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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
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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
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ck now." could play," Thompson said. "
> Brown. how much I eould use him with
is, his errant pass
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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.
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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<
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For freshmen Tammy Harvey and Shan- in
non Belcher, it is another time for transition. N
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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taml, Ellis comes from the University of
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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.
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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."