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GAMECOCK ATHLETICS Baseball vs. Arkansas Today, 7 p.m., Sat., 7 p.m., Sun., 1 p.m. Sarge Frye Field Softball vs. Kentucky Sat., 1 p.m., Sun., 1 p.m. Lady Gamecock Field No Hits 1 Two nO'hitters anc 700th win highlight ti Softball team's sweep < story and p Bryan Johnston, Thursday was a day for a first, a third and a 700th. 1 SoDhomore Ditcher Nikki Beers 1 picked up her first career no-hitter < just a few hours after senior AllAmerican Trinity Johnson pitched ; her third career perfect game. ] And to top it all off, head coach < Joyce Compton picked up her 700th i career-victory. The Lady Gamecocks (32-2) ran ; their school-record winning-streak i to 30 games with 4-0 and 8-0 victories over Winthrop Thursday i at Lady Gamecock Field. i ?>/ BBHHHBf - * "* :-r^- ^ m - - ._. - - %% 1HHV ^j -jl * '" * *T " ;, s* *."" *" - " * ^ " . . - ... * ? ?"* * ?W -," *: %+., **** . V . ..,.? t** .?*. .. ' *? Sophomore Nikki Beers pitched career no-hitter Thursday against V 1-2-3 Conveniei only 5Starting i 3-6-12 Mor 782-: ^uaag^?? i ' ^ CTA Tc ^ ^ ^ ^ travel < in low(800)777-011 www. st a-t ravel. co: SPORTS ON WED si For You i Joyce Compton's he Lady Gamecock if Winthrop. )hotos by Sports Editor "We came out and swung better aats and ran the bases well. I thought our pitching did an outstanding job," Compton said. In the first game, Johnson used an array of pitches to keep the Lady Eagles' hitters off-balance?mowing iown the hitters in a quick and impressive fashion. Johnson struck out 15 batters as only six Winthrop hitters managed to place a bat on the ball. Johnson threw throw a new pitch into her already deep pitching repertoire. "I was working my knuckle ball, which I haven't worked in J games before. It was Kina 01 tun to ao something different," Johnson said. USC struck in the j second inning to score Si their first of four runs. Senior Carrie Lyons reached on an error and was driven in by Kelly Dammer's single to left, t USC added three more rims in the fifth I - inning. N** Senior Chanda Lee led off with an infield single. She then stole second and was driven in by Lyons. Kim Retro got on with a single and was > m o v e d t o t h i r d b y : Lyons, who got on by a fielder's choice. Junior Sky ft i-r > -v Brown drove them both -5_ \ ^-4* in with a single to leffcV 2:-center to make the score " 4-0. , That would be ^e*" more than enough for Johnson as she finished Personal Care Prod I j ROSEWOO 2803 Rosewood Drive call 2! 1 tline Blvd. t BR it to use 7 min. rom $420 ith Leases F948 mm mm ivel is the world's largest irganization specializing cost travel for students. 3ot the urge to travel? el has great student airfares to ans around the world. Go shopping ebsite for current student airfares. ^ SLA TRAVEL Ill We've been there. I NESDAY Check out the SEC be H) the game lajfPjiu y~ throwing just as hard as she did in r the first inning. Johnson's ERA to 0.35. T| Are all of these no-hitters getting - J| boring for her? "No, not at all," JMMMMMn Johnson said. Td MMfe" < wH like to throw a few more if I could." In the second game, USC took care of business and sent OF the Eagles home pi an inning early. K It took a while, ,? ' * w | but the Carolina Jm??P bats finally woke ? up late in the m I second game. r ? Tnt.Vtplnaf ? . m ? _ senior trinity jot three innings, the perfect game again Lady Gamecocks racked up six runs on eight hits to send Winthrop home early. IV "It sometimes takes awhile, but s? we get on it," Beers said. "It all comes together and we do it when 01 we need to." The big inning came in the sixth, w when Carolina put up five runs. t\ Freshmen Leana Troesh and Kim Schultze got on with a walk pi and a single, respectively, and w advanced on Kendra McCutcheon's ai sacrifice bunt. They both scored pi when Winthrop pitcher Karen Sadler fired errantly on Lee's grounder, w Lee was driven in by Retro, who q scored on Carrie Elliott's single ai between third and shortstop. Tina Plew reached on a single tf and was driven in by freshman w Sondra Hall to end the game. 01 In the 8-0 victory, USC pounded out 10 hits and took advantage of a< four Eagle errors, but it was Beers e1 who shined the brightest. USC ended the game early due tl to the "Eight run mercy rule," but S that didn't stop Beers from throwing G the "no-no." Beers went six innings, striking h out seven and giving up a lone walk K to spoil the perfect game. fr I ART PO Have You Seen That You'd Just CALL US AT 1-1 Tens of Thousani Shipped Right 85 MARKET ST C I I MBPHHI liraiSiKiiisi i UyXA|5|UU I . I Our Deli Ser j Luimch Spei j I l\l C L L. Gourmet Entree i Delicious Fr Deli Open 11:30-2:30 IN Eat inside, take out or i I Call 256-6410 f I I / v\r\ ? XV p While Here, Check C Foods, Fresh Produc aseball and Softball action ?HHHKw W rfiBW MnPl 4 inson threw her third career st the Lady Eagles Thursday. "I think it's really cool because /e never done that before," Beers lid. The pitchers weren't the only les who had a good day. Pietro went 4-for-8 on the day ith a triple, a double, two singles, vo runs scored and three RBIs. "I was just going with the itches," Pietro said. "I've been orking on some things with coach adjust focusing and hitting good itches." Compton picked up her 700th in with the two wins, but was uick to give the praise to her 3sistant coaches and players. "Most of the credit has to go to le players because they're the ones ho get it done day-in and dayLit," Compton said. The Lady Gamecocks return to ction this weekend for their first/er home SEC games. USC and Kentucky will do battle lis weekend, with two games aturday and two on Sunday, rames start at 1 p.m. both days. 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The j Citadel got a chance to exact a little revenge Wednesday night at Sarge v Frye field, and quiet those loud 1 Gamecock bats. Citadel centerfielder Jerry Simmons led off the top of the second with a double to center in front of c Adam Poe, but Gamecock starter ' A Chad Hoshour struck out the next two batters to seemingly halt thp ^ Bulldog threat. After going down 1 two balls and no strikes to Bulldog v third baseman Aaron Haigler, s however, Hoshour laid a fastball * down'the middle of the plate that t Haigler tattooed over the right field fence. c Hoshour struggled after that, ? allowing three straight singles to 1 Bulldogs Jay Morgan, Terrance f Smalls, and Rodney Hancock, making the score 3-0 Citadel. * I In the top of the third, The Citadel * added another run on a single by 1 Curt Beerman, another double by I Simmons that moved Beerman to ?. third, and a sacrifice fly to left by 1 Ryan Butler. 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I | Please call 21 l 803-254-2280 A ! .J >1 FINAL FOUR SATURDAY #1 North Carolina # 4 Arizona 5:42 p.m. #1 Kentucky #1 Minnesota 8:12 p.m. ALL GAMES ON CBS jets revenge tack. The Citadel held the SECs top fitting, team to two hits and no runs hrough the first five innings, as they ised three different pitchers?Brian togers, Brian Wiley, and Rodney lancock. In the bottom of the sixth, the lamecocks began to rally. Adam Everett led off with a single to center ind Mike Curry walked, to give the xamecocks men on first and second vith no outs. That brought to the ilate the SEC RBI leader, Ryan Jordenick. Bordenick drilled lancock's fourth pitch directly back nto the hand that threw it, resulting a a single, a run scored, and a pitcher irith n rpnll v anrp tVirnwincr VinnH lancock had to leave the game. Pinch-hitter Craig Dour singled iff new pitcher Tom Martin to score )urry, and cut the Bulldogs' lead to i-2. Martin then hit Eric Stanton vith a pitch (the second time he was jeaned in the game) to load the bases vith no outs. Poe grounded to the ihortstop for a doubleplay, but 3ordenick scored on the play, making he score 4-3. The Gamecocks would get no :loser, however, as the Bulldogs icored in the top of the seventh to un the score to 5-3, the eventual. inal score. South Carolina returns to SEC ilay this weekend, hosting Arkansas it 7 pm tonight and tomorrow, and L pm on Sunday. The Gamecocks' irobable starting pitchers will be Jake Whitfield (3-2,3.74 ERA) on Friday, Brett Jodie (4-0,2.72 ERA) >n Saturday, and Jason Pomar (32, 7.71 ERA) on Sunday. lough already and that is going to be more valuable :o them in future than some silly oonuses they might receive for making an awesome dunk. 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