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By ROB RODUSKY sor
Assistant Sports Editor ^
The Hast Division of the
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bleheader with Tennessee on <
Saturday. . the
The Gamecocks managed to
keep their one-and-a-half game .
lead over the second-place
Volunteers when they battled back
to win the second game 4-3.
Tennessee won the opener 9-3 as ma
USC senior hurler Matt Threehouse \
(7-2) gave up five runs in the second
inning. ^
The Gamecocks could not convert
in the second as they loaded
die bases on a hit batsman and sin- ,
gles by junior Rob DeBoer and ^
Women's tennis
in first round of
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Vanderbilt edged out victories in j:
a third-set tiebreaker at the No. 3 ,c
and 5 singles positions and went on sir
to defeat 25th-ranked USC 5-1
Thursday afternoon in the first ov
round of the SEC Women's Tennis wa
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season at 10-12 overall and 5-7 in
the SEC.
Freshman Heather Greene cap^ ^ 1
tured the first set of her match '
against Vandy's Kim Draud 6-4 at '\n
the three position, but dropped the ,1
last two sets 6-4, 7-6. Spencer 1
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lead to 6-3 after six innings, hut
lid not put together another ralIhe
Volunteers put the game
ay in the eighth as they scored
;e runs on three hits off freshn
J.J. Pearsall.
South Carolina won the night)
on strong pitching by senior
:h Pratt (10-1) and sophomore
irk Gugino's three-run home
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South Carolina scored all four of
ir runs in the second inning off
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ficit to defeat USC's Pauline
>driguez 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 at No. 5
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is her 21st victory of the season,
ng her for the team lead in total
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ook.
Crook, meanwhile fell to
ichelle Dodds 7-6, 6-3 at the No.
position. Dodds' victory avenged
earlier loss to Crook in which
ook rallied for an incredible
ee-set victory alter trailing 6-4,
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DeBoer led off the second with a
single, and McGuire and Tarter
both walked with one out. The
Gamecocks took the lead on junior
Stacy Stokes' sacrifice fly.
Gugino stepped up and belted his
third round-tripper of the season, a
350-foot shot that hooked inside
the left-field foul pole.
Tennessee rallied to score two
runs on in the bottom of the seventh.
It was at this time that Coach
June Raines relieved Pratt for
senior right-hander Rob Mosser.
"Mosser is a fine bullpen man,
but I still thought Rich was throwing
the ball good," Raines said.
"They were ground-ball base hits."
Mosser walked the first batter he
faced, but got Richie Wyman on a
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The end of the
school year inevitably ~~
causes us all to look .
back on the past 12
months and see not ?|
only where we've I
come from, but where I
we are going.
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year has been very
eventful. When we AND
came in last fall, the B O R
Gamecocks were
about to undertake
(lie first season in SEC tootball
competition. We got to see a team
struggle early, rebel against the
coaching staff and come back to
steamroll through the last half of
the season.
The mutiny attracted national
attention to Gamecock football,
and it was Coach Woods' calmness
and strength during the crisis
that helped to end the ugly affair.
The most memorable moment
for me came on Halloween after
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Pratt scattered seven hits, struck
out three, and walked none over 6 000 111 c
2/3 innings to earn his fourth consecutive
si*c win. Voiunfee
"He's a good seventh-inning p. -i^w
pitcher," Raines said. "He gets you
over the hump whether you win or
lose the first game."
During the doubleheader, the HorV?ll
Gamecocks committed four errors, jp h X
amassed 16 hits, left 17 runners on ? ? 2 0
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against the Florida Gators next Rose
weekend at Sarge Frye Field.
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noon. With a little sion and headi
time left and motion offense
Carolina clinging to er). Carolina d
a 24-23 lead, the ble-overtime
Tennessee Vols Tennessee tha
stepped up to the for us. It was
line for the poten- year that baskt
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came up and stuck him, thus pre- birth of a ne
serving the victory. The image of well-organize
Williams-Brice Stadium rocking ment.
with cheers as the final seconds McGee cair
ticked away left a great impres- the reputation
sion on all who were there. coaches and
Basketball season came and, clean prograi
unfortunately, left little in the way done exactly tl
of memories for USC fans. We No more ap
were awe-struck by the power of when the seart
North Carolina, the skill of the ball coach t
Kentucky Wildcats and the preci- Bobby Cremir
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ght sports year
ness of Vanderbilt's brought up as the obvious choice
; (more on that lat- to replace Steve Newton. Cremins
id treat us to a dou- had the record, the national exno
thrijler against sure and the clean image that
it ended in victory McGee was looking for. And he
. the one time this was an alumnus.
Jtball seemed fun in We all know what happened
after that, but thanks to his quick
mportant event for action, McGee was able to bring
1 athletics came not in an equally respected coach in
g field, but behind Vandy's Eddie Fogler. At the
and over the tele- moment Fogler signed. USC took
1 President Palms a big step towards becoming the
ike McGee from national power in basketball that
ornia, it marked the it was 20 years ago.
w, aggressive and Overall, this has been a rough
id athletic depart- year for the sports community.
The deaths of Iowa basketball
te to Carolina with player Chris Street, NASCAR
for hiring respected champ Alan Kulwicki, Cleveland
making them run Indian pitchers Tim Crews and
ns. So far he has Steve Olin and most recently exlat
for us. NC State coach Jim Valvano and
narent was that than former NFI nlaver Dave Wavmer
:h for a new basket- shocked us all, making us realize
>egan. The name that the final score doesn't really
is was immediately matter that much.
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