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CLUB CORNER Rugby Club USC’s rugby club will have its next home game Saturday at 2 p.m. against Georgia Southern at the field next to the Blatt P.E. Center. The Gamecocks defeated Georgia Southern 19-0 last weekend. Players are encouraged to join any time, and practices are held on Field E, under the bridge between Bates House and the Blatt P.E. Center, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5 to 7 p.m. Men’s Lacrosse The USC men’s lacrosse team lost its first game to Georgia on Saturday. The Bulldogs were able to outlast USC and won 10-4. Sophomores Daniel Kerr and Jack Hallorhan scored one goal each. Team co-captain, John Cosgrove, normally an unstop pable offensive powerhouse, played defensive midfield. The team has a chance to move above the .500 mark again when the Gamecocks play host to The Citadel. The game will take place Sunday at 1 p.m. on Field A next to the Blatt P.E. Center. Practices are Mondays and Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. and Tuesdays from 9 to 11 p.m., and are held on Fields D and E. Ice Hockey Club The USC ice hockey club suf fered a defeat against Clemson on Saturday, when it lost 6-0 at the Bi-Lo Center in Greenville. The team did manage to beat Clemson physically by winning the fights that took place. The first fight began only seven min utes into the game, when junior Brad Capps restrained an at tacking Clemson Tiger and then dropped him on the ice. All players involved in fights were ejected from the game. The team’s final game is Feb. 23 against The Citadel at the Carolina Coliseum. The time has not yet been determined. For information on the game or the team, e-mail USChockeyclub@yahoo.com. Interested in taking The Gamecock’s Sports Challenge? If you can beat the editors, you'll win a free Gamecock T-Shirt Send in your picks to gamecocksports@hotmail.com by 2 p.m. Thursday. We’ll select ONE person’s picks, at random, top be our reader of the week This week’s games: Rankings are from the Associated Press 11 Marquette at 2 Louisville LSU at 3 Kentucky 10 Notre Dame at 17 Syracuse 4 Florida at Tennessee 15 Wake Forest at 3 Maryland 19 Mississippi St. at Ole Miss 14 Illinois at Purdue North Carolina at Clemson 25 St. Joseph’s at Dayton Arkansas at USC ♦ FOR TIEBREAKING PURPOSES, PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR SCORE FOR THE ARKANSAS-USC GAME. AND DONT FORGET TO INCLUDE YOUR NAME. Softball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 get to face three more top-25 teams in Cal State-Fullerton, Nebraska and Oregon State. USC will also square off against the host Rebels. “It’s definitely a tough sched ule, starting off with UCLA and UNLV,” Compton said. “All but UNLV are ranked, and Fullerton and Nebraska and UCLA are all in the top 10, so that’s pretty much a preview right there. It won’t get much better than that.” Surely, the Gamecocks will be ready for their trip out West. Everyone on the team has proven to be a major contributor in USC’s success so far, but Carolina’s two freshmen have shown they are more than capa I ble of competing on the collegiate level. Pitcher Melanie Henkes has thrown three complete-game shutouts, giving her a 0.00 earned-run average and a perfect 3-0 record. She also has 16 strike outs on the season. Catcher Ashley Smith has given the Gamecocks a big power boost at the plate. She is hitting .333 with a pair of home runs and doubles, while sporting a slugging per centage of .867. Compton is pleased with the way they have come along thus far. “I think they would come in and help us off the bat, and I knew both of them were capable of do ing it,” Compton said. “How they adjust is always a question, but they definitely have the capabil ities to do what they did and con tinue to do that.” But some familiar faces are also providing the Gamecocks with fine play. Shortstop Amber Curtis leads the team in hitting with a .438 batting average, while pitcher Stacey Johnson contin ues to have an effective season with a 2-0 record and a flawless ERA. The Desert Classic Tournament will be the Gamecocks’ only scheduled trip to the West Coast this season, bar ring a possible NCAA regional appearance there. The other two in-season tournaments, both later this month, are in Columbus, Ga., and Plant City, Fla. Compton said that playing nationally promi nent teams such as UCLA is a fac tor when deciding which tourna ments to participate in. Five of the 15 players on the USC roster are from the Western United States, which gives them the chance to go closer to their home towns. “We try to get someplace where we’re going to see top com petition, and we try to go west at least twice,” she said. “The West Coast kids stay here, so we need ed to go west this year for (se niors) Danielle (Quinones), Jodi (Fittro) and Deb (Troesh). We’re giving them an opportunity to play close to home.” In the end, though, the Desert Classic Tournament provides Carolina with tests against teams on par with those that USC will face in SEC play. Compton said that because the SEC is better this year, playing teams such as UCLA and Nebraska could pay off later on in the season. The Gamecocks play the Bruins at noon in both teams’ opening game in Las Vegas, and USC will continue play through Sunday. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com Women CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 with 15.8 points per game, and Braxton, a 6-foot-6-inch for ward, averages 15.6. They also average 7.6 and 6.9 rebounds per game, respectively. The wild card in this game will be guard Sherill Baker. This past week, Baker explod ed with two huge games against ranked SEC teams. She aver aged 17 points, seven rebounds and five steals per game. For her efforts, she was named the SEC Player of the Week. Game time is set for 7 p.m. at Stegeman Coliseum in Athens. Georgia leads the all-time se ries 20-4, and is 9-1 at home against the Gamecocks. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com Rothenberg CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 have to wear some Atlanta Flames hockey jersey and not realize that the team moved to Calgary, Canada, in 1980. For that matter, I’d want to know who wore the number on the jersey, too. I guess, for whatever reasons there "might be, the retro-jersey mania will last well into the fu ture. At least it will until the trend toward nostalgia ends. If buying these uniforms is how you want to spend your money, that’s great; but I think that, when I want to get more in touch with history, I’ll learn about it first. Rothenberg is a fourth-year sports and entertainment management student. 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