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BRIEFLY voueyoan to piay final home matches The 20th-ranked USC volley ball team wraps up its regular season home schedule this week end when it takes on'two Mississippi teams this weekend. Carolina (17-4,10-1 SEC) will face Ole Miss on Friday at 7 p.m. and Mississippi State on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Friday night will be Alumni Night and Senior Night for a Gamecock squad that fea tures six seniors. Tennis tournament begins Friday at USC The USC women’s tennis team will hold the 2002 Southern Intercollegiate Tournament this weekend. The tournament will be held at the Maxcy Gregg Tennis Court on Blossom Street and the Sam Daniels Tennis Courts that are beside Sarge Frye Field. The tournament begins Friday morning at 9:30 a.m.,and contin ues through Sunday with the fi nal rounds. Women’s soccer heads to Greensboro The USC women’s soccer team (12-5-2,4-3-2 SEC) concludes reg ular-season play Friday night at 7' p.m. with a road match at UNC Greensboro (7-10-1). , This will be Carolina’s final test before the SEC Tournament next week in Oxford, Miss. Carolina’s seed and opponent for the tournament will be deter mined after the SEC regular sea son completes this weekend. Men’s soccer team in Charleston tourney USC’s men’s soccer team heads to Charleston today for its final tournament of the year. The Gamecocks play No. 13 Coastal Carolina (14-0-1) tonight at 5 p.m. and Winthrop on Sunday at 1 p.m. PHOTO BY AARON HARK/THE GAMECOCK USC senior setter Megan Hosp, center, will be playing her last two home regular-season matches this weekend. The No. 20 Gamecocks, who are second in the SEC East, will play Ole Miss on Friday night and Mississippi State on Sunday. Tennessee CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 be able to throw to all of his re ceivers, including speedy freshman sensation Troy Williamson, against a struggling Volunteer sec ondary, “The wide receivers are talented,” Tennessee head coach Philip Fulmer said. “Williamson, especially, is av eraging 26,27 yards a catch. We’ll have to know where he is.” Both teams are expecting close games that should follow the pat tern of the past two years. Carolina lost those two games by combined 10 points. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m., and the game will be televised by CBS. Everyone is encouraged to wear garnet to the stadium to help sup port the Student Gamecock Club’s “Garnet Gameday.” “I'm anxious to see how we'll play,” Holtz said. “I think we'll play well; I'm just not sure if that will be good enough to beat Tennessee.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com Rothenberg CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 Calgary Stampeders were eliminat ed from playoff contention with a 35 20 loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Oct. 19. The Stamps will miss the CFL playoffs for the first time since 1988. Thinking about this kind of makes you wonder how long it will be until it’s the Atlanta Braves’ turn to sit out the postseason. BEST SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMER FROM MICHIGAN IN USC STUDENT MEDIA: Katie Smith gets the hon ors, winning her first career Rothy award. I’m usually not big on the “shoutout” concept, but I’ll make an exception. Katie, like all others up in USC Student Media, does a great job in what she does. But since she’s probably the only one of us who fulfills all the prerequi sites for this Rothy, it’s hers for the taking. Rothenberg is a fourth-year sport management student. His column appears every Friday in ■ Gamecock Sports. SPORTS CHALLENGE THE CHALLENGE: Kyle Matt Chris Maiy Karen Jonty The Gamecock’s readers and Almond Rothenberg Foy Hartney Vaught McKever staff test their sports knowledge Sports Asst. Sports Defending Editor in Copy Reader of with predictions of the weekend's Editor Editor Champion Chief editor the Week games. (Rankings are from the (51-39) (57-33) (51-39) (54-36) (52-38) (51-39) Associated Press.) Florida vs. 5 Georgia Florida Georgia Georgia Georgia Georgia Florida Auburn at Ole MissAuburn Ole Miss Ole Miss Auburn Auburn Auburn Kentucky at Mississippi StKentucky Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky 13 Colorado at 2 Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Colorado 23 Minnesota at 6 Ohio St. Ohio St. Ohio St. Ohio St. Ohio St._Ohio St. Ohio St. 16 Arizona St. at 8 Wash. St. Wash. St. Wash. St. Wash. St. Wash. St. Arizona St. Wash. St. Indiana at Northwestern_Indiana N’western N’westem Indiana Indiana N’westem Eastern Mich, at Central Mich. Central Eastern Eastern Eastern Central Eastern Clemson at Duke Clemson Clemson Clemson Clemson Duke Clemson 25TennesseeatUSC USC USC USC Tennessee Tennessee USC 24-14 24-23 24-17 17-10 36-30 35-7 LAST WEEK’S WINNER: Shawn Rourk (8-2) - Rourk s big week keeps The Gamecock’s staff rolling. The staffs guests have won three of the last four weeks, and they’re now ahead of Almond, Foy and the readers. Almond and Foy went a terrible 3-7 and are tied with the readers in last place. Reader of the week Kevin Keefe went 4-6. Leader Rothenberg (5-5) gained another game on second-place Hartney, who went 4-6. Rothenberg now leads by three over Hartney, five over the staff guest and six over the rest of the pack. WANT TO BE READER OF THE WEEK? E-mail your selections next week to gamecocksports@hotmail.com. If you’re picked and have the best record, you’ll win a free Gamecock T-shirt and be able to talk all the trash you want Club Corner Rugby i For the second year in a row, the men’s rugby team won first place in the Palmetto Rugby Union in Myrtle Beach. The Gamecocks went 3-0 Saturday, shutting out the Citadel and Winthrop/Motley and defeating Furman 22-5 in the championship game. USC (8-4-1) outscored its opponents 77-5. Carolina will play its last home game of the semester Friday against Tennessee at the Blatt P.E. Center. Kickoff will be at 8 p.m. For more information on the Rugby Club and its social events, visit www.uscrugby.com. Dance Sport Gamecock Dance Sport will practice from 2-4 p.m. Sunday in room 114 of the Blatt P.E. Center. Dance Sport teaches students _ and teachers different cvariations of ballroom dances, such as salsa, shag, swing, rumba, cha-cha, fox trot, tango and waltz. No experi ence is needed, and everyone is welcome. For more information, contact Michelle Lueck at 544-3895 or stepntoes@hotmail.com. Cycling The Cycling Club is meeting Sunday at 9 p.m. in the South Quad Lounge. All cyclists are in vited to attend. Money for jerseys will be collected and future races will be discussed. For more information, visit www.geocities.com/carolinmul tisport. -P Club Corner normally runs every Wednesday in the Gamecock. To be included, e-mail your club’s information, in paragraph form, to gamecocksports@hotmail.com. The deadline for each issue is Monday at 2p.m. ImovieI I LISTINGS www.dailygamecock.comj THE TWO BIGGEST MYTHS IN COLUMBIA NIGHTUFE ARE....... 1. ) COLUMBIA'S BIGGEST COLLEGE NIGHT IS IN THE VISTA. 2. ) COLUMBIA'S BIGGEST COLLEGE NIGHT IS ON THURSDAY'S. WRONG! RAFTERS HAS THE COLLEGE NIGHT FRIDATS. Points 18 TO PARTY, 21 TO DRINK! ALL USC STUDENTS 18 + GET IN FREE BEFORE MIDNIGHT! (MUST HAVE VALID STATE ISSUED ID, AND USC CARD!) 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