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Volleyball
Gamecock volleyball takes two wins
in homestand against Mississippi foes
by Charles Tomlinson
The Gamecock
The South Carolina volleyball
team defeated Mississippi State 3-1
Sunday and Mississippi 3-0 Friday,
improving its record to 18-4 overall
and 9-1 in the Southeastern Confer
ence.
USC has won 14 of its last 15
matches. The team’s only loss came
to SEC East-leading Florida.
The Gamecocks have a weekend
off before facing Tennessee in
Knoxville Nov. 3 and Kentucky in
Lexington Nov. 5.
South Carolina 3, Mississippi State
1(Sunday)
USC won its second match of the
weekend against Mississippi State 3
1. The Gamecocks won the first two
games 15-3 and 16-14 before drop
ping the third 15-13. Carolina re
bounded in the fourth game, winning
15-5 tO’dinch the win.
The Bulldogs saw their record
drop to 14-10 overall and 1-8 in the
conference. They became the
fourth SEC team in a row that USC
has held under .100 in hitting per
centage. USC is also 6-0 against SEC
West teams this season.
Milica Perovic’s 12 kills led the
Gamecocks to victory. USC strug
gled in the match, hitting just .153.
MSU wasn’t nrich better, hitting .078.
The Gamecocks won 15-3 in
the first game and were sparked by
aces from Berna Dwyer and Cally
Plummer.
Plummer hit three aces in game
two to get USC out to an early 3-2
lead. Carolina began to run away with
the game, but the Bulldogs rallied to
tie it at 13 and then take a 14-13 lead.
However, USC went on to score three
straight points and win the game lb
14.
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MSU went up 13-9 and then 14
10 in game three. USC tied it at 14,
but the Bulldogs held off the chal
lenge to win 15-13 and cut the Car
olina lead to one.
But in game four, USC took a
commanding 9-0 lead and never
looked back, finishing MSU 15-5.
“Mississippi State made key ad
justments and played better in games
two and three. We got impatient in
game two,” South Carolina head
coach Kim Christopher said. “We
were having success offensively and
they weren’t stopping us in the first
game. In the fourth game, we played
better defensively and didn’t have as
many hitting errors.”
South Carolina 3, Mississippi 0 (Fri
day)
On Friday night, the USC vol
leyball team swept the University of
Mississippi Rebels, 3-0.
With that victory, the Gamecocks
improved their record to 17-4 over
all and 8-1 in SEC matches. After
their loss, the Rebels fell to 11-12 and
2-7.
Friday’s victory marked USC’s
13th win in their last 14 matches. The
game scores were 15-3,15-2, and 15
9.
Overall, USC’s attacking per
centage was .375, while Ole Miss
reached .058.
“Tonight, we played as a team
and we played consistently,” said set
ter Megan Hosp. “In preparation
for Florida and our other matches
in the SEC tournament, I think we
did really well tonight.”
“We had a very good match
tonight. The team played well to
gether, and we had a lot of fun,”
Dwyer said.
Dwyer, a middle blocker who is
No. 5 in the NCAA in hitting per
centage, led Carolina by hitting .409.
She also made 12 kills, eight kills and
five block assists. Hosp gave an im
pressive performance with 35 assists,
seven kills, eight digs and two block
assists.
Sam Alban, who hit .889, came
out during the final game to contribute
eight kills. Sara Heri made two aces
and had seven kills.
In game one, the momentum im
mediately shifted toward USC. The
Gamecocks soared to a 6-0 lead be
fore Ole Miss called time out. They
returned and scored three points, but
kills by Nia Mackie and Plummer
turned things around for the duration
of the game. Plummer made a ser
vice ace for the match point, and
Dwyer contributed the match-win
ning kill. The Gamecocks won 15-3.
Carolina rushed to a 6-0 lead in
game two. Heri had two back-to-back
aces for the fourth and fifth USC
points. Mackie once again made some
critical kills to help the Gamecocks
Game three was much more tense,
as Ole Miss fought to stay in the com
petition. They came within two points,
11-9, but after a kill by Dwyer that
gained possession for USC, the Game
cocks went on an unstoppable run.
One final kill by Nadia Sefferovich
ended the game, 15-9, and won the
match for USC.
“In game one, we were sharp of
fensively,” said Christopher. “In game
three, Mississippi played better,
and I feel like we just didn’t take ad
vantage of some opportunities that
we had.”
“Overall, I feel very good about
the way that we played,” Christopher
said. “We’re seeing some good things
going on in transition, so I think we’re
getting better.”
The sports desk can be reached at
gamecocksports@ho1mail.com.
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Associated
Press
Football Top 25
1. Nebraska
2. Virginia Tech
3. Oklahoma
4. Miami (FL)
5. Clemson
6. Florida State
7. Oregon
8. Florida
9. Washington
10. Kansas State
11. TCU
12. Ohio State
13. Georgia
14. Southern Miss.
15. Michigan
16. Purdue
17. South Carolina
18. Oregon State
19. Notre Dame
20. Mississippi State
21. N.C. State
22. Texas
23. Northwestern
24. Arizona
25. Auburn
Sophomore Rose
emerges victorious
in tennis invitational
» «
by Kyle Almond
The Gamecock
Gamecock sophomore Seth Rose
came out strong in the 2000 USC Ten
nis Fall Invitational, winning his flight
with a pair of wins on Sunday.
Rose defeated William & Mary’s
Trevor Spracklin in straight sets, 7
5, 7-5, in the finals of flight A1 to
win the tournament. «
Rose had previously won a hard
fought match against Eastern Ten
nessee State’s Marcos Pavlovich in
the semi-finals. Rose took the first
set 6-3 but lost the second 7-5. .
Rose was up 2-0 in the third set be
• fore Pavlovich had to retire due to an
injured ankle.
Carolina’s Nasir Sherazi also ad- .
vanced to the semifinals of his flight,
but came up short against Brown’s
Chris Wolfe.
Two doubles teams also lost semi
final match-ups. Senior Guillaume
Legat and junior Rodrigo Pacheco
lost 8-3 to a team from Virginia and
juniors David Nelson and Marcus
Singh were defeated 8-1 by a team
from UNC-Greensboro.
But Rose’s victory made the day
a special one for USC head coach
Kent DeMars.
“This was a wonderful experi
ence for Seth,” DeMars said after the'
win. “It has been a long weekend,
and it was good to see him compete
on such a high level. We’re proud of -
all our guys making it to the semifi
nals of their flights in either singles
or doubles.”
A1 Semifinals
Seth Rose (USC) def. Marcos
Pavlovich (ETSU) 6-3, 5-7, 2-0 ret.
A1 Finals
Seth Rose (USC) Trevor Spracklin
(W&M) 7-5, 7-5
B1 Semifinals
Chris Wolfe (Brown) def. Nasir Sher
azi (USC) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
A1 Doubles Semifinals
Croker/Hunter (UVa.) def.
Legat/Pacheco (USC) 8-3
Mule/Torres (UNC-G) def. Nel
son/Singh (USC) 8-1
B1 Consolation Semifinals
Duquette (UVa.) def. Rob Cassidy
(USC) 6-0, 1-6,7-6
The sports desk can be reached at
gamecocksports@hotmail.com.
Soccer
from page 10
mark as junior Ginger Sell
ick, assisted by Kristen Lind
say and Kacy Murray, beat
goalkeeper Jessica Freas one
on-one on a breakaway run
to take the lead.
Carolina knotted the
game at one, and the score
remained tied until after half
time, when Auburn forward
Ginger Sellick found the goal
again after an assist from
Gretchen Winter at the 65:02
mark.
The Gamecocks perse
vered and were quickly re
warded at the 77:14 mark on
an unassisted score by Lydia
Bienias from 25 yards to tie
the game once again.
Both teams were unable
to score again at the end of
regulation play, and they be
gan to battle through sudden
death overtime.
The name Ginger Sellick
continued to haunt the
Gamecocks, however, as she
delivered the final blow in
the second overtime at the
106:46 mark. Sellick scored
on a breakaway rua to com
plete her hat trick, handing
the stunned Gamecocks a 3
2 loss.
The sports desk can be
reached at
gamecocksports@hot
mail.com.
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