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lnHik W&SB jBBHBBSk mMW? ^^aSp w> ^Hp||9?P i? y- . ?. . ?>-?--? | RE BACKPACKI TENTS, I SOU1 ui#fi nci i vriLuci 11 ? 7:30 M-F 10?6 Sat. ?,- \\ - -. <* *-?>^- ^^|pr * * * _ * ". NT YOUR SUM* ING EQUIPMEN" PACKS, SLEEPIM fsnwKt // " \ (fopgsit),'&) ~^^"^**29.95 FH CAROL COMPLETE IN ESS OU quarry 940 HARDEN ST. COLUMBIA, S.C. 29205 803 First Baseman Johnny Hinl College World Series as the leading hitter. Hinkel has hit this season. Gamec world s By CHUCK CARREE Gamecock Staff Writer Carolina, making a bid for a national baseball title that barely ciuucu ii iwu years agu, wui piay Baylor at 9:10 p.m. Saturday in the College World Series' opening round in Omaha, Neb. The Gamecocks will be making only their second appearance ever in the series, having finished second to Texas in 1975. This year Carolina is tied for 3rd place in the national rankings with Southern Illinois. Baylor is ranked 7th. "We're tickled to death to be able to go to Omaha and play in the College World Series," said USC head coach June Haines, who compiled a 40-10-1 record in his first year at Carolina. "Our opDonent. Ravlnr wp knnw vwv littio HER I r FROM US... IG BAGS Sh* I INA'S m TFITTER I gear 799-7571 MwnHHnBMaJI. eel enters the Gamecocks* 15 home runs ocks se eries ti about. They don't run a lot but do score a lot of runs. They have two good relief pitchers." Right-hander Randy Martz will be Carolina's starting pitcher. Martz, a 6-4, 210-pound junior from Elizabethville, Pa., did not play baseball his first two years at USC, participating in spring football Dractice instead. Hp rfiH nnt nlnv s rm~j football this spring and compiled a perfect 12-0 record. He struck out 12 Wake Forest batters in a Atlantic Regional championship game to put USC into the College World Series. He performed the feat with only two days' rest. Martz was the twelfth player chosen in major league baseball's free agent draft of high school and college players June 7. He was the first-round selection of the Chicago Cubs. USC's starting lineup will not change against the Baylor Bears. Second baseman Mark Van Bever will lead off with Mookie Wilson batting second. Chuck McLean, Don Repsher and Johnny Hinkel will hit third, fourth and fifth, respectively. Designated hitter Steve King will bat sixth with catcher Johnny Long, third baseman Bart Murphy and freshman shortstop Greg Jonson rounding out the batting order. Van Bever, the team captain from Melbourne, Fla., batted .338 and stole 43 bases in 50 tries. Wilson, the centerfielder, led the team in hitting with a .358 average and stole 32 bases out of 35 attempts. Van Bever and Wilson were chosen in this month's baseball draft. Wilson was the second-round A Hew 6xpoession Visit I . , a i re^Nrv S 7^. A CLoT?ihl6r / . r-.SStiLfl^I I TOI j / y ? iek tie selection of the New York Mets, and Van Bever was chosen by the Baltimore Orioles in the seventh round. Outfielders McLean and Repsher also enjoyed a good season. McLean, a junior leftfielder, batted .315, while Repsher, a senior rightfielder, batted .323 and led the team in runs batted in with 55. Hinkel, a senior who missed more than half the 1976 season with a hmlcpn #?ntorc tho conoc ? ?- -- "'Ol MIV ?VO leading the team with 15 home runs. King, USC's second leading hitter last year, slumped to .233 this season. King played most of the season with an injured thumb. Long, after a poor start with the bat, hit .381 during the final 20 games of the regular season and enters the World Series with a .266 mark. Third baseman Murphy batted .2%, and Jonson, the only freshman ever to play regularly at shortstop for USC, batted .245. If the Gamecocks defeat Baylor, they advance into the winners' bracket of the double eliminational tournament and play the winner of the Minnesota-Los Angeles State game at 9:10 Sunday night. However, if the Gamecocks lose the Baylor game, they go into the losers' bracket and play the Minnesota-Los Angeles State loser Sunday afternoon at 3:10. Jim Lewis, a senior righthander from Miami, Fla., who was 10-5 and had the school record for complete games in a season, 11, is the probable starter for the Sunday game. i m Clothes & Act! js today it rvrururu p-~ >i? K r xlSfe^gi iy? A_ 3 ?aV.'Z~ ^ \ m 'y r 1846 ~1