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Lady Dogs look to fix defensive woes
By RYAN BLACK
The Red & Buck
The Georgia women’s bas
ketball team faces an oppo
nent tonight that may be
exactly what it needs to get
back on the right track after
losing to Georgia Tech
Sunday.
The Mercer Lady Bears
come to Athens sporting a
1-6 record on the season.
The two teams also share
a common opponent
Georgia Southern.
The Lady Bulldogs beat
the Lady Golden Eagles in its
season opener 58-43 on Nov.
14 in Stegeman Coliseum.
Mercer did not find the
same success two days later
against Georgia Southern,
falling to the Lady Golden
Eagles 71-52 in Statesboro.
Lady Bulldogs (6-2) head
coach Andy Landers said he
feels the biggest issue the
team needs to solve is on the
defensive end of the court.
“We’re really not deter
mined enough defensively on
the perimeter l’m
shocked,” he said after the
Georgia Tech loss. “I’m really
shocked we gave up what we
gave up on the perimeter.”
Senior forward Porsha
Phillips echoed Landers’ sen
timents, stressing the impor
tance of being on the same
page as her teammates.
“We weren’t communicat
ing well defensively,” she said.
“We didn’t communicate and
we gave them a lot of shots
and easy buckets.”
But Landers said he knows
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score him a spot on the team.
Robinson had just finished a suc
cessful sophomore basketball campaign
for Tennessee State, scoring a team
high 17.8 points per game to earn All-
Ohio Valley Conference Second-Team
honors. He led the Tigers in every major
statistical category, and surpassed 1,000
career points during the season.
Meanwhile, the Tennessee
State men’s tennis team faced
the conflict of ineligible players,
and head coach Gerald Robinson
Sr., Robinson’s father, had roster
spots to fill.
Having played in tennis
leagues in his native Nashville,
Tenn., when he was young,
Robinson Jr., was brought in to
play on the team.
“They had a few people who
had some problems late in the semester
coming into the season, so it was kind
of a last-minute thing,” Robinson said.
While being as athletic as any other
player on the court, Robinson lacked
something his teammates had plenty of—
formal training.
His only experience in organized ten
nis was youth camps and tournaments
when he was young. In high school,
Robinson left all his other athletic
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After playing four of their
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face a 1-6 Mercer squad.
•What: Lady Dogs vs.
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When: Tonight at 7
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improvement comes with
experience, and that is some
thing Georgia lacks
Phillips and junior Meredith
Mitchell are the only upper
classmen on the team.
“We’ve got to get better,”
he said. “Those two freshman
guards [Khaalidah Miller and
Ronika Ransford] I love
them —but they hurt us
[against Georgia Tech]. I love
them, and they’re going to be
very good players, but they’re
just not ready yet, and
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we’ve kept it really simple
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“We were really busy with basketball
in high school. Kind of like at the col
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people on our team had too much time
to play any other sports. I thought
about running track and playing tennis
but I just really didn’t have much time
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▲ Porsha Phillips and the Lady Dogs return to
Stegeman Coliseum to face Mercer tonight, looking
to bounce back from a loss to rival Georgia Tech.
with all of our players.
“You need to get better at
this tomorrow and the next
day and the next day until
you’re better.”
To further emphasize his
point about the team’s need
ed improvement, Landers
said the old adage that a
team is “only as strong as its
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racket for the first time for
Tennessee State, he faced colle
giate-level competition without
any strategy just the drive to
win.
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The Tennessee State transfer has
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The Red a Black | Tuesday, December 7, 2010 |
Dogs look for
back-to-back
wins over Tech
By MITCH BLOMERT
The Red & Black
There is more on the line than just state
bragging rights when the Georgia men’s bas
ketball team heads to Atlanta for tonight’s
contest with Georgia Tech.
A win would give the Bulldogs (5-2) two in
a row against the Yellow Jackets (4-3) for the
first time since 2002. A win would open up
new opportunities for in-state dominance of a
sport that historically falls second to its North
Avenue rivals.
“They know each other,” head coach Mark
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extends beyond this state’s boundaries. It’s a
very healthy rivalry in all sports. I think that’s
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Jeremy Price committed to
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Junior guard Travis Leslie followed Price to
Athens to join the Bulldogs, meaning that
three former high school teammates will
reunite on the court tonight —but not all in
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“I’m kind of cool with all their players,”
Leslie said. “So if we get to win I can talk a lot
of trash.”
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they always had a better program. But our
program is on the rise now, and if they see us
winning the game, they’ll be like ‘Oh, Georgia
has made a turnaround.’”
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cantly different tone than that of last season.
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Tech team 73-66.
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Legends Tournament in Atlantic City, then
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and has to rebuild their team on the fly,” Fox
said. “I like their talent, and I like how he
[Georgia Tech head coach Paul Hewitt] is
using their talent.”
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