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I Page 10 ? December 7, 1984 Sports THE GAMECOCK . USC gains br H ^M8^EMM^^?i^?MSHnmp yVlllW < '^L. . f??^^J|lipjr| A\Y8lllkli^^ ^gi hil^^^'^9u riis?s&^HKBiH!i?i3F*?^a]^Ejt^K? ?ffc^Es .J&,;.. XJ > "* TwHi Other plans USC's Jimmy Hawthorne plays tough defense against over the Tigers. Gamecocks fa By Joanne Korth tion Defensive hustle and a 36-point se- the eond half were not enough to pull ^ USC's Lady Gamecocks up from a was 12-point half-time deficit in their thin home-onener aeainst rival Clemson. in tl The Lady Jigers defeated head S coach Nancy Wilson's squad in her juni debut at Carolina Coliseum 70-62. Car Clemson took advantage of a cold hall Carolina shooting performance to take V a 7-0 lead. Forward Brantley Southers her first got USC on the board but not until the 16:50 mark. Cle THE LADY GAMECOCKS pulled ( within five, 8-13, on a layup by sixth- heij "It's not the system. It's the moveme has to improve." man Gwen Lynch, but would get no Ca closer at any point in the game. 6-2 sai With 8:53 remaining in the half sid Lynch picked up her third foul and sat we out the rest of the half, beginning a on fouling trend that would hamper with Carolina's guards down the stretch. an ? ? f - - ? fa c-iemson, Keyea oy iorwara janei Knight, scored eight unanswered points to open up a 30-14 lead and the 6_ biggest margin of the game at 16. ^At the 5:20 mark, senior Marsi McAlister committed her third foul, ^ " 1 * -? ?:? n /: 11: ?? ? Ni lorcing sopnuniuic mumid YV liiiauis to move from a forward to the guard aa spot and Carolina to switch from man- nc; to-man defense to a more conservative Wl 3-2 zone. ol r?E-siiMAN PF.r,r,Y GLASS T 1 Xl&JtJilitillM. ! - ? came in to fill the vacant forward posi- i; agging righ A ^ % 1^MF^?5a?a?^-g]gr&,.-^ -s>: ii 'rt'THiBB 11'''' . j J?" ; jjjWXa aR * *' '.: -'?. :'ij^^./-^|K'^',^r-i'"--i Photo bv Jennifer footer Clemson's Vince Hamilton in USC's 71-66 victory II shnrt nf r and contributed three points from marl foul line in less than one minute. 'ith only 16 seconds left Williams A called for hacking, and became the start d guard for Carolina to come out Lad; U..11' uc i u m nan w iin mice iuui^, bLvJl' wing guard Mindy Ballou's 10-foot ing iper at the :06 second mark left defe olina trailing by 12, 26-38, at the nine f. Ir Wilson said she was not pleased with how team's defensive efforts in the first ever f, which she felt contributed to nurr mson's early lead. M base "LEMSON WAS at a very definite thrc ght advantage with 6-4 center Peggy and A in a j six \ .... . to F nt within the system that v Car - Nancy Wilson ran JSC head basketball coach foul fror 1:1! C xr __ ! pie, 6-3 forward Julie Larson, and t^r< forward Sandy Bishop. Wilson t^ej d the Lady Tigers were stronger in- 7) e because of this advantage, and ^ re able to get points off the rebound . . sail second shots. tea 17/m- 1 "D?noo Waitiriun Vine Hnnp she I UI 1WUVV iiUjUi lull ?MV7 vv/..,. excellent job inside, and I can't fee Lilt her effort," said Wilson. I "She's in there everynight with her scc 1 frame doing everything she can." l Inf^rtiinytclv withniit rcnlpr ^ laron Gilmore until late December, ajarian's nights won't be getting ny easier. Wilson admits the team is j^ei >t very deep at the inside positions ho ithout Gilmore. su| The second half of the game started dis rf much like the end of the first half. he Clemson lead fluctuated between i * t I and 16 points through the 11:57 its with 71 -61 By Jeff Rogers USC center Mike Brittain heard plenty of suggestions on campus about beating his school's bitter rivals. 1 * "-J j 1? ?: ~ u. u T> nc lopunucu wcuiicj>uay iugui wmi points and 15 rebounds, both career highs, to lead the Gamecocks to a 71-66 basketball win over Clemson. "I heard a lot of people say, 'Let's make it turn in n rr*w ' " caiH Rrittain r#?f7?ri-ino tr? USC's recent 22-21 football win over the Tigers. "It's the highlight of our year. It'll make Christmas a lot nicer." IT W A C f Aam f i ret iirin onoinrt I nm _ mm 11 iv ivun a o in ji mil a^uimi vivni" son since Jan. 27, 1983, in Carolina Coliseum, when the Tigers lost 94-77. USC lost both contests this past season. But Wednesday's win wasn't as convincing as the previous victory. The Gamecocks t--" 1 - -v r* I* 1 Airt Kn r*o tv\ n \irlinr\ UIUKC it UU-UU lit Willi i .v/U ill mv, gauiu n 11v.11 Michael Foster passed to Linwood Moye, who scored on a layup. Jimmy Hawthorne added two free throws with : 13 remaining and Keith James hit another to seal the win. At first Carolina seemed to be in control, as James and Brittain sparked USC to a 12-4 lead barely four minutes into the game. But the Tigers bounced back with a 12-2 run and took the lead midway into the first half. THE LEAD changed 14 times from that point, one of them coming on a jump shot by Moye to give the Gamecocks a 37-36 lead at the half. But events that would alter both team's play had already occured. Clemson forward Horace Grant left the game with a slight concussion after banging his head on the rim as he dunked. Also, Brittain was called for a third foul just before intermission. "Grant is one of their better ones," Brit, tain said. "I feel things dropped of a lot when he left." Clemson coach Cliff Ellis agreed, saying Grant's departure was "the last thing" that his team needed. omeback black nnnrp DRIVING left layup by Lych V" ** ed a five minute stretch for the y Gamecocks in which they outed the Lady Tigers 11-5. A menac- I full court press and an aggressive nse allowed USC to pull within -w i , 51-60, with 6:46 remaining. PEP If i the middle ot the stretch, ever, Carolina lost Lynch for the ling as she quickly picked up fouls ' * iber four and five. IcAlister was fouled on a 15-foot :line jumper and made the free >w to complete the three-point-play 1 ! I! * _ !aL! Dimg Carolina 10 wupin nine. . five-foot jumper in the lane by ZT 7~ arian left Carolina down by only , ^e^0^uUia ... .... ., c head coach Jc vith a little more than four minutes ? . . to wear to th< ' y' dress in an al VITH MOMENTUM on on Morrison's olina's side, the Lady Gamecocks ence, e . . .. . . ' . magic has hel into their game-long nemesis, the f . I, which ended the hopes of a come . ?r . .e . ean\ .... K head to toe, d n behind win. . . ' /illiams picked up her fifth with ? r 5 remaining as did Ballou at 1:06. - :iemson'S Melinda Ashworth and Th"?'s actua ght sealed the victory at the free teams> ? , 3w line, converting both ends of Accordino ir one-and-one attempts, to make it Tl.a?, ? n ~ r u Theory says i 0-62 finish. narfiriilar a ^lemson head coach Annie Tribble ' R J i she was glad for the cushion her . , m had built up in the first half as wfh ,here s : had not expected to see such an ef- 11..! .'. , . fy * i ic s not k t.ve Carolina press. u>s been . 4I DIDN'T expect it because we had roa8,c over t >uted them in two games," she said. V1C or^.' ... , t. . , creased as tli, think we were a little tired, and we ;d to dribble (through the press) too INTERES ^uui i a rr . all-black dui rnbble was pleased with the effort w,?lc wearjr I After the los ill 11 IK u ii iiic Lauy ? any magic ii Wilson, on the other hand, was P*.cours? appointed in the way her team ~ ' lyed in the final four minutes. The dy Gamecocks, perhaps a little over See "Lady Gamecocks," page 11 S win I WITH BRITTAIN in foul trouble, USC |? head coach Bill Foster started the second half ft l? ^ iaiio BV Willi a /.unv, uviviwv. s "We stayed in our zone a little bit longer p and it wound up helping us," Foster said. p "We didn't want to use the zone.against jf them because it gives away too many free | 1 . _ J ? i. n /4 l-\ r>r??-? Kant K?l K n ? ?-! lIv snois, anu wc uuu uwn utai vy iiitm uciure : on long outside shots." ; But the Tigers stayed cold, shooting only f 41 percent from the field in the second half. | That accounted for a 16-4 Gamecock spurt [ that gave USC a 61-50 lead midway in the se- | cond half. t: The Tieers came back aRain, scoring 11 I unanswered points in just over two minutes to tie the game. Then Brittain almost became the goat, missing three of four free throws. "I'LL TELL you, missed free throws are really hurting us," Foster said. "We got \ good breaks at the end. Whenever you get them at the end, that s great. I hat s when you need them. Tonight we needed them in a big way." Foster said Brittain played "an outstanding game" despite the misses. "You have to give our team credit," he said. "We kept our poise when the game lr\nl/oM WpqI fr\r nc That frnm Mirhapl JUV7JWU U1VUI\ I v/l V4J . A I1UI i V/1II KAivaiuvi Foster to Linwood Moye underneath (that set up the winning basket) was very big. "We felt we gave the ball back to them too many times. But we didn't give them anything in the last two minutes." F.I.I.IS SAID he couldn't sav anvthine i negative to his team, who dropped to 2-2 with the loss. "We played hard and were aggressive," he said. "They had adversity with Horace Grant out and came back. "It was a close ballgame out there, anybody's game at the end. Our defense put us in a position to'win the game, but we couldn't convert when we had the opportuni ty. We held a team to 71 points on the road and that was a good sign." magic: It's n A abi A iiuuud iiidii ^ I r story told 'round town is that USC football >e Morrison dug into his closet for something i season opener last season ? and decided to 1-black outfit to the game. reason: "It was clean and it fit." birth of "Black Magic." This season, the d the enviable position of holding responsible 's amazing record. People wear black from Irive black cars, wave black flags. . . you get RE'S more to black magic than meets the eye. illy a reason why football fans has been in the his fall. to my anthropology teacher, Malinowski's that when thincs are safe and secure during a ctivity, there's no reason for charms or when there is a reason for anxiety or concern, a chance for things to go wrong or an element eople resort to 'magic' for comfort. :idding. nteresting watching the development of black le semester. As each weekend brought another ale of black items for Columbia merchants in le excitement grew. TINGLY, THE team itself never dressed in ring the season. The team got its tails kicked lg those uniforms against Clemson last year, s, the players and the fans realized there wasn't 1 wearing all-black. everyone knows the real reason why we're wc nave me latent ana tne spirit. Black magic i le winning more fun and the wait between wins I I Cm " Talk " <!? 1 1 I r~?w i