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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.
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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
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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
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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
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