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fio. 3 Oklahoma starts title defense with a bang iooners score 31 n first quarter, lominate UNC o. 3 Oklahoma 41, lorth Carolina 27 NORMAN, OKLA. (AP) - For the lost part. No. 3 Oklahoma's de ■nse looked like it's ready for an ;ther run at the national title. The [Tense is another matter. Linebacker Rocky Calmus and ie defense took the load off new uarterback Nate Hvbl by coming ■ p with five first-half turnovers Saturday night as the defending fational champs beat North ■iarolina, 41-27. Hybl was 20-of-29 for 152 yards in his debut as the successor to Heisman Trophy runner-up Josh Heupel, but he led just two scor • ing drives and threw an intercep tion that was returned for a score. “They may have heard too much good throughout the sum mer,” Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. “Playing'so average in the second half gives us a lot to shopt for.” Oklahoma, winner of 14 straight, built a 41-7 lead early in the second quarter. The Sooners gave up a punt return for a touch down a few minutes later, then saw North Carolina drive for two scores in the fourth quarter. “I wasn’t satisfied with any body’s performance on the offense or the defense,” Stoops said. There wasn’t much not to like early on, though. Calmus, an All-American last season, recovered a fumble on the second play of the game to set up the first of two short field goals by Tim Duncan. Later in the quarter, safety Brandon Everage jarred the ball from harried quarterback Ronald Curry, and Calmus picked it up and returned it 14 yards for a touchdown that made it 24-0. Oklahoma’s first three scoring drives used just 44 seconds, 18 sec onds, and 1:13. Two of the three came after turnovers, one of them caused by Duncan on a kickoff re turn. “That was the longest first quar ter I’ve ever been associated with,” new Carolina coach John Bunting said. “I thought maybe they were adding time to the clock.” Tailback Quentin Griffin did all the work on Oklahoma’s first touchdown drive, which only cov ered 46 yards. He gained 19 yards on a swing pass, 23 on a run and then scored on a 4-yard run. The Sooners only needed to cov er 19 yards for their next TD, a 7 yard run by Renaldo Works that was set up by a fumble recovery. “I’m very encouraged by the way the defense played,” Hybl said. “We had our moments, but we’re looking to be more produc tive for sure.” Carolina defensive end Julius Peppers provided one of the few Tar Heel highlights when he stepped in front of a swing pass by Hybl and returned it 29 yards for a score that made it 24-7 late in the first. The momentum didn’t last long. Antwone Savage took the next kickoff and returned it 88 yards for a touchdown, getting a nice escort down the left sideline from Curtis Fagan. The Sooners added a 47-yard in terception return for a touchdown by cornerback Derrick Strait, and a fumble recovery inside the 5 led to a field goal and the 41-7 lead. After Michael Waddell gave the Tar Heels their second touchdown with an 89-yard punt return, Bunting challenged his team at halftime. “I said, ‘Let’s keep battling in side and let’s find out a little bit about ourselves,’ ” he said. The Tar Heels, held to 71 first half yards, outgained Oklahoma 219-148 in the second half. Darian Durant came off the bench in place of Curry and threw two TD pass es, including a 26-yarder to Chesley Borders. “Later on in the year, when we play better opponents, we’ll have to play a whole four quarters,” Calmus said. “But overall, we did well and we’ll learn from this and correct the mistakes we made.” Curry had a rough night. He lost two fumbles that led to field goals, was sacked three times, and wound up 5-of-14 passing for 74 yards and an interception. The game, the Hispanic College Fund Classic, was played as light ning flashed in the area. Officials briefly discussed whether to stop play in the third quarter but de cided to play on. Heavy rain began falling as the game wound down. Crouch, Nebraska hold off pesky TCU in Lincoln No. 4 Nebraska 21, TCU7 LINCOLN, NEB. (AP) - At a school that begins every season with the highest of expectations, ' this wasn’t exactly the start Nebraska had in mind. The No. 4 Comhuskers looked unstoppable at times and immo bile during others as they held off TCU 21-7 on Saturday in the Pigskin Classic. “All areas need some work. That was one of the reasons we took this game,” Nebraska coach Frank Solich said. “Certainly well be a better football team as a re sult of the game today.” Eric Crouch became Nebraska’s career leader in total yards and Thunder Collins scored twice in his first start for the Cornhuskers, who struggled of fensively but made up for it with a strong defense while improving to 5-0 in preseason “classics.” TCU had the ball in Nebraska territory only once in the second half and finished with just 186 yards, 65 after halftime. “We expect a lot out of our selves. You need to have a good de fense if you want to do anything,” linebacker Mark Vedral said. “We know our offense is eventually go ing to score.” Crouch completed 10-of-18 pass es for 151 yards and ran 24 times for 69 yards. The 5,510 yards for his career surpassed Tommie Frazier’s 5,476. “It means a lot. It’s something that’s kind of amazing to me. I’d have never expected to do some thing like that,” Crouch said. Collins, starting for the sus Roundup Golf teams hope to build on promising offseason CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 European PGA Tour but will not compete so that he can attend use. Women’s Golf The Lady Gamecocks also had a successful summer. Sophomore Kory Thompson claimed victory in the Columbia City Championships, and sopho more Marci Robinson finished sec ond. Kory’s sister Kacy, a junior, finished sixth. This year’s squad is very expe rienced and is led by junior All American Kristy McPherson. McPherson captured last year’s SEC Individual Championship with a record score. The team also looks to build on the success they had at the end of last year in the NCAA Tournament. Wbmen's Basketball From Aug. 11-22, the Lady Gamecocks were touring Europe and facing the best basketball teams the countries of Austria and Hungary have to offer. The team finished up their trip battling one of Eurppe’s best teams, Tecto Klostemeuburg in Vienna, Austria, on the 19th and 20th. Head coach Susan Walvius has probably built her strongest team during her tenure at USC. Everyone is returning from last year’s Lady Gamecock squad, which set a recor'd for SEC wins. The Gamecocks will get warmed up for tough SEC play by facing a difficult pre-conference sched ule. Equestrian Sophomore Sarah-Ki Tomasi was selected to compete for the U.S. in a competition in Rome, Italy Aug. 30-31. One of the South’s best eques trian teams will have to replace 13 riders from last year. The Gamecocks’ season starts Sept. 29 in Irmo. Softball Last year’s SEC East champi ons will have to replace three crit ical team leaders — Adrienne Genovese, Joyce McMillin and Megan Donohoo—who all gradu ated. The Lady Gamecocks will have possibly the strongest 1-2 punch on the mound in the con ference. Pitchers Megan Matthews and Stacey Johnson hope to lead the team to another championship. Huskers to 11 yards in the second quarter and just 143 total yards for the half. “I’m real depressed. The de fense played OK, but not the best,” TCU linebacker Chad Bayer said. Nebraska’s defense also played well, allowing 121 yards in the half, 67 of which came on a broken play that was TCU’s only score. The Huskers looked like they had Printers cornered on the right side, but he scrambled back to the left and found Matt Schobel alone behind the secondary and hit him with a pass at the Nebraska 37. Schobel ran untouched down the sideline for the score that tied it 7 7 midway through the first quar ter. Collins gave Nebraska a 7-0 lead with a 6-yard run around the right side on the Huskers’ opening dri ve. Nebraska needbd only six plays, including runs of 12 and 33 yards by Crouch, to go 70 yards. “Offensively, Crouch is the real deal,” Patterson said. “When it made a difference he made plays.” Crouch added a 1-yard dive in the second quarter that capped a 55-yard drive. The Huskers botched the extra-point attempt with a bad snap. TCU received a scare late in the fourth quarter when DT John Turntine was carted off the field on a stretcher with a neck injury. However, X-rays were negative, Turntine has movement and feel ing in his limbs and was the con scious the whole time. The 6-foot-l, 267-pound junior was on the team’s return flight to Fort Worth, Texas and will be evaluated again when he returns to TCU. SEC ’Bama could rotate Zow and Watts CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 go 3-8.1 just want to win.” Ellington is the team’s 6-foot-6 345-pound offensive lineman. Whoever gets the start will bi expected to keep his mistakes to ■<. minimum. “The first point we’re trying t( get across (to the quarterbacks) is ‘Don’t lose the game,”’ Franchiom said. “Don’t beat us. There art enough things we’re going to do of fensively that we’ll have chances to win the game. Don’t lose th< game.” Alabama begins its 2001 cam paign at home against UCLA. Soccer Carolina opens regular season Sunday vs. PSU CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 played them up in their place Iasi year, and we won in a very hard fought game,” Berson said. “] think it’s a tremendous game foi the students at USC to come watch Teams like Penn State don’t comt in very often.” The Gamecock keeps it real... five times a week on www.dailygamecock.com Georgia Tech tops Syracuse No. 10 Georgia Tech 13, Syracuse 7 EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ. (AP) — A run at the national title is still a long way off for No. 10 Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets’ high-pow ered offense sputtered to a 13-7 victory over Syracuse in the Kickoff Classic on Sunday as George Godsey hooked up with record-setting Kelly Campbell 10 times for 193 yards and Joe Burns ran for 113 yards and a touchdown. Georgia Tech (1-0), with 18 starters returning from last year’s 9-3 team that averaged nearly 34 points per game, is hop ing to make a run at dethroning Florida State as Atlantic Coast Conference champions and then bidding for a national champi onship. But in a game that was any thing but classic, Georgia Tech discovered it needs a lot of work before challenging the sixth ranked Seminoles on Sept. 15. Godsey, who completed 64 per cent of his passes last season, was 15-of*26 for 224 yards, and cor nerback Marvious Hester inter cepted a pass at the Syracuse 6 to set up Bums’TD. Syracuse (0-1), guilty of crucial penalties that kept alive Georgia Tech drives, stayed in the game thanks to the Yellow Jackets’ fail ure to make big plays. Troy Nunes, a victim of three of Georgia Tech’s four sacks, scored on a 1-yard keeper with 8:35 left in the third quarter to pull the Orangemen within 10-7. But the Yellow Jackets defense - helped by a number of tipped passes and a dropped ball by Johnny Morant at the Tech 24 with 6:32 left - held on. Pummeling Women’s soccer ro> in preseason tune-\ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 blood at the 13:43 mark whei , Schreiber broke through with nior Melinda Carter. USC added : the half after Epstein knocked and sophomore Alison Jarroi other to make it 3-0 at the midw i Jarrow continued the onslai half, notching her second goal Nunes finished 19-of-32 for 183 yards and an interception. The Giants Stadium crowd of 41,517 was the smallest in the game’s 19-year history and they saw the lowest scoring game. In 1986, Alabama beat Ohio State 16 10. The previous smallest crowd was 46,251 in 1992. Campbell, an all-ACC player last season, broke the school record for receiving yards on a 72-yard hookup with Godsey ear ly in the second quarter. No. 23 Wisconsin 26, Virginia 17 MADISON, WIS. (AP) - Wisconsin used the spread of fense to change things up, their traditional running game to win. No. 23 Wisconsin finally got on track offensively in the second half Saturday after ditching the spread offense to beat Virginia 26-17 in the Eddie Robinson Classic. uiuuivs uuiimgci was liiciicv tive in the four-receiver sets Wisconsin (1-0) opened the game with and had already been spelled on two series by Jim Sorgi when he went down in the second quarter while scrambling to his right. He had a contusion of the liver and was taken to a hospital, where he was to stay overnight for observation. Sorgi wasn’t much better in the spread as the two combined to go 5-of-15 for 41 yards in the first half. But after going back to the two tight end formations that Alvarez has used in his 11 years at Wisconsin to power the Badgers to three Rose Bowl wins, the offense finally got into a rhythm. Sorgi finished 5-of-ll for 150 USC added foui ’fa ter Epstein pun capped off whe IP into the mix wi the final goal o! “Melinda Ca moved the ball l junior Kristen explained. “Ou in assist from ju- the pressure of two more goals in USC visits tl in her first goal, Sept. 1 to begin v later added an- matchup with t ay point. home match aj ght in the second across the cour it the 54:56 mark. San Diego Stab yards with touchdown passes of 78 and 38 yards. The Badgers also rushed for 228 yards - only 82 yards coming in the first half from the spread formation. Anthony Davis led the Badgers with 147 yards on 24 carries in his college debut. The loss spoiled A1 Groh’s re turn to college after coaching the New York Jets last season. The Cavaliers (0-1) had a 74 yard touchdown on a screen pass called back for clipping and lost running back Antwoine Womack in the first quarter after he sprained his right ankle. Womack, who led the ACC in rushing last year, had seven car ries for 18 yards when he left. BYU 70, Tulane 35 PROVO, UTAH (AP) - In 29 sea sons under LaVell Edwards, BYU threw for almost 60 miles of yardage. The Cougars might end up running that far under new coach Gary Crowton. Brandon Doman was 25-of-31 for 286 yards and three touch downs in Crowton’s debut as BYU’s coach, leading the Cougars to a 70-35 victory over Tulane on Saturday in the Black Coaches Association Classic. BYU’s rushing attack, which produced 437 of 734 yards, set the tempo and wore down the Green Wave (0-1). Luke Staley ran for 142 yards and Brian McDonald had 103, each scoring three touchdowns. It was the first time since 1972 that Edwards wasn’t coaching the Cougars (1-0). He retired af ter last season, capping a 29-year career where he won 257 games, 20 conference titles and the 1984 national championship. more goals in the second half af ;hed in two more. The scoring was n freshman Ashley Williams got ii her first goal, and Carter scored the game. ~ter stepped up at left midfield and for us well on the left side,” Smith r defense also was solid and kept ’our goalkeepers.” ie College of Charleston Saturday the regular season. Following the tie Cougars, the Gamecocks play a ;ainst Davidson before traveling try to San Diego, Calif, to take on i and Nevada-Las Vegas. pended Dahrran Diedrick, ran 14 times for 71 yards. Diedrick sat out Saturday’s game because of his ar rest outside a Lincoln bar last weekend. “I think Thunder did a great job for the short notice he had. You couldn’t ask him to do anything more,” Crouch said. The Horned Frogs, opening their first season under coach Gary Patterson, were called for 11 penalties, including four inside their own 10-yard line. TCU’s Casey Printers was 10 for-21 for 122 yards. “You cannot make mistakes and beat Nebraska. We did that,” Patterson said. “We had face masks and penalties and you can not win that type of game.” TCU led the nation in defense a year ago and, despite having only five returning starters, held the Huskers inrheck for much of the afternoon. But on a second-and-10 from Nebraska’s 26, Crouch kept it on an option and zig-zagged his way to TCU’s 32 for the Huskers’ first big play of the second half. Collins scored three plays later on a 26 yard option run to the left with 25 seconds left in the third quarter, capping a 98-yard drive. “Nobody’s worried about our offense,” tackle Dave Volk said. “We came out and showed what we can do when we want to move the ball. That’s what it’s like to play mistake-free football.” Nebraska led 13-7 at halftime. The Huskers opened five of their seven drives at their own 40-yard line or better, including one at the TCU 49, but scored just twice. TCU was able to hold the ! 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