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BRIEFLY Men’s soccer closes season with a win The USC men’s soccer team upset No. 10 Florida International on Saturday 1-0 in Miami. Carolina’s win improved their record to 9-7-2, while Florida International fell to 13-4-2. The victory marks USC’s last regular season match. Forward Ryan Deter scored the winning goal at the 77 minute mark and goalkeeper Brad Guzan had four saves to seal the victory. Deter scored the goal by head ?'®rig in a corner kick from mid ^^ielder Jack Cummings. Deter’s goal was his sixth of the season and marked Cummings’ first as sist this season. The win snapped a nine-game home win streak by FIU and was the Golden Panthers’ only shutout loss at home this season. USC will know its postseason fate when ESPNEWS releases the NCAA Men’s Soccer Tournament field at 4 p.m. today. Lake places 17th in Southeast Regionals The USC cross-country team took 18th place at the Southeast Regional Championships in Greenville, N.C., on Saturday. Junior Jenny Lake once again placed well, finishing 17th out of 188 runners with a time of 20 minutes and 48 seconds and had been oh pace for a personal-best time after five kilometers of the six kilometer race. Freshman Karen Wigal placed 112th, freshman Julie Reale ended at 130th, junior Mary Claire Utsey came in at 137th, freshman Tristan Rackow crossed the finish line at 139th, senior Mary Wright placed 150th and freshman Christine Mudd rounded out the Gamecock run ners at 151st. North Carolina won the race with three runners taking the top three spots. The race was the last race of the season for Carolina, who will be returning every runner with the exception of Wright next year. USC swimming and diving lose at home The USC men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams (both 2-3) lost to Florida on Friday at home in the USC Natatorium. The Gators beat the men’s team 128-95 while the women lost 135-80. Still, several Gamecocks claimed first-place finishes. Senior Tamas Szucs was first in the 200-yard freestyle, while ju nior Andy Brady was first in the one-meter dive and junior Dean Emmerton took first place in the three-meter dive. Junior Heather Skaggs per formed well for the women, winning the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard freestyle. Also, the 200-meter freestyle relay team of Skaggs, senior Ashley Bastak, senior Jennifer Van Assen and junior Carolyn McHugh placed in first. Senior Holly Hodges was the only win ner for the divers, taking first place in the one-meter diving event. Coaching CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 Then there’s this scenario, put in play by Tommy’s father, Bobby Bowden of Florida State, when talking after his son's Bowden Bowl win two weeks back. Papa Bowden says nega tivity from Clemson fans might drive Tommy to another opening. That’s what Bobby did when' West Virginia fans grew too fick le in the mid-1970s and Bowden left the Mountaineers for Florida State. Holtz is another matter. The former national champion coach turns 67 in January. But he seem ingly has the undying support of Gamecock fans that fill Williams Brice to capacity game after game, winning season or not. However, if South Carolina (5 6) falls on Saturday, it’ll be its fourth straight loss to end the sea son. Tack on the five-game losing streak that last year’s 5-7 team ended with and Holtz will fie 0-9 the last two years in games that could’ve gotten the Gamecocks to a bowl game. . Last off season was a mish mash of fact — his wife Beth was sick — and rumors: Lou would step down or he was resigning so son Skip could take over. Holtz had to spend time and energy knocking down the rumors. Holtz’s wife, who has twice battled cancer, had health prob lems during the summer. But she got a good prognosis in August and the couple is hopeful that will continue. Holtz has said there’s Httle he can do when recruiting rivals suggest that he won’t be there , when high school students are ready for first string. But with a loss to Clemson, Holtz’s fourth in five seasons, questions about his tenure will resurface — and you can take that sucker to the bank, as the coach likek to say. Holtz still burns to win. He looked as miffed as ever in the postgame after his team’s loss, 24 22, to No. 13 Florida on Saturday. The Gamecocks blew several chances to finally end the Gators 13-game win streak in the series, which dates to 1939, .The anti-Holtz Web site had a picture of the coach talking with his son, the offensive coordina tor, with the caption, “Dazed and Confused. Who the hell is run ning this team?” There’s also a picture of the unsuccessful fake punt the Gamecocks tried against Florida, which the site called, “The bonehead play of the year.” Holtz said the good news is that much of the team that lost in overtime to Tennessee, 23-20, lost to Ole Miss 43-40 and to Florida is back next year. What about their coach? Holtz laughed Sunday. “All I want to do is bounce back this week,” he said. CLUB CORNER glen’s volleyball ™ lub tryouts Ik The new USC men’s volley p ball club will hold often tryouts f on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center’s main gym. This will be a Division-I team competing against other SEC and ACC schools in the spring. Tournaments have already been set at Kentucky, Florida and Florida State. Anyone is welcome at the tryout; howev er, those that have previous competitive volleyball experi ence are needed. Justin Scheidt, a former player at the University of Florida, is the coach and cap «in. Please contact him at cheidt @geol.sc.edu with any questions or if you are in terested but cannot make the tryout time. Volleyball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 with a kill by Nicole Miller, but UGA controlled most of the match led by Julia Petruschke, who had six kills and eight digs to help UGA win match one 30-19. Carolina came out in game two on fire, posting a 6-0 lead before Georgia could call for a timeout. The game then went back and fourth with 15 ties and seven lead changes. But it was Panzau and Lauren Ford who made the game winning block on Georgia’s Luresa Forsyth to tie the series at a one a piece with the final score of 35-33. UGA jumped out to a 5-0 lead to start the third game before Carolina could score a point. USC rallied back as Cole recorded a kill that gave the Gamecocks an 11-10 lead. But it was Georgia standout Alexandra Oquendo, who recorded her 18th kill of the game to put the Dogs up 31-29 to close out the third game with UGA leading 2-1. In the fourth game, it was Georgia jumping out to a 4-0 lead. Carolina would eventually come back towards the end as Cole tied the game at 27 with her 14th kill of the match. The game was com ing down to the wire when Oquendo hit her last of her team leading 27 kills to win the game 30-28 for the Bulldogs and win the match 3-1. “We were flat today, and this was the match we wanted to get,” Christopher said. USC’s loss on Senior Day is ironic because the team is only losing one senior in outside hitter Mariana Branquinho. “You look for your most expe rienced players to terminate for you and our most experience play ers are sophomores,” Christopher said of her young team. With the conference-regular season over, USC will now turn its attention to next weekend SEC tournament. Carolina, a sixth seed, will play third-seeded Alabama on Friday at 6 p.m. Comments on this story? 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