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ihc ©amtcock Volleyball Gamecock volleyball takes two wins in homestand against Mississippi foes by Charles Tomlinson The Gamecock The South Carolina volleyball team defeated Mississippi State 3-1 Sunday and Mississippi 3-0 Friday, improving its record to 18-4 overall and 9-1 in the Southeastern Confer ence. USC has won 14 of its last 15 matches. The team’s only loss came to SEC East-leading Florida. The Gamecocks have a weekend off before facing Tennessee in Knoxville Nov. 3 and Kentucky in Lexington Nov. 5. South Carolina 3, Mississippi State 1(Sunday) USC won its second match of the weekend against Mississippi State 3 1. The Gamecocks won the first two games 15-3 and 16-14 before drop ping the third 15-13. Carolina re bounded in the fourth game, winning 15-5 tO’dinch the win. The Bulldogs saw their record drop to 14-10 overall and 1-8 in the conference. They became the fourth SEC team in a row that USC has held under .100 in hitting per centage. USC is also 6-0 against SEC West teams this season. Milica Perovic’s 12 kills led the Gamecocks to victory. USC strug gled in the match, hitting just .153. MSU wasn’t nrich better, hitting .078. The Gamecocks won 15-3 in the first game and were sparked by aces from Berna Dwyer and Cally Plummer. Plummer hit three aces in game two to get USC out to an early 3-2 lead. Carolina began to run away with the game, but the Bulldogs rallied to tie it at 13 and then take a 14-13 lead. However, USC went on to score three straight points and win the game lb 14. r1 ■" MSU went up 13-9 and then 14 10 in game three. USC tied it at 14, but the Bulldogs held off the chal lenge to win 15-13 and cut the Car olina lead to one. But in game four, USC took a commanding 9-0 lead and never looked back, finishing MSU 15-5. “Mississippi State made key ad justments and played better in games two and three. We got impatient in game two,” South Carolina head coach Kim Christopher said. “We were having success offensively and they weren’t stopping us in the first game. In the fourth game, we played better defensively and didn’t have as many hitting errors.” South Carolina 3, Mississippi 0 (Fri day) On Friday night, the USC vol leyball team swept the University of Mississippi Rebels, 3-0. With that victory, the Gamecocks improved their record to 17-4 over all and 8-1 in SEC matches. After their loss, the Rebels fell to 11-12 and 2-7. Friday’s victory marked USC’s 13th win in their last 14 matches. The game scores were 15-3,15-2, and 15 9. Overall, USC’s attacking per centage was .375, while Ole Miss reached .058. “Tonight, we played as a team and we played consistently,” said set ter Megan Hosp. “In preparation for Florida and our other matches in the SEC tournament, I think we did really well tonight.” “We had a very good match tonight. The team played well to gether, and we had a lot of fun,” Dwyer said. Dwyer, a middle blocker who is No. 5 in the NCAA in hitting per centage, led Carolina by hitting .409. She also made 12 kills, eight kills and five block assists. Hosp gave an im pressive performance with 35 assists, seven kills, eight digs and two block assists. Sam Alban, who hit .889, came out during the final game to contribute eight kills. Sara Heri made two aces and had seven kills. In game one, the momentum im mediately shifted toward USC. The Gamecocks soared to a 6-0 lead be fore Ole Miss called time out. They returned and scored three points, but kills by Nia Mackie and Plummer turned things around for the duration of the game. Plummer made a ser vice ace for the match point, and Dwyer contributed the match-win ning kill. The Gamecocks won 15-3. Carolina rushed to a 6-0 lead in game two. Heri had two back-to-back aces for the fourth and fifth USC points. Mackie once again made some critical kills to help the Gamecocks Game three was much more tense, as Ole Miss fought to stay in the com petition. They came within two points, 11-9, but after a kill by Dwyer that gained possession for USC, the Game cocks went on an unstoppable run. One final kill by Nadia Sefferovich ended the game, 15-9, and won the match for USC. “In game one, we were sharp of fensively,” said Christopher. “In game three, Mississippi played better, and I feel like we just didn’t take ad vantage of some opportunities that we had.” “Overall, I feel very good about the way that we played,” Christopher said. “We’re seeing some good things going on in transition, so I think we’re getting better.” The sports desk can be reached at gamecocksports@ho1mail.com. i Associated Press Football Top 25 1. Nebraska 2. Virginia Tech 3. Oklahoma 4. Miami (FL) 5. Clemson 6. Florida State 7. Oregon 8. Florida 9. Washington 10. Kansas State 11. TCU 12. Ohio State 13. Georgia 14. Southern Miss. 15. Michigan 16. Purdue 17. South Carolina 18. Oregon State 19. Notre Dame 20. Mississippi State 21. N.C. State 22. Texas 23. Northwestern 24. Arizona 25. Auburn Sophomore Rose emerges victorious in tennis invitational » « by Kyle Almond The Gamecock Gamecock sophomore Seth Rose came out strong in the 2000 USC Ten nis Fall Invitational, winning his flight with a pair of wins on Sunday. Rose defeated William & Mary’s Trevor Spracklin in straight sets, 7 5, 7-5, in the finals of flight A1 to win the tournament. « Rose had previously won a hard fought match against Eastern Ten nessee State’s Marcos Pavlovich in the semi-finals. Rose took the first set 6-3 but lost the second 7-5. . Rose was up 2-0 in the third set be • fore Pavlovich had to retire due to an injured ankle. Carolina’s Nasir Sherazi also ad- . vanced to the semifinals of his flight, but came up short against Brown’s Chris Wolfe. Two doubles teams also lost semi final match-ups. Senior Guillaume Legat and junior Rodrigo Pacheco lost 8-3 to a team from Virginia and juniors David Nelson and Marcus Singh were defeated 8-1 by a team from UNC-Greensboro. But Rose’s victory made the day a special one for USC head coach Kent DeMars. “This was a wonderful experi ence for Seth,” DeMars said after the' win. “It has been a long weekend, and it was good to see him compete on such a high level. We’re proud of - all our guys making it to the semifi nals of their flights in either singles or doubles.” A1 Semifinals Seth Rose (USC) def. Marcos Pavlovich (ETSU) 6-3, 5-7, 2-0 ret. A1 Finals Seth Rose (USC) Trevor Spracklin (W&M) 7-5, 7-5 B1 Semifinals Chris Wolfe (Brown) def. Nasir Sher azi (USC) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 A1 Doubles Semifinals Croker/Hunter (UVa.) def. Legat/Pacheco (USC) 8-3 Mule/Torres (UNC-G) def. Nel son/Singh (USC) 8-1 B1 Consolation Semifinals Duquette (UVa.) def. Rob Cassidy (USC) 6-0, 1-6,7-6 The sports desk can be reached at gamecocksports@hotmail.com. Soccer from page 10 mark as junior Ginger Sell ick, assisted by Kristen Lind say and Kacy Murray, beat goalkeeper Jessica Freas one on-one on a breakaway run to take the lead. Carolina knotted the game at one, and the score remained tied until after half time, when Auburn forward Ginger Sellick found the goal again after an assist from Gretchen Winter at the 65:02 mark. The Gamecocks perse vered and were quickly re warded at the 77:14 mark on an unassisted score by Lydia Bienias from 25 yards to tie the game once again. Both teams were unable to score again at the end of regulation play, and they be gan to battle through sudden death overtime. The name Ginger Sellick continued to haunt the Gamecocks, however, as she delivered the final blow in the second overtime at the 106:46 mark. Sellick scored on a breakaway rua to com plete her hat trick, handing the stunned Gamecocks a 3 2 loss. The sports desk can be reached at gamecocksports@hot mail.com. 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