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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.
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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
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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.
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