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LSU delivers I By Jeff Rogers BATON ROUGE, La.- It was a battle to see who could make the most mistakes in Saturday night's USC-Louisiana State football game, and the Gamecocks came up with the overriding blunders in their 20-6 loss to the Tigers. ThP riQme tnr?<*rl Knll * ? ' ? a1? k ending numerous drives throughout the contest. The loss was the fourth for the Gamecocks, dropping their Traffic jam USC and Louisiana State football players have a war in the trenches i * USC linebacker choos ha iuin kuuiit, i,a. (an? i iiis "We saw that th< time, USC linebacker James Seawright fat tackles would was more careful about what he said wallow on the grc after his football team's 20-6 loss to you," he said after Louisiana State University. Saturday, in Ci A year ago, LSU won 14-6 and room, he was more Seawright said his opponents were "They had a goc overrated. He said the Tigers' offense year and last year," was so predictable, he knew what was LSU Coach Jerrj coming before the play was run. complimentary of h ' In Andy Bean Inti Carolina's aolf tez _ 0 By Jeff Hartsell USC's men's golf team finished third in what coach Bobby Foster called "the top fall tournament in the country" this past Carolina posted a score of 893 at the Andy ? Bean Invitational in Haines City, Fla.. to ' take third place. The University of ^ flg&jL Oklahoma won with a score of 881, and Oklahoma State finished one stroke back. Ohio State took fourth with an 896, and the University of Florida was fifth with a score Foster said the tournament field was unusually strong because the Haines City : v course will be the site of the National Collegiate Athletic Association championships Jj ?3. "IT WAS a good news, bad news situa- / jgddfll tion," Foster said. "The good news is we had pre(j VVadswoi I a chance to win a tournament against some FinfchpH cprnm |W of the best teams in the country. The bad nmsneu seconi news is we didn't play well enough in the last "F red show< 1 round to win it. the top collegi "I credit the guys for the hard work it took Foster said. It o be good enough to be in that position. I money playing wish we could have played better in the final with." rounds." USC's Fred Wadsworth finished second WKBB UK,II individually, one stroke behind the Universi- 68-80-77 ? ty of North Carolina's Davis Love. 74-76-78 ? 22 H Wadsworth, a senior, shot a 70-70-75 ? 215 231 and (ireg J ? tor the tournament. I?r USC. 1 SpdrtS Gamecocks a record to 3-4, while LSU broke a three-game losing streak improve their record to 3-4. "Overall I inct tllinl/ < >nnr n nnm tl.nl * 1 . 1 vrfviuii, a juji v11111rv ii wao a uicu llicy WttlllCU I game more than we did," USC head coach Joe Morrison sa "I just think some of our young men came down and pla> well and some came down for a vacation." ONI USC'S first^ series, Photo Courtesy ot LSU / Ret iuring Saturday's football game. LSU won 20-6. ;es words carefully sir fat guards and "South Carolina is very physi< do nothing but They are a good football team," )und and lay on said. that game. He said the major difference t irolina's dressing ween Saturday night's victory and cautious. three losses that preceded it was t )d offense ? this this time, things worked out right. he said, "We ran the same plays we've b< ! Stovall was also working on in the same situations," is opponents. said. ercollegiate im finishes third an ' - JBi? .#1 j^Sifli'aiif mm id rth '^ ^ Webb Heinfzelman j in tournament Shot 68-80-77 ? 225 ;d that he's definitely one of "Bob played the wronj ate golfers in the country," and got a triple bogey < He's going to make a lot of Foster said. "That was a r this game before it's over and for us." Foster said that alth realize "we're a real fine j NTZKI.MAN finished with a room for improvement. 225, Clay Uselton shot a 8, Bob Hughes a 74-76-81 ? "Wc have a ways to y Sweati had a 75-81-76 ? 232 mental side Hiat the phy> ,1 1 . . . we uon i wain 10 si op i nother defeat to for the game when USC quarterback Allen Mitchell was sacked on third down for a 15-yard loss. In the game, Mitchell and he Jim Desmond (who later replaced Mitchell early in the fourth d quarter) were sacked five times for a total loss of 55 yards, ed "We played real well," LSU linebacker John Fritchie said. "This defensive ball club is getting better week by week like we thought it would." LSU also had its share of mistakes in the first half, fumbling ^ a punt return on its own 29-yard line and throwing an inIterception on the LSU 29. "1 thought they (LSU) tried to give us the game in the first half, and we came bark and pave theni the o;ime in thr? vernnH half," Morrison said. MISTAKES ON the part of both offenses in the first half |! possibly kept points off the board. The first came with 2:00 left in the first quarter when USC drove down to LSU's one-foot line. The Gamecocks needed just a few inches to get a first down and four more cracks at the end zone, but Kent Hagood was stacked up on a dive play, making it fourth down. USC settled I for a 19-yard Mark Fleetwood field goal, tying the score 3-3. "I didn't check off (at the goal line)," Mitchell said. Mitchell said LSU's defense was tight inside on the play, and he should have changed the call. b k USC HAD another opportunity to score a touchdown when J it had a first and goal on the LSU six-yard line. Again LSU's defense held, and the Gamecocks came up with another IleetI wood field goal, this one for 24 yards. LSU scored on its next possession, marching 82 yards in 10 plays for a touchdown that made the score 10-6 in favor of the Tigers. LSU running back Dalton Hilliard accountcd for 61 of the drive's yards and finished the game with 129 yards on 24 carries. "Dalton played his best game since the first or third game of the season," LSU head coach Jerry Stovall said. gp LSU'S BLUNDER came after its defense recovered a Mitchell fumble on Carolina's two-yard line with 1:00 left in the half. On its first play after the fumble, LSU was penalized for delay of game. From USC's seven, LSU quarterback Jeff Wickersham was sacked for a nine-yard loss by Rickey HH? Hagood. LSU gained three yards on the next play, but Stovall had used all three of his teams' timeouts and the clock ran out before LSU could attempt a field goal. Although the Tigers went into the locker room in front of USC 10-6, the team left the field amid a loud chorus of boos because of the missed opportunity. Before the LSU game, Carolina had outscored its opal ponents in the second half 86-48, but LSU shut out the ta Q m c in f Vio kolf ^ \jmiiicvuvi\j in niv jvtunu nan. t_ USC MANAGED only 64 yards total offense in the second half, and according to Mitchell the lack of offensive produciat tivity was the key. "I didn't pick up their stunts that well," Mitchell said. "If 1 en had played better I think we could have had a bettor chance to lie win. We just didn't move the ball well tonight." See "USC," page 15 ? f I i o r^i ^ a 11 o it^ s t Bobby Fostar USC men's golf coach ball on one hole, ahead. We have a good team and we will get /ith the penalty," better. ?al setback for him , , ISC WILL play in the South C arolina Inmgh the players tercollegiate in Hampton Nov. 3-5, a tournanlf tcum " ihpm it ment they have won the oast two ve;u^ It is the only six-man tournament on Carolina's schedule this year. "All the teams /> yet, more on the 'n l'lc sta,c w'" there," Foster said, ieal side " he said. "Clemson is mighty good, and we'll ha\e to iow, we want to go P,a> as as uc can P,a> 10 "