control most of
the game, but in the late innings the
Gators hit relievers Bruce Link and
Watson for five runs to win 8-4.
Georgia was clinging to a one-
run lead in the seventh inning
when Link replaced freshman
Zack Frachiseur. Chris Chism,
the first batter Link faced, singled
to left field. Chism scored on Mark
Ellis’ single to tie the score at 4.
The loss dropped Link’s record to
6-5.
Before Florida’s half of the
eighth, Georgia coach Steve
Webber ejected from the game for
the second time this year.
In the eighth, Eric Castaldo led
off the inning with a single. Rick
Eckstein doubled Castaldo to
third. Both scored on Chism’s double. Watson
relieved Link, but he wasn’t effective. He threw
Steve Webber
Mark
a wild pitch that scored Chism and gave up an
RBI single to Mark Ellis.
Saturday, the Dogs lost 9-8 in 12 innings.
Georgia took an 8-6 lead in the 11th, but
Florida came back to tie the score on a wild
pitch from Josh Salmon. Watson (1-3) gave up
the winning run when he threw the ball away
at third base, allowing Rick Eckstein to score.
It was Georgia’s 11th one-run loss of the year.
Friday. Georgia earned its only win of the
series as Billy Gasparino, Chris Stowers and
Chip Wade all hit home runs in the 12-10 vic
tory. Link pitched 5 */g innings in relief of Josh
Gandy to get the win.
Georgia hosts Georgia Tech Tuesday night.
The Dogs lost to the Jackets 4-3 last Tuesday in
Atlanta as the Dogs struck out with the bases
loaded to end the eighth and ninth innings.
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Phelps makes Olympic trials
By JON GALLO
Staff Writer
While former
University standout
Gwen Torrence was sup
posed to headline this
past weekend’s Drake
Relays, two current
tracksters took the track
world by surprise.
Senior Dillon Phelps,
whose season-best in the
high jump had been 7-
feet-3-inches, leaped 7-5
to finish second behind
Tennessee’s Olympic hopeful Randy
Jenkins. The second-place finish
qualified Phelps for June’s U.S.
Olympic Trials, leaving him a step
away from seeing Olympic action.
“It feels good to finally get it,"
said Phelps, a native of Powder
Springs. “I’ve been consistently
around 7-3 all season, and I knew it
was just a matter of time. This
morning I knew 1 was ready to go
high. The weather was good, too,
and everything seemed to work out.”
Senior Gudrun Amardottir, who
holds the fastest collegiate time of
the year in the 400-meter hurdles,
Dillon Phelps
56.96, continued her
winning ways. She
placed first with a time
of 57.90. Amardottir
also won the 100-meter
hurdles with an NCAA
provisional time of
13.42.
“Time-wise, my 100
hurdles went better
than the 400 hurdles,"
Amardottir said. “I hit
a few hurdles in the
preliminaries of the
100, but the finals
went pretty well. I
stayed smooth the whole way and
had a good finish.”
In the relay events, the 4x100
team of junior Yolanda Flowers,
freshman Tanja Reid, junior Larika
Burton and sophomore Debbie
Ferguson continued to see its time
drop. The foursome won the event
with an NCAA provisional qualify
ing time of 44.38, leaving it just .08
seconds away from automatically
qualifying for June’s NCAA
Championships in Eugene, Ore.
Torrence, the world’s No. 1-
ranked woman in the 100 and 200,
won the 200 in a time of 22.62.
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