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USC Meets C State T BY MARK LEARY Sports Writer Carolina's swim team lost t North Carolina State, th ninth-ranked team in th nation 73-39 at Raleigh la! Saturday. This Saturday the Gam cocks meet - Georgia at *::j p.m. at the Carolina pooi. In the next two w eeis TSC wi have an extenaed home stanc with meets against Auburr South Florida and Clemsoi Even though the Gamecock went down to their third loss ( the season, they did hav impressive performance against N.C. State. Two Carolina swimmer have qualified for the NCA, " - reorgia Sat. ops Swi Championship meet already. Those qualifying are Tom Sch o midt, in the 500-yard free-style e and freshman diver Ray e Klitzke, in the one-meter >t diving. Casey Claflin, who swims e both on the medley relay team u and the 200-yard backstroke, put on an excellent per il formance in his two events to 1, earn him the Gamecock of the i, Meet Award at N.C. State. i. Claflin swam the backstroVein s 2:00.63 compared to the school if record of two minutes flat. e Schmidt and N..C. State's s John Gregg, a world-class swimmer, were matched s, against each other in the 500 S|ard freestyle, which was the "1 . - . m mers. best race of the meet. Gregg, one of State's All-Americas, won a silver medal in the: World Games this summer. Gregg won the race, decided by the electronic touch device. Other impressive per formances were turned in by Chip Newman, who won the 100-yard freestyle, and also set a junior class record. Also, the freestyle relay team continued its winning ways as they (Newman, Fred Ehmke, Claflin, Schmidt) won. Assistant Coach Ed Miller commented about the meet and the progress of the team. "Our record may be 2-3, but this does not show the great progress of the team. WFL Drafts Gamecock's Woolbright Marty Woolbright, Carolina's senior tight end was drafted by Philadelphia of the World Football League in the fifth round of Tuesday's draft in New York. Woolbright, 6-5, 222, led the Gamecocks in receiving last season with 23 catches for 347 yards and 4 touchdowns. The National Football League will conduct its draft Jan. 29-30. The WFL's Memphis franchise started the 12-round, 72-player draft by selecting Kansas quar terback David Jaynes. Send The Gamecock Home BICY Quality European Bi Manufactured By: C Faris-sport, Falcon-M In Colu CAT E'S C Box Cedar Terrace ! 6420 Sumter Phe 776 1:15 to 8po.m. M Sideline View By Jim Hersh As Carolina's basketball team starts its annual trip to New York today, it does so with a much better record and national reputation than anyone thought it would have before the season. When the season began, most people, including USC Coach Frank McGuire, thought it would be impossible to replace All-America Kevin Joyce and seven-foot Danny Traylor and still keep its usual national ranking. However, after 13 games Carolina has lost only three times and is ranked 13th in the latest Associated Press rankings. Furthermore, United Press * International ranked the Gamecocks this week. Last year after 13 games Carolina's record was 9-4. Now, minus Joyce and Traylor and with four sophomores in the starting line-up, it is 10-3. Carolina's three returning starters from last year's team--guards Brian Winters and Mike Dunleavy and forward Alexander English--are doing what everyone thought they would; leading the team in scoring. But it has been the two other starters and several reserves who have made USC better than an average college team and a team which deserves its national ranking. Sophomore center Bob Mathias, only 6-7, has more than taken the place of Traylor in rebounding for USC. He's averaging 11.6 rebounds a game, one more than Traylor averaged last season. Mathias' aggressive play under the boards has turned the rebounding part of the game from what was predicted to be a Carolina weakness into a strength. In USC's last two games, the loss to Davidson and the win over Penn sylvania, Mathias' rebounding was phenomenal. In the first half of the Penn game he had 10 rebounds and 12 points when Carolina took a nine-point lead. Nonetheless, Mathias hasn't been the only surprise for the Gamecocks. The other sophomore starter, forward Mark Greiner, hasn't been scoring a great deal, only 4.5 a game, but his rebounding and defensive work have made him a plus in the line-up. Nate Davis, the 6-4 freshman forward, contribues a spark for USC every time he comes off the bench. A crowd favorite at the Coliseum, Davis played a major part in the Gamecock's win over Marquette, and his skyrocketing for rebounds always draws favorable reactions from the crowd. Another forward, junior Tommy Cox, played an excellent game coming off the bench Saturday night against Penn, (See SIDELINE, Page 11) EED11SA LE '/2 PRiCE plus $100 ALCLOTHING (EXCEPT BLUE DENIM JE ANS ) INN ER CITY :ylsFo 9.0GLA DRAGS ilan, Boteccia,2016 GREEN ST. aino, Cinell, Colnago rubia See: B U E OTT AGE Ml ogJn ?342CterSrwrvs hopping Center Bl otm Hwy. (29209) SrihLg ne:Elti Was 1 209Bage .Strhrghthtegs