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C 1. BY GEORGE MORRIS Of The Gamecock staff Carolina's men's swim team, with several of its regulars resting after a tough road trip, used a team of mostly substitutes to beat Furman 85-25 Tuesday. Coach Alan Gentry took a few of his regulars to the meet, but rested All-America Tom Sch midt, sprinter Chip Newman, Tom Jacobson, diver Jim Tingen and others. Those who competed, however, were outstanding. Pool records were set by- Randy Phipps in the 1000-yard freestyle, Steve Breiter in the 200-yard freestyle, and Brad Hitchings in the 200-yard butterfly. Also, diver Ray Klitzke qualified for the NCAA championships in the one-meter diving. "Furman is a young team in the state and they have a limited number of. scholarships. In this meet we had a chance to ex periment with the lineup and that should help us in. the future meets," Gentry said. The meet also gave some of Carolina's top swimmers a chance to rest from a recent road trip which included a near upset of seventh ranked Miami. USC has its firt home meet of the season this weekend, hosting Georgia Southern and 20th ranked Florida. "Georgia Southern has a fellow named Welchko who has always given us a hard time, and after him they have a group of solid substantial swimmers," Gentry sa10. Skear Heaven' at Alyxan of Columb -Where Haircutti, Designed Just ft I Halo Fro - Angel Florida, perenially a national swimming power, fields what Gentry said is an exceptional group of swimmers. "Florida was 10th in the NCAA last year and they have a star studded cast of swimmers. It's hard to select the best athlete on the team, but against Georgia they had a man named Frank Licthner who swam the three toughest races and won them all. He's tough and is expected to be strong in their lineup," Gentry said. Licthner won the 1000-yard freestyle, the 200-yard butterfly, ,and the 500-yard freestyle, considered by Gentry to be the toughest individual performance in dual meet competition. A pair of wins this weekend, besides giving Carolina an im pressive record, would go a long way toward lifting the Gamecocks into National prominance, something that was narrowly missed last -week at Miami. "About one-third of the time we swim against top ten teams. We try to upset them, but we also have to make sure the other two thirds don't upset us," Gentry said. This weekend is also Parents Weekend, and Gentry said most of the swimmers parents will be there. The Georgia Southern meet starts at 4:00 Friday and the Florida meet will start at 2:00 Saturday. Carolina's women's swim team kept its undefeated N'ecord intact IVA der"s__ ia ig &Styling is r You.....,...AlIso: stings Streaking avenly Waves........ and The Perfect Tot By Appointmeni Loe ri teams Tuesday with a 88-42 win over Furman at Furman's Kay Physical Activities Center. There were four double winners for Carolina: Nancy Grimm in the 200- and 400-yard freestyle; Cricket Robbins in the 100-yard individual medley and the 100-yard butterfly; B.Z. Giese in the 50-yard backstroke and 50-yard butterfly; Chicks vi, BY GLENN SAWICKI Of The Gamecock Staff The Carolina Chicks equaled a school record for most points scored in a women's basketball game by overwhelming Lander College Monday night 94-38. With only 2:40 left in the game, the Chicks were leading 85-38 and were driving for the century mark. Coach Pam Backhaus said, "We weren't trying to embarass Lander by scoring 100 points, we were just trying to help ourselves by gaining some momentum." The search for momentum was evident in the changes made in the stairting lineup. Charlene Dubose, Mott Suber, and Denise Naney were replaced in the starting lineup of Karen Papas, Terry Wood, and Paula Workman. Sissy Jones and Maurene McCauley who were the only two regulars starting the game. "The regulars had been getting tired," explained Backus, "they had to hustle on defense when their shooting was cold and this took a ch Wave with ander~ Betty ~~-- or %-Phil~ Phone: 799-3580 ited at: 28I3DevIne St. Columbia, S.C. win and Joan Ackerman in the 50-yard freestyle . and the 100-yard backstroke. Sandi Gochenour won the three meter diving for Carolina. Grimm, Robbins and Ackerman teamed with Sandi Baxter to win the 200 yard freestyle realy, and Acker man, Giesee, and Baxter teamed with Janet Green to win the medley relay. [torious lot out of them." "We tried to pick up the tempo in order to take some of the pressure off." The strategy worked as the Chicks ran off to an 11-2 lead. Lander was very disorganized and constantly threw the ball away. Midway through the first half, Naney was inserted into the game and she shot accurately as the Chicks rolled up a 25-point halftime lead. Lander managed to attempt a comeback in the second period as Diane DuPont threw in a few 25 footers and Ann Vivient worked the middle for the layups, but it wasn't enough to overcome Carolina's onslaught. Backus substitued freely as the lead grew. Mott Suber came off the bench to throw in several 15 foot jumpers. This was the second meeting of the year for these teams, Carolina winning the first encounter by 21 points. Suber led Carolina in scoring with 19, Dubose with 15, Naney and McCauley had 13 points each. Lander only placed Dupont in double figures as she totaled 10 points. Matmen hopeful BY BILLY COX Of The Gamecock staff The USC Wrestling Club, struggling -with a 3-6 record, travels to Greenville, North Carolina, tonight where it will. have the pleasure of meeting one of the nation's top 10 teams--East Carolina University. The Buc caneers, perenially rugged, boast individuals who have legitimate shots at national honors. As if a bout with ECU isn't enough, the schedule gets rougher in the next few weeks, when the Gamecocks meet the likes of Duke and Ap palachian State. According to Ike Houck, best in the 177-lb. weight class, USC's grapplers have been suffering from inexperience. "The deter mination is there," he admitted, "but we were putting guys on the mat who'd never wrestled before." Houck added that if USC had a varsity program, "we could easily compete and win against 99 per cent of our competition." There are gimmers of hope, however. After being shellacked by Ma ille 36-6 in the first round of a t i-meet last weekend, the Ga ecocks turned in a fine per fo ance against Middle Ten n (a varsity squad) to lose by a single pin. Probably the biggest highlight in e season to date was competition m the East Stroudsburg Open in Pennsylvania. (an innovation ineered some four years ago by SC Coach Jerry Pardue), headed mewmbes of Athletes in Action.