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"/ like the Miami series fo that it nrm//>W ? ? ???*?* >ft f # W ?WM 11/ uo wt? ream o/r Me ro I - Sf/ff y m VHH "*v>?s. TCffln^HH ''_ . fiamccrw Tar Heels * i to 8-5 victor By Brett L. Friedlander Sports Edkor The USC baseball team's 8-5 victory over North Carolina Monday at the Spring Sports Center wasn't very pretty, but Gamecock coach June Raines will settle for it just the same. In a contest that was delayed almost 30 minutes because of rain, the Gamecocks neededsome timely defense and erratic pitching by three Tar Heel pitchers to come away with their 20th win in 24 outings. Although the home team banged out nine hits, including three by second baseman Etienne Farquharson and two by third baseman Hod Carraway, it was the wildness of the UNO hurlerS that set up most of their scoring chances. USC was benefitted from 11 base on balls on the afternoon. "I THOUGHT both teams were a little bit flat, and I can't understand why," Raines said. "Our pitchers were wild, their pitchers were wild and the weather was bad, and all 1 f il- - ? " 4 mai mattes ior a preuy sioppy game, ?ui any time you win 8-5, you'll take it." The Gamecocks fell behind in the opening inning when UNC touched starting pitcher Bill Landrum, now 7-2, for back-to-back home runs with one out. That lead did not last long however, as the Gamecocks came up with three runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning. After Tar Heel starter Bruce Wood walked Joe McCarthy and Robby Vollmer on eight pitches, Farquharson stroked a high inside fastball over the fence in deep right-center field to give his team a one-run lead. The homer was the fourth of the season for the senior from Nassau, Bahamas. "You never go up to the plate looking to hit a homer, but that's a situation any good hitter likes," Farquharson said. "It was a 21 pitch and I hit it pretty good, I got off to a slow start this season because of injuries, but now I think I'm starting to hit better." r the simple reason glgj : .. i; v'*V/ /v.x'f*:- y could beat a good June Raines MiliS ?m ^SBgHsK V^L .-. - T^BL'-;-^"^.j:":"^^'"' :ks impress vildness leads 1 t ? iivr/^ y ufc/ ui KL/ with his bat, but his fielding also played an important role in preserving the win. With one out in the top of the fifth, UNC had runers on first and second after tying the game at three. With Landrum struggling, the speedy second baseman leaped high in the air to catch a line drive off the bat of Tar Heel Joe Reto. He then relayed on to first to complete the double play to end the threat. In the bottom half of the inning, (JSC collected three runs on only one hit to regain the lead for good at 6-3. Five walks by losing pitcher David Kirk and reliever Mike D 1 ? ? ((iuvcuivucuk; 1 ?11 ntxis UIlUUinK. Still, the Gamecocks were not able to coast when some wildness of their own allowed the visitors to cut the lead to one. After two consecutive singles, Martin Small relieved Landrum, but the skinny lefty unleashed three wild pitches in a row, allowing both runners to score narrowing the margin to 6-5. > SMALL FINALLY settled down and was able to keep UNC in check until the ninth innino dftkk.. i/lnu >l. inning wiicii DXHJuy i\ian v.amc uu iu get ur save. Meanwhile, Carraway drove in runs in the sixth and eighth on a sacrifice fly and a , single, to account for the final runs. j While he was happy that his team had (won, Raines was concerned over the perI formance of his starting pitcher. Only a few , days earlier, Miami defeated Landrum 9-0. "I don't know what's wrong with him," Raines said. "He hasn't had that good fastball and breaking curve for some time now. But I think he'll get it back somewhere down the line." The Gamecocks will return to action tonight at 7:30 p.m. against Winthrop who owns an impressive 19-1 record. Either Bret Baynham or freshman Joe Kucharski will Ditch for USC in a contest that Raines said his team will Km ready for. "I sure hope they'll be up for this one/' he said. "They've got a good record and they're an in-state team. If that isn't enough gf?| Wmd hmi bp > i y/ ^ ;. -A\ ' ""'V.' *~ fy Robby VoHmer pT Kish( 15) rep/a ive over spr * 4 ^ Top ranked Mi as (JSC aoes , ? ? ? By Frank Verde Gan-vecock Staff Writer The highlight of the 1980 Gamecock baseball season came this past weekend when USC took back to back lopsided victories over number-one ranked Miami (Fla.) at Coral Gables, raising their team record to 19-4. The number-three ranked Gamecocks left for Florida to meet the top ranked Hurricanes in a four game series. The Gamecocks appeared to have left their best baseball in Columbia during the first two games of the set. Carolina failed to get a single run across in both games. In Miami's 90 opening night victory at the expense of Gamecock ace Bill Landrum, the USC attack was held to a meager four hits. Miami jumped on Landrum in the first inning for two runs and then knocked him out of the box with back to back homers in the fifth inning. Mark Boatwright had the only extra base hit for USC ? a double in the fourth inning ? but he was left stranded. The Gamecocks left seven men on base in the game. IN GAME TWO, Miami continued to dominate the Gamecocks. The Hurricanes won their 13th straight game and improved their record to 36-5 with a 5-0 shutout win behind the pitching of Neal Heaton who moved his record up to an 11-2 mark. The Gamecocks were held to three hits. Two of those hits came in the fifth inning when Greg Jonson singled and Robby Voltmer doubled, but both were stranded on base. The Gamecocks again left seven men on base. Brett Baynham, 2-1 took the loss. Miami collected 18 hits and 14 runs compared to seven hits and no runs for the Gamecocks in games one and two. Over 9,000 people had seen Miami look unbeatable and the Gamecocks play as though they were 'shell-shocked.' It seemed that Miami was on its way to an easy sweep of the series. . But the Gamecocks turned it around the next two nights and bounced baca to trounce the Hurricanes by scores of 15-5 and 8-1. Miami lost its 13 game winning streak and perhaps their number one ranking when they felt the sting of the Carolina bats for the first ????-?? . 1 I .' '.1\ 81 ' '- S*V: ' - : t ..v:11 vHl ->r.":^v'.?;'Iz^-z ^fiv* '.J? - 4 "' -''. v ?- -.- - -l^ '. . - .^UBH^g r --" " ' ' 'jI- -"'" fS - ?>. ":i :r?:"JiT Hf scores against UNC (right), white Bobby ces Martin Small (12) on the mound. ing break iami falls twice 5-2 over break VOLLMEIl OPENED game number three with a home run and Joe McCarthy and Jim Curl also added homers in the contest. Miami had chased Gamecock starter Don Gordon in the second and led 3-1 going into the fourth. but bases loaded walks to McCarthy and Vollmer forced in two runs and Etienne Farquharson followed with a single to score two more and send Miami coach Hon Fraser to the bullpen for the first time in the series. Miami cut the Gamecock lead to 5-4 in the bottom half of the inning, but USC scored three more times in the fifth on Curl's two . RBI double and a double by McCarthy. The Gamecocks put it away for relief pitcher Martin Small in the seventh when they battprpd the Miami rplipf rorns for five more ? - ? ?" (? runs including two homers. Farquharson and Curl each banged out three hits and had three runs batted in while McCarthy added four RBI's. The Gamecocks looked for a split of the series in game four and it came by virtue of an 8-1 decision behind the strong pitching performance of Dennis Lubert and the solid hitting of Keith Taylor and McCarthy. IN THE FIRST inning Lubert was wild and walked four men to force in a run, but he cotflorl Hnum in niink thu Knot rtoma nf anu nf iJVVV1VM UVVTII W pitvil VIIV gUIIIV VI PUJT VI the Gamecocks on this trip. He limited Miami to just four singles and struck out eight in going the distance to register his fourth victory against no defeats. USC jumped out to an early lead on the strength of first inning singles by McCarthy, Farquharson and Curl. Miami tied it up in the bottom half of the first, but the Gamecocks went to work in the fifth when Vollmer cleared the bases with a double. In the sixth inning, McCarthy hit his second homer in as many games with Taylor scoring in front of i him. The two combined one more time in the , eighth as Taylor doubled and McCarthy got his third-RBI of the game with a single to give the Gamecocks an 8-1 lead. Meanwhile Lubert