Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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U SC'1 road hc USC's Gamecocks broke a four game ACC losing streak on the road Saturday night when Carolina survived a Clemson control slowdown attack for a 47-44 lead. "It was another difficult ball game." USC coach Frank McGuire said, the strain of the close contest etched on his face. "It'll go down to the wire anytime you play like that. ' don't know how many tur novers we had but you can't have that many when you're playing like that." McGuire was referring to turnovers late in the game that gave Clemson three chances to pull within a basket, but all three times the Tigers failed to score. McGuire. who has seen his team tall to slowdown tactics four times, has resigned himself to seeing it more and more. "We'll be playing against it all year so we should get used to it. "A I'd used the zone they would have just held the ball. We did it up at )uke just to see if Duke would hold it in their own place." ('lemson employed their offense for the easy shot. The Tigers at times took long pauses between shots but did not come up with the prime ingredient needed to win at slowdown basketball-a high percentage. Clemson hit 14-31 shots for a 45.2 mark. ISC relied on old reliable John Ioche to stake the Gamecocks to an early first half lead but were outscored in the second 20 minutes of play. Roche hit seven of 11 shots in the Locke: were c By JOE ( Sports "I can't believe the officia Tates Locke, Clemson first y guys out there tonight were cl "Dickie (Foster) plainly c David (Angel) to the bench said so. It was just plain rii "It was no doubt the turni without Angel we just didn't Locke. The 6-11 Angel left with 10| better than USC's Tom Os America John Roche had g points and teammate Bob Foster tied Angel for his tean "Roche is a true All-Ami great player. He makes th losing, and he made the diff4 one who played exceptional i belittles his performance do a bout. "We had a chance to win v We were down' by four points three times and didn't score twice and missed a bad shc Locke. "I believe that hurt any game we had. We couldn't c we had to have them. I cann our boys have been perfori good and have been giving 1( haven't been coming throt sistently. "We'll make it," conclude the press room to his charges )reaks. osing St The Gamecock S P 0 R T S tirst stanza for 16 points. The 6-3 star took only eight shots in the second half. He wound up with 23 points. Bob Carver was the only other Gamecock in double figures with 10. David Angel led the Tiger attack until he fouled out on a questionable call with 8:51 remaining. It appeared that the foul was on Dickie Poster but the officials ushered Angel off the floor, much to the dismay of Clemson head coach Tates Locke. 'Those guys were a bunch of clowns." Locke said afterward. tUSC's Tom Owens agreed. -Some of the calls are getting to be jokes. It 's so bad I don't even argue anymore.' 'At least they were calling them refs lowns 3E NOVA Writer s in this league," said Coach aar head man, "both of those owns. They were terrible. :ommitted the foul that sent with five personals. He even iiculous. ng point of the game for us; have any inside game,'' said soints and nine rebounds, one vens for game honors. All ame scoring honors with 23 Carver had 10. Tiger senior l's honors with 10 points. 3rica,'' said Locke. ''He's a e difference in winning and irence here. He was the only n this game, and anyone who esn't know what he's talking iith about four minutes to go. and we came down the court one. We threw the ball away t the other time,'' continued real chance of winning this ome up with the points when ot say enough about the way Tning. They've been playing 10 per cent and better; but we igh with the big play con d Locke as he walked out of ''Our day will come.~ lcc reak bad at both ends of' the court," center Tom Riker said. "That's the toughest kind of basketball to beat," McGuire said. "We could take the New York Knickerbockers to the wire without a 24 second clock. "The boys become anxious on defense and take one wrong step and then they hit the open man. It's hard to play against this. But that's the way he (Locke) played at Army. "I'm just glad that Thomas t)ave> didn't start shooting earlier." Thomas gunned in three long range jumpers to pull the Tigers from a 39-30 deficit to within three late in the game. However, the Tigers couldn't play on the boards with USC after Angel picked up his fifth foul. C'lemson only scored two field goals after that point aid one of those was a gimme after the issue had been decided. Different net frosh BY ('IA IH I,IE SENN' Sports Writer USC's freshman basketball team played well against a good team and mediocre against a poor team with the results of* both games the same --two losses. The Biddies entered their game with the Furman frosh with a '7-1 record and proceded to give that team i"the best freshman team I've ever had"-- Joe Williams) a neck and neck battle before falling in a one point loss. Later in the week, in a fast moving preliminary game with the Clemson freshmen before the varsity's slow stroll, the Biddies shot 50 per cent, but still dropped a 91-96 decision. The Clemson frosh shot 55 per cent. Send the FTD LoveBundle for ValentinesWeek. Remember Valentine's Day fatlIson aSunday Order the LoveBundle early After all, why crowd your love into one day? Se [ossom five eionts Lookin* performa same resi "The key to the game was the boards", said USC's Coach Donny Walsh, of the Furman game in a statement that might well have been repeated of the Clemson bout. Furman held a 60-42 edge over the Hiddies in rebounding while Clemson intimadated USC's frosh with a 43-21 margin. "I don't think the morale will be hurt by the two loses," Walsh said of his team. The Freshman mentor sim plified the games in a single statement, "In the Furman game STUB NIG TUTES 5 PM til SIZZLING' STE DIN] Just present identification Our regular sirloin steak baked potato, and garlic to $1: Corne as you are .PONDS 548 KNOX inside 11ts we played well; in the Clemson game we didn't. "As long as the kids play good basketball I'm not concerned. . What I want to do is not to lose games. There's a difference in getting beat by the other team and losing." Walsh explained. Rick Mousa played great against Clemson," Walsh added, 'We didn't expect this much from the Irosh. and we're well satisfied with the play of both the scholarship and non-scholarship players." ENT HT DAY Closing SIR LOIN AK four student to cashier. 11.69 sizzlin' served with green salad ast. [9 No T ipping ERO5A ABBOTT DRIVE