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Tennis Carolinc First Ter BY GEORGE MORRIS Sports Writer Carolina's tennis team lost two players to injuries this week, won two matches and suffered its first defeat of the season defeating Presbyterian 7-2 and The Citadel 9 0 and dropping a match with Georgia Southern 8-1. The win over Presbyterian was a costly one for USC. Freshman star Bernard Fritz and senior Brian Desatnik left the match with in juries that kept them out of competition in the other two meets. Coach Ron Smarr reported that Fritz's status is questionable. "Bernard injured his back against Presbyterian and I really don't know when he will be back We expect Brian to return against Appalachian State, but Fritz will be out for a while," Smarr said. Despite what was a lopsided score in favor of the Eagles, Georgia Southern match was a close one. Six of the Gamecocks' losses took three sets and eight of those sets were either 7-5 or 7-6. Even with the loss. Smarr was pleased with his team's play. "I NII 1208 Knox Abbott Drive F mum1221 V * Easterner Stral Heavy 14 < * CasuaI W esterti Contrast P * Straight Leg W All Fabric * Hundreds Of N New Fabri O)ver 8( i Suffers nis Lost think we played well." said Smarr. "Even with two of our top men out we still hung in there and kept it close. With the injuries we had to play everyone available against Georgia Southern. I have to give credit where credit is due, though. They outplayed us and I think they wanted it more." Carolina plays its first home matches of the year this week and will have their hands full. Appalachian State will play USC Tuesday at 2:15 and the Moun taineers, who are heavy favorites to win the Southern Conference this year, may have their best team ever. After meets with Purdue and Richmond USC will play back-to back meets with powers Virginia and Penn State on Friday and Saturday. Both of these teams were rated in the top twenty teams in the nation last year and return most of their top players. The meets this week begin a string of 14-straight home meets that lasts until March 20. when Carolina takes to the road again to compete with several Florida schools. rS is -f Calat 'hn7961645; 3200Two N lain St. (next to Carol ght Leg * )Z. Denim E Slacks *Glt iping-Pastel Colors este rn Jleans * 500) s and Colors NE EW Double Knits, cs and Styles ) Styles () Join (;Iuambrell Spring Sports Hare lig Week Carolina's baseball team has four games scheduled for this week and the tennis team will play five matches at the Maxcy Gregg Courts during the week. The baseball team plays West Virginia this afternoon and has games with Virginia Thursday and Friday and one with Richmond Saturday. The Richmond game begins at 1:30 p.m.; the others start at 3 p.m. Meanwhile, the tennis team meets Appalachian, Purdue, Rich mond, Virginia and Penn State, Tuesday through Saturday. afood the finest. 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Gri"g Ward pitched a strong .amelnc. not allowing a runner to ieach base until two outs in the ixth inning. Lynchburg scored its Ink. three runs in the sixth before \fike Cromer and Scott Thomas uame in to pitch the last three innings. John Gamibrell was the 1bi man at the plate with three hits in three at hat. Universil Travel Press Trave March 4th, 5 N. j I I / - /,, Traive'l lilros. will be shown e ' \1lrch 4th and 3th at I1;0-el; I 1pamp1 h lets on1 places a round I avalbiible in the art tallerv. \ L.illIli\ (er mn in \ I)r 1:l 1111 b. I i r'lnh 2 : in It I i ta ie T e '' \t I ',grks i i .ohe Team it Three In Saturdays game Carolina got nine hits and 11 runs in the opening inning to coast to its third straight victory of the season. Earl Bass collected three RBI in the first inning and (;ambrell again went three for three. Tim Lewis pitched the first six innings. giving up only four hits and striking out ten. Raymond I.avigne and Tom Luckstone pit ched shut out ball in the final three innings. The first real test for the Giuecocks will come today when they play West Virginia. Carolina won its opening game of the year when it showed the depth it lacked last season by beating Baptist College 9-3 last Thursday. The Gamecocks pounded out 14 hits and clouted three home runs as they went through three Baptist hurlers with ease. Jeff Grantz led the onslaught with a three-for-four outing. lank Small. Eddie Ford and .Jim Pankovits each homered. Richardson said. "I was proud to win because it made me realize that we still have a lot of depth even with the loss of Steve King. 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