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Gamecocks drop sixth straight
USC keeps game interesting, but folds in the end to No. 11 Tennessee, 73-66
Men’s Basketball Roundup
Gamecock Sports
The USC men’s basketball team’s woes continued Satur
day as it lost its sixth consecutive game to the No. 11 Tennessee
Volunteers at Thompson-Boling Arena.
Once again, the story of the game was familiar to the Game
cocks, as they fell behind early, came back late, threatened to
take the lead at the end of the game and then fell short, 73-66.
USC has played five ranked teams in the six-game stretch, los
ing to four of them by an average of3.75 points.
As in the Gamecocks’ 60-52 loss to Tennessee in Colum
bia on Jan. 5, the Vols’ Vincent Yarbrough was the key factor
to the Tennessee victory. In the two teams’ previous matchup,
the sophomore forward’s 12 second-half points paved the way
to the win.
Saturday, Yarbrough scored 25 points, including four of
nine Vol 3-pointers, eight rebounds, two blocks, three steals
and three assists to shut do\yn the Gamecocks and keep Ten
nessee (18-2,6-1 SEC) atop the Southeastern Conference and
off to its best start since 1942.
Senior guard Herbert Lee Davis led South Carolina (9-11,
1-6 SEC) with 15 points, while freshman center Marius Pe
travicius added 11 points and 10 rebounds.
Freshman guard Chuck Eidson, taking over point guard du
ties while regular starter Aaron Lucas is nursing a broken hand,
was knocked down from his 10.3 points per game average,
scoring only five points on two-of-nine shooting. However, Ei
dson added two steals to his SEC-leading tal
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After trailing by as many as 15 in the first
half, South Carolina pulled to 65-61 on An
tonio Grant’s basket with three minutes re
maining.
But Yarbrough followed with a layup to
extend Tennessee’s lead to five. After the
Gamecocks closed the gap to 67-64 with 1:48
on a Davis jumper, Yarbrough countered with
a dunk, putting the Vols up by five and seal
ing the victory.
Yarbrough scored three times in the sec
ond half at times where USC pulled within
five points.
“It definitely would be easy to throw in
the towel instead of going out and playing
every night,” Davis said. “But our guys love
basketball. There’s not a night we don’t go
out feeling we can win the ballgame.”
USC fell behind early after Tennessee
center C.J. Black’s basket put Tennessee up
21-9 with 10 minutes left in the half. Black
was the Vols’ second-leading scorer with 16
points.
The \bls led by as many as 15, but Petravicius’ basket with
30 seconds left before halftime finished a 7-2 run to pull the
Gamecocks to 33-23.
The Gamecocks’ momentum carried over into the second
half as it cut the Tennessee lead to single digits. Another Pe
travicius basket with 6:40 remaining capped an 11 -5 South Car
olina run that cut the \fols lead to 61-55.
USC then went on another run, outscoring Tennessee
14-6 to cut the lead to 67-64 with 1:37 remaihing.
With 29 seconds left, Davis launched a 26-foot shot that
bounced off the rim and into Eidson’s hands. However, Eidson
couldn’t convert the second chance.
Yarbrough responded with a thunderous dunk on the
next possession and freshman forward Ron Slay made two free
throws to give Tennessee a 71 -64 advantage with 16.8 seconds
to play, ending the Gamecocks’ chances.
“We never really got into a flow offensively,” head coach
Eddie Fogler said. “Wfe were never able to get it to where we
could break loose in transition where we had open people. Vife
didn’t push the ball fast enough.”
Fogler was given a technical foul, his first of the season,
after USC closed the gap to 63-57 with 5:16 left. Sophomore -
forward Daniien Kinloch was whistled for an over-the-back
foul while trying to snare a rebound, which caused Fogler to
aigue witK official Bob Donato.
“It was a bad call,” Fogler said. “No way. Bad call.”
USC will take on No. 9 Florida Wednesday at Frank McGuire
Arena. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
South Carolina 9-11,1-6 SEC
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
No. FG FGA FG FGA FT FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO B S MIN
14 Heibert Lee Davis, g 5 11 3 52 204 40 15 2301 32
33 Damien Kinloch, f 4 40 02 3 2 3 55 10 2001 25
31 Chuck Eidson, g 2 90 1 1 212 3354302 34
12 Marius Petravicius, c 5 90 01 264 10 2 11 1313 28
35 Antonio Grant, g 3 82 60 012 3082100 24
00 David Ross 0 30 30 013 4200000 10
10 Jamel Bradley 2 72 60 001 1162000 18
50 Tony Kitchings 3 50 00 033 6160220 18
15 navis Kraft 2 61 40 002 2150100 11
Team 10 1
Totals 26 62 8 25 6 9 15 24 1 15 66 13 13 3 7 200
Tennessee 18-2,6-1 SEC
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
No. FG FGA FG FGA FT FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO B S MIN
14 Tony Harris, g 4 12 1 62 203 32115100 32
44 Isiah Victor, f 0 20 02 220 2020311 17
43 C.J. Black, f 6 10 2 22 221 33 16 1120 22
22 Vincent Yarbrough, f 9 17 4 7 3 4 4 4 8 1 25 3 1 2 3 36
42 Jon Higgins, g 2 81 60 001 1253300 31
05 Harris Walker 0 00 00 010 1002000 3
12 Marcus Haislip 0 00 00 0-00-0000100 3
31 Terrence Woods 2 41 30 010 1250001 6
32 Del Baker 1 30 10 201 1020000 10
34 Vegas Davis 0 10 00 010 1000000 2
35 Ron Slay 2 60 13 313 4170000 23
55 Charles Hathaway 0 10 00 012 31 0.1010 15
Team 3 7 10
Totals 26 64 9 26 12 15 16 22 28 12 73 15 10 8 5 200
Sean Rayford Gamecock Sports
Freshman Chuck Eidson, bottom, tries to wrestle the ball away from Tennessee’s Charles Hatfiaway dur
ing USC’s 60-52 loss earlier this season in Columbia. USC lost again Saturday at Tennessee, 73-66.
Lady Hogs whip USC
Women’s Basketball
Roundup
Gamecock Sports
After making it through a driving snowstorm
to Bud Walton Arena, the USC Lady Gamecocks
couldn’t survive Arkansas’ rain of 3-pointers as they
fell to the Lady Razorbacks Friday night, 87-79.
Three USC players reached double figures, with
junior guard Shaunzinski Gortman leading the way
with 23 points. Senior forward Annie Lester and
freshman guard Kelly Morrone each chipped in 12
points on the night.
However, Arkansas junior guard Wendi Willets
scored 24 points to pace the Razorbacks as she hit
five-of-nine from behind the arc.
South Carolina battled back from as many as
19 points down in the second half to trail by only
three points with more than two minutes to play.
^Vnnie Lester’s four free throws and a Morrone 3
pointer from the corner pulled USC back into the
game.
But the Lady Razorbacks answered South Car
olina’s challenge by scoring
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pushed their advantage back
to seven with less than
two minutes left in the
game.
Gortman had the op
portunity to reduce the
Arkansas lead back to three
as she was fouled on con
secutive possessions. But
Gortman missed the front
end of both trips and left
USC down by six with 1:12
to play.
* Forced to foul to try to
tch up, USC watched
helplessly as Arkansas con
verted every one of their
eight free throws attempts
to push the final score to 87
79.
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“I’m disappointed with the outcome of our game
tonight because I really felt like we would come out
and play hard tonight and win,” USC head coach Su
san Walvius said. “Arkansas is a great outside shoot
ing team.We tried to take them out of their shoot
ing rhythm, but they outworked us.”
The two teams stayed close during the opening
half with South Carolina holding a one-point lead
with 11:10 remaining in the half. Arkansas negated
that lead by connecting on all five of its next 3-point
shots, four by Willets, to take a seven-point lead in
to halftime.
“We tried some different things tonight during
the game. We are still searching for leadership and
that was what was missing tonight,” Walvius said.
“Annie Lester came in and played hard and got some
points for us down low. I’m glad that Kelly Mor
rone is on our team because she is a fighter and is al
ways talking to her teammates to keep them in the
game.”
USC played Sunday night at Florida, but re
sults were not available at press time. USC’s next
game will be Thursday against Auburn at Frank
McGuire Arena. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.
South Carolina 11-8,1-5 SEC
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
No. FGFGAFGFGA FT FTA OFDETOT PFTP ATO B S MIN
44 Annie Lester, f 3 80 06 612 35 12 1200 22
45 Jocelyn Penn, f 3 7 0 01 252 7370202 20
11 Crishna Hill, g 1 41 20 001 123 1 101 14
32 Shaun Gortman, g 8 14 2 4 5 9 0 5 5 5 23 3 8 1 4 25
51 Shanta Jeffcoat, g 1 20 02 311 2040300 17
00 Petra Ujhelyi 3 50 00 014 5361400 24
05 Ines Ajanovic 2 30 10 012 3141000 23
10 Kelly Morrone 4 82 62 211 22 12 5510 28
34 Shannon Segres 4 40 00 000 0380012 15
55 Linda Hoglund 0 30 30 001 10031 0 1 12
Team 2 2 4
Totals 29 58 5 16 16 22 12 21 33 24 79 15 263 10 200
Arkansas 11-7, Z-4
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
No. FGFGAFGFGA FTFTAOFDETOT PFTPATO B S MIN
34 Karyn Karlin, f 6 14 0 01 301 14 13 2102 27
44 Lakishia Harper, f 3 40 00 003 3562311 18
03 Amy Wright, g 1 20 15 600 0377204 30
20 Wendi Willets, g 7 13 5 9 5 6 2 2 4 1 24 4 0 0 1 35
25 Lonniya Bragg, g 5 6 0 02 225 73 12 1410 28
21 India Lewis 1 41 42 201 1154302 15
22 Dana Cherry 0 40 02 221 3020300 21
33 Celia Anderson 0 10 0 0 010 10 0 0000 7
52 Joy Oakley 0 00 00 000 0000000 2
55 Brandi Whitehead 6 11 2 34 72 2. 43 18 2310 17
Team 11 2
Totals 29 59 8 17 21 28 10 16 26 20 87 22 19 310 200
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Track teams continue success
Track & Field Round up
Gamecock Sports
USC’s female freshmen made their
presence known over the weekend at the
Sprint Invitational in Johnson City, Tenn.,
as Antoinette Wilks won the long jump
and Mamee Groves won the 201b. weight.
Wilks’ mark of 20’ 8 in the long jump
placed her into the NCAA Championships
as a provisional mark, while junior Lynette
Keppler added a win in the shot put.
Junior sensation Terrence Trammell
tied a lifetime best and an NCAA auto
matic qualifying time in the 60m dash pre
liminaries at 6.62, running the second
fastest time Friday to Auburn’s Coby
Miller at 6.58.
Trammell won the 60m hurdles Sat
urday with freshman Corey Taylor plac
ing third. The three-time national cham
pion tied the nation’s best time at 6.58
and broke the USC record.
Trammell made the finals of the 60m
hurdles at 7.69, also the fastest time of
the day. For his outstanding efforts, Tram
mell was named athlete of the meet.
Keppler won the shot put with a
toss of 48’ 8 1/4. The Anderson native
won the weight at 53’ <), a personal best.
USC team members Loren Thouvenot
was the runner-up at 53’ 1/4, Aisha Grant
was fourth at 47’3 and Candy Mitchell
was sixth at 45’ 8 1/2.
Miki Barber had the fastest time Fri
day in the preliminary rounds of the 400m
at 53.68, while teammate Demetria Wash
ington qualified for the finals in second
place, running a 54.05.
Barber won the 400m race Saturday
in 53.20, while Washington placed sec
ond at 54.74.
Ellakisha Williamson advanced to the
finals of the 60m hurdles in second place
at 8.34. Williamson will be joined by Jack
Just who the hell does Michael Jor
dan think he is?
Twelve days ago Jordan shocked the
world by coming out of retirement for
the second time and he’s once again in
the focus of the NBA.
Only this time, he’s making more en
emies than friends.
Vowing to “leave his imprints and
footprints all over the organization,” MJ
has now decided to try out his adminis-''
trative legs at the home of the strug
gling Washington Wizards as their new
head of basketball operations and part
owner.
Since his arrival, the Wizards have
lost three more games and head coach
Gar Heard has been fired. They’ve gone
through two more assistant coaches, Butch
Beard and Mike Bratz and still haven’t
made it to a playoff game, for the 12th
consecutive year.
ie Madison, who finished seventh in the
prelims at 8.53.
Me’Lisa Barber and Mechelle
Lewis join Takoya Thomas and Williamson
in the finals of the 60m dash.
Me’Lisa Barber was third in the pre
lims of the 200m with a 24.04 mark and
was followed by Lewis at 24.08 as the
fourth fastest qualifier. Both times better
their personal NCAA provisional marks
from last week.
Also qualifying for finals were Andrea
Hallmon at 2:13.20 and Kristina Brown
at 2:13.44 in the 800m run.
LaMonte Pennington also advanced
to the finals of the 800m in men’s com
petition with a 1:54.53.
The women’s 4x400m relay team took
first place by clocking an automatic na
tional qualifying time of 3:35.18.
Well, maybe it’s just me, but it seems
like the Wizards would have been a lot
better off if Mr. NM had left his size
13 footprint in retirement.
Heard, who also has experience coach
ing with the Pacers and led them on an
unprecedented playoff ran in 1994 that
extended the New York Knicks to seven
games in the Eastern Conference final,
has only been with the Wizards for six
months, or just over half a season. That’s
not even a chip off of the three-year con
tract he was offered when he took the job
last June.
Now, Heard might not be any Lou
Holtz or Pat Riley, but we down here at
Carolina would know only too well
that it takes a little more than a season to
turn a team around.
But, let’s move away from that sub
ject onto the question of who’s going to
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