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Womer By Tammy Kilpatrick Gamecock Staff Writer Rain dampened part of the Florida spring trip for USC's women's tennis team, but they overcame three cancellations and defeated three opponents to remain unbeaten on the season with a 15-0 record. Ninth-ranked USC defeated Texas Permian Basin 7-2 and South Florida 9-0 between the cancelled matches, but the big victory of the trip came against sixth-ranked Rollins. USC won 5-4 in a tense match decided in a tiebreaker in the last doubles match. USC coach Jeff Kefalos said the Rollins victory was the best win for the team since he became coach. "They (Rollins) have a very good tradition as far as tennis. That's the first time we've ever beat a team ranked ahead of us," he said. USC led 4-2 after singles matches against Rollins, but dropped 1 number-one and number-three doubles decisions before the number-two doubles team of Missy Malool and Susan Smith won a 7-4 tiphroolror in tho (hirH eof fwtor * ?/ ># v? ov* vtv* Nancy Nevaiser and Kim Allen. Smith and Malool fought back from a 5-1 deficit in the second set to win 3-6,7-5,7-6. 4AT 5-1 IN the second set, Susan turned to me and said, 'Let's just try to win a couple of games," Gamecocks I earn split from page 15 Fielding gems by third baseman Rod Carraway and shortstop Jonson sealed Miami's fate. The one play that symbolized the turn of events in the series came in the third game when Gamecock catcher Rob Lowery picked a. runner off third base, with the bases loaded, two outs and a count of three balls and no strikes on the hitter. Before the Gamecocks left for Florida they played a double , header against Ohio' State in preparauuii ior me ivnami series. The opening game featured a strong three hit pitching performance by Bill Landrum. It was a pitcher's duel all the way as the opener, scheduled for seven innings, was forced into extra innings. Landrum struck out eight on the day, but needed a fine running catch by Boatwright in left field to prevent two runs from scoring in the very first inning. Landrum settled down after the first and 1-- A. *- - " * iticcu uiuy iwo oaners over me minimum the rest of the way, but the Gamecock hitters were faring no better. THE WINNING run crossed the plate in the bottom of the ninth with one man out when Len Tarantino, who was sent in as a courtesy runner, came across the plate on a walk to Jonson with the bases loaded. The winning run was set up with walks to Curl and Lowery and a single by xBoatwright. The Gamecocks banged out 11 hits in the night cap and got good pitching from freshman starter Joe Kucharski who went four in' nings and gave up only one hit in s. , raising his record to 2-0. Freshmen Mark Calvert and Ross Bledsoe each worked an inning apiece with ;Don Gordon, working the final winning. -fi} ' The final tune up before the Miami series was a 10-0 win over PAV1A??/V r\AMM10 I *. V/Uiicgc. uuiiiuo JUUIA:! I went six innings collecting his third win with Small and Bobby Kish combining for three inningaof hitless ball. The Gamecocks | pounded 12 hits to three for Baptist/ Boatwright led the way with three hits and Carraway and Paul Hbllins added two apiece. Mc v Carthy, Carraway and Vollmer had: two RBI's each as USC exploded for four runs in the second and six runs in the fourth. ' . vOut. v \v* ' </' ? ' < " ' v/ ' v&fe a > ?'.' 5 sdVi i still und Ma loo 1 said, "and we just went on from there. We relaxed at that point because we thought we didn't have a chance." Behind 4-1 in the tiebreaker, Malool said thev still thought thev could win at that point. "Tiebrekers are funny. They can go either way real fast. We iust played a lot tougher than tney did," she said. Kefalos said although the Rollins win was a great victory, the team was disapppointed when rain forced a cancellation of the match with highly-ranked Florida. The two teams may meet later in the season if rescheduling is possible. "That will be a big match. Florida was the only team we really had any doubt about," he said. Matches with Miami and Florida State were also cancelled. Second-seed Colette Bennett and sixth-seed Grace Barrie remained 1 - A 1 + ~ unaeieaiea ior uie season un me trip. Bennett defeated Texas Permian Basin's Dianne Cobbs 6-2, 6-0, South Florida's Lee Myers 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 and Rollin's Kelly Kruk 7-6, 6-3. BENNETT SAID her undefeated streak is an incentive to continue winning. "I don't want to let it get to me too much, but it's a nice feeling,'' she said. The win against Kruk of Rollins T110 is proud DT dlkl 1 fiSBBBHHBHMHHff FEATURING POPULAR Of , DRIVEN l\ > / ME BEIN' fa*, */4 SO EXCIT MARY'S E RICH WO mmmmmmmmrnmmmmmmmmm* r i ? *** > ... ?/? , v* vy > ^ efeated was her best win, according to Bennett. "I was down 5-2 in the first set against Kelly Kruk, so that was definitely my best win and I really felt good about that," she said. Barrie, who has not lost a set all year, defeated Texas Permian Basin s Kainy Lindburg 6-1, 6-0 and handled South Florida's Bertha Rasser 6-0, 6-1. Barrie also defeated Lisa Smart of Rollins 6-2, 6-0. Barrie felt the best match of the trip was against Rollins. "We were sort of disappointed we got rained out for three of our matches. It's hard when you get psyched up and then it rains," she ? :j <in..? i?n/vli:?. ...i^ saiu. DUl LWHiuig xwjiuw inauc up for everything.'' Being undefeated helps the team, according to Barrie, because she is usually the first one off the court to give the team a psychological boost. "It's a boost to the other girls if they see one person already off the court so I can cheer them on," she said. THE MATCH against Texas Permian Basin was the first match after rain forced two cancellations. USC won all six singles matches over I9th-ranked Texas before losing two doubles matches. "They were a good team," Sm Women pg 18 Gold i to present S^^sbIIHEEHB AW ^SB^ igEg EIR Wil^g ^IGINALS: ^Hhr s^*/?'4)?Nsv |W Stop ^XiaU the Draft - vote uaertaxiasi "The draft is slavery. It is involuntary servitude. It has no place in American society. Registration is a major step toward the Vietnam-era treatment of American youth as cannon fodder." Ed Clark, Libertarian Candidate for President On February 3.1980, the Libertarian National Committee unanimously approved the following resolution: Whereas the Libertarian Party has a long-standing opposition to registration and odnscription. as stated in its national platform, and Whareas registration for the draft is nothing more than a prelude to military conscription, and wn?raif conscription is slavery and pom tne greatest threat to the survival ot a frae odely in this decade. Thtntorm Bo It Jteeofved that the Libertarian National Committee oppoaes any form of compulsory registration or the draft, and Be It Further Resolved that we further endorse civil disobedience as an appropriate moral and practical means of resisting mandatory registration and the draft. CLARK PRESIDENT Paid for by the South Carolina Clark (or Fmtdant Committee PO Box 50115. Columbia. S C. 29250. Bob Budnek. Chairman mm spur ? 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