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Practice opens. j students invited USC opens its pre-season basketball practice Monday with coach Frank MrOuire's traditional first rtav nnon drrimmaop at r? m ir? I Carolina Coliseum. McGuire, beginning his 16th season at Carolina and 30th as a collegiate head coach, has a veteran squad with seven seniors listed on the 11 player roster. For many years the Gamecocks' first practice acaaiuu imo uccn a av.i iiiiiiidgc u(a;u iu liic puuuu. The Gamecocks open a 27 game season Dec. 1 at home against Biscayne College. All regulars return from last year's 15-12 season, led by All-America candidate Cedrick Hordges, a 6-8 senior forward from Montgomery, Ala., who topped last year's squad with a 19.6 scoring average and 10.1 rebounds per game; and 6-5 guard Mike Doyle, who averaged 15.3 points per game last season. * I)OYLK WILL serve as team captain for the second year. From The Bronx, N.Y., he enters his senior season with a career point total of 1 01 <1 th<? 9.01h fiampfni'k nlaupr Innrnrp 1 (MV1 nnintc in n rarw?r Other seniors include 6-11 center Jim Strickland, 8.3 points and 8.2 rebounds per game last season; 6-2 guard Kenny Reynolds, 6.6 ppg and the team assist leader with 89; 6-6 forward Tom Wimbush, 6.2 ppg, 5.4 rpg; 6-9 senior center Jimmy Graziano, 3.9, 3.2; and 6-8 forward-center Mark Connaughton, 3.2 and 1.6. All but Connaughton have been starters in the past. Juniors include 6-2 guard Zam Fredrick of St. Matthews, S.C., who averaged 13.9 Doints Der same as a starter last vear. and 6-0 guard 1 Kevin Dunleavy, who averaged 2.3 points and had 37 assists in 1978-79. THERE ABE no sophomores on the 1979-80 Gamecock squad. Freshmen include 6-7 forward Kevin Darmody of Alexandria, Va., and 6-3 guard Derrick Scott of Flushing, N. Y. Scott left school briefly earlier n this month, but returned after a week and is expected to be a member of H the squad. Darmody was the leading scorer in the Washington, D.C., area last I season with a 29 point per game average at Bishop O'Connell High I School and Scott averaged 17.9 at Holy Cross High. Hordges, who transferred to Carolina after two years at Auburn, was drafted in the third round last summer by the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association, but remained at USC to complete his collegiate eligibility. Strickland, a native of Columbia, is a transfer from Furman and he was picked by the New Jersey Nets in the seventh round of the NBA draft, but also decided to return to the university for his final season. T" ? 1 ... C ;j.1_ i emus pwyer oiiiiin full of confidence By Tammy Kilpatrick Gamecock Staff Writer "Sometimes I wonder if I'm missing out on anything, but I'm not to mo U/kan ins Kaot cnmonnn lilro Miami lit nnfinnalc if in?f malrpc it -i11 worthwhile," Susan Smith, USC's number-one women's tennis player said. Smith, an 18-year-old sophomore, is starting her second year as the number-one seed on the tennis team. Originally from Lakeland, Fla., she said the coach and the program at USC convinced her to come to school here. "I really had my heart set on Alabama, but on the last possible weekend legal to come up here to visit I decided I would because Jeff (coach Jeff Kefalos) had been asking me and he was so nice," Smith i saiu. KEFALOS' PLANS to make the team nationally competitive played a large part in her decision. "He's the whole reason I came here... He was right for me," Smith said. "If I had to make the decision all over again, I'd make it the same way." Smith said she began hitting a tennis ball on the backboard at the local city courts when she was 8-years-old. "My mom would hack around with her friends in the morning and I'd have to go with her, ' Smith said. r? A 11.. ii? I 1.1 i I ?? i,nnn ?n V. Iiweiiiuaiiy uie uut'Kuuuru pmt'utca uiiu mc ucauc iu up mui uci older brother motivated Smith to take lessons from the city pro, Dave Beerman. "I was the one who stuck with it and they quit," she said. Smith believes she perfected her game because of good competition in her area and the family-like atmosphere at the city courts. "I think it was the whole atmosphere at Lakeland. We had a tremendous amount of good players there. It was almost like a family. I just lived there after 1 I 11 J Iscnooi, snesaiu. Smith feels the city courts helped her more than playing at private clubs, as many rising tennis players do. "I liked it better at the city because I met different kinds of people," Smith said. SINCE THE AGE 12, Smith has been playing in national tournaments around the country. She was fourth in Florida and was ranked high enough to qualify for the national tournaments. She laughs about the time she played tennis star Tracy Austin two years ago. "I got creamed," Smith laughed. "She was just devasting." Smith traveled the circuit this summer, playing in California, Tennessee, New Jersey and Conneticut. She was personally most pleased with her performance in the nationals in Conneticut, where she reached ithe quarter finals before being eliminated. Smith said she likes USC, but her world mainly revolves around tennis. "I have so much fun with the girls on the tennis team I don't get too much outside them." she said. "I love the weather and the people ~ *" ?? ?- - ? ? * ? ? 4 -? ? ~ - ~ -J 4 1 y* ? t *-\ ?A/\ I it re real nice, everyone aeeius 10 nave sueu a guuu nine ui uunu uc-i c, nw one's uptight about anything." . _ ,, 1 * J Sue Smith, page 11 : ' ?7j?i ?^y-V ^Tj^'^ff-i ;^"fL-^JV - "f "^---- --- . J-r - y ? "A'r^j'i m * ,1,1 jf^L , - *7 ''V 6^YfttKb.^ J^Jm {-_~T-iVVA~'- - -- ---I'-f -\^-^' Wjm 1 " _- - - | Brian Winstead (left) chats with i game earlier in the season. The has been a leader on this year's Winstead, By Richard Meyers Gamecock Staff Writer USC soccer player Brian Winstead is off to another excellent season this year scoring goals, but the 5-8 senior is much more in terested in the team's success than his own. "I like to think of myself as a team player more than anything else. I love to score goals, but I think assists are as important to me than scoring." Carolina soccer coach Mark Berson describes the senior forward as "a very opportunistic, rlotorminpH nlaupr " Ar?r?nrrlin0 tn Berson, "Brian creates a lot of chances for himself and his teammates to score. He is a team player." WINSTEAD HAS already scored 12 goals this season, in only nine games. He tallied 18 goals last year and holds the school record for most goals and assists in the soccer program's short history. Winstead feels a change of position has helped him score more goals this year. "Last year I played left wing and now I'm a striker. I feel a little more comfortable where I am now, and I have a few more opportunities to score and pass off for goals," he said. "But I wouldn't be scoring many goals if it wasn't for our defense and midfield. They do a great job and work really hard. When I score a goal, it is everybody's goal, not just mine," Winstead added. mi ?* e?.. ri I,n<< 1 lit; (MM icw yK:ai a ?? uuicau uaa played, his goal production has dropped a bit late in the season, but he thinks he knows the reason for it. "I seem to do real well in the beginning of the season. As the season goes on, teams mark me with two men, which is fine because it has to leave someone pIbp u/irln nnnn It's n rnmnlimont to think that the other team thinks I'm that dangerous." THE SENIOR from New Carrolton, Md., didn't start nlavine soccer until his iunior vear K %/ vv - - ? , in high school. Baseball was his best sport at the time, 'i liked all sports up until I was about 12 or 13, Vi^-% 1 .'I, | ^ ^ i referee in a which is curren ' USC senior Gamecocks pla soccer team ternoon. USC soccer star ; determin and tnen I started cutting out I football and basketball because I was definitely was not built for those sports. "I had played baseball for about six years, and played my first year in high school. But I couldn't hit too on.~ ,,ui guuu. i ne puuma aiai icu gciwng , faster and faster," the senior said. < "I took up soccer and I really i liked it, because it was more of a 1 team game than baseball and I could play it just about all year round." < As a senior at Largo High School. I Winstead was named to the All- < Metropolitan and All-County teams. He did not receive any scholarship offers, so he decided to i attend Prince Georges Community College. All Winstead did there was break the Maryland State Winstead Junior College scoring record with 56 goals in two years and make AilAmerican. "Going to a junior college was the best thing I could have possibly done, I worked harder than ever before in my life to improve my soccer skills and it paid off. I had five or six scholarship offers," Winsteadsaid. "ORIGINALLY, 1 signed my scholarship with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. But Mark Berson got the job as coach on a Thursday night, called me Friday and saw me Wednesday. We talked, i was pretty interested. afe?/ Dava Roback - GAMECOCK tly 8-1 on the season. The yed C/emson yesterday af ed player but I told him I already signed with North Carolina. "He said that was all right, and that he just wanted me to look at South Carolina," Winstead explained. I don't know if I wanted a plane ride out of it or what, but I came to USC, got to know Mark reallv eood and the facilities were unbelievable. "I told the coach at North Carolina I was having second Uln coi/^ f r\ /?Amn A IV OUIU IU V.UI I It UUV-I\ down again and look al the school. I did, but there was no comparison. USC is a much better school for me. "Mark Berson was the main reason I came here. He is more my friend than my coach, and he takes care of me. He was interested in me as a person and seeing 1 got an education out of the deal," he added. Winstead will return to USC in the fall, but not as a player. "I'm a senior now, but since I transferred in I lost some credits. Hopefully, 1 11 be able to help out the team in any way I can. I'm going to try out for a few pro teams," he said "Hopefully, I'll get drafted, but I doubt it. It depends how well our team does this year. Soccer is the thing I do best in life, and I want to nlav at the highest level I ran "I want to be a coach. I might have started too late to be a great player. I've been coaching little kids for a couple years, and that is a thrill for me. Maybe I like it because I didn't get good coaching until I was in high school," Win stead said. The marketing major plans to live in South Carolina after he tii m;wL4 Mn... ?iw.t fci <*uu(iiv2>. i mum i nuw iiicti I'm probably going to stay down here instead of going back to Maryland. The atmosphere is so mucn amereni, me weamer is nice and I want to live away from home a while. The business opportunities are also wide open in South Carolina. 1 really love living here," he said . ... .