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Gamecock attempts t< By PATRICK VILLEGAS Assistant Sports Editor ' USC men's tennis team head coach Kent DeMars is probably ] feeling a little excited right now. With a host of veteran players and two athletes among the nation's elite, he knows he can expect only good things from this year's Gamecock team. In his past six years with the Gamecocks, DeMars has established a reputable national powerhouse in South Carolina. He has led the Gamecocks to five Metro championship titles, three trips to the NCAA championships and has consistently kept his team nationally ranked in die Top 15 over the past six years. Despite coming up short in past NCAA tournaments, including an upsetting loss in 1989's Final Four, DeMars has to hope his time is due. This season, with a highly < touted sixth-ranked Gamecock ! team, including two players in the a! 9 m A r\ .. 1 TTfi/-^ 4 nauon s lop hu piayers, may i be on its way to becoming a legiti- l mate contender fof-its first national championship. The 1991 title campaign is ! paced by the talents of junior ] Louie Gloria. Currently ranked < Surprising By DAVID CARAVIELLO J Staff Writer The college basketball gods ( work in mysterious ways. Consider this past year when Clemson, ranked 20th in the nation < and headed to their first Atlantic Pnact PnnffM-p.nrp. manlar season ^ championship and a 26-9 record, < ventured into Carolina Coliseum March 5, only to be beaten by an i injury-plagued group of Game- < cocks who scrapped and hustled to j their biggest win of a 14-14 s FITNESS is FREE Come Workout will 4 THIS I YEAR i PUT ANENDTO YOUR ! DEADLY HABIT, ^ fot (|l Hey Little Brother! What's up? Man, it still fe< | brother wandering around cam / yesterday that Mom made me ba I J me go out with my friends. And I | But now look at you. Okay, m you've grown up to be a pretty < both always so busy we don't h That's why I entered The Ga Valentine?" Promotion. All I! form and drop it in one of the dr Cinemas, Shandon Greenh I rant & Pub. They'll draw a the winner really racks up! valentine get a dozen rosea dinner for two from GarfU I 1 two movie passes from Lit For old times sake, let yoi \ C'mon kid, won't you be m; men's te o net NG 22nd in the nation, Gloria finishec :he past year with a record ol 37-15 and was selected to compete in the NCAA singles tonrnamem where he advanced to the round ol 32. He also competed in the NCA/ doubles tournament with Eric Sy dow and finished the seasoi ranked 34th. The 1991 Volv< Tennis/Collegiate Poll has Glori, ranked eighth in the nation amonj singles players. Senior Dave Hopper, who wa paired with All-American Stephan Simian as USC's top doubles tear this past year, returns from a 34-2) rannrri in 1000 tn hpln anrhnr th 1WU1U ill XX-'V I.V/ nvij^/ Gamecock team. In the nations rankings for most of 1990, Hoppe attended the NCAA singles tourna ment before losing in the firs round. His impact is expected on the ioubles team with freshman Johar Sandberg, where they are rankec 17th in the nation. Hopper is alsc the 23rd-ranked singles player ir the nation in the 1991 Volvc rennis/Collegiate Poll. Sandberg, a native of Falsterbro Sweden, may be USC's best wea pon this season. Ranked as Swe len's third best junior tennis r USC fai season. . Now turn the clock to Saturday Feb. 2, 1991, the first meeting o the two archrivals on the hardcour since March. USC is enjoying one of its fines seasons ever at 15-5, a borderlint Associated Press Top 25 team on< week removed from the nation': ;lite. The Tigers, undermanned and ii the midst of a bruising ACC sche iule, are 9-9 before a Thursday game against North Carolina anc are in danger of becoming the firs in the Campus Rc i US!! 777-5261 ft $50 MINI! DON. 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V nnis team \A crown 1 player, Sandberg is expected to f comfortably fill the shoes left be5 hind by graduating All-American t Simian. f The likely number one singles player for USC, Sandberg is ^ ranked 37 th in singles action and 17th in doubles. 1 The rest of the returning starters 3 for the Gamecocks include sophoa more P.J. Langone, who finished ~ this past year with a 33-18 record, but is expecting tough competition to keep his starting status. Also of note are junior Dirk n Hahneiser, who overcame a brief q layoff from tennis to earn a starte ing status in 1990, and sophomore Mark Palus, who finished this past r year's season with a 24-12 singles | record and a 9-5 doubles record. ;t In the following months, USC will compete against 18 of the Top 25 teams in the country, and will 5 also compete in three of the counl try's top tournaments. I The Gamecocks first dual match > of the season will be played today i at 4:00 p.m. in the Sam Daniel > Tennis Center (next to The Roost) against the University of South Florida Bulls. On Sunday, USC yill play host to the 18th-ranked University of Kentucky Wildcats ; at 1:00 p.m. :es disappo defending regular season ACC ' champion to finish last. The comparisons are inescap1 able, the message clear: watch out, George Felton. If these Tigers [ have any bite left in them, it will " come out Saturday night. a ' " / s Clemson coach Cliff Ellis, named ACC Coach of the Year afi ter this past year's dream season, was cut short at the buzzer by / Connecticut in the NCAA round of I 16, but could not have caught the t Gamecocks at a better time. USC, icreation Program, ir more information. 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JPv' ?jfr? flk.. ^Jf. v?**/ Iff wk r is one reason USC is ranked 6th ir rAMP?vjt Ttmf Datp Opp a 4:00 p.m. Mar. 19 1:00 p.m. Mar. 27 wealth 4:00 p.m. Apr. 11 \ 3:00 p.m. Apr. 27 t 1:00 p.m. May 9 2:30 p.m. Note: All of tht >mson in 't ;t USC center Jeff Roulston must n stay out of foul trouble if the a Gamecocks are to contain Davis underneath. The other Tigers most likely tc ^ do damage are forwards Sean Tyl~ son and Ricky Jones, and guard s David Young. " Graduation ? rather expirations r of eligibility ? hit the Tigers hard s Gone is Davis' "Doom-mate," for5 ward Elden Campbell, along wit! y his 16.4 points per game. Campbell now has the cushiest job in the EGELIFE AMINOS ) TIME FOR DOMINO'S I ["EE* irrive in PIZZA TAKE-OUT: We guarantee ler, or the pizza take-out order will be ready minutes or you'll receive $3.00 of th your "Certain restrictions apply. ) minutes Call store for details, refund. a mm mm mm mm aeaM T" peciai n: i!. 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