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Gamecock Sports
Basketball
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Thursday to lead USC to victory in the
first round of the SEC Tournament. The
Gamecocks were also aided by a double
double from center Marius Petravicius.
The 6-foot-11 freshman combined
11 points with 10 rebounds to help USC
knock off the Crimson Tide for the sec
ond time in less than a month, sending
the Gamecocks to the quarterfinals and
extending their season by at lqast one
game.
Freshman Rod Grizzard scored 18
points to, lead Alabama (13-16), but was
only 2-of-13 from 3-point range. Junior
Doc Martin added 13 points.
USC led by as many as 21 in the sec
ond half, but Alabama twice closed the
gap. Grizzard made a 3-pointer and scored
on a putback, and Martin hit a 3-point
bomb to make the score 53-40 with 11:11
to play.
But, the Gamecocks got five quick
points from Petravicius in an 8-0 run that
pushed their lead back to 6142 with 9:26
to go.
Tarik London led Alabama on one
last run, hitting two jumpers in a 6-0 spurt
that made it 67-56 with 1:48 to play. How
ever, Martin and London missed con
secutive 3-pointers, USC sophomore
Aaron Lucas got the rebound, and the
Crimson Tide had to foul with 1:04 to
play. Lucas made both his free throws to
make it 69-56.
Alabama committed 18 turnovers in
the loss, leading to 24 Gamecock points.
USC also made nine 3-pointers, includ
ing seven in the first half, while build
ing a 39-27 halftime lead.
USC 77, Vanderbilt 72
Eidson broke out of a four-game
slump with 17 points and Petravicius
added 13, leading USC to a 77-72 upset
over Vanderbilt on March 4 that ended
the Commodores’ promising regular sea
son on a low note.
Eidson had scored a combined 13
points in the previous four games, al
though USC managed to overcome the
low output and win two of the games.
The Gamecocks overcame an early
12-point deficit to stun the Commodores,
who made just 9-of-33 shots in the sec
ond half after sinking 17-of-34 in the first.
Vandy’s Dan Langhi, the league’s lead
ing scorer, was held to 17 points total and
only five in the second half. Langhi
blistered USC Jan. 26 with 21 points, in
cluding a game-winning free throw with
0.3 seconds left to give Vandy a 61-60
victory.
The Commodores (18-9,8-8) didr t
receive an invitation to the NCAA Toir
nament, the loss prevented first-year c<ach
Kevin Stallings from giving \hndy iv first
winning season in SEC play in four/ears.
South Carolina took its first led since
the opening minutes with 6:21 let, when
Eidson completed a 3-point ply to put
the Gamecocks up 58-55. Moments
later, Lucas drained a 3-pointff and Car
olina led 61-58.
After both teams strugged to make
free throws down the str;tch, Eidson
scored two free throws witi 10.2 seconds
remainiiig to close out thf Commodores.
Streak
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righthmder was 3-0 last season and was
expected to be one of the primary forces
in Tamer’s big-gun pitching staff before
an ellow injury sidelined him at the start
of ths season.
use 7, Radford 4
felly and Dyson drove in three runs
eac\ March 4 as USC cruised to a new
US2 record for consecutive wins to be
gin the season.
Junior Peter Bauer (3-0) pitched
s«ven-plus innings to earn the win with
3ascuas picking tp his second save. High
lander starter Daryl DeSalvo (0-2) took
the loss.
Kelly drove in the first run of the
game in the second inning with a base
hit that scored Dyson, who had led off
with a single. An RBI by Dees made it
2-0 in the third inning and Dyson’s two
out, bases-loaded pop-fly double to left
field in the same inning cleared the bases
and made the score 5-0.
Bauer allowed two hits over the first
seven innings but was lifted when he
walked pinch hitter Matt DiAngelo to
lead off the top of the eighth. Relief
pitcher Lee Gronkiewicz walked two
and DiAngelo scored on an infield out.
Bascuas relieved Gronkiewicz and
gave up a two-run double to Adam
McKenzie before retiring the side with
the score 5-3.
The Gamecocks added two insur
ance runs in the bottom of the eighth
on Kelly’s two-RBI single that drove in
pinch runner Clint Collins and Dyson,
who reached base when he was hit by a
pitch. Radford scored an unearned run
in the ninth inning.
USC collected 10 hits, two each by
Dyson, Kelly and Meyer. Radford man
aged four hits with Ray Detwiler, Mike
Potter, McKenzie and Brunst getting
one each.
USC 8, Radford 4
Bouknight and Dees became the
Gamecock heroes in the March 3
matchup, the former throwing eight in
nings and the latter slapping a pair of
homers to help USC beat the High
landers.
Dees popped a two-run homer to
center in the bottom of the first inning
to give USC a 2-0 lead.
In the eighth, the junior from Mont
gomery, Ala., added a solo shot for USC’s
final run.
Meanwhile, starter Kip Bouknight
was retiring hitters.
After, Potter led off the game with
a line-drive single to center with two
strikes on the count. Bouknight then
settled in and mowed down 13 straight
batters.
The junior preseason All-American
didn’t allow another runner until he
walked Damron Shaw with one out in
the fifth. Radford didn’t get another hit
off Bouknight until the seventh in
ning.
Bouknight struck out nine and gave
up four runs, but was credited with the
victory after pitchers John Wesley and
Collins shut out the Highlanders in the
ninth.
Women's tennis slips
past Clemson, 54
Tennis Roundup
Gamecock Sports
Behind a clutch performance from
the freshman doubles pair of Kathy
Boyanovich and Catherine Brown, the
No. 17 South Carolina women’s ten
nis team beat Clemson 5-4 March 3,
marking the Gamecocks’ seventh
straight win over the Tigers.
With the overall match pending the
outcome of their No. 3 doubles match,
Boyanovich and Brown, playing to
gether for just the third time this sea
son, easily dispatched the Clemson pair
of Anna Savitskaya and Ana Stiglic, 8
5. The win, which moved the duo to
2-1 on the season, also sent the Game
cocks to 9-3 while dropping the Tigers
to 6-2.
Singles play was split three match
es apiece as Carolina was paced by
sophomore Jennifer Radman. Radman,
ranked No. 73, beat Catherine
Galvin 6-1,4-6, 7-5. Also a winner for
Carolina in singles play was junior Leigh
Eichelberger (4-6,6-4,6-1 over Anna
Savitskaya).
Boyanovich, in her first match
against Clemson, stole the show with
an easy 6-0, 6-3 win over an out
matched Sunnie Harmon. The Lima,
Peru, native is now 8-4 in her young
career.
Knowing the doubles points would
decide the outcome, Carolina wasted
no time in taking the No. 1 doubles
point behind an 8-4 win by No. 44
Markovski and Radman over Brito and
Jayet. After Clemson took the No. 2
match 8-5, Boyanovich and Brown won
for Carolina.
USC next takes on the Wake For
est Demon Deacons Saturday at the
Sam Daniel Tennis Center. The match
is set for 12 p.m.
Match Results
Singles
1. No. 14 Katarina Markovski vs.
No. 15 Carmina Giraldo CU 6-4, 6-1
2. No. 75 Jennifer Radman USC
vs. Catherine Galvin 6-1,4-6, 7-5
3. Leigh Eichelberger vs. Anna
Savitskaya USC 4-6, 6-4,6-1
4. No. 87 Tamara Sutton vs. Lau
rence Jayet CU 6-3,6-4
5. Lynn-Yin Tan vs. Renata Brito
CU 6-3,6-0
6. Kathy Boyanovich vs. Sunnie
Harmon USC 6^, 6-3
Doubles
1. No. 44 Markovski/Radman vs.
Brito/Jayet USC 8-4
2. Eichelberger/Tan vs. Galvin/Gi
raldoCU 8-5
3. Boyanovich/C. Brown vs. Sav
itskaya/Stiglic USC 8-5
The USC equestrian squad finished in
the top five in every event they entered
this weekend at the Beny College Invita
tional in Rome, Ga.
March 3, the Gamecocks finished sec
ond in both the Hunt Seat and Western di
visions, with Mundy Bums finishing sec
~UU' ;. w'm'fiUiiiiSBiWMMSi&sSsiMSImm
and as the High PoibRider in the West
ern Division.
Individually, Any Bell finished sec
aid in the Open FIs, while Kira Gilchrist
finished first in tb Novice Flat. Brooke
Spitzer and Moll/ Keating also finished
first in die Advaraed Walk Trot Center and
the Beginner Mk Trot Center, respec
tively. .
March4, 5*uth Carolina finished fourth
in the Hunt Sat Division and second in
the Wfestem Division Ruth Sorrell finished
second as the Hgh Pant Ritter in die West
ern Divisbn.
Individually, Mundy Bums finished
first in tht Open Reigning competition,
while Karra Murray finished first in the
Advanced I competition.
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Men’s golf
The No. 13 USCmen’sgolf team card
ed a 6-over 294 Friday and remained in
13th place after the second round of the
prestigious Las Vegas Intercollegiate at the
Desert Inn Country Gub. No. 4 Oklahoma
State raced past No. 1 Georgia Tech am
leads the Yellow Jackets by five stroke
with one round to play on the par 72,7,153
yard course.
The Gamecocks again had just* wo
players near the par mark as Carolina <rug
glod to post low scores, kmior Kyle Tump
~son was the Only sub-par scorer or the
Gamecocks as his 1-under 1\ Saturday
leaves him tied for 20th place at 1-under
m.
Juniors John Bloomfield and Brent
Roof, playing for individual honors only,
are tied for 49th place at 4-over 148 af
ter 76 and 75 scores Saturday, respec
tively. Rounding out the USC field were
senior Eric Ecker (149, T-58th place),
sophomore Scott Feaster (151, T-64th) and
freshman Michael Maness (154, T-71st).
Mot’s tennis
The No. 26 South Carolina men's ten
nis team fell at Alabama Wednesday, 5-2,
in the Gamecocks' second SEC match of
the season.
The doubles team of Guillaume Legat
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