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THE GAMECOCK Sports February 4, 1985 ? Page 13 USC downs F Gamecocks take on ? Ga. State tonight I By Roggie Kirktey 6 ^ USC's men's basketball team will try for their third 9 straight win tonight when they face Georgia State in Carolina h Coliseum at 7:30. South Carolina, 11-6 after a 92-77 victory over Florida State Catuirlav vi/ill mpni th#? 1.IR Pnnthprc nnH .althniioh th#? Pan- f thers have struggled this year, USC head coach Bill Foster said t the Gamecocks must come out and play well against them. 5 Cieorgia Slate's head coach Mark Slonaker is in his first year after taking over this year when Tom Pugliesc was released. s THK PANTHERS are only shooting 43.4 percent from the I field and are giving up 51.4 percent shooting. They are also i shooting 63.7 percent from the free-throw line. Georgia State lost again Saturday to Centenary, 76-72, and I is now 0-9 in the Trans America Athletic Conference. The Panthers have been allowing their opponents an average of 82.7 points and 40.6 rebounds. i The Gamecocks will have to key on the Panthers' Dewey > Haley, a 6-1 guard who leads the team with 70 assists this season. ; USC's 15-point victory this past Saturday over Florida State was its first in four years against the Scminoles at Carolina i Coliseum and the Gamecocks' second game in which they < have scored more than 90 points. I FLORIDA STATF, 7-11, came into the game looking for i its first victory on the road and their seventh over the A f tamrrnrk <; Foster said the key to Saturday's victory was his team's fast start and the play of freshmen Keith James and Tarone Thornton, who combined to score 27 points. "Keith James and Tarone Thornton gol off io a very good starl and played very well tonight," Foster said. James, who scored 20 points, came off the bench to score eight during the first half. JAMES SAID he came into the ballgame ready to play. "1 came to play like every other game. I've always got to be ready," he said. The first half saw the Gamecocks shoot 60 percent from ihe floor. "The first half played a big part in our victory," said 6-6 ^ forward l.inwood Moye. "We were passing well, making good shots from the outside that made their defense collapse. The team put out a real effort and came to play." JIMMY HAWTHORNE, 6-1 guard, opened the game with an IR-fnnt iiimnrr and ?inn Carolina built an 8-0 lead at the 17:08 mark in the first half. __^ r- i_* - ~ yj- ~ -_~ ?lvxtL~ * ~c\~-_ 2-V 1":~:'t/_2 I A JggHnr a USC football player Bryant Gilllard holds tha Spartan Foods Ti annually to tha winnar of tha USC/Clemson football gam*. Q tha trophy Saturday night at Carolina Colisoum. SU, 92-77 Carolina pulled further ahead when Moyc hit a 13-foot imper in the lane with 11:54 remaining in the half to make ic seorc 19-8. From then on the Gamecocks seemed to dominate the half y hitting outside shots and playing tough zone defense. Carolina built its biggest lead, 22 points, when Moyc hit a -foot baseline jumper with four minutes left in the first half. Florida State never gave up, and by the end of the half they ad cut Carolina's lead to 13 points, 48-35. THE SECOND half was almost a repeat performance of the irst by the Gamecocks when Michael Foster opened up with he scoring by hitting a 21-foot jumper, making the score H 0-36. The enthusiastic crowd of 7,896 erupted when Mike Brittain jj lam-dunked at the 13:55 mark, making the score 60-47. [/ Florida State's 6-8 forward Randy Allen kept the game close >y hitting a pair of 12-foot jumpers to cut Carolina's lead to line, 60-51. But Carolina answered right back with another dunk by irittain with 12:13 remaining in the game. ALTHOUGH FSU cut the lead to seven points with four I ninutes to go in the game, the Gamecocks easily went on to ,vin 92-77 with key tree throw shooting at the end. jCoach Foster said the Gamecocks played well as a whole f igainst Florida State. "Florida State played very well against us. They kept com- ? ng back . . .1 think we had a lot of heroes and everyone :ontributed." I One of those herocswas Jimmy Hawthorne, who had 14 I points and said Carolina won because the team played together. t "WE PLAYED well tonight," he said. "We shot together and we played very well as a team." Coach Foster said Carolina's game plan was to key on Florida State's Alton Lee Gipson. The 6-10 Seminole center, who averages 18.8 points a i game, was held to 14 Saturday. Foster said a key to the ball game was to contain Gipson and that's why Brittain and Kendall got into early foul trouble. AS A team, Carolina shot 58.9 percent from the floor, 33 of 56 and from the foul line, 26 of 32. In other scoring, Linwood Moyc lead the team with 21 points, Keith lames had 20, and Michael Foster and Jimmy Hawthorne had 14 points each. The Seminolcs shot 44 percent from the floor and 57 percent from the line. Sophomore forward Randy Allen, 6-8, led Florida State with 20 points. After tonight's game against Georgia State, USC will return to Metro Conference action Wednesday versus Southern Mississippi in Hatticsburg, Miss. In the two team's previous meeting, the Gamecocks won, 90-72. JllWnmpn fa . v W M By Joanna Korth M ^bBSS BLACKSBURG, Va. ? Everyone wants to be l*3ri8BS?SSI number one team, and Virginia Tech's wo : V.yv';\I basketball team saw its opportunity as the : _ j Gamecocks came to visit Saturday night as the 1 ' Conference's north division leader. -3_ I Carol Alfano's Lady Hokies used a menacing i*?Z , court press and hard work on the boards to upsei j in a close game, 59-58. Alfano had planned to pressure the !'y ' j Gamecocks all the way up the floor from the "They have six players that they use," she said. ' .* knew that if we didn't press them we'd be letting BHMI apinj UJ? "WE WERK looking forward to playing ther (Cassell Coliseum) while they were in first p Alfano said. The Lady Hokies have lost onl Metro game at home and improved their record in the league with the victory. Carolina slips to 12-7 overall, 5-2 in the leagu atop the north division. The biggest lead of the game was a four-poii to Carolina, 14-10, early in the first half. T mainder of the game was a see-saw battle th Lady Hokies won on Carolina mistakes in th minute. With a two-point lead, 56-54, at the 1:07 m? Lady Gamccocks made several costly errors. BRANTLEY SOUTHERS committed her thi 1 going for an offensive rebound and sent V K|r. i* J Tech's Susan Waivius to the line. Walvius ti :? Mindy Ballou fouled Lady Hokie Renee [ i j ^ | who went to the line and added one more to giv Carolina pulled down the rebound after Deni ? ed on her second attempt, and was calicd for ? . second count, giving the ball back to the Hoki (ER I Th. Gtnwcock 50 scconds to p|ay . nr???n#??l Virginia Tech took this opportunity to rui im? j . clock, using all but four seconds of the 30-secoi illiard accepted dock ____________ OFF THE defensive rebound, Ballou was , w*ww F. M; *i;;iMKSHnR^V V a I JW W-0f? V JENNIFER WOOTEN I Th# Gtmtcock USC's Linwood Moye blocks out Florida State's Alton Les Gipson as he moves toward the basket in Saturday night's game. f ,a ^ ~ -... ? Probable Starters South Carolina: Duanc Kendall (F, 0-10, Jr.); Linwood Moye <F, 6-*>s4r?); Mike Brittaii^(C^ 7^0? Sr.);Mich*?* Foster CO, M, So.);Jimmy Hawthorne (G, 6-3. Sr.),, |<W^lonlO. a-i. Sf.|: PfWy Haley ?].<V-I . J;.); II to Hokies and went to the line with the chance to make up for the at the foul-line points given to Tech. men's Ballon hit both free throws and put Carolina up by Lady one, 58-57, with only 18 seconds left, but Virginia Vletro Tech wasn't finished. After calling timout, the Lady Hokies set up their /? i ?* ?. j a ?i/.it.. i.:* c ?la I lull- lasi snoi anu /Migic ivcuy im iium me iujj wi mc i\^y iu t USC give Tech the victory, 59-58. Carolina head coach Nancy Wilson went with a Lady smaller, quicker lineup for most of the game after her start." bigger lineup failed to produce on the boards. , "We "S1ZK WAS not being a positive factor for us," she ; them said. "Actually, it wasn't being a factor at all." The smaller lineup paid the price in the rebounding " Imuinuor vi/linro 'J ml i n Q u/ac Allt Af\ t C\ lace," 34. ty one Wilson said Carolina's inability for each player to to 3-4 advance the ball a little bit against the press was a part of the Lady Gamecocks second consecutive Metro c, still loss, but said she felt the game was lost on errors in the final minute. it lead "In an unneccessary situation, we put them on the he r<* line," she said, "and then we got the five second call ' int the at a crucial time and gave back the ball." e final THE VIRGINIA TECH game was the Lady irk the Gamecocks' fifth road game in six outings; perhaps the travel is beginning to take its toll. "Mentally, we knew this team was going to have to rd foul go all-out and be real scrappy and pick up loose balls. jrginia because we knew we would have to encounter (a lot of ied the n ad trips)" Wiison said. Southers led the scoring for the Lady Gamecocks with 20 points and Monica )ennis, Williams put in 13 off the bench. eTech Renee Najarian took rebounding honors with 11, while Southers pulled down nine. lis faila five- CAROLINA PLAYS tonight at Georgia Southern es with before returning home to play Louisville Thursday night at 7:30. i some While the game will be a break from the Metro nd shot schedule, it really will not be a break to have to play the Lady Eagles in Statesboro, Wilson said. "They'll fouled be real psyched up to beat us," Wilson said.