Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Bon BY CHARLIE COLLINS Asst. Sports Editor St. Bonaventure comes to Carolina Monday night in hopes of improving its 7-3 record and breaking into the national rankings with a win over the 9-2 Gamecocks. Led by returning veteran Matt Gantt and sophomore Glen Price, 1he Bonnies are averaging 82.7 points per game against their Traylor re USC's Danny Traylor gr Marquette's Larry McNeill in Joyce helps by boxing out Wa Lackey. Protests g 'shopping BY TEDDY HEFF~NER Sports Editor Carolina athletic director and head football coach Paul Dietzel, brought on a wave of protest from alumni, local fans and at least one member of the board of trustees when he reportedly 'went shop ping' for a job with- the Denver Broncos of the American Con ference of the National Football League. Dietzel's trip was reported .in a special press conference called by board chairman T. Elston Mar chant, after Dletzel was In the Colorado city. One of rbe biggest gripes that the fans and board member Michael J. Mungo had was that Dietzel supposedly made the trip without informing any university officials. "The board should tell him to keep shopping", Mungo told a reporter of THE STATE. Diet zel, however, denied this and said that hie tried to get In touch wit h President Thoasnes but.s. flies hc opponents' 66.5. Gantt, after experiencing a slow junior season because of a serious illness, has come back to average 15.8 ppg behind Price's 20.1. Paul Hoffman, Vic Thomas, and Carl Jackson are also scoring in double figures for the Bonnies with 13.8 , 10.5, and 16 respectively. Six-nine Price tops the Bonnies in percentg shooti _with .620 bounds abs rebound in front of Carolina's 72-71 loss. Kevin rriors' Jim Chones and Bob reet Diet; trip' tol Jones was out of town. Dietzel then talked to Sol Blatt, Jr., chairman of the athletic board, and 'got permission' foi- the trip. Dietzel said, that he told Den ver's Jerry Phipps that he had planned a skiing trip to the mountains and that the Deniver president had told him to bring along his wife, Anne. "They were very nice to me," Dietzel said. "1'hey are a first class organization with first class people. Their offer was in the neighborhood of $75,000 and I knew I had to look into that or wonder the rest of my life." Dietzel came to Carolina in 1966 from the West Point military academy, where he supposedly left with time still on his contract. Earlier Dietzel had broken his pact with Louisiana State University, where hie coached the Tigers to the 1958 national title. Dietzel had taken Carolina.to lth highest point of success in football In 1969 when his team captured the ACC title and won a trip to the1 pe toz and the team average lies at .463. Coming off a Saturday night loss to Duquesne, 96-91, the Bonnies hope to upset Carolina after its 116. 78 win over Manhattan. The other two losses for St. Bonaventure came at the hands of Bowling Green and Penn, while the Gamecocks sport losses to Villanova and Marquette. Tom Riker leads the Gamecocks McGu C aro i: BY DOUG WILLIAMS Sports Editor Marquette's Allie McGuire hit two free throws with 1:15 remaining to quiet a valiant Carolina second half comeback and guide the Warriors to a .72-71 victory over USC in a nationally televised contest. Following McQuire's two points, which came on a contested play in which Brian Winters apparently tied McQuire up, but was called for a foul, Kevin Joyce missed on two last second shots that would have given Carolina a win over second ranked Marquette. Down by six at half time, the Gamecocks roared back after a fight between Carolina's Tom Riker and Marquette's Bob Lackey wit h 2:58 gone in the second period. With Marquette holding a 44-35 advantage, Riker and Lackey starred slugging it out. When order was finally restored, both players were asked to leave the game. With 14:05 left, Jim Chones scored on a layup to give the Warriors their biggest lead at 52 40. Still down by nine at the 9:44 mark, Ed Peterson,- who enjoyed his best game to date with 14 points, hit a jumper, narrowing the Warrior lead to 60-53. After Marcus el S )enver Peach Bowl, where a strong running team, West Virginia, won 14-3 as rain and muddy ground hampered the passing of nifty Tommy Suggs. The next season was a major disappointment with losses. to Maryland and a tie with N. C. State t he low points of a 4-6-1 season. Lasi year Carolina was 5-1 after six games but slumped to a 6-4 mark including a hard-to-take loss to Clemson. After the Clemson game Dietzel w'as quoted as saying he loved. south Carolina and wanted to stay. This was one of the reasons Diet zel gave for withdrawing his name from the Denver job. "We it ill have a challenge at South Carolina," Dietzel said. "And I'm going to stay to see it through." The Broncos later named Stanford's John. Ralston, who Dached the Indians' to a 13-12 ipset over Michigan in the Rose >owl. as their had cnach. ipset U in scoring with a 17.6 average followed closely by junior Danny Traylor with a 16.7 average and Kevin Joyce with 15.7. Co-captains Rick Aydlett and Bob Carver follow with 9.7 and 8.9 averages, and sophomore Brian Winters holds an 8.6 scoring average. Traylor and Riker are leading Carolina in reboundinS with an ire siler nla COrn Washington scored a free throw, Winters hit on another jump shot, cutting the Marquette lead to six. Rick Aydlett followed with a bueket, then Washington hit one of two from the charity stripe, put ting Marquette ahead by five, 62 57. Peterson followed by hitting a long set shot and Aydlett scored two more from the foul line to bring the Gamecocks within one, 62-61. Chones then scored and was fouled by Joyce. He converted, sending the Warriors to a 64-61 advantage. Larry McNeil, then hit two more from the line, and it appeared that Marquette was going to pull away. But Winters and Peterson each hit outside shots to bring the Gamecocks back within one, 66-65. McNeill scored on a jumper, as Winters made up by canning another basket. McNeill fouled Aydlett, who hit both shots, sen ding USC into the lead for the first time since 17:50 of the first half, 69 68. However, Chones scored from in close with 2:23 left, setting the Firm no Sc average of 11.8 for senior Riker and 11.7 for Traylor. "Danny (Traylor) had a great game against Manhattan," said Carolina's Frank McQuire. "He really took up the slack caused but Riker's absense." Traylor scored 37 points, had 20 rebounds and blocked six shots against the Jaspers in the absense of the injured Riker. ices aback stage for McQuire's final two points. The first half saw both teams cold from the field, each hitting only 37 per cent. Danny Traylor had successfully forced Chones to the outside, as the Marquette center scored only two of eight from the field and grabbed a mere four rebounds. Traylor, on the other hand, threw in 14 points in the first half, grabbing five rebounds. The big man hauled down eight stray shots in the second half, but scored only one point. However, it was the play of Joyce that surprised the 12,651 in attendance. The gunior guard forward, who has been averaging around 19 points per game, missed all 12 shots he took from the field, scoring but one point from the line. "We were lucky that Joyce was cold," said winning coach Al McGuire. "But it was a great ball game. We were fortunate to win, as South Carolina is a great basketball team." McGuire then commeted on the See WARRIOR,Page 10, Column i) ssession