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USC basketball tries to extend two-game m Men s basketbal1 vs- LSU' 7 30 P-m
Men’s tennis at ITA Indoors, today
winning streak tonight against No. 15 a Softba|l w UNC-charlotte, 3 p.m.
Louisiana State ■ Women’s tennis vs. Virginia Tech, Thu.:
■ Rugby vs. Clemson, Fri.
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USC blasts Camels for ninth win
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by Jeff Romig
Special Correspondent
Each time the USC starting nine takes the field to ob
serve the national anthem, they line up in sets of three.
The outfielders stand in center field.
The second baseman, third baseman and shortstop stand
at the back edge of the infield dirt.
The catcher, pitcher and first baseman stand at the pitch
ing mound.
For the first time since his freshman year, Scott Barber
was included in this group.
Gamecock fans are used to seeing Barber come out of
the bullpen to shut down an opponent, but on Tuesday they
witnessed a role reversal as his outing led the Gamecocks
to a 10-2 win over the Campbell Camels.
“I’ve seen him sharper than he was today,” Tanner said.
“You certainly can’t argue that he gave us a good outing.
I’m happy with what he did.”
Barber went 5 1/3 innings allowing only one run while
striking out nine.
“I thought I pitched pretty well,” Barber said. “In the
first inning, I missed a few spots, but after that I settled in
on hitters and was putting them away.”
Tanner likes the versatility Barber adds to his pitching
staff.
“He could end up being a starter for us or a swing guy,
Tanner said.
If Barber had a choice, it would be the obvious one.
“Ideally, I’d like to start,” Barber said. “But it doesn’t
matter to me as long as we win. That’s the bottom line.”
Tanner is still undecided on who will take the third slot
in his rotation until Chris Spigner, who has tendonitis, is
ready.
“I think it’s too early to make a decision on what we’re
going to do with him,” Tanner said. “All I know is this: lie’s
a quality pitcher and we’re going to get a lot of innings out
of him.”
Barber proved how effective he can be out of the pen
while playing for Chatham in the Cape Cod League last
1 summer. Barber was named to the league’s all-star team af
ter going 2-0 with two saves and striking out 33 in 29 in
nings while posting an 0.93 ERA.
“I was fortunate that I got on it,” Barber said. “I had
fun up there.”
To put Barber’s accomplishment in perspective, he was
named to the team while the Gamecocks’ No. 1 starter, Kip
Bouknight, who went 6-2 with a 2.49 ERA for Chatham,
was an alternate.
“I thought he deserved to be on it,” Barber said. “I wish
he could have been. Kip’s a good guy.” •
Barber might not know where he’ll be in the Game
cock rotation at the end of this season, but he knows where
he wants to be at the end of the season.
“To win the SEC Championship and make it to Oma
ha-that’s the bottom line?,” Barber said.
Barber also knows where he wants his next stop to be
if that happens.
“I’d like to go pro,” Barber said. “I hope I get drafted,
sign and go pro, but we’ll have to wait and see what hap
pens.”
Notes: Tripp Kelly extended his hitting streak to nine-games
with an infield single in the bottom of the seventh ... USC
hit four triples on the day (Marcus McBeth, Nate Janow
icz, Drew Meyer, Brennan Dees). This was one shy of the
record of five set on April 17, 1986 against The Citadel...
Jamie Poston is now tied for ninth place in school history
with Colorado Rockies’ farmhand Jim Stoops with 64
appearances... McBeth was 2-for-4 with a home run, a
triple and four RBIs.
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use 10, Campbell 2 (Feb. 22, 2000)
South Carolina (9-0)
AB R H RBI SO PO A
Nate Janowicz If 5 0 2 10 0 1
Drew Meyer ss 4 2 2 0 12 2
Brennan Dees rf 4 12 1110
Chris Plummer 3b 4 110 10 2
Brandon Pack c 3 2 1 3 0 12 2
Tim Whittaker c 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
Tripp Kelly lb 5 1 10 1 7 0
John McHenry 2b 3 0 0 0 1 0 1
Bryon Jeffcoat 2b 2 0 0 0 0 10
TYey Dyson dh 2000000
Marcos Rios dh 0000000
Matt Riddle dh 1 110 0 0 0
Marcus McBeth cf 4 2-2 4 010
Scott Barber p 0000000
Lee Gronkiewicz p 0 00000 0
Jamie Poston p 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
IP H RER BB SO BF
Scott Barber 51 8 2 1 1 9 24
Lee Gronkiewlcz 1.2 10 0 0 3 8
Jamie Poston 3.0 0 0 0 0 3 6
Campbell (1-2)
AB R II RBI SO PO A
TYavis Cobb cf 4 0 0 0 2 10
Keith Sears ph 1 0 0 0 l 0 0
Tony Della Costa 2b 4 0 2 0 2 0 4
Jeff Huff dh 4 12 0 10 0
Dan Krause lb . 4 0 2 0 0 8 0
Jeff Davis c 4 1 0 0 3 5 0
Nic Carter rf 4 0 1 0 2 2 0
Ray Caffee 3b 4 0 11111
Tom Bay rer If 3 0 10 15 0
Zac Hughes ph/lf 1 0 0 0 0 2 0
Bradley Coates ss 2 0 0 0 10 0
Todd Goodson ph 1 0 0 0 10 0
Corey Byrd p 0000000
Matt Kleweno p 0000000
Bradley Stancil p 0000 000
Byron Batson p 000000 0
IP H R ER BB SO BF
Corey Byrd 4.0 6 5 4 3 2 22
Matt Kleweno 2.0 2 2 2 2 3 10
Bradley Stancil 0.1 2 2 2 0 0 3
Byron Batson 1,2 2 11 1 0 8
Win - Barber 2-0 Loss - Byrd 0-1 Save - none
WP - Barber 2 (3) BK-Byrd(l)
Sean Rayford Gamecock Sports
Senior Nate Janowicz is congratulated by third base coach Jim Toman after a home run against Delaware
State Saturday. The Gamecocks improved to 9-0 Tuesday with a 10-2 win over Campbell.
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! 2000 l.S< Baseball Slatistics (through nine games) ,,
- Pitching
Balling „ .
IP H RED ERA BB SO
AB R H HR RBI SB Ay*. 6 Jjrnlt Poston 50 J 0 0 0.00 0 8
4.1 Tripp Kelly, IB . 31 13 14 6 17 0 .452 4 Bretl Price 5.0 1 . 0 0 0.00 0 5
2 Nate jaomrlci. OF 2S 10 10 1 5 7 400 34 Sievrn Whetstone 2.0 1 0 0 0.00 0 2
9 Marcos Rios, C 5 1 2 0 1 0 .400 2® John Weslev 1.0 I 0 0 0.00 0 1
j 21 Brmndon Pack, C 29 9 H 3 11 0 379 13 Steven Bondurant 1.0 t 0 0 000 0 1
1 Chrts Plummet,3B 32 II 12 2 9 1 .375 21 Lee Gronkiewicr 102 5 2 1 084 1 13
7 Drew Meyer, SS 33 12 11 2 9 3 .333 3* Peter Bauer ’ 92' 3 2 I 0.93 2 8
! 3 Matt Riddle, OK 6 3 2 1 3 0 .333 36 Scott Barber 130 12 3 2 1.38 3 18
| 15 Steve Thomas, IF 36 9 11 1 6 1 .306 32 gntfe BascuaS 6 0 2 1 1 lJO 2 9
12 Brennan liras, OF 5 20 2 4 2 t .200 14 Kip Boukidfht 20 2 14 5 5 2.18 3 24
8 Marrua McBeth, OF 34 9 10 2 8 l 294 10 Clint Collins 20 1 1 1 4.50 1 4
41 Bn Mobley. C 4110 2 0 250 ,
27 John McHenry'. 28 25 3 6 0 4 1 .240 Totals 81® 48 U 11 1J3 13 97
29 Sham Nelson. OF 23 5 5 1 5 3 .21? *
10 OiM Collins, IE 5 1 1 0 * 0 0 .200
17 T«v Dyson. IF 13 2 2 0 2 O 154
18 Bryon JefTcoat. IF 13 2 1 0 1 0 .077 _
! 20 Tim Whittaker, C 3 0 0 0 0 0 .000
; 19 Rim Bravo. C 2 I 0 0 1 0 .000
! Tank 322 96 10® 19 84 17 .311 JflMBBri** , tS
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Lester, Bouknight receive awards
Sports Roundup
Gamecock Sports
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BOUKNIGHT
w wTwo South Carolina athletes received awards
Monday for their performances over the past week.
Annie Lester from the Lady Gamecock basketball
team and the baseball team’s Kip Bouknight each
were recognized as athletes of the week.
Lester was named as the SEC’s Player of the
Week for her play against Alabama and Kentucky
last week in which she averaged 22.5 points, 10.5
rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.5 steals per game. In these
two games, Lester surpassed her season average in
several categories, including points, minutes played,
rebounds, assists and steals.
“It’s nice to be recognized by the conference for
your hard work.” Lester said. “I would like to give
credit to my teammates for helping ntc win this award.
Kelly Morrone and our guards really shot well from
the outside and that opened up the inside for me.
This is my first Player of the Week award during my
four years at South Carolina and I think it will mo
tivate me to play even better at LSU and going into
the SEC Tournament.”
Lester became the first Lady Gamecock to win
the award since Shannon Johnson during the 1995
96 season. Johnson won the award three times and
is now the only other Lady Gamecock besides Lester
to win the award.
“We are all excited for Annie Lester to be named
as the SEC Player of the Week,” head coach Susan
Walvius said. “She certainly deserved the award af
ter what she accomplished last week, scoring 32
points versus Alabama and for her defensive perfor
mance on Sunday against Kentucky. Everyone knows
about Annie’s impressive offensive abilities but now
more people are starting to realize that it’s also her
defensive skills that make her such an all-around
player.”
The Norcross, Ga. native moved to 11th place
among the USC all-time scorers on Sunday by scor
ing her 1,465th career point and is only 35 points
away front the 1,500 point plateau. She is now in
seventh place in career rebounds with 778 boards
and is in ninth place in career steals. During her fi
nal home game Sunday, Lester became one of only
five South Carolina players to score 1,400 points or
more, grab 700 or more rebounds and make 200 or
more steals.
Bouknight was named by Collegiate Baseball
as the national pitcher of the week for his perfor
mance Friday against Delaware State.
The Gaston, S.C., native pitched six innings in
the Gamecocks’ 19-0 win over the Hornets, allow
ing only one hit and no Walks while striking out 11
batters. The win was Bouknight’s third of the sea
son and the 21st of his USC career.
Bouknight has also helped the No. 18 Gamecocks
(9-0) start off with their best record since 1994, when
they began the season 12-0 under coach June Raines.
The junior righthander already set a USC record
last year when he became the only pitcher to win
18 games in his first two seasons. Bouknight is the
primary starter in coach Ray Tanner’s pitching ro
tation, and will next take the mound Friday against
the College of Charleston at Sarge Frye Field. The
game is scheduled to stmt at 3 p.m.
Volleyball signs lour
Sports Roundup
Gamecock Spouts
South Carolina head volleyball
coach Kim Christopher has announced
commitments from four student-ath
letes, including three letters of intent
and one transfer. Two are from Ari
zona, one is from Michigan and an
international player is coming to USC
from Brazil.
- ■ “This is a great class for us because
they add size, athleticism and experi
ence to our team. This class will help
to get us to another level,” Christo
pher said. “We will be a young team
next season, but this is the most ath
letic team we have had at South Car
olina.”
Donisa Curry, a 6-foot-3 middle
blocker from Kalamazoo, Mich., hails
from the same club program as current
Gamecocks Cally Plummer and Sant
Alban, as well as former All-SEC set
ter Ashley Edlund. Jack Maggelson,
the head coach of the Dead Frog’s club
program, is also Curry’s high school
coach.
Curry attended Portage Northern
High School, the same school as Ed
lund. Curry’s high school team won
the state title in 1997 and 1999 and ,
was the state runner-up in 1998.
Curry is the daughter of Victor and
Emma Longe.
“Donisia is big and physical,”
Christopher said. “She is exactly what
we need physically to complete this
team. She will be a huge force in the
middle.”
Amy Pratt, a 5-foot-8 setter from
Chino Valley, Ariz., comes from a very
athletic family. Her father, Tom, is a
pitching coach with the Chicago Cubs
organization, her brother Andy plays
in the Texas Rangers organization and
her mother, Peggy, is an assistant coach
with Amy’s high school volleyball team.
She attends Chino Valley High
School and played volleyball under
coach Jim Ward. She also plays bas
ketball and softball. Pratt, the daugh
ter of Tom and Peggy Pratt, plays club
ball for coach Terry Smith and the
Volleyball see page b2
Spring Spots
USC’s spring Olympic sports teams are off
to a good start, with all eight of the programs
ranked in the top 20 on national polls. The Game
cocks’ men's and women’s indoor track, men s
and women’s golf, men’s and women's tennis,
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Women’s track leads the list with a No. 2 rank
ing, followed by men’s golf at No. 9. Men's track and
men’s tennis follow with No. 13 and No. 14 re
spectively, wiiile women’s tennis is also No. 14 and
women's golf is No. 17, The USC softball and base
ball teams are both ranked No. 18.
Men’s golf
USC’s men’s golf team shot rounds of 295 and
308 Monday and stands in 10th place with a 27-over
par 603 score after die first two rounds of the Mer
cedes-Benz Collegiate Championship at the Saw
grass Country Club in Jacksonville, Fla. (
Florida posted a two-under, two-round score of
574 and leads host and No. 14 North Florida by three
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Carolina, playing in its first tournament of the
spring season, could not overcome poor performances
from its top players in posting its highest single rotind
team score of the 1999-2000 season (308) in Mon
day’s second round.
Individually for the Gamecocks, jmior All-Amer
ican Kyle Thompson had rounds of 70 and 75
Monday and is tied for 10th place with a one-over
145. Senior All-American Eric Ecker had a two-round
tally of 153 (nine-over par) and is in 37th place af
ter the first day. while juniors John Bloomfield, Lars
Cederqvist and freshman Michael Maness are tied
for 44th place with identical 154 scores through two
rounds.
Althoqgh posting a 27-over 603, tlie Gamecocks
Softball
Hie No. 18 Lady Gamecock softball team will take
on the 49ers of U1C Giariotte today at 3 pan. at Beck
liam Reid. Hie Lady Gamecocks look to even out their
recmfgtingintothe doubkheaderat 3-4.
USC is coming off back-to-back no-hitters. Megan
Matthews and, Joyce McMiJIin bhmked the Panthers of
Geoijria State and recorded the onlybuck-to-back no-lut
tets in USC history.
Hie 49eri of UNCC are 2-2 this season. The 49ers
Iiad a big win over No. 22 Blinds-Chicago. UNCC also
defeated Radford at the Triangk Classic before falling to
Vnginia Tech and Kansas.
After taking on the4te.,USCliasa4uickmmaround
to prepare fdtlieGkkone'sTotiMiment in Tampa, Fla.
Basebajl
Saturday’s baseball game between South Car
olina and the Collie of Charleston has been moved
to a 4 pan. start time to accommodate the men’s
basketball game against Georgia, which is sched
uled for a 2p.m. tipoff.
The baseball game had been slated for a 1:30
first pitch, but was moved to allow fans to attend
both games.
The men’s basketball team, as well as senior
guard Herbert Lee Davis, will be playing their
final home game this season in Frank McGuire
Arena. The matchup will be televised by Jeffer
son-Vilot. >
The No. 18 Gamecock baseball team will play
three games against the Cnno-ars hen-inning Fri-_