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Freshma With Exp BY STEVE PARKER Sports Editor One of the main reasons the US4 baseball team has been able t( fashion a 23-5 record this season i; that most of last year's youthfu but talented squad returned. An( returned with experience. Only one regular graduated fron last season's Gamecocks and hi: replacement may well be the mair reason for Carolina's strong 197' showing. Freshman Jin Pankovits has stepped into thf third base position, which Brucf Pudlock vacated, most effectively After just 28 games, Pankovits has already surpassed Pudlock's season total of 17 RBI in 41 games last year.. Pankovits' 20 RBI rank him third on the team behind Hank Small and Drew Choate. But Pankovits' strength is no just his hitting, for he displays a Jaz cdta \n' Jep3*' Cc0t pe(fl SS 98 L IS T $S6 98 L IS5T Re i DU'] 10-i n Pankovi erienced U brilliant mastery in the field and has committed just three errors an unusually low total for a third baseman this far into the season. Pankovits currently has a .258 3 average, but that represents a slip I of 21 points from the .279 mark he I entered Saturday's Georgia Southern doubleheader with. "I am not hitting well now," Pankovits 'said after returniig from Southern. "I am not making I good contact. I haven't been hit ting the ball hard at all, certainly not hard enough to be making hits. Plus we faced one of the best lefties I've seen when we played Southern." Pankovits does not remember the series with any fondness. "It was like a nightmare," the rookie said. "It was the worst two games we played this season. The second game was one of the worst I've ever played in. razz A zjr r zyPi All ABC-IMF on sale Apri IMPULSE ja; *AHMAD . *ARCHIE S *PHAROAF go-" "*GATO BA " " :f:JOHN COI PLUS Many, 99 S6 98 LIST $479 ['CH SQUA 9.3O mon. Ls Blends SCTeam "Greg Ward pitched a real good game, but we didn't back him up. It was just an uphill effort the whole way, but we stayed right with them. If we could have played half as well as we've played in any of our other games we could easily have won. "I suppose it was a little bit of mental fatigue. After Earl Bass pitched so well in the first game and we lost, I suppose we just had a letdown," Pankovits said. "We were due for a bad game," Pankovits said. "We still get to play them three games up here and I'm looking forward to that because I am confident we can beat them." The Georgia Southern series was an exception for the Gamecocks and for Pankovits. Neither are used to playing poorly this season. But Pankovits' .258 average does represent a tumble from the lofty Lt 'ices 'ULSE jazz albums and tapes are I 8-13 at the Record Bar. ABC rz artists include: IAMAL HEPP I SANDERS RBIERI LTRANE Many others! Bar I IRE . -sat. S1 of d si 4 b IT B w of Jim Pan kovits h .396 he batted as a senior at ta Douglas: Freeman High School in m Richmond. fr "The biggest difference in high school and college is the pitching. bE In high school you might face one pl or two really good pitchers all th year, but here we face a good cc pitcher almost every day." at "I love you for what you ar but I love you yet more for what you are going to be.. -Carl S,ndl, . 4-W4 TUXr-DO v LI Chosen but onlce and cheri your engagement andi wedd(ling ri in their brilliance and beauty. H Keepsake with complete confid< because the guarantee! assures r precise (:ut and fine, white color. There is no finer (ldamond( ring. HOW TO PLAN YOUR ENGAGE Send new 20 pg. booklet.' Planning Your E full color folder and 44 pg. Bride s Book g Addtress -.. C,Iy KEEPSAKE DIAMOND RINGS. BOX ind vour Kor-rakc..b. Gambrell From Page 10 Ater than college players. Hank nall hit ball harder. I think all us have a chance to get there one ay." Richardson has been a big in )iration, according to Gambrell. After high school I wanted to play ill in the state and I didn't get any offers, so I was thinking out Florida State. Then Don uddin told Coach Richardson I as worth a scholarship and he fered me one over the telephone. "Coach Richardson is one of the ippiest people I have ever known. lust being around him is con gious. I knew he was a good an and I have learned so much )m him". Gambrell may make the majors -cause of his desire. He has ayed two summers of baseball in e Valley League, a league mprised of the nation's top nateurs. tholfoevr apiy yoS a cos M WD f offerill ry lyt so.ur1 aI0.l SYAUS aN Y.h1320