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12 1G a ni e C O C k Monday, January 13, 1992
Top recrui
USC over
By BEN BREAZEALE
Sports Editor
One of the nation's top high
school quarterbacks gave a verbal
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The Gamecocks scored a major
recruiting victory when Steve Taneyhill
from Pennsylvania's Altoona
High School announced he
would play for South Carolina
rather than Alabama, his other top
choice. The decision marks the end
of a recruiting war that Taneyhill
had narrowed to the two schools
last month.
The 6-4, 212-pound Taneyhill
threw for 2,172 yards and 14
touchdowns his senior season and
completed 57 percent of his passes.
He was a Parade magazine
All-American and rated as one of
the nation's top 50 players in
Super-Prep magazine.
A main factor helping his decision
was his official visit to South
Carolina last season, Taneyhill told
The State Monday.
"When I made my official visit,
I felt like part of the team. They
were playing their biggest game,
the Clemson game, but the coaches
were still saying, 'Come with us,
come in the locker room.' They
made me feel like one of them,"
Taneyhill told The State.
Other factors played into his decision
to attend USC. including the
Flowers sta
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By CHAD BRAY
Assistant Sports Editor
Freshman cornerback Lethon
Flowers said Friday he is not
leaving Georgia Tech to play for
South Carolina.
The former Spring Valley
High School standout said he has
decided not to leave the Yellow
Jackets for personal reasons.
Rowers had announced his intention
to play for the Gamecocks
Wednesday.
"Things didn't work out, so
I'm going back (to Georgia
Tech) Sunday," Rowers said Friday.
"I would have had to go
through a lot to get my release. I
sat down with my parents, and
we decided it was best for me to
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opportunity to play i n the SEC,
which Taneyhill said h \e considers
to be the best football conference.
Taneyhill also liked his chances of
starting at Carolina wf, ?ere senior
quarterback Bobby Full ler is graduating
and only one oth er quarterback,
rising senior Wrig ht Mitchell,
has any game experiei rice.
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I'm a Parade All-Ameri can, I'm
going to be the starting1' quarterback
next year," Taney hill told
The Greenville News ^ vlonday.
"But I should get a legitim ate shot.
Getting a chance is the on ly thing
the coaches have promise <d, and,
from my visit there, all the players
I met said Coach Woods v vas the
kind of guy you could believ e."
Despite Taneyhill's impi essive
statistics, his team has a reci ord of
14-19 during his three season s as a
starter. During the past three \ seasons
he completed 381 of 612 passes
and threw for more than t ',000
yaras. nowever, nis career 10 ucndown
total of 29 is lower than his
interception total of 31.
Although Taneyhill has b< sen
clocked by scouts at 4.81 seco, nds
in the 40-yard dash, he calls hi mself
strictly a drop-back passer.
"I'm not a runner ? you'll r, \ot
see me running the option," T aneyhill
told The Greenville New s.
"In Coach Woods' system the rur tners
run and the quarterback s
throw, and that suits me just fine."
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Flowers told The State Saturday
he is not transferring to
South Carolina because Georgia
Tech would not release him from
his scholarship.
"Somebody called me yesterday
from Coach (Bill) Lewis'
staff and said he doesn't allow
freshman to leave after their first
year," Flowers told The State.
"If I had left without the release,
I not only would have had
to sit out a year, I would have
lost a year of eligibility, and I
don't want to do that," he added.
Flowers said he originally decided
to transfer because he was
unhappy with living in Atlanta.
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th e opportunity to play in the The Columbia native spent 15
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Freshman swingman Christi Timmons sinks a three-pointer over
Alabama senior guard Amy Lannom on Saturday.
Tcch English
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forward Jenny Randall hitting a
three-pointer to trigger the Gamecocks
scoring.
The teams battled back and forth
until Alabama initiated their pressing
defense with 14:09 left in the
game.
forth between the two teams with
USC's freshman swingman Christi
Timmons going four for six from
the floor and shooting four for six
from three-point range.
Both teams shot 43 percent from
the floor and totalled nine threepoint
bombs, leaving the floor with
Alabama leading 39-36 at the end
of the first half.
The second half began much
like the first half with freshman
res NBA for
had talked about playing in Europe
to broaden his children's and his
own education.
English, the NBA's seventh alltime
leading scorer with 25,613
points, led the NBA in scoring in
1983 with Denver. The 6-foot-7,
190-nound forward made the NBA
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.playing for the Nuggets before findishing
his career in Dallas.
"We tried looking for a situation
for Alex in the NBA," Jerry Levine,
English's agent, said. "But
what we found was almost all
NBA teams were looking for
younger players."
So English turned to agent Joe
Glass, a specialist in placing players
abroad.
"I've known Alex as a player
and a person for many years,"
Glass said. "Frankly, he didn't end
his career in the best of lights as a
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Lady Game
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By CHAD BRAY
Assistant Sports Editor
The Lady Gamecocks dropped
their second game in a row and
iost their third in the SEC against
Alabama Saturday.
Alabama defeated USC, 79-74,
in an offensive struggle fueled by
a barrage of three-pointers by both
teams.
USC controlled the opening tip
and encountered the Crimson
Tide's man-to-man defense.
Senior guard Nicki Bass, however,
set the game's tone with a
three-pointer off an assist by junior
center Marsha Williams with 18:46
left in the first half. Alabama's
freshman guard Madonna Thompson
then countered with a threepointer
with 18:30 left in the first
half.
Thp first half went hark and
Alabama then went on a 7-0
run, scoring 14 points in 4:12.
"I felt the Alabama press was
the big difference in the game,"
Coach Nancy Wilson said.
USC began to cut into the Crimson
Tide's lead with 7:04 left in
the game.
The Lady Gamecocks went on a
10-5 run and scored 23 points to
cut Alabama's lead to four points
with 1:02 left in the game.
IJSC could not hold on to tie the
game due to effective passing and
rebounding by the Crimson Tide in
the dwindling minutes of the second
half.
"We did not do a good job of
getting the ball inside," Wilson
said. "We had an advantage inside
because of their smaller players."
Williams led the Lady Gamecocks
with 25 points and nine rebounds,
while shooting 100 percent
from the free throw line.
Freshman guard Niesa Johnson led
Alabama with 21 points, four rebounds
and two steals.
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club."
"We looked at various situations
where he could at least show the
basketball world he could still
play," Glass said. "Chronologically,
Alex is older than some
players, but physically and mentally
he's younger than many."
European teams are allowed two
American players. English joined L
the Naples club in time to play one
game with former NBA player
Cliff Robinson, but Robinson left
the team and has been replaced by ,
another NBA player, Walter Berry,
a 6-8 forward from St. John's.
"Napoli has won two of the
three games Alex has played in,"
Glass said. "Alex is just getting acclimated
and just starting to get in
shape. I spoke to Napoli coach Joe
Isaacs, an American, and he's very
pleased with Alex."
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