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.sports Darmody lei past Tigers, Bv Johnnv Bonos 1 ??w The Clemson Tigers' basketball team always seem to bring the best out in Kevin Darmody. Last night, he had his best offensive game of the season, scoring 17 points to help boost USC to a 94-77 win over Clemson. The 6-7 senior forward scored the game's first two points on a fast-break layup, and the Gamecocks never trailed. Darmody also pulled down 10 rebounds as Carolina improved its record to 13-4. USC's start is its best since the 1973-74 season, when Frank McGuire's team won 14 of their first 17 games. With 11 games remaining, this year's team needs only one win to equal last season's total of 14. THE SPRINGFIELD, VA. native has averaged 12.8 points and 6.8 rebounds in his six games against Clemson. Darmody, who injured his ankle in a preseason practice, is much improved, according to USC Acting Head Coach Steve Steinwedel. "HE'S PLAYING much more confidently," Steinwedel said. "An injury situation really sets you back. It's just taken him this long to work his way back into the lineup." Darmody said he is "playing a lot more aggressively now. It's taken me a while to get back into things because of the injury and all." There were 12,401 spectators on hand for the game, and Clemson He^d Basketball Coach Bill Foster said the crowd played a big factor in the game. "WE LET THE crowd get to us," Foster said. "I thought we played too passive and too tentatively in the beginning. And then we got ourselves behind early. "USC has a good club that plays well. We could have easily been beaten by 30. We could have gotten our tails worn out, but we Reagan eulog TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) ? As a youth, bear. As a man, he wrestled with something for perfection the world of college football hi seen. Paul William "Bear" Bryant ? craggy voiced, the toughest kind of field master, the friends in need ? is dead at 69. flags at the Alabama State Capitol in Mont half-staff yesterday as though a national hero for many, including the president of the Uni had. "WE AMERICANS lost a hero who always than life," President Reagan said as eulog came in from every corner of the country. Bryant, four weeks after he retired as the wi in football history, died Wednesday of a heart that stunned Alabama's followers. "Quit coaching? I'd croak in a week," he 01 almost a month. Many prominent college football figures i attend his funeral today, several of them B who played or coached under him during th record-setting 38-year career. BRYANT'S DEATH, caused by a massive h hospital one day after he was admitted with < Crimson Tide followers in tears. Some wep radio stations broke off regular programminj shows about Bryant. [iwitwiiii Iiwwwiijwpiii >* ' I 11 - - II'ITI > l I'H'MH ?wn nil IIIIIII III > u 111 inn III! IIIWWWWW Bear Bryant's funeral TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Funeral se held today for Paul W. "Bear'' Bryant. All n Alabama football team will serve 4 pallbearers. , J MH.M V* t? HCflut MVVttVA. YYCUIl buried in Birmingham at Elmwood Camel the 10 a.m. memorial service at First Metho Tuscaloosa, university officials said. The Bryant family requested no flowers family residence or the funeral hoi arrafti^mants< Tto family asked that any memorial cm sent to the University of Alabama athletic t care of the Paul W. Bryant Museum, the Alabama Scholarship Fund, the Paul SehuJarship Fund or the Mary Harmon B Ffcwdl'-:University officials said there would I sarvleea at tha 12:30 p.m. burial Friday at Eigh^members of the 1982 A ads USC , 94-77 USC 94r Clemson 77 CLEMSON Michaels 18, i J, 3, Jones 3-9, 2-3, 8, McCanls 3-5, 0 0, 6, Eppley 2-6, 0 0, 4, Wallace 3 13, 0-0, 6, Campbell 3-7 fl-fl R larman 1-fl 3.R Q ShaHor R.R A.fi Jenkins 4-8, 4 5, 12, Bynum 4 6, 1-1, 9. Totals 31-78, 15 23, 77. SOUTH CAROLINA Darmody 6-7, 5 9, 17, Jergenson 4-7, 6-7, 14, Foster 6 10, 7-11,19, Peacock 5 8, 3 4, 13, Martin 1-4, 0 0, 2, Hawthorne 0 0, 1-2, 1, Sanderson 0 2, 2 3, 2, Holmes 23, 6 6, 10, Kendall 2 2, 0 0, 4, Brittain 2-3, 8 9, 12. Totals 28 46. 38 51,94. didn't. I'm proud of the way our kids hung in there," Foster said. "Their team is deserving of postseason play," he added, "and I'm sure they'll be in it. The Gamecocks entered the second half with a 44-31 lead, and promptly increased the margin. Sparked by Jimmy Foster and Mike Brittain, USC outscored the Tigers 14-7 during the first five minutes of the half. But the offensive surge stalled with just over eight minutes to play, as the Gamecocks went into a scoring slump while Clemson rolled off 13 unanswered points in a two-minute span. THE USC SCORING drought brought Clemson to within eight points at 71-63 with 5:22 left, but the Tigers couldn't get any closer and were soon forced to foul. USC hit five of seven foul shots in the last 75 seconds of the game. With seven seconds remaining, Duane Kendall took a pass from Darmody and scored on a fast-break layup, icing Carolina's win. USC shot 66.7 percent from the field during the first half, while the Tigers shot 38.2 percent. The Gamecocks' starting lineup scored 37 first-half points, while the Tiger starters managed only 11. lizes Alabama he wrestled a The death was also mournc else ? a drive government. id never before Reagan eulogized Bryant as master. Patriotic to the core, -faced, gravel- inspired by a winning spirit that softest touch to gave this country the gift of a life Alabama Gov. George Wall gomery flew at Capitol lowered, called Brvant had fallen. And brought great fame and honor to ted States, one Bryant captured the imaginai often small, always well-discipl seemed larger rankings, winning national titles ;ies for Bryant LATF.R HE WOULD add two inningest coach and closed his career with a : attack, a death Amos Alonzo Stagg's mark of 314 Bryant's death was unexpect< ice said. It took from mild heart trouble in recent His doctor, William Hill, saic ire expected to 12:24 p.m., CST, Wednesday, iryant disciples heartbeat began immediately, le course of his "We did put a pacemaker thn to restore a weak heartbeat" f eart attack at a Bryant was declared dead at 1:3( ;hest Dains. left >t on the air as HILL SAID Bryant suffered ' i to open call-in arrest" only moments after app< with nurses and making plans f native Arkansas. He said the cai ??| coronary occlusion." I Members of Bryant's family filtlaV Harmon Bryant, were summone iUMMf were present when he was prono rvfces will be Perkins, the former Alal lembers of his Giants coach who was picked to as honorary 1 learned of the death while on ' Carolina and planned to cut i e$<&y, will be Tuscaloosa. terv following Bryant, whose 38-year career dist Church in Maryland, Kentucky, Texas A& the last quarter-century, sent pi be sent to the Jordan, Ken Stabler and Hie tie handling % OTHERS AMONG "Bear's itributions be coaches and are still active, inch lepartment in Oreleans Saints, Charley Pell University of Clemson, Jackie Sherrill o: W. Bryant Schnellenberger of Miami, Pi jifant Chapel Claiborne of Kentucky, Steve Slo, Alabama had won a total of o be graveside Years before Bryant came home i'Elmwood in Put Crimson Tide abama team one went 7'2~2> inaugurating the I consecutive bowl trips for Alabar In 1961, Alabama won its firs .season. ' ' ' * ' ' ' ' # * ' f? J* '* -A <wiVTMHi.tr/ m - .??^&-4| wHmKKSfflBm S^^HHHHhH^. te> >xx:-' <V^^iHRiklHHH^B'' USC 7-foot center Mike Brittain goes up Brittain missed the dunk, but it didn't matti their 13th win in 17 games. mentor Pfern ?d at the highest levels of face i "a hard, but loved task- From Staff devoted to his players and ITQp, would not quit, Bear Bryant . .. s unsurpassed. est in sw ace, ordering flags at the tougn com ; "a man among men who sai5r Alabama." _Thf m| tion of many by sending his ^ ined teams to the top of the _ in 1961,1964 and 1965. fea?.on- ,fa looking for more ? in 1978 and 1979 ? 4 P'm' *n 323-85-17 record. He passed "N.C. S I career victories in 1981. NCAA's la , 41 . _ ?4 41?: 1_ ea, even mougn ne suffered ?*iuieirpia t years. Collins : 1 Bryant's heart stopped at program," and efforts to restore his champions National )ugh his chest and were able men's eve or about an hour, Hill said. P m[)p.m. Admissit THE TE "a sudden cardiopulmonary year, and t earing in good spirits, joking 1978. Collir or a duck hunting trip to his also said I use of death was "a massive or Tenness USC's w \ including his wife, Mary point (75-7' ;d to Druid City Hospital and The bach unceddead. mostrecen aama player and New York "We're succeed Bryant last month, training at a recruiting trip in North the faster short his trip to return to season. "THIS IS spanned coaching stints at coming ba( cM and finally Alabama for that will pi ayers like Joe Namath, Lee pionships a hard Todd to the pros. "Both tes USC's wc Boys," who became head in the nati( jde Bum Phillips of the New Team men of Florida, Danny F'ord of Colleen Col f Texas A&M, Howard The 400 i)t Hvp nf Allhlim rVnmnr nn ? J ~ ? KvaMUt 11J UWI ^ viw,,lw ?II an of Duke and Perkins. best time nly four games in the three ranked four ? hearing "Mama call," as GAMECC team went 5-4-1. His second freestyle, s liberty Bowl and a record 24 freestyle) na Ostberg is t national title with an 11-0 withal:51. 'VnBn K* J? [fir ' iRaliH ; W0U " ^ i P^JE- Wkimd: :./ ' {C.,'::---* ''7:;?'J^:--'< :' j mSSBSKx^BB/BmSmfB^LML* ___ Photo by Andy Lavalley for a dunk in last night's game against Clemson. )r as the Gamecocks rolled to a 94-77 victory for lessee, N.C. State i USC swim team Reports ten's and women's swim teams will face a big imming two dual meets in two days against ipetition, Head Swimming Coach Steve Collins n's and women's swim teams face North tate today and Tennessee tomorrow, y Gamecock swimmers, 7-1 in dual meets this ice the Lady Wolfpack at 1 p.m. The men, their first win ever over the Wolfpack, swim at le Carolina Natatorium. TATE'S WOMEN finished seventh at the st year," Collins said. "Our women beat them ce last year, so they'll be looking for revenge." said the Pack women have a "very good while the men were Atlantic Coast Conference .last year. power Tennessee visits USC Saturday with the nts beginning at 2 p.m. and the women's at 4 jn is free. 5NNESSEE WOMEN were ranked 10th last he men's team won the NCAA Championship in is said Tennessee has a "strong tradition" and JSC's men's team has never beaten N.C. State ee. omen's team beat Tennessee last year by one I). :-to-back meets will test a Carolina team whose it meet was a Jan. 18 win over Georgia. in our high quality phase now, and we're race pace," Collins said. "We're preparing for times we'll have to swim at the end of the > GOING to be probably the biggest test since ;k from Christmas break," Collins said. "I feel -epare us when we swim at the NCAA chamt the end of the season. ims will be eyeing us, looking to do very well." men's 400 freestyle relay team is ranked first >n after swimming a 3:28.73 against Georgia, ibers are Kathy O'Donnell, Sheryl Brosseau, lins and Shelley Cramer. medley relay team of Collins, Leslie Ochs, d O'Donnell has recorded a fifth nationally. The versatile O'Donnell is also th in both the 50 and 100 freestyles. >CK CHRIS BERRY has posted a 20.80 in the 50 ixth best in the country, and a 45.4 in the 100 ninth-ranked nationally. Freshman Soren ranked sixth nationwide in the 200 butterfly 16. , . , 1 J 1 J *