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• * Gamecock Sports Schedule c __ ■ Men’s soccer vs. UMass, Friday, 7 p.m. ■ Football vs. New Mexico State, Saturday, 7 p.m. ■ Women’s soccer vs. N.C. State, Sunday, 3 p.m. V « Women’s soccer drops opener Gamecocks begin 2000 home campaign Sept. 3 by Kyle Almond The Gamecock The South Carolina women's soccer team lost its 2000 season opener Sunday at UNC Greensboro, 2-0. The kick-off was delayed for 90 minutes due to thunderstorms, but the only lightning struck in the following 90 minutes was by the Spartans (1-1). Junior forward Kara Mirarchi opened the scoring in the 35th minute when she drilled a 25-yard shot past Gamecock goalkeeper Carolyn Ortega. The Spartans added another goal at the 52:44 mark. This time, it was junior mid fielder Melissa Boythe who scored for the Spartans. Boythe found success from even farther out than Mirarchi's goal. She unleashed a shot from 35 yards out that found the top right comer of the Gamecock goal. Throughout the contest, the Gamecocks (0-1) could not find a way to break UNC Greensboro's defense, despite out-shooting the Spartans, 10-8, and holding the advantage in comer kicks, 13-3. Junior midfielders Lydia Bienias and Moigan McIntyre had three shots each to lead the Gamecocks. Mirarchi and Kate Dy lag's two shots apiece led the Spartans. Kathryn Clewley earned a shutout in goal for UNC-Greensboro. She had five saves. Ortega and Elise Matthews split time it the goalkeeper position. In nearly 60 min jtes of play, Ortega allowed both goals, and Matthews allowed none in nearly 30 min jtes. Matthews added three saves, while Or tega had none. The win for UNC-Greensboro improved the school’s record in home openers to 9-4. The Gamecocks will open their home campaign on Sept. 3 vs. North Carolina State. ) The sports desk can be reached at gamecocksports@hotmail.com. 2000 Women’s Soccer Schedule September 3 vs. NC State November 2-5 SEC Tournament j Gamecocks favored, but wary of NMSU l by Pete Iacobelli Associated Press Will this be the Sat urday that the longest losing streak in USC histo ry is broken? "This sucker is gonna come to an end. I just can't tell you when," Holtz said Monday, as his Gamecocks prepared to v.'pvu VI1C, JVU son against New Mexico State on Satur day night. "1 think our players are as tired of it as I ant," said Holtz, who went 0-11 in his first season at South Carolina. The Gamecocks are winless since the opening game of the 1998 campaign. The 10 losses in ‘98 were part of the reason Holtz was brought in to replace Brad Scott. However things became even worse last season, as USC failed to win a single game. The team used six quar terbacks and triple the amount of offensive linemen be cause of injuries. It seemed as if there was a new chal lenge for Holtz to deal with every week. His son and offensive coordinator, Skip, was hospi talized with a unique virus. Holtz's wife, Beth, had her cancer return and his mother, Anne Marie, died the day before the Gamecocks lost to Florida, 20-3. In the spring and early fall practices, though, things have gone right for the Gamecocks and Holtz. His wife's disease is in remission and she's been giv en a positive future prognosis. Holtz feels that has let him concentrate on rebuilding the Gamecocks. • “The team isn't thinking like a loser anymore,” quar terback Phil Petty said. "We're kind of ready to go out there," he said. Petty and the rest of the Gamecocks have dealt with the streak's weight since ending last season in a 31-21 loss to Clemson, so they are ready to end it. "It's the biggest game that anybody on this football team has played,” Petty said. "It can get us off to a great start." As the players get anxious to break the streak, so do the fans as well. There have beert rumors of USC fans planning to stomi the field and tear down the goal posts when the streak does fall. The 6’2”, 290 lb. nose guard Cleveland Pinkney doesn’t mind. "I'm go at the top of it, shaking it and carrying it around Co lumbia with them if we win,” Pinkney said. A 1 - though there is much speculation it wil end this weekend, Holtz warns fans that the Aggies are a quality team. NMSU upset the No. 22 Arizona State Sun Devils last season on its way to a 6-5 record. Holtz compared Aggie quarterback K.C. Enzminger to Vnginia Tech standout Michael Vick. Enzminger pass esd for 1,878 yards and ran for 358. "If you look at the facts and figures, there isn't a lot of difference between" Vick and Enzminger, Holtz said. One tiling the Gamecocks have working on their side this weekend is the fact that they are 8-point favorites over NMSU in the Vegas odds. The Gamecocks have not been favored in a game since the Vanderbilt game on Oct 24, 1998. Is this a blessing, or too high of an expecta tion? Petty says no matter what oddsmakers say, "We're go ing in as underdogs. We're treating the game like we have something to prove." And Pinkney was heartened when he learned South Carolina was an -point favorite on Saturday. "That means somebody likes us," he said. "I want to shake that man's hand." ‘We’re going in as underdogs. We’re treating the game like we have something to prove.’ Phil Petty USC quarterback, on being favored against New Mexico State USC men end preseason slate, tie No. 9 Saint Louis by Kyle Almond The Gamecock In its final preseason tune-up for the upcoming season, the South Carolina men’s soccer team tied the No. 9 Saint Louis Billikens, 2-2, in the IPFW Soccer Showcase. USC jumped out to an early lead at the 10:00 mark when freshman Ryan Da ley scored off a Dave Moore assist. The freshman Daley was one of three first year players to start the Sunday game. The Gamecocks added another goal to go ahead 2-0 at 24:30 of the first half. Another freshman, Jordan Smith, scored the goal, and junior Tony Vitagliano was credited with the assist. Mike Hill cut the South Gtrolina lead to one goal after scoring unassisted 15 minutes into the second half. The Gamecock defense held off the Billikens for most of the rest of the sec ond half, but in the closing minutes, it couldn’t prevent its opponents from ty ing the game at two. Jack Jewsbury, who scored eight goals for the Billikens last season, scored off a pass by Loren Reinhardt to level the game at the 88:56 mark. The result brought the Gamecocks’ i-—-: record in the weekend tournament to 1 0-1. USC defeated Notre Dame on Sat urday, 2-0. Despite allowing Saint Louis to come back and tie the game, USC head coach Mark Berson was very happy with his team’s performance over the weekend. "I was real pleased with the progress we made, especially from the Notre Dame game to the Saint Louis game,” he said. "We did extremely well for our first out ing of the season and especially for our first on the road." Berson was able to use the exhibition games to gauge the potential of some new faces on his team. After losing six seniors, Berson now has a 24-man roster with 19 of them being either freshmen or sopho mores. "We have seen a number of players who are able to step forward, take re sponsibility and help us," Berson said. "And that is very encouraging." In die two weekend games, die Game cocks outshot their opponents 25-24, but Berson was more impressed with his team’s defensive tenacity. "The team worked very hard defen sively," he said. "And they turned it up a • notch against Saint Louis, an exception al team." Goalkeepers Henry Ring and Mike Bachmeyer split playing time in goal for both games. Like the rest of the starting lineup, the starting goalkeeper position remains unsettled. "[Deciding on a starting line-up] is going to be a process," Berson said. "It will take a while." "Both [Ring and Bachmeyer] have done very well in goal. We won’t make a decision on the starter until right be fore Friday’s game." On Friday, the Gamecocks open their regular season at home against UMass. The game will be played at Eugene E. Stone III Stadium and kick-off is sched uled for 7 p.m. Berson is concerned about playing the Minutemen, who defeated Brown jn a scrimmage last weekend, 1-0. "UMass is an excellent team," he said. "They scrimmaged a good Brown team, that, if most Gamecock fans remember, beat us in our last game last season. They are coming in on a roll and have a lot go ing for them. They have a lot of experi ence from top to bottom." The sports desk can he reached at gamecocksports@hotmail.com. « —:—:-1 2000 Men s sq,ccer schedule : Bucknell lyi. Lehigh own of Mt. Pleasant Invitational (Charleston, SC) 27-vs.'Citad£ 28 vs. Ch/ck Cithern Novemb1 5 vs. u: 12 vs. FLA htte: 18-19 NCAA First Ri 25-26 NCAA Sec. December 2-3 NCAA Quarter 8-10 College Cup Trammell seeks professional, Olympic glory by Kyle Almond The Gamecock Terrence Trammell, South Carolina’s NCAA champion sprinter and Olympic hurdler, has run his last race as a Game cock. The two-time National Track and Field athlete signed a professional contract in early August to run professionally in Eu rope. Trammell leaves USC after winning five NCAA titles and eight Southeastern Conference titles in his three-year career with South Carolina. A business major with 53 hours left to complete ills degree, Trammell admits the decision to forego liis senior year of NCAA eligibility wasn t an easy one. ‘1 prayed about the decision, it wasn’t easy,’’Trammell said. “But 1 felt like I was I ; ready to go to the next level.” “This was the best opportunity for me. It was one of those things you don’t pass up.” This summer, Trammell qualified for the U.S. Olympic team in the 110-meter hur dles. He will travel to Sydney in Sep tember, and after the Games, he will re turn to Columbia in mid-October to train with USC track and field head coach Cur tis Frye and pursue his degree. Frye is very supportive of his athlete’s decision. “Terrence had an outstanding career at South Carolina,” he said. “He’s at the top of his game, like a professional bas ketball player. I am happy he has this op tion.” Trammell has already competed twice .> . x in Europe, finishing second in the 110-me ter hurdles to Allen Johnson in Linz, Aus tria, and finishing third in the same event in Zurich, Switzerland. Johnson, a volunteer coach at USC, al so qualified for the Olympics and trains along with Trammell during the season. Frye credits Johnson with Trammell’s im provement as a hurdler. “It’s helped him to train with Allen so when he gets to the final [of an event] he knows what to expect,” Frye said. Before the Olympics, Trammell and Johnson have two more races, in Brussels, Belgium, and Berlin, Germany. If Trammell fails to win a medal this year, Frye believes that he’ll have another chance in the future. “He has a chance to compete in three Olympics (also 2004 and 2008),” Frye said. “He could contend for gold medals in both the 100 meters and the 110-meter hurdles.” Trammell is currently considering ap parel deals with Adidas and Nike. In his career at USC, he was a 12-time All-Amer ican. During that time, he se^ eight school records, two SEC records, and one NCAA championship record. His time of 13.19 in the 110-meter hur dles is second in the NCAA record books to Renaldo Nehemiah. “I have so many good memories of South Carolina,” Trammell said. “I did what I came to do — score points for my team and win championships.” The sports desk can be reached at gamecocksports@hotmail.com. £ Football ticket distribution •New Mexico State TODAY •Georgia TODAY, Sept. 5, 6,7 •Eastern Michigan Sept. 5, 6,7,11,12,13 •Mississippi State Sept. 11,12,13,18,19, 20 •Arkansas Oct. 2,3,4, 9,10,11 •Tennessee Oct. 9, 10, 11,23, 24, 25 BLOCKSEATING SCHEDULE •New Mexico State & Georgia TODAY •Eastern Michigan & Mississippi State Sept. 5, 6, 7,11,12,13 •Arkansas & Tennessee Oct. 2, 3,4,9,10,11 - * Students can also pick up tickets for the New Mexico State and Georgia games at the Student Organization Fair today on the Russell House Patio from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.nt. Tickets for any home game can be picked up at Witliams-Brice Stadium on game day. Student ticket distribution is in Russell House 205, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.