Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I ^ 55*5i515i*5ii555i555*SliS Four N< BY MIKE LOUGH ; Intramural Sports Editor J If you were at the USC- ' 4T Georgia Southern wnmpn's basketball game Monday night, you probably noticed f our new faces and names on the Lady Gamecocks squad. Three of the new players ? Candi Rawl, Pat Dufficy j and Liz Holland ? joined the . team last Thursday at Coach i Terry Kelly's open tryouts. < A fourth ? Cindi Rawl ? I joined the team Saturday i morning by long distance 11.. ?11?i i r B vivc ii y cctucu tier irom < Georgia). Candi Rawl is a sophomore while the other three are juniors. Two of the four ? Dufficy and Cindi Rawl ? have suited up for the^d^iamecocksbefor^ 51Pat Dufficy Pat Dufficy is a 5-10 junior Phys Ed major from Turn [bull, uonn. Mie was a member of the Pam Parsons-coach Ladv Gamecocks I ID/Ol On your G / rs i I. gp, - - See your Jostens' I)ATK February 1.2.3 place University Book I# ewcome as a freshman and a tl sophomore. This year, w however, she switched a sports "I wanted to play soft- ^ ball," Dufficy says. "It's my p favorite sport. Since I got a softball scholarship, I went ahead and played." 1 As a freshman, Dufficy i played in 24 games and c averaged three points and ? two rebounds per game. As a sophomore, she scored about i 4.0 points and hauled in 2.7 rebounds per game. e "I was a '30-point player'" . t she laughs. "I played when i we were winning by 30 or \ losing by 30. Duffirv admits that without basketball to worry about this past fall, she fell a little bit out of shape. "The first months of 1 school, I didn't do much I because I didn't have I basketball to start with and softball didn't start until January. Now, I gotta' get my tail in shape quick. < Although she' has been \ jack on the team only for i only six days, she is a < veteran. "It feels real good to be back," she smiles. "I'm 100 percent behind these girls. i Why did Dufficv. who bats i cleanup on Terri Drake's softball team, come out for < basketball? "They were down to six players and they needed help and somebody suggested Jreb&te allege Ring gl Representative. store iiLi *. mm, ^ j rs Will H lat I go out. I talked about it bio 'ith both coaches (Drake edu< nd Kelly) and here lam. gra< Dufficy does notice a did ifference in playing under And [elly than playing under girl, 'arsons. too 1 D <4I likf* Pnnnh Wotltr o lnf _ ivvuj u iv/i she jetter because he really gets nto the game and he really :ares about us individually bef< tndasateam." ,4Ar If things go good, will it nr Xifficy come out next year? sho "Well, if I could work it out was md play softball and gue >asketball... But I'm kind of like nterested in playing Candillawl at Candi Rawl comes from a full Carolina-bred home where, 17tl if she planned to go to " college, she had a choice of I w coming to Carolina and, her well, coming to Carolina. As a senior at Lexington for rtigh School, Rawl was bee recruited by Tennessee, \T^ A ? A- At- - A - - ' l aiiKt*u inu. z ai uie ume. "But my dad wanted me to kn lome to Carolina/' the ye tfc fvT7t~r!r"~-v-V" 7;-~:-tMMj *W* ^B| elp Lady G nde elementary nation major says. "He gwrc * iL % iuated from here and sd* BfigT t ftthprc i r* m\/ fomiln .*13Pi?R'w'"! , I'm kind of a momma's , so I didn't want to get \ :ar away from home." ^ awl candidy admits that '' is out of shape. to* I knew I was out of shape Liz Hollj )re tryouts," she says. Liz Holland, c id I knew I couldn't give plug from Green ly utmost in going in and help the Lady wing Coach Kelly that 1 out at the guards ; good enough. But I "She may be ss he saw something he surorise of all." < d*" Kelly said. "I th Getting in shape is ou^a 'ot. ma'take me a little while. Holland, a ji laven't lifted weights in sferred to USC ) years and my legs have t"roP where s le to pot. I'm out of shape, scholarship ten ; with Coach Kelly's help Put. favoril i my determination, I can basketball, it ? "I really like better," she say 'ou can bet that there is f*101^ te?m spirii adjustment from sitting is more individua home studving to aoine Holland said si court with the nation's any ?^ers f?r Cranked team. only tennis, but It's tough. In high school, wanted to play be as the big girl at 6-0. But "I feel lucky e, 6-0 is maybe a small Kelly picked m many. I've alwa^ ward. I just wish I'd have play basketball, in better prepared." "This is the < lifetime to try 01 "If things work out, who that's doing so wt ows. I'd like to go out next, 'Tm ready t< ar. " give it my best." -a amecocks ind Cindi Rawl i 5-5 spark- cindi Rawl, Candi's sister, ville, should was a freshman walk-on two Gamecocks years ago who didn't see osition. much playing time. She the biggest didn't go out last year. :oach Terry "Let's say I decided to ink that she redirect my interest into school work," she says with mior, tran- a smile. Pam Parsons had from Win- nothing to do with not going he was a out, right Cindi? nis player. i40f course not," she says, ;e sport is smiling again. D 1 1 ? nuwi avciageu i.z points basketball per game and 1.2 rebounds c "Thprp'c s>. mere s? per game. t and tennis a freshman walk-on, ilistic. a\\ my time wr.s limited," le didn't get she recalls. basketball, This year, she has played has always flag-football and intramural isketball. basketball. But, is she in that Coach shape? e out of so "Not in the kind of shape /s wanted to you need to be in for basketball," she admits ihance of a "Coach Kelly really has it for a team guts and courage," Rawl i\\. praises. "The way he's ) work. I'll handling everything, you can't help but admire him."