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Isports Rogers jusc wl By Mike Chibbaro i| Sports Editor I Midway through the first ; !?alf of Saturday night's USC>. pacific football game, 56,211 ' fans appeared to have been i'lulled to sleep by a rather [.Sheventful first quarter of football. Then, with all of the Abruptness of an Army ' >ugler blowing taps at the jj| irack of dawn, USC's jjjjj George Rogers woke p& iverybodyup. "Big George" f-9 dectrified the sellout crowd >y breaking loose for a 44rard touchdown run with 1 ,1:07 to play in the half. It V vas one of two explosive uns made in the game by | he bonafide Heisman )N Trophy candidate. i These ruas along with .< iaima pfit^rfvr /Inf Anniit/\ euHic auuf$y uciciiaivc jJiay ^cowered the Gamecocks to l^lheir first win of the 1980 Reason, a 37-0 romp over Hfracific. || DESPITE THE VIC^ TORY, USC head coach Jim j&i Carien was not overly {pleased with his team's play. i aian t tninx we played jP'real well," Carlen said. "We JJvere pleased with the win, FjBut we turned the ball over jfffjtoo often. With our mature Offense, that worries me." h } riugers, who rusnea ior iw Towards on 13 carries, while ^ playing only about a half, f (unleashed another specM tacular run in the opening jk minutes of the second half. It JLwas the kind of run that 'W brought one thing into everybody's mind: Heisman ^ Trophy. On second down and I two yards to go on the USC 28-yard line, Rogers took a handoff from quarterback Garry Harper and headed toward the right side of the Fuchs, Mousa Socc 31 wakes c hirvc Par line. r The USC offensive line had a opened up a huge hole, and \[ that was all she wrote. The 62 220-pound Rogers spotted C( the opening and utilized his t) 4.45 speed to outleg all of his q mirsners enronte to an ex r- ? c citing 72-yard touchdown run. c THE ALWAYS MODEST jj! Rogers was perhaps a little b to humble in describing the c 72-yard jaunt. A "The offensive line did a great job. Ben Cornett threw p a good block on the long run. f< Johnnie Wright did a super ? job blocking," Rogers said. s "It was just good blocking n that made that run 0 possible." o Rogers' second TD run n gave the Gamecocks a c commanding 23-0 lead with M 14:13 to play in the third ^ quarter. The USC offense rolled up an impressive 418 yards on s offense, while the Gamecock v ijafnnoo nn> nn1.> oK..t thn 7 u^i^iiou uuv uiujr ouuv uiu p Tigers out, but also held s them to a minus 39 yards i rushing. 0 "I think our defense fj responded well tonight," Carlen noted. "I think i Pacific was well prepared, f( but we physically wore them out." d SPARKING THE ? GAMECOCK defensive n surge was reserve defensive j, Unl C O * ciiu, nai ncuuciouu. inc o-xi v, 220-pound Charleston native ^ almost single-handedly halted a pair of Tiger scoring j drives. c In the closing seconds of i the third quarter, Henderson t ended Pacific's most serious r scoring threat by dumping j Tiger quarterback Grayson ( w lead balanced er team < ^llt ^ flf ! wfsy. V.--^::" > '. v '' :-:-.-:v.'. :JS^8 HHi TttmI rom dribbles by a Western C neks won the contest 11-0. rowd; ft II1C Logers for a seven-yard loss t the Carolina eleven-yard ne. USC's initial touchdown ame with 2:35 remaining in le first quarter, when rarry Harper dove into the ndzone from a yard out. Harper scored again in the losing minutes of the third uarter on a two-yard eeper. The score was set up y a pair of twenty-yard pass ompletions from Harper to II... O 141 dimci nuiacc omiui. Harper, however, was not leased with the perjrmance of the USC offense. Our passing game really tunk," Harper said. "The lost disappointing thing is ur fumbles. We have a good ffensive ballclub, but we ecu tu worn. oil our conentration. We can't do what te did tonight and expect to eat other teams." use ADDED ITS final core of the game on an 84ard run by reserve running ack Carl West with :29 econd to go. Eddie <eopard's fifth extra-point f the night provided the inal 37-0 margin. Pacific head coach Bob 'oledo expressed his eelings on the rout. "I'm lisappointed, but not Liscouraged," Toledo said. 'The weather and big crowd nade our young team a little lervous, but the game really ust came down to people. k>uth Carolina wore us lown." Toledo nraisprf I ISP's logers. "George Rogers has ertainly got to be one of the op three or four players in he country," Toledo emarked. "He has size like licky Bell (former Southern 2al running back) but looks [ attack destro\ Carolina player in Satur(Photo by Dan Langen j'!r^^-yA3:^xi?-^'^SH^4,.m % aJ'/'" -ffi * c . Jgt; jBT ' Heisman Trophy candidal 1 USC's 37-0 win over Pad to be faster." THE GAMECOCKS COMPLETED their preseason practices this year without incurring any serious injuries to any starting players. But Saturday night's contest, the Gamecocks were plagued by a rash of injuries. On the first play of the /d v^aLai By Richard Meyer Assistant Sports Ed After losing his top tftqp p* from last year's "team,* Ca fcoach Mark Berson admitted ?have to rely on a more bal attack this season for his sq cessful. Berson got his wist nine players scored in an 11-0 Western Carolina Catamc Gamecock's season opener. "The thing that pleases me i game is it was a complete U us," Berson said. "We had go midfield and adequate play rru.t. l-i u i 1 nut i cuuiu iwvc ueeu expi wasn't." THE BACK LINE could h day off and probably not hav because the Gamecock dominated the action througl USC goalies Glen Thomps miedeke, and Gary Durkin w< make only three saves the wh Sophomore Art Kramer s< goal of the year for the t Catamount trnalie Jim Ralr right side with 29:51 remain half. Boo Westin headed in minutes later to give the Ga lead. Three minutes later, junior Nitardy beat Baldwin from Ui another USC goal. It was Nita in three seasons as a Gameeo* Senior strike Eddie Fuchs < game, but came in mid-wa period to score goals number Fuchs sat out the 1979 season a thigh injury, but he's hopn his 1978 form in which he total "Eddie is a goal scorer,' "That's the thing he does Ilk spirational player. I think Ec provide us a spark in the ballf 'Si . \,> 's ^ | ' . j I ', ' mi# *9 I 0 ?Jj 1 IjViJ jflG *?. *- j| .. - x *+* ,.j| -: K?gfl|. .. gf* * ' V" ? . . J. _ . .. - . :j% to George Rogers breaks U fic Saturday night. (Photo t game, linebacker J. D. Fuller dislocated his elbow and will be out of action for at least two weeks. Tight end Willie Scott suffered a hyperextended elbow in the first quarter, but returned later in the game. Defensive end Phil Ellis sprained an ankle and will be out of action for at least two weeks. Karey Johnson, also mounts * "He's not th go for the full i >int producers for a spark. It (folina soccer the game, it r I that he would game. If he h anced scoring can come in at uad to be sue- Mike Morn . I??i 1 : i cwiuiuay ?a luiuctieu in a r romp over the USC advantag ?unts in the THE CATA nost about the from the 92 de; jam effort for took advantag od play in the in the second s in the back, shots on goal loited, but it Catamounts 1 auring uie lasi lave taken the Mousaw res e been missed the Gamecocl midfielders goal of the j lout the game. Murphy made on, Joel Sch- junior Victor 1 ere required to the beleaguen ole afternoon. Sophomore :ored the first forward Tom earn. He beat goalsofthega Iwin from the "I was very - -v* ing in me tirsi "? w? iusi ye i a goal three assessed. "W< mecocks a 2-0 over the field that are leade defender John dedicated to i le right side for our style.'' rdy's first goal ck. The(Jatam< ?*4 A A- A n ? /v^/v i aion i sian me v-z in iskju. y through the Western Caro four and five, them by sur{ after suffering dicative of wh rig to return to Thursday led 23 points. Gamecocks < ' Berson said. The game 'St. lie's an in- "Graveyard" idie is going to field located jame. streets. lose for some yardage in > y John Parnell) a defensive ena, suiierea strained ligaments in his knee and will be out for three to four weeks. Back-up fullback Jeff Kendziorski obtained the most serious injury of the game for the Gamecocks when he suffered a severe hamstring pull. He will be out for six weeks. 11-0 r kind of nlnv#*r that's (miner tn ninety minutes. So we use him : might be at the beginning of night be at a low point of the appens to be on the bench, he id give us a lift." saw, a junior midfielder, ebound off of Baldwin for a 6-0 ;e to end the first half scoring. MOUNTS SEEMED drained gree heat, and the Gamecocks ;e of that by scoring five goals itanza. South Carolina fired 21 in the final half, while the ailed to register any shots : 45 minutes of play. turned the scoring parade for cs when he tallied his second game with 23:23 left. John ?it 8-0 five minutes later and Wikstrom headed in a shot by Rnlriwin for annthpr scnro midfielder Larry Corite and Reilly scored the last two me. pleased with the performance ar players out there," Berson ; are about 50 percent new all i. we ve goi sopnomores now rs. We've got players that are i team oriented game. That's Hints, 6-9 last year, dropped to The heat definitely affected lina," Berson said. "It caught >rise. I don't think this is inat they can do." afternoon at 4 p.m., the will meet USC-Spartanburg, will be played at the , the South Carolina soccer at Heyward and Sumter