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_ • Sports U-17 Nationals beat Carolina, 2-1 -'zrrz&mmme-~i Sean Rayford photo editor Forward Joey Worthen of the Gamecocks tries to out-hustle a U-17 National Team member in Wednesday night’s match. Worthen scored USC’s only goal of the game in the first half. Soccer from page 9 Goalkeepers Henry Ring of USC and Steve Cronin of the Nationals had a save for each team. Gamecock fnidfielder Ryan O’Neill had the game’s only yellow card for unsports manlike conduct. The National Team moves on to Charleston today to play the College of Charleston. The Gamecocks open the regular sea son next week with a Sept. 1 date against The Citadel. Kickoff commences at 6 p.m. at Stone Stadium. 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QxcSlencD ARMY ROTC THE SMARTEST COLLEGE COURSE YOU CAN TAKE For details, visit Legare College or call 777-6542/6543. A ‘ , *■ U.S. Open no cakewalk for No. 1 seed Sampras j by Bob Greene Associated Press New York - Almost every move Pete Sampras makes these days goes into the record book. The 28-year-old right-hander is the No. 1 seed at the U.S Open for a fifth time, ty ing the Open Era record set by John McEn roe from 1981-85. He is seeking his fifth title at the Na tional Tennis Center, which would tie him with Jimmy Connors, two behind a trio of players, including Bill Tilden. And a victory in the century's last Grand Slam tournament, the 12th of his career, would break the record Sampras shares with former Australian star Roy Emerson for most Grand Slam men's singles titles. He tied Emerson in July when he won his sixth Wimbledon crown. The road to the record book, howev er, could be a little rough. In Wednesday's draw, Marat Safin, a young Russian with a big serve, was select ed to play Sampras in the opening round. Also in Sampras’ bracket is two-time fi nalist Jim Courier, Frenchman Fabrice San toro and 16th-seeded Nicolas Lapentti of c—a— ...i—_, nn a n in Indianapolis last week. Martina Hingis, the top-seeded player in the women's field, will face Kveta Hrdlick ova of the Czech Republic in her opening match. Lindsay Davenport, seeded No. 2, will begin the defense of her women's singles ti tle against fellow American Corina Morar iu. Davenport, somewhat of a surprise when she won a year ago, added the Wimbledon crown earlier this summer. The Williams sisters - third-seeded Venus and No. 7 Serena - are playing in op posite halves of the draw and could meet in the title match, as they did earlier this year in Key Biscayne, Fla. Venus, who has never lost to her younger sister, opens against a qualifier, while Serena will play Kim berly Po, who won their only other meet ing. While Sampras is seeded No. 1, Aus tralian Pat Rafter has won the last two men's singles titles on the hard courts at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Seeded fourth this year, Rafter also could have his hands full with his first opponent, Cedric Pioline of France. Pioline reached the U.S. Open final in 1993 and the Wimbledon title match in 1997. Seeded second is Andre Agassi, winner of the French Open in June and runner-up to Sampra^at Wimbledon. He begins the chase for his second U.S. Open crown against Sweden’s Nicklas Kulti. The 6-foot-4 Safin made headlines last year when, in the decisive fifth Davis Cup match between Russia and the United States, he battled Courier for five sets before falling. He then made his Grand Slam tourna ment debut at the French Open in 1998, where reached the fourth round, then du plicated that showing at the U.S. Open a year ago. Sampras skipped the early part of the year after a late push saw him end 1998 as No. 1 for a record sixth straight year. He lost early at the French Open, the one Grand ^slam tniimampnt that hac pIiiHpH hie win ning ways, before beginning a 24-match win ning streak that was broken when he retired from a match last week in Indianapolis with a strained hip flexor. Rafter is also coming into the Open af ter being sidelined with an injury. He re tired from his match in Indianapolis and pulled out of a tournament this week with tendinitis in his right shoulder. Third-seeded Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Safin’s Davis Cup teammate who won the Australian Open in January, will take on Alberto Martin of Spain in his opener. Af ter a stretch in which he lost seven con secutive matches, Kafelnikov has regained the all-court game that took him to No. 1 in the world, albeit briefly. Sampras and Agassi are seeded to meet in the U.S. Open final, which would be the third time they have battled for the crown in Flushing Meadows. They also met in the , Wimbledon final in July and in the Aus tralian Open title match in 1995. Agassi won Down Under, with Sampras capturing their other three battles with a Grand Slam title on the line. If the seedings hold, fourth-round pairings would pit Sampras against 16th- i seeded Nicolas Lapentti of Ecuador, No. 7 -* Todd Martin against No. 9 Greg Rusedski of Britain, Rafter against No. 14 Tommy Haas of Germany, No. 5 Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil against No. 11 Mark Philippous sis of Australia, No. 6 Tun Henman of Britain against No. 12 Richard Krajicek of the Netherlands, Kafelnikov against No. 13 Alex Corretja of Spain, No. 8 Carlos Moya of Spain against No. 10 Marcelo Rios of Chile, and Agassi against No. 15 Nicolas Kiefer of Germany. 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