Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Gamec pitchinj Hy ClIIARIAE SENN Sports Writer Friday night saw the Gamecocks continue their hitting problems, but Saturday afternoon, April 3, the pitching and batting power got together for a solid 4-0 win. Alan Hilliard gave up only three hits in Friday's loss, but his teammates could only manage four off Georgia Southern pitcher John Arden. Hilliard absorbed his second loss of the season despite his three hit, nine strikeout per formance, 3-2. Tar Heels ACC stat North Carolina's National In vitation Tournament champions finished on top in three of the six major team categories in the Atlantic Coast Conference basketball race this season and placed in the first division in the other three, according to the final statistics released by Com missioner Bob James. Coach Dean Smith's Tar Heels, the first ACC team ever to capture the prestigious NIT crown, won their fourth straight league scoring Etitle with an 84.6 average. They also finished first in field goal percentage with a record .522 figure and compiled the best average scoring margin over opponents with a 12.8 mark. The .522 field goal percentage figure marks only the third time an ACC club has made good on better than 50 percent of its field goal tries in a single season. The previous best was a .517 mark compiled by the 1966 Tar Heels. I CAMPUS Monday-Tuesdi 2 p.m. til MONSTER BUI Combination Ph Monster Burger, Salad or ; and choice of Beverage 8 Oz. Miller Higil 409 BLOS AT THE ock's La Y earns Rob Robinson gave up seven hits but no runs in his first start of the year for the Gamecocks, and the batting power came alive for a II hit performance the following day to put down the Eagles. ''Georgia Southern has a fine baseball program. They beat us twice last year, and we feel that our four games with them this year is a very good addition to our program," said Coach Bobby Richardson. -'They <Ga. Southern) don't have football or basketball in their dominate istics )uke finished with a .511 per centage in 1963. The 'Tar Heels placed third in both scoring defense and rebounding and fourth in free throw percentage. No other team placed in the first division in all six ca tegories. Duke, which placed fourth in the NIT after losing to North Carolina in the semifinals, captured two team statistical titles and Clemson took the other. The Blue Devils finished on top in rebounding with a 44.8 average and first in free throw shooting with a .765 figure. Clemson compiled the top defensive mark, allowing its 26 foes an average of 65.9 points per contest. Carolina's conference champion placed second in two departments. The Gamecocks compiled a 68.4 defensive figure to trail Clemson and also finished second in averaging scoring margin over opponents with a 9.5 mark. SPECIAL ky-Wednesday, closing IGER 9c tWith student I D -Cole Slaw, Frenchs Fries Life-- 15c extra iSOM ST. BRIDGE g. ('j99 Frank N'Stein systems. inc. atting, split program so baseball is their major sport. * This leads to a very good brand of baseball. 'We played well in these games. The pitching was real good. If we can play this well against Duke today we should be able to handle them." lutch Anderson, played a large part the tying rally in the first game for the Gamecocks, and added two hits in the second. The Carolina shortstop smashed a double to right center to bring in two runs late in the third inning. An error in the sixth, however, shot down the Gamecocks in their fourth loss of the season. Anderson has brought his average up to .270 with seven hits in his last 16 at bats." At the first of the season. I wasn't concentrating and I was hitting late. After getting a few hits I've gotten my con Cidence back and settled down some. Richardson's tactics of spreading out his hitters instead of packing the top of the order seem to be working well for USC Billy Petosky. the club's leading hitter bats sixth which puts up the club's top hitters in nearly every inning. Davis, indiv id Charlie Davis of ..ake Forest, who earlier was voted player-of the-year honors in the Atlantic Coast Conference, topped off his brilliant collegiate career by capturing both the league's in dividual scoring championship and the free throw percentage crown while JSC's Tom Owens earned his third rebound title. According to the final figures, released by CoMmissioner Bob James. Davis scored 690 points in 26 games for a 26.5 average, the ninth highest mark in the 18 years of 2ACC cage play. The New York City native, who earned all-ACC first team honors three successive years, increased his point production each season. He averaged 22.8 as a sophomore and 25.5 as a junior. John Roche of USC finished second behind Davis with a 21.6 average while Duke's Randy D)enton placed third at 20.4. The three top scorers were the only players to account for more than 64N0 points during the season. It was the second runnerup spot for Roche, who finished second his sophomore year. Rounding out the top five are C atholics Post Win The Catholic basketball team defeated the Lutheran Student Organization SS-43 in a game last week. The Catholics sprinted to an early lead in the first period and won going away. The top scorer for the Catholics was Chris Smith backed by his 4V 7 Leaping USC's Joe McCullogh, i Columbia's Dreher High Sc termediate Hurdle race. Owens sal rac Tom Owens: ICfluru Crown Imnis Wuycik of North CarolinE at 18.4 and Ed Leftwich of N.C State at 16.4. Owens successfully defended hi rebounding crown in a tight race with Denton. The Gamecock stat Small, He lack of IL (Continued F Small said about his overa all year-I was really plea Tyler Hellams also cited tl a factor in the Gamecock this, you have the best the < it's k ind of hard to show up g "We'll come out good, as say about the squad's future Hellams who had been 1 muscles placed fourth with a Carolina placed in all the the shot 49-7 to claim a f if1 fourth in the Javelin with cleared 14-6 to give Carolir Mike Haggard placed secor 10%' effort and Broom tied fc of 166-4. Larry Schemelia ran a 9 claim a fifth place in that ev relay team came in fourth w Novo ran a 14.6 in the 120 Hi round .nut .Carolina's runni. hurdles i promising freshman from :hool, leaps hurdles in 449 In top ~es became the first player in ACC history to win three straight titles as he finished with a 12.85 average to f)enton's 12.8:3. It also marked the third year in a row the Duke center had copped runnerup honors. Scott McCandlish of Virginia f inished third at 9.9 and Gil MIcGregor of Wake Forest placed f ourth for the third straight year at 9.:3. Owens averaged 13.3 rebounds per game in his three seasons with the Gamecocks. hlams note rsc meets rom Page 6) II performance, ''Best I've felt sed.'' he lack of individual meets for performance. ''In relays like ther teams have to offer and Dod,'' Hellams said. a team,'' Hellams went on to during the coming year. tampered all year by pulled ibroad jump of 22-1. field events. Rich Sorin threw h while Mike Cawley placed a toss of 206-1W/. Jim Scott ia a fourth in the pole vault. d in the triple jump with a 47 r first in the discus with a toss :03.2 in the two mile event to ent. The USC distance medley ith a time of 10:05.5 while Billy gh Hurdles for a third place to ig events.