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T ennis team for top 20 ra Rv MUrh ^hprwnnd For the fifth consecutive year Carolina's men tennis team has won more than 20 matches in a season and is now bidding for a top 20 ranking. USC has a 24-2 record with seven matches remaining and USC head tennis coach Ron Smarr thinks that could determine it his team is ranKea or not. "If we win the rest of our matches we should definitely be ranked," Smarr said. "I think we are one of the 20 teams in the country, and if we are ranked 20th I'll be satisfied.'' Carolina has a seven-match win streak going into tomorrow's match with Aooalachian State and has ?V.._ w - - - & A just come off a successful road trip with wins over Tennessee and Georgia Tech. The match with ninthranked Georgia was rained out. Other impressive wins include a 5-4 victory over Kentucky, a 6-3 victory over Duke and a 5-4 win over North Carolina State. 1 LrCimecocKs win s By Mitch Sherwood ( TVip With a 6-3 victory over Tennessee JULv^ and a 9-0 win over Georgia Tech. ^ Carolina's men's tennis team upped I 'their record to 24-2 for the season. I Both wins came on the road but a I match with Georgia, ranked ninth in the nation, was rained out. 6-2 victory c "We felt the Tennessee match was a @3od one, and it was a good victory for Carolin us," said head tennis coach Ron sets to win. Snarr. "We felt we could beat Georgia Tech even though they ha ve a ?**>team" In the Tennessee match Carolina Mayottedef vw>n five singles with Clyde Skaflestad Fhil Dukes being the only player to lose a singles had to strug match. Skaflestad was defeated by win the ma rfracy Delatt 6-3, 6-1. Jeff Kefalos, Carolina's playing in the number two position, team of Kef won his 97th career match with a 6-2, their secom A USC batter swings at pitch during recent game . . . women's softball team is undefeated after 11 g; 9 -A .bids Kj nkinff H CAROLINA'S ONLY two losses came to the Atlantic Coast Conference's top-ranked team, North Carolina, 6-3, and a 6-3 loss to Miami, one of the top ranked teams in the nation. "1 think we're as good as any team ranked in the 4 O i\ > \ i. ttif rfitt am rl o t t ?itr\ /"?ill rl rf 1 i r/\ IUJJ ZA) . clIIU VIII cUI^ given Vicxy WC LUUIU give them a good match," Smarr said. "If we are ranked in the top 20 before the NCAA National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament, we should finish in the top 20 The rankings are chosen periodically during the season by a 10-coach committee representing coaches from each region of the country. The f ^ OC r\ m /4 Ctv% rtMM noi/4 uuctdica scicti tiic tup Ltrciiiia, aiiu oiiiaii aaiu Carolina was "just outside" that list. Smarr said the second poll hasn't been released yet, and the final ranking comes out May 15. BEING RANKED in the top 20 would enable i eventh straight t< >ver Mike Silvers. Delatte and Laver 7-6, 7S HUFSCHMID was the Staflestad were defeatec a player who went three the team of Mayotte ar Hufschmid lost the first wan Carolina's only do ame back in the next two with a 6-3, 7-5 victory o1 to beat Brian Liberman. and Silvers. AnniUf K l/\/4 TA mien caaiij^ uaiiuicu uun , 6-4, and freshman Chris CAROLINA HAD an eated Chris Laver 6-4, 6-4. with Georgia Tech, alth won his first set 6-3 but three players three set* gle in the second set 7-6 to victories. Skaflestad did tch. the singles and Kefalos ] > number one doubles rnmber one position. Ke alos and Jeff Hull lost nly first set 4-6 but came bai d match of the season to sets 6-4, 6-2 to defeat H PI . - had two Photo by Bill Miller arnes ' Vl/ Vf #V ' "' '/la -?*,/* USC tennis coach Ron Smarr said HP his team should be ranked in the llplllP nation's top 20. The Gamecocks have a seven-game win streak and USC to bring four singles and two doubles teams to the tournament as opposed to only two singles and one doubles if unranked. "The only way to get ranked is to play ranked teams, and that is exactly what we do," Smarr said. Two players are nearing their 100th win and will become the first players in Carolina's history to do so. Senior Jeff Kefalos has an overall career record no 10 A Mrlwrvno U1 KY\ 1 nloA O O U1 uO-LO dliu nuuicao 1 luio^iniiiu, aiou a ociuui , nao a 97-23 career mark. "Everyday I go out there I just try to play my best and win the match," Kefalos said. "When you try to set records you don't play well." "The most important thing to me is that the team wins and not whether I set records or not," Hufschmid said. "Jeff will probably break it first anyhow." Both players said Carolina Reserves a top 20 See TENNIS, Page II ennis match > Hufschmid won his first set 6-4, lost the second set 2-6 but won the match ^ I with a 6-4 victory in the third set. The S I win was Hufschmid's 97th career P I victory. I Trammell defeated Buzzy Willett 5' 7 lVi flin nnlir 4 ? , V/ ?, u u 111 wit Uilljf UU1C1 lllCHAJIl IU gu three sets. Dukes, Mayotte, and Steve 6. Dukes and Geller all won easy victories. 1 7-6, 6-3, and id Trammell KEFALOS AND HULL took a break ubles match from the doubles competition, and ver Gillespie Hufschmid and Geller filled in by beating Mike Burke and Bob Graham &2, 6-1. Skaflestad and Dukes won easier time their first set 6-3 but narrowly won the ough it took second 7-5 to win the match over 5 to pull out Grown and Dick Hodnett. Mayotte I not play in and Trammell eased past Steve played in the Derosa and Mike Shannon 6-1, 6-3. falos lost his Carolina plays Appalachian State at ck in the two 2:15 p.m. tomorrow at Maxcy-Gregg Jeff Crown. courts. 4 uiiuaii ictiiii n defeated t Wilson victory Tuesday over previously undefeated Winthrop lifted USC's women's Softball team to an 11-0 record. >een the closest game this season," said coach Frankie rop, now 4-1, scored five unearned runs on three hits SC had six runs on five hits. Carolina's Jean Bobbins iren Hughes led all hitters against Winthrop. Robbins singles and Hughes hit a single and a triple. ding to Porter, this year's team is experienced. "We 3 we're strong in everv denartmpnt " caiH t4r?nr See SOFTBALL, Page 13