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Thursday, May 8, 2008
Plenty happening on The Flats
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Campus may be nearly dead, as school’s out at Tech, but it’ll be busy this weekend. If you’re looking for a pleasant, low-stress way to spend time, there’s tennis and baseball aplenty.
The defending national champion womens tennis team (19-5) begins defense of its title with a noon match Friday against Alcorn State (13-12). Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for students and children. Tech is seeded No. 3 nationally, behind Northwestern and Georgia. A win there matches the Yellow Jackets Saturday at 1 against the winner of Friday’s 3 p.m. match between Illinois and Tennessee.
Great atmosphere if you’ve never been, particularly if the weather is nice. Parking will be far more plentiful than it was for the spring football game. Seriously.
The netters, led by All-Americans Kristi Miller (who graduated last Saturday with a 4.0 GPA and a 32-9 singles mark this season) and Amanda McDowell (36-8) will later send a Tech-record five players to the NCAA singles tournament (Miller, McDowell, Whitney McCray, Kirsten Flower and Maya Johansson).
The baseball team has kind of been treading water in the ACC (12-12), but the Jackets have a huge series at home against Clemson, which is way down from most years (looking at first sub-.500 ACC record since 1972). Tickets are $5 for adults, and $3 for seniors and children. They play at 7 on Friday and Saturday, and 1 on Sunday.
Tech is trying to win the right to host a regional, maybe even a super regional, and needs to perform well over the final seven games.
Check out freshman SS Derek Dietrich, and converted pitcher Charlie Blackmon, now a hot-hitting OF. And 3B Brad Feltes is a great example of player development, a senior who has ramped up his production dramatically in his final season.
Have fun.
