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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
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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,"
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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
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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
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Miami series was a 10-0 win over
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went six innings collecting his
third win with Small and Bobby
Kish combining for three inningaof
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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,"
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