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USC balance dumps Tigers By JIM HERSH Sports Writer Carolina unleashed a balanced scoring attack, featuring All five starters in double figures, to defeat a determined Auburn basketball team, 84-63, on the Auburn court, Wednesday night. Even though the Gamecocks went into the locker room at half-time with a ten point, 36-26, lead, Frank McGuire's team did not have complete control of the game until the second half. In the first half neither team could find any consistency in their shooting and because of that neither team was able to take command of the game. At the outset of the game USC jumped in front 6-1, only to see the Tigers claw back to tie the game at six-all. This was to be the pattern for the initial half. After taking an 11 6 edge the Gamecocks again were stalled by Auburn and the Tigers took a 13-12 lead. This was the last time Auburn led in the game. Again USC spurted; this time to a 20-12 lead. Auburn retaliated with an eight point burst of their own and tied the score at 20. Then with the score notted at 23 the Gamecocks pulled away in the waning minutes of the half to outscore the Tigers, 13-3, and enjoy a 36-26 bulge at the half. During the first half the Gamecock forwards paced the team scoring with Rick Aydlett pourinq in 11 points and Tom Riker nine. Their inability to solve the Auburn zone defense in the first half held USC to a 25.7 percentage from the field. However the Tigers were shooting even worse and owned a 22.5 field goal percentage at the half. After the half Carolina came out running and began to take control of the contest. The backcourt men, Bobby Carver and Kevin Joyce, sparked the Gamecocks in the early part of the half. Carver, held to two points in the first half, scored twice from the field for USC at the start of the second half, but each time Auburn's Jim Retseck coun tered with field goals for the Tigers. Joyce, coming off a four point first half, came to life and scored six of the next eight points to launch Carolina to a 46-32 lead and control of the game. Behind Dan Kirkland, who scored all of his 18 points in the second half, Auburn did close the gap to 50-42. Riker stopped the rally with a three-point play to give the Gamecocks a double figure lead which they never relinquished. Joyce finished up as the game's top scorer with 19 points. Riker had 17 and Aydlett 13 for USC. Danny Traylor, in the first start of his varsity career, added 11 points and Carver 10. An encouraging part of the game was the USC rebounding. Riker pulled down 15 missed shots while Traylor cleared 14 to give the Gamecocks the top tw< rebounders in the game. For Auburn, Kirkland led the scoring with 18 while guard Henry Harris chipped in with 16. The only other Tiger to reach double figures was Gary England, Harris running mate in the backcourt, who had 11 points. McGuire noted that the game was ''a typical openinc same showing with streaks of brilliance and some lapses But I was very pleased that we were able to beat a teani that handles the ball as well as Auburn, by 21 points. An) time we can win by that big a margin on the road you hav4 to be very satisfied,'' he ad ''I think our club was very tight at the start but we loosened up and played our N{ game in the second half," the Gamecock coach said. D LEVIS C N..s WA. Cm.Vse CAPITOL NEWSSTANEACDTS A.d MOE NHmpmn St. Nwsstand corner L ~ Ihm~ ~"Headquarters Tom Riker Anderson thumps USC frosh ANDERSON- Jeff Resinger and Tom Higdon combined for 64 points to pace a balanced Anderson Junior College attack that ripped the USC freshman team, 125-101 here Thursday night. Resigner, a 6-7 center poured in 33 points and Higdon, a 6-3 for ward, followed closely with 31 as the unbeaten host club won it's fifth straight. Tom Cox fired in 33 points in a losing effort for the frosh, Jimmy Walsh scored 27, John Kelly added 13 and Clyde Agnew managed 12. AP, UPI Three Carolina football players were honored on the wire service All-America teams for the 1971 season. Dick Harris was selected to the second team on the UPI team, while John LeHeup and Jim Mitchell received honorable mention notice on the AP squad. Harris, one of the top kick return specialists in the country, led the Gamecocks in interceptions with five while playing defensive back for the first nine contests. When changed to running back against Wake Forest, Harris responded by scoring three touchdowns. During the campaign Harris Sreturned three punts for touch downs and averaged 12.8 yards every punt return. He also returned 22 kickoffs for 532 yards, a 24.2 average. The senior from New Jersey established a national record for career kickoff return yardage with 1,879 yards. LeHeup, a junior defensive St ackle, was a steady performer all Syear for the Gamecocks and was named the top Carolina defensive HIPM ENT MIM BELLS tDUROY BELLS MJIM REGULARS MJIM JACKETS ND 3.98 KNIT Tops LEVYS ady & Assembly for most anything. swim. places By LEE NORTON Sports Writer The Carolina swimming and diving. team compted in their first meet of the year over Thanksgiving weekend and placed second out of five teams in the Atlantic Coast Swim Festival held at Raleigh, North Carolina. Led by freshman swimmer Casey Claflin, who set freshman, school, and meet records in the 100 yd. and 200 yd. backstroke races, Carolina scored 445 points. North Carolina State placed first with 940 points, East Carolina was third with 298 points, Wake Forest placed fourth with 167 and the University of North Carolina at Ashville failed to score. Clafflin, who hails from Del Ray Beach, Fla. was voted the out standing swimmer of the meet by the rest of the Gamecock squad. Claflin was invited by the AAU to compete in the AAU International meet on the basis of his 54.5 second time in the 100 yd. backstroke. Assistant coach John Cahill felt that Claflin's performance was outstanding. Bob Warner finished fourth in the 100 yd. backstroke and Bob Cottam finished ninth. In the 200 yd. backstroke Warner placed sixth, setting a sophomore record and Mike Hiller finished'eighth. In the 100 yd. butterfly Jim Villa honor Gd lineman of the game three times. He was credited with 80 tackles and 30 assists during the season. Mitchell was the Gamecocks leading receiver for the year with 47 receptions for 618 yards and two Davis Hasl Pnese oj Chni: something ni great from da students ma~ rest of noven december an a payment or account un we call this Christny Leam second placed third. Paul Gray took fourth, Clafflin took sixth, Gary Givson was ninth and Kim Ganna finished tenth. In the 100 yd. breaststroke Jim Chellis turned in his best time, placing third. Jim Neubert was fourth, Toby Kerr sixth, Wallace Greer eighth, and David Briggs ninth. Chip Newman placed sixth in the 100 yd. freestyle, Roger Rice took eighth, John Poole was tenth, Bob Warner 11th and Clafflin finished 12th. Paul Gray placed sixth in the 200 yd. butterfly, Jim Villa took 10th, and Kim Gannoway was 11th. In the 200 yd. breaststroke Jim Chellis placed fourth, Jeff Neubart was fifth, Douglas was sixth, Greer ninth and Tom Orton 10th. Roger Rice, Chip Newman and Bob Warner finished 10th, 11th, and 12th respectively in the 200 yd. freestyle. Clafflin placed third, Kim Douglas seventh, and Gary Givson ninth in the 200 yd. in dividual medley. It was Douglas' best time this season. In the 500 yd. freestyle Kesserling finished eighth and Paul Gray took 11th. Clafflin set another freshman record in the 400 yd. individual medley placing eighth with a time of 4:35.1. Kim Douglas finished 11th. In the 400 yd. freestyle medley, the USC team of Cottam, Rice, Spears, and' Newman finished second. imecocks touchdowns. He was also involved in the longest gain from scrim mage by the Gamecocks this year when he caught a 49 yard pass from Glenn Morris against Maryland. be nts ;tmas sw and vison 's! shop for the iber and thru d never make 1 their charge itil february! our extended as credit.