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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
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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.
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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, ^
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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.
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Clemson's Vince Hamilton in USC's 71-66 victory
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foul line in less than one minute.
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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
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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
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excellent job inside, and I can't fee
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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 *
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its with 71 -61
By Jeff Rogers
USC center Mike Brittain heard plenty of
suggestions on campus about beating his
school's bitter rivals.
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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."
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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
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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.
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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
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vith a little more than four minutes ? .
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VITH MOMENTUM on on Morrison's
olina's side, the Lady Gamecocks ence, e
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into their game-long nemesis, the f .
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/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?, ?
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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
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4I DIDN'T expect it because we had roa8,c over t
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think we were a little tired, and we
;d to dribble (through the press) too INTERES
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Wilson, on the other hand, was P*.cours?
appointed in the way her team ~ '
lyed in the final four minutes. The
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WITH BRITTAIN in foul trouble, USC |?
head coach Bill Foster started the second half ft
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"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
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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
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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."
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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
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