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BRIEFLY
Swim teams defeat
Kentucky at home
The USC swimming and div
ing teams defeated Kentucky at
the Carolina Natatorium on
Friday. The men’s team won 125
118, and the women’s team won
163.5-78.5.
“It feels nice to win here,” head
coach Don Gibb said. “We did bet
ter than we expected. The men
were very evenly
matched. On pa
per, Kentucky is
even a little bet
ter, but we swam
well tonight. Both
teams swam well.
We did better
tonight than we
did at Virginia,
which is what we
are trying to do — improve with
every meet that we are in.”
Leading the way for the wom
en was freshman Stephanie
Margalis, who won every event
she swam, including a team top
time of 10 minutes, 6:32 seconds
indhe 1000-yard freestyle. She
also won the 200 individual med
ley and the 500 freestyle.
Bronwyn Dedekind also
achieved a team-best time, 2:04:38
in the 200 butterfly.
Other individual winners on
the women’s team were Jennifer
VanAssen (200 freestyle), Anna
Nyiry (50 freestyle) and Heather
Skaggs (100 freestyle).
Pour members of the men’s
team swam team-best times.
Tamas Szucs’ time of 1:38:21 in
the 200 freestyle was good
enough to make the NCAA B
qualifying standards. Szucs also
won the 500 freestyle.
Other top times included Lir
Derieg’s 51:75 in the 100 back
stroke, Chris McCrary’s 20:63 in
the 50 freestyle, and Ed Murphy’s
46:70 in the 100 freestyle.'
The Gamecock diving team
won all four of the diving com
petitions, placing first in all in
dividual categories.
For the men, Andy Bradley
continued to shine, as he won his
third straight competition of the
year. This was the first meet
where Bradley did not break a
record, however.
He won both the
1- and 3-meter
springboards.
For the wom
en, Carolina oc
cupied the first
three spots. In
the 1-meter board „ ..
competition, Bradley
sophomore
Allison Brennan placed first fol
lowed by Tracey Richardson and
Holly Hodges. In the 3-meter
event, Richardson took first and
was followed by Lauren King
and Brennan.
Regular season ends
with win for Carolina
Senior Morgan McIntyre
scored her eighth goal of the
season, and junior goalkeeper
Elise Matthews recorded her
fourth shutout as the USC
women’s soccer team conclud
ed its regular season with a 2-0
win at UNC-Greensboro on
Friday.
The Gamecocks (13-5-2), who
are one win away from tying the
school’s single-season record for
wins, head to the SEC
Tournament next week.
Carolina will be the No. 5
seed in the tournament and play
No. 4 Florida at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday.
Women golfers 8th
in Auburn tourney
The USC women’s golf team
fired a 301 Sunday to finish in
eighth place at the Auburn Tiger
Derby Invitational in Auburn,
Ala.
The Gamecocks finished with
a team score of 900, two strokes
better than top-ranked Oklahoma
State and six strokes better than
second-ranked Vanderbilt. No. 19
Tennessee won the tournament
with a score of 871.
Junior Adrienne Gautreaux
was the top finisher for the
Gamecocks after firing a four
over 76 on Sunday to finish with
a total score of 223. Gautreaux
finished in a tie for 15th place,
just two strokes back of the top
10. Defending SEC Champion
' Kristy McPherson also shot a 76
on Sunday to finish with a 224
and in a tie for 20th place.
First-half scores lift
men’s soccer to win
The 19th-ranked USC men’s
soccer team lost 3-0 Friday to No.
14 Coastal Carolina, but the
Gamecocks rebounded with a 5-1
thrashing Sunday of Winthrop
in the College of Charleston
Invitational. 4
A three-goal first half paved the
way for Carolina’s win and the
Gamecocks’ largest margin of vic
tory all season.
The Eagles (11-5-1) jumped out
to an early 1-0 lead at 13:35. Gareth
Hayden scored an
unassisted goal
from 15 yards out.
But five min
utes later, the
Gamecocks (10-6
1) answered
when Robert
Rosenberg head
ed the ball past Robert
Eagles’ goalkeep- Rosenberg
er Steve Winton. °Pened
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Tim Glowienka
served the ball to usc | g|ts
the middle of the 5.1 win
box, where over
Rosenberg Winthrop
knocked it in to on Sunday,
tie the match.
In the 41st minute, junior Jack
Cummings scored his first of two
goals in the match, and one
minute later, Anthony Stovall con
nected with defender Josh Alcala
to give the Gamecocks a two-goal
lead heading into halftime.
USC nets three titles
in home tournament
The USC women’s tennis team
took two of four single champi
onships and one of three doubles
championships Sunday at the
Southern Intercollegiate
Tournament in Columbia.
The Gamecocks’ lowest single
finish was fourth place, and no
Gamecock doubles team finished
lower than third.
In the A2 doubles draw,
Danielle Wiggins and Ayako
Suzuki defeated Clemson’s Ana
Stiglic and Richele Lesaldo 8-6 in
the final. Jodi Kenoyer and
Audrey George were runners-up
in the A3 draw, dropping the
doubles final to Rosemary
Younger and Stephanie Root of
Coastal Carolina 9-8 (5).
Two of the four singles finals
were between Gamecocks. The
top draw saw Kenoyer defeating
Wiggins 6-2,7-6 (6). The other all
Gamecock final displayed Magda
Wojdylo defeating Suzuki 6-0,6-2
in the A2 singles.
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Gators back in SEC East race
Florida 20
(6-3,4-2 SEC)
Georgia 13
(8-1,5-1 SEC)
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. (AP) -
There was no party for Georgia
on this night. That privilege be
longed once again to Florida, the
team that befuddles the Bulldogs
like no other.
On a night when the fifth
ranked Bulldogs could have
clinched a title, Rex Grossman ru
ined those plans. The Florida
quarterback threw for 339 yards
Saturday to help the Gators
breathe life back into their on-and
off season with a 20-13 victory.
“This was huge,” Grossman
said. “It couldn’t have been any
bigger for us.”
In a season on the verge of
flaming out, the Gators (6-3,4-2
SEC) proved they didn’t need
Steve Spurrier to beat Georgia.
Florida won the game known as
the World’s Largest Outdoor
Cocktail Party for the 12th time
in 13 years, this time with Ron
Zook as coach;
The Bulldogs (8-1, 5-1) could
have clinched the SEC East —
their first significant title since
they won the conference in 1982
— and made headway in the na
tional-title race on a day in which
three other undefeated teams lost.
Instead, they went home
losers, and their fans — cau
tiously optimistic in all the
pregame revelry this week—had
to make the slow walk of shame
out of Alltel Stadium.
“It’s real unbearable,” said se
nior tackle Jon Stinchcomb, tears
streaming down his face. “For the
rest of our lives, all the seniors
will know they never beat
Florida. It’s one of our biggest ri
valries, and we’re all 0-4. That’s a
pretty tough pill to swallow.”
It’s made worse by the fact that
Florida didn’t play its best. Nor
did the Gators need all of their
best players to win this game
against the rival Spurrier hated
the most.
Leading receiver Taylor Jacobs
left during the first series with an
injured right knee that could keep
him out four weeks. That simply
opened the door for Kelvin Right
and Carlos Perez, who broke ca
reer receiving records on
Grossman’s 36-of-46 night.
“They were coming into the of
fice and complaining that they
didn’t get opportunities,” Zook
Standings
EASTERN CONF. OVERALL
Georgia5-18-1
Florida 4-2 6-3
use ~~ 3-3 5-4
Kentucky*2-36-3
Tennessee_2-35-3.
Vanderbilt 0-5 ~2-7
WESTERN CONF. OVERALL
Alabama* . 4-1 _ 7-2
LSU3-1 6-2
Auburn4-26-3
Arkansas2-3 5-3
Ole Miss2-3 5-4
Mississippi SL 0-4 3-5
* - not eligible for postseason
said. “I’m so happy they got their
opportunity and made plays they
had to make.”
With the loss, the Bulldogs need
to win their remaining SEC games
— against Ole Miss and Auburn —
to ensure the SEC East title.
“We’re still trying to do things
one at a time,” linebacker Tony
Gilbert said, “and we can still ac
complish that.”
But after a loss like that, they
might be forced to at least con
front the possibility that Gators
offensive lineman Shannon Snell
was right when he predicted
Georgia would lose to Florida,
and again somewhere down the
It was great bulletin-board ma
terial, and the Gators took care of
the part they could control.
“Like I said earlier, and I’m not
lying, they’re going to lose an
other one, and I hope they do,”
Snell reiterated after the game.
Indeed, the Gators are think
ing about a title, just like Georgia.
If Georgia loses once more and
the Gators beat Vanderbilt and
South Carolina in the next two
weeks, they would win the SEC
East — a notion that seemed
laughable just a few weeks ago.
“It’s fun, to be underdogs in a
rivalry game, to come out with a
victory and spoil their season and
keep yourself alive,” Grossman
said.
Auburn 31, Ole Miss 24
Travaris Robinson caught Eli
Manning’s third interception of the
second half in the end zone with
1:52 left Saturday to seal Auburn’s
31-24 victory over Mississippi.
Ronnie Brown rushed for 224
yards on 33 carries and three
PHOTO BY AL DIAZ/KRT CAMPUS
Florida quarterback Rex Grossman celebrates a touchdown
pass in the second quarter of the Gators’ 20-13 win over
Georgia on Saturday.
touchdowns for the Tigers (6-3,4
2 SEC). Brown’s third touchdown,
a 21-yard run in the third quar
ter, gave Auburn a 22-17 lead.
The loss was the third straight
for the Rebels (5-4,2-3) and their
first home loss in six games.
Kentucky 45,
Mississippi State 24
Derek Abney returned two
punts for touchdowns and Artose
Pinner scored on a 1-yard run —
all in the third quarter — as
Kentucky beat Mississippi State
45-24 Saturday.
Abney’s first touchdown came
on a 69-yard punt return to turn
a close game into a rout for
Kentucky (6-3,2-3 SEC).
The Wildcats had lost their
previous three games to
Mississippi State (3-5,0-4).
Alabama 30,
Vanderbilt 8
Tyler Watts threw for 176 yards
and ran for a touchdown, and the
12th-ranked Tide used a dominant
defense to beat Vanderbilt 30-8
Saturday for their 18th straight
victory in this series.
The Crimson Tide, the SEC’s
best team at playing keepaway,
held the ball for more than 36
minutes and rolled up 428 yards
of offense with 76 plays. The na
tion’s fourth-best defense held
the Commodores to a season-low
162 yards and forced two
turnovers.
Arkansas 23,
Troy State 0
Bo Mosley scored on a
blocked punt return for the sec
ond time this season, and he
capped a 23-0 Arkansas victory
over Troy State on Saturday
with a 50-yard interception re
turn for a touchdown.
While Arkansas (5-3) struggled
to get anything going on a cold,
rainy day, the Trojans (3-7) were
equally inept. The Razorbacks held
Troy State to 142 yards and 14 first
downs.
Tennessee
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a fourth down and made them
punt. But Tennessee muffed the
punt and led to Carolina’s first
score, a 26-yard Daniel Weaver
field goal.
Tennessee answered on its
next drive with a 2-yard pass to
C.J. Fayton that was set up by
Jabari Davis’ career-long 62
yard run. Tennessee also
scored on two Alex Walls field
goals.
USC doesn’t have much time
to mope about the loss, as it will
face a rising Arkansas
Razorbacks team next Saturday.
“We have to face a good
Arkansas team,” Moore said.
“They’re going to run the ball
down our throat. So we’ve got to
step up, throw our necks back
and try and stop them.”
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“Corey’s our starting quar
terback, no doubt,” Lou Holtz
said.
Going into the start of the sea
son, most fans knew the running
game would be highlighted, es
pecially because of the uncer
tainty of Jenkins’ throwing abil
ity. But it has been the ground
attack that has received the go
ahead more often than not.
Being a team that runs the ball
most of the time does not please
Lou Holtz, who recognizes the
need for an offense that can do
more than use its rushing speed.
“We can’t be one-dimension
al,” he said. “I think we run the
ball well, and I think our goal
line offense is good. But our pass
ing game is really a problem
right now.”
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