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Swimming, diving
teams fall to Cats
Kentucky defeated the U!C
men’s and women’s swimmiig
and diving teams on Saturdajat
the Lancaster Aquatic Centr.
The Wildcats defeated the mo’s
team by a score of 131-108, wile
the women’s team fell 128-15.
While coming up short in poits,
the men’s team did manag to
take away some individuaTic
tories.
Junior diver Dean Emmeton
won both the one-meter md
Jiree-meter diving competitms,
^Bd senior swimmer Isvan
^rothazi won both the 400-ieter
individual medley and th'200
meter breaststroke. The 'om
en’s team was even mor im
pressive individually, wining
five individual events.
Senior Jennifer Van ssen
won the 200-meter freestje, se
nior Ashleigh Bastak ancUnior
Carolynn McHugh place first
and second in the 50neter
freestyle, while Heather kaggs
and Haley Skaggs lead thevay in
the 100-meter freestyle, enior
Bronwyn Dedekind won ie 200
meter butterfly, and junir Holly
Hodges won the one-metediving
competition.
Senior Andy Bradleyjunior
Allison Brennan and lodges
«11 represent the USCliving
im at the World up in
Huntersville, N.C., sta ing on
Thursday, Jan. 15.
The USC men’s swnming
and diving team will avel to
Dallas, Texas to compe in the
Dallas Morning News Ossie at
Southern Methodist University
on Friday, Jan. 16.
Track team wins
four in Big 12 meet
The USC track season got un
der way in Chapel Hill, N.C., on
Saturday in the Carolina Big 12
meet.
The Gamecock track team
racked up four wins in the meet,
and two athletes with USC ties
came away victorious. In his
USC debut, junior college trans
fer Rodney Martin Jr. won the
men’s 200-meter dash with a time
of 21.55 seconds.
Martin also placed tourtn in
the 60-meter dash with a time
of 6.78 seconds. Sophomore
William Emase took first place
in the men’s 800-meter race
with a time of 1:52.50. Senior
Chris Steddum also took first
place in the pole-vaulting com
petition with a 16-6 3/4 mark.
On the women’s side, Erica
Whipple claimed the win in the
women’s 200-meter with a time
of 24.39 seconds.
In addition to a fine perfor
mance by current USC student
athletes, the meet was also a
success for former Gamecock
Lisa Barber and current volun
teer assistant coach Allen
Johnson.
Barber won the 60-meter
dash with a time of 7.42 seconds,
while Johnson won the 60-me
ter hurdles with a time of 7.55
seconds and placed second in
the 60-meter dash with a time of
6.74 seconds.
Men’s
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Appalachian State 58,
USC 78
The Mountaineers were the last
nonconference opponents to get a
spanking in Columbia this season,
losing by 20 points on Jan. 2 and
allowing USC to get every player
in the game at one point or anoth
er. Even guard Jon Land, expected
to sit out the season due to medical
problems, saw one minute of ac
tion against ASU. Powell led the
Gamecocks in points and re
bounds for the game, botching 17
points and 11 rebounds.
Yale 48, USC 59
On Dec. 30, Yale became the
third Bulldog team to be defeated
at the Colonial Center this season,
joining Gardner-Webb and S.C.
State. Yale didn’t make it easy for
the Gamecocks, however, by go
ing on a 21-7 run in the second half
to close the Carolina lead to five
points with six minutes remain
ing. However, USC pulled it to
gether and held on for the win, de
spite poor shooting and getting
out-rebounded by the Bulldogs.
“It was a good test,” Odom said.
“At times we played extremely
well and at other times we didn’t.”
S.C. State 50, USC 86
Carolina decided to put a big
lump of coal in S.C. State’s stock
ing on Dec. 22, hammering the
Bulldogs by 36 points. Guard
Mike Boynton led Carolina in
scoring with a career-high 21
points, scored from four 3-point
ers and nine free throws.
This game marked the 12th
time the two teams have met
with Carolina winning each
game. The closest the Bulldogs
came to besting the Gamecocks
was in USC’s one-point victory
in the first game of the series in
1979.
N.C. State 55, USC 58
Both guard Josh Gonner and
forward Tarence Kinsey were
back in action against N.C. State
on Dec. 20, helping Carolina win a
thriller in front of over 10,000 fans
at home. Gonner played excep
tionally well for the Gamecocks,
hitting 8-of-12 from the field in
cluding 3-of-3 from beyond the
arc.
Kinsey came back to contribute
nine points and six rebounds in the
win. The difference in the game
was made at the free throw line
where USC hit 14-of-19 free throws
for the game while N.C. State only
hit three of its eight total free
throws. Carolina held the
Wolfpack scoreless for the first five
minutes of the game, impressing
Carolina’s head coach.
“Early on, our defense was as
good as it possibly could be this
time of the year,” Odom said.
“We played with a lot of ener
gy today.”
CSU 36, USC 71
The Gamecocks’ return to the
Colonial Center on Dec. 17 fea
tured a complete domination of
the visiting Buccaneers. USC
held CSU to just 18 points in
each half while holding the Bucs
to under 30 percent shooting
from the field for the game.
The excellent play from
Carolina may not have been ex
pected going into the game,
since before the contest Kinsey
was out with a concussion,
Gonner had been suspended for
team rules violations and guard
Jerod Gerald withdrew from USC
because he was ruled academi
cally ineligible to play basketball
for Carolina.
USC 61, Temple 71
Carolina’s undefeated start
crashed in Philadelphia on Dec.
15 where legendary coach John
Chaney’s Temple Owls gave USC
its only nonconference loss of the
season. The Gamecocks were
abysmal in the first half, shoot
ing slightly less than 25 percent
from the field and only scoring 17
points at halftime.
The Gamecocks tried to make
up for the 15-point halftime
deficit, and though . they
outscored the Owls by five points
in the second half, they couldn’t
bridge the gap. Boynton didn’t
start because he had been at grad
uation ceremonies in Columbia,
but he got to the game in time for
the tipoff and came off the bench
to lead the team in points with 16
points and four steals. Boynton
also accounted for four of
«
Carolina’s seven 3-pointers on the
night.
USC 76, Clemson 61
The Gamecocks’ victory over
^the Tigers on Dec. 6 gave USC its
fourth straight win over Clemson
and made Carolina 8-0 on the
year. Powell led the team with 23
points, breaking his record for
points scored in a single game.
His previous top score was 21
points against Vanderbilt last
season. - •
Things didn’t look so rosy for
Carolina in the first half as the
team battled Clemson to the end
but went into the locker room
down by three points. The
Gamecocks only shot 35 percent
from the field in the first half but
made up for the poor shooting in
the second half.
USC looked to fix its first half
problems and did so, outscoring
Clemson by 18 points, shooting
over 50 percent from the field and
hitting 17-of-18 free throws.
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