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Mark Leary Sports Editor Bits and Pieces To show people who think I am "out to get" Tom Boswell that I really am 'not, here is the latest on the Celtic and NBA rookie. On Oct. 5 this segment appeared in Bob Ryan's column in the Boston Globe. "Even Tommy Boswell, whose attitude was seriously under question,. has responded to the latest managerial approach (continual harassment) by unveiling some of his many skills." Every NBA rookie has up and down moments and Boswell has already had his share and the regular season just started a few days ago. In the Oct. 12 Boston Globe, it was reported, that after an exhibition game with New York, Boswell caused his coach to ask a few questions of the media. Boston coach Tom Heinsohn said, "We were still in the game with New York in the second half when Boswell came in. When he left we were 18 points down, but was that his fault? Shouldn't the four veterans we had in there have been able to carry one rookie?" On Oct. 16 nearing the end of the exhibition season Heinsohn evaluated Boswell as follows. "He's shown steady improvement. He's not a stupid kid and he's worked hard, particularly on defense." Even though the Gamecocks lost to LSU Saturday night the Gamecocks are still surprising people. Who would have thought at the beginning of the season that Carolina would go into Baton Rouge with a 5-1 record, much less-to be ranked 20th in.the nation. Being ranked seems to be a bad omen for the Gamecocks this year. Maybe if the pollsters don't rank Carolina for the rest of the season the Gamecocks can win their,remaining four games. A column appeared in the New Orleans Times Picayune in which the paper's Sports Editor, Bob Roesler, said, "Jim Carlen will be coaching the Carolinians, but it is really Dietzel's team. He recruited all but seven freshmen who are on the travel roster." Much to Roesler's credit, he did note that "fJim Carlen followed Dietzel into Columbia and now has the same team that finished last season 4-7 under Paul, playing at a 5-1 clip." He also noted that the big difference between this year and last is the Jeff Grantz' play. Not to take anything away from Grantz but this year's success and this year's team also belongs to Carlen. Carlen has instilled a special enthusiasmn in his (not Dietzel's) athletes, so they just won't quit. An example )f this was the late score in the LSU game. Dietzel may have recruited the athletes but Carlen has inspired them. The ACC Basketball Handbook will be out on the market this week. Look closely, you might be surprised. Mike Dunleavy shares the cover with Clemson's Wayne Rollins. No, don't get worried or start celebrating. Carolina is not back in the ACC yet. This is wishful thinking on the part of the publisher as he explains. "We are including a run-down on South Carolina and Virginia Tech this year. Although they are not in the conference there has been considerable talk of expanding the conference to include them. We think this would be a good idea especially in Carolina's case." LSU caus By MARK LEARY Sports Editor BATON ROUGE, La.--The !ubble finally burst; or maybe it was that the good dream ended abruptly turning into a nightmare at ISU Saturday night. Well anyway, "Carlen's Darlens" or whatever you want to call them went down to defeat 24-6 Saturday night in LSU's Tiger Stadium. IT WAS a game of mistakes, mistakes and more mistakes and the team that took advantage of the most of opponent mistakes was the victor. This game of turnovers produced 10--count'em 10 turnovers and unfortunately the Gamecocks were on the winning end of this statistics as they had six turnovers, three in th'e air and three on the ground. It took the whole first half for either team to take advantage of the other's mistakes. But with 2:07 left in the first half Carolina gave - LSU a scoring opportunity it would have been hard to turn down. Carolina on their own 21 yard. line gave the ball to LSU on a Kevin Long fumble and it didn't take the Bayou Bengals long to capitalize on the Gamecocks' mistake. Pat Lyons dropped back and hit tight end Bo Dunphy for a 31-yard LSU stallk By MARK LEARY Sports Editor BATON ROUGE, La.--In a headline on Saturday, a New Orleans paper, The Timen Picayune, asked the question, "Can Grantz Place LSU on Seat of Its Pants?" The answer was No. "Jeff didn't have one of his sharper football games tonight," USC Coach Jim Carlen said after Carolina's 24-6 loss to LSU. "We just can't depend on Jeff everytime." It was true that Grantz did not have one of his best football games but every body can't be a "miracle worker" every night. GR ANTZ WAS 14 for 38 for 185 yards In the air. The 185 yards in the air was again another im pressive total but he did have thre. Jim Carlen Charles McClendon es USC nig scoring strike, the longest-scoring play for the Tigers all year. The strike gave LSU a 7-0 halftime lead, a lead the Gamecocks were never to challenge. The Gamecocks knew about LSU's sophomore quarterback Lyons. Jim Carlen. said, "He is from Midland Texas. We kne., was good. We recruited. him wt..:a I was at Texas Tech." THE LSU fans who are down oin the team as well as their coach had said that all the LSU offense had was stellar halfback Terry Robiskie. One writer said, "Robiskie right, Robisie left and Robiskie up the middle that's the extent of the LSU offense. "Un fortunately for the Gamecocks, Lyons proved that writer wrong. Robiskie was a major factor though and at times it did seem as though Robiskie must have carried the ball more than 1000 times. He did carry the ball a great amount as he rushed for 26 times and racked up 109 yards and two touch downs. The third quarter began on the same note as the first half had been as both teams turned the ball over but neither could capitalize with 5:47 left in the third quarter the roof fell in. THE TIGERS moved down the field for one of the two sustained drives of the game. LSU went 80 yards in eight plays with Robiskie ' miracle1 passes intercepted. One reporter asked Grantz if it was unusual for his passes to be off the mark as they were against LSU. Grantz replied simply, "All I noticed was that they were in complete." Grantz did have a rugged night. Some of his passes were too long, some were too short and quite a few were dropped. A major reason for LSU's suc cess in stopping Grantz was an excellent defense. LSU was ready for Grantz and this readiness hurt Grantz' performance the most. "Our defense was set for Jeff Grantz, the fine South Carolina quarterback," LSU's legendary coach Charles McClendon said. "We had to be ready for'hIm and set our defenses for him, he is that good. He is an excellent athlete sports Fhtmare diving over from one yard out for the score. The main play on the drive was a Lyons' bomb to Mike Quintela that accounted for 49 yards and set up the Robiskie score. On the ensuing kickoff the Gamecocks completed the hole they had been digging for them selves the entire game. The Gamecock's Mike Bolden fumbled and LSU recovered on Carolina's two-yard line. Robiskie did his diving act, and all of a sudden LSU had a 21-0 lead. "That was a freshman that fumbled on the kickoff (Bolden) and he hates it more than anyone but he is going to be a good one for us before he leaves,"Carlen said. "'hatfumbledid stun us and put us at a disadvantage." When one thing goes wrong everything does. This was the case Saturday night. The 61,445 saw a freshmao place kicker hit on his first fiedl goal of the year as the Tigers completed their scoring. Mike Conway hit on a 36-yard field goal to put LSU out front 24-0 with five minutes left in the game. -WHAT CAME next was much too late but at least prevented a shutout. Grantz moved the team down the field in nine plays making the final score 24-6. Grantz hit Logan for a 23-yard touchdown pass. Pl'ease see LS.U Page 12 wvorker' JEFF~ GRANT*