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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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.
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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,
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before Thursday's game agains
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their past nine games (5-4) after
10-1 start.
This Clemson team, studdei
with offensive and defensive wes
pons a year ago, has only one thi
year ? center Dale Davis, lone re
turnee from the "Duo of Doom.
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