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10* I ' |—L GAME SCHEDULE VOLLEYBALL vs. Auburn, 7 p.m. Friday LOIN TALI U S WOMEN’S SOCCER vs. Ole Miss, 7 p.m. Friday MEN’S SOCCER at UCLA Tournament, 7 p.m. Friday Story ideas? Questions? Comments? FOOTBALL at Tennessee, 6 p.m. Saturday Write us at gamecocksports@hotmail.com VOLLEYBALL vs. Alabama, 2 p.m. Sunday Back on track H - use RECOVERS FROM ARKANSAS LOSS TO THRASH VANDY The Gamecock defense takes down Vanderbilt quarterback Greg Zolman during Saturday’s victory over the Vanderbilt Commodores, photo by travis lynn Gamecock offense impressive in Vanderbilt win BY BRANDON LARRABEE THE GAMECOCK If the Gamecocks were looking to break their season record for offense Saturday, they could have stopped playing Vanderbilt in the third quarter. Eight minutes into that quar ter, USC had already blown away its previous high point — 402 yards against Kentucky two weeks ago —by reaching 462 yards. But the Gamecocks went on to pick up more than 190 additional yards for a total of 656, eclipsing the school record of 652 set against Mississippi State in 1995. That yardage led to 46 points, the most the Gamecocks have scored this season. USC had the ball for more than 37 minutes, was 8-15 on third down conversions, rushed for 356 yards and passed for another 300. This from a team that had av eraged 337 yards of total offense and 28:57 on time of possession. “I thought our offense played exceptionally well,” head coach Lou Holtz said. Part of the Gamecocks’ success came from the offensive line, which gave Petty time and then some. It was time he took advan tage of, going 13-21 in passing for 208 yards and two touchdowns. He also rushed for 24 yards and was only sacked once. “They (the offensive line) gave Phil so much time... he was like, ‘Oh my God, what do I do?’” back up quarterback Corey Jenkins said. Holtz said he was pleased with Petty’s performance. “I thought he completed well and did a nice job finding people,” he said. Jenkins also did well, going 2-3 on passing for 74 yards while run ning for 37 yards and a touchdown. Holtz said he was glad to see Jenkins get more time, though he expressed concern that the junior wasn’t throwing as well in game situations as he does in practice. “But I’m a big Corey Jenkins fan,” Holtz said. Derek Watson and Andrew Pinnock also ran well, both pick ing up more than 100 yards, the first time USC has had two 100 ♦ OFFENSE, SEE PAGE 11 BY BONNIE BERKES THE GAMECOCK The South Carolina Gamecocks recovered from last week’s defeat against Arkansas with a 46-14 tri umph over Vanderbilt on Saturday night at Williams-Brice Stadium. USC showed both strong offense and defense on the way to the final score. USC senior quarterback Phil Petty, who was ready to make up for last week’s play against the Razorbacks, led the offense to a school-record 656 yards. “Phil was as determined and fo cused as I’ve ever seen him,” USC head coach Lou Holtz said. “I knew he was going to bounce back. I think he was really em barrassed by what happened in Arkansas and he was determined to play well against Vanderbilt.” The Gamecocks improved to 6 1 overall and 5-1 in the Southeastern Conference. With the six wins, USC also became el igible to attend a bowl game. They are now ranked 12th in the Associated Press poll. Vanderbilt dropped to 1-5 over all and a dismal 0-4 in the SEC af ter suffering its worst loss this season. , TTC'/"' rw-v* the defensive tempo during this past week’s practices, and it showed in the game against Vanderbilt. “The Gamecocks did not just win; they won with authority,” Brown said. “We don’t accept los ing anymore. Losing will not be tolerated.” Vanderbilt opened the game on offense but was soon taken off the field by the USC defense. Within the first four minutes of the game, the Gamecocks scored their first touchdown off a 41-yard pass from Petty to Brian Scott. Scott, a senior, had an impres sive outing in the first half with six catches for 143 yards and a j touchdown but was held without any passes in the second half. After the Gamecocks took a 14 0 lead, Vanderbilt came back with their longest drive of the season. The Commodores went 97 yards on nine plays, scoring a touch down to make the score 14-7. USC got its first safety with 1:10 left in the second quarter when Vanderbilt deep snapper David Meadows snapped the ball over ♦ VANDERBILT, SEE PAGE 11 Volleyball sweeps SEC opponents BY CHRIS FOY THE GAMECOCK South Carolina’s volleyball team (14-3, 7-3) won both of its matches this past weekend, de feating Kentucky for the second straight time and avenging a loss against Tennessee earlier in the year. USC 3, TENNESSEE 1 Carolina outside hitter Nadia Sefferovich set a season-high for kills with 17 against the Lady Volunteers on Friday night on the way to-avenging USC’s 3-1 loss to Tennessee on Oct. 7. The junior also notched in 10 digs in the Lady Gamecock victory. Cally Plummer was able to get nine kills, which marked only the third time this season she was held to under dou ble-digit kills. “It was good to see that we maintained the intensity through most of the match,” said USC head coach Kim Christopher. “With ral ly scoring, it was difficult to main tain our focus throughout the match. This was a very good team that we beat.” In the first game, the Lady Gamecocks led early but soon were tied at 11. Carolina took the 29- 24 lead off of a Nia Mackie kill before winning the game 30-25. In game two, the Lady Volunteers broke away from an other tie to take a strong 21-15 lead. Despite a Bema Dwyer service ace late in the game to narrow the margin, Tennessee held on to win 30- 20. Game three appeared to start the same as the prior two, only this time the Lady Gamecocks 5 were able to hold on to their ear- C ly lead and wouldn’t allow Tennessee to get any closer than | four points away. Carolina won game three 30-16. The fourth game proved to be l the strongest offensive showing 1 for USC, as they hit .536 in the ( game. They went on to win the 1 game 30-23. t On the match, USC out-hit ( Tennessee .340 to .231. I iouth Carolina goes up for the block. The Lady Gamecocks >nly lost one game in two matches, photo by aaron hark JSC 3, KENTUCKY 0 The Lady Gamecocks continued heir SEC success Sunday afternoon >y beating the Kentucky Wildcats 10-8,3-5). Cally Plummer led the ady Gamecocks with 11 kills and -hot .444. JSIadia Sefferovich also hit louble-digit kills for the second time his weekend with 10. After the match, coach Christopher said she was pleased with her team’s performance this weekend. “We got back into a good rhythm this weekend,” Christopher said. “Today we made great transition from our defense ♦ VOLLEYBALL, SEE PAGE 11 Men’s soccer fights« to tie with Rutgers after Maryland loss BY KYLE ALMOND T1IK GAMECOCK USC’s men’s soccer team earned a hard-fought draw with No. 8 Rutgers on Sunday but for the second straight season failed to win the Gamecock Soccer Classic. The No. 18 Gamecocks tied the Scarlet Knights 1-1, but their 1-0 loss to Maryland on Friday virtually eliminated their hopes of winning the tournament they once dominated. Carolina had won seven straight Classics be fore last season. Maryland, with a 3-0 victory Sunday over the College of Charleston, was named tourna ment champion. The Terrapins were the only team to win both its games. USC (8-3-1) outshot both of its opponents over the weekend but could only convert a single goal. Trailing by a goal in the 78th minute of Sunday’s game, USC tied things up with a goal from freshman Kolby Runager. The goal was the first of his career and offset a score by Rutgers’ Sherif El Bialy just three min utes into the second half. The game went into two 15 minute overtime periods, but neither team could find the game-winner. USC finished Sunday’s game "i with 18 shots on goal and looked a little more threatening offen sively than it did Friday against the Terrapins. Carolina gave up a goal with nine seconds remaining in the first half to Maryland’s Scott Buete and couldn’t recover. The Terps sat back and protected their one-goal lead and rarely looked unorganized in the back. Despite not coming up with the equalizer, USC head coach Mark Berson was encouraged by the way his team fought back,. ♦ SOCCER, SEE PAGE 11