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8 Friday, April 18, 1986
Sports bri
USC advances
in Metro tennis
No. I seed Jan Sandberg and
No. 4 seed Johan Karlen advanced
to the semifinals in their
respective divisions at the 1986
Metro Conference Men's Tennis
championships, held at USC.
The top seeds for each team
play each other in tournament
fashion to earn points for their
team, rhe No. 2 through No. 6
seeds also play in this manner.
Sandbery and Karlen will play
again at 1:30 p.m. today at Sam
Daniel Tennis Stadium. If both
win, they will play Saturday in
their championship matches.
The Gamecocks, ranked 12th
in the nation, arc hoping for an
at-large berth to the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
Championships.
In women's action, USC won
all of its singles matches against
Louisville. USC's Jill Hausler led
the wav with a 7-6 victnrv
over Louisville's Brcnda Dorrcl.
Felton signs
coach, player
First-year head basketball
coach George Felton has signed
his first recruit and named his second
assistant coach.
Reggie Smith, a 6-foot-4,
180-pound guard from Rutherfordton,
N.C., signed with the
Gamecocks Tuesday.
Felton hired Tubby Smith, a
34-year-old assistant from
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Smith averaged 18.5 points and
six rebounds per game to lead
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with a 29-1 record. He
totaled 1,077 points in his career
and was an all-conference choice
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Smith will join Brian
D'Amico, a 6-10 center from
Pennsylvania, who signed with
the Gamecocks last fall.
Coach Smith was a member of
the VCU coaching staff for seven
seasons. During that time, the
Rams compiled a 132-48 record,
with five NCAA tournament appearances.
Coa*.ii Smith will join
Eddie Payne, formerly head
coach at Belmont Abbey, as the
Gamecocks' other assistant.
Concepcion leads
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By WAYNE WASHINGTON
Staff writer
A growing concern of drug abuse among
student-athletes has caused USC's athlctic
department to start random drug testing of
Gamecock athletes.
But two USC basketball players said a drug
problem such as the one at Tulane University
doesn't plague Carolina athletes.
"If there are any athletes on drugs or
anything, it's kept very secret because we sure
don't know anything about it," said Perry
Dozicr, a freshman basketball player.
News accounts, however, have splashed the
drug problem across the front pages of sports
sections across the country.
A year ago, Tulane's cocaine-based pointshaving
scandal rocked the nation. The scandal
caused Green Wave head basketball coach
Ned Fowler and his top three assistants to quit
their jobs.
The scandal also resulted in the termination
of Tulanc basketball. But the most saddening
aspect of the whole affair was the termination
of John "Hot Rod" Williams' career.
Impressive statistics had him firmly
established as one of the nation's best. The
scandal threw him in a bad light, causing him
to disappear from the basketball scene.
The Tulanc scandal represented the college
drug, point-shaving scandal of the year, and
nearly every university has begun to worry
about drug-related problems.
Both Perry, and his twin, Terry, said what
happened at Tulane is unlikely to occur at
use.
"Everyone is aware of what happened at
Tulane. You wouldn't want to make the same
mistake," said Terry, a freshman forward.
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athletic departments) say 'this happened to
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messed up on is beer," Terry said, adding thai
drugs aren't a problem among USC athletes.
Perry, whose playing time increased as a
result of his brother Terry's injured wrist,
agreed.
He added though that the two of them
"can't say" that out of all the studentathletes
enrolled at USC, none are on drugs.
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be a major problem on college campuses ?
no matter what company you keep.
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