Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Fresh Vols first for youth BY JIM HERSH Sports Writer For years Tennessee's football team made life miserable for visit ing teams in Knoxville. Now their basketball team is doing the same. Carolina opens their season there Saturday, and they may find out that it is not smart to begin a season, or play any game at all, in Knoxville. For one thing, the crowds at Ten nessee give the home team a big advantage. The Volunteers make things interesting for their fans even before the game starts. They run through a Harlem Globetrotter type warm-up routine, complete with a uni-cyclist. The crowd goes wild and gets progressively more rowdy when the game gets under way. More important is the fact that the Vols don't need the home court advantage to win. They can beat just about anybody, regardless where they play. But add the home court advantage and the Gamecocks seem to be walking into disaster. The tough opener is a good thing in that it will show immediately how good, or not so good, USC will be this year. There.will be no easy games early that will leave you guessing how good they are. The Tennessee game will expose the strengths and weaknesses for everyone to see. Last year the Vols were 19-6 and co-champions, along with Ken tucky, of the SEC. This year they are favored to take it all, sort of sur prising in that Kentucky was sup posed to have the best freshman team in the nation last year. Up front the Vols have seven footer Len Kosmalski. He averaged 19.5 points and eight rebounds as a sophomore, improved greatly throughout the year and had a try out with the Olympic team. One question that faces the Gamecocks is whether Danny Traylor can pick up the rebounding and scoring punch up front that Tom Riker took with him. Traylor's performance in his match-up with Kosmalski should answer that ques tion. Tennessee, which has experience over the Gamecocks at most posi tions, has the proven forwards, BICY Quality European Bi< Manufactured By: G Paris-Sport, Falcon-M In Colu C AT E'S C Box Cedar Terrace! 6420 Sumter Ph4 776 1:15 to 8pn.m. M m en, test ful USC something which USC totally lacks. Lloyd Richardson and Larry Robin son are both worth about 10 points a game. It's hard to tell what the Gamecock forwards are worth. They are all untested. Rick Mousa, a junior with little college experi ence. and freshman Alexander Eng lish, a defensive standout with no experience, are to be the starters. Tommy Cox, sophomore, no experi ence, is the top reserve. So the USC forwards will get an education in Knoxville. If Tennessee has the edge at the forwards, which they certainly do, Carolinahas the advantage at the guards. Kevin Joyce and Brian Win ters are quicker, better passers and better team players than the Ten nessee backcourt men. Mike Edwards, who shoots from anywhere east of the Mississippi, averaged 19.4 points as a junior for the Vols. He can score from 30 feet with an amazing degree of consis tency and was an All-SEC pick last year. But Winters and Joyce can do so much more for their team than Edwards can for the Vols. Winters is coming off a bout with monomucleosis but will probably play. If he can't, or can play only in spots, Casey Manning would play. That would be a drop in efficiency, something the Gamecocks can't afford to much of if they are to win. It's hard to say what extend freshmen will play in the game, but Frank McGuire says that he will not hesitate one second to use his new recruits. "We have to see what they can do," he says. And he aims to see right away, even in Knoxville. "We'll play this game like any other one," he claims. Judging from the Garnet-Black game last night the only other freshmen, outside of English, who wrapped up the starting assignment during practices, who would help a great deal would be forward-center Bob Mathias, who has a soft touch from the outside and muscles his way inside, and Mike Dunleavy, a slick ball-handler. But who can tell. Maybe some other freshman will come off the bench and do a great job. Carolina will probably need that extra, unex pected boost to get by Tennessee. 7EED CLES eycles From $95.00 itane, Bottecchia, [aino, Cinelli, Colnago mbia See: OTT AGE 9342 shoppIng Center Hwy. (29209) me: .1209 on. through Sat. Fraylor key fe .4..b Ko r Bright prospects Carolina's freshman Alexander English and Brian Win ters, both slated to start against Tennessee Saturday night, fight for rebound during annual intraswuad game won by the upperclassmen, 82-63. Carolina's Agnew quits cage squad Sophomore Clyde Agnew quit the rebounds per game with 13.7 aver Carolina basketball team Sunday age and finished second to Tommy night, stating his desire to play for Cox in the Biddie scoring race with a smaller school. an average of 21.9. Agnew, a 6-7 center forward from He had one game highs of 32 Greenville, said that he would points and 22 rebounds for the Bid remain in school until the end of the dies and also had the team's longest fall semester before transfering to shooting streaks by hitting eight a smaller institution somewhere in straight field Roals and 16 the state. free throws during the season. Agnew, although injured for much of last season's frosh acetdAnwsrintinih schedule,spacedgame team in.regrets agmadfiisemscodtoTmm Coxin h jBdiesorn aewt OFFERverage ofE21.9. 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Another highlight of the rookie attack was the fine ballhandlling and passing talents of guard Mike Dun leavy whose assist passes frequently proved effective. Kevin Joyce was the big gun in the varsity attack as his 25 points led both teams. Fourteen of Joyce's markers came in first half play as the upper-classmen opened a 41 26 lead at the intermission. Joyce scored the contest's first points but the frosh's Mathias struck from the out side to knot the score. The freshmen could manage to stay close for only the open ing few minutes as varsity man Rick Mousa's fourth point of the game propeled his team into an 8-6 lead that they never relinquished thereafter. ~See INTRASQUAD, Page *5I| Open 10 AM-6PM I MON.-Sat.I >FFER to USC before pairs of~ get $5.0ipo~u a Coke, relax, and re-traps". d Dooley, Mgr. I 'ate charge $5 I