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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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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had a career-high 31 points. "I
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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
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re presently ranked No. 6 added a gre;
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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
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ipportunity to finish in the After fac
Longley said. "It really is play host t<
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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
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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.
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