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Monday March GAMECOCK ^2g?H? A m T A A * ? Accept INtAA Lady C ' Rv MIKFTOUCH Staff Writer RALEIGH, N.C. ? Throug season, the USC Lady Gameci overcome all the odds. The odds w after the resignation/firing of t former coach and a revealing e: national sports publication ? wasn't supposed to do too much. They lost four of five followin troversy and a few players wen with the new administration. ' attitudes became slightly c although not to the same exten four players, including two starte team. The odds of success look< nnrl urnnlH'vo hoori for mnst toam one. The rest is history. Since overcoming all of the adv rather positive note, it should c shocking revelation that the ladit the nation's lOth-ranked team or It's not surprising that, after con halftime ahead by 16 ? they hac much as 20 earlier ? and watchin evaporate to only one with 1:35 still pulled out a 71-70 win over th< Women. Simply put, they've got g "I've felt all along that, you I team has a lotta guts," beamed coach Terry Kelly on the bus tr Columbia. "Not only to go thr< they went through, but you car practice and on the court. Thi competitive. They hate to lose." The ladies came frightening losinP tn an nuprratpH Qfatc Reynolds Coliseum Saturday nig After shooting a blistering 6 from the floor in the first half for ? Sheila Foster and Evely teamed for 29 of USC's first ha USC slowly but surely saw crumble. "In women's basketball," 1 later, "no lead is safe. You tonight." Little by little, State chipped a lead. A Claudia Kreicker iumoe left in the game cut the deficit I first time since 9:33 in the fir; State pulled within 10 points. Johnson and Sharon Rivers sc< USC up 65-54 with 7:40 left. State scored eight straight to get wit nuidLt HARRISBURG, N.C. - Doctoi students, laborers and other people will be competing in the V Sprints at Charlotte Motor Speed o n/-l OQ (41 IU The WBT Spring Sprints are seven short, half hour sprint Saturday counting for the Sports America's Southeast Divisior Championships and seven mon sprints on Sunday awarding po SCCA's Southeast Division Championships. More than :*(K) amateur dr throughout the countrv will / Speedway for the weekend of i and camaraderie. The entry lis from novice drivers just earning in road racing competition to th grizzled national champions ir points leading toward another tit Every conceivable type of ca competition in the WBT Spring from open wheel, European st; cars 10 snowroom siock seaans 1 safety modifications; from all-o Can-Am type cars to heavil production sports cars like Camaros and Alfa Romeos. Bid larnecocks Dot ;hout this J x?ks have < : '!/ ' ere that ? i: .* .:?,' :/ he team's this team ^4 Johnson^ ^ that lead """ " USC's Becky Parker (24) blocks Kelly said Thompson as Sheila Foster and Br; saw that with just under live minutes left on the iway at the clock. r with 9:40 State's talented freshman Linda Page hit a 12-footer with 4:26 left to put the score at o 61-52, the 65-64. But Foster, playing in her last regular >t half that season game as a Lady Gamecock, scored inside twice in the span of a minute to put )red to put USCupbyfive. i, however, Two freebies by State's Angie Armstrong hin three with 1:51 left and a Ginger Rouse score at ;ur Drivers To' *s, lawyers, Drivers in the WBT Spring Sprints will be ordinary competing for the first annual Mario AnVBT Spring dretti Achievement Award, established this way March year to honor America's Formula One Grand Prix World Driving Champion, a series of Andretti won the 1978 World Championship, races on becoming the first American since Phil Hill Car Club of (i%]) to wrest the crown from its European i Regional domination. e half hour The Andretti Award will be presented to ints for the the outstanding class winner in Sunday's National National competition. In addition to the custom, $5,(XX) brass sculpture symbolic of ivers from winning at CMS, the Andretti Award winner be at the will also receive products and gifts worth competition more than $5,(XX). t will range Highlighting the WBT Spring Sprints ; their spurs weekend will be the World Kabbit e seasoned, Challenge, a 22 lap chase for more than 30 of l search of h?cf rnnnint/ Vnllrciuatfpn Pahhitc VI IV/ MV^UV A T V/llHJff ?y?^? VII le. anywhere in the racing world. r will be in The event is the season lid-lifter for the ; Sprints ? $100,000 professional Rabbit/Bilstein Cup, yle formula Volkswagen of America will import several with limited of the top running European Rabbits and ut, full-bore drivers to test American competitors at y modified Charlotte. The winner's share of the $10,000 Corvettes, purse is a healthy $2,000 in this battle of showroom stock cars. Only safety har lvnN.C. Stat L< SiHH!Wwr in 'W ^ ' .. ' '' ci fc -:-:|i|^B^B^wHH^P lo $ ? * * t Iter ^ w SM d( S^PPF '" . ' :>. ""^caSj^ :;.: S3; .:.' X^.---Ji? x X111 CH ~ ; ^***^ ( ^JP| th ' -- "" Staff Photo Bv MIKE LOUCH i> 11 ' * " " "" me snot 01 i\.c. state's Karen antley Southers watch. p 1:26 made it 69-68. 55 Page missed the front end of a one-andone with 1:08 left and USC got the rebound, but couldn't score. State's full-court pass ' went awry and the Lady Gamecocks got the ball. Rivers was fouled with only 27 seconds left f and missed the front end of the bonus, but i Brantley Southers pulled down the rebound. t Seven seconds later, Becky Parker was the a In^1 Action in the Kabbit/Bi nesses, rollbars and fire extinguishers are < allowed to be added to the Itabbits. 5 Rabbit racing is a rough-and-tumble ! world. Three-wheeled cornering, screeching tires, high speed drafting on the oval and doorhandle-to-doorhandle competition on a the snaking eight turn infield road course I will be parts of the World Rabbit Challenge f at 5 p.m. Sunday afternoon. ( Practice and qualifying for the WBT 5 Spring Sprints and the World Rabbit \ Challenge begins at noon Thursday and it e, 71-70 ;roine as she hit two free throws to put the ady Gamecocks ahead, 71-68. State's Karen Thompson scored from siae wun eigni seconas ana tne woupacK illed time. USC inbounded the ball with a ng baseball pass which sailed untouched /er Southers' head. Eight seconds still ;mained. State called time again. "Everything was perfect," State coach ay Yow said later. "We wanted to go to inger Rouse. She was open and everything asset up perfectly. Damn." Instead, Page took the final shot, which ahnson rejected with four seconds left. "That's what's so disappointing," Yow lid. "We had everything we could've asked >r with eight seconds left and the ball, ouse was wide open. "We had plenty of opportunities to take e lead. I was really disappointed with the ay we played the first half. You have to ay a good full game to beat South irolina," Yow said. "We knew Foster was tough inside and )hnson could shoot and liked to penetrate, oster was as far down the lane as she could } and Johnson's penetration really hurt us. e knew what we had to do to beat them, it we didn't do it." USC played well the first half and the omplete opposite in the final 20 minutes. "I'm happy that it goes down as a win," welly said. "That's all." Kelly opened up a bit when pressed furler. "Well, we played good team offense and sfense the first half," he observed. "We sat the lOth-ranked team in the country on leir court. It's a big win for us." The defense was the stalwart for USC. specially in the first half. State hit only 37.1 ercent from the floor. USC couldn't hit in le second half, shooting a miserable 32.3 ercent. Connie Rogers, State's top player, 'as two-for-seven for the game from the oor. "I thought we did a pretty good job defensively)," Kelly said. "We did a real ood job. We did terrible in the second half, hough." Itcri nn n ir>? uov^, iiuw nuaus v^aiuiuia HI uic irst round of the NCAA playoffs March 14. 'he Lady Gamecocks are seeded third in he midwest region. Louisiana Tech is first ind Kentucky second. Charlotte ilstein Cup Series. continues Friday, March 26. Saturday's seven Regional races begin at 2:30 while Sunday's action starts at noon. Tickets for the WBT Spring Sprints are $6 idvance sale and $10 at the gate, while \r o r/\n lAnnn /\n o*>/? < \ l^lxl/x duuut/v/viaia^c at i:a pasoca die cl VctllcIRJlt; or $ir> advance sale, $20 at the gate. Grandstand seating is unreserved at the Speedway and tickets are good for the entire veekend. The CMS Ticket office is open rom 9a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.