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Gamecocks escape I By STEVE JOHNSON Sports Editor If you're a Gamecock fan and USC is leading 11-4 in the top of the ninth, you'd assume that you could leave without missing anything. Right? Wrong. 1 t> V^ICIUSUU StUICU MA 1 nilJ? 111 111C lllliui Hilling utiuit i^n^wi i\uu Mosser halted a near disaster by getting Tiger shortstop Todd Stefan to ground into a double play for the third out. USC's 11-10 win enabled the Gamecocks to take the second of a three game series. Ace starter Sean Hardwick improved his record to 6-0 on the year as he surrendered only four hits for four runs through eight innings of work. Hardwick also struck out five batters while walking six. Clemson starter Paxton Briley's record fell to 2-1. Briley pitched 3 1/3 innings and allowed 10 hits, one walk and eight runs. Briley also hit one batter and struck out one. Center fielder Mac White went one for four on the night but he extended his hitting streak to 13 games while scoring more runs (four) than any other player. White scored the first run of the game after being hit by a Briley pitch in the bottom of the first inning. A Burke Cromer single to right fol lowed a single by Dave Wilman and scored a sliding White as right fielder Michael Spiers' throw rolled past the mitt of catcher Mike Lockhart. The Gamecocks erupted for four hits and four runs in the bottom of the third to increase USC's lead to 5-0. George Rush singled to center field and advanced to second as White reached first courtesy of a ground ball error by Tiger first baseman Eric Macrina. Wilman took a subsequent waist-high fastball to deep center that landed well past the glove of a diving Kevin Northrop for a double that scored Rush and moved White to third. A wild pitch to cleanup hitter Jeff Pamell scored White and a sacrifice fly by Burke Cromer to deep center enabled Wilman to score all the way from second. Pamell, who reached first base on a walk, ended the scoring for the inning by being knocked around the bases after consecutive singles by Jerry Shepherd and D.T. Cromer. Throughout the game whenever Clemson managed to muster any offense off Hardwick, the Gamecocks would respond with a big inning to-keep pushing the game out of reach for the Tigers. USC scored three runs in the fourth and fifth innings following their four-run third inning. The game almost slipped away though in the ninth inning as reliever USC's tennis teams lose tough matches From Staff Reports - - - ? ^ ? * 1 - - *1 The llth-ranlcea uamecock men s tennis team iosi two ui mcu uucc matches against nationally ranked opponents this past weekend at the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic in Montgomery, Ala. USC opened the Classic Thursday by posting a 5-1 win over 24thranked Minnesota. Gamecock players David Hopper, PJ. Langone, Andreis Theron, Dirk Hahneiser and Mark Palus were all victorious. Eric Sydow lost the only match for USC in the closest contest of the day 6-3, 3-6,7-5. In Saturday's action, the Gamecocks were trounced 6-0 by 14th-ranked Norte Dame. In two singles matches USC's top-seed Johan Sandberg was downed by the Irish's Dave Diluca 6-3, 7-5, and second-seed Hopper was beaten by Will Forsyth 6-1, 6-4. In Saturday's match, the final of the tourney for USC, the 15th-ranked Miami Hurricanes beat the Gamecocks to give USC a 10-7 overall record. In Lady Gamecock action, the 22nd-ranked woman's tennis team split two games in this weekend's games. On Saturday, USC pounced the Texas A&M Lady Aggies 5-2. USC's Michelle Duda upset Texas A&M's Lynn Staley who ranks 17th overall in individual pretormance. Sunday, the Lady Gamecocks lost to 17th-ranked San Diego State 5-3 to give USC a 6-9 record on the season. 1-800-322-AIDS Rptt yfiuA, USC's 2nd Annual HUNCLEf April 13,1991 9:30-: (includes times for sign in and recep For more information and/or to Campus Activities Center in the Lower Level, West Wing WHAT IS IT? Detailed information sheets available Students across the country will be working on April 13th to fight their communities. Similar to a walk-a-thon, funds are raised for 1 nationally and internationally to fight hunger and homelessness. volunteer to work a special project at a local agency. These projec building a house or reading stories to children at a local children's with the Hunger Cleanup at USC, you'll raise funds to fight a criti Sponsored by die Office of Community Service Programs and Students for Posit ate-inning ^ wi^ Br^JlfF ggg' ? USC's Brian Lawler fouls off a pitc Tom Stokes faced the first four bat surrender two hits and two walks for Stopper Rob Mosser then entered and cleanup-hitter Jim Crowley at I hpfnrp Mfimno lonn^hpH q thr^/^.run night) out of Sarge Frye Field and i lead to a slim 11-10 margin. Mosser got the first out of the i Miller after a single by Northrup. C Chuck Foster to pinch run for Mill S.C.'s Pec By The Associated Press GREENVILLE, S.C. ? Spartanburg stock car driver Shawna Robinson Pearson, the only woman to win a NASCAR touring series event, is getting into Grand National racing. The 26-year-old Pearson will launch her Grand National career March 31 at the Hickory (N.C.) Speedway in the Mountain Dew 500. In all, Pearson is scheduled to compete in 10 Grand National races this year. Her lone South Carolina appearance will be in the Carolina Pride-Budweiser I A . ? A U 1 1 U A Protect your unbc prenatal care. Caj for a free bookletf Baby Before / eev 4... )NUP! 1:30 pm ition) sign up: , Russell House, or call 777-5780 ?in Campus Activities Center! hunger and homeless and beautify 3oth a Columbia agency and efforts Instead of walking, participants ts range from painting a shelter to t home. By spending one morning cal problem in Columbia. ive Social Change and Carolina Cares ; Tiger rally 1^ |BBk3 (tilA . M ** ..*** yk..;1^ ^M|Hp?^RsgpH h in Sunday's 5-3 loss to Clemson. Lawlei ters of the inning and proceeded to Fo^te three runs. , hoon with the bases loaded and no outs Lhe plate. Crowley singled in a run ga 6 homer (his second home run of the _ . _ nto the night to slice the Gamecock f4"5 Sund Th nning on a fielder's choice by Jeff cham lemson coach Bill Wilhelm inserted cated er before Lockhart singled to move ID. irson likes lij 200 at Myrtle Beach. Dash 'This is an opportunity I have N.C. J been pointing toward for a long honor; time," Pearson said. "I know captui how tough the Busch Grand Na- was i tional circuit can be, and I realize driver the challenge that lies ahead of on the me." Pea Pearson will drive a Buick eering owned and prepared by car buil- Sport. der Dwight Huffman of Hickory. "i knowi Pearson became the first wo- she s; man to win a NASCAR- driver sanctioned event June 10, 1988, know u/hpn chp rantnrprl n Davtnnfl df>P.<*n rn baby with good your local chapter "Be Good To Your | i NAVY Or Interviewing for po Engineering Mediral Fie Interviews held for Sopl Contact your Caree ule an interview. A Navy Representa Building Placement NAVY OFF to beat C sil |H: |A ^jf - is third on the team in runs bat r into scoring position. Tan came to bat for the second tin against Mosser as a relieved US ending double play grounder, crowd of 3,790 watched the 17t by upsetting 14th-ranked Clemson ay's game 5-3. e Gamecocks have a day off befi pion Georgia Bulldogs Tuesday a behind The Roost). Admission i< fe in the series race in Asheville, w' She won rookie of the year Ai s on that circuit that year, a ing three races in all. She mi also voted most popular w< in the two years she raced i Daytona Dash circuit. M rson downplays her pion- ra ; role in a male-dominated Io be don't really want to be SI i as a woman race driver," th aid. "I want to be a race C who is competitive. We all w that any success in the past ~~ 1't really mean anything /"#? AV^K/l W R( /GEES GCCDLL Vou.itjot ih 7 OFFICI i Campus sitions in: ids li/Jr/Seniors r Development Ce itive will be at the S Office on March 2' iprn Yon a itlljix Full S Ulemson Hie Jmkk mL ted in with 19. le in the inning but failed to reach C team celebrated after Stefan's h-ranked Gamecocks improve to i on Saturday. The Tigers claimed ore facing the defending national it 7 p.m. at Sarge Frye Field (lo> free to all students with a USC fast lane hen I get on the track in 1991. nd we all know that it will take lot of hard work and adjustent to get to the point where s are competitive." Pearson, a native of Des oines, Iowa, was introduced to cing by her father, Dick, an >wa race promoter. She has jen racing since she was 19. le is married to Eddie Pearson, e youngest son of former NAS AR superstar David Pearson, ho won 105 races in his career - second only to Richard Mty's 200 victories. PPA KJCS KUEW 11 ICKJiPT C I ?RS <? inter to schedwearinsen 7th. rid the Navy, peed Ahead.