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Unlucky Fig 1 Bv Bob Lang USC's men's basketball team was a "volcano about to erupt," head coach Bill Foster said of the 52-42 victory over Notre Dame Saturday night. The "eruption" allowed the Gamecocks |ppS| (10-9 overall and 3-4 in the conference) to |!!!l! break a four-game losing streak and add a plSfi win in Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Con- p#3ll ference play. Notre Dame was the first of three designated Metro Conference games k: for Carolina this season. rf "I can't tell you how pleased I am with the [ team's performance tonight," Foster said. L7. J "I kept telling my players to believe in themselves." SHOOTING ONLY 38.5 percent from the j^B floor (29 percent for the first half), Carolina !||jj| managed to connect at the foul line, hitting 22 of 29 for 76 percent. "Our shooting felp percentage was not something to write home |ffl| about," Foster said. "But I can't say enough about how our free throw shooting helped mff. Notre Dame, 14-6, came into the game IgSJ looking for their eighth consecutive victory |?? this season, and their sixth straight victory V over LJSC. The Gamecocks have won nnlv HI four of 14 previous meetings with Notre |||pM "I knew they (Carolina) were capable of iBH j playing this way," Irish coach Digger Phelps Mrm said about the loss. "We just didn't shoot well," he said. Notre Dame made 41 percent &? of the team's field goals and 58 percent from the foul line. ; Opening the game with a basket, Carolina m??i soon found itself behind by the largest pill margin of the game at 9-3. But with 10:06 re- llpp maining in the half, a 12-foot jumper by 7-0 center Mike Brittain put the Gamecocks pill ahead by one at 11-10. ^ ~ vvii h 25 seconds remaining in the hall, H . USC was behind by three with a chance to ^ close the gap to one. But time expired, and the halftime score remained 22-19 in favor of Bw Notre Dame. MP/ The second half had more see-saw type * scoring, with each team capturing the lead. b ? Carolina, however, took the lead for good ? 1 when Jimmy Foster (6-8 forward) hit a layup , with 10:48 remaining to make the score j 31-30. US Most of the crowd of 9,138 remained stan- sive I Louisville snap By Tracy Mixson and USC's women's basketball team watched of a ; an il-point lead disappear and a six-game gan i winning streak come to an end Saturday S i night, falling to Louisville University 66-63 to 1 j in the game's final seconds. eno "I think this is the poorest performance in Loi about four or five games as far as ball handl- put ing is concerned," USC head coach Terry sec< Kelly said. "We didn't handle the ball very well, and we didn't get back on defense like sai< we should have," enc ) The coach said the squad had trouble with hal its transition from offense to defense. "WE DIDN'T make the transition (to defense) once we scored," he said. "Louisville's got a lot of quickness, and they're going to beat you down the floor if ^ you don't get back. And we didn't get back ^ the last few minutes of the ballgame." j oi Sophomore forward Brantley Southers led cQr] the Lady Gamecocks, making 18 points and .j 10 rebounds in the first half. USC took control early with a 10-point lead before the ' Lady Cardinals cut the margin in half, trailing 33-28 at halftime. ' . . _ ? .. , A _ dill I Iii the second halt, Carolina appeareu iu Sa( be heading for an easy win and seventh consecutive victory, building an 11 -point lead with 13 minutes left in the game. But then Louisville gradually staged a lo: comeback, reeling off seven unanswered di: points before Kelly was forced to call a time- St out. The two squads exchanged baskets L( several times before the Lady Cardinals tied ga the score at 56 and went ahead on a jump shot by guard Elfreda Tucker. w "WE SEEMED to be out of control ai sometimes," Kelly said. "At halftime 1 didn't feel we had control of the game; 1 felt like we were playing out of control. Then we T went through a spurt where we went up by 11 t( htina Irish fall to <u? Blliy'jBBWBlHBBMBBHBlBl mm Fm 11 illH 115 -"" ;r?JmBr , JHHH| - BnHf ?w m MmMm t 3 MMI^f- JfKKj^^^t^ pH ^ gjMg m^|| Bys K B Sb^MfiH gj^^O'abJBWBW^B^ S ' , ^ -' H| P^** * rll ?K' Jeff"'3 it' ** IB flr =:JBwr a leap year - * Ph0,?by Andy Lava,h C forward Harold Martin rises above the crowd to pull down one of the Gamecocks' 22 defen^ ' -* g 1 *' - ^ r<i j ft rebounds Saturday night. USU snapped a tour-game losing streaK, upsetting raotre uame s Lady Gamecocks' wim everything was going well. But then all , sudden we got out of control and lost the outhers hit eight points down the stretch JK ) ; ceep Carolina in the game. But it wasn't ugh, as USC lost its lead on a layup by < ^ jisville guard Stephanie Edwards, which the game on ice for the Cards with 40 ^P5 ' 111 Dnds left to play. 'She (Southers) played very well," Kelly 4SBmT ^ i 1. "but we didn't get the ball to her Jfmk&JM >ugh like we should have in the second BHK^> ^ outliers led all scorers with 26 points. *B|\. homore guard Gwen Lynch and junior " rd Marsi McAllister also scorea in aouoie ^ \ l ires with 11 and 10 points, respectively. ?|, W ^HE^LOSS dropped *? overall ^ Will IIM'V iv "We'll have to pick ourselves up from our Jp ^?jg eek for Carolina, as the Lady Gamecocks 89T , ice Tennessee Wednesday, and Clemson w* mm M id Cincinnati this weekend. Kelly said the week's competition will DnwBli ;n probably be the biggest we'll have all year. . hey're all tough ball teams, and we'll have Freshman forward Reriee Najarian looks to pa > work hard to win." in tho Lady Gamecocks' 66-63 loss to Louisvil Carolina ding for the rest of the game as the Gamecocks increased the lead. Free throw shooting by Carolina near the i _ r * L I ?.. u. ,J 1., Cliu UI me CUIUCM uiiuuuuicuiy V.VJIUI iuuicu iu the win, especially by 6-2 guard Michael Foster. Foster hit seven of nine free throws in the last two minutes and 10 seconds of the game. "WE JUST believed in ourselves," Michael said. "1 knew that if we won we could get a lot of momentum going into the Metro tournament," he said. "Michael showed a lot of poise tonight, especialy in the second half," coach Foster said. Michael was not the only Foster to have a good night. Jimmy Foster hit five of eight from the floor and had a good night at the line, hitting nine of twelve free throws. "This was a very emotional game for me," Jimmy said. 'This was the first time I've ever beat them. The win felt really good tonight." COACH FOSTER partially attributed the win to rebounding. Against Notre Dame, ranked by the Associated Press second in the nation in rebounding (averaging 9.2 rebounds more per game than its opponents), Carolina grabbed 33, compared to the Irish's 23. Carolina also contained Tom Sluby, the A_/l IricVi rtiiorH Mfli a haH o i/ornoaH 1 O 1 nrsintc \j t nun 5UU1 u ?tiiu uuu utv igavu I y. / puiui^ per game in his past 11 games. The Gamecocks held him to 13 Saturday. "We just didn't play well," he said. "They beat us 011 the boards, and it was obvious that they wanted to win more than we did." Sluby and his teammantes played well enough the week before their bout with Carolina, as the Irish defeated Maryland 52-47. "Anytime you beat the fifth-ranked team in the country, it's a shot in the arm for the confidence of your players," Phelps said. "WE JUST didn't convert on anything I trtninKt " Kp cairl " Wf ctill Viavp a 1 at r?f good people to play." Notre Dame has nine games remaining this season. For the Gamecocks Jimmy Foster was high scorer with 19 points, followed by Michael Foster with 13, Brittain and Brad Jergenson with seven each, Jimmy Hawthorne with four and Harold Martin with two points. ling streak Photo by Joe Jackson ;s the ball to an open teammate Saturday night j University.