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gy Blackmon sees more than a silver
lining with the Gamecocks' performance
at the Championship; he sees
a young team that needed to experience
a week of golf at the top level and
how that experience will translate into
better finishes in the future.
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has played 18 holes a day (including
practice rounds Monday and Tuesday).
They were fatigued.
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but we got a fantastic performance
from Brent Roof to keep us
where we were in the standings. Today,
we just couldn't get over the hump
and make a move, and I saw that fatigue
factor really have an effect on
the team. All in all, we continue to
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we played today, will go a long way towards
helping us reach that goal."
Kransteuber was the only Gamecock
to post an even par or better
round. Junior Mark Catalano, fifth on
the team with a 74.26 stroke average
coming into the tournament, had his
most consistent performance of the
year at the NCAAs, shooting a 73 Saturday
to finish at even-par 288 and
in 37th place. Sophomore Eric Ecker
could not overcome back-to-back bogeys
on the back side and finished at
three-over 75 and at two-over 290 and
in a tie for 48th place. Roof was even
par through 14 holes, but went four
over par over the last four holes and
finished at four-over 76 and in a tie
for 60th place at four-over 292. Fresh
man Kyle Thompson had his secondstraight
disappointing round after a
three-under par start over the first 36
holes. The Easley, S.C., native fired a
five-over 77 and finished in a tie for
70th place at six-over 294.
Unlike the third round Friday, the
Gamecocks started off Saturday's first
round in solid fashion. The Gamecocks
were six-over par as a team through
three holes Friday and actually stood
just one-over par on the tough front
side through four holes. But USC could
not take advantage of a par 5 9th hole
yielding birdies and eagles all week
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at two-over par. Unlike Friday, however,
Carolina never got going on all
cylinders on the back side.
The Gamecocks got four birdies on
the par 5 10th hole to briefly go under
par, but struggled on the middle
holes of the back side to fall from the
top 10. Kransteuber epitomized USC's
day on the final two holes as he took
a two-under score to No. 17. He narrowly
missed an up-and-down from
the sand trap on the par 3 17th hole
for a bogey, then had to take a stroke
penalty on an unplayable lie on the
par 5 18th hole and also bogeyed the
hole to finish even par.
On a brighter note, Ecker was
named an honorable mention member
of the 1998 Golf Coaches Association
of America All-America team,
the GCAA.
Ecker was one of the more improved
players in the country in his
second season with the Gamecocks.
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Conference with a team-leading 72.13
stroke average. Ecker led the Gamecocks
with six Top 10 and nine Top 20
finishes this season and won medalist
honors at the SEC Championships
in April with an eight-under 136 score.
The second year player had 23 of
his 39 rounds at or below par in the
1997-98 season. Ecker also finished
first at the Palmetto Classic in September,
but lost a two-hole playoff to
teammate Kyle Thompson.
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TRACK continuedfrom page nine
Freshman Kylene Nixon was sixth
in the women's pole vault at 12-feet1.
She momentarily held the NCAA
record, as this is a new event. Nixon
won the event at the SEC Championships
two weeks ago.
"The wind was incredibly strong
in the face when the bar went up (to
12-feet-5)," the San Diego, Calif., nafivp
cniH "Thie wpnthpr i? frpp7inor fnr
me."
Frye said he was pleased with the
team's performances.
"We didn't expect to get points out
of the discus," he said. "This isn't Brad's
favorite event. We are real proud of
Charmaine. She was in a terrible position
with 300 meters to go, but she
is a fighter. Kylene did a wonderful job
finishing sixth for a freshman."
The men's 4x100m relay was sixth
with a school-record of39.08 (Terrence
Trammell, Jamie Price, Riaan Dempers,
Corey Bridges).
"We ran a school record, but I feel
like we could have done a little better,"
Price said. "We were seventh last year
and to bump up one place isn't thrilling.
I was looking for bigger and better
things."l
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