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sports WBMHi Southeast's 6S By MITCH SHERWOOD Sports Editor 0. J. Simpson wasn't there. Nor was Pete Rose, Franco Harris or Kyle Rote, Jr. But 42 superstars competed Saturday in the first (hopefully annual) soutneast Greek Superstars at Bell Camp. Teams from Florida, Georgia Tech, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina State, North Carolina and USC participated in the competition. N.C. State won the Superstar competition which Carolina tracl beats Clemsoi By MATT WARD hurdles Gamecock Staff Writer hurdles < winning First place finishes by George Cook i Thomas Alan Chnnl?? T ? nAA , uuuuiit, emu i^eun o,uvu-me Cook helped Carolina defeat 5,000-me Clemson 79-73 Saturday afternoon run in t at Weems Baskin Track. Gameco "I told the entire team not to through worry about setting qualifying The 18 times, but just go out and give your day, wai best to defeat Clemson," USC Gameco< track coach Charlie Strong said. win. In < "The key to our victory was the points a steady performances we received needed a from George, Alan, Leon, plus the Carolina people who came through for us in fiv*> events that Clemson was favored place, thi to do well in. It was a total team third, effort that won the match for us." COOK 14:57.0, I THOMAS WON the long jump, son's Da the 100- and 200-meter dashes and "I was anchored the winning Carolina 400- would cl< meter relay team, which upset the 5,000 met Tigers. knew bef "I was looking forward to setting finish se< a r\r?f inMn 1 4! * " a uauoiim i]uttiuynig iiiuu ior me nave won NCAA's, but, the way I ran, I was for settinj fortunate to have won," Thomas easily wi said. "I'm just glad we defeated After ( Clemson." meter rui Shoultz won the 100-meter high milerela; v^fll^h ^Kl * &^TMRfe*->?^^' - ^HfeHSals *wM fe| ^We^HppS . - ? &IP 1ft H % mJ uper Greeks' d included volleyball, 880 yard relay, an obstacle course, canoe race, tug-ofwar. and mint- nass and Hot TTcr? i , , L nivn, uuv anu Tennessee finished second and third, respectively. USC'S TEAM consisted of Chuck Smith (Kappa Alpha), Greg Moman (Sigma Chi), Richard Strauss (Phi Kappa Sigma) and Carey Ayer, John Burckart, and Mark Irvin (Sigma Alpha Epsilon). USC Inter-Fraternity Council ad visor John Elkins, who thought up the idea for a Greek superstar competition ^ and the 400 intermediate and was a member of the 400-meter relay team. ilso won two events, the ter steeplechase and the ter run. Prior to Cook's he 5,000 meter run, the mJI cks had a 74-64 lead .P^|HJP^| thft Iftth Pvent th, and final event of the > the mile relay and the :ks were not favored to lual meet competition 77 w*vv= ... ^ needed to win. Cook second-place finish to put over that total. In track, ts are awarded for first? for second, and one IlBf's fiipvP W WON with a time of clear the high j imshing ahead of Clem- meet against Cle: vidson. " really hoping that Leon >se out the match in the us to have won th ers," Strong said. "Leon order to have woi ore he ran that he had to probably would :ond or better for us to George (Thomas^ i. i give mm all the credit Strong said. g the pace of the race and Thomas, Shoul nning." accounted for seve book's win in the 5000- first places. Steve i, the Gamecockr lost the high jump with a /. "If it was necessary for Shane Stroupe of C , ebb " m jSBm JJH v^-jfji S|3iy {36 M| g^!f'?;." itS Mark Al?Msnd?r THB OA* I A ? iisplay athletic two years ago, presented the idea last fall to Bill Graves, manager of Budweiser in Columbia. Graves then presented it to Anheuser-Busch Inc., who thought it was also a good promotional idea. Elkins invited the six other schools to participate, and each Budweiser wholesaler iri cnh/vrJ'p ^sponsored the team. Budweiser paid for the teams' travel expenses, food and lodging. USC was in first plaop until the tugof-war, the final event. N.C. State beat ^^ Mwn SWH : BSSSjapS-'-.y nknii ?1 t? ohckhcs uacKvvara to Wilson ump bar Saturday in a dual jump. 4 mson at Weems Raskins track. (JSC pe e mile relay in the same height, but Wils n the match, I declared the winner bees have placed fewer misses. in the event," THE GAMECOCKS took t tz, and Cook three places in the triple it ii ui uav, s nine Vernon Wilson won the eve Wilson won the a jump of 46-5 three-fourths height of 6-9. Clemson was led by senic lemson jumped Columbus and Dean Ma I Greek Superstars pass batons to teammates Saturday afternoon in the 880-yard relay. South Carolina won the relay, one event of six which Southeastern Greek collegiate athletes competed in during the all-day event snnncnro/t K.. _ wrv..uv? vu MJT Anheuser-Busch at Bell Camp. ICCOCK ? abilities USC in the tug-of-war to win the cuiuiKHiuon. usu earlier had won the 880-yard relay and the canoe race. AL CAROSI, who works for Anheuser-Busch College Market Division, said the competition will probably be regional again next year. "We'll probably try it again regionally next year, and maybe in two or three years we can go national with it," he said. "I'm pleased with how it turned out today, and I think there's a good 1 ill11' BHHHBHBBnM9RH?9n?HH0Hwr? SHHH * St?v? McCormack- THE OAMECOCK Iwon the high jump event with a G-9 Carolina defeated the Tigers 79-73 as Iformers w ? W vaifrO* on was Columbus won two events; the shot luse of put and the discus. Columbus also placed third in the javelin. Matthews won the mile run and the 800he first meter run. jmp as "The meet was very close all the nt with ' way," Strong said. "We were able inches, to get points in the events that >r Mike Clemson had counted on for suptthews. port." ? J