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Gamecock By PATRICK VILLEGAS Assistant Sports Editor Ahh! The smell of the freshly cut greenery. The sounds of cleats galloping across the infield. The popping of gloves. The clank of the bat. Ahh, yes! The boys of spring have finally arrived. The USC Gamecock baseball team returns to the diamond Saturday for its first game of the 1991 season. In hopes of avenging last year's disappointing 33-25 record, the Gamecocks will try to improve when they hit the road to face their first real test of the season against the Jacksonville Dolphins. The Gamecocks, who last year in tneir iirst iu games tnppea on their starting blocks to a 5-5 record, are looking to explode with an early season breakthrough in order to build a solid consistency that was lacking last season. Head coach June Raines has built a solid caliber of players in almost every position, but has had some problems with the pitching depth of the team, mostly made of sophomores and a couple of veteran seniors. This year's probable ace for the Gamecocks, Matt Threehouse, last year went 1-1 before undergoing arthroscopic surgery on a frayed rotator cuff that sidelined him for the remainder of the year. Treehouse was 6-0 as a freshman, averaging 10.25 strikouts per nine innings. Because of his year-long injury this past season, Threehouse was able to retain his sophomore eligibility status. T Gloria, Hopper < By STEVE JOHNSON Sports Editor ~ : ??-? In a stunning upset on Thursday i Tennis Coaches Association Indo< previously eighth-ranked Louie Gl< match to 20th-ranked Matt Semler 6-3,4-6,6-2. ( "I was really shocked," comme Lynch. "I was really expecting I tournament" Gloria, USC's number one sing suffering pangs from the appendici in last weekend's matches against E N.C. Despite Gloria's loss hope was 23rd-ranked David Hopper took ce Club to take on llth-ranked Donn USC", according to Lynch). Alth< higher ranking, Hopper defeated 1 Championships in Palm Springs, O Unfortunately, there was no rep number two singles player. Isaak 4-6,6-4. Gloria and Hopper will rejoin th< team to take on Virginia Common r*n P>h 1 f\ Rnrh mntrhes will be hi BEFOR y you ca Teac Literacy, Office o and C ; baseball s Also expected to be a solid starter and added strength for the Gamecocks is veteran senior Charlie Young. Young led the Game cocks in pitching victories this past year with a 7-2 record, including wins over highly-rated Wichita State and Georgia Tech. The rest of the Gamecock bullpen includes this past year's Metro strikeout-ratio leader Jared Baker, who had 41 Ks in 34 innings; sophomore Sean Hardwick who last year had a 2.53 ERA and was 3-2; sophomore Rich Pratt (3-5, 6.23); and senior Will Lewis, who between flopping back-and-fourth between relief and a starter position, went 5-4 with a 4.48 ERA. Most of the fielding and hitting experience on the team will come from the phenomonal talents of the Cromer brothers, Burke and D.T. Hitting .304 with 39 RBIs, junior Burke Cromer made second team All-Metro conference and first team All-Metro tournament this past year. Burke Cromer is the teams' most versatile fielder and is expected to return to third base after a 1990 stint as shortstop. Kignuieiaer u.i. L-romer, wno batted .325 with 39 RBIs and six homers in 1990, will almost definitely make an impact with his armored stick and should be a big factor. Dueling for the catcher position will be junior Dave Willman, who this past year hit .294 with 4 HRs, and freshman Mike Taters, who hit .470 in his senior year in high school. Also challenging for the " irop in ITCAs I] A . .? ?AA? * . 11 ' itternoon at me tvyi intercollegiate >r Championships in Minneapolis, jria of USC lost an opening round of Dartmouth College in three sets aited ITCA media coordinator Joe Slim (Gloria) to go further in the les player, was quite possibly still tis which kept him from competing >avidson and Kentucky in Davidson, still alive for USC at 4:30 p.m. as nter court at the 98th Street Raquet y Isaak of Southern Cal ("the other >ugh Isaak was favored due to his [saak last May 19th in the NCAA tlif. eat performance for Hopper, USC's defeated Hopper in three sets 6-4, $ ^x''s'a ' < V' I ' '' 1111111 /' i 1111 I 5 rest of the Gamecock mens' tennis wealth on Feb. 15 and Wake Forest eld in Winston-Salem, N.C. ... It is trrt fo lenr The. S-kjdes) -JL i abou"f he.If / E n make the diffi :h someone to r CaU 7-5780. A.warenessA f Community Service F ampus Coalition for Lit wingin' in ^?-; feaL-ltf- -jl. i iro ^Br I ' ??&& * USC third baseman Burke Cror Mptrn f.nnfprenpp in IQQfl wifl hf most versatile players. spot is fabled freshman Rob DeBoer, who not only plays running back for the Gamecocks, but comes into the baseball squad hitting .613 in his last year in high school. Among the opponents USC will Much-impi By TONY MIZZELL Staff Writer USC's basketball team faces one of its toughest tasks of the season during the next week: three backto-back Metro conference battles on tne roaa. Cincinnati and Tulane ? no problem. Let's get ready to travel to Southern Mississippi on Feb. 16. Wrong. Fans, don't become optimistic yet. The Gamecocks did record a lopsided 85-69 victory over Cincinnati this past month in Columbia, but the Bearcats are currently the hottest team in the Metro. The Bearcats have recorded four consecutive conference victories including road wins against Tulane and league-leading Southern Mississippi, while defeating Memphis State at home, improving the Bearcats' record to 13-6 overall and 5-2 in conference play. The Gamecocks are coming off a great win over Louisville Wed # . / very /rnporJoA-f' io *r\ ix> rZ&d ay^i Wri~tZ* ifs -from ~fht US C n< H\ey Vtrf Qjncere^ >ev\ M/%. . T^syryrr^ AFTER erence. ead. Week '91 "rograms eracy to action j^| x-... . M m ^ flM| ?; \ "$ Mf -~ *? ?- ^ |pKdk. 7^ ?* ** **???> ^. v. ; . S~i -? * r";'i? File photo ner, who made second team All3 among head coach June Raines' face this year are 4th-ranked Georgia Tech, 9th-ranked Florida State, llth-ranked Wichita State, and 19th-ranked Georgia Southern. The Gamecocks, with a pre-season raiuuug ui tu, were a comoineu 12-11 against these teams in 1990. roved Bearc nesday and hope the momentum can carry over to Cincinnati Saturday night at the Myrl Shoemaker Center. Junior forward Joe Rhett emphasized the problems encountered when facing Cincinnati at home, noting the Gamecocks haven't won there since his freshman year. nvwprfr I | Dear Roommate, I / Just thought I'd take Just how much I appre Corny, huh? But it's tru XI or stressed, you're ther* 'j when things get boring >1 with those crazy ideas from that last roadtrip neat-nik and I'm a slob, So with all that in Gamecock's "Won't Yoi otion. All I have to do and drop it in one of Held Cinemas, Sh; Garfield's Restaurs i: ., winner on the 11th I f winner and his or h< two at Garfield's I J zen roses from St I I I movie passes fror I I \ So what the he* / F ^ I f fmS I <*s? I f I UPTOWN w I Outri?VBR IS'0' Uufdgor Gear -j Wcou 4o yM) *'rtfl Kemi/ic. tit)? C+r*> < off' e?&*u . /f>?**Y 6 i*D% &33 mt pr~ B s&ta- TWrf /%32 *&? acs &t#>\c mc m**/ Th^lhk*"! ' y&U. Age sliTBO I?-R?;twv -Pfcg StL FEBURARY 9-Sat at Jacksonville 1:30 p.m. 15-Fri. COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON 3 P.M. 16-Sat. at Charleston Southern 2 p.m. 17-Sun. NEWBERRY 2 p.m. 20-Wed. WINTHROP 3 p.m. 23-Sat. CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 3 p.m. 24-Sun. WOFFORD 2 p.m. 26-Tue. GEORGIA SOUTHERN 3 p.m. 27-Wed GEORGIA SOUTHERN 3 p.m. 28-Thu. NC-CHARLOTTE 3 p.m. % w A D r H iTI n ?? v- .. 1-Fri. at NC-Charlotte 3 p.m. 2-Sat. COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON 2 p.m. 3-Sun. at Georgia 1:30 p.m. 5-Tue. COASTAL CAROLINA 3 p.m. 6-Wed. AUGUSTA COLLEGE 3 p.m. 8-Fri. NEW ORLEANS 3 p.m. 9-SaL NEW ORLEANS 2 p.m. 10-Sun NEW ORLEANS 2 p.m. 1 1-Mon. at Georgia Southern 7 p.m. 12-Tue. at Georgia Southern , 3 p.m. 15-Fri. at Southern Mississippi 7:30 16-Sat. at Southern Mississippi 3 p.m. 17-Sun. at Southern Mississippi 3 p.m. 19-Tue. LOUISVILLE (2) 6 p.m. 20-Wed. LOUISVILLE 3 p.m. 21-Thu. OHIO UNIVERSITY 7 p.m. 22-Fri. CLEMSON 7 p.m. 23-Sat. CLEMSON 7 p.m. 24-Sun. CLEMSON 2 p.m. 26-Tue. GEORGIA 7 p.m. 28-Thu. atClemson 7 p.m. 30-Sat. at Cincinnati (2) 1 p.m. 31-Sun at Cincinnati 2 p.m. Home games appear in CAPS All home games will be played at Sarge Frye Field (next to the Roost). Dan Barabas/The Gamecock ats to challenge USC 'They always seem to play more averaging 21.5 points per game aggressive on their court," Rhett while shooting an impressive 56 said. percent from the field in two conThe Gamecocks will face an ference victories this past week, outstanding athlete, junior forward \ Herbert Jones, who was recently The game will be broadcast live named Metro Conference Player of on radio at P m- the Gamethe Week for the week ending Jan. cock Sports Network, which in27. Jones has been on fire lately, eludes WVOC 560 AM. 3 to .cheer me' up. And g i (Will we ever recover " ^N / I ?). 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