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Foster 1 to win: Michelle Burchette Gamecock Staff Writer If the Lady Gamecock's perfori regular season finale is any indicatior will play in post-season action, the uhnnlrl nronnro for a nnccihlp nutionnl OIIVUIV4 pi V jyu * v. i VI M pv/uoiwiv 1IM VIVIIMl Combining enthusiasm, desire and play of Sheila Foster, the Lady Game the season Tuesday night with a 76 N.C. State. The win provided 5th r with a 24-4 season record and 31 co victories. Dealing with the Lady Wolfpack in way as they have their other opponer lead at the outset and never fell beh seven minutes left in the game Caroli 20 point lead ? their biggest margin c CAROLINA SOUNDLY defeated 5 earlier this season, but the team did n match against the Wolfpack to be i once Foster took control offensively ; N.C. State was unable to mak< comeback. Scoring a career high 31 points, F< talents together to dominate the gar CVin nmp 1 O nf 1 C f f flnnt* one >?ao ui id 11 win 111c iiuui , ov?ui points from the inside where State pl? and Genia Beasley stood and watched By missing only two of nine shots fr Foster did not allow the Wolfpack minute comeback. "I just played my style of ball," Fc got to give half the credit to the tear half to the coaches." Guarding against Doby and Beas n nclr no oKn Uo/4 nvrvnnf uaiiLuii o iaoi\ as one nau According to the sophomore forward, other tall girls in previous gam provided her with the experience nec< the State players. Netters c continue Willie T. Smith III Gamecock Staff Writer The USC men's tennis team faced its first real test of the young 1 > season Wednesday afternoon against Georgia Southern and passed with flying colors, beating the Eagles 7-2 at the Sam Daniel Tennis Center. The match was closer than the score might indicate as six of the nine matches went three sets. "Georgia Southern has a real good team and we were lucky to beat them by this margin," USC coach Ron Smarr said. "All of the matches were very close in singles. This is one of thore matches where the score doesn't indicate how close it really was." Probably the top match of the day was the number two singles event. Peter MacDonald, who is undefeated in singles and doubles so far this year, was pushed hard by the Eagles Steve Morris, but he finally won 6-3, 3-6,6-4. IVlAtUUni/iLU 9/1IU a CUIItroversial call aided his win. "I was serving, up 5-3 in the third set, and I got a very questionable call which went against me," he said. "I was up a break and that evened up the match break wise. That really tended to fire me up. In the last game I played pretty much unconscious. I hit four winners. I had been playing pretty con^ servatively all match and I figured I'd just go for it and it worked out." eads Gan in season "I THINK I'VE nance in their enough that once I g, i of the way they !"e-,'?^r said, n Carolina fans head but I ve played championship. ,Loac'h ,Pa'" p,ar the dominating Pleasfd ^ ,Fo!;'e' cocks closed out despite a bout with t -62 victory over well when she has a. anked Carolina tofn'ghl' Parsons si msecutive home of th.os.e ?ul>-Pa.r P< worried. Instead sn< much the same ?PPos'teits, USC took the _ burning in anothc ind. With nearly ?. '^me( na established a Working wi h F oste ?f the night UP the m,ddle and Pl 8 "Cynthia decided State in Raleigh got to show dominj ot expect the re- very surprising to N 1 pushover. But boards. and defensively, . ?v 2 a successful ,. 9^9 H ? /? ? r\ I i ? * /^ A /\?? ?\ uia*_ijjiiuC. nuci an jster pooled her week- the Lady Ga ne for Carolina. 8ame' she said. "Lo ing most of her for us We worked o lyers June Doby in practice and ag I helplessly. Jacobs said. "We kn om the foul line, "We came out a to stage a last game. By going to tl we just cut them off, >ster said. I ve parsons added th n and the other SpUr ?aroiina to tl thusiasm the past fe and desire to win," id, Foster said. mentai part 0f the | playing against together as a group, es this season sssary to control iefeat Soi 1 J unoeaier Arthur Anastopoulo won a hard I fought match at number one i singles as he defeated Chris j Schuler 7-6, 6-4. "I was serving down 3-4 in the tie breaker in the ; first set and I won the final two i Doints to take it 5-4 " Anast0D0ul0 i said. "I was pretty lucky, 1 guess." Chuck Godgin struggled early but came back to defeat Greg Wheaton 2-6, 6-0, 6-2. "Chuck started slowly, but he played tough in the last two sets like he usually does to take it," coach Ron Smarr: said. Ulf Pettersson continued to totally dominate his opponents by humiliating Tom Meison 6-3, 6-1. 'Ulf at number five touqh to beat. He is re tennis.' Peter MacDonald "Ulf at number five is going to be i .V U ~ 4 M I ~w,.4 veiy luugii iu ucdi, i cici mauDonald said. "He is really playing awesome tennis right now." THE ONLY TWO losses for the Gamecocks on the day were suffered by South Africans' Trevor itaal and Brian Mcuonaia. "Trevor was up 6-2, 4-1 and 5-2 in the third and lost," Smarr said. "He had three match points. It's just one of those things that happen sometimes. He had good effort, he just didn't win." "Brian still wasn't quite ready to play, it was obvious," Smarr said. " H e still gave good effort. I thought he played better in doublesCarolina swept the three doubles matches, although Smarr was far lecocks I finale I Dlaved against big girls lone it inside it's hard for them to stop 'm not saying that to get the big against bigger girls." sons was both surprised and 's performance, which came he flu. "I've never seen her play :old and she could hardly breathe id. "I thought she was in for one irformances and I was kind of went out there and gave me the r key performance was Cynthia jocks' only senior this season, r, the Carolina center helped tie illed down eight rebounds. I she's got to be dominant ? she's i nice." Parsons said. "We were Cf n /a iiftiVt Aiir rf nn f hn . . OIU IC Willi uui 011^115111 Ull luv. & Jacobs the key to the game was | jpexpected loss to S.C. State last | mecocks reviewed their mental 1 >ing to S.C. State was a tough loss | l a lot of things that we needed to | lin it goes back to discipline," | ew where we were lacking. id played, overall, a good ball le boards in the first few minutes ? "Jacobs said. f at an increase in desire helped le win. "We talked about enn days ? having the enthusiasm Parsons said. "It pays off ? the T rv f rM ill 1 f i iuvc iu ouc mem pun it. see Women's Basketball, page 13 ithern, i streak rom pleased with the effort. "We von all three, but it wasn't like it hould have been," Smarr said. 'We had some guys out there isleep in doubles. I don't even like elaxing like that when you're up 5). That worried me a little bit " ~ 1 r* -11 t - nuugm anu i-uuersson Deal h Wheaton and Meison 6-1, 6-7, 6-3 at | lumber one while the MacDonalds | von over Heinl and Schuler 7-6, 6-1. I \nastopoulo and Raal closed out i :he sweep defeating Koth and H Ewing 4-6, 6-1, 6-3. THK WIN PUT USC's record at 3-0 on the season, while Georgia Southern suffered its first set back. They are now 6-1 on the young | acaauu. I is going to be very j ally playing awesome \ Earlier in the year, the Gamecocks defeated Presbyterian College and the College of Charleston by 8-1 and 9-0 respectively. "The guys are piaying wen so tar ana i tnink when Brain gets fully recovered from his ankle injury and we get Bob back in doubles we'll be really 'strong," Smarrsaid. MacDonald. who is Dlaving excellent tennis so far, had several observations on the new season. "I think when Bob is healed, which should be soon he'll probably be teamed with Artie," he said. "When that happens they'll have a chance to move up to number one, which would strengthen us unholiAvnhtv " WVIiV MacDonald said sitting out last year may have helped him. "I ..Jk M M ^ ^x rt^sw '"^ji- .x^ppwy' : ^ ^f^gS.|g^i!-f;>0Jr' ^aJpn.-s-.;.'; ^9H8pp^ PP^&ppfljpp^^ Jr ,-?^> m: *<&2SiP . <. AMiNif . Lady Gamecock guard Cindy i defenders near the end of Carolir night at the Coliseum. : ^SA <MSwS^MiHiHMMHMliBiBPBMMMBiMKm&^i^ViVMh^iai??^ ^^>A^^ XV<-X<:: : : : % Carolina's number-two singles action. ManDnnnlH sat nut all nf /, undefeated this season in both sir improved a lot this summer," j MacDonald said. "I got some I coaching at home, which helped i and I worked really hard on my \ game." "I DON'T WANT to say sitting out last year helped, but it ^ probably did mentally," Mac* Donald added. "After you're out for six months you get so eager to play that you can hardly wait. I'm opftinff a Int nf tfamp timp in nnH ,1 ?aw/ dribbles around State ta's 76-62 victory Tuesday m imB&Mm&SnBBBm RustOK. Pac? - GAMECOCK player Peter MacDonald in ost year with an injury and is ig/es and doubles. slaying pretty high in the lineup. I eel that I'm imnrm/ina onomi/lnti . m?o aaaa|/a VT >>>^ V Wl JVIOJT ) although I have a long way to go (ret." The tennis team will resume play Monday at 2 p.m. at the Sam Daniel Tennis Center against Penn auue. f enn State has a pretty solid team, so I think it'll be a close match." Smarr sniH 4,i fans will come out to cheer us on."