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Ends Home Schedu Game ...r Fred Eh USC swimmer Fred Emhk his event during a weekend r split two meets, losing to Richards BY BILIL BAKER Sports Writer Carolina baseball coach, Bobby Richardson, has a lot to be op timistic about his team this spring as 18 lettermen return from a club which had a 26-15 record last year. "We have the makings for a good over-all club," said Richardson. "I am especially pleased with the depth of our pitching staff." Earl Bass, a righthander, will head the Gamecock starting pit ching rotation. The 6-1 standout hails from nearby Cayce, and was forced off the mound last season with injuries. "Bass is a great professional prospect," said BIC Quality European Bi Manufactured By: ( Paris-Sport, Falcon-i In CoIn CAT E'S ( Box Cedar Terrace 6420 Sumter Ph 776 1:15 to 8 p.m. A~ Ie Today Against C cock win rnke Prepares For e prepares for Friday,and de neet. Carolina Saturday. Ph Auburn 58-55 on Optim Richardson. Another righty, Greg Ward, had a a 7-3 record last year while striking i out 74 batters in 94 innings. Ward a is expected to fill the number two t spot in the Gamecocks five-man a rotation. He is most remembered c for his back-to-back wins over e Georgia Tech last season in a ti doubleheader. Tim Lewis and Allen Johnson s will find key spots in the pitching n rotation also. Lewis is a sophomore southpaw from h Norristown, Pa. Last year he won a four games and lost one, he struck out 70 in 56 and one third it innings. Raymond Lavigne, a is junior from Columbia, is also s, expected to find a spot in the y Gamecock's rotation. p EEDj CLES cycles From $95.00 itane, Bottecchia, laino, Cinelli, Colnago imbia See: OTT AGE 9342 Shopping Center Hwy. (29209) one: -1209 Ion. through Sat. Iemson i Team S -.. tart 'eating South Florida 79-34 oto by Russell Jeffcoat, 1st Ic Abol Richardson knows that games re not won entirely on pitching. ,ast year his Gamecocks hit .252 s a team, and its pitchers allowed he opposition a .209 batting verage. The Gamecock's pit hing staff turned in a fine 2.09 arned run average. "If our hit ng comes through and our young layers help out in the clutch, we hould be in contention for an ICAA bid." John Grambrell led the club in itting last season with a .326 verage. He will play center field. Steve King will flank Gambrell i right field. The Wilmington, I.C. slugger averaged .315 last eason. Left field will be played by lank Small. However, Small will lay first base and Bass will play at Pizza BUY Of GET O1f SPAG] $1 Served with GE chef Serving WED] 3 P.M Located at the inte 1-26 across froii >its Two A By IA ItK LEARY Sports Writer The Carolina swimmers split two wieekentd meets, being edged out by .Auburn 58-55 Friday night, then soundly defeating South Florida 79 34 Saturday. Today the Gamecocks end their home schedule with a meet af against arch-rival Clemson at 4 p.m. Saturday's meet was a far cry from the meet with Auburn as the Gamecocks controiledfhe meet all the way. The Gamecocks outclassed South Florida, taking 12 of 13 tirst place events. There were many outstanding performances in this meet. Three Carolina swimmers one two events "ach. Tom Schmidt won the 1,000 yard freestyle and the 200-yard treestyle. Casey Claflin won both the 200-yard individual medley and the 200-yard backstroke. Also, freshman diver Ray Klitzke won both of his events, the one- and three-meter diving. Charles Newman, Tom Jacob son, Clark Hamilton and Fred Ehyn-eall one won event. The Auburn meet was a different tory as Head Coach Alan Gentry said, "We threw everything we had tI them, but it just wasn't enough." The Carolina swimmers lost on the ii event of the meet after they Jt Team first base when he's not pitching. Small led the team in homers last season with 8 and in RBI's with 32. He also broke many school records. Jeff Grantz will hold down the second base position. Grantz has been named the "MVP" in a Baltimore area summer baseball league for the past two summers. At third base will be one of Richardson's freshmen, Jim Panovits, from Richmond, Va. Eddie Ford, a two-year starter, will nlay . Richardson expects Ford, son of the former Yankee great,to be drafted early in this year's pro draft. The junior per former could be playing his last year of collegiate baseball. the H ouse (E DINNER TE FREE? JETTI .95 rlie Bread and salad. (ESDAY Till Midnight section of 378 and the Ramiada Inn Aeets ad just taken a slim lead a few vents earlier. The event that decided the meet sas the 400-yard freestyle -Clay. The race was decided by the louch at the end as the Gamecocks lost the race by only 4 four-tenths of a second. Even though the relay team of Schmidt, Ehmke, Claflin ind Newman lost, they still qualified for the NCAA. The fact that this meet was so r,otly contested contributed to why meet records were set in every event and pool records fell in two events. Newman was the swim mer who broke one of the pool records, this coming in the 100-yard freestyle. This record had been set by Steve Rerych, who won the Olympic gold medal in the event. Freshman Ehmke was the Gamecock of the Meet, as he set a meet record in winning the 200 yara butterfly. Also he swam on i,otn relay teams. >ctmidt won both the 1,000- and .100-ireestyle events and also set a pool record in the 1,000. Newman and Klitzke also did well, as they both won two events. Assistant Coach Ed Miller as .-.id, "We are weak in both the 200 ard freestyle and the 200-yard aststroke and this cost us the Bobby Richardson DISCOVER THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MEDITATION THROUGH On Sale Now at Your Local Newsstand!