Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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111 I I III Gamecock for wan 1/ :_ n i. i\ tt vm Lsarinuu y /ju&i contributed 13 and defeated Florida Stat Barrie, By Tarr s It's been a successful op women's tennis team with v The USC women's tennis singles matches and a serii Georgia 6-3 in their first ma USC relied on a comeba< Henz and Grace Barrie to Dawn Otto and Ellen Oxre add another doubles victory Conch .Jeff Kefalos sairl I of the rest of the season. "Everybody on our schec be in a position too many t after singles," he said. THK SINGLES matches \ players, but a three-set mai Chafin at the sixth spot gav doubles matches. "We were in the double awnue, ueorgia coacn (ire Number-three doubles h Sadri and Sheri Byrd 2-6, 6 < Number-two doubles ()xr< Kaplan and Nancy Cohei doubles team of Carol Fu Shephard and Lisa Spain 6-1 IN SIN(iLKS, number i Georgia s Spam 6-2, G-4, Spain running. Long rallie players won often on passi Bennett said she was pk match iri which she played "I'm glad to get the firsl me to get all the nervousm Bennett said Spain pli started plaving a lot bette she said. "She took a 4-3 1 the next two games." NUMBER-TWO seed Ca but third seed Oxreider wc Oxrifder said the first? get in tMf?swing o/ things.' Kaplan and Oxreider Southern Tournament on< against a former partner c "I really didn't know I always play a rough first s 9HK^RRMRMSMMHHBRs i Jimmy Foster goes up for a itions himself for a rebound. < 15 points respectively VVedn e 83- 70. (Photo by Chip Lowell') Renz si imv KilDatrick taff Writer ening week for the USC men and 1 ictories for both teams. < ; team survived two losses in the ous challenge in doubles to defeat tch of the season Tuesday. : :k victory by doubles-team Carol clinch a victory, and teammates I ider won a first set tiebreaker to / for the team. the Georgia match will be typical lule has a good team. I doubt we'll imes where we'll have things won vere relatively easy for four USC rathon loss by Freshman .Johnna e Georgia new life going into the >s and it looked good there for g McUanty said. Lenz and Barrie defeated Susan >, 6-1 to secure the match for USC. 3ider and Otto defeated Jamie 1 7-6, 6-2, and the number-one llerton and Chafin lost to Leigh 1,7-6. une seen v.,oieue uenneu nanuicn mixing her shot selection to keep is also typified (he match, and both ng shots. ;ased with the win at the first home I number one. [ one (match) out because it helped jss out," she said. wed better the second set "She r and was being very aggressive," ead, but I just broke back and won rol Fullerton lost to Kaplan 6-3, 6-1, >n 7-5,6-1 over Adele Reid. set was close because she had "to played doubles together in the e year, but Oxreider said playing lidn't bother her the first set. tier that well," Oxreider said. "I etand then start playing better." lacked in gn aggressivene: " -* * - ? \vith Brad each added fi The squad: IpiKiM ^^ Hffl^^Bthenextfew as USC main ^ FSU'S H( s? ?>iilk>.HH' m jumper with basket as teammate to cut into C Foster and Darmody failed on a 1 -j _ i . i ipo half with a 31 escfoy /i/flr/if as C/SC The Gam 1 intermission age come I Fifth-seed Renz also won nanany, aeieatu Renz said the third game of the second set outcome of the match. "WE HAD a lot of long rallies, but the turn second set when we had a really long game u 1," Renz said. "I won and she seemed to fidence because of it." Fourth-seed Barrie defeated Shepard 6-1 fell to Georgia's Holly Mills 6-3,6-7, 3-6 in a gi McGarity said his team made improveme against USC despite the loss. "We were coming off a 7-2 loss to Florida last Sunday," he said, "and we knew Sou going to be twice as tough. But we still lool team out here today." McGarity said Kefalos has turned the pr< USC, noting that in both coaches' first year, < USC 5-4. "Now three years later they're ; country, nesaiu. USC's next appearance will be in a tournj University Feb. 20-22. The next home mate against the College of Charleston. THE USC MEN'S tennis team easily Carolina 9-0 Wendesday, only losing twosel victory. Coach Ron Smarr said the team played absence of two top-six players from the lin beat them like that. Our concentration Imu- Mm IW.mI tit****-* n lw\ <w< V^V/llOlViV,! lllfj IIVH V>CI^I1Y Wt uvai IIICI1I, I1U9CI Second-seed Jose Neto. out with an injure should be able to play within a week. Ni Daron Roberts is playing in a national t< native Nassau. NUMBKH-ONK seed Ulf Pettersson i Carolina's Seif Fahmy 6-2. 5-7, 6-4, while Petkovic defeated Khaled Miniawi 6-2,6-4. Team captain Chuck llodgin defeated I manner mree singles /-b, 6-3. rourtn-seed easily over Joe Christi 6-2,6-2. Number-five seed Brian McDonald beat 6-2,6-0, while sixth-seed Bill Heiser defeate 1. In doubles play, Pettersson and McDona Wilson ana neroeri v-d, b-z ai number-one c Hodgins and Raal defeated Fahny and IV] at number-two doubles, while numb Petkovic and Heiser defeated Christi and K USC will be in Charleston Friday and matches against College of Charleston and iC regi ats Sei By Tracy Helms bt St*H Writer e? Gamecock basketball squad 31 icefulness was replaced witn el ss Wednesday night, and not always pretty it got the job tc ai scratched and scrambled D gh and tall Florida State team fi a sluggish start to deliver the D 70 loss. p< \ USC's second over FSU this p i the Gamecocks' season mark ftedhooes of post-season play. n ft ? -I Jick, the nation's second leading n med his sizzling scoring streak p points to pace Carolina and lift b rage to 28 points. f< DHICK, like the rest of the fj come off the blocks hot. Missed v movers dominated Carolina's ghout the opening minutes. g tging a meager four points over q rst six minutes, the Gamecocks tl Jergenson leading the way ? ler a scoring spurt. , a ninute stretch, USC converted t< t into a two-point advantage. v ssed in seven noints during the u e Kenny Holmes and Fredrick i)ur. ol 5 traded baskets and blows over p exchanges, but it was evident r< iamecocks had swiped the a Fredrick collected 12 of his 16 nts in the closing five minutes, fi tained the lead. rs o A IJ L!i _ _ Arnoiu mi a 10-iuvt g 23 second remaining in the half tl arolina's lead. The Gamecocks ast-second shot and ended the tl -29 margin. J Knocks didn't lose a beat over t< . Fredrick threw in two quick s back for determined the ing point was the : - ^ i n K 'hen we tied at llose some con- 1 , - ^ , 6-3, but Chafin ; ,1 'J? ^ rueling match. ; >%% g snts in the match State University [ ' th Carolina was WP*! i like a different agram around at ' - \ Cieorgia defeated [ at the top of the jment at Indiana g defeated Coastal Is in the lop-sided well despite the e up. "We should was pretty tfood iui. shhi defeated Coastal second-seed Zorn tester Herbert at Trevor Kaal won ild defeated Eddie loubles. Zorn Potkovi [iniawi 5-7, 6-3, 6-0 Second-seoa er-three doubles the men's to* oth 6-1,6-4. Saturday playing women The Citadel. beating Geoi roups,j minoles iskets and Foster, Peacock and Jergenson ich sank a shot, as Carolina mounted a 41 leaa auer jusi over iwo iniiiuit^ nau apsed in the second half. Kevin Darmody and Foster worked inside i allow USC to hold on to the upperhand, nd offset the shooting of Mickey Dillard. armody scored 13 of his 15 points in the nal half, while Foster accumulated 10. * illard, who led the Seminoles with 27, oints, racked up 14 points in the final m eriod. ^ W*T A ft? rs t*/xi itirl 1 A V/1 IW/IjI IX /\ O iliaiglll I1UVCICU UIUUIIU 1U oints for most of the half, with FSU J lanaging only a small rally. Dillard and Lodney Arnold traded scoring honors on a j rief spree that cut the Gamecock lead to )ur with 4:29 remaining in the contest. But Fredrick sank three shots from the ' oor and added six free throws, to end the isitor's threat. ' "This was a terrific comeback after etting off to such a slow start," USC Head toach Bill Foster said. "I'm really proud of le way we overcame adversity. "We got a lot off our bench, and that llowed our starters to get things back :>gether," Foster continued. "Florida State /as really a tough team to play. I wouldn't /ant to play them again tomorrow." FOSTER ADDED that the game "was one f our best rebounding efforts." Jergenson aced USC on the boards by pulling down 11 ebounds. Darmody and Jimmy Foster dded 10 and eight rebounds, respectively. ^ "Every game is important now," said the rst-year coach, concerning chances for an IIT bid. "I felt before that if we won two of ur last three games we would get a very ood consideration, and if we won all three hat would get us in." "I think all the guys knew we had to win his game to get an NIT bid," reflected ergenson. "We knew the guys up front had o play a good game, and we did. They had ome big timber. i Carolina -^ -"-.yj vw >.S .-... ' BR^s?'v- ^,;,^i' " ' V^r 1m BK ^x TIimMS .'.-"w" :^o?ss-.-. , ^BHHH^^^^^hHkSB c follows through on a backhand shot, f Petkovie won his match Wednesday as 9m defeated Coastal Carolina 9-0. r also won their match on Tuesday, rgia 6-3. (Photo by John Parnell)