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_ • Gamecock Sports
Swimming and Diving
The Gamecock men’s and women’s swimming and
diving teams put up a good fight in the SEC Champi
onships this weekend, but it wasn’t enough to win a
team title.
In the final day, sophomore Zsolt Gaspar finished
second in the 200 butterfly with a time of 1:43.99. The
time qualifies Gaspar for the NCAA Championships in
Minneapolis in March.
Gaspar won an SEC Individual Championship
Saturday in the 100 fly, which also qualified him for the
NCAA Championships. Gaspar was the second highest
indvidual point scorer with 51 total points, just five
short of first place.
For the women, sophomore Sarah Doyle finished
third in the 1650 freestyle event, clocking a time of
16:3 9.44, good enough for qualifiying in the NCAA
Women’s Championships in Indianapolis in March.
The swimming and diving teams return to action at
Auburn on Feb. 25-26 to compete in the Tiger Invita
tional
Men’s tennis
The Gamecock men’s tennis team ended the day
with a win over in-state opponent Charleston South
em in the second part of the spring double header Sat
urday at the Sam Daniel Tennis Center. The No. 14
Gamecocks lost the opening match to the UNC Char
lotte 49ers. The match was.a shortened format match
with only four singles matches and one doubles match,
so the first team to three points was declared (he win
ner. USC lost, 3-2.
USC regrouped to beat Charleston Southern, 6-1.
Jerome Jourdon (ranked No. 50) and Marc Pichler
each had strong performances winning three matches
each. Jourdon improves to 104 in singles after he won
both his matches in the singles division.
Jourdon s first win was over UNCC’s Ok Jonsson
6-1,2-6,6-2. In doubles, he teamed with Juan Gamboa
to handily overtake Charleston Southern’s Sandeep Yeni
Reddy and Bjorn Folkers 8-5. Rounding out the day,
Jourdan defeated Rohan Wudhrn 64,6-1.
Pichler also came out with three wins, two in
doubles and one in singles. Together with Olof Akesson,
the duo beat UNCC’s Sasha Pari and Gian-Carl Car
Izeoli 64,64. Against CSU, Pichler, playing in the
sixth spot, won the decision over Santiago Falk 64,
6-1.
Wooiea’s tennis
The USC women's tennis team was beaten 5-2 Sat
urday by No. 18 Northwestern in consolation play at
the USTA/ITA National Indoor Team Championship.
Carolina concluded play at 0-3 in this year’s event, los
ing to three ranked teams (No. 1 Stanford, No. 12 William
& Mary and Northwestern)..
The Wildcats (7-1) took the doubles point behind
a win by Colleen Cheng/Katherine Nas$er over No. 31
—
Katarina Markovski/Jennifer Radman, 9-7. Lia Jack
son/Marine Piriou beat Carolinas Leigh Eichelbeig
er/Lynn-Yin Tan 8-5 while USC’s Kathy Boy
anovich/Tamara Sutton beat Shannon Duffy/Jennifer
Lutgert 84.
Singles winners for Carolina (5-3) were Katarina
Markovski (6-2,7-5 over No. 34 Nasser) and No. 53
Jennifer Radman (3-6,6-2,1-0,10-7) over Dufiy.
With four of six singles matches forced into
match tiebreakers, USC was on die verge of upsetting
William & Mary Friday. However, USC could only win
one of those tiebreakers, giving the Tribe a hard-fought
4-3 win in consolation play.
The match started well for Carolina (5-2) as
Markovski and Radman beat Delphine Troch and
Carolijn van Rossum 8-5. Also victorious for USC
was the team of Boyanovich/Sutton, 8-6 winners over
Carlyn Buis and Nina Kamp.
Hie singles matches were very tight, with the Tribe
(7-2) pulling out four of the six. Eichelbeiger, Sutton
and Boyanovich each dropped 10-6 losses in match
tiebreakers. Winners for USC were Markovski (6
3,5-7, l-0( 104) over Troch) and Tan (6-3,6-3 over An
drea Coulter.
USC dropped its first match of the season Thurs
day afternoon as the Gamecocks were beaten by Stan
ford, 8-0.
Carolina’s team of Markovski and Radman were
edged by the Cardinal team of Marissa Irvin and
Teryn Ashley, 9-8, which set the tone for the Stanford
nm.
Carolina returns home Tuesday for a match with
North Carolina at 5 p.m.
Women’s
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The win Sunday broke a three-game
losing streak for the Lady Gamecocks.
The last two losses, at Kentucky and at
home against Alabama, were both by two
points.
“Usually the case with a lot of our
losses is, we get in a hole,” Jeffcoat said.
Our plan was to come into this game
was to start off strong, avoid having to
climb out of a hole, and we did just
that,”
After the game, the seniors re
ceived a standing ovation from the Car
olina fans, Who were seeing the trio’s
final home game.
“It made me feel good,” Lester
commented. “All the support they’ve
given us throughout our four years has
made me feel real good. I’m going to
miss playing.”
Baseball
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was able to put something like this to
gether.”
Meyer and the Gamecocks’ other
10 ndwcomers have gotten most of the
press early on, but Nate Janowicz, who
was a key player for the Gamecocks in
1999, lias played as solid as he did last year.
Janowicz went 3-for-4 with a home run,
a double and two RBIs Saturday, im
proving his season average to .412.
“I still feel like I’m one of the go-to
guys,” Janowicz said. “Coach knows what
I can do, and I know what I can do. I know
that down the stretch, I’m going to be in
there.”
Tanner never felt like Janowicz was
lost in the shaffle of all the Gamecocks’
new faces.
“He was very successful last year, and
Lhaven’t foigotten that,” Tanner said. “He’s
going to be in the middle of things for us
this year also. He’s a proven player and he
had a good game today.”
Another new player who gave a sol
id performance Saturday was right-han
der Ernie Bascuas, who made his first start
as a Gamecock Bascuas went five innings
giving up one run while striking out sev
en.
His quality start added to the options
die Gamecocks have as they continue to put
together a consistent starting rotation.
“We’re obviously going with Kip
Bouknight and dien hopefully when Bauer
is healthy, he’ll be back in there,” Tan
ner said. “Then it could be Bascuas. It
could be (Scott) Barber. It could be
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Tanner went with Price in Sunday’s
game. Price will be the first left-hander to
start for USC since Brett Kondro in 1998.
“All coaches like to have a good lefty
in their rotation,” Tanner said. “Brett is
very capable of doing that. He’s had a lot
of experience as a freshman and he’s
. pitched well for us.”
• Saturday’s Notes: Sophomore right-han
der Steven Whetstone threw two score
less innings, his first appearance for the
Gamecocks since March 8,1998 in a 17
16 loss to Arkansas. Whetstone was
sidelined for the 1999 season after having
Tommy John suigery on right elbow ...
Third baseman Chris Plummer went 3
for-4 with a double, a home run and two
RBIs... Genterfielder Marcus McBeth
went 3-for-4 with a home run and two
RBIs.
USC 19, Delaware State 0
It’s not every day a coach gets to com
pletely empty his bench, but that’s.what
happened Friday as the Gamecocks beat
Delaware State 19-0.
Ray Tanner got every one of his posi
tion players into tire game, including fresh
man catcher Bo Mobley, who was sup
posed to be redshirted after having knee
suigery last fall, and Clint Collins, who is
listed as a pitcher.
“We’ve had some guys who have
worked awfully hard that aren’t everyday
players,” Tanner said. “It was nice to be
able to get them in there.”"
Not only did Tanner’s subs get in the
game - they performed.
Redshirt freshman Matt Riddle pinch
hit for USC’s catcher Brandon Pack in the
bottom of the fifth inning. In his first ca
reer at bat, Riddle took the second pitch
he saw deep over the right field fence
for a 2-run homer.
“To me, that was no accident that he .
hits a home run,” Tanner said. “The kid’s
been working extremely hard. Guys who
don’t play every day just have to work and
work and work, and when they get an op
portunity, they have to cash in.”
Riddle supplied the fireworks from
the bench, but Tripp Kelly continued his
torrid hitting, supplying the offense
from the starters.
Kelly hit two 2-nm home runs to al
most the same spot over left-center'field
and drove in a run on aground out. He has
hit four home runs in the Gamecocks’ (6
0) last three games.
“He’s really zeroing in at the plate,”
Tanner said. “He’s doing the things that
all good hitters need to do-and that’s trust
their hands and remain balanced at all
times. He’s out of the blacks and I hope
he’ll keep going for us.”
Another Gamecock who seems to im
prove with each appearance is Kip
Bouknight.
Bouknight (3-0) threw six innings, al
lowing only one hit and one walk while
striking out 11.
■ “It doesn’t matter if you’re playing
Alabama or a non-conference game,” Tan
ner saiu. ne s going to give you ms oesi
stuff. We’re happy that he’s on our side
because every time he goes out there he
has a chance to win.”
One factor in Bouknight’s improve
ment is keeping his pitch count low.
Bouknight finished Friday’s game with
only 67 pitches thrown.
“Coach Meyers definitely works with
us a lot in the off-season and that really
helps,” Bouknight said. “I’m just working
on having more command of all four pitch
es. I have to give coach Meyers credit for
that as well.” ,
Bouknight has been the major player
in the Gamecocks’ strong pitching thus
far, but the other main factor has been the
solid pitching from the bullpen. Jamie Pos
ton, Price, Steven Bondurant, John Wes
ley and Saturday starter Bascuas have all
pitched scoreless baseball out of the bullpen
in 2000.
“We feel that we ’ re just as good
from the top to the bottom,” Bouknight
said. “Wfe feel like our No. J2guyisasgood
as our No. 1 guy. Wfe feel that whoever we
put out there we are confident in.”
Notes: Drew Meyer went 2-for-3 with a
double, three runs scored, two walks and
two stolen bases... Bryon Jeffcoat played
four different positions in the game: left
field, center field, second base and short
stop ... Rico Bravo, Riddle, Mobley, Wes
ley and Bondurant each made their USC
debut Friday.
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after McBeth’s home run Saturday against Delaware State.
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Gathers' jersey
retired at last
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David
Cloninger
Who Else?
I read in the paper the other day
about how Loyola Marymount Uni
versity retired the No. 44 jersey worn
by its deceased basketball star, Hank
Gathers.
It’s about damned time.
Many people remember the horri
ble moment 10 years ago when Gath
ers, who had led the nation in scoring
and rebounding in 1989 and was ex
pected to be an NBA lottery pick, re
ceived an alley-oop pass from team
mate Terrell Lowery and slammed it
home. Those two points gave the Lions
a 25-13 lead over Portland in their West
ern Conference championship game.
Gathers headed upcourt after the'
dunk when he was suddenly struck by
convulsions and collapsed on the floor,
writhing and twisting while his moth
er helplessly watched just a few feet
away.
Although EMS technicians tried to
save him, the 23-year-old athlete died
on the court from a condition called
myocarditis, an inflammation of the
heart.
The Lions went to the NCAA tour
nameni mai season, reacmng me cme
Eight before falling to eventual cham
pion UNLV. But, the fact that Loyola
Maiyntount upset teams like New Mex
ico State, Alabama and defending champ
Michigan led some folks to believe the
team was being led by Gathers’ spirit.
After the unlikely run was over,
Gathers’ mother, Lucille Gathers
Cheeseboro, filed several lawsuits against
the school, allegedly implying the school
was somehow responsible for her son’s
death. The litigation that followed put
the relationship between her and
Loyola-Marymount’s under serious
pressure.
It can’t be said whether this litiga
tion had anything to do with the deci
sion not to retire Gathers’ number af
ter the season. However, it sure does
explain a lot.
Regardless of the reason, Gathers
and teammate Bo Kimble both had then
numbers retired Saturday during the Li
ons-Pepperdine game, becoming the
only two male players to have their
numbers retired at the Los Angeles
Catholic school. Kimble, who led
the memorial chaige during the NCAA’s,
was present along with Gathers’ moth
er.
“A lot of things that went on 10
years ago and the litigation that fol
lowed and the things that were said,
when we look back on that now, we see
a lot of regrets and a lot of people’s feel
ings that we may have hurt,” said
Derrick Gathers, Hank’s brother, at the
ceremony.
Yeah, Derrick, it may be true that
you and your family hurt people’s feel
ings. It still doesn’t excuse the fact the
school didn’t want to honor arguably
their best player ever with one final gift
until 10 years after he died.
When a school has seen the kind of
terrible tragedy happen to a young man
such as Gathers, shouldn’t it stand to |
reason that he be given the ultimate
honor, a retired number?
Now, we have people like Char
lotte Hornets guard Bobby Phills, who
was killed last month when his Porsche
lost control while drag-racing at 110
mph and crashed. Being from the Char
lotte area. I’ve heard plenty of talk about
the Hornets planning to retire Phills’
jersey.
Why is it that we’ll honor people
like Phills, whose death while tragic
was brought upon himself, but we’ll
leave hardworking kids who are strick
en by fate and robbed of their lives like
Gathers out in the cold?
Maybe people don’t think that re
tiring numbers is that great of an hon
or.
I can see that.
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your number retired, never to be worn
by another player, because people know
that no one could ever do what you did
at the school. Especially after you died
while still playing your absolute best
for that particular institution.
Let’s think about this. Have you
ever seen an athlete refuse to have his
number retired? If so, please let me
know.
Gathers was remembered Saturday,
but why wasn’t he so honored 10 years
ago, in front of the people who got to
see him lead his team to glory and be
come the nation’s top story?
In the last 10 years, we’ve seen a
president impeached, a war fought and
ended, a century pass... and a hero for
gotten.
What Gathers did was provide a suc
cess story to all the underprivileged
dreamers in America, and his universi
ty has refused to acknowledge that fact
until Saturday.
Now, Loyola Marymount officials
may be applauded and receive acco
lades for its actions, but the burning
question still remains - why did they
wait?
I guess we’ll never know.
But, we can rest assured that some
where, No. 44 is wearing his ever-pre
sent smile on his way to another two
points.
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