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Deten BY STEVE PARKER Sports Editor Forced to do what they didn't want to do, Carolina's Gamecocks made the DePaul Blue Demons pay for their alte Crc What appears as though as a barroom brawl is rea Brian Winters and Danny S wimme USC's Swim team lost to the mos powerful opponent they have evei hosted, as 10th ranked nationall1 North Carolina State put down the youthful Carolina swimmers Satur day. But the margin of victory, 64 tc 49, would hardly indicate thai Carolina had fallen to such a power ful squad. In fact, the meet held several high~ points for the Gamecocks as they captured six of the meets' 13 first Come to this Christian Science Lecture Stand Up for Your Rights George Louis Aghamalian, C.B.S. Tuesday, January 30, .1973 at 8:00 P.M. First Church of Christ, Scientist 1114 Pickens Street Columbia, S. C. five chc ration in plans by whipping the visitors 84-66 Monday night at Carolina Coliseum. USC opened in their tradi tional 2-3 zone defense but the hot Blue Demons dropped in four straight outside jumpshots w d ed situati it could pass muscleing De lly Carolina's neath the boa Traylor out- 84-66 Monday rs beaten t place finishes, and challenged in the remainder. The challenge that the Gamecocks put forth to State was c fiist he ond pac fned ine only two of the meets' events, the 200-yard backstroke and the 200 yard breaststroke. USC could sweep no top-two marks but that was hardly to be expected against the caliber of competition that State provided. Tom Schmidt was the biggest fac tor in the Carolina output as he HE: WAN' from 11:0 Part Time Nights 1211 College Si inge st for an 8-0 lead that made Coach Frank McGuire change his pre game defensive strategy. It took little under three minutes for the pressing Gamecocks to come within one at 10-9. Thomas A. Pri. Paul's Mike Gillespie under rds. Carolina took the game night. by State swam to two first places in the 1000 yard and 500-yard freestyles, including a new pool record in the 500-yard race with a clocking of 4:50.3. Chip Newman also took two first place finishes. Gamecock of the meet, as voted by his teammates was Sam Wauford whose come-from-behind victory in the 200-yard medley with a time of 2:03.5 was his career best. Carolina has another home swim meet on Saturday January the 27th against Morehouse College of Atlanta. The meet will start at 4 p.m. LP TED 0-2:00 BURGE KINc . U ops DE Carolina's change in defense, to a man-to-man, sped the tempo of the contest up and gave an advantage to the Gamecocks who favored the layup on a night that DePaul appeared to be content to bomb from the outside. Missed scoring opportunities kept the game close throughout the first half, which ended with the score 35-29 in USC's favor, but the Gamecocks hit their shots in the early moments of the second period and quickly forged ahead by ten or more points. The second half scoring of the Carolina leaders was impressive with Kevin Joyce's 17 points leading the way, fol lowed by Danny Traylor's and Alexander English's second half shows of ten each. "English hit well at the beginning of the second half," DePaul head coach Ray Meyer said after the game. "And then Traylor took over toward the end of the game." Traylor played a good all around game. He scored 15 points, grabbed 14 rebounds, the high in the game, and blocked seven Demon shots. Demon's was lack BY JIM HERSH Asst. Sports Editor DePaul had just lost their third straight game, this one 84-66 Mon day night to Carolina, and their coach, Ray Meyer, was in no way surprised at the outcome of the game. "We had to give up so much defen sively to compensate for their height advantage," the 30-year vet eran of college coaching moaned. "We just couldn't defense their big men." Indeed, Carolina did kill DePaul in the frontcourt. The Gamecocks starting frontcourt (Alex English, Brian Winters and Danny Traylor) outscored the Demons starting for wards and center (Mike Gillespie, Harry Shields and Bill Robinzine) by 12 points, and more significantly outrebounded them by 15 rebounds. "They're just a bigger, better team," Meyer sighed. "They were able to limit us to one shot. They were just too talented for us." If Meyer thought USC was too talented, he must have been elated when the Demons had an 8-0 lead after the first three minutes Easy To Open Gamecock Charge Account *100( (Uimit) BRITTON S paul Meyer was sure that the USC height advantage dictated much of the game. "They were just too tall for us and they wore us down in the second half. You can only jump so high," Meyer said with a shrug. Inability to get the ball inside hurt the DePaul shooting per centage to a great degree. They made only 43 per cent, while Carolina, more often able to get the better percentage shot, hit on 50 per cent. Surprisingly enough, the Gamecocks only got one more 'rebound, 42-41, than their vis itors, but Carolina did block 10 DePaul shots. Only one Carolina shot was blocked. Carolina had five players who scored in double figures. Joyce had 23, English 15, Traylor 13, Dunleavy 12 and Winters 10. DePaul's early success with their shooting and their shutt ing down of the Gamecock scor ing machine eventually proved to be their downfall, as that change in tempo found them often trailing the play on fast breaks. (See DEFENSE, Page 9, Column 1) probeim of height of the game. DePaul bombed the Gamecock's zone until Frank McGuire got his team in a man to-man. the defense his team stayed with the remainder of the contest. Ray Meyer ...needs big man. "Frank McGuire's teams always play a zone to start a game," Meyer said, smiling when asked if he was surprised USC started in a zone. "His zones are made to order for our style of play." Apparently McGuire's man to-man is not. Soon after the defen sive switch the Gamecocks were off and running to their eleventh win of the season, and DePaul was stumbling to their sixth loss in fif teen games. Another thing thA hurt DePaul was that their big man, 6-7 Robin eine, got into early foul trouble. "we ran into the same problem again," generalized Meyer, "and that's foul rouble. Robinzine is only a sopho nore and never played in high school, but he does a pretty good ob. "But," said Meyer continuing, 'when he got into trouble we had o bring in a freshman (Andy Pan rantz). He had a pretty good game or us tonight, but..." So DePaul, who at one point of the eason was 8-3, now has Duquesne, Aarquette and Villanova to look for lard to in three of their last five ames. That's not much to look for vard to, especially when you're in slump without a good big man to hail you out.