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*~ Jim
Haney
Sports Editor
RALEIGH---Bobby and Butch weren't interested in
seeing the N.C. State-USC game Wednesday night. They
must have been the only people on the State campus who
weren't.
State students Bobby and Butch put their sign up outside
the student snack bar near Reynolds Coliseum. "Two
tickets to the USC game free in return for standing in line
overnight and getting Duke game tickets for them," the
sign read.
The rest of the State campus was one big "you bet your
life I'm going to the game."
And they did go to the game, about 12,400 of them,
complete with bold red "Pack Power" signs and well
rested vocal chords. They shook tired old William Neal
Reynolds Coliseum all the way to its 1949 foundations.
WOLFPACK COUNTRY
A banner in the stands informed the crowd that they
were in Wolfpack Country. There was never any doubt
about that. Wolfpack Country was set to feast on
Gamecock, Wednesday night. They weren't only set on it,
they were starved for it.
When the game was over, the only Gamecocks left to
feast on were the rubber chickehs the cheerleaders had
been slinging around by the necks all night.
It must have been a tremendous letdown for the Wolf
pack folks who come from a land where "Hi-Ho Silver" is a
Bill Gerringer Chevrolet advertisement on WKIX in
Raleigh, and Frank McGuire is the man who led rival UNC
to a national championship and then lost his way and came
to South Carolina.
GAMECOCK ESCAPE
Somehow the Gamecocks escaped the den of screaming
maniacs that inhabited Reynolds Coliseum Wednesday
night. Their escape was largely engineered by John
Roche, whose performance could only suffer from any
attempt to describe it.
The rest of the Gamecocks managed to ignore the blood
thirsty shrieks too. Down in the friendly confines of the
locker room after the game, Bobby Cremins stopped
praising Roche and the rest of his teammates long enough
to explain that Coach Frank McGuire had them prepared
to play under such adverse conditions.
"He told me once 'be nervous, but don't be afraid',"
Cremins said, "and I didn't want to let him down."
Cremins missed a free throw on a one-and-one situation
late in the game, much to the delight of the Wolfpack faith
ful.
''1 knew they (the fans) thought I'd choked," Cremins
said, "'and I just wanted to get-back out there and show
them I didn't. I didn't want to let Coach McGuire down,"
he repeated.
As it turned out, Cremisn didn't let McGuire down. He
returned to the foul line twice, and both times hit both
shots of one-and-one attempts to keep the Gamecocks
ahead and help deny the Wolfpack their Gamecock feast.
A ton of newsprint will be exhausted glorifying the
Gamecocks and their escape from Reynolds Coliseum
Wednesday night. They deserve at least a ton.
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By JIM HANEY
Sports Editor
With three stops left along the
road toward becoming the third
team in Atlantic Coast Conference
history to go through the regular
season undefeated, the Gamecocks
will play the University of North
Carolina in Chapel Hill tomorrow
night.
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The Tar Heels beat Maryland,
90-83, Wednesday night while the
Gamecocks were thirty miles
away in Raleigh, beating N. C.
State, 71-69.
The Gamecocks can clinch their
first regular season ACC title with
a win over the Tar Heels. Their
nearest competitor is State, which
has already lost three ames. The
bounds - Tom Norman
Dund among a host of envious
favored
Games
Carolina's new track coach,
John West, is optimistic about
bettering last year's fourth-place
finish. Coach West admits,
however, that he's pointing to the
outdoor season.
"We should be much stronger
outdoors and are really looking
forward to the opening meet of the
year with Yale -- March 18,"
Coach West said.
There were some bright spots in
the 1970 indoor season which may
give a glimpse of things to come in
the outdoor season.
Some of the outstanding per
formances by trackmen include:
6.3 in the 60-yard dash by Jimmy
Small, 7.4 in the 60-yard hurdles by
Billy Nova, 2:14.6 in the 1000-yard
run by Bob Kaczka (U.S.C.'s lone
winner in last year's meet and the
record holder in that event.)
Also 4:18.4 in the one mile by
Algie Simms, 9:27 in the two mile
by Jack Miller, 14.6" in the pole
vault by Jim Scott, 6'4" in the high
.iump by both Tony Callander and
Mike Haggar and a 3:23.6 per
formance in the one mile relay by
Sam Gibson, Keith Eidson, Kac
zka, and Bob Howe.
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Gamecocks have only to win one of
their last three games to clinch the
title.
John Roche scored 38 points
against State to lead Carolina past
the Wolfpack. He also tied the ACC
record for most consecutive free
throws (41), but record-breaking
number 42 refused to fall.
Roche dominated State during
the opening minutes of the game,
hitting five of his first six shots and
10 of 18 during the first half.
Tom Riker turned in a 17-point
performance to become the
Gamecocks' second leading
scorer. Paul Coder and Ed Left
wich led the State scoring with 17
and 16 points.
Carolina led throughout after
taking a 10-8 lead, but the Wolfpack
was closing fast near the end of the
game. Down by six with less than
a minute to play, the Pack got two
baskets from Van Williford and a
tap-in by Coder against a basket
Biddies
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RALEIGH -- South Carolina's
Biddies absorbed their third loss of
the season Wednesday night, as
State Freshman Bill Benson tossed
in 26 points to lead the Wolflets to a
94-77 win.
The Frosh will play the Citadel
Bullpups tomorrow night at the
Citadel. Their record is now 11-3.
The Biddies beat the Bullpups, 101
77, in the first game between the
two teams.
Against State, the Biddies took a
61-45 beating in the rebounding
department as the taller Wolflets
continually denied them second
and third shots at the basket, and it
proved to be the difference.
Shooting percentages were nearly
the same - 39.7 for State and 34.5
for the Biddies.
Kevin Joyce scored 32 points for
the Biddies, and Danny Traylor
contributed 18, but the Wolf lets had
five men in double figures and a
sixth man with nine points.
Carolina jumped off to an early
lead in the first half, but lost the
lead, 34-33, with 2:45 left before
intermission. The half ended with
the Biddies behind by five, 40-35.
Joyce cut the lead to three, 54-51,
as he hit a free throw midway in
the second half, but Traylor had
just picked up his fourth foul and
was on the bench.
With the 7-0 roadblock out of
their way, the Wolflets began
working the ball inside to Rick
Holdt and Mike Gillespie to
stretch the lead to eight, 65-53,
before Coach Donnie Walsh could
get Traylor back into the line-up.
Traylor fouled out with 7:07 left
in the game and Jackie Brown was
ejected along with State's Gillespie
a few minutes later, following a
brief flair of tempers.
When Brown left, the score was
79-70 in favor of State. The
remainder of the game was a
parade to the foul line since The
Biddies were forced to foul in
hopes the Wolf lets would miss
from the foul line.
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President and Mrs. Thomas
F. Jones are expected to leave
today for a trip to Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Jones will attend a meeting of
the Council on Higher
Education in the American
Republica and help plan higher
educational programs.
Jones attended the meeting
last year in Peru also and is
expected to return on March 2.
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inside by Riker and the lead
dropped to two points, 71-69.
A desperation shot by Coder was
close enough to 'scare the
Gamecocks, but not close enough
to send the game into overtime.
Tomorrow night the Gamecocks
will play a Tar Heel team they
beat, 65-52, in Columbia when VNC
Head Coach Dean Smith attempted
to use a slow-down offense to
nullify the USC height advantage.
After the loss, Smith said he
regretted using the slow-down so it
is unlikely that he will use similar
tactics in Chapel Hill tomorrow.
Since the game in Columbia,
North Carolina has lost sophomore
Bill Chamberlain, who has calcium
deposits in his leg and is out in
definitely. Chamberlain's injury is
but one of many the Tar Heels have
been plagued with this season.
Lee Dedmon missed several
games with an ankle injury, and
sophomores Steve Previs and
play Bul
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The Wolflets didn't miss many.
They hit both shots on one-and-one
situations six times in nine tries.
Only once did they miss the first
shot and that was with the score 92
77.
Casey Manning was the Biddies
number three scorer with nine
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he got against the Wolfpack.
Baseball t<
Baseball Coach Bobby R ich
intrasquad game for Saturda
During the past two weeks ti
conditioning anid concentratii
fielding drills.
Commenting on a possible<
baseball, Richardson said, ''TI
to change is by having more
winning more games.''
''I saw Pat Watson play foott
hustle and team spir it,'' R ichal
him to come out for the base
Richardson said that althoug
college baseball he has a
background and should be an a
In addition to the regul
Gamecocks will participatei
tennial Tournament. The regu
against Furman at Furman.
urdle
SC
Dennis Wuycik have slight cases of
mononucleosis.
The only Tar Heel starter who
hasn't had injury trouble is All
America Charles Scott. Scott has
been extremely healthy all season
and is leading the Atlantic Coast
Conference with a 27-point scoring
average.
Scott has carried the Tar Heels
on his back for much of the season,
and Coach Smith has been able to
retain enough team morale to get
the Tar Heels a 17-5 record.
Scott had been on a relentless
rampage toward ACC Player of the
Year honors until Roche's 38-point
performance against the Wolf
pack. The battle between the two
may largely determine the out
come of the balloting.
The five Tar Heel losses have
come at the hands of USC, Wake
Forest, Georgia Tech, nentucky.
Wake has beaten the Tar Heels
twice.
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to State
points. Jimmy Powell had eight,
Jackie Brown had four and Pat
Duffie had six.
Holdt contributed 19 points to the
State effort. Gillespie was next
with 16, Bob Heuts scored 14, Jerry
Beyer scored 10 and Dick Curran
rounded out the scoring with nine
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ball team.''
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