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IN A%N U. COMNG.. 'EFFr tD '4t. immortal Accps bedt throwerf Dennis Chandler, Clemsons record holding star In the javelin, fires away In the recent State Collegiate Track and Field Championships, held last weekend. widi Matitera l i Fride ea A.. y 2.. SCaUARE M.At,*trir*g) Terps Favored Maryland's Gene Speni eliminated USC's Bill Austin in the featured first flight in the opening of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tennis Tournament, being held at the Maxcy Gregg courts. Speni quickly defeated Austin, 6 4. 6- 1 in one of the six matches, held early yesterday morning. Each of the six flights had one match. In other matches, Clemson's Steve Parsons took Carolina's Wadkins-j romp in Rv GARy w-:s Sports Writer Anderson average t< (Continued fi the league, sweeping a two g the final two conference gami of contention for the ACC til Carolina, following the Vi conference doubleheader fror 4-0 and 3-0, to end the season. a pair of four hit performani Bo Robinson and junior righ Gamecocks' two most succe Robinson finished with a 4-1 average. Erbaugh was 6-3 wi1 the squad in innings pitchec Relief specialist Phil Houstc record with a 1.25 ERA for George Beam and Alan Hillia records and righthander Edt the pitching staff, was 1-2. Pe pitched only four innings, w The Gamecocks wound up better than .300 and another I Butch Anderson led the squa Billy Petoskey hit .307, freshn collected six hits in his last E Junior outfielder Pete Carper hits in 34 at bats over the fina .298 average. ronte 's story of ing love, IIMOIHY DALTON as Heathcift IeigIgtu CORN WELL Le= I11i t) irrab net op( Kevin McCart hy.,6-4. 5-7. fi-1. in the number two flight. Other flight winners included Virginia's Bob Kain. a 7-5. 6-2 victor over the Terps' Gary Silverman in flight three. Andy Cohen. also of Maryland. shrugged off a bad first set to deleat Wake Forest's Bob Brewer. :tI6. i-.. 15-:1. in the fourth flight decision. Identical sets of 4-2. 6-2 gave >aced Dej ACC linh Wake Forest. led by Walker Cup member lanny Wadkins. won s plate )pS USC -om page 10) ame series from Virginia in es to knock the Cavaliers out le. rginia series, swept a non n Atlanta Baptist University, The double shutouts came on :es by sophomore lefthander fhander Larry Erbaugh, the ssful pitchers. record and a 2.28 earned run th an ERA of 3.49. He topped I, 75 2-3 and strikeouts, 60. in, a lunior, compiled a 2-1 21 2-3 innings. Lefthanders rd, both sophomores, had 2-3 lie Bolton, the only senior on it Lassonde, a freshman who as 1-0. with three regulars hitting ust missing. Senior shortstop d with .330, junior outfielder ian outfielder John Gambrell ight at bats to finish at .301. ter, after a slow start, had 16 I nine games to finish with a Carpenter !ed the club in doubles with eight, sophomore third baseman Bruce Pudlock, who batted .222, led in triples with two, and senior first baseman Buddy Caldweli hit a school record 11 home runs and led in runs-batted-in with 23. Gambrell was the stolen bases leader with 12, while Anderson scored the most runs, 25, and had the most hits, 37. ''Most of our squad returns next season, in cluding all but one of our pitchers, and we are currently recruiting some fine new players, Richardson said. ''We plarl to play even more games forward to the 1972 season 3er Virginia's Jim Ratliff the win over North Carolina State's David .Johnson in match five. while the morning's action was completed with lDuke's Peter Frank stopping Maryland's Howard Unger. 6-2. 6-3 in the final flight. Act ion continued last evening with first round singles and doubles matches. Second round matches are scheduled for today. as linals will be held Saturday. %COnW tourney their ninth Atlantic Coast Con terence title by a whopping 14 stroke margin over their nearest opponent in the eighteenth annual classic. Wadkins scored a four over par 292 on the rough 7,200 yard Woodmont layout at Rockville, Maryland. He received steady support from teammates Eddie Pearce and Mike Kallam, who each had identical 293 scores. The I)eacons finished with a ieam score of' 1.468 as compared to runner-up Maryland's 1.492. Marty West. the tournament medalig with a one under par 287 totAl. guided the Tar Heels of North ' Carolina to a third place finish with a team score of 1.512. Duke followed a close fourth at 1.513. Carolina finished fifth at 1.523, flowed by Clemson. Virginia and North Carolina State. Wade Mayo was the low scorer ior the Gamecocks with a 296 total, followed by Johnny Gregory. 302; Wylie Ramsey. 303: Os Hillman. ,i I. .im Hamilton 311: Buddy Ilostian. 312. and Max Poteet. 319. Carolina. who fell behind early in the first half of the tournament played at Aiken. S.C.. never im proved their position of fifth during the last two rounds. The (;amecocks found the Woodmont course extremely tough, with narrow fairways and thick rough. Gamecock links mentor Dick M1elt on expressed his feelings about the tournament. "We just didn't play well at Aiken and got far behind. This Woodmont course is v'ery tough. with the fairways cut v'ery long and high rough, which makes the ball fly out." Carolina plans to extend their golt season to a fall and spring schedule next year. with regular tournaments and matches, in chuding round robin matches. M1ost of the Gamecock linksmen will be back next year and some tine high school prospects are expected to sign. according to M1elton. 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