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By Jeff Hartsell
Senior forward Jimmy Foster scored 29
points to lead USC to a 78-67 exhibition
basketball victory over the Canadian National
team at Frank McGuire Arena Saturday
night.
Head coach Bill Foster called the
Gamecocks' effort "spurty."
"We got off to a good start and did a good
job of rebounding and playing good position
defense. Then after about 12 minutes, we
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be happy here for four years.
As far as classes go, I'm carrying the san
I freshman would. I have yet to take any exa
pect to do very well since I was a National
student with a 3.3 giade point aveiage in
It's hard to juggle classes and basketball,
it, I need a great first semester because secc
when we start to travel I will miss a lot of (
I'll have to do a lot of studying in planes, I
I have yet to do this, so this will be tough e
semester to help the second semester.
Academics are very important to the coa<
we are required to attend a study hall five (
They have every tutor for every subject.
THE UNIVERSITY 101 class is very he
USC center Mike Brittain takes
M JLf ? the opening jump ball un7;^
jyH contested against the Canadian
oto by Edward I. Kaitch
ike scrimmage.
helped them get back in the game," he said.
Starting guards Sanderson and Michael
Foster earned praise from the coach.
"Sanderson did a good job out there when
we needed him. He showed a lot of leadership.
Also, I was pleased with Michael
Foster's performance," he said.
Michael, in his first appearance in a
Gamecock uniform, had nine assists and
scored six points.
Coach Foster said the exhibition was "a
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inakine the transition from \
le load as any athletic department has a cla
ms, but I do ex- us give television, radio or n
Honor Society mixture of athletics and ac*?
high school. Academics mean a lot to i
The %^ay I see lower class background, thei
>nd semester it through sports. When I gc
;lasses. I guess the kids, I always stress the
juses and motels. don't believe me, but when
md I'll need this mine it makes them think ah
think of me as a role model,
:hing staff and for them.
iays a week. Talking about home, whei
is so nice to me. I go back a
how I'm doing and it realh
Ipful to me in Well, that's all for now.
USC guard Jimmy Hawthorne
defense. USC beat the Canadian
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very good game to have. It's good to get out
there and shake things out.
"I really think our players will play much
better during the season. But we have a lot of
work to do between now and the start of the
season."
The Gamecocks lead 36-27 at halftime on
the strength of 65.4 percent field goal
shooting, but trailed by three points on three
amerent occasions in tne second nan oeiore
putting the game away.
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friends."
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where he can I
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Gamecocks as point guard. Foster Foster said 1
are his thoughts about college of college basl
all in a three-part series in the "DDCC,rAC
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ticed once a
Christmas, his
no team in the
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Matt Mayes
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Duke, Virginia
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school in Nort
much to him.
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liked them," 1
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is on Monday morning to help fered m one Q
iwspaper interviews. We get a mer> he under
demies here. Mayes, who
le. Coming from a middle to Nov 29 gamc
; is a belief that you can make 4?to contribute
home and play ball with all in preseaso]
icademics here. Most of them two piayers fr
show them a report card of ilir?,i varQifv r
out it a little. Some of them i" . :.L .u.y.E
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so I try to set a good example Bob SyIvest
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id everyone wants to know "He'll mak
gives me a good feeling. said ?.We?re ]
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starting forwards Tony Simms and Gerry
Kazanowski on personal fouls in the second
half.
USC lead 31-15 with 3:45 left in the first
half, but Canada outscored Carolina 12-5 to
trail by nine at the half
USC opens regular season play against the
University of North Carolina-Asheville Nov.
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isketball scholarship offers from several
id, including UCLA, North Carolina and
chose Carolina because it was close to home
Jn't have to "start over and meet new ,
ic wants to play well enough to the point
be relied on by the coaches to come in and
situations.
set a major goal for himself. "To get known
ar as rebounding."
nds, Perry said he also believes he will help
f the "muscle" USC will need against biger
teams.
:s with Perry, saying against the Canadian
, the opponents were scared to take a charge
Perry) does his practice drills, I get as far
court as I can," Foster said. "I'm not going
ances of him rnnnino nip " ^
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3erry has had to learn to adjust to the rigors ^
cetball over the high school level.
ON DRILLS almost killed him," Foster
ie played high school football he only pracweek,
and, during basketball season over
coach took a week off to play golf. There's
: country that can afford to do that."
:d Perry was very strong but lacked the
irance.
along and is able to maintain his strength
sriod of time now," Foster said.
? is a 6-3, 190 guard from Brevard, N.C.
; first recruit signed last year by Foster and
VHO attended Woodberry Forest High,
points and nine rebounds per game, said
? of the reasons he chose to attend USC over
i, Maryland, Villanova and James Madison.
iter has a lot of class," Mayes said.
people in his hometown still question his
ot attending an Atlantic Coast Conference
h Carolina, but said the ACC "didn't mean
watching USC on television and I've always
Vlayes said.
recovering from a torn back muscle he suff
the intrasquad scrimmages. Over the sumwent
mild knee surgery. rik
is expected to be healthy by the Gamecock's
against Missouri-St. Louis, said his goal is
as much as I can as soon as I can."
n, Foster said he needed to bring up about
om the junior varsity to fill the place of in(layers,
and one of those players has remainirsity.
er, a 6-8 center from Olmstead Falls, Ohio,
ith the team "for right now," according to
e some of ihe trips with the team," Foster
keeping him here with us over the holidays." ^