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Waking up
ing sea-gull pitch^n^a
a tvilliam FOLKS otherwise free Sunday af- dy He
Common Folklore ternoon was going to be Se
spent covenng (drumroll in jus
please), of all things ... with 1
women's tennis. - single
Let's just say that I was not a happy camper. Not Ye
in the least. I even launched into an emotional USC'i
(but in large part logically-bankrupt) rant about the Verne
apathy and pointlessness of women's athletics turn t
that earned me a Drofanitv-laced reDrimand and a Fi
Wednesday, March 4,1998
one-way ticket to the couch. that 1
Well, shame on me. ally fi
Shame on me because what transpired at Max- na Ga
w cy-Gregg Park Sunday afternoon was probably one T1
of the most exciting collegiate
athletic events Fve ever seen, ? ..
ever. CdrOllHS
A crowd of maybe a hundred
in the stands, plus twen- Wn3tl Women's teni
ty or thirty players and Who: use vs. Vande
coaches watching from the WllOn: Today, 2 p.m.
mside fences, were treated to uh , , J ^
a Top 20 grudge-match and Maxcy-Gregg
a sensationail finale that was ter (located on the con
every bit as competitive, eveiy well Street and Bloss
bit 513 elect-c' e\erybit Admission: Free t
as emotionally-charged as any [_
USC football or men's basketball
game I've ever seen. And Fve lived in this shoul
town since the George Rodgers/Gerald Peacock era. into t
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Trailing by a 4-2 margin to tie the No. 20 Arkansas veiyl;
Lady razorbacks after six singles matches, No. 19 after
Carolina entered doubles competition needing to Lady
^ capture all three Pro-set matches to pull out the win. Louis
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to women's
; first, it looked like the Lady Gamecocks were
Ding call this one in, as two of USC's three dou
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freshman Leigh Eichelberger looked lifet
first, the former exhausted from just winning
nth-consecutive singles match, and the latter
ated with a slew of unforced errors that had pBPWF
tier demise all afternoon. jjUir
SC's No. 1 doubles team was also in deep trourly
on, as seniors Tobi Rakic and Karolina Buewise
found themselves trailing 5-3 to the La- 1
semingly running on fumes, Bulat was playing
t her third match since suffering a severe bout
tendonitis, and Rakic had just lost her ninth
!s match of the year earlier in the afternoon.
it all of a sudden, starting on the farthest court, :^?lipijL
s No. 3 doubles team (sophomore Valentine .
iz and freshman Mandy Carvalho) began to
he tide. MMML
rst, Vernaz hit a scorching baseline backhand
anded only inches inside the "in" line. It liter- [ . ], - j
roze Arkansas' Kendra Howard and AdrianLrcia.
len Carvalho won the pame with a full-tilt.
over-the-head forehand slam
pnn that rocketed past the two
rHW*Unl\ Lady Razorbacks like a Brett
Hull slapshot.
lis Then, Regnier and
rbilt Eichelberger started warming
things up, perhaps real-v
p izing that their five-match
tennis ben- winning streak as partners
ier of Barn- was on the line. Trailing by
lom Street) a 5-3 margin, Eichelberger
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it did, the two seized momentum and never Women's
i back, winning 8-6. town, but if i
irolina's furious rally was only thwarted at the mind, it may
ast moment, as Bulat and Rakic fought tiebreak The Lad}
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staff writer JOE QUINh
USC backcourt tea
Melvin Watson 1
to the National Assoc;
ball Coaches/General
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ulat and the rest of the Lady nQW time for thig wee,
ennls team are ranked No. 19 In for the*, who actually,
is the time of year tha
defeat was indeed disheartening, the love sports,live for. F
meback effort should serve as an ex- important that I have
he university athletic programs: Arlo - my copies of Cool Run,
ion't quit. heart.
tennis may not be the hottest ticket in March Madness
t can convince my paranoid-skeptical those who are too bu
be worth a shot. Try it out for yourself. luge, this is college b
r Gamecocks host nationally-ranked ing raises my adrenal:
; 2 p.m. today at Maxcy-Gregg Tennis thugs and people who
ission is free, but then again so is that tal rocks compete for t
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Watson honored
| Grant on All-Freshman team
Redshirt-freshman Antonio Grant
inmates Bj Mck- hag been named to the SEC Ml.Fre8hiave
'1 man team, announced Monday by the
lation of Basket- c cc
~ tv. conference otnce.
o or 1 sion. Grant becomes the third USC playth
148 other dis- er ^our years t? ma^e the All-Freshw
eligible for the man S(lua(^'as Mckie (1996) and Watson
(1995) previously made the first-year
1 Watson on the team.
Liter and Antawn Grant is joined on the team by Georrolina
and Matt gia's Jumaine Jones, Auburn's Scott
rech. "" Pohlman, Tennessee's Isiah Victor and
f Clemson was Tony Harris, Brent Wright of Florida :
?am. and Greg LaPointe of Vanderbilt.
ig the committee
?j] Today is a However, who gets to show off their
sad day for moves in the Big Dance? Only the tourthe
writer of nament selection committee can decide
this column that, and over the years, their choices
and a good have not been the best ones,
day for all Since the tournament field was ex:;
t h e b i b 1 e - panded to 64 teams, the ACC has not
thumping put in fewer than four. If you listen to
temperance that tool named Vitale, five should
jjl groups. Due get in. However, only three of them have
? to some mi- winning conference records.
nor health What about teams that could get
problems screwed out of a bid if Clemson and
he liquor store is Wake Forest are taken? The WAC conference
has five teams with 20 or more
ired that up, it's wins and winning conference records
c's latest diatribe - but only three will probably be taken.
*ive a damn. This How about Washington, who ended
it most guys who their season with a win oyer UCLA?
or me, this is so The Pac-10 doesn't have a post-seato
stop watching son tournament, so they have to wait
nings and Brave- until Sunday.
It is time for the Selection Comis
upon us. For mittee to stop catering to the ACC and
sy watching the start recognizing teams like Washingasketball.
Noth- ton, Seton Hall, and Colorado State,
ine like watching This will save them the embarassare
otherwise to- ment of taking five to seven teams from
he grand prize? one conference, only to see four of them
hip. bow out in the first round.
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