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Sport; USC in o\ By Oby G. Lyles Staff Writer Winning basketball games is a combination of talent, hustle, and luck as most basketball tans would agree. The young Gamecock basketball squad exhibited just the right amount of each ingredient in Wendesday night's come-from-behind 87-74 overtime win against in-state rival Furman. Chances for the Gamecock's 14th win looked bleak late in the contest as Carolina was behind 65-61 with 2:54 left in regulation and Jimmy Foster was called for his fifth foul. The Carolina bench was then jjfHrftr ly-- ~v Sha Zam Fredrick slams in t\ Fur man Wednesday nigh Tennis team i USC v 1981 USC Wom?n '* TannJs DATE OPPONENT LOi FEB. 17 GEORGIA Fab. 20 22 .. . INDIANA INVITATIONAL INDIANA MIC NOR TH CAROL IN A IO V LSU KEI WISCONSIN SO FEB. 25 CHARLESTON FEB. 28 FLORIDA b MAR. 4 TENNESSEE MAR. 8 GEORGIA MAR. IS VANDERBILT MAR 16 VIRGINIA / MAR. 19 21 SMUINVITATIONAL . TRINITY TC SMU T?) j LSU LAI N.E. LOUISIANA SO* MAR. 22 SMU / MAR. 26 29 FLORIDA U MIAMI S\ BYU S TRINITY Si APR 11 NORTH CAROLINA APR 12 DUKE A APR 17 CLEMSON APR 21 CHARLESTON MAY 69 REGIONAL TOURNA JUNE 18 NATIONAL TOURNj |^JL 'crtir accessed a technical foul for questioning the call to give the Paladians a four point lead and the ball. "It (the technical) fired us up," Carolina co-captain Zam Fredrick said. "It really got us back into the game as far as mental psych is concerned. It just gave us the final spark we needed to put together that last-ditch effort to put the game into overtime." Fredrick and Furman guard William Hanks sandwiched jumpers around a foul shot by forward George Singleton to give Furman a 68-63 lead with 2:28 left. m m 1 'y'i : -AR:? p V.: 1 : im/.;jr zam! wo of his 41 points against t. (Photo by John Parneli) ranked seventh iinmpn I 1/ s is & m ? a B i Schedule The natioi ^r/o/v r??r tennis team v Home 2:00 . . . ^ tba seasons in his :hiqan state team Feb. 17. va Coach Jefi vtuckv ranked Lady iithcarolina veteran playc home 2.00 in the nation'! tom* 10oo schedule. I "The sche( ::::::: :iS dividual wm . Home 1:00 will probably vome 11:00 "We're playii ,... Away .... t.b.a. we?j| know j (the national fzhmfhrv tins try i mmcu. mar urn CAROLINA HANKED year in a row, i way t oo seven top-20 .NIKE INVITATIONAL UCLA, Soiltt CLA Florida. outhern california KefalOS S3 tanford playing a har outhcarolina easier team away 10.00 competition. " V 10:00 "There's o Home 10:00 ., . ,,, , Away j 00 that we 11 be well," he sai mim A""v be in trouble. ament away Kefalos sai j^ilc ne FREDRICK AND forward Kevin Darmody then combined for seven points in the remainder of the half, including two foul shots off a nnp-anH-onp hv Darmodv to give the Gamecock's a 70-68 lead with 38 seconds left in the game. "Zam is always there when you need him," Jimmy Foster said. He made those clutch shots. I see Zam out there and i say 'God, I don't want to be in his shoes.' But Zam thrives on that. He loves the pressure and he o ncnfA??o U '' \/& O IV. Furman then took the ball upcourt and called timeout with 32 seconds left and forced the game into j overtime when forward Michael Hunt hit an 18-foot j baseline jumper with just 5 seconds left. Carolina controlled the tap in overtime and quickly jumped out to a three-point lead just :20 into the period when guard Gerald Peacock scored on a lay up and was fouled. The Gamecocks took command with their three ? .a ...i.:? u IgUdlU U11CU3C, WU1V.I1 enabled USC to get three easy layups by Peacock, Fredrick, and Dunleavy and put the game out of reach. "We came out there and scraped like hell in the overtime. We put a lot of pressure on them and we went to the boards and got all the rebounds," Fredrick said. THE WIN gave Carolina a 14-9 record, ensuring the Gamecocks of a winning record this season. Furman's mark droDDed to 9-12. Fur man had jumped out to a 3-0 lead one minute into the - game on a layup by guard 5 Mel Daniel. But Carolina exploded with one of their best offensive shows of the season as they raced out to a 24-7 lead with 11:04 left in the first stanza. Fur man cut the Gamecock lead to 11 at 28-17 with 7:59 left, with Hunt supplying lost Get y T artimy Kilpatrick , Stan writer j lally-ranked USC women's 1 vill start one of their toughest ?tory against a strong Georgia j f Kefalos said the seventhGamecocks, consisting of five >rs in the top six, should finish i 5 top five despite their difficult < I iule is set up so that no ingo undefeated and the team < * ? * A. 1 II 1 ! J 1 not De unaeieaiea, ne saiu. 1 ng everyone in the country so jretty much before nationals I tournament) what we'll be i } IN THE top ten for the third , the I^ady Gamecocks will play i teams, including powerhouses 1 lern California, Stanford and < id the team must adjust to der schedule instead of playing I s mixed with the tougher 1 nly one team on our schedule j able to beat if we don't play 1 d. "If we don't play well we'll I d Georgia should provide USC < f^=j^?kyj^M|^-:^^^M|n8^:>::;sS?B|^BMM^W|MMMBI|MWM|^B&o^^:;:^y:y?'^:.^--JL- -= : F ,MMy^J%j|W^r * fl&Mfk B j| , :P. ';' |?f||| Furman's George Singleton and Carolina's Br ball in USC's 87- 74 overtime win Wednesday / eight of their ten points. The three minutes to play two teams traded baskets "I just can't say before Furman outscored about the comeba Carolina 17-10 to cut the had," Carolina heac deficit at halftime to four Bill Foster said. "Th ~ ! A. - 4 nn n ? ? puiuu> ai Mi-iV*. was so mucn 111 5?pu Michael Hunt's fast break played such a gres layup gave Furman a 51-49 minutes and all of a lead with 13:17 remaining in we didn't do much i the second half as Carolina last six minutes, entered a ten minute scoring FREDRICK, THE slump. After Hunt's layup, second leading USC scored only 11 points in played 43 minut< ten minutes, setting up their contributed 41 points comeoacK Did wiin less man me uamecoc-Ks. j wgia in seaso 'itn tough competition tor the opening latch. A previously scheduled match with ? "urman was cancelled. ! "Georgia is good. They'll be tough ecause they're a very strong team," he r* ,7 rEB is FEB. 20 THE TEAM'S TOP six, decided last week *' 1 challenge matches between the eight earn members, included five who have FEB 37 layed in previous seasons. fbb 28 According to Kefalos, the experience and MAR 3 loseness in skills between the girls should * lake the positions interchangeable. MAH g mar 10 "We have eight players that can play. If Zar\1 omeone's injured or not playing well, I marts /on't hesitate to put someone else in," he mar2c aid. mar 22 mar 21 The number-one seed on the team will be MAr2s enior coiette Bennett, last tan s tirst seea. I mar 26 lennett was undefeated at number two in mar 27 ompetition last spring. Zar3c apr 3. THE NUMBER TWO SLOT will be filled apra y senior Carol Fullerton, and sophomore apr 6 lllen Oxreider will play third position. [J enior Grace Barrie is the fourth seed, while APR16 jnior Carol Henz will play the fifth position. apr ia 'reshmam Johnna Chafin, in the top six for apr20 fie first time, will be playing sixth. Susan JJJW mith and Dawn Otto will round out the mayi Jamecock squad. may h l^.?^i!r iSBjK:-':::; X&- ;::.4^rtJ?8m|S?HH^B|HPRHfl^B ad Jergenson battle for a loose light. (Photo by Barry Newman) fensive outburst equalled his enough career high as he hit on 12 of ck we 22 from the field and 17 of 19 I Coach from the foul line. ie game Center Jimmy Foster and rts. We forward Kevin Darmody it eight scored 15 and 10 points sudden respectively, to join intil the Fredrick as the only other Gamecock in double figures, nation's Guard Kevin Dunleavy scorer, continued to provide es and leadership at point guard as ; to lead he contributed seven of the rhe of- Gamecock's 15 assists. nopener 1981 USC M+n * Tmnnis Schoduto OPPONENT LOCATION TIME ANDERSON COLLEGE Worn# 2:00 COASTAL CAROLINA Hofrtm 2 OO ' THE CITADEL Away 2:00 COLLEGE Of CHARLESTON Away 1 OO LANDER COLLEGE Horn* 2:00 PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE Ho*r? 2 OO . . . MIAMI (OHK))& NOTRE DAME. . . Awmy . . TO A OHIO STA TE UNIVERSJTV . . Away T.B.A. . . . LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY Horn* . 2 OO GEORGIA SOUTHERN Horn 2 OO . . UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Awmy. . 1 OO OLD DOMINION Horn* 2 00 ? MISSISSIPPI Hottw? 2 OO PENNSTATE UNIVERSITY Horn* 2:00 ' GEORGIA TECH Away 2:15 > HOWARD UNIVERSITY Horns 2:00 '. aw ? rrcnrw imc muuia i urMVtn?t / r mw !. . . 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