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Baseba II, Greg Breazeale Georgia Southern won the battle, but quite probably lost the war Saturday afternoon in Statesboro. USC baseball coach Bobby Richardson said after the game in i y^ll^ttj $^M ' msm iH Coastal C arolina's l.arry ivionis cnve . . . Monts was safe, but it helped litl r~ jtJJJ I autl jCHARIOT of the < Ir.nnc cdam aii j rrvwm wu | Presentation inclui I "In Search of and an e: I WAS CHRIS : ?TOW I TS IPQnAY A/ 19 K_ V/ # I I f ?? . I r> Lhm 11 team baseball announcer Bob Fulton, j that USC will not continue its series with Georgia Southern after this i season. Richardson was displeased with the conduct of Georgia < Southern spectators, who had hung < two chickens from lightposts at the ( ballpark and had hung Richardson ] Iftgy * * lk ^ pEj*' Si '- i^H?pl^V s Dack to first base leas USC won 5-0 wmmmmmmmmmmmmmBmmwmm Sf~% B*. m a. dP\ SGA SrcMKc II GODS?---THE GOLI TER SPACE?MIR AC des slide show from th Ancient Astronauts" xhibit of petroglyph stc 11 AN A5IKUM lORftOW K9GI \ARCH9 ? s open 6:30 - No C loses to in effigy. .^Allfhnrn hntimtinr Kn ?UUWIV1>., nunvvti, Iiau uy LUIS lime won the prize of the day, a 9-2 victory behind the six-hit pitching of Richard Hudson and the hitting of Curtis Fisher and Tom Kotchman. Kotchman's two-run homer with Fisher on base in the Photo by Johnny Drummings ttS VMKPm 3N D JS 3 of the GODS :LES of the GODS e T.V. production nes IAUNT? KT? 7:30 p.m. - - m Iharqe HBnHHMHHHMHBnnii > Ga. So third inning sailed deep into the pine trees behind the 367-foot marker in left center field and gave the Eagles a 2-0 lead. Fisher insured the Eagle win with a two-run double off the fence in right center in the eighth inning. HUDSON HELD the Gamecocks at bay all day except for (he fifth inning, when back-to-back errors on Fisher and second baseman Benjoy Moore allowed South Carolina to score two runs and tie the score. Scott Thomas, a senior lefthander who got the starting for USC when freshman right-hander Hal Hutchens came down with a back ailment. "Hutchensisa big right-hander I had counted on," Richardson said, "He's like Hudson, an overhand curve ball pitcher." Richardson said it was impossible to tell how well Hutchens might have done, hill said "lt(> wns mv first rhniro but Thomas was ready, ho pitched all right." Southern opened the home half of the sixth with a double and a single, putting runners at first and IL: j i i t i i i iniru anu urmging jamie <. naKaies in from the Gamecock bullpen. Chakales surrendered a scoring single, which also loaded the bases. From then on. the Gamecocks played totally out of character. Mark Van Bever, playing at the edge of the outfield grass at second base, fielded a grounder, but bounced his throw over catcher Greg Keatley's head, allowing Southern to score two runs on an attempted force play at the plate. PpR?S?MTS J. uthern Earlier in the week USC won a doubleheader against Duke on Thursday, 7 3 and 16-1, and defeated Coastal Carolina 5-0 o., ?i ? ? * i i iuti^ uciiiiiu inu one-nil pucning of left-hander Ed Lynch THE WINS lifted USC to a 5-0 record before the Gamecocks setback at Georgia Southern Against the Blue Devils Tim Lewis pitched the entire, game, allowing only two hits in picking up his second win of thf> vpar stop Jeff Grant/, had a perfect opening game as he collected four consecutive singles. The game was scoreless until the fifth inning when a Grantz single score Mark Van Bever. USC added three runs each in the sixth and seventh innings to insnro thf? win The nightcap, called after six innings because of darkness, belonged to USC from the opening inning. The Gamecocks touched two Blue Devil pitchers in the first inning for six runs and lTSC scored in every inning except the second. Third baseman .Jim Pankovits led the team in hitting in the nightcap with four hits, including a double, and six runs batted in. Jim Lewis pitched five innings and was the winning pitcher. On Friday Coastal Carolina's head baseball coach John Vrooman said USC was a good f no Knr?nncfi ivuin lAViuuu III*:* V. UUIU t?L'UI C even when they wore not having a very good hitting day. However, the one-hitter pitched by Ed Lynch was most impressive. Lynch struck out 11 and pitched five innings of no-hit ball before surrendering the only hit to Coastal "?or of