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SPORTS
Castellano and Catlin capture title
Bulldogs go on scoring kick
By KEVIN WUZZAMX)
Til Rid * Black
Marina Catlin and Vanessa
Castellano captured the first leg
of college tennis' triple crown,
winning the women's
doubles title at the ITA
national clay court
championships In
Baltimore on Sunday
Catlin. a Junior, and
Castellano, a senior,
were the tournament's
top-seeded duo They
defeated Celeste Frey
and Mariana Eberle of
Ole Miss 64, 6-2.
"We Just wanted to
go out and play basic
doubles, and to make It
as simple as we could."
Catlin said
Catlin and Castellano made
things simple throughout the
tournament They lost only 13 In
games and did not lose a set In
their four matches.
The tournament was Catlln's
first since April. In May, she was
ranked No. 1 in the country In
singles and No. 1 In doubles with
Castellano. However, a case of
mononucleosis forced Catlin to
withdraw from the NCAA
Championships at Notre Dame.
Catlin, currently ranked No. 2
In singles and doubles, withdrew
from the singles draw Sept. 23,
the night before the tournament
began. The extra rest seemed to
pay off. But, when asked If she
thought not
playing singles
helped her,
Catlin said no.
“Actually
not, being that
it was my first
tournament,"
Catlin said.
"(But), I've
been feeling
better.”
Earlier In
the day, Frey
defeated
O e o r g i a ' s
Esther Knox 6-1, 6-4 in the
women’s singles consolation
final.
On the men's side, senior
Hlsham Hemeda. the tourna
ment's third seed, was blown
away In the singles champi
onship. TCU's Esteban Carril
took Just 55 minutes to beat
Hemeda 6-2, 6-0.
“He Just played real well
today,” Hemeda said of Carril.
"He didn't make many mistakes,
and he didn't give me anything.
The way he played didn't make
me play good. It’s not like I
played bad He was the one that
forced me to play bad."
Still, Hemeda was happy with
the way he played In Baltimore
overall.
"I had a great tour
nament." he said “I'm
glad that I was able to
make it to the finals. In
my two matches
(Saturday) I was down
In the first one, and In
the semis I was cramp
ing In the tie breaker.
So, I'm not really disap
pointed. (Carril) Just
played great.”
The National Clay
Courts is the first of
four major tournaments
that make up college tennis'
triple crown. The others are the
ITA All-Americans in October,
the USTA National Team
Indoors in February and the
NCAA Championships In May.
Georgia's women will take
next weekend off before return
ing to action Oct. 9-12 at the
SEC Fall Championships in
Fayetteville, Ark. The men will
host the Southern Collegiate
Championships starting Friday
at Henry Field Stadium.
CASTELLANO
CATLIN
Lady Spikers dominate
first two SEC matches
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Record
1 Ohio St.
3-0
2 Nebraska
4-0
3 Tennessee
4-0
4 UCLA
2-0
5. Kansas St
4-0
6 LSU
34
7 Penn St
34
8. Florida
3-1
9 Florida St
3-1
10 Virginia
44
11 Syracuse
2-1
12. Georgia
34
13. Wisconsin
44
14 Arizona
44
15 Colorado
44
16 Wes! Virginia
2-1
17. Oregon
44
18 TexasA4M
3-1
19 Virginia Tech
44
20. Washington
2-1
21. Southern Cal
3-1
22. Arkansas
34
23. Missoun
2-1
23 Notre Dame
2-1
25. Michigan
2-2
Record
1. Ohio St.
34
2 Nebraska
44
3 Kansas St
44
4. UCLA
24
5 Tennessee
34
6. LSU
34
7 Perm St.
34
8 Florida
3-1
9 Virginia
44
10 Florida St.
3-1
11. Syracuse
2-1
12. Georgia
34
13. Wisconsin
44
14. Arizona
44
15. Colorado
44
16 Virginia Tach
• 44
17. Oregon
44
17. West Virginia
2-1
19. Texas A4M
2-2
20 Washington
2-1
21. Missoun
2-1
22. Southern Cal
3-1
23 Noire Dame
2-1
24. Arkansas
34
25 Tulane
34
By JOSH KATZOWITZ
The Red a Black
Just one day before the
wrath of Hurricane Georges is
supposed to hit Mississippi, the
Georgia volleyball team
released Its own fury on the
Magnolia State by destroying
Ole Miss on Friday and
Mississippi State on Sunday.
Georgia <4-7, 2-0 SEC)
Jumped out to a fast start in
Starkville
on Sunday,
winning
the first
two games
before
cruising to
a 15-8,15-8,
7-15, 15-8
victory.
Junior
setter
Mindi
Westfall
recorded a
career-high
69 assists,
and junior outside hitter Kathy
Vis led the attack with 26 kills.
Defensively, freshman Stacy
Buerger recorded her own
career-high as she tallied 27
digs.
“We came In and took hold of
the match from the start," assis
tant coach Melinda Claiborne
said. "We had a little bit of a let
down in the third game, but we
finished strong. Our team really
pulled together and overcame
the gym conditions. It was really
hot, and fatigue was a factor."
Although the Lady Dogs
dropped the first game in
Friday's match 15-12, Georgia
rebounded with games of 15-13,
15-3 and 15-9 to knock off the
Rebels In Oxford.
Junior middle blocker Cassie
Brill showed no ill effects from
the flu, which sidelined her in
last week's Outback
Invitational, as she led Georgia
with 16 kills and a .476 hitting
percentage. On defense, junior
Rebecca Dady recorded 13 digs,
a match-high, and Westfall
assisted 57 Lady Dog kills.
“We struggled at first and
then we took control of the
match,” Claiborne said. "Once
we found our rhythm, we played
good team volleyball. Everyone
just played good, solid volley
ball."
Courtney Shealy, who played
in place of injured freshman
Kristine Keese (inflamed shoul
der), and Vis each blocked six
shots as Georgia totaled a sea
son-high of 24.
Next on the docket, the Lady
Bulldogs host a powerful
Florida team (11-2, 2-0) Oct 4
at the Ramsey Volleyball Arena.
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Brunswick, N.J., sends the ball upheld past an Arkansas
player.
By LINDSAY RIDDELL
The Red a Black
Remember when the Georgia
women's soccer team couldn't
score?
Well neither does anyone else
alter the 5-0 flogging the
Bulldogs gave to Arkansas
Sunday after the Women's
Soccer Stadium was officially
dedicated by Vince Dooley and
head coach Bill Barker.
Sunday's Bulldogs were noth
ing like the team that was
shutout by SEC foes Florida and
South Carolina two weeks ago.
These Bulldogs turned eight
shots into four goals In the first
35 minutes of play.
“It seems like in the past we
Just couldn't connect,” said
senior Nikki Omelaz, who scored
Georgia's third goal. “We did
some shooting before the game
and I think that we got all our
bad ones out."
But it wasn't only the 26 shots
that helped lead the Bulldogs to
their first SEC win of the season.
The Dogs’ .dominant defense
held Arkansas to only one shot
in the first half, keeping pressure
on the Razorbacks' half of the
field and winning the majority of
50-50 balls.
The Bulldog's defense kept
the ball away from starting keep
er Meredith Mclntire, who is fill
ing in for Nicole Williams, who is
out temporarily with a deep
bruise on her knee
"We were moving the ball
around a lot more and working
with each other and looking for
each others' runs a lot more,"
senior Jen Ahem said.
The experienced seniors once
again monopolized the first-half
goal scoring. Mandy Aiken start
ed the scoring off for the Dogs
when Allison Thomburry sent a
bouncing cross from the left cor
ner which caught Aiken on the
run. Aiken slid the ball past
Arkansas keeper Jennifer Traw
to the left comer in the 11th
minute of play for her fourth goal
of the season.
Senior Jen Lewis followed
Aiken's lead, just as she did in
Friday’s 2-1 win over Louisiana
State, hooking a Danielle Jordan
assisted shot into the upper
right comer.
Omelaz continued the every-
other-shot scoring drive, sending
a high ball into the upper comer
for the third goal in six Georgia
shots.
Then, with 11 minutes to go in
the first half, junior Sheila
Gartman took a shot that was
slowed by an Arkansas defender
only to end up at senior
Thomburry's feet. Traw, already
sliding for Gartman's shot, had
no chance of handling
Thomburry who sent the ball
into the open goal for Georgia's
fourth goal.
After running up the first-half
score, Barker sent in the pups,
subbing in the entire bench at
some point in the second half.
Redshirt freshman Amy
Berbary, who came off the bench
in the 71st minute, headed in
Georgia s fifth and final goal off a
Suzannah Weathersbee cross.
Berbary's goal marks the first
goal scored by a non-senior this
season.
Women’s golf wins
Georgia's No. 4 women's golf team, without 1998
SEC Freshman and Player of the Year Reilley
Rankin, won the Tiger Invitational in Auburn
Saturday.
Georgia freshman Summer Sirmons captured
first place in her collegiate debut on the fourth
hole of a five-player playoff which included two of
her teammates.
Sirmons, fellow freshman Angela Jerman and
junior Shauna Estes, the 1997 SEC Freshman and
Player of the Year, all finished Saturday's second-
round at one-under 143.
Florida State was second behind Georgia before
Sunday s scheduled final round was cancelled due
to Hurricane Georges.
Reilley, who had her appendix removed this
week, is expected to only miss Georgia's next tour
nament, the Fall Preview in Tulsa, Okla., Oct. 5-7.
— Kevin Wuezardo
without Rankin
SPORTS NOTEBOOK
Cross Country
The University women’s and men’s cross coun
try teams placed second and fourth respectively at
the Birmingham Classic on Saturday
Sophomore Laura McKinley placed third for
the women In the 5K while junior Erin Jones
recorded her second straight top-10 finish of the
season in the same race, placing eighth.
On the men's side, sophomore Kevin Pierobon
ran to his third-straight top-five finish this fall in
the 8K with a time of 24:58.
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