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I USC take, By JIM HERSH South Carolina Sports Writer Track Championsh USC took eight first place night on the Weem finishes enroute to winning the 1972 In scoring 12 S .0 Surprising per help Gamecoc. By JIM HERSH Sports Writer When Carolina's track team won the South Carolina intercollegiate Track Championship yes erday, it was the biggest team victory for USC since 1ill McClure came to Columbia from Abilene Christian. "We did as well as we expected to do," Mc Clure said after the meet was over. "In fact, we had more pluses in our performances than minuese." Pre-meet predictions had the Gamecocks in he favorite spot, but most observers figured Bap Isi College to breath hard down USC's back. As ii turned out, USC broke the meet open midway ihrough the competition and were never pushed thereafter. USC had 125 points in he meei, exactly 30 more than Baptist was able o score. Furman, The Citadel and South Carolina State finished way behind, and Allen never did get on the scoreboard. Mil.on Reid of USC was selected as the ou s anding perform'r in the meet. The Virginia native won both the 100 and 220, and ran on USC's two winning relays, the 440 and mile. "He did a great job," McClure said of his freshman sprinter. "He ran a great leg on the mile relay, and he ran just fast enough for us to win he 440 relay." Reid has sliced two-tenths of a second off his bes 100 ime in high school, and his coach says, "He has come a long way this year. He is in be er shape now and he has really come down a lo . "He is going to stay a sprinter until his junior year," McClure continued, "and then we are going to change his specialty to the quarter. I hink he can become a world class quarter miler, although I also think he can be among 1 Ryan to replac as freshman h4 By BILL GRANT aid Ryan as assi: Sports Writer man coaches. Bob Ryan has been named Diet zel also anr USC's head freshman football expansion of the coach for the upcoming fail Biddie schedule, i season, athletic director Paul possibly seven garn Diet zel announced Wednesday. Gor don Militar' Ryan replaces Jackie Powers, dropped football a who guided the Biddies to a 3-2 so left a hole in mark in the last campaign. slate, which may b Powers moves on to become another opponentI assistant director of high Four of the sixg school relations. Ryan's oldg job. Ryan in serving the University in the capacity of assistant director of high school relations, main duties included recruiting in the Middle Atlantic States and / i Eastern seaboard. Prior to joining Diet zel's staff, Ryan served for ten years as a high school coach in upper New York state, where his teams compiled a 47-17-5 mark. Former graduate assistants Harold White, Pat Watson and Tim Brice were n,r-om ..J, leid outstanding perf State ChC Intercollegiate Gamecock's breezed past Baptist S ips, Wednesday College, the defending champion, W s Baskin Track. who ended the meet with 95 points. 5 points, the Furman, 31%/, The Citadel, 18, and s1 St ci Formances : til k tracksters he best in the 100, too." re When asked how much he thought Reid could improve in the 100, the assistant Olympic coach se replied, "I don't want to put a limit on him, but Bi I am sure he will eventually run 9.3, and will be a consistent 9.4 sprinter." Bu., Reid did not win the meet single handidly. The Gamecocks got a number of poin s from people they were not counting on to o do as well as they did. Jumper Ron Rader was one of the USC performers that scored better than expected. The senior won the triple jump at 47-4/2 and was second In the long jump with a leap of 22-9. "We got bonuses in the jumps," McClure remarked. "We weren't counting on them, but hey jusi came in and did a good job." In he ihree-mile, USC got another surprising win. Jack Miller, who ran his best two-mile I ever against North Carolina on Saturday, came back wiih another impressive performance by winning the race in 14:36.8. Miller had to sprint past Baptist's Ken Layne, who was favored to win the race, in the last 100 yards io win. After sticking close for the first 11 laps, Layne jumped off to a ten yard advantage :>n he final backstretch, only to lose it on Miller's final spurt. ste "Miller was another guy who gave us more 9:) han we counted on," McClure commented. Gu "He ran a real great race." Ei Al:hough they were not the only Gamecocks dis o come through with big performances when the hey were needed, Rader and Miller typified P he ype of depth USC received to win the State fro I le. Jin Now est ablished as the best team in the state, bot he Carolina tracksters face East Carolina in a 9.6 Jual meet, Saturday night at 7 P.M. on the Neems Baskin Track. USC is 2-0 In dual meets, sur >ea ing Clemson and North Carolina last week. wa! I IVI10% Ia AMinf ~e Powers ?ad coach stant fresh- be played at Carolina Stadium, opening with Appalachian ounced the State on Sept. 11. Also visiting five game will be: The Citadel, Clemson 1to six and and Georgia in the season's es this fall- finale, Nov. 13. 'College rad in doing The Biddies travel to New Carolina's Orleans, Oct. 14, to play the e filled with Tulane freshman and take on later. ,he Georgia Tech Baby Jackets ames are to in Atlanta, Nov. 3. |I'gs five poimts )rmer mpion uth Carolina State, 14/2, finished r ll behind the leaders. Milton Reid, USC's freshman I rint star, was voted the out- f inding performer by the meet C aches. Reid won the 100 in a eet record time of 9.5, which also i ,s the 'school record, and later c )k the 220 in 21.3, equalling the 1 et record and setting a school :ord. He also anchored the h ining 440 relay team as well as ] ning on the victorious mile E ay squad. s JSC got their first win in the t -ond race of the night. After n ptist's Ken Layne won the 5 C 2 t t Milton Reid t !plechase in a meet record of t" i, the USC 440 relay team of rn r Hornsby, Jim Small, Keith a son and Reid sprinted the r ance in 41.6, their best time of year. ot only did Carolina get a first ri Reid in the 100 and 220, but s Small was the runner-up in s i races, running the century in and the 220 in 21.7.a rolina's Jack Miller was a )rise winner in the three-mile, e outsprinted Layne in the final yards to grab the win. Miller A timed in 14:36.8, two seconds j 'ont of Layne. ti the final running event of the tl son anRed sprntdthe F anei19%' thei best Fameo Mtonydderln ge Uta first r RedCinth 1an.20, bt $4 ndth 20i Co1umbia riedannr Terre tr hople yad to grb7h n . Mr ships ight, USC outran Baptist in the nile relay when anchorman Bob )empsey sprinted past Baptist's inal man to win the race in 3:16.1, ne-half a second ahead of Baptist. >aul Loshack, Reid and Paul 4cLeod kept USC within striking listance before Dempsey took the ead in the last 220. Billy Novo wa. - -ond in the two urdle races, behin daptist's Tom yall both times. Ryall ran the 120 ighs in 13.7, three-tenths of a econd in front of Novo, and then Dok the intermediates in 51.6, a ieet record, with Novo second in 3.2. Favorites in their events, both JSC's Tom Chapman and Bill tryan did not disappoint as they ion their specialties. Chapman ;on the javelin with a toss of 191-2, nd Bryan vaulted 15-0 to get the ole vault win. ,A pleasant bonus for Carolina ame from jumper Ron Rader. 'he USC senior won the triple imp with a 47-41% effort, and laced second in the long jump at 2-9. USC also got second in the riple when Bruce Stuart leaped 46 1/. Weightmen Rich Sorin and 'orrest Broom each took a second nd a third in the meet. Sorin was econd in the shot, 51-10%, and bird in the discus, 149-10, while Iroom got his second in the discus, 54-4, and his third in the shot, 50-4. Other Carolina places on the rack came from Wayne Thomas, bird in both the one and three -iile; Miller, fourth in the mile; nd Rod Dalton, second and fourth, espectively, in the steeplechase. Also, Jim Schaper and Mike heley took second and third in the 80; Dempsey and Loshack, econd and fifth in the 440; Horn by, fourth in the 100; Joe Mc :ulloch, fourth in both the hurdles; nd Brian Nemeth, fifth in the high urdles. In the field USC got places out of like Cawley, second in the ivelin; Buck Thompson, fifth in ie shot; and Dave McKee, fifth in ie pole vault. nce s- Men's & Ladies lit Weight - 0.00 - i See: T TAGE ping Center vy. (29209) 09 n thru Sat.