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sports USC bas oy mnvn anunwuuu Sports Editor When USC's Board of Trustees voted last summer not to seek readmission to the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), they were sacriflcin the basketball program for the football program, USC head basketball coach Frank McGuire said. "They (Board of Trustees) voted down the ACC in favor of the football situation," McGuire said. "Football said they could make more money (as an independent). "YOU DON'T SACRIFICE a snort that is nntinnnl- u?o umm>a rated nationally," McGuire said. "You have to look at all sides. Then you have to go to every other sport and any coach in the minor sports . would tell you it would be better to be in a conference, and especially the ACC." McGuire said the board and head football coach Jim Carlen believe Carolina can make more money being an independent than being a Sftfifftr chiY in promotii By SALLY WILSON Asst. Sports Editor Acceptance of soccer as a major rival of football is not as widespread in the South as it is in most Northeastern states. But with the help of USC's soccer club. interest in the sport is growing in the Columbia area. The club conducted a soccer clinic Thursday for more than 140 six- and seven-year-old soccer enthusiasts and their parents on the university's soccer field across from the Roost. YMCA director Larry Moshell and USC playercoach Tim Hankinson set up the clinic, an ev?nt designed to familiarize children in the new YMCA six- and seven-year-old division with basic soccer skills. "THIS IS the first time these kids and their parents have been introduced to soccer," Hankinson said. "We teach them skills and let them play the game for fun." USC club members kept the 140 six- and seven-year-olds under control by moving the children among five stations where different skills were taught. Club members instructed the young playeri in passing, goal keeping, Gymnasts win state tournament ilaasft a ?-?-? * mm mm > ?? a+m mnmmm mm 0 1 I JKUHJOITi I^b jBg^* ^il% jrS^h K'l Frank McGuire member of a conference. McGuire said this assumption is wrong because, even though a school has to split any money it makes from ) helpful ng sport heading, trapping and dribbling. At the end of the rotation, USC players and several Columbia high school players played an exhibition game for the children. "Our exhibition game is an example of what all these skills put together look like," Hankinson said. Helping with clinics around the state is not the only duty a USC player performs. In the YMCA's spring soccer league, Carolina players either coach teams, referee games or help coach and teach in clinics. "WE REALLY wouldn't be able to hold the games without their refereeing," Moshell said. "We rely on them heavily." Moshell said 30 to 40 YMCA soccer games are played every Saturday mor-. ning from March 19 to May 28. Although USC'S reffUlar kpa arm io in the fall, the club practices four times a week and plays 10 games this spring. Hankinson said the spring season prepares the club for the fall. Carolina, who won the Southeastern Soccer championship tournament in November, finished the fall season with a 19-2 record. By RONNIE I1UTCIIIN& Asst. Sports Editor USC's women's gymnastic team first in all but one event to win tl Carolina Association of Interct Athletics for Women (SCAIAW pionship Saturday at Furman. The Chicks won the state meet wit point total. Furman finished with Winthrop third with 56.9. USC'S IX)RIE WARBUTTON wor around honors at the meet. Warbutto 28 of the Chicks' points as she mmmummmmmomm..... 1 I suffers ii ? ? i?* i ? . icicviBiuu or uuwi games Detween the member schools, it would also receive money from other schools' television appearances and bowl games. McGuire used last year's USC football team as an example. They did not go to a bowl, but if they had been in the ACC, they would have received money from North Carolina's and Maryland's bowl games. "I'VE SPOKEN WITH the commissioners of the Big 10. They want to prove to me on paper that 1.1 A! uie HBsumpuon you maxe more money as an independent football team is wrong," McGuire said. "It's all supposition. If you have a-i bad year, it doesn't go." McGuire also said the basketball Erogram would save travel money y playing the closer ACC teams. The program would take in more money by filling the coliseum as it did when USC was in the ACC. Hie university would benefit from the exposure received while belonging to the ACC. wSb sr^^r''}^i tries to Uh use goaue raui Bristol at a Soccer interest and participation in South Carolina is expanding, particularly in the YMCA league. "I think the sport is going to bloom because any size, shape or form can play," Hankinson said. "It's a game that takes a great deal of creativity." HANKINSON BELIEVES soccer is one of the few sports that is player-oriented as opposed to vaulting event and finisl exercises and balance b< finished The Chicks' Laura ] he South second in all-around cor >llegiate points. Kostyshyn won ) cham- balance beam and finish bars and vaulting, ii a 99.85 USC took four of the to 84.5 and around performances i Parks and Debbie Hull ti competition. i the all- Naomi Caine of Furmi n earned around competition with 1 won the on bars and third-place < i A rr'c JL X1.VJVJ O I " We played Michiga team in the country, i When we played Nort Carolina State, they s for Elvis Presley." "The fact is that the people in this state want to be in the ACC," McGuire said. "They want to play the North Carolina schools, Maryland and the other Rrhnnls We played Kentucky, and we had empty seats. We played Michigan, the number one team in the country, we had empty seats. When we played North Carolina and North Carolina State, they slept out like they did for Elvis Presley." McGUIRE SAID not being in the ACC also has hurt recruiting. He said he has lost several players, such as North Carolina's Mike O'Koren and Mitch Kupchak to ACC schools because they wanted to play ACC basketball. "The ACC, with all the publicity ||^2gFi?^.-** r4 fWMmwr mPi P^^?jBT&L** "^t^JBh^BS i^^^Bi&%3' ^ soccer clinic Thursday for Y1 coach-or iptitpd "In flAnnnt* am aC. UUVWi , WUtC the players are out there, it's their show," he said. "The coach's job is done. "It's (soccer) picking "up incredibly," Hankinson said. "Because the game is getting more exposure, more research material is available for coaches to educate themselves." One parent at the clinic said he approves of soccer because it's not led second in floor Uneven ba jam. didn't domir Kostyshyn finished bars was d repetition with 27.25 women's gyi floor exorcise and "It's been a ted third in "THE BAI p five places in all- event all ye* as seniors Wendy exercises ha ed for fourth in the The win, U! qualified the an was third in all- next week at ler first-place finish not attend b< >n beam. shadow n, the number one *e hod empty seats, h Carolina and North lept out like they did -Frank McGuire and all the coverage, sells the* players on the conference. Dean Smith (North Carolina head basketball coach) is recruiting the same boys I am now," McGuire said. "He's recruiting along the lines that look at the publicity of A rv Tit- ?_ ?< mc nw. At d uittue our roie an awful tough one." . . McGuire said he is recruiting the two best high school players in the nation, Albert King and Wayne McCoy. Hie third best high school player in the nation, Eugene Wilson, has said he will sign with Duke while North Carolina State officials have said McCoy will sign with them. McGuire said McCoy has denied this. See McGUIRE, page II < y* t 4 wBBm ggggij.- T^W ' * >*>v ' '^B*' y * '** * : 'jwj^ ^ ^: >"^*y*r * Collins Wllk(f?tHK OAMBCOCK MCA six- and seven-year-olds, j as potentially dangerous as other sports such as football and baseball. "It's the only organized sport I approve of for kids this age/' he said. Hie iuciiiuctb ui v^aronna s 30player soccer club played in the YMCA league last year. "We should be getting about three high school players next year who are a product of the YMCA league," Hankinson said. ????? _ > rs was the only event the Chicks late at the meet. "The uneven efinitely our weakness," USC miiusuc coacn Kay Hury said, weakness for us all year. iANCE BEAM has been our best ?r," Hury said. "And the floor ve been good for us." SC's third consecutive state title, i team for the AIAW regionals Boone, N.C., but the team will jcause of injuries. See GYMNASTS, page 12 ?