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GAMECOCK
ATHLETICS
Baseball @ Georgia
All Weekend (3 games)
Diamond Dawg Field
Softball @ Arkansas and LSU
Friday, 6 p.m. and Sunday, noon '
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third game of the four game series.
MARK P1RAS Staff Writer
If Clemson was still reeling a bit f
11-3 loss to the Gamecocks, it didn't s
used the embarrassing loss to fuel a c
spanking Wednesday.
Clemson pitcher Matt White start
the first game of his career, and surprise
even his own coach with a 6-hit complet
game.
Gamecock pitcher Jason Pomar helpe
out the Clemson cause, overthrowini
the ball and trying to aim it rather tha]
pitch it.
Pomar walked Eric Demoura, th
game's leadoff hitter, in the top of th
first. DeMoura retired himself trying t
steal second.
Pomar then had one out and nobod;
on base, but quickly remedied that b;
walking Gary Burnham and hittii
Matthew LeCroy.
The fourth hitter of the game was
who worked the count full.
This was the third batter that Poir
a full count out of four batters (he hii
second pitch). Pomar threw a low fastbs
of the plate, but Embler swatted it over t
fence.
Pomar then walked Matt Padgett
and Kurt Bultmann.
Gamecock Coach Ray Tanner decii
enough of Pomar, so he decided to bring
Bray.
Pomar left the game in the first ht
pitches, 24 of which were called balls.
Bray got Nathan Broome to pop ou
second out, but Clemson wasn't done.
Brian Holstad walked to load the ba
LeCroy swatted a single into right to n
0 Clemson.
DeMoura batted for the second tin
and walked again, to once again load the
came to the plate and drilled a 3-1
riehtfield foul-pole for a grand slam h<
That put Clemson up 9-0 and the G
challenged the Tigers' lead.
Matt White pitched the rest of the \
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been struggling a little bit in
the early parts of the ball%
games and it was nice to be
on the other side for a
change.
Jack Leggett
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Tigers on the pitching of Matt
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lemson and return there for the
2C umpire Pete Bock that was less
University's policy on class attendance,
ourself a hole the way we did in the
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Tanner said.
"HI be honest with you, four
or five runs in the first?after they
got those I said, 'Hey, man, we got
27 outs,' but they put a nine-spot
up there after the grand slam, and
that's very difficult to battle back
from."
White said his performance
was nothing spectacular.
"It's kind of easy when we've
got an 11-run lead the whole time,"
White said.
"It kind of gives me a little
bit of self-satisfaction, just going out
my game and not having to do what
ying catch-up the whole time."
Jack Leggett said he was extremely
e'f pitching.
what the doctor ordered right now,"
uggling a little bit in the early parts
id it was nice to be on the other side
11 said and done, Tanner used six
g freshman second baseman Mac
led a perfect ninth inning.
ive up 13 hits , walked 13, and hit
>itch.
3 in the Gamecocks' only run with a
^htfield line that scored Mike Cuny
ck ourselves up off the canvas and
ranner said.
i play at Georgia this weekend and
sday.
has added a home game against
he Gamecocks and the Terriers have
in two weeks on Tuesday at home.
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who just loves the game of baseball,"
played four years of high school
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Stredcher first attended the fouryear
university Florida Atlantic
right out of high school and only
transferred to a community college
after he saw little playing time.
Streicher thai notched a .348 batting
average at Sante Fe, hit 5 home
runs and drove in 40 runs. His stellar
season at junior college convinced
him he could play at a higher level.
"My goals were always to play
in the SEC and I believed I could
play in the SEC," Streicher said.
"And once I got to play in junior
college and had a pretty good season
there, I knew I wanted to play in
the SEC and that's exactly what I
did.
"Coach Tanner's given me a
chance to play eveiy day. He's letting
me prove to myself that I can play
at this level and that's what I've
been doing all season."
And he's doing it well. Going into
Wednesday night's second game
with Clemson, Streicher was third
in the SEC in fielding percentage,
with a .992 average. He is tied for
seventh place in home runs with
Lady Gamecock?
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STAFF REPORTS
The soflball team (43-3,15-1 SEC)
in this week's USA Today/NFCA Top 2i
its first ever first-place vote.
Carolina is coming off a 7-1 week, s\
Tech and Coastal Carolina.
Wednesday, USC swept Coastal C
6-0. Senior Tina Plew went 3-for-4 w
game one. Sky Brown improved to 12
In game two, sophomore Nikki Be
8-1 with the three-hit shutout.
The Lady Gamecocks also took th:
SEC rival Tennessee Saturday and Si
On Saturday, Carolina set an NCA
consecutive games won record with 38-s
before losing Sunday.
Head coach Joyce Compton also won
at Carolina on Saturday and All-An
Trinity Johnson became Carolina's al
leader with 884.
Leading the Lady Gamecocks on the
two-time All-American Johnson.
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runs, which puts him in
| 11th place for RBIs in
[ arguably on of college
* baseball's best conferences.
Through April 6, the SEC
had seven teams in
,, II Baseball America's Top 25
M poll?more than any other
conference in the country.
IER nex* most successful
conference was the PAC10
with five teams. And the
Gamecocks have beaten SEC teams
such as LSU, the No. 1 ranked team
in the country and defending
National Champions. They've also
beaten No. 3 Auburn, No. 6
Alabama, No. 20 Mississippi State,
and No. 25 Arkansas, all of whom
are SEC opponents.
Streicher said he has been
pleased with the performance of a
team picked to finish dead last in
the SEC Eastern Division.
"No one likes for it to be said
that you're gonna be in last place
and picked and chosen to finish last
If you have pride you don't like that
And I think most guys on this team
have pride," Streicher said.
The Gamecocks now stand in
second place in the SEC East, just
one game behind Tennessee.
"I'm happy with where we're at
right now," Streicher said. "I feel
like there's a couple of games we
lost that we should have won, but
that's baseball. That's the way it is
"Then on the other flip side,
there's games we won?that maybe
we should have lost?that we won
just because we kept playing harder
than the other guys. We wanted it
more," he said.
Streicher, along with fellow
captains Etienne Hightower and
Ryan Szwebijka, plays the allimportant
role of captain and, in
this position, tries to be a role model
> remain No. 4 al
She posts a 23-!
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seeping Georgia
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ith four RBI in ^ are leading the
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with 16 stolen base
ree of four from Plew leads the t*
mday. on ber 50 hits. She
A single-season triples (4), and RBI
straight victories After sweeping C
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her 500th game loss to Tennessee o
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The men's team fell
from 4th to 22nd
The women's team
remained the 4th
team in the country.
both on and off the field. He said
his five years of experience in
college baseball enables him to
help the team's younger and newer
players.
"I try to keep eveiyone focused,
let them know what's going on
and how it works, things like that,"
Streicher said. "I try to lead by
example and alway? keep a.good
attitude [and] even when I'm
having a bad day, I try to keep a
positive attitude so other guys see
that if s just one game, and there's
55 more to go. That's the way I toy
to lead."
One game of the 56 games the
baseball team plays which made
Streicher's day was game two of
the Mississippi state series in
Starkville. Streicher hit a two-run
homer in the fifth inning that
helped the Gamecocks pull of the
victory over what Streicher believes
is one of college baseball's best
teams.
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Mississippi State was a good feeling
because Mississippi State has
always had a great feel of baseball
and if s known around the country
as one of the best baseball schools
in the country," Streicher said.
"Just playing there is unbelievable:
the facilities they have, the fans
they have. That's probably the
highlight erf" my year so far, helping
us get that one victory at
Mississippi State."
Those facilities and those fans
are also two reasons Streicher
loves playing baseball in the SEC.
"Playfing] in front of a lot of
fans every day?that's important, (
because you like to be seen, and
it's fun to be seen. It's fun to have
home crowds and it's fun to go on
the road and play at facilities that
are just top notch," Streicher said.
"It just makes baseball fun and
that's what it's all about."
ter CCU sweep <
2 record with a 0.27 ERA and has
ers in 155.2 innings pitched,
amed national player-of-the-week
-of-the-week twice and was named
th Florida Classic Most Valuable
ior Al]-Americans Plew and Chanda
Lady Gamecocks. I
n the team in hitting with a .33S
th 47 hits. She also leads the team
s.
;ams in batting with a .350 average
! also leads the team in runs (36).
(36).
Joastal Carolina on Wednesday their
t stands at three games after a 6-1
n Sunday.
EC play when they travel to Arkansas
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