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BRIEFLY PHOTO BY ROBERT GRUEN USC won 12 events at the USC Indoor Invitational on Saturday. Track teams superb in home indoor meet At the USC Indoor Invitational, the Gamecocks track and field teams continued to set the bar for excellence, winning a combined 12 events and breaking several USC Indoor Facility records. USC finished in the top four spots in the finals of the women’s 55-meter dash. Aleen Bailey won with an NfAA provisional time of 6.94 seconds. Mechelle Lewis, Khalilah Carpenter, and Alexis Joyce finished second, third and fourth. In the 55-meter preliminar ies, Erica Whipple gained an NCAA provisional mark of 6.83 sec onds, which is also a school record and an Indoor Facility record. Mikisha Lewis won the women’s 800-meter run with an Indoor Facility record time of 2:22.70. Kinsey Eschenburg won the mile run with a time of 5:37.19. Lashinda Demus won the 55-meter high hurdles with an Indoor Facility record time of 7.80 seconds, also an NCAA provisional time. Chelsea Hammond won the high jump with a mark of 1.65 me ters. Lori Tvarkunas won the pole vault with a mark of 3.49 meters. In the weight throw, Mamee Groves finished second with a mark of 19.23 meters,. In the women’s shot put, Terri Steer broke the Indoor Facility record with a mark of 17.48 meters. On the men’s side, Andre Totton won the 55-meter dash with a time of 6.27 seconds, set ting yet another facility record. Jarred Johnson won the 600-me ter dash with a time of 1:26.38. Women’s tennis upset by Ga. Tech The 22nd-ranked USC women’s tennis team was upset Saturday afternoon by Georgia Tech 4-2 in a non-conference match at the Maxcy Gregg Tennis Center on the USC campus. Carolina (4-1) falls for the first time on the season, while 37th ranked Georgia Tech improves to 5- 1 after its second straight win over a Top 25 team. Carolina j umped out of the gates very quickly, winning the doubles point for the fifth time in as many tries this season. USC won all three doubles matches to claim an early 1-0 lead in the match. Georgia Tech turned the mo mentum in singles action, win ning four of five completed matches. The lone winner for the Lady Gamecocks was Lynn-Yin Tan, who beat Mason Miller 6-2, 6- 0 at the No. 4 spot. Carolina dropped the No. 1 match in a three-set thriller that saw Tech’s Mysti Morris prevail over 71st-ranked Jennifer Radman 3-6,7-5,7-6 (2). Katarina Markovski split two sets with 76th-ranked Jamie Wong of Tech at the No. 2 spot be fore that match was halted fol lowing the Lady Jackets’ clinch ing of the match. GAMECOCK SPORTS CHALLENGE SUBMIT PICKS TO GAMECOCKSPORTS@HOTMAIL.COM Missouri @ Texas Tech LSU @ USC No. 1 Duke @ No. 17 W. Forest No. 12 Marquette @ No. 5 Cincinnati Notre Dame @ No. 11 Miami No. 6 Florida @ No. 7 Alabama USC @ Auburn Georgetown @ No. 21 Syracuse Michigan State @ No. 20 Ohio State No. 16 Pittsburgh @ Seton Hall Mate uoui^cleeiSion... 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