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;:;r: 121 Lady Hoops Carolina has its best shooting game CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 game from Gortman, who added 17 points and a season-high seven assists for Carolina. Arkansas stayed with the Lady Gamecocks in a back-and-forth first half. The lead changed 11 times, mostly because of the hot shooting of Arkansas guard India Lewis. Lewis converted four of six 3-point shots in the first half and scored 17 points on the day. Dana Cherry scored 11 of her team-high 19 points in the second half to pace Arkansas. Able to convert its many open looks in the first half, Arkansas shot 50 percent from behind the three-point arc and 38 percent overall. In the second half, though, the open looks disap peared as a stringent USC de fense put on the clamps and al lowed its efficient offense to shine. “We had a much more inspired second half defensively,” Walvius said. “The first half today was the worst we’ve played in a long time. It was good to see us come back, regroup at halftime and outscore Arkansas by 23 points in the sec ond half.” Carolina shot a season-high 56 percent overall on the day (34-for 61) and an even sharper 67 percent from behind the 3-point line (6-for 9). An indication of just how sharp the Lady Gamecocks’ offense was is found deep in the box score — 29 assists on 34 field goals. USC center Petra Ujhelyi grabbed a season-high 13 rebounds to help Carolina get a 42-35 advan tage on the boards. Offensively, the Lady Gamecocks’ fast-break ing style of play led to a 44-20 mar gin in points in the paint. Penn converted two free throws at the 3:08 mark in the second half to become just the 24th Lady Gamecock to join the 1,000 career point club. Gortman also reached that milestone earlier this season. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com. The Gamecock still needs writers, photographers and community affairs associates. Interested? E-mail gamecockeditor@hotmail. com. 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For information and application, • contact the office of Dr. Stanley Fowler at 733-3331 or visit the USC School of Medicine webpage at http://www.med.sc.edu f Deadline: February 14, 2002—* SPORTS BRIEFS Softball team faces tough schedule The USC softball team will face another tough schedule this year as it sets out to defend its SEC crown. USC’s schedule will include 10 teams that made last year’s NCAA Tournament. In addition, the Lady Gamecocks will face their always-competitive SEC foes, including Alabama, Florida and LSU. “Our schedule has a different look this year,” Compton said. “We are not going to Arizona, but we go to a tournament in Plant City, Fla., which will be a solid tournament. This year, we are going to host our own tournament for the first time in quite a while. A few teams that we play in all of those early tournaments were NCAA Tournament teams from the last two years, and some were Women’s College World Series teams from a couple of years ago. It will be good for us in the fact that we will play some regional caliber teams in a tournament setting.” The Lady Gamecocks will open their 2002 season at the Florida State Tournament. Their home opener will be against Georgia Southern on Feb. 13. Head coach Susan Walvius has led the Lady Gamecocks to a No. 9 ranking and a 16-1 record, special to the gamecock International & Independent Cinema GRATEFUL DAWG jan 15-17 MULHOLLAND DRIVE jams 24 AFRICAN-AMERICAN / INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Jan 25-28 Theatre movie info: www.nickeiodeon.org or coil 254-3433 1 block from USC @ Main & Pendleton Tennis teams ranked The USC women’s tennis team will open its 2002 season ranked No. 21 by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. The men’s team is ranked No. 29. For the past seven years, the Lady Gamecocks have made it to the NCAA Tournament, and under head coach Arlo Elkins, the team has finished its season ranked in the Top 25 in 14 of the past 15 years. 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