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Gamec By AARON SHEININ Sports Editor The Gamecocks spotted Georgi; Tech a quarter of play Saturday but the Yellow Jackets spotted th< Gamecocks an entire half. The 67,220 witnesses ai Williams-Brice saw many j strange occurrence Saturday a: USC improved to 3-2-2 with i 23-14 win over the defending co national champions. Georgia Tec! falls to 3-4. Consider: on the first play frorr scrimmage for the Gamecocks, se nior quarterback Bobby Fullei fakes the hand-off to Brandor Bennett and passes to tight enc Mike Whitman for a nine-yarc gain. After a second down sack one of five for Tech, Fuller drops back into a shotgun-formation splitting the tight ends with twc more receivers a step off the line, and hits Bennett for a pick up oi 14. Seven more times, Fuller dropped four yards behind centei Jay Killen to receive the snap. The chrvtmm onH nlot; ootirvn noeeoc o juviguu uiiu |jaiaj aviivn pa.iow, a non-occurrence most of the season, had the Tech defenders secondguessing themselves ? exactly what such plays are for. But perhaps the strangest play ol the day came after Bennett was stopped on third down midway through the first period. On fourthand-one from their own 47, the Gamecocks lined up to punt. Georgia Tech did not have their punt team on the field, apparently looking for the fake ? another nonGamecc By BRANT LONG Copy Desk Chief In a match riddled by fouls, the llth-ranked USC soccer team lost its third game in five outings, dropping a 1-0 decision to fifthranked Wake Forest at The Graveyard Sunday. There were 47 fouls called in the match ? 29 on Wake Forest ? and three yellow cards given. The loss was the Gamecocks' third in the South Region, and only their second loss at home this season. Wake improved to 11-1-2. The only goal of the game came midway through the first half. On a Wake Forest free kick near the top of the goal box, junior midfielder John DuGuid tapped the ball to his left, where senior midfielder Craig Johnson shot it into the right Itjfi Spooky music, spider wet door decorations, streami Get in the spirit of thin i Emm QBQQDElOQGEBQHQEDQBOtaBQEE ke sting am his reper ass ns. -***& ^ to -* y?" on- Freshman Frank Adams dives for inS game against North Carolina State the Georgia Tech figured out how to tys move the ball midway through the ae- second quarter, but was victimized ing by turnovers and timely Gamecock >en defense. In the third quarter, Tech continued to move the chains and ocks ta occurrence for the Gamecocks. Punter Darren Parker instead ~ the 25-second clock expire and cepted a five-yard delay of ga I penalty ? presumably to g himself a better chance of pinn t the Yellow Jackets deep in tl j own territory. 5 Tech then sent their punt te j on the field. Parker, however, i ticed that Tech was not cover , USC's wideouts and exercised option to call a fake. Parker l ceived the snap from deep snap] Randy Bunch and lofted a p; r toward the right sideline j wideout/cornerback Frank Adar I Adams made the catch for I 24-yard gain and a Gamecock f down. \ Head coach Sparky Woods s; the credit for the fake is not his [ take. "I didn't actually call that pla 'p he said. "Parker made the decisii It was an option that our punti team has." After taking a 20-0 lead into i . locker room, this strangest of di t almost slipped into what has 1 come the norm this season: letti a team back into the game wl they should be out. In the third quarter, the Gan : cocks managed only 28 yards offense. The Gamecocks cross the 50-yard line once in the th quarter. Fuller was sacked thi times, and completed only one his nine pass attempts. Take av the third quarter and Fuller was for 23 for 213 yards. Instead, was 17 for 31 for 230 yards. >cks lose side of the goal past a diving I vid Turner. It was Johnson's s< ond goal of the season. "Again, like in the Furm game, we let the first half i away from us with giving up a s< goal and not coming out with I fviv. r>f fp.rnritv u/f?. nmri fn hav** vr- ~w *" order to play," Gamecock he coach Mark Berson said. USC, 10-4, came out with vengeance in the second half, ha ing numerous opportunities to the match. With just more than 30 minul remaining in the contest, junior d fender Chris Crosby crossed t ball in front of the Deacon r where sophomore Matt Haidi headed it just wide of the goal. Ten minutes later, anoth chance was missed when juni Minmium jji >s, bate, skeletons, ghosts ?/s, masks, party favors... gs...only at CROMER'S 1235 Assembly St 779-2290 Dutch Square 772-8877 Some supplies limited 53233 56 le- held onto the ball, scoring twice on of two Shawn Jones touchdown ted passes. ird After Parker pinned Tech on its ree own 2-yard line with a spiraling of 43-yard punt, Tech freshman full'ay back David Hendrix took a hand 16 off around left end and was he stopped by Gerald Dixon for an apparent safety, but an official : to Wake )a- Hans Lohner's cross into the box sc- found freshman forward Chris Faklaris open in the box. Faklaris' an header went wide right jet Senior captain Andrew Coggins oft got his head on a Haiduk free kicjc he with Tess than 15 minutes remainin ing but the ball sailed just over the ad top crossbar. Coggins again had a shot two minutes later but a great a save by Wake Forest goalie Mike iv- McGinty prevented the equalizer. Hp "\I/? 1.. ?i..?i._ ?v woic cAuaiiciy uniutny not to get a goal," Berson said, ss "But when you waste 45 minutes, le- that kind of thing happens to you." he The Deacons' few opportunities iet for an insurance goal were foiled ik when USC goalie Spencer Lueders, who replaced Turner in the er first half, made two great saves or late in the match. Lueders and Tur piol I FofEachPj fill mmmm $iov iv | '* - Per Males witl" Special Bonus p /^V^\ 2739 Lai I 1 Suite Columbi Serologicals 254-6. out of . if H - i-, ~ k 4 " ' |L yJt ij * an extra yard on a fake punt J A * ruled Hendrix's forward prog carried him to the half-yard line After an incomplete pass, Jc hit Emmett Merchant for a gaii 15, starting a 98-yard drive, cu! nating with a 10-yard scoi strike to tight end Anthony Ric< After a sack and three inc< plete passes, USC was forcee punt from it's own eight-yard 1 giving Tech possession on US 47. Four plays later, Jones hit h chant for a 23-yard touchdc pass, to narrow the score to 20After a Bennett fumble, T made it to the Gamecock 38, ! Forest ner combined for four saves wl McGinty also collected four. "Both teams played, particulj in the second half, the caliber play you come to expect in ti South Region games," Berson & "Our guys adjusted in the s ond half and that's what you < ask for but it was not the type 90 minutes that would enable us win big games." The Gamecocks will next p host to the Mercer Bears at 1 Graveyard on Wednesday in < p.m. kickoff before they play h to the fifth annual Met L Classic, to be held Saturdav i Sunday. This year's tournam will feature Washington, No Dame, Adelphi and t Gamecocks. One out o four teenag girls tunes t< wusc. f Make the switch today WUSC-FM 9Q?5" 4'/, l i milium I asma Donation I iBhTdl] linimuni Month 1B blood types. >rogram for students. it el St. 1C in ia, SC iAJ 537 T Jackets, !' "t s"~'i'-f,'^',^ '-%-^ ' Aitt ;/viJPr% f * ^T ^JS &> * '4 K^sax* 4-'^ >}Jb Saturday. It was the first punt for the Garni ress outstanding tackling by Troy i. Duke, Cedric Bembery and Joe >nes Reaves forced Tech to punt from n of USC's 36. The Gamecocks took [mi- back the momentum and reversed ing their reputation as a team that i. takes to lying down and accepting om- defeat on their next possession. 1 to With his own end zone only 10 ine, yards off his backside, Fuller IC's launched a 55-yard strike to Miller 4er- . who landed on the Tech 35. Five >wn plays later, the Gamecocks were 14. on Tech's 21-yard line facing ech fourth-and-six. Trotting onto the but field came freshman placekicker ^ ost jfg <?. A-Uiu a pici-c vi lapc ind UPt0 y?ur eyes? dim the lights ent and try to fill out your taxes. ^ Now you're seeing things from her point of view. J e 9 , WimsT m si i As Always! m|i Served HOT, FAST & FREE! ? 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