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ACHIM HUNT Staff Writer
After a slow start for the Lady Gamecocks
(10-6,1-3) in volleyball this season
in the SEC Eastern Division, they
needed a couple of wins this weekend to
be able to compete for the conference title.
Hie opportunity arose for coach Kim
Hudson and her team to pick up two
wins against Arkansas (9-6,2-1) and
LSU (10-5,3-1).
The opportunity for both wins was
not realized, however, as the Lady Game
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on Friday night, but lost their game to
LSU on Sunday afternoon. Hudson attributes
the split of the matches to the
inexperience of her players.
"We played as well this weekend as
we have all season," Hudson said. "The
girls played with heart and emotion,
which is something we have been missing
during the first games within our
conference. Inexperience was the key
to us not winning both games as we
played four freshmen on the floor after
losing Kori (Ermigarat), our team leader,
in practice this week"
In the Arkansas game, the Lady
Gamecocks were led by junior Lindy
Stevens, who had 22 kills, and freshman
Dee Dee Fortman, who had 15 kills and
15 digs, which were both career highs
in the Lady Gamecocks win of 13-15,153,15-8,15-11.
The game was tough for the Lady
Gamecocks, as Arkansas, the defending
Western Division champs, came to town
and won the first game, 15-13. Carolina
took the momentum in the second
game as the Lady Gamecocks took a 12
point scoring run and won the game never
to look back as the Lady Gamecocks
won the match 3-1.
Sophomore Shani Abshier was quite
excited over the ballgame as she though!
this match was pivotal for the rest of the
season.
"This was absolutely a great win foi
us, as we proved that we can play wit!
anv team in our conference," Abshiei
said. "We truly played like a team to
gether and we can win a lot of game.1
with team work like that."
Hudson agreed with Abshier in tha
she was quite impressed with the tean
work displayed by her young players
"The awesome display of teamworl
was great in this game and it played ai
important part in our critical win ove
Arkansas," Hudson said.
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ited Arkansas Friday at home.
cocks split
EC matches
The game on Friday was a great effort
for the Lady Gamecocks, but despite
a hard fought match Sunday, they came
up short to a more mature and experienced
team in LSU by a score of 3-1.
The Lady Gamecocks were led by
true freshman Cindy Robarge, with 23
kills and 9 digs. Shani Abshier also had
another great game with 10 kills and 18
digs stepping up as the team leader for
injured senior Ermigarat.
The first game was a hard battle as
the Lady Gamecocks took the tough
match 15-3. The second game saw the
Lady Gamecocks make a great comeback
from a five-point deficit but fall
short 14-16.
The third game of the match seemed
to be the toughest of the match as the
Lady Gamecocks fell apart in a 2-15 defeat.
Hudson reasoned that the cause
of the falling apart was the braking down
of the passing game.
In the third game our service and
passing broke down against the tough
LSU defense," Hudson said. "While our
entire game fell apart in front of our eyes
LSU seemed to pick up their game and
they controlled the game and match from
that point on."
The Lady Gamecocks came out roaring
in the fourth game to an 8-2 lead but
lost the lead to a scrappy LSU team.
Caiy Beeson had 3 service aces in the
game, but the team was unable to control
the tough Tiger team and lost the
game, 14-16, and the match 3-1.
The overriding theme of the weekend
was Carolina's young spirited team
against more talented and experienced
teams. The spirit was enough to defeat
. Arkansas but the deep and experience
; of LSU was too much to overcome. The
s young Lady Gamecocks continue to improve,
and will continue to compete very
well in the conference as the develop as
a team and learn what it takes to win
in the SEC.
The Lady Gamecocks continue their
SEC schedule this weekend as on Friday
at 7 p.m. they play Ole Miss a team
they defeated 3-0 last year. Then, on
Sunday at 2 p.m., they face the Mississippi
State Bulldogs a team that was
beaten by the team 3-0 last year. Both
games are to be played on campus at the
Sol Blatt P.E. Center.
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Some football teams are like chocolates.
You never know what you're going
to get. It appears that the Gamecocks
are one of those teams.
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the 14th-ranked Louisiana State Tigers
on Saturday, my prediction for the outcome
of the game was LSU 41USC 26.
And I considered that a modest spread.
I said that there was no way that the
Gamecocks could contain Tiger runningbacks
Kevin Faulk and Kendall
Cleveland. I said that quarterback Jamie
Howard would rip the USC defense to
shreds. I said that defensive end Gabe
Northern would get at least six sacks.
Well, I was wrong. Dead wrong.
Who could blame me? Any and every
objective football fen would have to have
agreed with me on this one. Takeaway
my cohort Ryan Wilson, who must have
been touched by some supernatural spirit
and actually came close to picking a
winner, and just about everyone expected
the Gamecocks to be beaten soundly by
the Tigers. We were wrong.
Maybe the Gamecocks were fed up
with being the defensive laughingstock
of the SEC. Maybe they just plain woke
up. Whatever it was, the garnet and
black were ready to play on Saturday.
In the pregame warmups, there was
something different about this team. Instead
of just going through the motions,
Carolina was fired up with their fists
clenched, boiling with anticipation to get
it on with LSU.
When the battle commenced, the
once-lethargic Gamecocks were now fearless,
running around the field with reckless
abandon. From the sidelines, onlookers
could see the fire in their eyes.
Offensive tackle Randy Wheeler refused
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attempted to intimidate him. The defense
threw Kevin Faulk for a loss on a
fourth and two attempt. The crowd
roared. This, friends, was a different
team.
The defense dominated the LSU runI
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nie Howard in the Gamecocks 20-20
ng LSU to 44 yards on the ground.
for two was for good reason Ask the referees,
and they'll tell you that Carolina
beat the Tigers too. It seemed that on
every positive play for USC, there was
a yellow flag that came shortly thereafter
to accompany it. For the Gamecocks
to manage a tie against the 14thranked
team in the country AND the re- 1
ferrees is nothing short of a miracle.
On paper, Carolina tied LSU Saturday.
Nothing better, nothing worse.
Their record still stands at a disappointing
1-3-1; however, the team showed something
Saturday that was absent in the
> first four games of the season. Witnessing
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l was a refreshing change for the football
fan. The beauty of this whole thing for
the Gamecocks is that there are still six
5 games left in this young season. There's
1 still time, but if s fleeting. How will the
> Gamecocks respond? Stay tuned.
JSC wins 4-0
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itistics, Mathis is quick to credit his teamhis
success. "The great wing work is what
the opportunities," Mathis said after the
Ay teammates are setting me up to score,
rting to pull it together."
vaited until the second half to score if s last
Is, with forward Robbie Pait scoring twice in
d half. Pait scored at the 49:34 mark off a
ick and again at the 63:88 mark after a full
he Carolina offense. "I feel real good and am
lot better," Pait said off his performance on
1 feel like we're starting to come together in
he match with Chapel Hill."
though injuries will keep two of his best playr
big matches this week against UNC-CharUNC-Chapel
Hill, Coach Berson isn't going
5 his game plan.
/on't change anything," Berson said,
latch with UNC will be played at the GraveGnn/lav
atinm ami will he nationally tele
Prime Network. The match against eighthtforth
Carolina will also be USC's highestpponent
since they played and upset Clemson
3. However, the Gamecocks will have to get
D-Charlotte on Wednesday in Charlotte, and
game Carolina is looking past. Last year the
at USC at the Graveyard 3-1. "UNCC is an
; team," Berson said. "I can't say which will
[her match."
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