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_Adam Everett
Bats: Right Throws: Right
Bom: 2/5/77 Position: Shortstop
Resides: Kennesaw, Ga.
High School: Harrison
Adam Everett started all 61 games as an N.C. State freshman before trans
ferring to USC when Ray Tanner was hired after the 19% season. He playec
for Team USA in 1997 and was a Baseball America All-American in 199S
oetore oeing araitea oy tne boston
Red Sox in the first round of the
1998 major league draft.
Everett won the Taylor McEn
tire Most Valuable Player award
after leading the Gamecocks to a 44-18 record and a berth to the Atlantic 1
Regional at Coral Gables, Fla. The Gamecocks were knocked out of the re
gional by the North Carolina Tarheels.
Everett was also one of three Gamecocks named to the All-SEC team ii
1998. joining teammates Mike Cuny and Kip Bouknight
Everett was traded to the Houston Astros in the 1999 off-season for out
fielder Carl Everett. Everett is on the Astros’ 40-man roster and will get th<
opportunity to battle for a spot on the major league roster in spring training
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GAB R B 2B 3B KR JOU SB Asfc
1997 57 2* 82 84 10 5 8 52 16 356
1998 62 26? 71 MO 21 4 B S3 15 375
■fot* 119 5B3 IS 184 31 9 21 115 51 J»
USC All-Time Baseball Team
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C ^Rob Lowery (1980-81)
IB - Hank Small (1972-75)
2B - Jeff Grantz (1973-76)
3B-JohnI^[arquardt (1978-79)
SS^dam Everett (1997-98)
r c White (1991-94)
Of I- Mookie Wilson (1977)
DH - Ryan Bordenick (1995-98)
Util—Joe Biernat (1992-93)
P - Earl Bass (1972-75)
P - Mike Cook (1983-85)
P -Tim Lewis (19'
P - Randy Mi j '
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Hank Small
Bats: Right Throws: Right
Bom: 7/31/53 Position: First Base
Resides: Atlanta, Ga.
Hank Small is the most prolific power hitter in Gamecock
history.
In 1975, his 19 home runs and 66 RBIs led USC to their
first College World Series. USC was defeated by Texas 5-1 in
the championship game.
iman was an
All-American in
1974 and 1975
and was signed by
the Atlanta Braves
after his senior
season.
He led his AAA team in home runs and was the Interna
tional League’s MVP, but he got only four at bats with the
Braves in 1978 - the only action he saw in the majors.
Small holds the Gamecocks’ career home run record with
48 and is a member of the
USC Athletic Hall of Fame.
In Small’s time at USC,
the Gamecocks compiled a
15045-1 record.
Small compiled a .354
career batting average, plac
ing him seventh on the USC
all-time list.
He is also third all-time
in RBIs with 184 and sec
ond in total bases with 433.
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G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB Avg.
1972 39 140 20 53 II 14 21 0 379
1973 42 163 34 46 5 1 8 32 25 282
1974 56 189 51 ,68 9 0 17 65 21 360
1975 Stats not available
Totals 137 <92 105 167 25 2 29 118 « 339
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