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USC tennis By BRETT FRIEDLANDER Gamecock Staff Writer The USC men's tennis team defeated Wake Forest Saturday 8-1 for their second straight victory of the season. The Gamecocks, who defeated Jacksonville 7-2 Thursday, won all matches except the second singles. Chuck Hodgin lost to Wake Forest's Alau Farfour 2-6, 7-6, 6-2. "I don't want to take anything away from Farfour's win, but Chuck's a little tired," USC coach Ron Smarr said. "He just got back from playing in the national indoor championships in Maryland yesterday, where he got to the quarter finals in both the singles and doubles." NJlimHor* rtno cinrflo . U??V Lllllglb V/lll lO Mayotte defeated Wake's Armond Molina 6-2,2-6,6-2. "I'm hitting the ball well," said Mayotte. "I'm not serving the ball as well as I'd like, though." ? ^ ^ ?i v ? *1 f* V _ _ J? A. /-? ? iviemuers 01 me Carolina women's swim team stretch for t Women swim By CHRIS MYERS Asst. Sports Editor Carolina's women's swim team ended their season undefeated in a dual meet with USC's men team against Georgia Saturday 96-33 and 79-54. The women finished the year 10-0 while the men closed out their season 7-4. GEORGIA NEVER THREATENED USC at any time during the meet. According to assistant coach Alan Whitaker, the Bulldogs were comparable to USC's swim team of last year. He said a philosophy of hard work and fast training paid off to produce a successful year for both squads. The Carolina women swept every event to pull out to an early tops W akt Number three singles player T~* A " carry uiioeri, recovering irom an injured thumb that kept him out of the Jacksonville match, defeated the Deacons Tom Kieffer 6-7, 6-2,62. Peter MacDonald, Arthur Anastopoulo and Jeff Hull were also victorious. "It was a real good effort today, a real good match," Smarr said. "We've got some tough matches ahead of us. It will be interesting to see how we do against teams like Auburn and Duke." Winnine doubles matches fnr thp Gamecocks were the teams of Mayotte and Anastopoulo, MacDonald and Gilbert, and Hull and Randy Osga. Smarr was not pleased with the play of his number two doubles team of MacDonald and Gilbert. "They won, but they could have played much better," he said. The next match for the Gamecocks is tomorrow at 2 p.m. against the College of Charleston. ^%?^kAjhll^6flB^B6^^-l M BU i , ^fifew I ^y|Sg 'VBB|W| i H^ipppWK^1 - * i..Ai*f<v '. B. .^Mayi<W'yj ijgfiHMfl^^ttfetta - mrpm and Georgia dual meet Satur he water in a the Bulldogs to e Lmers finish i 20-5 lead after Nancy Nitardy won both the 200 yard individual medley and the 100 yard freestyle. Qualifying for the nationals in the 200 yard medley, Nitardy also placed first in the 100 yard backstroke. Mary Ellen Breen also contributed to the win with victories in the 50 yard breasistroke, the 50 yard freestyle, and the 200 yard freestyle. She qualified for the nationals in both the breaststroke and the freestyle individually and also aided the Carolina 200 yard medley relay team to a national qualifying time of 1.51.79. Gribble edged out a Georgia swimmer in the 200 yard breaststroke to give Carolina a commanding lead near the end of the meet. Randy Phipps took first in the gruelling 1000 yard freestyle i Forest In case of rain, it will be held at the Maxcy-Gregg courts on Blossom St. The first two matches of the season were held at the Cantey building on the State Fairgrounds because of the rain. < <T 1 i can i wan unui we play outside," Mayotte said. "Although both courts are pretty fast, you can't lob in there, and besides the lighting is terrible." According to Mayotte, the key to a successful season is the team's attitude. "If we don't worry about winning and losing and just go out and play our best, we'll be all right," he said. USC has a tough schedule which includes 13 teams rated in the preseason top 25. Coach Smarr is optimistic about the season, but he remains jautious. "WeT, be on the losing side of the ledger before the season is over, but as of right now, we're playing real well," Smarr said. WTW|| * fBgSSX&BBBKEE. < *m$0**9 i ^ ? Ut rrTifnni inniM.?tm mi in.11 F*? .? . V- P $? Leslie Erickson -THE GAMECOCK day. The USC women defeated xtend their season record to 10-0. indefeated selling a new scnooi record of 9.24.50. He also won the 500 yard freestyle event for USC. Link Doyle won both the 50 and 100 freestyle events as Greg Midwinter qualified for the nationals in the 200 yard individual medley with a 1.53.97. Carolina won every men's event except the initial one, the 100 yard backstroke. Carolina head coach Scott Woodburn said that although the records over the past several meets have not shown it, Carolina has had to struggle because of illness. "We've been pretty well racked up with flu and cold. "But at least now we're swimming consistant. We've really been looking good. I was happy with our * performance today." < Carolina gymnast Vicki Jackson |beam in a tri-meet against Furnu Saturday. USC placed first in the USC gymnasts By GREG DAVIE Gamecock Staff Writer The USC woman's gymnastics team u: Jacksonville State Saturday afternoon ai Education Center by a score of 123.90-12: the tri-meet with a 68.60 score. According to Carolina gymnastic coac big factors in the Lady Gamecocks win "The place we've improved the mos parallel bars," White said. "And another *i I? I i ? 1 in me uaiaiice weam. we aian t nave anj State had a lot. "It was our highest scoring meet of t! looked better in last week's meet we perf the talent of Jacksonville State." "The place we've improved tl is the uneven parallel bars." Carolina and Jacksonville State both c? in the meet. The biggest gap came in t where The Lady Gamecocks won a 30.f JACKSONVILLE STATE'S Susan P arounu cnampion witn a az.40 total. Pu bars and floor exercises. Puckett was formance but she credited the depth of tl victory. "I had a good day but they (Carolina) d in most of the events," Puckett said. 44G and part team. It just so happened that dividual while the entire South Carolina most of the events." CK1ERIE RICHARDS of Carolina plai events by a half-point (31.90) and won tfr with a 8.15 score. USC's Kathy Rusnov's 8.00 in the beam three point lead going into the final ever Huff and Rusnov placed third in the floe Gamecocks their second straight victory wnite was pleased with the victory bu with the team's qualification in the reg "We've already qualified for the re average team score but it's important t the regionals," White said. Friday, Carolina travels to Appalachit ilso competing. Saturday the team trave iual encounter. I : Mm HHBuSr^NM^^^ *' Britlon Andrew -THE GAMECOCK performs on the balance m and Jacksonville State meet. > win meet sed overall strength to upset t the Solomon Blatt Physical 2.05. Furman placed third in :h Bob White there were two i. t this season is the uneven big factor in today's win was j falls, whereas Jacksonville he year for us. Although we ormed very well considering he most this season Coach Bob White iptured two of the four events he uneven bars competition >0-27.75. uckett was the meet's all ckett won the vault, uneven ; happy with her own perle Lady Gamecocks for their id a good job in finishing high rymnastics is part individual : I had a good day as an inteam had a consistent day in :ed second in the all-around ie balance beam competition i gave the Lady Gamecocks a it of floor exercises. Melanie >r exercises to give the Lady in as many weeks. t he was even more satisfied ;ionals. gional meet by way of our o keep up our momentum for in State, with Virginia Tech ils to Western Carolina for a