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Fall Tennis Invite Touri By Rick Mohn OaiMCNh Moff Writer Entering the final round of sixth annual USC Fall Tennis vitational Sunday, the Gamecc tennis team faced a nearly i possible task. In order to win the tourname they needed to win four of singles matches against 1! Atlantic Coast Conference. AC champion N.C. State, then b 1977 Southeastern Conferen SEC, champion Tennessee two of three doubles matches. P- iv??0*1?I?5?ov.ii.'^ii'Tfefe^S^v''?-" "* Kill? i i "-' .r. . If"l!VAl?TTO?aw H ueac Mackovic itional lament u the BOTH OPPONENTS had In- cellent teams and finished i >ck top twenty last year. To comj m- Coach Ron Smarr's headache Gamecocks were coming i nt, disappointing 6-3 loss to Cle six the day before. 977 But Carolina defied all odd :C, took both the Wolfpack an eat Volunteers by the needed mai Ce. Thp fiamocnrlfc KlitTorl C?-o r a iiu uuuivv/uvuj iTmtvu u ia out early in the afternoon, winnii first four matches quickly. JB.i Fred Rolllton ? OAMI :ons Wi ByMikeChibbaro IOmikkIi Staff Writer Every major college f team schedules games with that are sympathetically rc to as "patsies." To obtain a clear underst of what constitutes a patsy f I team, one must examin dismal history of the Wake Demon Deacons. In the last two decadc Deacons have managed onl; winning seasons. Thirt> times they have lost six 01 games in a season and have in one major bowl game ( Gator Bowl victory over \ But, believe it or not, then time when the Deacons wer than helpless prey for op teams. Their most recent respectability came nea years ago. n n give ' f*" LEADING TH1 * v*"- Chris Mayotte, Ch >ound Petersen, Peter s, the Arthur Anastopoul off a won hjs match in si mson The only Game> Barry Gilbert, \ s an(* three-set match to d the jjve piayer after tf rgins. decided, te 5-1 After a half-ho ig the home team took t( to face Tennessee the Gamecocks earlier in the tourr The Vols finis! countrv Inst vpnr ^ ? j team Smarr tabl tournament favori The half hour r the Gamecocks o number-two and teams blistered th straight sets. HODGIN ANI breezed to a 6-1. IMacDonald teame walk-on Bob Krar decision to compl Gamecock perforr USC's numbei Mayotte and Anas their first two set nament was decid ch was called. "This was the played in a very lo I said after the ma pleted. "We ca behind today aga petition. Our tour best field dual-ma the Mississippi thi An especially . : . s' formance was tf who played like a The Swedish fr< Saturday's Clems S; bounced back to |gj|H Scott Dillon on Sur ?: piajr^u ica ! needed a win badl a big boost to 1 Smarr observed. AS FOR the t coach could not ha "We played just s today. I was gett we finally showed in this tournament iCOCK > zren i l. 11 IN 1964, Wake F ? Atlantic Coast C . ar ^ victories and fini *erred with a decent 5-5 r nd' e reason for the a ii customed success AAT null le the their ta,ented offe Forest running bacl most courageous i s, the ,ived, Brian Pice y three quarterback was '-eight Arnerica named J r more , course, Pic played become an outs a 26-14 back in the N; JSC in League, but Mat coaching. Curreril e was a s| year as head I e more ^ alma mater, >posing After an openii era of over Virginia, Ma rly 14 bave lost nine coi Included in tho? ? ? sUSC The m< S charge were weekend nick Hodgin, Ulf gave to ( MacDonald and now 6-1 a lo, each of whom South, s traightsets. qualifica cock to fall was Champi? vho dropped a region. V State's number- right nov le issue had hepn AFTE1 ur of rest, the tivity, tl > the court again , which had tied singles ied 11th in the % and have the >ed as the prete on Friday. est did not cool ff any, as their )0pl|||f|||| three doubles leir opponents in > PETERSEN P|j|||gS 7-5 victory, and d with freshman K|||g|||^ ner for a 6-4, 6-3 etc the stunning Blf^ nauue. r-one team of topoulo had split |??|||llll s when the tour- pi|S?jjjp ed, so their matbest we have ng time," Smarr tches were com- r .- :.'.' me from way linst great comnament had the itch field west of Iplglipll sfftll" IHiMi impressive perlat of Petersen, man possessed, eshman lost in on debacle, then y, because it was liis confidence," f;|p|pi??| eam's play, the ive been happier. is well as we can ing worried, but ! all our potential ? r: ' ; talwo however, orest posted four LSU and onference, ACC, back aga shed the season Macko ecord. The main have pla Deacon's unac- Oeacon'j j that year was tftan one nclna uoitv ot thc sc< It was one of the teams rc jthletes that ever some ke; olo. The Deacon jeft us Cja consensus Allohn Mackovic. "WE/ colo went on to ancj we < tanding running sonnel t ational Football teams 01 ;kovic went into working ,ly he is in his fir- talented football coach at Mackc rake F'orest. disappo ng game victory looked a ckovic's Deacons "I dot isecutive games. Saturda; je nine defeats, NCAA I >st important result of the thing 's action is the boost it Carolina's record. "We're timej gainst the top teams in the PreP* o we're the leaders for Doub tion for the NCAA Indoor ansfiip berth for this WI"r /e're in pretty good shape Smarr noted. As "We r* A *1 _ _ n. int recenuiurry 01 ac- ana v ie Gamecocks will take come have v' jMgSte^ ^ feC^j<pFH?< ^T?-^ - ^nm^p v nfL ! ?<0mps^i?> . ../ riWi 7W -.. . i^:-. , ,) IMj^lfltjflgWMlilii^ MacDon; iys pat were a tough 13-11 loss to a disappointing 14-7 setinst Purdue. vie said he feels injuries iyed a major role in the ? inability to win more game. "In the early part ison, we played some good ;al close. But then we had v iniiiripx that havp reallv / ?J ? ~ %/ ippled." ^ kRE A VERY young team ^ don't really have the per0 play with some of the , 1 our schedule, but we are very hard to recruit some ( athletes," he added. vie feels the Deacon's J in ting season must be ( I in a proper perspective. i't put everything in one y afternoon and I don't put See DEACONS, page 14 boost s easy, practicing just three > a ween ror a while, in iration for the NCAA Indoor les tournament in Wichita 3-5. Mayotte and Anastopoulo epresent USC. Smarr said Sunday night, just have to keep playing well, /ait for the tournament bids to ! out. Right now I'd say we a good chance." * "sflMHs^aap* ; ;?^?-?: : ssss.*?WSSBRSS2Zk ^ mmmmmmmmmmmmmrnrn lid Fr*d Ro,,i"on ~~ GAMECOCK CJ?>?