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^ SEC Women's Basketball
USC 73
Kentucky 87
^ ACC Men's Basketball
North Carolina 107
Georgia Tech 100 2
Monday, February 9,1998
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Harris steals the show in
Tennessee's 70-69 upset over
South Carolina.
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Saturday's game against Tennessee
was supposed to be in-and-out. Just go
in, grab the "W" and come home. That
was the plan.
Of course, everyone realized the Vols
played tougher at home and knew Tony
^ Harris would be in the line-up. But so
what? Carolina went into Georgia
and Auburn and came away with victories
for the first time since joining the
SEC.
Then the No. 13 Gamecocks (17-4,
7-3 SEC) stole two close wins from
Cincinnati and Florida before travel
ing to Nashville where USC put away
Vanderbilt and Drew Maddux.
So why should this game be any different?
^ In fact everything seemed to be going
just as planned, just like USC likes
it. The game was close at the half with
Carolina down by seven points.
Everything was in place. In the second
half, Carolina would come out and
put together a few runs behind some
great shots and solid defense to get the
win. The Gamecocks had the Vols just
where they wanted them.
After all, this same strategy had
worked throughout the season.
A Comine into this contest. Carolina
was 6-0 in games decided by four points
or less, 8-1 in games decided by 5 points
or less and 10-1 in contests decided by
10 points or less.
Prior to this game, USC had been
down at halftime six times and managed
to come back to win four.
So why should the Gamecocks be
concerned? If s not like they hadn't been
in the same position before.
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writer JOE QUINN
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^ "We had a successful day and an
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Frye said. "We outclassed a lot of
people, and there were a lot of great institutions
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But there was something different
in this game. Something that caused
Carolina to lose to the Vols 70-69.
"I don't think we were ready to play,"
USC coach Eddie Fogler said. "I don't
think we came out with any emotion.
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were sluggish. We looked slow and sluggish.
We lost. They [UT] were a better
team."
Despite facing a better opponent,
the Gamecocks shook out the cobwebs
of the first half, in which it never led,
to erase its seven-point half-time deficit.
With 11:18 to go in the game, Bj
Mckie hit a 3-pointer to give USC its
first lead of the game, 47-46. After Mckie's
bucket, the lead changed nine times
with the largest advantage of either
team being only four points.
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the game, Carolina found itself down
by four. After a William Gallman putback,
the game still could have gone either
way as the Vols led by only two
points with 8.7 seconds left.
But USC's fate was sealed on the
next play when UT broke the Gamecocks'
press with a long baseball pass
down the court to Harris.
It could not have been more fitting
or appropriate that Harris dunked the
ball to put the stake through Carolina's
heart.
All day long, he ate USC defenders,
dribbling around them and past them
like they were standing still.
Harris, who is only a freshman,
also was impressive from the field where
he shot 50 percent en route to scoring
a team-high 22 points and dished off
the ball seven times to lead his team in
assists.
"He [Harris] is very good," Melvin
Watson said. "I didn't get a chance to
play against him in Columbia. He
was a big difference in today's game for
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Leading the way for the men was
Corev Bridges, who won the 55-meter
dash in an unofficial time of 6.0. Jamie
Price placed second in the event. Marvin
Watts placed second in the 400 meter
dash with an unofficial time of 47.7.
On the women's side, Tonique
Williams won the 400-meter dash in an
unofficial time of 53.2, and Charmaine
Howell placed fourth in the event.
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Tennessee. He's going to be a heck of a
player. He's the quickest I've played
against since I've been here."
Not discouraged by Hams' late slam,
Mckie brought the ball down the
court with only 3.2 seconds on the clock.
Mckie managed to get off a three just
before the horn blew.
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advantage to only one, but the game
was over.
"I feel like I have a chance until the
horn sounds," said Mckie, who finished
with a game-high 27 points. "I thought
we had a chance...I felt very confident
going out there."
With the loss, the Gamecocks moved
to 7-3 in the SEC and two games behind
division-leader Kentucky.
Carolina still has a shot at winning
the SEC title, but now it must rely on
someone else to knock off the No. 8 Wildcats.
Going into the final stretch, the 'Cats
will face the Vols, No. 17 Ole Miss, Florida,
Georgia and Auburn before coming
to Frank Mcliuire Arena tor tne last
game of the season.
USC also has a tough road in
front of it with Alabama, Mississippi
State, Georgia and Kentucky at home
and with No. 14 Arkansas and Florida
away.
Tou have to be mentally tough as
a team," Mckie said. "You're going to
have close games down the stretch. We
had a couple of close games back-toback.
If this is another tough, close one,
you have to play like champions and
play the games to win. Every game is
not going to be a blow-out. You have to
play each game like ifs your last game."
Next up for the Gamecocks will be
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Jacqueline Madison placed second in
the 55-meter hurdles.
Next weekend, the teams will see
action in Nebraska at the Husker Invitational.
Men's Golf
The No. 9 USC men's golf team shot
rounds of 290 and 284 to finish Saturday
in fourth place at the Gator InviBRIEFS
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Baseball team opens
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Junior Eric Stanton fouls the ball off in Saturday's 7-<
with a 10-5 victory over the College of Charleston.
Adam Poe goes 6-for- 7 in two names
against the C of C as South Carolina opens P
the 1998 season witb a series split. ai
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Second-year head coach Ray Tanner and his No. 15 nj
Gamecocks swung into action against the College of ^
Charleston this weekend to begin the 1998 baseball season.
Gamecock fans saw 19 new faces in-uniform at Sarge si
Frye Field that were not part of a team that went 33-24
a year ago.
The Gamecocks came out on the short end of a ir
tightly contested opener Saturday 7-6 but bounced a!
back to take Sunday's game 10-5 in front of 496 fans. n
Freshman Clint Collins took the hill Sunday and ^
turnpfl in a vorv snliri premier showinp. Unaffected bv
the major transition from high school to college, Collins
sat down the first three batters he faced, striking out two n
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The Gamecocks gave him immediate support with ,
two runs in the bottom of the first. Collins made one mistake
over the next 4 2/3 innings and left the game with a
a 6-5 lead on the strength of an Adam Poe solo home run
and a Ryan Bordenick two-run shot over the right-centerfield
fence.
Sophomore Jamie Poston combined with junior Ja- ^
son Pomar to shut out the Cougars for the rest of the day.
The game was blown open by junior Mike Curry's
sixth-inning grand slam.
When asked about his decision to swing on a 2-0 pitch 1
by College of Charleston's pitcher Bruce Price, the cen- h
ter fielder said, "He was struggling with his control, so
I felt like he was going to try and put it over the plate. I p
was looking for a fastball, and he let up on it and got it
out over the plate a little too much. When I hit it, I
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Nate says Saturday's contest
against Tennessee was the first
time this season Carolina has lost
a game when leading with 5 00
left in the game. The Gamecocks
were previously 14-0.
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Freshman Scott Barber also shined in his first colleate
pitching appearance, going four-innings of relief
id allowing one hit in the season opener.
The Gamecocks were led at the plate Saturday by Ju
lor College transfer second baseman Jay Lambert, julor
shortstop Adam Everett and Adam Poe. All three
ad home runs for Carolina.
Lambert had a three-run homer. Everett had a solo
lot, and Poe went 3-for-4 with a home run of his own.
The Cougars broke a 6-6 tie in the top of the eighth
ining with an unearned run. The run proved to be fatal
3 the Gamecocks couldn't come through with a late-ining
rally and suffered its first opening-day loss since
d90. '
"Obviously, we are not happy with a split, but we are
ot too disappointed," Tanner said. "College of Charleston
layed great [in the first game], but I thought that we
ounced back well. I am definitely encouraged by the first
ppearances of Collins and Barber.
"I thought we were well-rounded offensively. Poe had
great pre-season and had a special weekend. It's alrays
hard to go 6-for-7."
Poe admitted the ball looked like a "hot-air balloon."
Explaining his approach at the plate, Poe said, "I just
-ied to put the ball in play and was glad to help out the
jam. It's always good to get off to a good start."
The Gamecocks face Davidson College at Sarge Frye
"ield at 3 p.m. Wednesday before heading to Charleston
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