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Wednesday, October 4,1995 SPORTS LOOK Associated Baseball NEW YORK ? First baseman Mark Grace of the Chicago Cubs, who hit two home runs and knocked in nine runs, was named the National League Player of the Week for Sept. 25-Oct. 1. Grace batted .516 (16 for 31) for the week with three doubles and one triple. He scored nine runs and recorded an .871 slugging average. SAN DIEGO?The San Diego Padres said that general manager Randy Smith would not be back in 1996, but an agitated Smith lata- revealed that the team still has not accepted his resignation. Smith submitted his resignation last week, but team president and CEO Larry Lucchino declined to immediately ac cept it. Smith and Lucchino met, and Smith informed Lucchino that his decision to leave was final. Basketball DEERFTELD, DL?The Chicago Bulls took a risk, trading for Dennis Rodman, hoping to get the rebounder, not the renegade. After consultations with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen and face-to-face meetings with Rodman, the Bulls sent veteran center Will Perdue to the San Antonio Spurs for the 34-year-old forward, who has led the NBA in rebounding the last four years. HORSHAM, Pa.?Jerry Stackhouse, chosen third overall by Philadelphia in the NBA draft, suffered a hairline fracture on his left hand that will keep him out of action for the next two to three weeks. Stackhouse, who left North Carolina after his sophomore season, will earn $6,855 million over the next three years. He was expected to be the 76ers' shooting guard. Stackhouse averaged 19.2 points and 8.2 rebounds last season. MINNEAPOLIS ? Kevin Garnett, Kiitti Students attei will automati< will award tw in-state tuitio 1996 Spring s donated schol halftime. Just before at random usi football ticket or near your s will then com students in an trivia until wi Student Football ticket 205, Tuesday and Wedi your tuition has alreai the Gamecocks. Any n Ticket Office on Rosew the Northeast end of th Due to NCAA rules, Stude I Press " the first player in more than 20 years to be drafted out of high school by an NBA team, agreed to terms with the Minnpsntji Timhprwnlvps nn a t.hrpp year contract. The 6-foot-ll Garnett, 19, averaged 25.2 points, 17.9 rebounds, 6.7 assists and 6.5 blocks last season for Farragaut Academy in Chicago. Hockey NEW YORK?Following the path of the NBA's Dream Team, which joined the world's top basketball players, the NHL announced its players will play in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan. By agreeing to a 16-day midseason shutdown of the 1997-98 season, the world's best hockey players can now decide the world's best hockey team at the ultimate international showcase. The league, the NHL Players Association and the International Ice Hockey Federation confirmed that NHL players from six countries will participate in Nagano, Japan; United States, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic. NEW YORK?Eight players changed clubs in the NHL waiver draft, with the Buffalo Sabres and Ottawa Senators each claiming two. The Sabres picked up left wing Brent Hughes from Boston and right wing Rob Conn from New Jersey and lost center Bob Sweeney to the New York Islanders. Ottawa took defenseman Justin Hocking from Los Angeles and center Ted Drury, a former U.S. Olympian, from Hartford. DALLAS ? Center Bob Bassen will be lost to the Dallas btars tor a minimum of four weeks and possibly as long as six months because of a right knee injury. Bassen, signed as a free agent to a fouryear $4 million deal during the off-season, hurt the knee during Saturday night's preseason game against the St. Louis Blues. tiding the Kent foo cally be entered in o lucky students v n onrl fnnc (nr\ f a ^ ii aiiu ivvij \ up IU 4? emester. These pri larships will be aw ilf time, students \ ing the bottom stui :s (please try to be a \ mi 1 . i seatsj. lne selectee pete against their 1 i exciting game of1 nners are determi CI /7f ctwi 1*1 tho I l3 UfC t/ctug Lll.OU USVUrK'lA' tffr l<f?/ i nesday from 9:00-4:00. The ac iy paid for your ticket, so grai imaining tickets can be picked 'ood Drive or at the Student Ti e stadium starting at 9:00 am. nt-Athletes and prospective Studen SPORTS JPi** X X * JbBl S -?, i iSJIBni * -1, ,,.ji BiiBi kJI JAffile i# LA VIA i ne \jamecocK A/Tillinrr WmmmmM IVllllll 1 The Top 20' In :Soocer America II -l. ? * " ? " -i "college mart* soccer po8, with- : A |:;j|f?w<>us; ranMiig in parenthesis;: | JjjQ T'i. Virginia (1)'" , ..T x "VVW.XVI. 2. Ouke (3) ; t 4J,?_ (| 3. UCLA (4) "M 5t*"R*portl . u?\ South Carolina men's soccer sp 5. Clemson (5) goalkeeper John Mills, above, is ?k Rutgers (7) sf second in the nation in goals against If*?.' James Madison (20) **H average (gaa) with a 0.43 gaa in j. ^ (9) the latest national statistics re- g 9! North Carolina (8) Hi iSni?I>1ti ;IPlO, Brown {10) , "HJ "I Mills has played m seven games, ; ; 11 ,nHia *(R{ starting six, for the No. 15 ranked Gamecocks (5-2). He has allowed P Ponn^ate{ia); 4. only two goals and has recorded |f 1 Creignton (12) two shutouts in 417 minutes of jf* WijSCOnstfl {$3) ; 11;: play. Mills'0.43 gaa is tops in the 15. South Carolina (14) South Region. 10. Saton H&I1 (13) : use will play at UNC-Char- ? 17. Santa Clara (15) lotte tonight at 7 p.m. ||-;J 8. SMU {11} ||| 19. San Diego (19) ES9i i tball game a contest that A /ltli frpp / 1,640) for the ,, C vately arded at vill be chosen bs of your at your seats I I nnntnctontc I r. vuiiivjiunw m fellow Gamecock ? ned. vl js lussell House, room /Vl/l fM/tflff/Z/)// VM 'Uvuy jcc mi/iuucu MI ^ a seat and cheer on up from the Athletic X cte Office located at are Defensive gaining o Associated Press South Carolina defensive coordinator Wallv Ruraham was looking anv where for a solution, so why not his wife? Barbara Burnham came up with a galvanizing tactic for the Gamecocks' defense that her husband thought was rock solid. - "Td like to take credit, but I can't," Burnham said after South Carolina finally shook free from its season-long slump to hold No. 21LSU to 33 yards rushing in a 20-20 tie Saturday. Burnham needed a way ? any way ? to motivate his players, who played dismally through their first three Southeastern Conference games. The Gamecocks were last in almost every defensive category and had allowed a leagueworst 470 yards and 37 points a game. So on Thursday night, Burnham discussed his team's troubles with his wife, Barbara. She told him about the Great Wall of China ? a lot of people working together to stack rocks that still stand ? and David and Goliath ? the worth of one well-placed rock. "She just said we needed to tell those guys to start stacking their rocks," Bumham said. So, the defensive coordinator handed out stones to his players, telling them it wouldn't help them win, but it would help them refocus and rededicate themselves to their teammates. "They finally played loose and relaxed, like we thought they could all year long," Burnham said. "I may have put too much pressure on them." n 1 1_ T TIT* * J _1 v^umeruacK. ijee w iggms saiu piayers were inspired by the rocks. The group met Friday night and told themselves they weren't the shoddy unit they had been made to be. ?. - "We thought as hard as we worked in the offseason, allwe had to do was show up and we would win. But that didn't happen," he said. Against LSU, the Gamecocks not only showed up, they put on their strongest II > m |9> 5 unit nnfiflanna UllllUCIIbC "They finally played loose and relaxed, like we thought they could all year long. I may have put too much pressure on them." Wally Bumham, Defensive coordinator performance of the season. Defensive end Maynard Caldwell got 2 1/2 of South Carolina's six sacks and twice linebacker Hank Campbell stopped LSU runners a foot from the goal line. "That stand did as much for the defense's confidence as anything they've done all year," South Carolina coach Brad Scott said. "They had been there before and didn't want to let in another score." It took a last-minute touchdown pass for LSU to survive the Gamecocks' revived defense. The Tigers managed only 304 yards, nearly 100 less than their average. Scott was still concerned with the play of his secondary. LSU quarterback Jamie Howard completed only half of his 36 throws with most misses going way past open receivers. Against upcoming league opponents Tennessee and Florida, the throws will be complete and touchdowns will be scored, Scott said. Part of the problem is the group's youth. Freshmen Arturo Freeman and Keris Sullivan play essential roles and the secondary's star, Ben.Washington, is just a sophomore. With Mississippi State's Derrick Taite, Tennessee's Peyton Manning and Florida's Danny Wuerffel still left to design defenses for, Scott crosses his fingers and hopes the secondary holds together. "There is still some alignment mistakes back there to clear up, but we are young and will continu^to get better," he said. There have been a lot of general mistakes and the pressure was building and building," Wiggins said. "But we let some of that out last week." ______ . .41 xktt/ \ ... ) r_<