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Lady Ga fall to T< By DAVE KAY Staff writer The Lady Gamecocks took an early exit from the 1989 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament Wednesday night with a heartbreaking 77-73 loss at the hands of Tennessee Tech. The Golden Eaglettes, seeded 11th in the Midwest Region, dominated the second half of play, coming from as many as 14 points behind to defeat the sixth-seeded Lady Gamecocks. USC held a 49-38 advantage at the half, but saw its lead quickly dwindle away, as the Eaglettes, 22-7, took advantage of poor rebounding and shooting by the Lady Gamecocks in the second half. The Lady Gamecocks never trailed in the first half, running the fast break to perfection to build as much as a 13-point lead when Banner hit a 6-foot turnaround jumper at the 4:33 mark. The Lady Gamecocks' success continued early into the second half as Karen Middleton connected on a 3-pointer at the 19:41 mark, and USC led 52-38. But Tech outscored the Lad> Gamecocks 29-11 during the next 12-and-a-half minutes to take a 67-63 lead with 7:01 remaining. USC stormed back to take a 73-71 lead with 1:46 left on a short jumpei by Beth Hunt, and after a basket bj Tech's Melinda Clayton, the twe teams were deadlocked at 73, but the Eaglettes hit four key free throws ir the final seconds to seal the first round victory. Angela Brown, Tech's leading scorer with 23 points, made one ol two free throws with 20 seconds re maining to give her team a one-poini arlvantarrp On th/* f^ncilino nnccPQ. UU?U1U?6V. ?? sion, Schonna Banner, who had 1( points for the Lady Gamecocks missed two shots within seven fee before Tech's Shawn Monday wa? fouled with six seconds left. Monday missed the free throw, but reboundec her own shot and was fouled im mediately with four seconds left. This time, Monday made her firs attempt, but missed the bonus USC's Martha Parker rebounded thi ball and frantically tried to get th< ball upcourt. But Parker was callec for traveling with two seconds re maining, turning the ball over to thi Baseball team gets two straight wins The USC baseball team wallope the Eagles of Winthrop 17-6 Wednes day in Rock Hill, as they poundd out 19 hits and improved their seaso mark to 7-6. Gamecocks Mark Taylor and Tra Witt hit grand slam home runs, an< Derrick Mack and Tripp Cromer als< homered for USC. USC freshma pitcher Matt Threehouse pitched si innings, allowing eight hits and fou runs in improving his record to 2-0 Winthrop pitcher Brian Fizel too the loss. The Eagles fell to 1-3. USC also recorded a 6-3 victor over ?apusi college in vmariesio Tuesday in a make-up game. The Gamecocks will open a three game weekend series with nationall; ranked Metro Conference opponen Florida State at 7:30 p.m. Friday a Sarge Frye Field. WdSC-FM: Lend yonr finnnnrt I ifu|i|iva / To . . . L { \ Today < f / ,< i Sa DONATIONS WIL THE I mecocks jch, 77-73 Eaglettes. Tech's Dana Scott was fouled on the inbounds play, and her successful attempts from the foul line sealed the victory for the Eaglettes. "In the second half the thing we do extremely well, we just didn't do, and that's shnnt " I JSC head coach Nan cy Wilson said, "I thought we played i hard ? we just didn't play well." I i The first half consisted of torrid shooting by both clubs with USC hitting 61 percent of their shots to ; Tech's 55 percent. : Hunt, who scored 20 points on seven of nine shooting in the first I half, said the basket seemed a lot i smaller in the second half. "In the second half, we were tak1 ing the same shots, but they just weren't falling," Hunt said. "It i seemed like there was a lid on the i basket." i That lid caused the Lady Gamecocks to connect for only 9 field goals out of 27 attempts in the i second half, resulting in a sickly 33 t percent shooting from the floor. 1 Tennessee Tech head coach Bill Worrell credited his team's agr gressive play as the key to the win. t "Sometimes you win aggressively, I sometimes you win backing into it," Worrell said, "but you don't win as often backing into victory as you do being aggressive." r With the win, Tech advances to the > second round of the tournament, ; where they will play the University of i Iowa in Iowa City. The Lady Gamecocks ended their season at 23-7. f TENNESSEE TECH (77) ? Peterson 1-4 0-0 2, Brown 11-23 1-2 23, Clayton 8-10 1-2 17, Monday 1-2 1-3 3, . Ramsey 4-10 0-0 4, Adams 6-12 2-3 14, Scott 3-6 3-3 10, Montooth 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 34-67 8-13 77. [ USC (73) > Hunt 11-16 y-iu ji, rarxer s-i i-s ?, I Banner 5-14 0-0 10, David 0-0 0-0 0, Diaz i 6-11 1-2 13, Middleton 3-10 0-0 9, Hawkins 0-0 2-2 2. Totals 28-58 14-17 73. Halftime ? USC 49, Tennesse Tech 38. t 3-point field goals ? Tennessee Tech 1-3 (Scott 1-2, Ramsey 0-1), USC 3-9 (Middleton 3-8, Parker 0-1). Rebounds ? Ten" nessee Tech 40 (Clayton 12), USC(29 ; (Hunt ft). Assists ? Tennessee Teen 15 1 (Ramsey 5), USC 21 (Parker 9)'. Total fouls ? Tennesse Tech 15, USC 16. At; tendance ? 1,966. SPORTS BRIEFS d Womentennis d team falls to Texas n USC's 25th-ranked Lady y Gamecock tennis team was slammed d by the 17th-ranked Lady Longhorns o of Texas Wednesday 8-1 at Maxcy n Gregg Tennis Stadium, x USC dropped the first five singles r matches, as their record fell to 2 10 on the season. Lady Gamecock k Cyndee Newton recorded the only win for USC when she defeated y Texas' Alecha Hallmark 4-6, 6-3, n 6-2. Texas went on to win the three doubles matches and improved their record to 7-4. y The Lady Gamecocks next match t will be March 18 when they play host t to Texas A & M at 1 p.m. in Columbia. WFSOME LTERNATIVE 90.5 \ V ^<x^_oeuasop5^//' KA ROCK-A-THOI ?:00-3:00 on the Russell and turday, March 18th in Five L GO TO THE NATIONA PREVENTION OF CHIL ^ r fg ^^Mfll^^mEgWK^^K^KUn mam S "\l rnmm J^lm* " '> t % 5= ^M?? * ^S -*, '. hj hrt>flM,L,.-x. , W - #^fg?&$& USC senior Martha Parker finds herself sui nessee Tech opponents during Wednesday ni; first-round game. Tech handed Parker and th< season-ending 77-73 loss. Wilson, team In-11 ^ A /fnt1/1 A 71// uy iviui iv? By CHRIS SILVESTRI the se Assistant sports editor ticket In the second half of USC's first detec round NCAA women's tournament faces game Wednesday at Carolina Col- cham iseum against Tennessee Tech, the that \ Lady Gamecocks became victim to a Madi common disease known as the pressures of March Madness. W1 Countless times during NCAA press tournaments, higher-seeded teams lack i unexpectedly fall to the underdog. a larj The Lady Gamecocks became the I another team to go down in the their books in this category when they let a cond 14-point second half lead evaporate 40-2S as the Golden Eaglettes defeated use, 77-73. "1 "I'm just sick," said USC head a gai coach Nancy Wilson. "I'm sick for and t our players, and I'm disappointed "I for our players." and t After playing like a Final Four USC contender in the first half, the Lady who Gamecocks shooting went cold and felt t * rebounding seemed to become an the s unintelligible foreign concept. - in th From the seven-minute mark of in." Men's tenni: By MATTHEW ROBERTS Staff writer The USC men's tennis team continues to m name for itself as one of the premier teams ii legiate tennis as they open up their outdoor s< on the heels of a very successful indoor seasc In the National Indoor Team Championsh Louisville, Ky., the Gamecocks had impn wins over national powerhouses LSU and U< The Gamecocks defeated fifth-ranked LSU in first-round match. In the quarterfinals, uamecocKS upset me lop-ran K.eu iec the nation, 5-3. USC eventually lost 5-4 ii semifinals to California-Irvine in a very match. USC head coach Kent DeMars is pleasanth prised with his team's rapid progress this sea "I thought we had the potential to beat th k x\ m / Ml _ / anamrocK / Project WsV J \ House Patio i Points ,L ASSOCIATION FOR ? D ABUSE | l_ mm i illJj ^Wj^r^'. l?A^y 58? 1?0* i*' ^ ' * s mi0$ -*?* ' TEDDY LEPP/The Gamecock -rounded from all sides by Tenet's NCAA Midwest Regional e rest of the Lady Gamecocks a affected adness9 :cond half until the final seconds x on me ciock, one eouiu casny t the frustration etched on the of the USC women as their pionship hopes melted away in pressure cooker known as March less. len teams collapse under this ure, it is usually because of a af poise and confidence,: such as ge number of turnovers, but in ^ady Gamecocks5 case, it was 33 percent shooting in the sehalf and being out-rebounded > by the Golden Eaglettes. 'he things we normally do well in ne, we didn't do well tonight, hat's shoot," said Wilson, don't think I boxed out as well hey took advantage of it," said sophomore forward Beth Hunt, had a career-high 31 points. "I hat for the most part, we took ame shots in the second half as e first, but they just didn't go s squad 1 teams," DeMars said, " that decimated us last ye; ake a tie longer to become rea i col- The 8-3 Gamecocks a ;ason in the nation and have se in. national individual rank ips in Two of the keys to tl ;ssive season are the top t\ ZLA. Longley and Stephane 5 their have led the team with the and motivated attitudes, im in Longley is very enthu ii the for his team's success close season. "We can compete wit / sur- and we have a realistic o son. top five of the nation," e top exciting to be a part of c Bora Bora Luaus will burn you oul "Theme" restaurants ter make you sit through an act get your meal. Not Annabelle's. We've ? the delicious food and relaxe ^atmosphere yoi c,^eepsvea S \ comfortable wi T?? \ taste of Amerii Come to fi. SK* \ You'll love us qc \ we are. You' fnr what ure Annabel I v RESTAURANT i Columbia Mall Mon-Thurs 11.30 AM- 110 788-4092 Fri-Sat 11:30 AM - Midi Sunday 12 Noon - 10 00 utch Square Mall Mon-Thurs 11:30 AM-11:0 72-5586 Fri-Sat 11:30 AM-Midi j ?d^ . Sunday 12 Noon-10 00 inday ABC permits Men begi against W By KEVIN ADAMS Sports editor The USC men's basketball team will play its first NCAA tournament game in 15 years when.it faces the North Carolina State Wolfpack today in Providence, R.I. Tipoff is scheduled for 12:07 p.m., and the game will be televised na tionaiiy oy tsriN. i ne contest win oe also be shown locally on WLTX, Channel 19. The winner of the USC-N.C. State game will play the winner of Friday's Iowa-Rutgers contest Sunday afternoon in Providence. USC, with a 19-10 record, heads into the first-round East Regional game against Coach Jim Valvano's Wolfpack with a chance to become only the eighth team in this school's history to win 20 games. The last USC squad to accomplish that feat was Bill Foster's 1982-83 team, which advanced to the National Invitational Tournament quarterfinals and finished with a 22-9 record. "We're really excited ? really proud for the kids. It's just a great thing for the program," said USC head coach George Felton of the Gamecocks' first NCAA bid since 1974. USC, with Felton as a reserve, was put out that year with a firstround loss to Furman in Philadelphia. USC received a bid despite losing 80-63 to Florida State in the Metro Conference Tournament semifinals. IN.L-. state, zu-o, won me regular season Atlantic Coast Conference championship with a 10-4 conference record, but lost in the first round of the ACC Tournament to Maryland last Friday in Atlanta. The Wolfpack's 71-49 loss to the Terrapins marked the first time ever in the ACC Tournament that a No. 1 seed lost to the last place team. Felton said he didn't know how the loss to Maryland would affect the Wolfpack, saying only, "You'll have to ask Jim Valvano." "We're playing a team that was first seed in the ACC and won the regular season championship. But we match up well, and I think that's important," Felton said, citing each squad's lack of a true center. Both teams also feature sophomore backcourts ? USC's Barry Manning and Brent Price against State's Chris Corchiani and Rodney Monroe. Monroe leads the Wolfpack in scoring at 20.4 points a game, while Corchiani scores at a 10.4 clip and dishes out 8.6 assists per game. Both Wolfpack guards were named to the All-ACC first team. Manning is the Gamecocks' best defensive player and will likely be assigned to guard Monroe. Offensively, Manning is averaging 12.1 points a game while pulling down Degins outd but because of the injuries nation and ] ar, I felt it would take a lit- national titl llv mntr-H-tmioh " Stenhane re presently ranked No. 6 added a gre; weral players ranked in the according t< ings. The Gan le Gamecocks success this outdoor set vo singles players Steve man at 2: Jimian. These two players Stadium at their talented match play "It is alv allows the 1 siastic about the potential and fan s in the remainder of the predate," able to mai h any team in the nation, indoor seas ipportunity to finish in the After fac Longley said. "It really is play host t< me of the best teams in the State on Su opm ^^ ! ' m -gh, ' - ^ PM i OPM light/Bar 1:00 AM J Jk n NCAA 1 olfpack \ ,ir\s |i /^ w* . oeorge reiion over five rebounds a contest. Price is scoring 14.6 points a game and is shooting just under 50 percent from 3-point range (67-136,.493). "They have a tremendous sophomore backcourt," Felton said. "It'll be interesting with them going up against Barry and Brent." Up front, N.C. State will line up with 6-foot-7-inch forward Brian Howard (12.9 points, 5.3 rebounds a game), 6-foot-8-inch forward Chucky Brown (17.2, 9.0), and 6-foot-9 inch center A vie Lester (8.4, 4.9). USC will probably counter with 6-foot-8-inch John Hudson and 6-foot-9-inch Terry Dozier at the forwards and 6-foot-9-inch senior John Breckenridge at center. Breckenridge, a reserve for most of the year, has started USC's past five games. Hudson is averaging 14.9 points and 7.7 rebounds a game, while Dozier scores 11.2 points a contest. Joe Rhett, who led USC in scoring and rebounding in the Metro Tournament and was named to the all-tournament team, will be the first off the bench. N.C. State leads the all-time series with the Gamecocks, 46-27. The schools have met only once since USC dropped out of the ACC following the 1970-71 season. The Wolfpack won that 1978 NIT matchup in Raleigh, 82-70. use All-Time NCAA Tournament Record 1971 Pennsylvania 79, USC 64 Fordham 100, USC 90 1972 USC 53, Temple 51 North Carolina 92, USC 69 USC 90, Villanova 78 1973 USC 78, Texas Tech 70 Memphis State 90, USC 76 USC 90, S. W. Louisiana 85 1974 Furman 75, USC 67 loor play navg an ujjisui luim^ iu ccuncnu iui nit e." Simian, a native of Leon, France, has it deal of talent and depth to the squad, d DeMars. lecocks are looking forward to their ison, which begins today against Fur30 p.m. at the Sam Daniel Tennis the Roost. vays great to play outdoors because it fans to come out and enjoy the match upport is something we really apDeMars said. "Hopefully, we will be ntain the momentum we created in our on as we start a stretch at home ing Furman today, the Gamecocks will 3 Metro Conference opponent Florida tnday afternoon at 1:00 at the Roost. Jpy Cjf