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USC Lady Gamecocks 62 * Mississippi St. 70 NFL Denver 24 Pittsburgh 21 Monday, January 12,1998 uamec< William Gallman goes up for a rebound in Gallman had three points and six rebount Univeri Multicultv An J*Vi ' T Y~>angsto '\X I v*? . Saturday Jan. 24,198 7:30 p.m. Koger Center General Admission $12 Adults $8 Students Tickets available at Carol! & all Capital Ticket Outle ) U * <. L x:ks win t SEAN RAYFORI) The Gamecock fj i Saturday's 70-53 victory over Louisiana State, b Is. s sity of South Carolina ra/ Cfn/ftfnf jlffaiw Pragawfc mwmm vw wa wam V nmm mmmm *0 m I WVIIM U ? v 77 andJMit ""l Enpv) an e \ dramatic per/ I \ DANNY CI mi Wl^i IM Proudly sponsoi FOX 57' Nation na Coliseum Box Office, RH Inf its. For more information call 7 ft >P#tTS The Gamecock despite stn ux>i. sjAjTis euuur iwmwn biwww Uarolina's solid defense, combined with their poor shooting, gave Coming off of a disappointing the Gamecocks only a 28-20 lead loss to No. 14 Ole Miss and a close, heading into the locker room. one-point victory over Vanderbilt, m. . ,, ,1 xr n J , , , ' The difference between the the No. 16 Gamecocks needed a ~ ,, lf , . TOTTav . . first half and the second was like wm against the LSU Tigers to gam . , . , , - 0 , confidence and momentum for ",ght and {m Carolma 8 of" Tuesday's game against the No. 6 ense' Kentucky Wildcats. USC's field goal percentage So far this season, Carolina jUI"Ped uP'od6:7 Perceat aftar has lacked the punch to decisive- Wlth improved shootly knock out opponents early in the tha Gamecocks pulled away game which has allowed the oth- fr?m a 21? run that er team to keep the contest close hegan 16.08 mark, until the very end. Coming off the bench, sophoCurrently, USC's average more &uard Herbert Lee Davis margin of victory is 8.7 points per spearheaded the spark when he game which is a far cry from last drove to the hoop for two. year's average of 14.2 points. Davis followed with a 3-pointAnd already, with 13 confer- er ^ accounted for ten of the 21 ence games still to go, the Game- P0^ during Carolina's run. Davis locks have sustained the same finished with a season-high 10 lumber of SEC losses as last sea- points and shot 80 percent from 3on. the field. But with strong defense and "Coach kept giving me the conDrolific bench scoring, USC made fidence to shoot the ball when its i move toward the level of play that open," Davis said. "It felt good [to vill be required of them to beat the be in the zonel. I shot the ball with op teams in the SEC and improved confidence tonight. Before I was., o 10-2 (2-1 SEC) by spanking kind of iffy about it, but now I he Tigers 70-53 Saturday night, feel good. I'm in the rhythm of "We played pretty well here," game. Coach told me to attack JSC head coach Eddie Fogler said. the boards, pump fake, take it to It was one of our better games. b?le> aud look to get fouled. And Ve have not played well. We had ^bat s what I did. I saw the man o have these two at home [LSU back off a little. So I tried to get a ind Vanderbilt]. We got our ears little English and put it in. It tinned back at Oxford. We got bat- worked." ered. You come home for two, you Leading all Gamecocks with tave to have them. Got to have 17 points on 4-6 shooting was juhem at home." nior forward LeRon Williams who In front of 11,507 fans at also came offthe bench to give USC Yank McGuire Arena, the Game- a big boost, ocks sputtered offensively in the With a total of 38 points, Carirst half, shooting a dismal 30 per- olina's bench was instrumental in ent from the field. the victory on a night when CarWith the offense running cold, olina's three leading scorers?seJSC's defense turned up the heat, nior center Ryan Stack, junior -a 1* IL. ? I Tti i jnuig iime turnovers, sie army une guaru nj ivj.cis.ie, senior guard all four times, and blocking two Melvin Watson?had sub-par perhots. formances. wtin m? vemn0 of 1 ormances * / as actors AVER cnn _ _ ~ Students, * aculi strate tye [ words of The Women's Studt ml)es and is a uniclue progran . on campus with un r ^ Jr" similar academic oi faculty, and staff dc via correspondence *4 J 31 y rcgisirauon ueauiine / Also mark your cal I / orientation session c I / at 4:00 PM in the F / For additional infoi / Women's Student S V Pick-up registration n v the Information Centei red by: Regis sBank Wednesd o. Center 77-7716 | J Natesa homeg to Cha the Ion games, Notre E igglinj "It is very important [fc everyone to step up]," William said. "Everybody has been sayin if the big three [Stack, Mckie, an Watson] don't do it, we're in troi ble. We showed tonight if everyon steps up or plays their role, the; we'll be okay." Despite scoring below his sea son average of 13.1 points per gam< Watson, who ended the game wit! nine points, still had a career nighl Playing in his 100th game as ; Gamecock, Watson dished off th ball five times to move into secom place on Carolina's all-time as sist list with 442. "I love Melvin Watson," Fogle said. "Melvin Watson is an adull He's a mature college student-ath lete who happens to be senior. He' a great kid. All the coaches sa^ their kids are great and all tha crap, but he's a wonderful persoi and a great kid. He happens to b one heck of a basketball player. Watson, however, had no idej that the game had any persona - ? asm m w^mwS, \ y; ' jkhtH '*'ii! LeRon Williams had reason tc Carolina career high 17 points S^B~STUDENTSER\ m? nfj&r/Q ;y & Staff - Sig int Services Mentoi 1 that pairs professi dergraduate studen r career interests. ! svelop mentoring r ! and planned activ : is Wednesdav Jam endars for the men >n Wednesday, Jani larper College Gre rmation contact the Services at 777-668 laterials in the Rus and the Campus A tration Deadline: lay, January 21,19! ys the Gamecocks have won 16 straight ames since dropping an 85-81 contest rleston Southern on Dec. 28,1996. But gest home winning streak ever is 34 from Jan. 12,1972 to Feb. 16,1974. >ame beat USC 72-68 to end the streak. Page 9 ? stars 5 w?" ir. significance other than a check in is the win column. ? "I didn't even know [it was my ^ 100th game]," Watson said. "My l" career here has been wonderful. e The people here have been great. a This being my last year, Fm trying to enjoy every game as much as i- possible. These last few months, ;, Fm trying to do the best that I can h for the university. We've showed L the last two games that when we a play together we're a very good e team." 1 r Over the Break Dec. 5 USC 74 Va tech 73 - Dec. 6 USC 67 Chattanooga 55 s Dec. 17 USC 57 Clemson 62 [ Dec. 20 USC 77 St. Joe's 65 n_ no TTfiri /\/\ nn r%i rs** i uec. lo 01^ at. oo I Dec. 30 USC 65 Towson 55 Jan. 3 USC 54 Ole Miss 73 | Jan. 7 USC 71 Vanderbilt 70 ^ ^ A dto SEAN RAYFORD The Gamecock > celebrate after scoring a South i Saturday. /ICES 3 * \ ;n Up Now ing Network ional women its who have Students, elationships ities. The larv 21,1998. itor-protege lary 28,1998, ssett Room. : Office of 18. :sp11 T-lniisp at ctivities Center. )8 i