Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Vols c Edwards leads charge in 55-45 win BY JIM HERSH Sports Writer There is this opinion, upheld by most college basketball coaches, that freshmen, except for the occa sional super-star, will hurt a big college basketball team more than help it. Everyone knows that freshmen are too young, too inexperienced and too awed by college basketball to do anything worthwhile for a var sity team. You throw them on the freshman team for a year where they learn everything there is to know about basketball. Then when they're sophomores they can do some good for the varsity. Frank McGuire is one of the few coaches who says freshmen can play in their first year. He started one Saturday night in USC's opener at Tennessee and before the game was over he had thrown five others into the game. And his team lost 55 45. But they did not lose because the freshmen were too young, too inexperienced or too awed. In fact, it's difficult to imagine that the Gamecocks could have stayed on the court with the Vols without the freshmen. Take Alexan der English, his 12 points and seven rebounds off the court and the USC frontcourt could have played the whole game without anyone notic ing that they were in the game. Danny Traylor, the seven-foot center, and Rick Mousa, the for ward opposite English, played most of the game. Together they shot seven times for six points and got six rebounds. Early in the game USC played the Vols evenly. They did this mostly on some incredible shooting by Kevin Joyce, who had 20 hard earned points, and a few baskets by English. But the game was moving very slowly and the USC ball move ment was poor. Sound like a spot for an experienced backcourtman? Of course not, it's a spot for freshman number two. Almost as soon as Mike Dunleavy checked into the game Carolina started to move the ball better and, when they got a rare defensive rebound, the fast break started to click. In five minutes right before the end of the half Dunleavy had three assists off fast breaks and the Gamecocks had the lead 24-21. (See VOLS, Page 15, Column 5) Lmu--- - -- - rop Carolina Gamecock strong -1 USC swimmersc< after big opening BY BILL GRANT agisFS.Hstminbh Sports News Editorth50an100,eisdcol The Carolina sw ime rs squad opened the 1972 dual two weeks, set by Schmidt dur meet season with a 82-19 win ing the team's Garnet-Black over tiny Morehouse College, intrasquad meet. Friday afternoon, and followed The Carolina squad was split with a 58-55 loss to powerful for the two meets, with mostly Florida State. reserves traveling to Atlanta to The highlight of the weekendfaeMrhue for Carolina was the swimming SpooeDvdBig o of freshman Tom Schmidt, who te'aeoko h et swept two events, the 500 andawrfohipeomnc 1,00 yar frestlle rcesagainst MFSU.ouss.time awardt the------ 50 an 1,00 emise school USTordBRINGhadHISodCOrUPnl two wees, setby Sch idtdr inSteEea'sGane-Bac ThehiarolnaC.qBadokstopli hfaceaMorehouse. AGHETTeIDvi Brggswo 1,000y-rdAeetye 7a against PM. rhus.Tewr ~~AT THE AM- PM Museing this oone AGH ETT UNLV oints iowned victory is given by the team to the swimmer who gives the best effort during the meet. Briggs won both the 200 yard Individual Medly and the 200 breaststroke event. Also turning in winning times against Morehouse were : the 400 medly team, diver Howard Watts, Kim Gannaway, Johnny Poole, Nick Kesserling, and Glen Spears. (See SWIMMERS, Page 14, Column 3) 7 next Baker-led Nevadans have height BY STEVE PARKER Asst. Sports Editor Frank McGuire's "new loo " Gamecocks hope to add some mo changes to their appearance in their second contest of the season-one of which is winning. Carolina's second game should prove to be no easier than the first, as a potent Nevada-Las Vegas comes to Carolina Coliseum for tonight's 8 P.M. encounter. If the Gameccocks are to drop UNLV there will have to be some improvements in at least two facets of their attack--rebounding and shooting. Needless to say, these are not easy improvements to make, especially against a team like UNLV. The Rebels feature a frontcourt that measures off like trees in 6-9 Jim Baker, 6-10 Dan Weimer and 6-11 Jim Cunningham. The mere heights of the UNLV boardmen are enough to make USC rebounds a rarity, but that becomes even more obvious after seeing the Gamecocks inability to rebound against the smaller Tennessee team. As far as shooting goes, Carolina was quite unsuccessful with the out side shot against Tennessee's zone but they will be forced to bomb away once again from the outside as inside buckets will be scare against the Rebel frontcourt. UNLV's super-sophomore Baker broke into the varsity lineup and fulfilled the credentials that pre ceded him. Scoring 21 points and nine rebounds in his debut, Baker was one of the bright spots in the Rebel's 102-92 loss at the hands of nationally-ranked Southwestern Louisianna. Baker averaged 37.7 points as a freshmen but his rebounding aver age of 22.4 a game might prove even more destructive to the Carolina desires of tonight. Weimer and Cunningham, .the other giants in the Revel lineup, are also sophomores and so the UNLV team will be as lacking of experi ence as is Carolina's extremely young lineup. As if the frontcourt height of UNLV is not enough to cope with, the Gamecocks will be facing a guard who last season played a for ward spot in Bob Florence. The other guard post is handled by soph Eddie Taylor, a 22.3 ppg man in his first year. (See UNLV, Page 14, Column 1) ers 'Ia