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j p>'.v::'t -j-_vy.^tT : ^-VST1^53 M:rS^r^T^S.2^--v ' <"'\ !-:x:%;:vX:: > ^ -"- --- - -:-v ]. te>:v?j?;v/f I-jV" ^""'T^'^i4"^~7^~^'r7^^''--.S^:"7>.'^S^^i:'::v.^jHlk, -" '- - ' ' " \ '^mSi :flBn|Biff I. -i-<s^? Etienne Farquharson beats a pick-off throw at first base against Winthrop. Farkie got two hits in the USC /oss and is the Gamecocks' leading hitter. Liebler takes title MO V/17IJ Of III ICO By Mark Gilliam Liebler's scintillating play made Gamecock staff Writer Tennessee sweat it out. "Steve is Steve Liebler returned to (JSC some kind of a player," Foster this week after taking the in- said. "He's been playing sendividual title at the Southeastern sational all year. But Sunday, he Intercollegiate Golf Championship got under par and stayed under, at Rolling Hills Country Club in He was relaxed and did not let up." Montgomery, Ala., this weekend. "He is extremely dedicated. I His final round srnrp nf hn?f roomed with him rirm/n th^rn mH in the tournament, paired with he got up every morning at 5:30 previous scores of 74 and 71, gave ar|d r<*n a mile. His day started at the junior a 213 total and a five- 5:30 and ended around 11 at night," stroke edge on his nearest com- Foster added. petitor. "I was real happy with my "I'VE FOUND out that I play IVlt<rm<mnn/iA I I lU-l ? T 1 ,L;-1 " pvi iui mauve. i wmil i miuw lllilt I utLlcl unci i i till. 1 II1II1K ine had the best score until I was running helps build stamina in my getting ready to putt on the last legs." Liebler said. "I try to run hole. Then I was four strokes two miles every day. We are on the ahead," Liebler said. road a lot, and sometimes we don't eat that well. Since I've started TIIK GAMECOCKS on the running, I don't get tired whole, however, did not beam as anymore bright as Liebler Sunday. Coach We a^ want to w>n a tourBobby Foster's team entered the naryient bad. But we are really final round with a two-stroke lead try^g to get a bid to the NCAA. I over Tennessee. But before all was think we 11 get it unless we just fall told, the Volunteers ended the apart, Liebler said in discussing afternoon with 295 compared to 299 team S^als. for the Cocks Carolina s second round two "We were expecting to win going under par 286 was a tournament into Sunday's action," Foster record and prompted Poster to say explained. "We were pleased |l w**f "iciiiusi impressive rouna though. There were 21 teams in the by a Carolina team in many field and we came in second." ? L'e,bl?nran^J1,oey Grj*al? Tennessee won the tournament had 71s, while Tim Baker and Dirk with 889, followed by South M.aust ra<:h. shot 72 Geor?? Carolina with 891, Florida State MacDonald shot a non-counting 73 with 901, and Clemson with 905. out ?"e . .e "J08* con" sistent rounds shot by any collegiate team this spring. Liebler earlier won the Guilford College Invitational in North fljjy Carolina and his victory in the Ha ^ Southeastern Intercollegiate q ? I fi which had a field of 21 teams -W establishes him as a serious AllwT America candidate. The j\' uamecocks second place team i "mKrJ finish also enhances USC's chances for an NCAA tournament jSBSBi participate in the Chris Schenkel j Steve Liebler 5^' at Statesb0r?'<ia" mpressive rai as U SC falls i By Michelle Burchette Gamecock Staff Writer USC's impressive number-two national ranking did not help them Wednesday night when the Winthrop Eagles came to Columbia and handed Carolina a ninth inning 2-1 loss. The lack of hitting plagued Carolina throughout the game while two key errors complicated matters even more. According to Gamecock centerfielder Robbie Vollmer Carolina's weak hitting was mainly due to Winthrop pitcher Buddy Thompson. "The first couple of innings I thought he was throwing the ball pretty hard," Vollmer said. "His pitch was coming right up across the chest. It was rising a little out of the strike zone, and swinging at those pitches." CAROLINA PITCHER Bret Baynham, who went the full nine innings for USC, agreed with Vollmer that the Gamecocks were swinging at the wrong pitches. "We weren't swinging at our pitches, we were swinging at the pitcher's pitches," Baynham said. "We didn't look like ourselves at the plate tonight." While Thompson's pitching deserves praise it almost sparked a fight in the bottom of the fourth inning. After the right hander released a pitch that hit USC's Jim Curl in the head. Curl marched toward the mound but was stopped by teammates and officials and sent to first base. "Jimmy got hit in the head," USC coach June Haines said, "and your first response is to think it's intentional because they're pitching everybody high and tight." In the sixth, Curl belted a fast ball over the left field iunce ior nis eignm nome run 01 tne season and the only Carolina score. Tied 1-1 at the top of the ninth, Winthrop's Brian Brangi drove Vollmer back to the centerfield fence for a stand up u iple. Vollmer, who lost sight of the ball when it hit the fence said he didn't expect the ball to go as far as it did. m ' i mM B^llk illH w m 1 -:^^-^x?SRSH9M8s8ll^^^lr ' - >;*:-;".:".-ij|^^B' Gamecock players Joe McCarthy (22), Ricky Lee (21) and Robbie Vollmer (2) greet i uotci urifiuu Ken Holmes, a 6-6, 195-pouncI forward from Savannah, Ga., and Gerald Peacoc, a 6-0 point guard from Raleigh, N.C., have become the first two players to be signed to grants-in-aid by new USC head basketball coach Bill Foster. Holmes, who averaged 23 points and 14 rebounds a game last season, was a four year starter at Richard Arnold High School in Savannah. Under the direction of coach Louis Jenkins, Holmes led his team to two Georgia A A championships. . . . 9 ? ? " * ? ?? * * * * * ' #. * *-* *? iking no help to Winthrop 'THE WAY THE ball had been carrying all day I didn't think it was going to go that far," he explained. 4,My first mistake was I took one step in. Then I realized it was over my head so I went back. I kept going and going; I didn't realize I was near the fence. "At the same time the ball hit the fence, I hit the fence, then I couldn't find the ball. I didn't know where it went," he added. Brangi scored the winning run for Winthrop a few pitches later on an error by Greg Jonson when teammate Tommv Naeel hit the ball too short "Greg Jonson very rarely will make an error," Baynham said. "You can usually count on him to come through in the clutch. It looked like he was expecting the ball to take a little bit of a hop because his glove was up toward his body but the ball just hit straight down." The Gamecocks threatened to score in the last of the ninth, getting two men on base, but the Eagle's rightfielder caught Vollmer's winking line drive and threw Jonson out at second before he had a chance to get back to the bag. "THAT BALL JUST kept carrying but I thought for sure it would drop," Vollmer said. "I hit it low and had no idea it would carry that far." With tho puiHpnf lnr>lr r\( hiftina Ihu hnct ncnonl r\f Tf va IX/ N/ ? IMVI a v IUVI1 VI IIIVVUI^ V1IV UVO V UOpVV.1 U1 Carolina's game was Baynham's pitching. Now 2-2 Baynham allowed only four hits. "I'm pleased with my performance but I'm disappointed we didn't win," Baynham said. "Winning and losing is the name of the game but if I were to look at it from an individual standpoint I would say I'm pleased with my pitching. It's just unfortunate that we didn't put together an offensive attack and score a few runs but those things happen." Raines felt Baynham pitches "Probably his best game of the season," adding that the left hander took control on the mound. See Gamecocks, paae 13 ^ Jim Cltirl fill nftar hie ttinh+h immnf <./ ji ( . ,|IW w>yi>ir> ni/rrrai Ul Ifltf year. rices signings PEACOCK PLAYED last season at Bevard Junior College in Cocoa Beach, Fla., and will have three years of eligibility remaining with the Gamecocks * ? i ue quicK guard averaged 4.4 points a game as a reserve at Bevard in 1979-80. The two signings bring the total number of players in thft USC basketball program to six. Guards Zam Fredrick, Derrick Scott and Kevin Dunleavy and forward Kevin Darmody return from last season's squad. ? V. V?Vt'i'i'.V////////**'.**V.V.*.*