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LO the GAMECOCK ♦ Wednesday, July 17, 2002 ^/&TDAT3T'C this week in use sports history jUiN I A\j 1 UO I I I r\ I 1979: USC standout guard Jamel Bradley is born in 1l-mail us at gamecocksports@hotmail.com _1_ V/ JL V. JL K_y Beckley, W.Va, on July 20 Golf shapes up J. KEITH ALLEN THE GAMECOCK Although the season does not be gin until September, the USC Men’s Golf team is hard at work prepar ing for their upcoming campaign. Gamecock golfer Alex Hamilton fin ished in third place in the Eastern Amateur Tournament, and Elrik Johansen fired a course record 65 in the European Youth Team Championships. Hamilton, a rising sophomore from Aiken, finished with three con secutive sub-par rounds of 68, 66 and 69 to net third place with a score of 203. Hamilton’s strong showing at the Eastern Amateur fol lowed his second place showing at the Rice Planters Amateur earlier this month. Hamilton averaged 74.7 in the 2001-2002 season with a low score of 67. He also earned one top-20 finish last season: a 211 at the Cleveland Golf-Augusta State Invitational in March. Along with Hamilton’s standout performance, Carolina teammates Jake Thompson shot 213 (69-71-73) and Michael Maness fired 221 (76 69-76) Johansen, an incoming fresh man, shot a two-day total of 140 to earn a fifth place finish at the 23rd annual European Youth Team Championships. His 65 on the sec ond day set a course record for the event. The three-time Norwegian ju nior champion averaged 71.67 last year and will join the Carolina Golf team this fall. Joining Johansen on the golf team this fall will be Richmond, Va. native Spence Andrews. Andrews is a recent graduate of John A. Logan Junior College, and was named the Bobby Bowers Junior Champion in 1998 and 1999. He won Richmond Golf Association Junior Champion honors, as well as earning an ap pearance on the all-metro high school team. Andrews won six tour naments in his junior college career. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com Gamecock golfer Alex Hamilton finished in third place at the Eastern Amateur Tournament. It was the rising sophomore's second top-five showing this summer. Hamilton averaged 74.7 last season for USC. Williams children meet to discuss fate of body ASSOCIATED PRESS INVERNESS, Fla. - Attorneys for the son and oldest daughter of Ted Williams and his estate held dis cussions Monday in an effort to de cide whether the body of one of baseball's greatest hitters will re main frozen. John Henry Williams and his half sister, Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell, have been feuding over what to do with their father's re mains since the slugger died July 5. John Henry Williams had the body flown to a cryonics lab in Arizona to be frozen against the wishes of Ferrell, who says their fa ther always wanted to be cremated and his ashes scattered over the Florida Keys. Cryonics advocates say science might one day be able to thaw a body, cure whatever killed the per son and restore life. Most experts say that's highly unlikely. Ferrell has also speculated that her half brother may want to sell their fa ther's DNA. Monday’s discussions were aimed at reaching a compromise so that a judge won't have to decide the fate of Ted Williams' remains, a source for Williams' estate told The Associated Press on condition that his name not be used. Ferrell's attorney has said that the estate's attorneys told him that the will requested that Ted Williams be cremated. The attorney, John Heer, didn't return phone messages left Monday at his Cleveland office and Ferrell's home in Hernando. A third daughter, Claudia Williams, appeared to offer an olive branch to her siblings in a state ment released Sunday. Claudia Williams hasn't publicly said what she wants done with her father's body, although it has been reported that she is siding with her brother. Usually,.if a will doesn't specify what should be done with the body, the closest next-of-kin has the right to make that decision. In this case, though, John Henry Williams and Ferrell have equal standing. WILLIAMS, SEE PAGE 11 Armstrong moves from eighth to second Three time defending Tour de France champion Lance Armstr ong charges into second place, just 26 seconds off the lead. The Tour heads into the Pyranees Mounta ins this Thursday. PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK ASSOCIATED PRESS LORIENT, France -- Lance Armstrong isn’t the dominating force he used to be in Tour de France time trials. The three-time Tour winner recorded a rare second-place finish in Monday's ninth stage, taking 11 seconds more than Colombian Santiago Botero to complete a wind swept course through Brittany. Armstrong's performance al lowed him to move up six spots into second place overall, 26 seconds be hind Spain's Igor Gonzalez Galdeano. The Spaniard finished 19 seconds behind Botero. While the 30-year-old Texan re mains the overwhelming favorite to win a fourth consecutive Tour, his rivals see the second-place finish as a dent in the Armstrong armor. “The Tour has changed - Armstrong isn't as strong in the time trial as he was a year ago,” said Gonzalez Galdeano, who finished fourth in the stage to retain the overall leader's yellow jersey. “The race has become more open.” Monday's stage marked the end of a flat, speedy first week full of crashes. The race now heads to the mountains, one of Armstrong's oth er strengths. Armstrong dominated in the mountains last year, winning the Tour with a final advantage of more than six minutes. Tuesday is a rest day, when the riders fly down to southwestern France. The race resumes Wednesday with a 91.1-mile trek from Bazas to Pau. The Tour enters the Pyrenees on Thursday, for the first of six mountain stages this year. “We'll now see if he's as unbeat able as he once was in the moun tains,” Gonzalez Galdeano said. Botero, of the Kelme team, clocked a time of 1 hour, 2 minutes and 18 seconds for the 32.24-mile loop through Brittany from Lanester to Lorient. It was the 29 ♦ ARMSTRONG, SEE RAGE 11