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Fridr Secon By TIM THORSEN Sports Editor For thirty minutes Saturday night, the Gamecocks dominated the Georgia Bulldogs all over the gridiron. IJSC took a 6-0 lead into the locker room, and a record crowd of 72,060 was beginning to wonder if the Gamecocks could pull off the upset of the day in college football. Unfortunately, halftime hit like a lead balloon and the Bulldogs swamped the Gamecocks 28-6. The game was a story of two totally different halves. The first was owned by the Gamecocks, while the second belonged to the Bulldogs. The Gamecock's only mistake in the first half, as far as turnovers went, came on their first possession of the game. After junior running back Rob 1 i c? 1 A 1- ? Lycouci I uMitru iui it yaius on three carries, sophomore running back Brandon Bennett coughed up the ball after gaining 6 yards and taking a hit from Georgia linebacker Charlie Clemons. The ball was recovered by free safety Greg Tremble at the South Carolina 45-yard line. Georgia then had the ball for a College football roundup By ANDREW BORGERT Staff Writer The college football season jumped into full swins Saturday. The big winners were Miami and Syracuse. Miami used an outstanding defense to shut down Iowa at Iowa City 24-7, and Syracuse, with the deadly combination of quarterback Marvin Graves and Qadry Ismail, won 4221 over East Carolina. Saturday's big loser was Arkansas, who fell to the Citadel 10-3 and then lost their head coach. Jack Crowe quit Sunday saying he didn't have the program at the level it needed to be in order to compete in the SEC. Surprisingly, both Clemson and Penn State struggled in their season openers. Clemson needed and got two fourth quarter touchdowns to beat Ball State 24-10. Cincinati trailed Penn State by only 3 with 13:19 left to play. Unfortunately, the Bearcats were not able to hold off the Nittany Lions, who scored a touchdown with 7:36 left to put the game out of reach. Ohio State also struggled, deflecting a two-point conversion attempt in the last minute and winning 20-19 over Louisville. Running back Robert Smith, playing for the first time since 1990 rushed for 47 yards. Notre Dame, after leading Northwestern by only 7 points at halftime, exploded by scoring 28 second-half points in a 42-7 victory. The Irish secondary looked soft, giving up 327 passing yards. In SEC play, Mississippi State shut out Texas in the second half and came away with a surprisingly easy 28-10 victory. Alabama used four field goals from Michael Proctor, a freshman, to propel them to a 25-8 victory over Vanderbilt. The Tide was without the services of do-it-all star David Palmer, who was suspended for one game because of a drunken driving arrest in the preseason. Ole Miss stomped Auburn 4521. The Rebels held Auburn to 34 rushing yards and used a 91-yard fumble return for a touchdown to put away the Tigers. In a non-league game, LSU was defeated by Texas A&M 31-22. a j i iic aggies uunzeu a strong rusning attack and steady play from quarterback Jeff Granger to beat the Tigers in Baton Rouge. , Kentucky held off a Central Michigan rally to win 21-14. , Quarterback Pookie Jones led the Wildcats with one rushing touch- ] down and another passing touch- j down. < Tennessee exploded for 24 t points in the second quarter for a 38-3 victory over Southwest < Louisiana. The Vols got long ^ touchdown passes from both Heath Shuler and Jerry Colquitt, who are ? k ing to fill the quarterback t I L ion left vacant after Andy L V L graduated. id-half; total Of (WO plays before Frank Adams, | ball on the jjj^yJ 10-yard line. JPHi W After a MM weak posses- J sion in which QniltK fe: his own goalposts. Simpson boomed a 46-yard ' punt, aided by a lengthy roll, and the Bulldogs regained possession on their own 46-yard line. 1 After two runs for six yards apiece, sophomore cornerback Eric " n _ . soccer u By NANCY SALOMONSKY Sports Writer USC's soccer team won its first game of the season Sunday against Appalachian State 4-2. Eighteen minutes into the first H half, sophomore Chris Faklaris I scored the first Gamecock goal of the year on an assist by junior Matt Haiduk. Sophomore Billy Baumhoff made it 2-0 when he headed in a chipped pass from senior co-capt- 9 ian Ruben Tufino at the 25:12 H mark. The Mountaineers then fought back when David Terry scored at the 31:55 mark, on an assist by Jason Flassing. This cut the VJOIIICCUCIS. ICdU IVJ UIIC. With just two minutes left in the first half, Appalachian State tied the score when Flessing made a goal on an assist from Jyri Lindberg. In the second half, the H| Gamecocks took control and wasted little time in taking the lead. * Thirteen seconds into the second ** half, freshman Steve Pier scored on a pass from junior Jo Jo House. | USC kept a close one-goal lead until junior Peter Duitsman scored V his first career goal with 4:45 left in the game. Gamecock goalie David Turner had two saves and ASU goalie Earl Morgan had a career high ? nine saves. USC outshot the Mountaineers 24-4 and took 12 corner kicks to ASU's three. South Carolina held off the Mountaineers to win their ninth |yj straight season opener. Their open- BP ins day record, started in 1978, is 14-0-1. * Sparky's By The Associated Press As far as coach Sparky Woods is concerned, The Citadel didn't do South Carolina any favors by defeating Arkansas 10-3 in the season opener. H And the resignation of Razorbacks coach Jack Crowe on Sunday, less than a full day alter the loss, didn't help. Crowe has been replaced by assistant Joe Kines. "I'm sure their ego is bruised badly after a disappointing loss," Woods said Monday at a news con- H ference. "How it will affect them, I really don't know. I anticipate Arkansas will respond to a tough situation." TTK^ C liic vjainecocKS meet me Razorbacks Saturday in Columbia, It will be Arkansas' first Jk Southeastern Conference game of ?5fl he season. South Carolina lost its first-ever Southeastern Conference game 28> Saturday against No. 14 Georgia. j^e The Gamecocks held a 6-0 lead i it the half against Georgia and f hp railed just 7-6 through part of the hird quarter. But three trips inside ?PP ^ ^ ^ a i Sport surge bui 0 ^H ^ : : eier's pass was intercepted by one with Adams dams. down the sideline On the play, Adams read Zeier oain. ke a cheap children's book. " oave Zeier proceeded to hit Adams session on the B ght between the numbers two and jine jam opens s Bni i | SS ? I ? waL HI * W wm v ,^ 4^^fefcA >c &. _; *>*' TtPsTJssg^ii.-iSBRIi^HBSk sv. v ... *, thoughts or BPf* Vy (3BIW % y *m ^ 10-yard line earned only two Woods said. 1 goals. Kines said Mond; 3ur inability to put the ball into ried about how hi end zone when we had the respond to Crowe's ortunity was a major factor," "Any kind of dis s ries Gam< v On the ensu ing drive, the Gamecocks ^ managed push the ball down, to the Bulldogs 4-yai'd line. Faced with a fourth-an d'BBfl one, head coach \ Sparky Woods ^^^B sent Simpson Lv* 1 out 10 attempt M| jm the field goal. m>jJ^j^ET - i Simpson's kick i 1^B?7,?JPj| Was true, and I IB* USC lead 3-0. The teams I then traded EBn^flB l^H 1 Punts t0 encl Lhe r w BBB 1 first quarter. ^^jjjjj^^^Byjl^BlW The Gamecocks Bi er big defensive B play at the beginning of the second quarter Photo by Greg Rickabaugh, The Gamecock ^ SOphomore ^q11? ? safety Norman Greene rocked :s lor a 28- yard Georgia running back Mack Strong, forcing the ball loose. Gamecocks pos- Senior cornerback Rocky Clay lulldog 35- yard scooped up the ball and rumbled 40 yards to the Georgia 34-yard i rvn n tt t-i Willi < jK;:.,.:.--- ^ :S||| i|a IK' mM | ^ ^ ^ *?fflEi v ^ I ? i Arkansas, < -jar # i Photo by Stephanie Newlin * ] preparation," he said. "Other than a | ay he was wor- hurricane, I don't know of anything < is team would that could be more distracting, resignation. "Anytime you make a change, > ;traction affects it's a shock. But we've been dealt a < ? ^cocks line. The Gamecocks then closed out the scoring for the first half on a second Simpson field goal, this time from 26-yards out, as the uamecucKs were once again stymied inside the Georgia 10yard line. That left the score 6-0 in favor of the Gamecocks as the teams left the field. Niether team would return, at least not the way they played in the first half. "They gave us opportunities by laying the ball on the ground. We did a poor job of taking advantage of those opportunities, settling for field goals when we could have had touchdowns," coach Woods said. In the second half, the Bulldogs played impressive smash-mouth football using their huge offensive line to blow open mammoth gaps in thp T TQP Haf/anci\ro lino ill UIV UViVllOlVW lliiv. The Bulldogs exploited this to the maximum by running for a total of 335 yards in the game. The dominating offensive line gave Zeier a chance to mix up his plays and keep the Gamecock defense totally off balance. By the time the fourth quarter rolled around, the Bulldogs had put up 21 points and sealed the game. 4-2 win IKjgfeftawg- : 7; j?L ms,<^ %^tT"' \ v-?- * - -- < ' ' ' >*? t * ? " ' J' $. Pfe --r.. .' \.V... \ Photo by Lea Clayton, The Gamecock Crowe hand, and we have two choices ? play it or fold." Woods said he expected to see progress this week before South Carolina takes on Arkansas. "The intensity and the effort was there (against Georgia)," he said. As long as we continue with the effort, 1 anticipate improvement." The Gamecocks played 61 players against Georgia, including 20 freshmen. "Young players improve quicker than older players," he said. Woods, in his fourth year as South Carolina's coach, said he was more concerned with the coming game than the developments with the Arkansas staff. "I do know we have to get our team ready to play a football game," he said. Running back Rob DeBoer, who ff i ? * * * suucieu a oruisea Knee in the Dpener, and tight end Boomer Foster, who was sidelined with cruised ribs, are expected to play Saturday. Linebacker Lawrence Mitchell vill be back after serving a one>ame disciplinary suspension.