Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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USC clips 0 awaits tou By TEDDY NEFFNER Sports Editor USC's Rick Aydlett continued his fine outside shooting by pouring in 20 first half points, Tom Owens continued his fine inside play although missing taking over the ACC rebounding lead by a hair and John Roche...well, he was John Roche as Carolina ended the regular season with a convincing 88-73 win over Wake Forest Saturday night in Winston-Salem. The win clinched second place in the final ACC standings for the Gamecocks and assured them of a spot in the 3:30 contest next Thursday in the opening session of the 18th ACC tour nament. Aydlett slammed home eight of nine first half shots-including a follow-up on the only one he missed-to steal the limelight from the league's two superstars-Roche and Wake's Charlie Davis. Roche didn't even hit an attempt from the floor in the opening 20 minutes. He only shot four times. The 0-3 All-America was content to feed the red-hot Aydlett outside and Owens underneath. Owens scored seven in the first half while hauling down five rebounds. Davis scored 14 pdints in the opening stanza and added 20 in the last half in his last home appearence. The 6-1 New Yorker solidified his already solid scoring lead while making one last bid for ACC Player of the Year honors. Roche, of course, is his chief opposition. - Aydlett finished with a career high 29 points, Owens had 11 rebounds and 21 points and Roche had 19 poits. Owens' rebounds were slightly below his average and saw his mark dip to 12.576 per game, rounded off that's the same as Duke's Randy Denton but Denton, who had 10 against North Carolina, has an even 12.600. "That's a great team,'' Wake Forest head coach Jack McCloskey said after the game. "Aydlett and Carver (Bob) are two excellent outside shooters as they showed it in the first half. It just shows what can happen when Roche has all that talent around him." USC's Frank McGuire.agreed. ''Everyone's double and triple teaming Rgche and its leaving some good shooters open. Aydiett can shoot. He's one of the best that I've ever seen. Aydlett Gamecock 3 .- e.BI P e BI 0 R - I o S3 Wake; rnament and Carver has been our success the last couple of games. "They can put it in and when they leave them t alone we're going to get them the ball.'" t The win was the 20th of the season for USC. S "We always set our goal for 20 wins. That's a lot in one season. That was our aim from the beginning-to win 20 games. I knew we'd get . knocked off somewhere along the trail." C "I thought Bob (Rhoads) did a good job on Roche," McCloskey said, "but the other people, r along with their dominance on the boards was the difference." C McCloskey also had praise for Owens. "I 1 thought Owens really hurt us. He made a couple of key shots in close. Everytime that we got I close to them it seemed Owens would put one i in.'' McGuire was quite pleased with the win. "I think we're at our peak now. I think the tour- Z nament will be a wild affair but our kids will be ready for it. "Dean Smith (UNC head coach) should be relaxing now but instead of thinking about who he is going to play in the NCAAs, he has to worry about three tough days in the tour nament. It's a great spectator affair. I'd love to have your seats," he said motioning at the assembled sports writers, "but I don't like to have a coach's seat." McCloskey though his Deacons had a chance when they cut the USC lead to two early in the second half. "But they took advantage of the guys we had in foui trouble and that was too ,much for us. I thought we played well after we settled down. in the beginning we were so worried about Roche and stopping him we left some people open. But you have to worry about him. He's an outstanding player- there's no doubt about that." The Deacons outshot the Gamecocks for the 'game 52 per cent to 48.9 but Carolina had the upper hand in the first half when they grabbed their seven point lead. Gli McGregor was the number two scorer for McCloskey's Deacs with 16 points. .He also had 10 rebounds. No other Wake player hit double figures. Rhoads had eight. Willie Griffin came off the bench late in the game to can three straight long jumpers for six points. ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION! EST SUPPORTING AC1OR EST ACTOR EST SCREENPLAY * MELYN DOUGLAS * GENE HACKMAN DOROTHY SiCKNEY and [ EggR ESTELLE PARSONS SANG Prdtdan wi. 126 AI STEE * 256-1950 "* Eye intheA Keyhole gy Doug Williams Asst. Sports Editor Normal sports fans support their favorite teams with rite, commonplace slogans attached to bumpers or straw iats. But rugby fans are somewhat uncommon. In fact, hey are virtually nonexistant. Only the players sport such igns as "'Give blood; play rugby," or "You have to have Lather balls to play rugby." The game of rugby was probably originated back in 1823 it the Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. On i plaque in the Rugby school, the apparent founder of the port is saluted with the inscription, "This stone com nemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis, who, with a Ine disreqard for the rules of football, as played in- our -ime, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, riginating the distinctive feature of the rugby game. A.A. 823." Thus, it all began. Following its inception at the Rugby School, the sport >ecame popular at Cambridge University by 1839. In 1861, he Blackheath team of Britain first experimented with the 'ushing aspects of the game and ten years later the Rugby Jnion was created. While the sport flourished in Europe, notably England ind France, rugby was not introduced in America until 906, at Stanford University in California. By 1929, the New fork Rugby Club had brought the sport to the east. It was iot until after World War II, however, that the midwest was introduced to the game. Though not overpoweringly accepted in the United States, American rugby teams did yin Olympic championships in 1920 and 1924. In amateur rugby, fifteen players participate, including ?ight forwards and seven backs. The teams play on a field iot more than 110 yards in length, nor more than 75 yards n width for two forty minute halves. Scoring is rather confusing. A try gains the scoring team three points, while a successful conversion after a try nets wo. Free kicks or penalty kicks are worth three points, 3s is a drop kicked goal. There. The seemingly incomprehensible game of rugby has been sketched. But there is more than meets the aye in (See EYE, page 7, column 4) Pre-Columbian Bird-Headed Ornament Sculpture & Jewelry by Alva of New York Also jiely handmade by Anne R. Dick of Calif. Havens Gallery $3-30 2810 Devine St. 256-7576 Monda - Saturda 10-5