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Wednesday, May 15,1996
Baseball tean
College baseball at USC is over for th
year, and, judging by the final record, mos
people are saying Thank goodness."
This year's pitching staff was horribl
and had only one bona-fide successfi
pitcher in Jason Haynie. Jason Poma
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players like Mookie Wilson and Dav
Hollins.
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snowea some promise, dui ne naa a coupi
of injuries and never was able to produc
well this year.
The offense had power though, as senica
Marie Mapes and Brian Hucks were thei
to provide a little pop in the bats as needec
Hucks hit the now infamous "foul" homeru
that would have given Carolina a muc
needed victory over arch-rival Clemsoi
Carolina never was able to get a bi
string 01 victories going as mey struggle
to defeat even the smaller schools in th
early part of the season.
Most of the struggling can be attribute
to the fact the Gamecocks were young an
inexperienced and the team lacked th
talent needed on the mound to win a lc
of big ball games.
Now Athletics Director Mike McGe
has a tough decision to make as he has t
deride on whether or not to give June Raint
another year to coach the baseball tean
He has been there for many productiv
seasons and has recruited some greg
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struggled in I
;e recent years and
il this year's team failed to even advance to
it the conference tournament after being
[e swept by Florida and Kentucky in the last
^ two conference series of the season,
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s Raines' fate may be because I have gotten
e to know him this season and I really like
L June as a person, but like all Gamecock
n fans I have not been very pleased with the
h recruiting and coaching of the baseball
1 players for a couple of years now for more
g than one reason.
^ One reason is for the majority of Fairies'
e tenure he has coached a team that was
either and independent or a member of
j the now defunct Metro Conference. The
j players the team had this year would have
e performed well in the Metro Conference,
but the level of play in the SEC was way
to much for this year's team.
,e Another reason is he seemed to all
0 always make some bad decisions in game
s situations. When he lost half of his infield
starters to injury it took several games of
e experimentation to finally come up with
it some sort of solution to the team's injury
e problem. This period of experimenting
cost the Gamecocks three or four games
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in mid-season which in turn probably kept
them out of the SEC Tournament.
So the big decision for McGee is to go
with experience or to decide if a change
would give the Carolina baseball team a
fresh start. I don;t know what McGee's
decision will be, but I do know he will only
do what is best for the University as a
whole.
uasKetoai!
Would the basketball team have
lost in the third round of the NIT this
year if they would have had Kevin
Garnett on the team? The smart money
says they would have won some games
in the Big Dance instead of playing in
the Little Dance this year.
Gamett was on his way to Columbia
for college so what halted his journey
to the Frank McGuire Arena? His high
school grades were what kept the
talented forward from USC. And that
is what kept Jermaine O'Neal from
coming here also.
The scary thing is this trend has
no end in sight. Who is the next big
recruit that we will lose to academics
and then the NBA?
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something about high school players ~~
jumping straight to the NBA is the
folks at the NCAA and NBA league
offices. But don't look for this to be an
issue for a while because there have
been only three high school prospects
rltvlaro fnr tVio draft in roronf veaiv
and it just so happens two of those
prospects were headed for USC.
Chicken Curse: Alive and Well!!!
Odds and Ends
Eddie Fogler announced the basketball
team will start a two year series with
Cincinnatti starting with a game on the
road next season. Fogler announced this
as part of the Spring Gamecock Club
Meetings happening all over the state this
month.
The USC track and field teams will
take to action this week at the SEC
Championships on May 16th -19th.
The softball team will continue their
season in the NCAA Regionals on May
17th-19th and if they advance could play
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at Columbus, Georgia on May 23rd-27th.
Look for the profile on Chicago Cubs
General Manager Ed Lynch and Gamecock
Sports' trip to Chicago in the next issue on
June 3rd.
RIGGLEMAN, MANAGER OF THE
CHICAGO CUBS, IS
ERVIEWED BY THE GAMECOCK
)RTS STAFF OF (FROM LEFT TO
IT) ACHIM HUNT, ROBBIE MEEK
MATT PRUITT. THE STAFF
RECENTLY WENT TO
HICAGO TO TALK WITH USC
lLUMINI tu LYINLH, GENERAL
ONAGER OF THE CUBS. THEY
ALSO SPOKE WITH LOCAL
TELEVISION PERSONALITIES
"EVE STONE AND RON SANTO
)UT WHAT THEY THINK LYNCH
[AS BROUGHT TO THE CUBS'
jANIZATION IN THE LAST TWO
YEARS. THE PROFILE WILL
JURE ARTICLES ABOUT LYNCH
ID THE HISTORY OF WRIGLEY
[ELD. CATCH THE SCOOP IN
GAMECOCK SPORTS JUNE 3.
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USC BRIEFS FROM ST
Men's Golf c
The University of South Carolina
men's golf team is one of 23 teams c
along with five individuals selected to , e
participate in the 1996 NCAA Men's (
Golf Regional May 16-18, at the \
Concord Monster Course in Kiamesha I
Lake, NY.
Other teams in the East Regional (
include: Florida, LSU, Auburn, Geoigia, c
Tennessee and Florida State.
USC is making its first post-season V
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in 1993. Senior All-American David \
Seawell will be making his third- ?
straight NCAA East Regional f
appearance. He finished second last c
year and fourth the year before and i
qualified for the NCAA Championships. ?
Men's Tennis \
The South Carolina men's tennis ?
team lost 4-2 to Florida State in the r
first round of the NCAA Region II {
Championships. f
South Carolina won the doubles I
Doint behind the nlav of Maxsv Jiminez
and Keith Brill, who defeated Jason ?
White and Jean Paul Vissepo 8-2 in ?
the number one spot.
In singles play, the lone winner for E
the Gamecocks was Jorge Esqueda
who defeated Ty Braswell 7-6,6-0 in I
the number four spot. Senior Maxsy r
Jiminez, playing in his last collegiate a
match, lost to FSUs number one player, t
Jason White in straight sets, 1-6,3-6. (
Jiminez finished his career at South i
Carolina with 93 singles victories and v
71 doubles victories.
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Track and Field p
The men's throwers finished 1-3- 1:
5 in the shotput on Saturday afternoon ?
at the UNC Track and Field Classic, a
Brad Snyder won the event with a
school record toss of 64' 7 3/4". The c
men's sprinters had a successful day {
finishing s
second in the 4 x 100 meter dash with s
a school record time of 40.08. 1:
Tracy Capper set the school record
in the 800 meter run with a personal f
best time of 1:01.66. She surpassed I
her own school record of 1:02.60. The f
new record is an NCAA Provisional (
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pialifying time.
The Lady Gamecocks throwers
:ontinued to dominate the throwing
'vents finishing 1-2-3 in the shotput.
Crystal Brownlee won the event and
vas followed by teammates Lisa
vlisipeka and Dawn Ellerbe.
USCs next meet will be in the SEC
Championships at Lexington, Kentucky
in May 16th-19th.
Women's Tennis
The top-seeded Lady Gamecocks
vrapped up their season on May 4th
is they tell just short in a 5-4 loss to
burth-seeded Clemson in the semifinals
>f the NCAA Southeast Regionals.
Vith this loss, Carolina finished with
117-10 overall record.
USC started out in the right foot
vinning four singles matches,
sophomore Karolina Bulat, despite
lursing a sore ankle, provided the first
joint for South Carolina and was
ollowed by another win from Tracy
frjtseos.
The Lady Gamecocks were up 4-2
ifter singles play, but were unable to
ret one more nnint in dnuhles nlav.
laseball
Senior left-handed pitcher Jason
iaynie was named South Carolina's
nost valuable player of the 1996 season
ind senior catcher Brian Hucks received
he Irby Raines Award as.the
)amecocks' most inspirational player
n ceremonies preceding an SEC tilt
nth Florida.
Haynie, from Saint Petersburg
Jeach, Fla., has a 7-5 record in 16
litching appearances this season. He
lolds South Carolina's school record
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jr innings pncneci wiui ooo uo innings
ind games started with 60.
Hucks, from Lexington, SC, walked
in to the South Carolina baseball
irogram three seasons ago. The
tarting catcher for most of the 1996
ieason, he leads the USC with 11
iomeruns and hit .287, with 33 RBI.
The Irby Raines Award is named
or the late father of head coach June
taines. The MVP Award and the Irby
taines Award are sponsored by the
jamecock Dugout Club.
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