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-sports? Carotin By Richard Meyers Oklahoma State jumped out to an 8-0 lead and held on for a 10-8 win Sunday night to eliminate Carolina's baseball team from the College World Series in Omaha, Neb. The Gamecocks, who lost the previous evening to the Stanford Cardinals in the opening round of the double elimination tournament. finished their season with a 45-13 record. USC's strength throughout the season ? pitching ? failed th? Gamecocks in both games. AGAINST THE Cowboys of Oklahoma State, Carolina starting pitcher Dennis Lubert and reliever Don Gordon allowed eight runs as the Cowboys took an 8-0 lead after four innings of play. USC closed the gap to 8-7 in its half of the sixth with the aid of two key hits. John Sullivan slammed a 3-2 pitch from Cowboy pitcher Gary Kanwisher for a grand slam home run to score Kent Anderson, Phillip Wilson and Robby Vollmer. After Chris Boyle and Neil Fox got on base, first baseman Greg Morhardt followed with his fifth home run of the season to bring Carolina within a run. Gamecoci From Staff Reports The men's basketball team' past week with the Gamecoc East tour. Carolina won five of the sevt which was financed nrinpinn x 1 merit, China and other foreign j USC OPENED its seven-gan win over DeLasalle University Phillippines. Center-forward Gamecocks with 18 points anc Darmody added 15 points and c The morning after Coach I ducted a basketball clinic for the Gamecocks downed anoth (J8. Darmody scored 17 point: forward Vei n Strickland and c points apiece. The Gamecocks beat the I fhin., "71 '? I oo rr< ? x^iinict, li-n, rosier Duane Kendall and Scott Sand( Til 10 TKAM'S first loss cam 33-year-old center Mu Tie-Zhi Army team. Mu, a 7-5, 350-pi leading his squad to a !M)-79 win Foster led the Gamecocks w Forwards Brad Jergenson an( 10 points, respectively. Later that week, USC travel Korean College All-Star team grabbed a team-high 13 rebour 91-83 win. Brittain and I loir Jergenson tossed in 10. But the Next night a 36-poir Foster wasn't enough to ov< Team, which defeated the Garr and Brittain each scored 12 poi LKK-CHUNG-IIKK scored 3< Park Soo-Kyo added 20 as Oai trip. i vjaiiicciA,i\o pitiyiTU iiitru Japan. Carolina shot a blazing easily beat Japan's top collegia Physical Education, ill-85. Brittain and Strickland had ia drops Gamecock: NCAA East For the second consecutive NCAA regional baseball pla; through the tournament, win earning the!.* fourth College W More than 25,000 fans jam games but poor weather att Carolina, North Carolina, 01< west Virginia) participating 1 Rain forced the delay of Carolina easily beat West Vir pitching performance of Joe 27, but the weather and The Ci team the next night. WITH USC trailing 2-1 in th dark clouds and heavy winds the Gamecock offense came t< Center fielder Robby Voll home run over the right fic fortable 6-2 Carolina lead. E until Saturday morning after because of heavy rain. Oklahoma State tallied single runs in the seventh and eighth innings off the third USC pitcher of the night, Mike Werner. Carolina scored their final run in the bottom of the eighth inning. "I'M DISAPPOINTED in It n I uui Aliening sum, v^uacn June Raines said after ks win fiv s "second season" ended this k's return from a 17-day Far in games it nlavpd on thp tour lly by the U.S. State Departgovernments. le slate on May 18 with a 101-81 , the top collegiate team in tne 1 Jimmy Foster led the 1 12 rebounds. Forward Kevin sight rebounds. Sill Foster and his staff conFilipino players and officials, er Filipino team, Crispa, 108s against the pro team, with center Mike Brittain adding 14 ieijing City team in Beijing, had 1'2 points, while center ?rson had 10each. ie the next day at the hands of i and the People's Liberation ound center scored 16 points, over USC. nth 19 points and 10 rebounds. 1 Kenny Holmes scored 12 and ed to South Korea to meet the . Foster scored 20 points and ids to lead the Gamecocks to ;i nes had 11 points each and it, 14-rebound performance by ercome the Korean National lecocks 97-92. Peacock, Martin nts. \ points for the home team and olina's records fell 4-2 for the r final game two days later in 68 percent from the field, and ite team, the Nippon College of Hi points each, with Brittain ?two g? f dominate t Regional \ year, USC was the host of a yoff. The host team breezed ning four straight games and ^orld Series trip. med Sarge Frye Field for 10 ended six teams (USC, East d Dominion, The Citadel and n the East Regional. two of USC's four contests, ginia 7-0 behind the seven-hit Kucharski on Thursday, May tadel caused problems for the le top of the fourth inning and moving toward the ballpark, 3 life. mer cracked a grand slam ild fence to produce a com&ut the game was postponed thp last nut of thp half-inninct ? - ? D Se* '/Regional*" page 11 seeing his hurlers racked for 25 runs in 17 innings. "They were the guys with experience and they needed to carry us early and they didn't. But that's only the second time all year they did that." The first time was in a series with Miami whpn thp Hurricanes blitzed Carolina pitching for 44 runs in four games. e, lose tw making all seven of his secon Strickland hitting six of seven points, Peacock 13, Kendall 12 FOSTER WAS the leading trip, just as he was during Gamecocks. The 6-8, 180-pour 18 points and 11 rebounds per g The Gamecocks traveling p Sports briefs vaiiBiiiui c From Staff Reports Carolina Ail-American pitc Kucharski was drafted Baltimore Orioles Monday in round of major league baseba annual summer draft. Kucharski, a 6-3, 225-pount pitcher from Clinton, Md., ' 23rd player taken in the di posted an outstanding 11-3 m season for June Raines's be with a 2.97 ERA in 112 inn three years at USC, Kucharsk games and lost seven. PAT DOM, a 5 8, 140-poui fielder from Charleston has i national letter of intent to pla; for IJSC this fall. During Dom's four-year career at Porter-Gaud High Si KPOmfl ')1 Urt'jlc v/\4 i/i ^vuio, IUV.1UU11I^ junior and 10 as a senior. A r Merit Scholar finalist, I)om lead his team to the stal championship as a junior. CAROLINA'S WOMEN'S team's trip to the NCAA tour was not very productive. TT Gamecocks dropped two con: games in Omaha, Neb. in n 1IIICS III The Gamecocks were \ forced to meet the Cowboys ; because they were trounced I 15-4 by Stanford Saturday, j An 11-run Cardinal sixth \ inning blew a 3-3 game wide j open. Stanford took ad- \ vantage of five hits, three j 1Iinll?. ,1 i U I wcuiva uiiu uii et* errors ^ to tie a College World Series \ record for most runs scored \ in an inning \ Carolina starting pitcher \ Joe Kucharski, who earlier jj in the day was named an AilAmerican by the American Association of College Baseball Coaches, allowed six runs in the inning. Early in the first inning, it appeared that Stanford, not Carolina, was in danger of being blown out. Carolina pounded Cardinal starting pitcher Brian Mignano for I five hits and two runs in the I first. But Stanford's Mike > Aldrete slammed his first J home run of the season, a :i two-run shot over the right ii field fence, to tie the score in 1 the bottom of the first. Steve I Burechele doubled, stole | third and scored on an error \ by John Sullivan to give \ Stanford a 3-2 advantage. "We tried to be aggressive early," Raines said. "We \_aiiic uui swinging mc uaw. But we made the mistakes and they didn't. o in Orien d half field goal attempts, and in the half. Foster claimed 14 and Sanderson 10. scorer and rebounder on the the regular season for the id Greenville native averaeorl ;ame for seven games. >arty of 22 didn't spend all its ! drafts Kucl and were eliminate nament. :her Joe In (JSC's first by the Rajtora contribute* the first two RBI to pace Cre ill's 18th to an easy 7-0 wi Gamecocks. Caroli d junior Long took the loss 1 was the her record to 10-5. *aft. He The next day Cr< ark this its runs in the sixth i ,ii ,oi..^ J ? tn iu uown Carolina i-2 ings. In Lady Gamecocks i won 21 nament. The defeat ended < leaving Coach Ter nd mid- with a 25-7 mark. >igned a y soccer THE CAROLINA team's season endei varsity not before the I chool he recorded a new schc 13 as a wins in a season. National I JSC won 28 of nc.p:u season, including i e AAA win over Florida Si Women's Tennis < Salt Lake City, Utah softball The following nament Gamecocks wereeli le Lady team competition \ iecutive sity of Southern C lid-May USC H I in quarterl World Series aiKSSi :'. x5?5<: : :> -">y 'X' ' ' : ;' S?:J:- ':SSiF'':' ' <: ' ! ' ' ' : ' ' ' ^ ^ ' Pholo by Caper* Hammond Gamecock center fielder Robby Vollmer swings and misses a pitch during Carolina's 6-4 win over The Citadel. Vollmer hit a grand slam in his next turn at bat to lead USC to its second cunsecuuve regional championship. tal basketball trip time on the court. They visited the 300-year-old Hotel Manila in the Philippines, where Gen. Douglas MacArthur once lived. In China the group visited People's Square, the Forbidden City (winter home of the Chinese dynasties), the Great Wall and the Ming Tombs. The team also saw Japan's Kyongbok Palace. The Gamecocks arrived at Columbia Metropolitan Airoort June l and were greeted by a crowd of about 200, including athletic director Bob Marcum. larski in first round ?d from the tour- FOUR FORMER Gamecock iooioan players nave signed as free game, Sharon agents with National Football League d three hits and teams. ;ighton University Horace Smith, a 5-10, 185-pound n over the Lady flanker who ranks 10th on the all-time na pitcher Cindy Carolina receiving list, signed with :or USC, dropping the Seattle Seahawks. Smith caught 66 passes for 1,235 yard in four years at iighton scored all USC. nning and hung on Flacekicker Eddie Leopard signed and eliminate the with the New York Giants. Leopard from the tour- made 42 of 43 extra point attempts and 12 of 12 field goal tries in 19R0 He Uarolina's season, scored 136 points, a school record for ri Drake's squad kickers, in his four years at Carolina. ? Defensive tackle Chuck Allen is women's tennis trying out with the Denver Broncos, rl in mid-May, but The 23-year-old defensive lineman ,ady Gamecocks 'as* played on Carolina's 1980 team, ,ol record for most finishing fourth in tackles on the squad with 94. 31 matches this Offensive lineman Bill Lane is also in opening round trying out for the Broncos. Lane tate in the NCAA played for the Gamecocks from 1976 Championship in t() ia79. day the Lady QtJAKTKKKACK HICII INCi()LI> minated from the has droped out of IJSC and is reporvhen the Univer- tedly transferring to West Virginia alifornia downed University. inal Competition. see "Spoils briefs," p*ge 11 i