Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Batsmen e weak Pant By STEVE PARKER Asst. Sports Editor USC's baseball squad employed mass sub s itution while easily defeating the inept Georgia State Panthers twice, on Wednesday 9 0 and on Thursday 12-0. The Panthers, with a record of 0-19 on the year, committed numerous errors, including an unbelievable high of nine in the second contest. Taking advantage of the huge Gamecock leads, Coach Bobby Richardson cleared his en ire bench and used all non-pitchers in the wo routs. Freshman first baseman Hank Small did not hii safely in Wednesday's affair and so his hiiiing streak was concluded at 19 games, I which is believed to be the school record. Small r competed in Wednesday's game despite suf- C fering from a slight case of food poisoning. Carolina starting pitcher Larry Erbaugh and Georgia State starter Dwight Hamner were locked up in a pitchers duel throughout the first four innings of Wednesday's contest. Both pi! chers were working on one-h it shutouts in the fourih inning. In the fifth inning however, USC broke the game open by gaining seven runs on five r singles, two doubles, a walk, a stolen base, and C wo errors by the Panthers. jl Ken Shull, gaining a starting berth over c regular second baseman Tommy Moody, drove in ihe only run Erbaugh needed in the contest s when his double scored Billy Petoskey from F second base. Before the runs stopped coming in - he fift h, the Gamecocks had batted around and were leading 7-0. 1 Drew Choate added two more runs in the c sixih by slamming a 360-foot homerun to left field with Shull aboard. Erbaugh, meanwhile, was limiting State to Take a knock-out to the Prom Take an After Six. Now that it's prom time, it's Rent your favorite format from our exciting selection of the newest and most 4~ colorful tuxedos and dinner jackets. (This brocade 4~ Adventurer, a long, lean three-button coat, festively patterned is just one of many great looks.) And our lively collection of formal ,, ~, accessories puts the finishing touches on an enchanted evening. Come on inand take out an .'i4 4 After Six. You can trust us .4A to fix you up in style. 3 CONVENIENT LOCATIONS: Five Points Forest Drive Dutch Square "LARGEST IN YHE SOuTH I FORMAL WEAR 4 Rental & Sale. asily rout iers twice io runs on just four hits and picked up his ighih complete game, raising his record to 5-4. On Thursday, the Panthers wasted no time in lling far behind as they surrendered five runs i :he bottom of the first inning. Peioskey started off the Carolina effort by oubling to left and then moving around to core on two wild pitches. With one out, Small oubled and also scored on a wild pitch nleashed by Panther pitcher Marty Rhodes. Rhodes left the game after Pete Carpenter :ored on a walk and two errors, also in the rs . Joe Cole then came onto the mound for keorgia State and the Panther coach Ron ennet displayed no mercy in forcing Cole to imain on the mound throughout the rest of the ame. Cole's pitching statistics suffered as he 'as smacked for nine runs coming on 11 USC i:s and seven errors. Bruce Pudlock and reserve, first baseman ob Kleinknecht were two who feasted upon ole's poor pitching, as both smacked 3meruns in the game. Reserve catcher Billy eckle went 2-4 in his first at-bats of the year, icking up a double and two RBL. As was the case on Wednesday, Greg Ward !quired only a single run to pick up his pit iIng victory. Ward surrendered only three hits :he 12-0 rout, to even his mark at 2-2 with the )mplete game win. John Gambrell tied the school record for olen bases. His 16th theft of the year equals e!oskey's high mark of 1970. The Gamecocks move to Sumter this evening meet the Clemson Tigers. The two teams 3ve split their season series, with both teams afea! ing each other once. Clemson crushed the USC batsmen in the irs meet ing of the two clubs by the score of 8-0, 350 Larry Erba ugh however Carolina retaliated on he next day by edging the Tigers, 2-1. Tonight's contest will mark the last game of the season between the teams and he winner will go away with he season series. On Sa urday, the Gamecocks come home to face Erskine in a 1:30 game. The USC record is now 20-12, including nine wins in heir last 10 games. PAPER BACK BOOKS C. 'The Bell Jar' - Plath 'Knots' - Laing 'The Female Eunuch' AST" Greer THE JOYFUL -.. ALTER NATIVE 4 . 4 FTom Prce Freshman sensation USC's first baseman Hank Small swings at a pitch in Wednesday afternoon action. Small failed to hit safely in the game and as a result his hitting streak halted at a record 19 games. Small's excellence guides Gamecocks By STEVE PARKER then I just didn't. That's all." Asst. Sports Editor The Carolina freshman, who Hank Small passed up an offer maintained a .475 batting average from the Baltimore Orioles to play throughout his 27-game high school baseball in their farm system, career, explained his reason for instead choosing to play here at nixing the Oriole contract offer and Carolina. That decision has since instead attending Carolina. "I proved to be most advantagous for visited the school and liked what I the Gamecocks. saw, I thought I could learn from Small's batting statistics reflect the coaches here, and so I just the way that the 6-3 first baseman deidIwol rahrpy from Atlanta, Georgia has stepped bsbl ee in to be the top USC player. Small's " inttikIwudb bet .373 batting average, 40 base hits,dotiwel"sdSml,Bu eight doubles, one triple, and three rgtnwImra ap ob homeruns are team highs in those htigadpaigti od categories. His 18 RBI are only one "Cahs Rcrdo an behind the team leading total ofRans(uehveeldmeao third baseman Bruce Pudlock. i yhtig hyv hwdm Not reflected in his batting totals afwtig hc a epdm are the freshman's contributions to t mrv yhtig o n the team with his fine base running thn,CahRcrdotldm I and strong defensive play.wantplighebleouht The freshman hitting senation, tebgnigo h eradh who Coach Bobby Richardson has cretdm tnesm,ads described as being a "major I'pulnthbaletrno. league hitting prospect", recently A h aeok ulit h ran up a consecutive game batting coiggmso h 92cm streak of 19 contests, a total which pinwt 01 eod agl is probably the USC school record.dutoSalseclne,heem The streak ended on Wednesday, i einn ove hi hne as the first baseman went 0-4 at the o ann n ftrea-ag plate in a game which Small says brh oteNtoa ias he "should not have played in." Saldsusstercacs Small said, "I shouldn't have Thonywyemitgtabd played at all in the game, I was istwn10o Ifounet1 sick all morning. But I hit the ball gms hr r nytrebrh pretty good in hatting practice and adteol a ecngtoei decided to give it a try.town he emidr fou "I batted four times," Smallg continued, "BHut by my se'cond at- frti erssudt dac bat I was extremely tired. iioteNtoa ias ihasa "'Of course I would have liked to sc sSal h shvn ;ee the streak go on, but I'm not gei esn eunn o aho "eally that upset. Trhere was not tenx he er,teftr much pressure for me to go on: if I cranylosbih o h gotenaI ju.stddidn't. That's all." The..Caro..ina..freshman,...who