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GAM Men fiofffl u m V m su m m MP By TRACY HELMS Sports Editor The USC men's golf team carded an 871 total over Hampton Country Club's par-72 layout to capture this past weekend's State Intercollegiate Golf Tournament and conclude a productive fall season. The Gamecocks held off a final-round Clemson rally to edge the Tigers by two strokes and record their third win in the season's six tournaments. USC had earlier won the Yale Invitational and the Buckeye Fall Classic tourneys. Clemson's Dillard Pruitt defeated Joe Dobson of Coastal in a sudden-death playoff to claim the individual title. Both players finished regulation play with six-under-par 210 totals. USC's Clay Uselton fired 213 to place third in the individual race, while teammate George MacDonald finished fourth with 216. David Tolley shot 222 to tie for 10th place, giving Carolina three top 10 finishers. In what Head Golf Coach Bobby Foster termed a strong finish, the Gamecocks earned a fifth-place finish in the Andy BeanGreenleaf Intercollegiate tournament Oct. Jimmy F Suspensioi From Staff Reports Through a n Sophomore center issued by the 1 ><v>>vi.. : r >: t-v Iuiuiiuy i umci b suspeiciioii iuriiiauuii u from the USC basketball Foster said "w ; team has ben extended working with until at least Jan. 1 ac- he has n cording to Coach Bill satisfactory p Foster. are going to gi i Foster was suspended Jan. 1 to straij i until Nov. 1 on Sept. 22 to personal affaii ? "give him time to work out can work thinj his personal affairs," with us after tl laccording to Coach Foster. year." F ~ t YV; ^zr''1 yi -1: HHF : IH^HHUBr"' ,'>^Nfci^>^ ::::::::^x^%?WaHB^fl^HB|ttQgB^&^-?&adK5^R::^MBfc^^Bj . ' .;; > " Jfe : _ r^;-; - ' : -V~\zr ," f * __Z.:~1 ZlrL- * 1"_" i Ifffrfr,-, | ;T _ j_- -_ r \ ~T~i?r-'-nJ~jL~7~ Jimmy Foster shows his hustle i ecoc: rs Cone fud 25. Uselton led invidivual Gamecock scorers with a 221 tally that earned a fourth-place finish. Sepp's 223 placed ninth, while Fred Wadsworth finished 16th. The play of Uselton and SeDD during thp all season resulted in much praise from Poster. "Clay has been an outstanding player and *eally had a great fall season," the coach >aid. "He's played J rounds with only four iouble bogeys and that is a remarkable ichievepient. "Rick Sepp also had a great fall," Foster continued. "He's counted for 11 straight ounds for us. We're really, really proud of lick." Foster said the successful fall campaign ihould boost the team psychologically as hey prepare for the spring season. "The team really has a good attitude," he aid. "This is the best fall we've ever had, >ut there is still room for improvement. "We won three of six tournaments so we know we can compete strongly." Foster said the squad would practice continuously until the spring season, which begins in early March, and added that osier s i Extended jws release The Greenville, S.C. Sports In- native was the nation's jpartment, 20th-leading rebounder last s have been year and was also the Jimmy and Gamecock's leading 3t made returning scorer, ogress. We averaging 14.2 points per iit* him until hohia nn/1 11 n . ? ...... u?v.. game aiiu n.u icuwunus hten out his per game last season. The s. I hope he 6-8 Foster has not pars out and be ticipated in team workouts, e first of the which began on Oct. 15 and see NASTOPOLOUS page 9 WW Wr ? g 7^0** /Jfcm' > " '- Vv---" luring last year's action^^^^^^^w^hoIcT K gSP? a m re successri MacDonald will undoubtedly provide c valuable leadership during the period. F "George is pretty much the cheerleader of v the team and a very hard worker," Foster noted. "He leads by example. Some guys ^ build excuses to fall back on, but Mac- . Donald is a good leader and a great competitor because he absolutely refuses to make excuses. And that's what you need to i win." ] Former Gamecock golfer Steve Liebler , compounded the USC golf program's suc? ess over the weekend when he earned his PGA tour card in Hunstville, Ala. ? Liebler, who graduated from Carolina last May, fired a four-day 287 total to tie for fifth f place in the qualifying event that included f over 200 entries. t "He beat numerous players who had c bigger college reputations," commented Foster. "His game has really come around, and he's a habitual worker. j "His confidence is strong, but he doesn't 1 have any illusions of grandeur," Foster ( added, "so everything should fall in place t for Steve." t Another bright moment in USC golf oc- \ Lewis, Wade S| To 28-19 Win C By MIKE LOUGH SUH Writer Quinton Lewis rushed for 198 yards and one touchdown to lead the USC Junior Varsity football team to a 28-19 win over visiting Georgia. Freshman split end Chris Wade, an Athens, Ga. native, caught two touchdown 1 passes from Bill Bradshaw, who hit on four of eight passes for 74 yards in limited action. Bradshaw hit Wade with a 56-yard I touchdown pass with 12:36 left in the first | half and Lewis increased the lead to 14-0 with a 36-yard ramble early in the second quarter. Rich Ingold scored from two yards out on the next possession to give the Gamecocks a 21-0 midway through the second quarter. Georgia finally got on the board just | Women's Te I T! F 4f% s lies rur inn in By BUDDY HORRES Staff Writer The USC women's tennis team, behind the hard strokes of Susan Smith, finished in a tie for second place with the University of Miami Sundav in the annual fiifh^rinn (Sample Memorial Tournament in Miami, Fla. Smith had an outstanding tournament for USC, capturing the third flight division of I the three-day tournament. Six of last season's top 10 teams were competing in the tourney. imgg * if Season u . '* 1 *!%?. iir/\nlrnti/4 iiflmn \ft llrn UiltXl UIC picviuuo wixi\uiu vtii^ai mine lolland, also a Gamecock golf graduate, yon ? along with partner Vance Heaffner ? the $400,000 National Team Cham>ionship. The duo fired a 60-62-61-63?246 otal to post a five-shot win. The win came at a crucial time for tiolland, Foster said. "He was feeling kind )f bad for missing the cuts in several of his last tournaments," Holland's former coach explained. "The win really picked him ud." ^ And similar success should also lift USC's ;ol! program. "Hopefully, this will build a little tradition or us," Foster said. "Having former )layers making names for themselves on he tour helps recruiting as well as the guys >n the team. "The team realizes that it isn't an insurmountable goal to make it on the tour," le continued. "It also makes me realize that here are several players on the team now hat are as capable as Steve of making the | our. Uselton and Sepp are both ahead of " vhere Steve was as a sophomore. park Jayvees )ver Georgia ,, before halftime. Tommy Lewis threw a 23yard strike to Charles Junior for a touchdown to cut the Bulldogs' deficit to 21-7 at halftime. Georgia got things going first in the second half as Matt Clar bulled in from three yards out. David Palmer hauled in a ^ 16-yard pass from John Dewberry to close V out the Bulldogs' scoring. Wade's second touchdown reception, a 41yarder, ended the comeback hopes of the visitors. The Gamecocks played three freshmen quarterbacks. Ingold hit on four of five tor 83 yards, and Jim Desmond was four for seven for 46 yards. I The season-ending game gave the Gamecocks a 4-0 record, their third straight undefeated season. ifiiis Team i Tournament Trinity was the overall winner with a three day total of 27 points. (JSC and UM tied for second with a tally of 17 pts., while Rollins finished fourth with 13. "All the girls played well," Coach Jeff Kefalos said. "It was the first time in this tournament that all the girls reached the quarter-finals. I was very pleased." The I>ady Gamecocks will be traveling to l Baton Kouge, La. this weekend to compete against host LSU, Rollins and Florida State. "If we win these last three matches we should be ranked in the top 10 in the spring," Kefalos concluded.