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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
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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."
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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.
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collected three runs on only one hit to regain
the lead for good at 6-3. Five walks by losing
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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. >
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(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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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, 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