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USC BASEBALL
Clemson defeated the Gamecocks
11-1 Wednesday at Clemson.
The Tigers improved their record
to 34-4. while South Carolina dropped
to 22-14. J.J Pearsall took the loss
for the Gamecocks. Carolina managed
just four hits.
Clemson scored a run in the second
inning and took the lead for good
in the third inning by scoring three
runs. They also added five runs in
the fifth and two in the bottom of the
eighth.
Carolina scored in its lone run in
the fourth inning. USC will play Georgia
April 14-16 in Athens.
BASKETBALL
SEATTLE ? Seattle SuperSonics
guard Kendall Gill returned to the
team after a week off for treatment
of clinical depression. He said he
would practice this week and hoped
to play Saturday at Golden State.
YACHT RACING
SAN DIEGO ? Left for dead at the
end of the semifinals, Dennis Conner's
Stars & Stripes handed PACT
95's faltering Young America its second
straight loss in the three-boat
Citizen Cup defender finals.
Conner, a three-time America's
Cup winner, finished the semifinals
with three straight losses and survived
only because of a compromise
Qemson baseball
to come by as Tig
Associated Press
Sure ifs baseball and sure if s just
one of those other sports that fill the gap
between sold-out football Saturdays at
Death Valley. But getting a ticket to
i t n _
uiemson s DaseDan games is getting
tougher, too, as the Tigers taste success
on the diamond as well as the gridiron.
Consider that all 735 season ticket
at $50 a piece sold out this year or that
the average regular-season crowd, which
was 1,980 last season, already is 2,389
this year.
During the past eight games, the average
has been 3,553. In short, 3,800seat
Tiger field is starting to bulge at
the seams.
Teople say its a great place to watch
a game and a great place to bring the
kids for cheap entertainment," said Van
Hilderbrand, ticket manager. General
admission tickets are $3, but students
and university employees get in free.
Good weather, an attractive schedule
and the baseball strike also helped,
he said.
Nnt In m nnt inn a tnam that SDent a
brief time atop the national rankings
and has been close to the top for the entire
season.
Clemson's No. 1 ranking for four
weeks at the end of last season and its
season-ending series with Miami and
Florida State that averaged 3,800 and
4,800 fans a game also have helped.
"That just turned people on," said
Dwight Rainey, associate athletics diHave
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among the syndicates. Stars & Stripes,
which beat Young America by one
minute, 15 seconds, trails Americans
Mighty Maiy and Young America 21.
In the opening race of the challenger
finals, Team New Zealand's
Black Magic 1 beat oneAustralia by
4:55.
GOLF
LAKE OCONEE, Ga.? Corey Pavin
beat Phil Mickelson 3 and 1, and
Loren Roberts defeated Tom Kite 3
and 2 to advance to the U. S. Section
semifinals in the Andersen Consulting
World Championship of Golf.
Pavin and Roberts will join Paul
Azinger and Mark McCumber in the
semifinals July 31 at Kohler, Wis.
Azinger and McCumber advanced
Monday.
In the Rest of World Section, Australia's
Craig Parry beat Zimbabwe's
Mark McNulty 1-up, and South
Africa's David Frost edged Argenti
D O 1 A
11a s uuuoruu xvuiiiei u 4 auu x. nuotralia's
Steve Elkington and Robert
Allenby advanced Monday.
TENNIS
HOUSTON ? Defending champion
Sabine Hack of Germany routed compatriot
Silke Frankl 6-0, 6-2 in the
opening round of the Houston
Women's Championships.
[ tickets difficult
;ers taste success
rector. There was a snowball effect and
it carried over to this season."
Dean Finley, a Pendleton schoolteacher,
has chartered two buses to take
Clemson fans to next weekend's games
at Florida State. He has 70 reservations.
"T think thp mninr lpnonie nrohlem
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has had something to do with it," Finley
said. "People love baseball. And they
tell me, 1 wish Clemson would play all
summer and we wouldn't have to watch
major league ball.'"
Last year baseball took in about
$66,000 and cost about $400,000 to operate,
but this year the income could
double, Rainey said.
The crowds also give Clemson an
edge in attracting the NCAA regional
tournament for a second straight year,
he said.
However, he doesn't see the ticket
prices going up. Rainey said Clemson is
more interested in getting exposure for
its baseball program than it is making
money from it. But the crowds mean the
school may have to put in more temporary
bleachers and reserved seats in the
grandstand behind home plate.
When the stadium concrete was set
in 1989, Rainey remembers thinking,
"We had enough seats to last us for a
lifetime."
"Well, it was a short lifetime," he
said.
ou done
xes yet?
is April 15th.
The Gamecock
Sophomore Randy Stegall
sets his sights on leading
Gamecock baseball / $
to the next level /
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ROBBIE MEEK Staff Writer f $
fhe Gamecock baseball l j
team lost a lot of talented j / J9
players off last year's //
team, including four JB
talented leaders^ Coach
Junes Raines knew he
would have to count on young talent
to lead his team into the 1995 season. One VJ \
of those is Randy Stegall. The USC sopho- J|
more has been one of the most consistent
leaders on this year's team.
Stegall only played in 22 games last year
because of a broken hand. He returned to JI
the team and played the last part of the mSW *
season at third base. )
Stegall batted .242 in 95 at bats. He ? > /
also had a double, a home run and 15 F /
RBIs. Stegall also had a .906 fielding /
percentage. /
"I couldn't do anything for
about five months," said the J \ S Stegall
USC second baseman, "so / Jir Battii
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RYAN WILSON Sports Editor 20-6.
The Lady Gamecock softball squad On the i
appeared on the verge of a comeback in Carrie Lyon
the bottom of the seventh when center each going'
fielder Dana Fulmer stepped to the plate C arolin
with Kelly Dammer on second and no bottom of t
outs. (
Fulmer, who was one of 1
hottest Carolina hitters com- c
ing into Wednesday's double- I
header with Nicholls State, ^K|| t
popped up an untimely bunt 'U| t
which Nicholls State turned in- * JW c
to a double play, catching mi t
Dammer off second base. Shani
Cannon grounded out to end j^k ?
the game, which the Lady ?
Colonels won 3-2. JOHNSON 1
The No. 11 Lady Gamecocks 1
won the early game 5-1, splitting the ?ble to end t
doubleheader with No. 17 Nicholls State. Game t
The Lady Gamecocks record moves to as the Lad
38-10, while the Lady Colonels up their the bottom
record to 39-5. hitless in (.
Student athlete s
MASON BEST Staff Writer
It's 5:30 a.m. and Ashely Roe's alarm clock is going
off. Time to get out of bed, race down to the Sol
Blatt P.E. Center, put on a bathing suit and dive into
the cold water.
Does this sound like your ideal way to wake up
each morning? Probably not. But for Roe and the other
women of the Lady Gamecock Swim Team, not only
is this a typical daily morning schedule, but it is followed
by an afternoon of classes and even more time
in the pool.
Roe, a 21-year-old senior on the women's swim
team at USC, has been following this schedule for the
past four yeai-s. Roe, who came to USC from Roanoke,
Va., has been a swimmer since the ninth grade. A
breast-stroker and sprint freestyler, Roe was a member
of the SEC Team and the traveling team during
her time as a Lady Gamecock.
Roe describes her experience as a USC studentathlete
as difficult.
"As an athlete, and especially as a swimmer, you
are very restricted," Roe said. "You are up before every
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throwing wise, my arm was out of shape. They really
just threw me into the line-up and told ??
me they needed me to play."
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||* gall had ever played at third j
wHF Randy was the captain and a CTSBWMi
lip, honorable mention All-American ^
on his high school team, which ^
|F?? : was ranked No. 1 in the countiy lf!m' \i?
I in 1990. He said the experience ^ ? J
*? has halned him a crrpat deal in
colleSe- STEGALL
|mF ? "I came from a good
~ high school," said Stegall,
> "and I played a lot of guys who have come
out of college and played professionally.
I knew I could come here and have
success."
Randy chose USC over
^ some ot tne country's top scnoois.
??a^was *? p^ay *n
? '""v^ >. South Eastern Conference,"
\ said Stegall. "I could have
- gone a lot of other places
but here they told me
shortstop and third
base were going to
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lg average - .395 , , Raines told
RBI - 24
Hits -47
riding % - .978
>oubles -14
Runs - 25
mplled from games
before April 12
J1 splits two with
one, Carolina's Trinity John- first at bat. Plew drove Full
a complete game, allowing a single, and Collett drove 1
aits while striking out five batters later,
iison improved her record to The Lady Gamecocks w
again cross the plate,
offensive side, Cannon and Carolina's Darlene Gar
s paced the Lady Gamecocks, 0n the mound for the Lady
two for three. but struggled early, partiall'
a opened the scoring in the the (Jic drizzle that k;
he first inn,ng when Beth bgU> we( Nicho,|s gtate a
yOilstt drove C&nnon snd .. , ,
rina Plew in on a fielder's ?wered m the top of the seco
,y10jce with a run scoring off of a fie
Nicholls State responded er's choice,
ry scoring a run in the top of The Lady Gamecocks sta
he fifth, also off a fielder's ed the bottom of the seco
hoice. Johnson answered, re- strong. Chanda Lee started
iring the last seven batters, the inning with a bunt but hi
The Lady Gamecocks an- ber band on a successful sti
iwered at the plate in the ofsecond base. Carrie Eili
lixth. Cannon sao-ed off a Col- ^^for the injured Lee I
ett bunt, with Plew and Col- , , . . ,
,. a- t , j was stranded on third, as t
ett sconng off a Lyon s dou- ^ , , . '
he scoring at 5-1. . Colonels retired the next t
wo opened just like the first, Carolina went cold at i
y Gamecocks scored two in the third but managed to k(
of the first. Fulmer, who was Gareis began to struggle ii
lame one, hit a triple in her as Nicholls State scored a r
ays benefits outwe
one, and up later than everyone doing homework. All
of your time is accounted for. You leam to plan your
life around your sport."
She also admits that being an athlete was a sacrifice.
"You have to give up so much of your time, it is
hard to be a honnal' college student," she said. "Dur<
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mg tfie season you eat, sieep ana ao noinewons., umis
it. You have no time for a social life."
A typical workout day for Roe consists of swim practice
from 6-7:45 a.m., followed by classes in the afternoon
and then another workout that afternoon. Swimmers
alternate days of weight training and circuit
training - sit ups, push ups and running.
Nancy Duncan, assistant coach for the Lady Gamecock
Swimming and Diving Team, said student-athletes,
especially swimmers, follow a very demanding
schedule.
"It is almost like a job," Duncan said. "They get up,
go to work from 6-8 a.m., go to classes and back to
i workout until 5:30 everyday. It forces them to be very
organized and very focused, much like they will have
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me I had a chance to start at third or short."
'. . This season Randy has been on fire. He is
Hii now batting .395 with 14 doubles and 24 EBIs. 1
| In the field Stegall has a .978 percentage in 65
| attempts.
"Me, Mapes, and Dezenzo are the big bats
j on the team right now," said Stegall. "I feel like
'"M us three have to try to carry it (the team). I have
confidence in my teammates, and I know they
r - can play because I have seen them do it whether
in practice or in games. So I know if s just a
matter of time before the other guys that are
strugging are going to hit."
If Stegall's career continues at the rate that
it is going now, he will more than likely be playing
at the next level one day.
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"I would like to get drafted and play professional,"
Stegall said. "While I'm here I would like to get
a chance to go to the regionals and then ofcourse the
College World Series.
"Personally Td like to make the All-SEC team eveiy
year Fm playing," Stegall said, "and overall, leave here
and people look back at me and say, like Mac White,
he was a great ballplayer, great for the team and the
fans loved him.' I like to think of myself as maybe being
like Mac White here, filling that role. He was just
a great ballplayer."
i Nicholls State
ner in with outs to tie the game at two. The Lady
3lew in two Gamecocks were poised to retake the
lead, but Fulmer struck out for the third
r?uld never out stranding two runners in scoring position.
eis started The fifth opened with Gareis allowGamecocks
hig two hits, and the Colonels scored any
because of 0ther run to take the lead. Johnson came
>pt the soft- jn for relief striking out three straight.
in" _ All told, Johnson, a
nd transfer from Cal-State FullerId
ton, retired nine of the last LaI
dy Colonel batters.
^ HHRPPM| The Lady Gamecocks
nc* fitllJlK Wffl cou^d never find a groove at
off the plate, and the closest they
art Hk. came was Fulmei^s failed bunt
beiI Hi Gareis, who was credited
ott mm JuBmm the loss, struck out two
)ut LYONS an(i waihed a pair. With the
;he loss, her record goes to 18-4
; wo b atters. Lyons again led Carolina at the plate,
the plate in going two for three. The sophomore from
jep the lead. Newtown, Penn., started at third base
i the fourth in Game one but moved to catcher for
un with two Game two.
igh sacrifices
to be in the working world."
Duncan said she admires the Lady Gamecock team
members for their hard work.
They are a very focused group," she said. The sacrifices
come from all over, classes are missed and have
to be made up, social activities and friendships are put
on hold. It is hard to miss classes and have to make
them up, miss out on parties and social events, to out
of town for swim meets on the weekends, do well in
academics and still work hard in the water, but they
do it."
However, Duncan said the benefits of being an athlete
will be valuable in the long run.
The benefits are lifelong, healthy bodies, high selfesteem,
confidence and the ability to be competitive,
all requirements for survival in the real world," Duncan
said.
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Koe saia ine sacnnces sue iias inaue tu ue an auilete
are worth it.
"I am glad I chose to do a sport," Roe said. It helped
me to become organized, goal-oriented and self confident,
and I made some great friends in the process."
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