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By Richard Meyers
Sports Editor
Carolina's baseball team opened a seven
game home stand Thursday afternoon in.
^winning fashion, taking a 13-8 victory over
*the Howard Bisons.
The Gamecocks upped their season
record to 7-3, while the Bisons fell to 0-3.
Carolina trailed 2-0 after one half inning of
play, but came back to take a 3-2 lead in the
bottom of the first, scoring two runs on a
Jim Curl homer.
HOWARD LEAD by scores of 5-2 and 6-4
through the early goings, but couldn't hold
them
USC totaled 13 runs on 12 hits and committed
three errors. Howard scored their
eight runs on 13 hits while tallying three
errors.
Senior pitcher Eddie Leopard picked up
the win in the three hour, 15-minute contest.
Leopard relieved starting pitcher Mark
Calvert in the second inning after Calvert
gave up seven runs, although he was only
charged with one earned run.
Howard pitcher Tommie Ambrose went
the distance for the Bisons, throwing 170
pitches in eight innings, while giving up 13
runt?
A 14 AIO .
Second baseman Jamey Thaw and third
baseman Rod Carraway added home runs
for the Gamecocks, who won their third
game in a row.
Empire c
By Jim Corbett
Staff Writer
The Empire used a tight zone defense to
Alpha Psi 52-45 Tuesday night to capture
tramural Basketball crown.
The Empire used a tenacious 1-2-2 zone c
Kappa Alpha Psi star Reggie Noble to just 17 p
the Kappa's out of their usually effective offen
f "The 1-2-2 took them completely out of
Empire coach and former Lady Gamecock pla
said. "The 1-2-2 allowed us to double team ther
Mason said the Empire expected Noble to c(
and elected to concentrate on restricting t
Kappa's on offense. "We decided to let him (N
points, but make him work for it," Maso
pointed out that Noble got most of his points in
6-3 swingman's quickness was less effective.
1 FORWARD Rirn Willinmc nf tho TTmniro
was a key factor in the game. "I think our ovi
i the telling factor," the 6'3" senior who scor
'' said. k4I know our bench helped out."
Help came in the form of guard Tyrone Ch<
- off the bench to spark the Empire with 11 sec<
iChavis' total matched the output of forward IV
who collected all of his 11 points in the first h;
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CAROLINA SET several school offensive
marks in their 24-2 victory over the Flying
Feet of Erskine Wednesday afternoon.
The Gamecocks collected 25 base hits,
smashing the old USC mark by four, and
scored in every inning except the seventh.
Carolina tied a national record with ten
doubles in one game, including three by
Thaw, which tied a team record.
Senior left-hander Bret Baynham picked
up his second win of the season in as many
decisions, allowing seven hits, striking out
six and allowing two runs.
Southpaw Martin Small relieved
Baynham in the seventh, allowing five hits
and no runs in three innings on the mound to
qualify for his first save of the season.
THE GAMECOCKS sent 12 batters to the
plate in the top of the first inning, scoring
nine times. Ten of those batters reached
consecutively to set another team record.
The Gamecocks scored twice in the
second, three times in the third, twice in the
fourth, three times in the fifth, once in the
sixth, three times in the eighth, and added a
Jone tally in the ninth.
Curl had four hits in seven at-bats, scoring
three runs and knocking in two. Designated
hitter Paul Hollins had four hits in as many
at-bats, driving in five runs while tallying
two.
Tom Williams was three for four with
three RBI, while left fielder Joe McCarthy
drove in four runs, including his first home
run of the season.
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Empire to a 27 to 19 lead at the
"A lot of people didn't kno^
defeat Kappa team," Williams, the Empire
the Men's In- said. "It wasn't one person wh
was the whole team, and thai
lefense to hold pionshipgame)."
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se. cautiously. Dawkins took ch
the offense," early, scoring their first seven
iyer Pat Mason 3 advantage and a lead they ne
a more." Noble scored his first baskc
)llect his points game but was not a serious tl
he rest of the The Empire with 13 points, h
oble) get his 20 seconds remaining in the he
n said. Mason biggest first half lead.
side, where the
THE EMPIRE tried to pick
and seemed ready to break
said that depth Alpha Psi did not quit, althoug
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ed eight points in the game.
Two three-point field goals I
wis, who came and one by Noble in the fina
und-half points, seven points. But that was as c
lilton Dawkins, Mason said teamwork was i
alf, striking the "Everybody was working toge
m Rita's f
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It was I>ady Gamecock guc
Johnson's 22nd birthday Tues
what a birthday present she r
- as she and her seven tea
! defeated the Lady Tigers a
.' - 1 son's Littlejohn Coliseum for
|| | time ever.
Johnson scored a gamev'
H points, her personal best as a (
player, to lead the Lady Gar
ISpgpto an 81-f>4 victory over Clems*
first round of the Region
~ nament Tuesday night.
"This is the greatest victor
career," USC Head Basketba
L IKmP Jj^H Pain Parsons said. "We'v
taken out of the top 20 and hav
jHBjsj many things occur and th
# bounce back. It's beer
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IP point Carolina win, the
Gamecocks did not find the cc
of her 28 be easy.
ne againest I ISC JUMPKI). out to an ;
ir high per- before Clemson first scored wi
s the Lady remaining in the first half. H
, six minutes later the I>ady
to advance stepped ahead 16-15 off an ei?
Id Dominion scoring spree by Clemson
Barbara Kennedy.
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yesterday's 13-8 Carolina victory. (Phi
intramun
intermission. The Empire fa
n that overall we had a good championship, ir
:'s top scorer during the year team overcame t
to carried us to the playoffs, it felt The Empire
I really showed (in the cham- season started.
"I knew we hac
Upha Psi started the game "It seemed like 1
arge of The Empire offense that's a very imp
points to give The Empire a 7- WILLIAMS CF
ver relinquished. . . .. coach at mid-sea
almost ten minutes into the accepted the jol
ireat. LaVerne Keels, who led coachine " Williit
a 15-foot jump shot with 15 down nea'r the en*
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... w v.^.. Mason said sh
during their que
. .. ,, .. confidence, and I
up the pace in the second half, Mason said a r,
the game wide open. Kappa th fi t hi t h
h the Empire's lead didn't drop ^ "h" D"ay
il less than a minute remained jan overtime wii
pointer to knot tl
by point guard Stanley Nelson, would go all the v
1 two minutes, cut the gap to Williams, who
lose as the Kappa's came. Kenny Cooper, v
in important factor in the win. gave the consen
ither, playing team ball." championship. "]
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The Lady Gamecocks managed to
regain the lead and went on to a 38-30
ird Rita halftime advantage.
day and Although Carolina never fell behind
eceived in the second half, Clemson tied the
mmates score at 44 with 14:34 remaining in the
t Clem- game. From the bench Parsons kept
the first telling her team to slow down and
keep control
high 28 In past Clemson-Carolina matchCarolina
ups in Littlejohn, the Lady
necocks Gamecocks have lost games after
an in the leading in the second half, due to
II tour- defensive mistakes.
IN ORDER TO prevent history
y of my from repeating itself, Parsons said
u uoacn she specifically asked to have
e been Clemson's goal be at the end of the
e had so court nearest the USC bench in the
ey still second half so she could coach her
i very squad defensively.
"I was able to talk to them defensts
a 17- sively," she said. "That was very
I^ady important. We dipped into the cellar a
mtest to little bit and came right back. You
have to continually be able to score
B-0 lead when they score."
ith 17:28 The strength of the Lady
owever, Gamecocks came from Johnson, who
ligers scored most of her 16 second-half
;ht-point points on the fast break off steals by
forward guar(i Sharon Hi vers and herself.
Carolina also relied heavily on All
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)to by Chip Lowell)
il crown
ced serious challenges on their way to the
iciuaing a iacK 01 neignt. Williams said his
hat obstacle with hustle, and added that he
had a shot at the championship when the
1 a good nucleus of a team," Williams said.
we peaked near the end of the season, and
ortant thing to do."
tEDITED Mason, who became the team's
son, with The Empire's success.4'She really
) and I think she did a very good job of !
ims commented. "That definitely helped us i
d."
e and the team were mutually supportive
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'W> ?/? vnv vnullipiuuoill^. 1 HCJ* gave IIIC
tried to give them confidence."
egular season win over LaMachine gave her
team could go all the way, and that feeling
offs progressed. "After the Spartans game
1 in which Williams hit a desperation threele
score at the end of regulation) I knew we
/ay."
along with La Verne Keels, Willie Spry and
yere members of Maxcy's squad last year,
sus feeling of the Empire on winning the
[ love it, I love it."
ger defeat
American forward Sheila Foster.
Aside from scoring 14 points, Foster
tallied a game-high 22 rebounds to
help USC dominate the boards.
PARSONS ATTRIBUTED the win
to teamwork and several strategical
manuevers on the part of the Lady
Gamecocks. "We made several adjustments,"
she said. "The adjustments
were made before the
ballgame -- things we did not do
beforehand."
Clemson Head Coach Anne Tribble
said her team played a bad game and
could not stop Johnson.
"One of the keys to their game was
Rita," she said. "We just couldn't
seem to control her. We did a fair job
on Sheila (Foster) and for once we did
a fair job containing Evelyn (Johnson),
but Rita was a different story ."
Tribble also noted th Lady Tiger
lviary Anne uuDenc aia noi piay as
well as she usually does against
Carolina.
SI IK SAII) the USC zone flustered
her team. "Their zone bothered us,"
Tribble said. "We just didn't attack it.
We couldn't seem to get five people
working together as av unit. They
simply outplayed us."