Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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-U SC Si by spli By STEVE PARKER Asst. Sports Editor USC continued playing .500 baseball on the season by splitting a pair of shutouts--defeating The Citadel 11-0 on Monday and losing to Clemson at Clemson by 8-0. The Gamecocks, with an 11-11 record, face Clemson again this afternoon as the Tigers move into Rex Enright Athletic Center for a 3:00 affair. Carolina thumped the Citadel as the 16 hit attack combined with Larry Erbaugh's strong pitching propelled the Gamecocks to their easy 11-0 victory. Erbaugh's complete game performance was his sixth route-going effort in as many attempts and the win upped his record to 3-3. The senior right-hander now paces the squad in strikeouts with 44, innings worked with 54 and decisions with six. Following the 11 run barrage, Coach Bobby Richardson discussed the Gamecock ace, "We just haven't been scoring for him this year. If we could take this 11 runs we got this afternoon and spread them throughout the close games he lost, he'd be 6-0 right now instead of just 3-3. Erbaugh is such a battler, that's one of the reasons I batted him second in the lineup today (where he picked up a hit and scored a run). He's just an aggressive, winning-type ballplayer. He's the captain of the ballteam, just a fine athlete." The offensive hero of the game Monday was third baseman Bruce Pudlock, who slammed out a double, three singles and four RBI in four trips to the plate. On Tuesday, the Gamecock bats fell silent once again as they became the victims of Tiger starter Linsay Graham's five-hit, 8-0 shutout. Leading Gamecock batter, Hank Small picked up two of the five Carolina hits as he raised his average to .390 on the year. USC managed to threaten only twice against Graham. In the sixth, already trailing 5-0, Eddie Ford bunt singled his way to first, Small reached on an error, but the next three Gamecocks proceded to registar outs. In the eighth, Small singled with two-out and moved to third on John Giambrell's double, but both runners remained stranded in scoring position as Earl Bass groundled out, catcher to first. Clemson then picked up their final three runs in the bottom of the eighth to win it 8-0. Clemson had jumped to a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first when Bill Prophet walked, Kenny Bagwell doubled, Dave Van Volkenburgh triped to score the two runners and then scored himself on Pete Hendrick's sacrifice fly. Greg Ward was the victim of the Clemson attack and his record tumbled to 1-2. Ward worked four innings while yielding five runs on six hits before giving way to George Beam who also toiled four innings, surrendering three runs on three hits. During the spring break the Gamecocks continued their play in the Sixth Riverside Intercollegiate tournament, emerging from the round-robin play with a 2-5 mark.j rays at tting si The winner of the tournament was favored Stanford as they ripped Arizona State 9-2 before 3,521 fans in the title game. Carolina defeated California Riverside and Tennessee in the tournament while losing to Arizona State, Stanford, Cornell, UCLA, and Santa Clara. The only real "star" for Carolina in the tournament was freshman Hank Small who was named to "All-tournament" team. Small batted .481 in the seven games. The Equitable ife A.ujrr For a free 18" x 2A" .500 iutouts hitting safely 13 times in 27 at-bats. The 6-2. 210, outfielder-first baseman batted safely in every contest, including a perfect four for four against UCLA. Among Small's 13 hits were three doubles, one triple, onf homerun, and seven RBIs. Following this afternoons rematch with Clemson, the Gamecocks will face Stetson in a two game series here Thursday and Friday, with both games beginning at 3:00. ~& {/ - /a ceSoeyo teUitdSattNw Iii NYA La Dostr hsavruotwa.T Swing USC's Bruce Pudlock Carolina's 11-0 win over T a double, three singles anc ...T 'pportt,umty E mpoyer. M F THE auita ble, Dept. F. G.P.O. Box 117C tI *I ing away-Tom Price ing away rips one of his four hits in le Citadel Monday. Pudlock had four runs batted in. I .I ;I e a e . = , _ *.