Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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_Sports_ Summer from page B1 Women’s Golf The Lady Gamecock golf team finished its season ranked 17th in the country, making the NCAA Tournament and hosting the Eastern re gional. The team finished seventh in the regional, be hind champion Geoigia, and managed to make the NCAA Championships in Tulsa, Okla. SEC Coach of the Year Kristi Coggins saw her team put together a strong performance be hind sophomore Cecilia Ekelundh and junior Apryl Arrants, but placed only a respectable 14th. How ever, Arrants and junior Abby Derman qualified for the U.S. Amateur Open tournament. Mai’s T^ns The 19th-ranked Gamecocks went into the SEC tournament as underdogs, but turned quite a few heads by upsetting No. 1 seed Ole Miss and advancing to the semifinals. This was the farthest the Gamecocks have ever advanced in the SEC toumey, but the ride ended with a loss to Florida. The team, with a 16-11 record, made it to the NCAAs, where it managed to win two matches before losing to Ken tucky. The individual championships were held the next week, with sophomore Guillaume Legat and junior Jerome Jourdan each competing. Legat, matched against Kentucky’s Carlos Drada, was leading his match but was forced to withdraw be cause of illness. Legat finished his stellar season at 33-10. Jour dan fared a bit better, beating Califomia-Santa Barbara’s Cory Guy before falling to Illinois’ Oliv er Freelove. Jourdan finished at 32-12. WoMBt’sTaMS The 16th-ranked Lady Gamecocks advanced to the semifinals of the SEC tournament before losing to Florida. However, the 16-6 Gamecocks were awarded a regional and made the most of it, beating Furman and Wake Forest to advance to the championships in Gainesville, Fla. The team lost to Geoigia and was eliminat ed from the NCAAs. The individual championships saw freshman Katarina Maikovski lose to Duke’s Vanessa Webb. In doubles, Markovski and teammate Celine Reg nier gave Notre Dame’s Michelle Doss and Jen nifer Hall a challenge, but couldn’t pull off the win. I Freshman Lynn-Yin Tan was rewarded with a spot on the All-SEC first team, helping the Game cocks add another marker to a superior season. Track am) Fed The SEC tournament in Georgia saw six Car olina athletes place at the top of their respective categories. Three-time NCAA champion Brad Snyder won a USC-record eighth straight SEC shot put title to put the Gamecocks on the scoreboards, while senior Michelle Fournier won the women’s hammer throw event. The Carolina 4 x 100 relay team set school and track records and easily win their event. Clint Crenshaw, Terrence Trammell, Shalt Mays and Jamie Price were the members of the winning team. Trammell, named Collegiate Ath lete of the Year by Track and Field News, also won three individual titles in the 55-meter dash, the 55-meter hurdles and the 110-meter hurdles. Trammell set SEC records in both those events and ran the world’s fastest time this year in the 55-meter. The biggest story of the SEC tournament was the USC women’s team, which catapulted itself to a first-place finish, capturing their first-ever conference title and only the third in school his tory. Behind the pace of junior Ellakisha Williamson, the Lady Gamecocks pulled ahead of first-place Florida on the last day of the tourney to win. Unfortunately for them, the Gamecocks didn’t fare as well as in the conference tournament, but once again, super sophomore Trammell won two events and part of a third. Trammell placed first in the 60-meter and the 110-meter hurdles and also ran a leg of the cham pion 4 x 100 relay team. After the individual championships were com pleted, Trammell, Snyder and Mikki Barber trav eled to the World University Games in Spain. Trammell won gold medals in the 110-meter hurdles as well as the 4 x 100 relay team, winning that event with the help of Cal-Polytech’s Kaaron Cartwright, Auburn’s Coby Miller and Flori da’s John Capel. Coach Curtis Frye collected five coaching awards for his part: Coach of the Year for both the men’s and women’s regional, National Indoor Men’s Coach of the Year and the National Indoor and Outdoor Women’s Coach of the Year. Wachovia Bank, N.A. is a member FDIC. Accounts subject to approval. 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