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BASS: Pair reels in
national tourney
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victory.
“It was a great accom
plishment for us,” Cleary
said.
Due to their win, the
pair automatically quali
fied for the 2011 Bass
Federation National
Championship, which
Page revealed he is
already getting a start
on.
“To prepare for the
Bass Federation National
Championship I plan to
research the lake and get
as much information as
possible,” Page said.
“Hopefully I can figure
out a pattern.”
Cleary, a rising junior
at the University, grew up
in Covington. Cleary first
started fishing when he
was three years old, and
at fourteen began com
petitive fishing.
“I love the competition
more than anything,”
Cleary said. Cleary is cur
rently an Agribusiness
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major and said he may
pursue a career in profes
sional fishing or with an
outdoor company.
Aside from fishing, he
said he enjoys many
things any normal
University of Georgia stu
dent would.
“I love to hang out
with the guys on the fish
ing team,” he said. “I like
to go to Georgia sporting
events, especially foot
ball.”
Cleary Is home for the
summer, but plans to
continue to fish for
Georgia when he returns
in the fall.
Page, a recent
University alumnus from
Canton, began fishing In
college and said he enjoys
the competition ‘aspect
most about the sport.
The Lewisville win was
huge for Page.
“It was the highlight of
my fishing career,” he
said. “I just graduated so
It put a good end to my
fishing career at UGA.”
VARIETY A SPORTS
Men’s tennis finishes at No. 11
By MITCH BLOMERT
For The Red & Black
When it comes to the NCAA Division I top men’s ten
nis players, there’s no lack of Georgia standouts on the
list.
“I’m very excited with how the end of our season
went, ending in the Final Fhur,” Bulldogs head coach
Manuel Diaz said. “It showed the resiliency and tough
ness of this team.”
The No. II Bulldogs (21-8) had three players ranked
In singles and two teams ranked In doubles in the
Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s finals rankings of
the 2009-10 season released Monday.
The number of ranked Georgia players is an improve
ment from September’s preseason rankings, which still
had three singles players, but only one doubles team.
The rankings come two weeks after the Bulldogs
advanced to the NCAA Tournament semifinals before
losing to No. 2 Tennessee May 24.
Georgia was led by rising senior Javier Ganraplz, who
finished the season ranked No. 18 in singles after setting
a career-high with S3 wins. A native of Spain, he was 5-0
in NCAA Tournament team play and made an appear
ance in the Hound of 32 in singles. Garrapiz was named
an All-American by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association
for the first time in his career this season.
“It’s great to see guys with another year of eligibility
like Javi make good progress and get the high ranking
with the way he finished,” Diaz said.
Nate Schnugg was ranked No. 71 in the singles rank
ings after finishing his final season with a 24-16 record.
Rising senior Drake Bernstein also earned a spot In the
polls, coming in at No. 105 after a 32-13 season.
In doubles, Garrapiz and Schnugg finished the season
ranked No. 12, while Schnugg and senior Jamie Hunt
were listed at No. 37.
Schnugg and Hunt played as a doubles team for their
entire four-year career at Georgia, ending their run
together with a 17-9.
“It’s great to see Nate and Jamie recognized their
senior yesf,” Diaz said.
Jazz lovers welcome at jam sessions
By JEN INGLES
The Red and Black
Whether students are
looking to sit back, sip a
beverage and listen to
live music, or jump into
the fray and play some
music themselves, jazz
enthusiasts will find Cin6
in downtown Athens Is
the place to be.
Walking past the bar at
Cln6 and into a room lit
with dim, warmly toned
lights set in the high ceil
ing, one will find a den of
musicians.
Some are swaying and
rocking as they move
through a song and oth
ers are seated in chairs,
toes tapping and heads
bobbing, waiting for their
turn to play.
The man smiling as he
plays his solo on keys is
gray-haired and dressed
in cargo shorts and a
T-shirt.
This is Steve Key,
organizer of the jam ses
sions at Cin£.
The sessions were pre
viously organized by Karl
Friday in November 2009.
and were held originally
at Washington Street
Tavern and then Fat
Daddy's restaurant
before being taken over
by Cin6.
Management at Cin£
was looking to host a
musical event, so the ses
sions were moved to the
theater.
When Friday moved
out of town for an educa
tional sabbatical. Key
took over as the jam ses
sion’s organizer.
But the band Key is
charged with organizing
seems to he as nebulous
SONNY GOT BLUE
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as the structure of Jazz
itself.
Key begrudgingly
admits to having a hand
in getting people together
to play, but is quick to
assert that currently
there Is no leader nor any
real band.
The Jams are billed on
Cinq’s website as being
led and organized by a
group called Sonny Got
Blue.
But there is really no
band that is consistently
present, at least not in
the traditional sense.
The improvisations!
jazz sessions are a way for
jazz musicians to get out
and play, to hone their
skills and challenge and
leam from each other.
Some musicians show
up nearly every week to
play, while others come
with less regularity.
Essentially, Sonny Got
Blue is whoever shows up
on any particular night.
Patrick Atwater, a
University alumnus who
plays upright bass, has
attended jam sessions
since August 2009.
For him, the sessions
provide a sort of educa
tion and a place to meet
musical brothers-in-arms.
“I came here on a
whim,” Atwater said. “It’s
been the place where I’ve
wrapped my head around
jazz.”
It is easy to see that all
of the musicians care pas
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▲ Javier Garrapiz finished the season ranked
No. 18 in singles, while he and doubles partner
Nate Schnugg finished the season at No. 12.
sionately about having
this space to meet and
play jazz together.
Improvisation is essen
tial to jazz and every
incarnation of a song is
unique each time it is
played.
Passionate though
they are about jazz, sev
eral have musical roots
that began in other
genres.
Key has played rock,
alternative, gospel and
classical music, and is
mostly a self-taught art
ist.
He plays guitar as well
as piano, but first learned
music when his mother
gave him a ukulele when
he was only 3 years old.
"{Playing jazz] is an
opportunity to express
your innermost self,” Key
said.
Jason Peckham, a
drummer at the May 31
session, says he started
playing rock music as a
kid, but developed a sud
den interest in jazz
because it was a challeng
ing style of music to play.
“I knew it was the vir
tuosic style,” he said.
Peckham said he set
out to teach himself to
play jazz because he
aspired to be a great
musician.
He has been playing
regularly with Sonny Got
Blue since November and
enjoys the chance to push
himself and leam from
the artists with whom he
plays.
Atwater said whether
students come to join in
the music or just kick
back and enjoy, they
should come prepared to
listen.
Track and
field heads
toNCAAs
By RYAN BLACK
The Red & Black
And then there was one.
For the University of
Georgia track and field
team, only one event
remains this season the
NCAA Outdoor
Championships in Eugene,
Ore.
Ten Bulldogs qualified
in individual events, and
they made the trek across
the country for the
Championships, which
began June 8 and run
through June 10.
Head Coach Wayne
Norton said he is confident
his team will go out and
compete well, and possibly
have some athletes win
their respective events.
“We are in a situation in
which we have some of our
athletes ranked in the top
10, so those are ones who
have the best chance to
score at the NCAA meet,”
Norton said. “And we have
a good group who are not
ranked [as) high but who
have the potential to score
if they compete as well as
they have the last two
meets.”
The five men who quali
fied for the Outdoor
Championships are seniors
Israel Machovec (shot put)
and Branislav Danis (ham
mer), junior Cory Holman
(decathlon) and sopho
mores Aaron Evans (800-
meter run) and Brian
Moore (javelin).
For the women, the five
qualifiers are seniors
Bridget Lyons (10,000) and
Kat Majester (pole vault),
sophomore Nikola
Lomnicka (hammer) and
freshmen Maria Augutis
(triple jump) and Lucie
Ondraschkova (heptath
lon).
Evans is one of the favor
ites to take home the title
in the 800, as he finished as
the runner-up at the SEC
Championships where he
set a school record with a
time of 1:47.00. He then
bettered that mark and
lowered his school record
at the NCAA East
Preliminary Round in
Greensboro, N.C., finishing
in 1:46.26. Evans’s time Is
also the fastest posted by
anyone in the NCAA this
year in the 800.
Another Bulldog expect
ed to be battling for first in
her event is Lomnicka in
the hammer throw. She is
the defending SEC cham
pion in the event, and her
winning throw at the
Florida Relays of 216 feet, 9
inches is the second-lon
gest in the nation this year.
Moore, Machovec and
Lyons all won the individu
al titles at the SEC meet
and will be trying to accom
plish the same feat at the
NCAAs.
Norton said he is pleased
with the continued
Improvement of. this year’s
team.
“We have had a good
year in which the team has
improved throughout," he
said. “Many of our athletes
have had personal-bests
this season, which suggests
we are still getting better.”