Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I Rnnnt*.Qm I Gameco I Bulldog! By Richard Meyers I Carolina's baseball team travels to I Charleston tonight to meet the Citadel ijf Bulldogs in a contest scheduled to start at j? 7:30p.m. The Gamecocks now stand at 29-9 this H year, not including last night's scheduled game with Mercer. USC split an abbreviated series this past I weekend with the r???mber 11 team in the I country, r loriaa state's Seminoles. Carolina dropped the first game Friday night, but came back to post a victory Sunday afternoon. Saturday night's game was rained out. The Seminoles, who took two out of three games from the Gamecocks in Tallahassee, Fla., during the spring break, won the season series between the two ballclubs three games to two. iimL * * * ' " *" i i ney won mree out 01 five from us," USC Head Baseball Coach June Raines said. "These are the kinds of teams you've got to play hard against. I thought the five games were good games." I USC dumped the Seminoles 8-3 Sunday to hand Florida State their 17th loss in 52 outings. The Gamecocks rallied from an early 1-0 deficit to score four times in the second inning. Singles by Paul Hollins, Chris Boyle, a double by Rob Lowery, and a single by Jamey Thaw gave USC a 2-1 lead. Rohhv Vnllmpr fnllnwoH witH n ennrifinn J V avtAVfVVM TTiVll ? 0OV1 lilV^ fly to plate Lowery, and third baseman Tom Williams scored TTiaw with USC's fourth run of the inning. Carolina added single tallies in the third and fifth. The Seminoles scored their second run of the game off Gamecock starting pitcher Dennis Lubert in the seventh inning. Carolina scored twice in the seventh in il n ? ?? ? " Iuuig, its tut; aeminoies maae live pitching changes, and used three right fielders. FSU scored their final run in the eighth. Lubert picked up the win, his seventh of the season. Clem Freeman absorbed the loss for the Seminoles, his third in six decisions. THE GAMECOCKS lost their fourth game of the year to rain Saturday night. The Seminoles were batting with one out and runners on first and second base with a . ^ ' #> . " y?jir rjjvv-'-r^'v^"-\.^t"-V^*";^^H^'-V'^? -^ i K ?B m, I '' . - i H * 91P^*-- mi ,_ : . ; ^Hfl; v^;' >fl? m ? i % - w? Hi m ggglsH&^ M iMe^mm^^^m^^^mmm^^M fcifc A? WW wwttujiuuymuwwuu mwawvuumuii USC's Trevor Raal returns a shot in match with Tennessee. Raal lost 7-6 Gui/iano at the number six singles teamed with Chuck Hodgin to win doubles competition. (Photo by John f cksmeet ,j_ _ 1 i s lonignt one ball and one strike count to Lionel Martinez when heavy showers hit the field. After waiting slightly more than half an hour the game was cancelled. The Gamecocks, ranked 17th in the nation, had taken a 3-0 lead in the second inning. Williams knocked in one run with a fielder's choice. Lowery scored on a delayed double steal, and Vollmer doubled in Williams to give the Gamecocks a 3-0 lead with pitching ace Bret Baynham on the mound. "I hate to see a 3-0 lead go down the drain, even though they had a couple of runners on base," Raines said. "It's ail umpire's decision (to cancel the game). It rained an awful lot, and they don't want to get anybody hurt and I can understand that. But I think if we had waited another hour or so we could have possibly played, but that is a long wait for everybody.'' Haines probably wished Friday night's game with FSU was rained out after Carolina watched a 4-0 lead turn into a 7-5 defeat. THE Seminoles appeared to score first in the game. Mike Fuentas was on first base and running on the pitch when cleanup hitter Jeff Ledbetter grounded to second I ? mi oaseman maw. Thaw booted the ball, then threw it by first baseman Jim Curl. The ball hit a photographer stationed behind first base against the fence, and the first base umpire allowed Fuentas to score and Ledbetter to advance to second base. But after conferring with Raines, the , umpires met and changed their ruling, sending Fuentas back to third and taking , away me run irom Florida state. The , Seminoles announced they were protesting . the game, but dropped the protest after they ] won the game. I The Gamecocks grabbed a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning when Curl drove in , Joe McCarthy with a sacrifice fly. ( Singles by McCarthy and Thaw, followed by doubles by Rod Carraway and Hollins gave the Gamecocks three runs in the third inning to give USC a 4-0 lead. Gamecock starting pitcher Eton Gordon was shaky through the first six innings, setting the side down in order only once, but arolinas hoj. By Bertram M. Rantin Staff Writer Carolina's men's tennis team's grip on a possible atlarge bid to the National I Collegiate Athletics Association national tournament was again lessened as the Gamecocks fell to the Tennessee Volunteers 5-4 Saturday at the Sam Daniels Tennis Center. The match was close throughout, and the outcome was not decided until the final doubles contest. Two matches were decided in third-set tiebreakers. Carolina was denied the right to enter the NCAA tournament as region champions because of losses to Wake Forest and Clem Hson. A win against Tennessee was crucial to the team receiving an at-large The number one singles contest Saturday went in favor of Tennessee as Mike E>?Pal"ier Jr stopped Zoran Petkovic 6-3, 6-2. Chuck Hodgin went three sets and miMaatorl Toff U/otaro A.l A. VUV1MWVVVI W1C wnvvio V I) i Saturday's 6,6-4 to give USC the number 6-2 to Joe tw0 singles win. At number ' soot but sin8,es? USC s Daron 1 spox? . Roberts ran off the first six a match tn games and went on to defeat *arnoW Gary Lemon 6-0, M. -v r^r% re3B WzsJ^^S^am^ a -' y^p *"w <' <yt * " ^^1 Florida State Head Basebai members of his team while m made in the seventh inning oi Lowell) tie was hurling a shutout going intc seventh inning. The first five batters reached ag Sordon in the seventh via three singl double and a key error on a potential d( play ground ball to third baseman Ha Heise. Gordon was replaced by r [landed relief pitcher Bobby Kish. Kish gave up two hits including a tw< single to Mark Lacy to give the Semino 5-4 advantage. THE SEMINOLES picked up an addi run in the ninth inning to make the scor USC rallied in the ninth, loading the with one out. But Seminole relief p Jamey Shouppe induced McCartl: ground out to first base, scoring on< yes of toui In one of the day's closest matches, the Vol's number )=. f four player,M ichae 1 Fancott * edged Ulf Pettersson 6-4, 3-6, H 7-6. USC and Tennessee split the number five and six J singles matches leaving the score 3-3 following singles 'ftSwaW play. Jose Salibi Neto won the number five singles for Carolina over Brian Williams 6-2,6-0, while Trevor Haal fell 7-6, 6-2 to Taa Hliiltann at nnmhop civ WW \flUUIMIIV UV 1IUII1 ?yv I OlA. Neither of the two teams would give up easily as all three doubles matches were extended to three sets. The number two doubles rrs n woe tho f i ret r>nm _ IIIWVVI a TTMU tll\y lift UV Will pleted as Tennessee's Waters and Lemon defeated Roberts and Pettersson 7-5, *?/ 5-7,7-6 in a very close match. ' Hodgin and Raal again tied the score as they stopped Williams and Guiliano 4-6, 64,7-6. The Volunteers took the team decision as DePalmer and Fancott defeated ^ Feikovic and Brian McDonald 6-7,6-3,6-2. ^ J i OflCi The defeat dropped USC to /|fc| 26-5 on the season. Ten- ' nessee is 17-4. , .v.v.-v.v.v.v- #WS , 'W Jdfai ^JMMfett' JM| . wir ^ ^ * * >^4S^--'3Stefe^ll--S^^r^^ / Coach Mike Martin (1 nleinn /ino n f //io fii/o ni+r i v v t/r (If v# W I V ' USC's 8-3 win Sunday i the Thaw followed wit! field that Yastrzen ainst front of the outfi es, a ballgame. Gordon >uble loss, his first in six d rvey picked up the win fc ight- his record to 3-0. >-run Florida State col lesa n*ne ru*111?1"8 stran out seven hits, leavi tional "It was an excil e7-4. said. "It was a ballgame. They cai bases six runs in one innin itcher bats well." ly to "We had our char > run. double play and that rnamer ' 0^--&m.~3i > - v.. V .Ay>.:: tro/ina's Brian McDona (hand return in his doubt )ona/d and Zoran Petko we team of Mike Dei .9. . f O. . f% ir*m JOT | I Fy j* | J* t I ? -pv 'T ar left) talks to thing changes he . (Photo by Chip 1 a deep drive to right nski caught one step in eld fence to end thp was charged with the lecisions. David Smalley >r the Seminoles, tipping llected 12 hits, and left ded, while USC banged ng six runners on base. ling ballgame," Raines typical Florida State me up there and scored ig. They really swing the ices. We didn't make the .killed us." it play "" ' J -i . H-J# k . f'/( $':? r^., 'XvMi>? " ^"r^nyjKipMji j < y.** * < :x:::?Pc^ ? 'V ifn> Miiimmmi, *\ \ $ ? m _ - - ? * fci stretcnes ror a e's match Saturday, vie lost to tha Tanya/mar and Michael