Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Johnny Drumngs Carolina's Charlene Dubose fights for balf with teammate Martha Suber ready to help. Chicks beat Davidson BY GLENN SAWICKI followed by Sally Bonderwant with Of The Gamecock staff 10 points. The Chicks will travel to Orangeburg as they take on South Davidson became the Chic Carolina State tonight at 6:00. 16th victim Thursday night at the Booker T. Washington gym as Carolina picked up an easy M-4 Backhaus q ts win. With 13:50 left in the game, Pam Backhaus, head basketball Davidson pulled to within eight c of the Carolina Chicks, points, 44-36, and it looked as if announced that she is resigning at they might get back into the game. O end of this season. Martha Suber made sure they Backhaus resignation was didn't as she hit two jump shots submitted on Thursday to Helen from the side as Carolina quickly Timmermans, women's athletic built their lead to 12 points. director. In stating her reasons for Suber controlled the game in the leavin nac%as said %want to second half as she totaled 18 points. rlxadtk oetm od Leading the fast break, Suber hit tig ae' enal od consistently from the Outside tobeasoftehcishdu.I break the back of the Davidson as att r n otnem defense.wrtn" With 4:10 remaIning, Pam Bchu al rm'bea Blackhaus started to clear her bench . anatedd assSae as the Chicks built a 21 poInt lead. Uiest.Secm oCrln Backhaus had special praise fortopruamsesdge. Nona Kerr, "She played a very l u a h hieo w good game under the boards, she doesn't get much of a chnc to~ fe h eae ee h a play, but when she doe, Nona nofee heJba ahei always turns in a solid pe r ecofwmn prsa formance." Tpk nvriy rtepsto The Chicks started slowly, two a oodntro oessot minutes passing before they scored frTpk' ulcsho ytm their first basket. The situation did BCkIUhantmduperid not exist for long as Carolina a owihJbsewl eet turned on their fast break led by '5Sclfofanwoahil Charlene Dubose. Lie Suber'sy eenTimrmn second half dominance, DuonstePe.dpatet.Tm completely dominated th first emn ttd ht W r half. Passing, shooting, and afie ero Th dribbling, Dubose did It all as she qaiiain eiieokn destroyed Davidson with 18 points fri elcmn r x and numerous assists. Carolina ~ec ihwmnsbsebl went Into the dressing room a ela xelnea .. leading 36-24.intutr"sead. The Chicks were led by Suiber~Bchu a be tCrln and Dubose with 22 points followed fotwyer.Sesvdlater by Denise Naney wIth 14 point. s agaut sssat e Davidson's leading scorers were reodtdaehsbn31wsad Donnaints.rThelChiths16ill ntsvel t ND Coac should go BY MARK LEARY Asst., Sports Editor SOUTH BEND, Ind.-As Frank McGuire left the press room after Carolina's depressing loss to Notre Dame 66-65 in overtime Richard "Digger" Phelps stopped his "boyhood idol" and said, "Good luck in the playoffs (NCAA's) and thank you for the great game today." The Irish's coach, Phelps, elaborated on his comment later when he said, "They are a fine basketball team and I don't think there's much doubt about them getting one of the NCAA at-large berths this year." Phelps added with a smile, "I think I can say this with some degree of. confidence since I am on the selection com mittee." Both of the well known coaches agreed that defense was the out standing factor in the regionally televised game. Nobody could disagree on this point as Carolina's zone defense held the second leading scorer in the nation Adrian Dantley to ten' points, 21 points below his. average. McGuire said, "Our zone did a * O* *** ** A LITTLE Hit (We add h Phelps: t NCAA h real good job. We had to have the entire ball club key on Danti. Anytime you hold Dantley to points your defense did a great job." Phelps also talked about the excellent defensive play of Carolina. Phelps said, "It was a great game defensively. Both teams played excellent defense, We couldn't get the ball into Adrian (Dantley) and they did a great job." The Irish's youngsters had .a major part in defeating the Gamecocks. Phelps said, "Two weeks ago we beat UCLA with upperclassmen, but today our freshmen and sophomores did the job." The final scoring showed that indeed it had been the Notre Dame youngsters that had broken the Gamecocks back. Don Williams, a freshman guard averaging 5.1 coming into the contest with Carolina, led the Irish in scoring with 16 points hitting 8-16 from the floor. Almost all of Notre Dame's scoring followed this pattern as sophomore Billy Paterno had 14, sophomore Dantley 10, sophomore Toby Knight 8, and freshmen Dave ECIA GE COFFEE AND HAVE A GLA2 "ON THE HOUSE" OR FEE AND TWO GLAZED DONUTS (8:30 A.M. TIL 10:00 A.? NGRIER THAN USUAL ? ORD! CUTIVE PLUS BURGER" another patty, small burj UNgmvmnggvv DINING SICviCs USC id Batton and Jeff Carpenter each had six points apiece. The elder Irish starting players, seniors Dwight Clay and Peter Crotty, could only tally two points apiee. Alex English was the Gamecock standout and he was also named the most valuable player of the game by the TVS broa4cast crew. English lead both teams with a game high 23 points hitting on 10 of 15 shots from the floor. Two areas of concern for the Gamecocks were apparent in the final statistics. The Gamecocks continued to lead their opponents in turnovers. The Gamecocks turned over the ball one more time than the Irish did, 21-20. On the year the Gamecocks lead their opponents in turnoovers 32-276. Also, the Gamecocks were out rebounded by Notre Dame -35. This edge showed up mostly in the fact that the Irish were able to get a few more second chances at scoring after crucial offensive rebounds. McGuire summed the game up well when he said, "'That is what people pay for, an exciting game like today. I wish I was on the other end though." LS * * ** * * ED DONUT FOR 25c 1.) ~er size)