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MEN'S TENNIS WRESTLING
The No. 11 USC men's tennis Iowa, which had
team lost Friday to fifth-ranked vulnerable after 1<
Georgia 4-3 Friday in Athens. dual meets and it
The Gamecocks fell to Ten Tournament
9-6 on the season and 2-3 in won the NCAA E
the SEC. wrestling crown J
over Minnesota.
Monday, March 22, 1999
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a 2-0 loss to the UN(
Despite its recent success, South Austin was the o
Carolina's women's soccer team was to wear her uniform o
so divided last year that some play- game,
ers taped conversations with coach The players say 1
Sue Kelly and hired lawyers to com- why they were bench
plain to the university. players they had prat
The parents of four current play- showed a lack ofresp
ers and four past players say they es> according to plaj
want Kelly fired, saying she is a coach,
bully who threatens to revoke the A group of 10 pi
scholarships of students who ques- pressed support for t
tion her. Players also complain that ^ {ew days after
Kelly showers with them. P|ay?rs w^? we
Kelly denies all the allegations individual meetings
and said the complaints are centered acove aandMc]
around playing time. meetiaf th, ^
"This is a well-thought-out, well- they don 1
orchestrated plan to have the coach . , ,^as ,c
removed based on whether the coach e coac a
played somebody or didn't play some- alle/edly was threa
body," the 30-year-old Kelly said. Sai G +v, +
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ly-s $37,000 contract will be renewed ^ ^ ; ^ ?
in May. They say they have con- renorted Saturdav
ducted a review of the complaints and Ke% she n(
of Kelly, who is seeking the head revoke any scho,?
coaching position atAuburn. never been an iss
"The... review does not suggest a years here; she sald
change in the coaching staff is war- university sa
ranted, USC Athletics Director Mike play this season, tra
McGcc said. keen their scholarshi
"The bottom line is this: Whether 2000 or quit and woi
Sue stays or leaves, that team is de- week ^ the athletic c
stroved, it's gone," said Geri Pavlovits Cr.kni archie
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of St. Louis, whose daughter, Mandy, Austin and Pavkn
is one of three players at the core of stay and play next ye?
the team's infighting. she will never play 1
The parents of players Angela The players loyal t
Austin, Gina Iacovella and Mandy who are complaining
Pavlovits have hired a lawyer. So has reparable damage.
Kelly. wedge though half
The four-year-old soccer team ia said Leslie Lamb, a'
37-35-5 under Kelly, including an 11- "They're not tryin
7-1 record in 1998 that ended in an They're trying to blov
NCAA tournament appearance. us."
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Junior All-American Jimmie Hackley takes the baton from a
ing the 4 x 400-meter relay in Saturday's competition.
Sports Roundup home outdoor meet of I
Special to The Gamecock with Brad Snyder and
Trammell leading the'
Track and Field Trammell, who ret
60-meter hurdles at tht
The South Carolina track and Championships, set a 1
field teams finished strong at itsfirst that same event Satur
Kentucky eliminat
by Bob Baum straight Final Four.
Associated Press stopped falling after 1
champions took leads <
ST. LOUIS ? Call Michigan State 6.
ugly or blue-collar if you like. The Spar- Scott Padgett, who
tans also have plenty of heart and more 19 points in the first thr
than a few players, and because of that games, was a nonfacto
they're headed to the Final Four. two late 3-pointers.
The top-seeded Spartans, who twice And Heshimu Evai
trailed by 13 points early in the game, less after getting 12 poi
came back to beat No. 3 seed Kentucky 10 minutes.
73-66 in the Midwest Regional final Michigan State's fh
Sunday and earn their first trip to the didn't come until Mate
Final Four in 20 years. a jumper with 15:45
Michigan State plays Duke next the game. The
Saturday in the Final Four at St. Pe- trailed 50-46 with just i
tersburg, Fla., while Connecticut plays minutes to play, then h
Ohio State in the other national semi- to one field goal in the
fina]. utes to take a 60-54 lea<
It looked early as though Kentucky They led by seven t\
(23-9) would be goingfto its fourth time 67-60, and Kent
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rit up. It's killing Freshman Lydia Bienias battles (left) for
women's soccer program which is entren
er shine in Wee
Z~m- won with a time of 13.48 seconds, break- day
f ing gold medalist Allen Johnson's pre- roe
vious record of 13.58, set in 1998. Gan
Also, three-time NCAA champion 21st
Brad Snyder continued his dominance,
winning the shot put with a throw of ter a
BftHH 19.08 meters, good enough for an 1
NCAA-automatic mark. the 1
In other field events, Lee Hughes on t]
won the high jump, with a jump of 7,
Carolina went l-and-2 in the men's woir
pole vault, with Mike Lameier taking ^he
first (15,7) and Jared Farabee taking t^ro
second (15,1). dive
* On the women's side, Ellakeisha jjujj
Williamson won the 100-meter highhurdle
title, edging out teammate Char
Foster, who took second.
Williamson won with a time of R
13.27, good for an NCAA provisional aS'
mark. Williamson also broke her own p
school record, beating her previous best
. . . v time of this season of 13.41.
The women's 4 x 400 relay team of ^
Demetria Washington, Mikki Bar- j*lssl
oer, onaun nanoman ana r osier look
first, breaking a track record (3:43.29) ?tar
with a time of 3:39.30. ^
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teammate dur- Columbia native Michelle Davison ^
finished the NCAA Swimming and Div- i^re
:he season, ing Championships in Athens, Ga., by dogs
Terrence taking 12th place in the NCAA 10-me- nint.
way as usual. ter platform diving competition. 1
:ently won the Twenty-five divers qualified for the bott<
3 Indoor NCAA event in regional qualifying held last mon
track record in week. Davison finished off a weekend retir
day. Trammell where she placed fourth in the 1-me- to tl
ter springboard event and fifth Satur- load
ed from NCAA tou
But the shots closer than 69-66 on a Padgett 3-point- 5-ofthe
defending er with 18.8 seconds to play. Grar
jf 17-4 and 19- Morris Peterson then hit both ends T
of a one-and-one to seal the victory, the a
had averaged and added two more with 5 seconds re- Clea'
ee tournament maining. 1:21
?r until hitting Evans scored nine of Kentucky's halft
first 13 points, helping the Wildcats h
as went score- run their way to the 17-4 lead with just 15 si
ints in the first more than seven minutes played. T
But he only had one basket the rest the fc
st lead, 43-42, of the half and watched the final 5:36 utes
en Cleaves hit after picking up his second foul. 7 in 1
remaining in He got his third foul three minutes T
Spartans into the second half and his fourth with taee.
more than 11 6:25 remaining. Mi
eld Kentucky Michigan State used 3-point shoot- 18 fir
next six min- ing and better rebounding to right it- nine 1.
self after Kentucky's blitz. and s<
vice, the final The Spartans, who came in aver- Th
,ucky got no aging four 3-pointers per game, were ever fi
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position against a player from Mississipi State. Bienias is
ched in controversy.
:ms-Baskin Rela
in the 3-meter contest. Nikki Un- Scott Barber (3-3) picl
also competed for the Lady win with 2 1-3 innings of ]
lecocks in the 10 meter, finishing relief of starter Randy Ha
place. fanned eight and scattered s
Qnroe finished in 27th in the 1 me- 6 1-3 innings,
ind 22nd in the 3 meter. . After replacing Hadden
Phe Lady Gamecocks finished in enth, Barber worked out <
top 25 in the overall competition loaded jam and then retin
lie strength of their diving points the 1^ batters he faced.
e Pomar picked up his thi
Phis concludes the season for the the Gamecocks.
ten's swimming and diving teams. Adam Poe and Bryon Ji
men will be in action Thursday IWo eactto Pace So;
ugh Sunday in Indianapolis, as na' w"e Brum W.ese went.
"pti q/1, ? i a double and his sixth homi
rs Chad Sheldon and Brandon , ,, ?
, ... . v ur, season to pace the Bulldog
co, along with swimmer Zsolt Gas- c. , TT , rn, ,o
. ., ^ i Starter Hank Thorns (3represent
the Gamecocks in the , , , ,
A V,, . , . loss, striking out a career-h
Championships. a career.,ongest eight.ini
The Bulldogs, who o
e Gamecocks 9-6, committee
high five errors.
*o- 25 South Carolina (17-6, 3-2) MSU took an early lead
sd a pair of unearned runs in the S0j0 home rim in the third
h inning and then fought off a Mis- tied the game an inning 1
ippi State rally to capture a 4-3 Adam Poe singled and score
iball victory Saturday night in ble by Tim Angiolmi.
kville, Miss. Chapman walked in th
Phe win by the Gamecocks evened the fourth and scored afte
veekend series at one game apiece, back singles by Daron Wrigh
; a final game set for 2 p.m. Sun- Curiy.
In USC's ninth, Poe si
Phe Gamecocks used a single and after a Bulldog fielding err
e errors by the 12th-ranked Bull- inning alive, USC tied the
(18-3,2-2) to take a 4-2 lead in the 2 on single by Trey Dyson,
h.
Phe Bulldogs scored a run in the Box Score
om half and threatened to score By inning
3 before USC reliever Jason Pomar
ed Travis Chapman on a fly ball MSU 001 ?QQ Q(]
le left-field fence with the bases CAROLINA OOO 101 0(
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11 in the half including three by Jtk
iger. A
hey woimd up 7-of-17 from behind
re. A.J Granger, Jason Klein and % Tjj
ves hit consecutive 3s in the final
to make it a one-point deficit at
lichigan State missed 12 of its first
lots but went 10-for-13 after that,
he Spartans also stayed even on
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of the half after falling behind 15that
category.
"hey finished with a 33-29 advanchigan
State's bench contributed
st-half points. Granger had
- all on 3-pointers ? Peterson
lored seven. I'D AIUIIIJICI I
ie crowd of 42,519 was the largest TiCAIfliVlcLl?
or an NCAA regional.
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FROM THE SIDELINES
vs. Courage is resistance to
lesday, fear, mastery of fear-not
absence of fear.
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^1 Football
p. begins
a J Holtz era
Football '99
Special to the Gamecock
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Coach Lou Holtz and his staff
sent their first USC football squad
through a spirited 2 1-2 hour spring
? football practice Saturday afternoon at
the practice facility on Bluff Road, which
Holtz has dubbed the "Gamecock Prov*?l!!|a^a
ing Ground."
More than 500 Gamecock fans atl"
ppl tended, along with a heavy media contingent
from across the state, to witness
Holtz's first practice as the new
Gamecock head coach.
The first 25 minutes of the workout
focused strictly on the kicking game,
while the remainder of the practice dealt
primarily with fundamentals.
Holtz said he was enthused about
being back on the practice field.
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I'm not doing South Carolina a favor
by coaching this football team," Holtz
said. "I told them that it's a privilege
ixf" W~r and honor to be here at this university
and to be their coach."
"We have a little bit of talent and
some quickness, but we're not real physical,
and we're not very sound fundamentally.
I believe you coach fundamentals,
and while thatmay become
very tedious at times, that's the way
we're going to approach things."
When asked to evaluate his personnel,
Holtz said he noticed quarterback
Phil Petty's aggressiveness and
photo Editor leadership and was looking forward to
part of a having the chance to evaluate all the
offensive backs.
Defensively, Holtz liked what he
saw out of defensive back Arturo Freeman,
who's coming back from a knee
T T O injury and will be held out of contact.
V C-/ "Someone asked me if I thought we
' looked like a 1-10 football team," Holtz
?a said "and T said wall that's what wp
VCU up tliC ??' ? ?**?' ~
pitching in were. If we had played better last
dden, who season, we would have won more games
iix hits over than we did.
"What we want to try to do is to
in the sev- make consistent improvement and
of a bases- progress each and every day. But it all
' seven 0 goes back to fundamentals. I may be
, r old-fashioned, but if you're fundamenird
save for ? , , ,
tally sound, you have a chance to win.
effcoat had Holtz also spent a few moments conuth
Caroli- versing with the fans at practice, many
3-fbr-5with of whom had arrived more than 30 min2
run of the utes before the workout began in order
s. to claim a good viewing area.
-2) took the "I think it's great that the fans came
igh nine in out here today," Holtz said. "If I had
rung stint. known this many were going to show
ut- it t e j wouj(j have negotiated the con1
a season- . . ?
cessions into my contract.
on Wiese's Petty, expected to be USC's startand
USC ing quarterback, said the team's attiater
when tude was extremely positive. "It was
id on a dou- very exciting out there today," he said.
"Coach Holtz is a great coach, and
e bottom of he takes time to make his points. Everyjr
back-to- one was going 100 miles an hour, and
it and Chris there were a lot of mistakes, but it was
great to be out there.''
n^,e ' Injuries have limited the following
Teoreat 2- Payers from practicing at full speed:
center Scott Browne (lower back), DB
Arturo Freeman (knee ? no contact);
ULi dason uox iKiiee;, ud Anare uooaman
(knee ? out), DE Thomas Hill
(knee ? no contact), OL Taylor Irvin
H 4 6 1 (shoulder), RB Antione Nesmith (knee
)2 395 ? will return to full practice Tuesday),WR
Brian Scott (virus ? out).
S* Terrence Trammell
NCAA Indoor Champion
Terrence Trammell, broke a
track record In the 60-meter
hurdles over the weekend
of thfi U/oomc.Rocl/in
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Relays. Winning the event
I In 13.48 seconds, he shattered
the record formerly
U held by Olympic gold medalist
Allen Johnson.