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Carolina to atte By Gary Byers The Gamecocks will try to make several comebacks in tomorrow night's football game against the Louisiana State Fighting Tigers. Last year, USC was defeated by the Tigers 14-6 in Baton Rouge. The Gamecocks will also try to come back after a week off and after losing to Notre Dame 30-6 on Oct. 8. The 7:30 p.m. contest will be televised live by WOLO. Last year's game set a Tiger stadium record attendance of 78,944. LSU, WHO last year posted an 8-3-1 record and an invitation to the Orange Bowl, is 2-4 for the season after losing last week to Kentucky. Last week's open date came at an opportune moment for the Gamecocks. USC head football coach Joe Morrison said, "I've never been a big fan of the open dale but I would have to say this one came at a good time for our ball club. We have number of little bumps and bruises and we needed the time to get everyone back in good health." lsu neaci coacn jerry stovall said his Tigers' "running game has not been very productive," but their "passing game has been good." Stovall cites the loss of experienced players to explain the Tigers' 2-4 record but claims that his "defense is maturing rapidly." Stovall said he thought that his entire team was "getting better" and his "young players are really producing for us." MORRISON SAID of the Tigers, "Once again we are playing another team with a tremendous tradition, winning attitude and record." LSU leads the series with the Gamecocks 10-: . Stovall got his start in coaching at Carolina in 1972 as an assistant coach under Paul Dietze). LSU assistant head coach and defensive line coach Pete Jer.kins coached at Carolina as an assistant in 1973-74. LSU will line up in the I formation on offense but will look to throw the ball often. Stovall calls Eric Martin, a six-foot one 20:-pound split end, "the finest wide receiver in the Southeastern Conference." On defense, the Tigers will use both odd and even man fronts and will be "doing a lot of stunting," Morrison said. Morrison also described their defense as "very quick." **I WOULD compare them with Notre Dame from a defensive point of view," Morrison said. Morrison also said he thought LSU was like Notre Dame in that they were very talented, yet not too successful. Gamecock quarterback Alien Mitchell said, "We are going to have a balanced attack on offense against LSU. We ran well against Southern CaL but didn't throw well and we didn't do either well against Notre Dame. We're going to have to do both well against LSU to win." USC offensive tackle Mark Brown has re-injured the knee he had surgery on for torn ligaments. The senior re-injured the 5* i. H H fl|^H| Y/^i^E^yiM8lHHi WW* 'Foiled again USC goalie Glen Thompson makes one of nine saves in Wednesday's 2 0 v I SportS smpt rebound 1 USC - Louis Place: Tiger Stadium (75,672 capacity) 7:30 p.m. (CD Expected attendance: 75,672 (Sellout) Touchdown USC running back Kent Hagood dives into the end zone for tf USC-Louisiana State game will be televised in Columbia by V\ knee in practice and is lost for the season. Stovall thought USC was "defensively very aggressi and that "they come at you hard," SOUTH CAROLINA'S defense is led by senior lineba Mike Durrah, a six-foot, 221 pounder from Cowpens. Du USC def No. 1 r W&M Durham, N.C. "It was g Zmf* shutout." Berson called the Eaj )\\i aI c* * ' * " * ine nrsl nan wtien he scoi off Tom Rumble's cross Menhart struck again with 14:49 left in the half IN THE second half the flow of the game, gett to USC's seven. "In the first half we n to open up the defense, the second half we didn' According to Berson, the game almost shifted a disallowed. "At that point in the A/in over UNC Wilmington.. Ihcir backs a8ainsl w Tom Irish loss ;iana State Facts Series record: T) 10 1 (LSU leads) Season record: use 3-3 i en n.A LUU tT j t n f? O r?rt *i/*?l/?' amIx ? ? ? - ? - ' * '-* rt _ /\ . /% ? 1 1 ic uaincLuuKd uniy 5uufu dydiosi nioirB usfTiB on uci. b. i omorrow niQtit s fOLO. has 99 tackles so far this season and is approaching last year's ve," team high of 133 by Andrew Provenc*,. Durrah was selected by Sports Illustrated magazine as the cker national defensive player of the week following the rrah Gamecocks 38-14 victory over Southern Cal. eats Seahawks, face anked Blue Devils "eated the University lington 2-0 wednes- 'They're (Duke) an outstanding game," head coach tegm individual talent. But yin for us," he said. if we can put two good halves ed Duke Sundav in . .... ood for us to have a xogetner l think we can beat any team in the country." ?les ,4a solid club" .,?? ? . "res. on the road 1-0 ~ USC head soccer coach North Carolina at Mark BerSOP rest and UNCC are n the National Collation Division I ??~ vely. BERSON COMPARED the second half to the Gamecocks' Sept. 28 loss to Erskine, confidence that we where USC almost increased a 2-0 lead when 1 well-coached team they bounced a shot off the post. Berson said Erskine played much harder from that point e match in the first and scored two goals in the half and a winnihart scored both of ing goal in overtime. inutes. me with 24:13 left in "It was almost an identical situation," ed from close range Berson said. i . from the left side 11 was l^e fifth shutout for USC goalie , this time off a feed Glen Thompson, who had nine saves in the game. The Gamecocks improved their record to 6-7-1. UNC-W controlled ing 11 shots on goal Berson said a win isn't out of the question this Sunday against Duke, who lost two players and one starter off last year's NCAA lade good decisions tournament finalist team. " Berson said. "In t." "THEY'RE nuiKiri on an \jui3icuiumg icam with great individual talent," Berson said. the momentum of fter a USC goal was "But if we can put two good halves together 1 think we can beat any team in the country." game they found USC's next home game will Oct. 26 against all," Berson said. Davidson (N.C.) College.