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-17. USC's Tom Riker (51) ar Jim Hegmann (55) converge basket after score by Care Aydlett (not shown). The Biddies % by Ander BY STEVE PARKER Sports Writer Anderson Junior College defeated the Carolina freshman, 84-83, when Tom Higdon scored a short jump shot with just 15 seconds remining in the contest, Wednesday night at Carolina Coliseum. Higdon's winning basket came just seconds after Biddie center Clyde Agnew missed a layup which McGuire: one of the (Continued from Page 6) in scoring, followed by Aydlett's 13 and Winters' 11. Traylor hauled down 20 rebounds and blocked nine shots to pace both teams in those departments. Wingate scored 19 points for Niagara, Al Williamas added 15 and Hegmann 13. Hegmann alsot grabbed nine rebounds while . Williams and Royster nabbed eight apiece for the losers. "1 really felt this one tonight," said USC head coach Frank McGuire. "It was a great comeback, but this is the quickestL way I know of to kill a coach. One h time they'll get caught. h "As long as I have coached," the s Gamecock mentor continued, "I BLI Swish I id Niagara's scored 49 se under the Purple Eagle lina's Rick the half. Gamecocks 0 in streak son JC, f would have propelled the frosh into a commanding three-point lead. Following Higdon's basket Biddie guard Jimmy Walsh managed to take one final shot which would have given Carolina a victory if successful. His attempt failed when the ball hit the rim and rolled off. The loss brought the Biddies' six game victory streak to a halt, and 'Niagara fastest' iave never seen two games in a 'ow like this," alluding to ,arolina's 61-59 victory over St. 3onaventure. "These boys got a vorld of guts. But see, once our ellows get behind, they get more Iggressive. That's what happened n the second half. "This team is one of the fastest eams we'll ever play against. 'hey have got to have the quickest lands I think I've ever seen. And elieve me, they'll have an awful >t of wins. They are a real tough sam.3 "We had some trouble with our layups early. I think the boys may ave been trying to push a little too ard for the home crowd. And our phomores did another fine job ut there tonight." ( Gameeek han-ge Aeuumt $100 ITTON' AP -Lewis Phillips cond half points to rout the s after being down by ten at halted 4-83 left them with a 6-3 record. The Biddies had trailed throughout most of the game but refused to allow Anderson to break the contest open, never trailing by more than the seven point deficit which they held at halftime, 54-47. The Biddies came back late in t he second period and captured the lead. The lead then switched hands several times before Anderson eventually grabbed it with the game's winning shot. Pacing all scorers was An derson's Jim Clark with 30 points. rhroughout the game Clark had success slipping in between Agnew playing the high post and forwards 'ommy Cox and Greg Ward playing under the basket. Hidgon and Donald Davis also scored in double columns for Anderson , hitting totals of 18 and L3 points, respectively. Agnew once again paced the freshman team in scoring, the sixth time he has done so in the Biddies' nine outing, with 23 points. 30xc followed with 22 points. Walsh, Ward, and George Felton rounded xit the frosh scoring with totals of 5,13 and ten points, respectively. The battle for the Biddie scoring ead remained clse. Cox still leads vith a 22.2 average, Agnew drew ~loser to the lead with 21.8, and V/alsh remained close with a 19.2 coring mark. Joyce hero in comeback Kevin Joyce played one of the finest basketball games of his collegiate career Wednesday night against Niagara when his second half heroics helped lead the Gamecocks to their second straight comeback victory.. . The 6-3 guard totaled 33 points in the game, of which he poured in 26 in the second half. Joyce connected on 14 of 21 field goal attempts in the Gamecock comeback, including an outstanding II of 14 in the second period. In similiar fashion to the St. Bonaventure game the Gamecocks tumbled behind early, but Joyce's brilliant second period play guided Carolina back from a ten point halftime deficit to their eventual 80-69 victory. Joyce cited, among other things, "'the great fans" at Carolina as being responsible for the win. "They're super for a comeback like that," he said. Joyce also had praise for the ball handling abilities of teammate Brian Winters, "Brian did a great job of bringing the ball up the court against their press. 1. per sonally think Brian is a better ball handler than myself." Joyce narrowly missed individually outscoring the -entire Purple Eagle team in the concluding period, but fell two points short of Niagara's team total of 28 points. He did succeed in outscoring his Gamecock teammates who collectively mustered 23 points in the final half. After experiencing some very low scoring outputs of late, including only a single point in the entire Marquette encounter, Joyce's play also represented a comeback effort for himself. Joyce explained the difference in his scoring per formance, "I don't think I was taking a good shot in those other games, I was forcing my shots a lot. Now the coach has me out of it. Now I'm not forcing my shots, I'm taking my time." Carolina faces Iowa in Chicago BY GARY WEST inside tandem of Danny Traylor Sports Writer and Tom Riker is 6-9 Collins, a Carolina, after two second half sophomore with a .531 percentage comebacks in a row over St. from the floor. Kunnert and Collins Bonnaventure and Niagara, musthaeplddon1.ad69 hit the road again against Iowa at rbud epciey oso h Chicago Stadium Saturday af-tem ternoon in a double header which Thgaemywlcntrote mat ches Long Beach State against btl ftebcbad ihbt Loyola in t he firs t game.temfilngosofhgtad The Hawkeyes having posted a egto lvnopnnsadi record of 6-5 are coming offavrgn471ebudagmes semester exam break and shouldatem be ready for the Gamecocks. Iowa TeHwee r neetda is being paced by 7-0 Kevin Kunert hm ihwn vrKna n and 6-3 guard Rick Williams who Daehg lead the team in scoring both withlihngtercm 17.2 averages.pag,bthvbenicsset Rounding out the top six playersaninsukestDqes, are Jim Collins (11.9), HaroldIoaStendWsni. Sullinger (7.5), Glenn Angelino (7.6) and Neil Fegebank (7.1). CahShlzhsbe m Iowa has been averaging 79.7 to pesdwt i emspr lheir opponents 78.8. frac fltl."er Coach Dick Schultz who employs aeaigaot8 ons n sight or nine players in his usualwergtingodblc.Ife lame plan, says, "South Carolinacaimrvoudensw'lben v'ill be the toughest opponent go hp. w'e've faced since UCLA. I saw ome of t heir game with Marquette ThGaeos,wo er m TV argl I was impressed with rsudb ei oc' 3pit heir size and poise. They have aagisNaarWendyngh mart team with excellent per- wl evstn hcg tdu onnel."thfisoftotmstsseon arcn orter i69Cllins, r Tofromltheufloor.cKunnertthedJCollins