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USC catcher Keith Taylor fites the ball past
first baseman Jim CurI into right field while
trying to complete a double play in the
Gamecocks' 5-3 loss to Mercer Saturday
night.
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Gamecock Staff Writer gob Nugent, a
Each Patriots Day, a Monday in Carolina track te
mid-April, the people of qualifying time
Massachusetts take the day off and participate in the
head toward Boston. Over a festivities.
million people line the streets from
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some 4,000 top-trained runners the highest plat*
during a 26-mile road race. medal in the Olyn
The 83rd annual Boston is the Boston Mf
Marathon will be held April 21 this ultimate," Nugenl
year. Only runners who post Running his qui
qualifying times of less than two hours and 43 i
hours and 50 minutes in an ac- Carolina Marath(
cepted marathons prior to the "I was just ti
Softball team ti
By Liz Chandler
Gamecock Staff Writer
If practice makes perfect, then the Lady Gamecock
Softball team should be in good shape on their trip to
Texas where they will meet some of the best teams in
the nation.
Head coach Judy Martino kept her squad on the
parctice field for four solid hours on Saturday
morning hoping to prepare the team for the stiff
competition they'll be facing at the end of the week.
"We're at the touehest nart of our spasnn rioh*
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but we're going to Texas with a good head and we're
going to show we can win on the road too," Martino
said.
REMAINING IN Columbia for most of spring
break to play, the Gamecocks boosted their record to
a 21-1 mark. Their only loss came earlier in the
season to East Stroudsburg.
"Over-all we've played well. We still have to iron
out the mental mistakes and eliminate the little
errors," Martino said.
With little competition in the South, the Gamecocks
Gamecocks split
weekend series
By Richard Meyers
Gamecock Staff Writer
Mercer University banged 12 base hits off Carolina pitchei
Saturday night to hand the Gamecock baseball team a 5-3 loss. The wi
gave the Bears a split in two game series.
USC, ranked second in the nation in the latest collegiate baseball pol
dropped to 22-6 on the year.
The Bears threatened to score early on Carolina starting pitcher Dc
Gordon, but could not get a runner across the plate stranding six rui
ners in the first four innings.
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down the nrst 14 batters he faced. With two outs in the bottom of th
fifth inning, third baseman Rod Carraway sliced an opposite fiel
double to right field jusf inside the foul line to break the no-hitter, but h
was left stranded.
GORDON YIELDED three singles, two of them infield hits, to loa
the bases in the sixth inning. Second baseman Wayne Ryle the
bounced to Carraway who threw to catcher Keith Taylor for a forceoi
at the plate, but then Taylor tried to double up Ryle at first base an
threw the ball past Jim Curl into right field.
Mercer first baseman, Dave Jedenski, then singled to center fiei
knocking another run. Bobby Kish replaced Gordon and retired leado
litter Jay Ross on one pitch to end the inning with the Gamecocfc
railing 2-0.
Joe McCarthy and Robby Vollmer received two-out walks froi
Barnhouse in the sixth inning and they each moved up a base on Etienr
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Boatwright to bounce out to third base with the bases loaded to end tt
nning.
The Bears picked up another run in the seventh inning on two single
j fielder's choice and an error by shortstop Greg Jonson to go ahead 3A
TWO OUT double by center fielder Frank Millerd gave the Beai
mother run in the eigth inning.
The Gamecocks bats came alive in the bottom of the eighth and som
loppy fielding by Mercer also helped USC to score two runs. Tor
'Termite" Williams opened the inning with a pinch hit single to rig!
ield. Jonson reached on an error by shortstop Skeeter Sommers.
Then McCarthy singled to center field, scoring Williams. Jonson an
McCarthy moved up a base when the Mercer catcher could not hold o
o the throw to the plate. Fred Heatherington replaced Barnhouse an
etired Vollmer on a sacrifice fly to right field which scored Jonson.
Farquharson reached on Sommer's second error of the inning t
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base to end the rally.
Designated hitter Mike Ryan open the top of the ninth with a doubl
Sommers knocked in Ryan with a two out single to left field for a !
lead.
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im has made a 50 minutes must be run by men two month
and hopes to ages 40 and under to qualifyperiod and fe
Boston race and Masters, men ages 40 and over, are run in April.
allowed a 3 hour and 10 minute a marathor
maximum and women must run a around the 2:
NNERS minds, time of 3 hours and 20 minutes to never really
au is the gold qualify for the race. going to do ir
pics and second it's a devast
rathon. It's the AN INTENSE training period of said.
said. at least two months is required to Running V
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Leading the offensive attack are shortstop Debbie Nugent said.
Eiohr, second baseman Amy Lyons and catcher T*ie main *
Shirley Ashburn. The pitching chores have been a marathoi
candled by Wallace, Holly Booth and Tammy Love. according to
"We have a lot of new players this year who have out there sol*
*eally come through for us. We pull for each other concentrate
ind don't fall apart when we make a mistake," body steps in
Martinosaid. Marathon
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Wallace said. make a con
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made some costly errors and did not come up
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the loss.
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MANY RUNNERS have exi
already started his perienced what is referred to as
extensive training hitting the wall. The wall is simply
els he will be ready to "the point where your muscles
"J will be shooting for have nothing left, and your body is
i time somewhere just unwilling to go any further,"
30 range, but you can Nugent said.
predict what you are At age six, Nugent became inI
a marathon because terested in running but decided to
ating race," Nugent become a runner at age eight when
he was inspired by a race that he
0 to 15 miles daily, saw. Living in Scarsdale, New
one day a week aside York at the time, Nugent and his
rk and sprints. Rain, brother watched an annual nine
?w should not be ob- mile race which was run around
unners according to the streets by his house.
never know what the
II be on the day of the 4*it was cold and rainy and I
thought: How in the world can
anybody run nine miles? The look
ALL over America 0n those runners' faces amazed me
on to rnrminc* hut 1 * j-j " -
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;o near a starting line. cried. My brother and I im- >
> because it gives him mediately went out in the back
;st himself. yard and started running around,
inning is a 180 degree and two years later we ran in that
rom what most people same nine mile race and both of us
in gym class. It's not won our age groups," Nugent said,
avor, it's a lifestyle," Nugent also participated in team
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:ey to finishing well in finds individual sports much more
1 is concentration, challenging and rewarding.
Nugent. "You've been
Dng that it gets hard to ,4YOU ALWAYS have somebody
and that's when your else to blame in team sports. In
and kills your drive." running, it's you against the
running is not only elements, and in racing it's you
raining, but an added against the watch. There are no
on your mind. "The time outs. There's no excuse at the
iles or so you have to end of a race," Nugent said.
scious effort to hold As Nugent counts down the days
can have that extra until the Boston Marathon, his
'ou didn't waste at the time will be filled with plenty of
," Nugent said. hard work.