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Clemson
earlier los
By JEFF NICHOLS
Staff writer
Whoever said you can't go home
again has never been to Littlejohn
Coliseum.
Sure, the Clemson University
basketball team that defeated USC
78-65 Saturday night has made great
strides since suffering a 20-point loss
to the Gamecocks back on Dec. 3.
But to say the 11,500 fans who
jammed into Littlejohn ? including
the students just a short bounce pass
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deserve a lot of credit for Clemson's
victory is to ignore the truth.
Clemson head coach Cliff Ellis
knows the fans are important and
relies on them.
With the Tigers enjoying a comfortable
margin in the second half, Ellis
turned from coach to cheerleader.
His orange jacket long since
removed, Ellis began waving his arms
continually in an effort to make sure
the crowd ignored the scoreboard
and kept up their fever pitch.
He had a couple of reasons for
concern.
After a highly emotional home win
over No. 3 North Carolina three days
earlier, Ellis wanted to make sure his
Tigers stayed pumped from start to
finish.
"With the lead tonight, I just felt a
little staleness," Ellis said, "i think
we we were a little flat."
Also, two months was not long
enough to erase from his memory a
rowdy Carolina Coliseum audience
and a 17-0 second half opening spurt
used to put Clemson away.
"I was in Columbia two months
ago," Ellis said. "They were 15 up,
and we couldn't call a play. I wanted
to make sure that our fans got our
players into it, and they did a good
job."
So Ellis didn't mind when his
players asked if they could don the
all-orange uniforms for the first time
since the USC game two years ago. It
seemed the players hadn't forgotten
what happened two months ago.
Revenge came without much of a
struggle as Clemson, 14-5, relied on
strong inside play and poor
Gamecock shooting to spark a running
attack in handing USC, 12-6, its
third straight loss.
"I thought the running game was
the biggest significant factor," Ellis
said.
Freshman forward Joe Rhett and
sophomore point guard Brent Price
came out in the opening minutes
playing like they were out to put a
stop to Clemson's 11 straight victories
over USC at home. The duo
combined for the Gamecocks' first
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12 points, including two threepointers
by Price ? the last one making
it 13-12 Clemson with 16:41 remaining
in the first half.
Clemson then went on a 14-2 run
over the next ten minutes to open up
a 27-14 margin with 6:56 remaining.
Price hit a 12-footer to cut the lead
to six points at 27-21, but that's as
close as the Gamecocks would come
the rest of the way.
Clemson led 40-29 at the half and
went into the lockeroom confident
there would be no repeat of USC's
second-half torrid start that had
taken place in Columbia two months
earlier.
The Tigers had reason to be confident,
considering they built their lead
with leading scorer, center Elden
Campbell, scoring only two points in
the first half.
Campbell came out firing in the second
half scoring 15 points to finish
in a tie for scoring honors with forwards
Derrick Forrest and Dale
Davis, who all had 17 points. Guard
Marion Cash added 12 points for the
Tigers.
Clemson's largest lead was 74-51
with 5:03 remaining, but USC finished
strong ? going on a 14-4 run capped
off by baskets from seniors John
Breckenridge and Bill Vernau for the
final 13-point margin.
Price led USC with 14 points,
despite special abuse given to him by
the Clemson crowd each time he
touched the ball. Joe Rhett added 12
points and a team-leading seven rebounds.
USC shot 43 percent from
the field compared to 53 percent
shooting for Clemson.
USC now returns home for a
Metro Conference matchup tonight
with Southern Mississippi. Game
time is 7:30.
USC (65)
uozier u-o u-u u, Ktiett 6-9 0-0 12, Hudson
2-8 2-2 6, Price 5-11 2-2 14, Manning
4-9 1-1 9, English 3-8 0-1 6, Roulston 2-6
0-0 4, McKoy 1-3 0-0 2, Vernau 2-2 0-0 4,
Glover 3-3 0-2 6, Sykes 0-0 0-0 0,
Breckenridge 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 29-66 5-8
65.
CLEMSON (78)
Forrest 7-12 2-2 17, Pryor 3-8 0-0 6,
Campbell 5-8 7-10 17, Cash 3-4 5-6 12,
Kincaid 3-7 2-3 8, Howling 0-3 0-0 0,
Davis 7-7 3-4 17, Jones 0-1 0-0 0, Mitchell
0-0 1-21, Brown 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 28-52
20-27 78.
Halftime ? Clemson 40, USC 29.
3-point field goals ? USC 2-5 (Price 2-4,
Dozier 0-1), Clemson 2-8 (Forrest 1-3,
Pryor 0-1, Cash 1-1, Howling 0-3). Rebounds
? USC 28 (Rhett 7), Clemson 39
(Davis 10). Assists ? USC 16 (Manning,
English 3), Clemson 18 (Kincaid 6). Total
fouls ? USC 19, Clemson 14. A ?
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loss to Clemson Sunday at Littlejohn Coliseu
led USC with seven rebounds.
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Two down and one to go.
The 17th-ranked Lady Gamecock
basketball team won the second of a
three-game road trip Saturday at
Metro Conference rival Memphis
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USC lost at No. 2 Tennessee
Thursday night, 60-54.
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no signs of a letdown during Saturday's
81-53 win over the Lady Tigers,
running their record to 15-4 overall
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Terry Dozier
Seniors hit
in last Clem
By DAVE KAY
staff writer
For the seniors on the USC basketsail
team, Saturday night's 78-65 loss ]
it Littlejohn Coliseum in Clemson i
vas even tougher to swallow. <
John Hudson, Terry Dozier, Bill
^ernau and John Breckenridge saw |
heir last regular-season contest with I
"lemson fall to the wayside as the '
Samecocks' losing streak in Clemson <
vas extended to 12 games. <
The two senior starters, Dozier and
-Judson, had perhaps the worst i
>ames in their respective careers, 1
:ombining for only six points and 1
ive rebounds. Those marks were 1
vay below par. Hudson came into t
he contest averaging 16.1 points and
i.2 rebounds a game, while Dozier
lad averaged 10.3 points and four re- 1
>ounds an outing. I
For the second game in a row, the <
Tiger defense held one of its oppo- 1
lent's top players scoreless. Against s
hird-ranked North Carolina last <
Vednesday, the Tigers held Tar Heel
;uard Jeff J.ebo without a point. i
iaturday night's victim was Dozier.
"This is the first time in my I
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/ent a game without scoring. It's t
rustrating, but what can I say about T
Hudson, who had averaged 15 \
joints in his first three games against ?
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Purser sets record
it Clemson meet 1
The USC women's track team t
ompeted in the Clemson Invita- a
ional tournament Friday at Little- \
ahn Coliseum. d
Lady Gamecock Dana Purser won p
he women's 3000-meter race with a
ecord time of 10:15.5. Purser's time i
et a new USC and Littlejohn Col- '
>eum record. ^
Golf team finishes
seventh in Tuscon !!
The USC men's golf team finished S(
eventh in the 21-team Arizona Inter- ^
ollegiate Tournament held in jy
uscon, Ariz, this past week. S(
Final USC individual scores were r
s follows: Jeff Hull, 224; Rick S(
Williams, 227; Bruce Bulina, 232; S(
irett Quigley, 233; Robert Dargan, ^
42- L
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If en' sswim team ?
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vim teams traveled to Chapel Hill, 6[.C.
this weekend to face the
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assignment.
"The crowd was really into the
game," Hudson said. "We expected
it, but we just came up on the short
end of the stick."
Everyone saw action in Saturday's
game, which was televised regionally
by the ACC network. Reserve forward
Vernau saw playing time in
;ach half, scoring four points and
dishing out two assists.
"1 was a little bit surprised 1 went
n there so early," Vernau said, "but
hey were playing zone, and we
weren't hitting shots, so coach (USC
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here to see what I could do."
Breckenridge, a reserve senior forward
from Salem, Ohio, scored the
first points of his career against
[Tlemson late in the second half.
Despite the loss, Breckenridge said he
itill finds comfort in the fact that the
Damecocks won in Columbia.
"Being a senior, I was really hopng
to beat them up here," he said,
'but since we beat them at our place,
can still feel pretty good about it."
The Gamecocks, now 12-6, appear
o be straddling the line for an
MCAA tournament berth in March.
"Hopefully, we can get back and
vorry about the Metro games and
;nd up winning 18 or 19 games and
',0 on from there," Hudson said.
mproved their record to 5-2 w\th a
149-94 win over the Tar Heels Saturiay
afternoon. The Tar HtfelS dropred
to 7-2 with the loss.
The Lady Gamecocks fell to UNC
n a 133-110 decision. The loss drop>ed
USC's record to 2-5, while the
-ady Tar Heels improved to 9-2.
Sunday, the men's team paricipated
in a meet in Blacksburg, Va.
gainst Metro Conference foe
Virginia Tech. The Gamecocks
lefeated the Hokies 145-86 to imirove
their season mark to 6-2.
USC dominates
ennis invitational
i ne use, men s tennis team played
ost to the USC Winter Classic this
eekend at The Bubble.
In the singles quarterfinals, top
:ed Stephane Simian of USC
efeated No. 7 seed D. Johnson of
lorth Carolina 6-4, 6-2; secondeeded
Steve Longley of the
iamecocks beat No. 8 seed J. Stimp3n
of Alabama 6-2, 6-3; thirdeeded
David Pollack (UNC)
efeated No. 5 seed Ken Diller of
'SC 6-2, 7-6; and USC's Louie
Horia, seeded sixth, upset fourthieded
C. Efremoglou of Alabama
-4, 7-5.
In the semifinal round, USC's Silian
defeated teammate Gloria 6-3,
-1 and USC's Longley beat Pollack
-2, 6-2 to make it an all-USC final.
In the tournament finals, Longley
efeated Simian in straight sets 7-5,
3 to capture the championship.
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