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By DOUG AUBE
Sports Editor
CLEMSON ? Going into Saturday's
football game against the
Clemson Tigers, much was said
about how USC would have to get
a lot of breaks and make the big
plays needed to defeat the 17th
ranked team in the nation.
The Gamecocks did register a
number of firsts against the Tigers
Saturday in Death Valley.
USC scored the first touchdown v
against the Tigers in Death Valley
this season.
The Gamecocks blocked the
first punt Tiger kicker Chris Gardocki
has ever allowed as a Tiger.
USC had the longest play from
scrimmage (43 yards) allowed by
the No. 1 defense in the country at
home all season long.
When you add the fact that the
two teams were near even in statistics,
you would probably think the
Gamecocks were able to defeat
their arch-rivals in Saturday's
game.
Wrong.
Before a crowd of over 84,000,
Clemson survived a USC rally to
win the intra-state battle 24-15.
"They (Clemson) are an excellent
football team. They took advantage
of opportunities and we
weren't able to," USC head coach
Sparky Woods said. "I thought at
the beginning of the ballgame we
had a good plan."
The Gamecocks took the opening
kickoff and marched right
through the Tigers defense to the
Clemson 48-yard line.
Things were looking pretty good
for the Gamecocks when running
back Mike Dingle broke off left
guard lor a gam of six and then
boom ... fumble, and the Tigers
recovered.
The teams traded punts for the
next few possessions and the first
quarter looked as it might end in a
scoreless tie.
With just under six minutes remaining
in the quarter, the USC
special teams came through with
the first of the Gamecock's big
plays.
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broke through the Tigers line and
blocked Gardocki's punt, and USC
was in business after receiver Bralyn
Bennett recovered at the Clemson
six-yard line.
But USC could not convert the
opportunity into a touchdown and
had to settle for a 22-yard field
goal from Collin Mackie and a 3-0
USC lead.
"We blocked the punt, and we
should never have recovered the
punt," Woods said. "We should
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with it or scooped it toward our
goal line. It was automatically our
ball. There is really no reason to
recover it. I thought if we scooped
it we could have picked it up and
scored the touchdown."
The Tigers responded by marching
74 yards in 12 plays to take a
7-3 lead after tailback Rudy Harris
plunged into the endzone from one
yard out.
Clemson's defense held USC
again, and after a 34-yard Daren
Parker punt, Tiger return man
Robert O'Neal rambled down field
to the Gamecock 33-yard line setting
up another Clemson
touchdown.
The Tigers were able to go 33
yards in four plays, 17 on freshman
Ronald Williams run, to put
them up 14-3.
Not to be outdone, USC responded
with a drive of their own
trying to close the gap before the
half.
Gamecock receiver and return
man Robert Brooks hauled in the
kickoff on the one-yard line and
jaunted down field for a 57-yard
return giving USC a first down on
the Clemson 42.
On third and eleven, USC quarterback
Bobby Fuller found a
streaking Eddie Miller for a
22-yard reception and USC had the
ball on the Tiger 43-yard line.
But the Gamecocks were not
able to convert the good field position
into a touchdown and had to
settle for another Mackie field
goal, this one 42 yards, with 2:15
left in the half, which ended with
Clemson on top 14-6.
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The Gamecock defense stiffened,
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