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JgffljtK^mB^BB&k W i*WM^^X Man on-man defense Lady Gamecocks forward Brantley Southers pic Louisville. 'The Judge' By Julie Huffstetler If a baseball game is being played in the Midlands, The Judge is probably in the stands. tzuLii year uuruig me spring anu summer months ? the baseball months - Simeon Frick, better known as The Judge, attends about 200 high school, American legion, college and minor league baseball games. The former farmer, surveyor, ? postmaster and county magistrate hasn't missed a USC home baseball game in years, and he even donated the < funds to build the press box at USC's I Sarge Frye Field a few years ago. I "THE REGIONALS (of the College World Scries) were at USC, and they had nothing but some tables sitting down there in t h e sun. T h e temperature was up there to about a hundred, and a puff of wind would come along and blow their papers away," he said. "1 though it was a shame to host the regionals and have no place to take care of the press, so 1 said to them, 'Why in the world don't ya'll build a press box out here?' "They said,'Will you do it?' and I Hoyas' Thomp SEATTLE (AP) ? For Georgetown's Joh Fred Brown, it was a night of sweet redemp Thompson, the Hoyas' sometimes-irasc chariming 3(X)-pound coach, was smiling. S of only two Georgetown seniors. The Hoyas' 84-75 victory Monday night < the National Collegiate Athletic Association pionship in Seattle's Kingdome erased some of a night in Louisiana two years ago. THOMPSON FINISHED his 12th seasoi with a^glittering 34-3 record and conceded monkey off his back." "1 put personal monkeys on my back," don't let what other people say about me be that, I'd have been out of coaching a long tin ly,vl wanted to win a national championship long time ago. So thai monkey is off my ba Uie victory may have meant even more tc in i lie 1982 NC A A title game in new Orleai ) _____ Spc 8 ?Thr -jji ladffH - WMh Phntn hu HnHx I su.ll?.. f imiu My niiuy LQf DUOJ jys in a home game this past season against never misses < "I don't usually go to the ticket place c dressing room to be with the boys awh there, and they'd locked the doors, and had to go where they take the tickets >aid, 'Find out how much it'll cost ' 'Yeah. i nai s now n came about." said, 4N For his donation, The Judge receiv- punch r xl an honorary lifetime pass to all "I gc USC home baseball games ? the only and he : lifetime pass ever awarded by the USC before.' Athletic Department. never sc UK IS such a fixture at the USC THE ballpark that he recalls only one time basebal he was asked to show the black metal He wal pass. Chapin "1 don't usually go to the ticket old Dut place at all. 1 go down to the dressing on goin room to be with the boys awhile," The He Judge said. "One evening 1 got there, youngsl and they'd locked the doors, and 1 his fre couldn't get in. So I had to go to where didn't \ they take the tickets up. his righ i yoi mere anu i saici to tne Doy, lie was 'Do yon wanna see my pass?' He said, ison wins himse in Thompson and prevented the Hoyas from getti >tion. 63-62 North Carolina victory, ible, sometimeso was Brown one "ANY TIME you accomplis Brown said. "I just think it's a 3ver Houston for very good mood right now." basketball cham- "1 felt good for Fred," adde ; bitter memories was a hard experience for all o F red's mistake. I had a lot of c( too." 11 at Georgetown - Brown started, but played ju he had taken "a tour points. Nevertheless, Thompson sak he explained. "I ace Gene Smith, who didn't p >ther me. If I did arch, had provided the steadyin ne ago. PersonalI tlinf c.miiI . "IT'W vi. vi.i* u.>~ . - ii ai ^ i.ix nctii <i luiitii ck now." could play," Thompson said. " > Brown. how much I eould use him with is, his errant pass t Women's bask pleased with i By Andrew Miller All of USC's women's basketball players have met with new head coaeh Nancy Wilson, and four said ihey look forward to next season. "She's a great lady," sophomore center Sharon Gilmore said yesterday. "She has great expectations about the team aiiu the way we can perform. "1 like the way she talks. She wants to forget the past and move on to next season." WILSON, WHO was named Friday as the Lady Gamecock's coach, met wtTh each player separately Monday and yesterday. vv,^?11-: ? ?i m unv. imivmt.i yrnai 3IIC a IdllWIlg (tUUUl, sophomore forward Brantley Southers said. "The meetings were set up for her to get to know us and for us to get to know her." N Southers, who has been through three M coaches since she arrived at Carolina, said Wilson has already won her respect and confidence. p< h< For freshmen Tammy Harvey and Shan- in non Belcher, it is another time for transition. N A "I WAS cnmricpH ohnnt limn ? 1 - ? 0M?pn?jvv? uuv/ui nv/n mutll 311V pi knew about us before we met her," Belcher said. "She told me to feel free to talk about w the negative things in the past, but to be w ready to play ball next season." m Harvey said she thinks Wilson quickly make the Lady Gamecocks a contender for the national title. c< "I think that she'll make us a national se power," Harvey said. "We have the talent. All we needed was a coach, and now we have tl one. tc "She really knows her stuff," Harvey w said. a game Qieni -11 1 ? it all. I go down to the iff i ile. One evening I got UCliS|||^l I couldn't get it. So I up. ".ZtiBSSfflSfc t - "The Judge' Simeon Frick y-MjpHp i mams oerore me I guess I'll have to punch it.' 1 ^111 i 0 you won't. You're not gonna ny pass.' ^Hotter who _ resij ?t it out and showed it to him, said, 'I never saw one like that South AlabamaV 1 told him, 'You'll probably :e another one."' CLEMSON D recruiting perio< JUDGE got hooked on ^mitmentS/; &IIH 1 when he was five years old. commitments.!} ked four miles to and from uj ??cc scnii-pru icams in me "We're in the eh Fork league and "just kept about the commi g." look at those cor played little baseball as a still in Clemson. ier because farm chores limited been recruited b) i* time, and his high school lave a team. Only after lie lost Hliis said he d t hand in a corn shredder when 10 transfer to CI 23 did he begin to fill in as a See "Judge," page 21 "We will not University of Soi do the best job w IX ^ 4? i 4* I n Particular needs H rl iL I a ?^? ?.*?? & a ?ir*s 3AIU Alabama assistar ng off a final shot and sealed a with him at Clen . Ellis said he vj h your goals, you feci good," pff*he?ppor Him*) beautiful feeling. I'm just d Thompson. "Two years ago | seasons at South f us. But that loss wasn't just terms of which w caching mistakes in that game, "I've been at st 15 minutes and scored only almost 10 years a of the ACC and '1. I lirown and Senior defensive Mien as you ve n*< lay because of a sprained left really intrigues n g influence the Hoyas needed. great situation to n of mine whether F red Brown CXEMSON A It's been more of a concern of troduced Ellis at out wearing him down. I-red's our kind of fol See "Hoyas," payo 21 recruit in New Y< af ko 11 toom uiuan luuin iew coach nnr.y Wilson eets with new team WILSON BRINGS in a .750 winning ?rcentage, compiling a 193-24 record as :ad coach at the College of Charleston durg eight seasons. While at Charleston, the ational Association of Intercollegiate thletics school to three consecutive secondace finishes in the national tournaments. "She's the kind of coach that has a real inning attitude," Belcher said. "1 could tell hen she took this ioh shr had in minrl tr? ake us a national contender." Gilmore said she thought Wilson's main :>ncern was lor the team to improve next ?ason. "She wants us to work and play together," le 6-3 Graniteville native said. "If we play )gether and work together, I think that we ill be able to play up to our potential. See "Wilson," page 21 cnn hirpe WRI BBSS W " v * ^8 Bi -* S pi ah sr 18 f? t% Sk r* fa e#IUC*II budifll ' -' . - s ' . . ' ' ':. : : ' . ' ' - 'v V . VVV. \P) ? New Ciemson basketball coach lis first priority in his new job will be to ing situation for next year. y... V.. .- / V. . . <<r > ... v : : ants to take advantage of the time that re' Anril 11 cion'mor Hnto "? ? " < i,i' I ' ; " , * > Sijt* " k! Ciem$on coach Monday, replacing BiH $ned to take a coaching position at the taml, Ellis comes from the University of Vi:: - ' .: / I v< , \ V " > V - : . > - ' ' <" . : . . : .--V- ' . - . ; ^ * . ' * ID not sign any players during the fall U but reportedly has two verbal cornsaid the Tigers would honor those process of finding out as much as we can Itments," he said. "The first priority is to nmitments and find out if their interest is We're interested in any player who has / Clemson at this point in time." id not expect any South Alabama players CUJiUJI. infringe on what has been done with the nth Alabama," he said. "We're going to e can in the next week or so to address the of Clemson." he would bring in any of his South it coaches who were interested in working ison. >1 ' tews the coaching position at Clemson as and"* great challenge*" 2&m> cpriipiled $ 171-84 record in nine Alabama, signed a five-year contract, the 'ere not disclosed. the University of South Alabama for nd had a lot of success, but the challenge the chance for a national championship id with (head football coach) Danny Ford tie,'' Ellis said. "It's just going to be a r us, and we're looking forward to it." THLKTIC Director Bill McLellan ina Monday news conference, calling him ks," and "a coach that could probably L>rk City or Central, South Carolina."