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Gamecock Sports Schedule
■ Women’s basketball at Wofford, 7 p.m. Wednesday
■ Indoor track at East Tennessee State, Friday and Saturday
■ Men’s basketball at Florida, 3 p.m. Saturday
■ Swimming vs. Auburn, 10 a.m. Saturday
Auburn hands USC third SEC loss
by Michael Haney
The Gamecock
Tony Kitchings’ first career double
double couldn’t prevent the Gamecocks
from losing their tliird SEC game of the
season.
Kitchings had one of his best per
formances ever with 14 points and 18 re
bounds, but USC fell to die Auburn Tigers,
at home Saturday night, 60-57.
Kitchings played with a bruised rib,
but it didn’t keep the center from play-*
ing his best.
“It didn’t bother me that much until
the second half,” Kitchings said of his in
jury. “I mean, you just have to fight
through it. I didn’t know I was going to
have a game like that... sometimes
[Auburn players] boxed me out, some
times they didn’t.”
The game was a roller-coaster ride
as each team traded runs throughout both
halves. After Carolina (10-6, 2-3 SEC)
jumped out to a 4-0 lead, they went score
less for nearly five minutes, and
Auburn (12-6,2-3) scored the next 12
points. The Gamecocks went on an 18
5 run to take a 22-17 lead, but Auburn
rebounded with a 13-4 run of its own to
close out die first half and take a 30-26
halftime lead into the locker room.
The Gamecocks shot just 21 percent
fi om the field and were 4-of-13 from be
yond the arc in the first half.
The Gamecocks came out hot in the
opening minutes of the second half. Aaron
Lucas drained two free throws and a 3
pointer to go along with two baskets from
Kitchings and Rolando Howell to give
USC a 35-30 lead.
But the man of the hour for Auburn
was Adam Harrington. Harrington pulled
the Tigers back into the game almost by
himself when he made five consecutive
baskets, three of which were 3-pointers.
The Tigers went on a 16-4 run to take a
46-39 lead. Harrington led the Tigers in
scoring with 17 points, 13 of them com
ing within a span of five minutes.
Howell broke a 48-48 tie with five
minutes to play, but Auburn’s Lincoln
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Glass stepped up and hit a three to give
the Tigers a 51 -50 advantage.
Down 53-50, Antonio Grant an
swered for the Gamecocks with a three
of his own. The two teams traded hoops
down the stretch to tie at 57 with 53 sec
onds to play.
Harrington drained one of two foul
shots with 16 seconds left to give Auburn
a 58-57 advantage.
The Gamecocks couldn’t come
through in the clutch. Aaron Lucas drove
the lane for Carolina looking for the win
ning bucket, but his shot was swatted
away by Auburn’s Kyle Davis with 3.3
seconds to play._
Glass hit two foul shots to up the lead
to three, but good execution on the in
bounds pass gave the Gamecocks one
more shot.
The Gamecocks called a timeout to
set up the tying shot, but senior David
Ross, who was three of four from three
point range, missed the attempt at the
buzzer.
“It’s probably the most open shot I
had all game,” Ross said. “It’s a shot I’ll
probably hit six or seven out of 10. But
that was one of the ones that just didn’t
drop.”
The Gamecocks, who have lost four
of their last five, will need a run in SEC
, play to have any hope of making the
NCAA Tournament. The loss at home
hurt, as Carolina will have a week off be
fore traveling to Florida next week. The
loss broke Carolina’s nine game home
win streak.
“This was a tough loss for us,” USC
coach Eddie Fogler said. “I didn’t think
we played particularly smart or shot
the ball very well. We tried hard, but we
just didn’t play well.
“Everyone in the league has one loss,
we have a lot more games to play, so
it’s not over.”
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January 20,2001, Frank McGuire Arena, Columbia, S.C.
AUBURN 60, SOUTH CAROLINA 57
AUBURN (12-6,2-3 SEC)
Davis 3-8 0-16, Daniels 4-9 1-2 9, Brewer 0-4 0-0 0, Pohlman 2-7 2-4 8, Har
rington 6-12 1-2 17, Diame 2-5 0-0 4, Sharp 1-20-03, Bota 0-0 0-0 0, Glass
4-9 2-2 13. Totals 22-56 6-11 60.
SOUTH CAROLINA (10-6,2-3)
Grant 3-9 2-2 10, Howell 1-3 3-4 5, Petravicius 0-3 6-9 6, Lucas 1-7 6-6 9,
Bradley 1-12 0-0 3, Ross 3-5 1-2 10, Taylor 0-0 0-0 0, Boynton 0-5 0-0 0,
Kitchings 5-8 44 14. Totals 14-52 22-27 57.
Halftime—Auburn 30, South Carolina 26. 3-Point goals—Auburn 10-22
(Daniels 0-2, Brewer 0-1, Pohlman 2-4, Harrington 4-7, Sharp 1-2, Glass 3
6), South Carolina 7-26 (Grant 2-4, Lucas 1-4, Bradley 1-8, Ross 3-5, Boyn
ton 0-5). Fouled out—None. Rebounds—Auburn 37 (Davis 15), South Car
olina 42 (Kitchings 18). Assists—Auburn 16 (Brewer 9), South Carolina 9
(Lucas 3). Total fouls—Auburn 20, South Carolina 17. A—10,982.
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Carolina’s Rolando Howell leans over Auburn’s Abdou Diame for a two-foot shot Saturday night. Howell,
making his first start of his college career, was on the bench most of the game because of foul trouble.
Baskets
eluding
team
■ Gamecocks
shoot season-low
27 percent in loss
by Kyle Almond
The Gamecock
Things only got worse Satur
day night for South Carolina’s men’s
basketball team.
The Gamecocks, last in the SEC
in field-goal percentage coming in
to Saturday night’s game against
Auburn, shot a season-low 26.9 per
cent against the Tigers, and once
again, head coach Eddie Fogler was
left searching for answers.
“I have no idea,” Fogler said
when asked about how he can im
prove his team’s shooting problem.
“Try to give them confidence —
that’s the way I think you go about
it.”
Whether it’s a psychological
problem or a technical one, the
Gamecocks know they have to shoot
better if they want to compete in the
SFr
“If we shoot poorly like we did
today, it’s going to be hard to win
games,” center Tony Kitchings said.
Kitchings, the only player on the
team shooting better than 50 per
cent from the field, accounted for
five of the team’s seven baskets Sat
urday night that were not 3-point
ers. USC only made 14 shots in all
from the field. In the first half,
Carolina only made 6-of-28 shots
for 21.4 percent.
“There’s nothing you can really
put your finger on,” forward and co
captain David Ross said of the shoot
ing problems. “These are the same
shots we take in practice. The guys
shooting the threes — they hit 65 or
70 out of 100 in practice. There is
really nothing you can say. There is
no explanation why we can’t carry
that over from the practice court.”
Kitchings agrees with Fogler’s
idea that it’s all in the head.
“I think it’s more mental,” he
said. “In practice, we hit the shots
and in shoot-around we hit the shots.
I don’t know, I think players are just
second-guessing their shots and com
ing up short.”
USC guards Aaron Lucas, Jamel
Bradley and Michael Boynton shot
a combined two of 24 from the field
against Auburn. Bradley was one for
eight from behind the arc, Lucas was
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Florida outshoots Lady Gamecocks
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USC’s Shaun GortmaVi brings the ball upcourt during th^ Rorida game
Sunday. Gortman finished with 23 points in the game.
by Charles
Tomlinson
The Gamecock
Despite leading for most of the first
half, the USC Lady Gamecocks fell
victim to a late comeback by No. 10
Florida, and lost Sunday’s game to
the Gators 97-85 at Frank McGuire
Arena.
Forward Tatyana Troina, who led
USC in scoring with 26 points, did all
she could to pull out a win for her team.
Troina bombarded the Gators with sev
en 3-pointers. But in the end, it was
n’t enough.
Florida and Carolina played neck
and-neck for a majority of the first half.
Troina sank two 3-pointers in a row to
bring USC to their laigest lead, 16-9.
Florida’s Brandi McCain answered with
a few of her own 3-pointers, tying
the game at 29 and helping the
Gators edge out the Gamecocks 44-43
at the half.
USC jumped out to a 58-52 lead
early in the second half, thanks to more
3-pointers from Troina and Teresa Geter.
The Gamecocks then went on a cold
spell that allowed Florida to take the
lead. Troina, Shaun Gortntan and Ni
han Anaz all made 3-pointers to give
the Gamecocks a glimmer of hope, but
Florida stifled the Gamecocks and ran
away with the victory.
“Our last few gabies, our defense
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ht(s been down, and our defense has
been something that I really felt was
solid,” USC head coach Susan Walvius
said.
The shooting for both teams was
virtually identical: Florida shot 53.3
percent to Carolina’s 51.7.
“I think that any time you score 85
points and shoot 51 percent... you ex
pect to win the game,” Walvius added.
Gortman scored 23 points for Car
olina and made seven out of eight from
the free-throw line. Geter and center
Petra Ujhelyi contributed 12 and 11
points, respectively.
For the Gators, McCain led in scor
ing with a game-high 29 points, and
Tamara Stocks and Naomi Mobley com
bined for 43 points.
The Lady Gamecocks are now 7
11 overall and 3-3 in SEC match-ups.
Florida improves its SEC record to 4
1 and its overall record to 15-2.
The Gamecocks’ last victory over
the Gators came in 1992, when they
won, 66-50.
Carolina will be in action again at
7 p.m. Wfednesday night when they face
the Wofford Terriers.
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Track team fares
well at SEC Quad
BY MANESHKA
Eliatamby
The Gamecock
The Gamecock track and field team
continued their winning streak Satur
day when the women’s team emeiged
as champions and the men came in as
runners-up at the SEC Quadrangular
Meet in Lexington, Ky.
The Gamecock women finished the
meet with eight first-place finishes and
a final score of 165 points. They were
followed by Geoigia and host Kentucky,
with 135 and 127 points, respective
ly
The highlight of USC’s weekend
was the women’s 60-meter event.
Gamecock Kanisa Williams barely tri
umphed over teammate Me’Lisa Bar
ber. Williams and Barber clocked in
identical times of 7.57 seconds and were
followed in a close third by Takoya
Thomas, who finished with a time of
7.61.
USC’s Demetria Washington, who
won both the 200-meter and 400-me
ter events at the Armoiy Collegiate In
vitational in New York City two weeks
ago, continued her impressive streak
when she won the women’s 200-me
ter event. Washington finished with a
time of 23.76, which was a NCAA Pro
visional qualifying mark. She was fol
lowed in second place by Gamecock
Mechelle Lewis, who finished with a
time of 24.50.
The Gamecock women also proved
their strength in the middle distances
as well when they secured the first three
spots in the 400-meter event. Miki Bar
ber came in first with a time of 54.99.
Tacita Bass and Sheneka Griffin came
in second and third, respectively.
Andrea Hallom won the 800-me
ter, with teammate Erin Anderson fin
ishing third.
Jackie Madison, who came in sec
ond at last week’s meet in the 60-me
ter hurdles, won the event Saturday.
Madison’s time of 8.21 was enough to
make her the second Gamecock ath
lete to surpass the NCAA Provisional
qualifying mark. USC junior Char Fos
ter came in third in the event.
In the field events, Lynette Kep
pler won the shot put with a throw of
49 feet, 9 inches. This distance passed
the NCAA Provisional qualifying mark.
Carolina freshman India Odum came
in second with a throw of 48 feet, 1 3/4
inches.
The USC men were impressive in
both middle and long distances. The
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