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NATHAN BROWN
"Asst. Sports Editor
For the first quarter and
a half, everything looked to be
going in USC's favor.
Behind the roar of 83.700
fans, a new stadium record, the
Gamecocks dominated the
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The streak of the home
team losing, which now stands
at seven games in this series,
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BRYAN JOHNSTON The Gamecock J?
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f emotions. There seemed to be
big turn there just before half,
nd we never seemed to get it
ack."
The point where the tides
langed in clemson's favor came
ite in the second quarter. Ahead
4-6, the Gamecocks took over
a its own 20-yard line. In three
linutes and 37 seconds, USC
rove down to the clemson 19ard
line and looked to be on the
srge of scoring.
But on first down, the most
readful play of the year was
mt into the game. If the play
ouid nave gone as planned,
uarterback Vic Penn would
and off to running back Troy
[ambrick, who would flip the
all to wide receiver Kerry Hood,
food would then throw the
igskin back across the field to
enn who would scramble into
le end zone.
However, things didn't go
s planned. The hand off to
'ambrick worked, but the toss
> Hood sailed over his head.
The ball dropped to the
round and was immediately enaloped
by a clemson player. The
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turnover set up a Tiger's score
and gave the tean the momentum
of the game. Instead of be
ing aneaa Dy 14 or 11 points, tne
Gamecocks went into halftime
up by only one point, 14-13.
"I got too intense and threw
[the ball] too hard," Hambrick
said. "And it went over [Hood's]
head. That was a change in momentum.
We had them going.
They weren't stopping us. We
were stopping ourselves. That
was the big difference in the
game.
"It was just my carelessness.
I get a little excited at
times. I knew it was going to
work because they were chasing
me all over the field. I just
got a little excited and threw it
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Hambrick had every right
to be excited. In the first half,
he was the catalyst of the Gamecocks'
offense, running for 132
yards on 10 carries and for two
touchdowns.
With a 54-yard TD run,
Hambrick had the longest TD
run this season and the longest
rushing TD since his 75 yarder
against the Tigers last year. This
rush also was the longest against
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BRYAN JOHNSTON The Gamecock
in Hambrick's 54-yard touchloss
to clemson.
clemson this year. Hambrick tore
up the clemson defense once
more on a 35-yard TD rush.
In the second half, the
Tigers defense readjusted and
came up with the big plays that
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Carolina's first possession of the
third quarter, Penn was picked
off by Tiger cornerback Antwan
Edwards.
This turnover set up a
Tiger's TD, which was followed
by another TD when clemson returned
a punt 39 yards for six
points. On Carolina's ensuing
drive, Edwards snagged his second
pickoff of the game and
sprinted 43 yards for a TD. The
Tigers scored again in the third
to increase USC's deficit to 26
points.
In the final quarter, clemson
added seven more points on
a rushing TD. Carolina's senior
running back Scott Moritz
punched in a TD from nine yards
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With the loss, the Gamecocks
finished the season with
a record of five wins and six losses.
Scott's overall record at USC
is 22-22-1.
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KFIIY MAGUIRE Staff Writer
They came in as young, naive
freshmen.
Some of them were recruited
by a different head football coach.
Yet, 19 Gamecock senior football
players reached the end of their careers
Saturday night at WilliamsBrice
Stadium.
What a ride if s been. These seniors
won USC its first bowl game
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defeated clemson two of the past
four years.
The 1997 senior class consists
of students, athletes and heroes.
1997 was not the season of which
they dreamed, but it allowed the
men to show of what courage consists,
and they made some great
plays while doing it.
Seven members of the senior
class, known as the "original seven,"
were recruited by former Head
Coach Sparkv Woods. These seven
include Scott Beebe, Ed Hrubiec, Jason
Lawson, Calvin Owens, Gerrick
Taylor, Travis Whitfield and Lee
Wiggins.
The "original seven" brought
leadership through adversity to the
new recruits.
"It's just amazing to see all the
things that have happened since the
first year I got here to the last year,"
Taylor said. "I've been blessed so
much with the opportunity to play *
football. I just want to give God all
the praise and glory, and as far as
being a Gamecock football player,
it's been the best thing that's ever
happened to me."
Wiggins said he has made a lot
of "lifetime friends" playing on the
team.
Wiggins said he will miss
"teammates, 2001, running out of
the tunnel and fans" the most.
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Wiggins said.
Paul Beckwith, Shane Burnham,
Scott Moritz, Henry Taylor
and Ben Washington were all members
of Brad Scott's first recruiting
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"It's been the best four years,"
Burnham said. "Most people don't
get to live out their dreams. This
is my dream since I can remember."
Burnham said he hopes he's
shown people that "dedication and
hard work can take you a long way."
Selvesta Miller and David Herman
both joined the football team
and earned valuable roles in the
process. Miller earned a starting position
the past two years as a defensive
end.
"As a senior, you've just got to
take every moment and enjoy the
moment that you have because you
nc/er know when it's going to end,
and it's ended for us now," Miller
said.
Miller said he has been proud
of how the team has changed.
"When I first came here,
there were a lot of individual players,"
he said. "It wasn't really a team
thing. When we lost, there was always
finger pointing. This year, we
won and we lost as a team."
The transfers, consisting of Darren
Hambrick, Mark Love, Michael
Maddox, Joey Unitas and Jesse
Washington, brought new life to a
team in need of a lift.
These Gamecock seniors fought
through adversity and injury, faced
competition known throughout
the nation and competed in the best
college football conference.
.These Gamecock seniors have
shown what success can do on the
field by using their celebrity to help
a community in need of role models.
The athletes who competed in
their last Carolina football game
Saturday night came to USC with
different goals. They arrived as boys
and will leave as men.
Their sacrifice for the Carolina
football team will never be forgotten.
They will always remain stars
in the history of Gamecock athlet
ics. They have made us proud.
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