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Schedule
■ Men’s tennis vs. Tennessee, 2 p.m.
■ Softball vs. Mississippi State, (DH) 4
p.m.
■ Baseball at LSU, 8 p.m.
■ Women’s tennis vs. Florida, Sat.
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Price, Dees key Gamecock victory
by Kyle Almond
Staff Writer
Let the streak begin - again.
After having their 22-game winning
streak snapped last Sunday by Florida, the
South Carolina baseball team got back on
the winning track Wednesday when they
dominated Wofford, 17-2, at Sarge Frye
Field.
sopnomore
Brett Price
pitched five
scoreless innings
and struck out a
career-high nine
Wofford batters
for the Game
cocks (23-1),
who are current
ly ranked No. 2
in the nation by
Collegiate Base
ball and third by
Baseball Ameri
ca.
Add 18 Gamecock hits, eight Wofford
errors and a tremendous indvidual effort
by junior rightfielder Brennan Dees, and
the game translated into a total mismatch.
Dees’ RBI triple in the bottom of the
seventh inning allowed him to become on
ly the second player in USC history to hit
for the cycle. Former Gamecock Derick
Urquhart hit for the cycle twice in his ca
reer, most recently two years ago against
Vanderbilt.
The triple capped off a fine game by
Carolina’s No. 3 hitter, who finished the
game with a game-high six RBIs.
“I’m proud of where we are,” USC
head coach Ray Tanner said. “We’re play
ing pretty consistently, and I think that’s
the key. You can’t be good all the time,
but if you remain consistent, you’ll win
your share of games.”
The Gamecocks started scoring in the
bottom of the second when Tripp Kelly
hit an RBI double to bring home Chris
Plummer. Marcus McBeth drove in Kel
ly two at-bats later, and Carolina led 2-0.
USC then went on to add three runs
in the third and fifth innings before blow
ing the game out of the Terriers’ reach with
a six-run seventh inning that included Dees’
triple, an RBI single from Plummer and
two unearned runs.
“I’ve never even done that in T-ball,”
Dees said regarding the cycle. “But that’s
just an individual goal. I’m glad.we got the
win and got back on track.”
The shutout was broken in the top of
the ninth frame, when Wofford’s Strat
Stavrou and Aaron Price each hit an RBI
double off Rico Bravo, who was seeing his
first action on the mound this year.
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tendon on this
weekend, when
they travel to
Baton Rouge,
La., to play a
highly antici
pated three
game series
against No. 15
LSU.
“Don’t be
misled by
[LSU] not be
ing in the top
five,” Tanner
warned. “They are still very good, and they
can still put some runs on the board.”
“But, if we play like we’re capable, I
expect things to be positive for us.”
LSU coach Skip Bertman, considered
one of the deans of college baseball by
fans, welcomes USC to Alex Box Stadi
um with an 11-2-1 record in the all-time
series between the two teams. The Game
cocks are on the losing end from prior
matches, and last defeated the Tigers in
1997. USC won 8-7 in the second game
of the series at LSU.
Notes; Projected third starting pitcher Chris
Spigner will be out of action for at least two
more weeks with an elbow injury.... Fresh
man shortstop Drew Meyer did not start
Wednesday’s game because of the death of
his grandfather, but played centerfield in
the top of the ninth inning. Meyer will
not play tonight and is questionable for Sat
urday and Sunday.... The baseball game be
tween South Carolina and the College of
Charleston scheduled for Tuesday in
Charleston has been moved to Saige Frye
Field. ... Senior relief pitcher Lee
Gronkiewicz is out for the season with a
shoulder injury.
PRICE
DEES
2000 USC Baseball Statistics (through 24 games)
Avg. G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB
12 Brennan Ores .369 24 103 29 38 7 3 5 22 8
21 Brandon Pack .367 24 79 21 29 8 1 7 30 2
7 Drew Meyer 341 24 91 25 31 3 2 5 24 1!
43 TVfpp Kefiy .333 24 84 23 28 6 0 9 29 1
27 John McHenry .314 24 70 18 22 6 I 3 15 1
1 Chris Ptommer .314 24 70 16 22 3 0 3 15 2
2 Nate Janowkz .304 24 92 26 28 4 3 4 18 11
8 Macros MeBeth .250 24 84 22 21 3 3 3 17 3
9 Marcoo Rios .500 10 82420 030
15 Sieve Thomas .500 8 4 5 2 10 0 1 0
17Drey Dyson .300 12 20 6 6 1 0 1 7 1
3 Matt Riddle .286 774200 140
41 Bo Mobley .261 10 23 7 6 0 0 2 6 0
10 Cant Collins .250 582200 000
18 Bryon Jeffcoat .237 24 38 8 9 1 0 1 3 1
29 Shane Nelson .226 14 53 9 12 2 0 2 6 3
26 Tfen Whittaker .143 15 7 2 I 0 0 0 1 0
19 Rfco Bravo .000 331000 010
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4 Brett Price 056 3 0 0 16 0 8 3 1 11 21
38 Peter Baoer . 150 4 0 0 36.0 25 12 6 12 32
36 Scott Barber 141 3 0 5 28.0 23 7 5 4 33
14 Booknight 2.05 7 0 0 52.2 35 13 12 5 57
23 Lee Gnmkiewta 2.25 10 I 12.0 5 4 3 3 13
46 Matt Wilson 253 0 0 0 10.2 9 3 3 5 5
25 Chris Spigaer 254 0 0 0 61 6 2 2 5 5
34 Steven Whetstone 3.12 00 0 8.2 84335
32 Ernie Basroas 343 2 0 2 17.1 .12 8 7 14 23
6 Jamie Poston 4.50 2 0 0 14.0 18 9 7 2 16
10 (Tint Coffins 5.87 1 1 0 7.2 7 5 5 5 10
20 John Wesley 8.10 00 0 3.1 33306
22 Jeremy Plerico 9.00 0 0 0 1.0 11 1 0 1
13 Steven Bondursnt 1350 0 0 0 1.1 3 2 2 2 1
19 Rico Bravo 1840 0 0 0 1.0 3 2 2 4 1
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Special to Gamecock Sports
Head coach Ray Tanner (standing) directs the USC
defense while assistant coach Jim Toman looks on.
USC welcomes SEC Four-Way to Weems Baskin
Track & Field Roudup
Gamecock Sports
South Carolina will play host this week
end as Vhnderbilt, Mississippi and Arkansas
travel to Columbia for the SEC Four
Why.
The field events will begin at noon Sat
urday with the men’s hammer.
The running events will begin at 2 p.m.
with the men’s 5,000 meters.
The meet, part of the USOC/US Col
legiate Track and Field Series, will be record
ed by FOX Sports for two showings in April.
The first will be on FOX Sports Net South
April 8 at noon and then again April 22 at
7:30 p.m.
Arkansas’ men and women both won
the SEC Indoor title, while Arkansas’
men won their 35th NCAA title indoors
and the Lady ‘Backs finished third nation
ally.
Mississippi’s men were 10th at SECs.
The Lady Rebels were ninth at SECs and
22nd at NCAAs. Vanderbilt’s women (they
do not field a men’s program) were 10th at
SECs.
At 3:30 p.m. South Carolina’s Terrence
Trammell, the 2000 National Indoor Track
and Field Athlete of the Year, will attempt
to break the world record in the 100-yard
dash.
The record has been held by Charlie
Greene since 1968. He set it in the U.S.
Olympic Trials with a time of 9.0 sec
onds. The legendary sprinter also held a
time of 9.21 seconds, which he set at the
NCAA Championships in 1967, where he
also defeated rival OJ. Simpson.
In Trammell’s electronically-recorded
time last weekend, he ran a 9.22, the sec
ond-fastest time officially documented.
USC head coach Curtis Frye decided
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as a warmup for his star sprinter.
‘Terrence responds best when there is a chal
lenge. Some people respond under pressure, Ter
rence is one of those people,” Frye said.
With Arkansas and Mississippi each possess
ing strong sprinters, it looks like pressure is just
what Trammell is going to get this weekend.
The meet will cost $5 for adults, $2 for youth,
$10 for a family and is free for USC students, and
faculty and staff.
Featured track events include:
3:05 pan. - Men’s 110m hurdles
- Arkansas has a talented cast of hurdlers, and
USC’s Corey Taylor made the NCAA meet in the
60m hurdles
3:25 pan. - Women’s 400m
- USC’s Demetria Washington was a three
time All-American at the 2000 NCAA meet
(200m, 400m, 4x400m relay)
3:30 pjn. - Men’s 100 yards
- Terrence Trammell attempts to break a
world record
3:35 pjn. - Women’s 100 yards
- South Carolina’s All-Americans Me’Lisa
Barber and Mechelle Lewis
4:15 pjn. - Men’s 200m
- USC’s Terrence Trammell (60m, 60m hur
dles) and UA’s Melvin Lister (triple and long
jump) each won two NCAA titles
4:20 pjn. - Women’s 200M
- USC’s Miki Barber won the 2000 NCAA
Indoor title
Featured Reid Events
Noon - Javelin
- South Carolina All-American Candy
Mitchell
Noon - Long Jump
- Arkansas’ Melvin Lister and Jason Ward
went 1 -2 in the triple jump at the NCAA Cham
pionships
1 pjn. - Pole Vault
—South Carolina All-American Kylene Nixon
holds the indoor and outdoor SEC records
2:30 pjn.-Shot Put
- South Carolina’s Brad Snyder is a three
time NCAA champion and Arkansas’ Marcus
Clavelle was the 2000 SEC Indoor champion
2:30 pjn. - High Jump
-Arkansas’ Kenny Evans was the 2000 NCAA
runner-up
3 pjn. - Pole Vault
- South Carolina’s Pat Tvarkunas represent
ed USC at NCAAs
3:45 pjn. - Discus
- Brad Snyder won the SEC title in 1998
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Special to Gamecock Sports
Junior sprinter Terrence Trammell poses with awards he’s collected during his three
years for USC. Trammell has a chance to break a world record Saturday.
Women s tennis squad
stays perfect in SEC
Women’s Tennis Roundup
Gamecock Sports
The No. 19 South Carolina women’s tennis team
ran its SEC record to 4-0 Tuesday with a 6-3 win
over visiting Auburn.
The Gamecocks (12-5,4-0 SEC) took four sin
gles matches and two doubles matches for the fi
nal tally that gave Auburn (5-9,1 -4 SEC) its eighth
loss in the last nine matches.
No. 16 Katarina Markovski continued her win
ning ways at the No. 1 singles seed as the sopho
more from Valjevo, Yugoslavia, downed Andrea
Piski 6-2,7-5.
Other singles winners for Carolina were No. 80
Jennifer Radman (6-1,6-3 over Katia Illarionova),
Tamara Sutton (6-2,7-5 over Carolina Maurer) and
Lynn-Yin Tan (6-1,6-2 over Summa Edwards).
Carolina clinched the match behind Leigh Eichel
beiger and Lynn-Yin Tan’s 8-6 win over the Auburn
team of Lucy Altman and Simone Jardim. Tamara
Sutton and Catherine Brown were also winners in
doubles, beating Edwards/C. Maurer 8-6.
The Gamecocks are back in action Saturday as
No. 6 Florida comes to Columbia for a key SEC
Eastern Division showdown. Both teams are un
*
beaten in SEC play. Florida enters the match at 6
0 in the SEC.
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Match Results
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Singles
1. No. 16 Katarina Markovski vs. Andrea Piski
USC 6-2, 7-5
2. No. 80 Jennifer Radman vs. Katia Illarionova
USC 6-1,6-3
3. Leigh Eichelberger vs. Simone Jardim
AU 6-0,1-6,6-1
4. Kathy Boyanovich vs. Lucy Altman
AU 6-0,6-2
5. Tamara Sutton vs. Carolina Maurer'
USC 6-2,7-5
6. Lynn-Yin Tan vs. Summa Edwards
USC 6-1,6-2 :
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Doubles
1. No. 25 Markovski/Radman vs. Illarionova/Piski«
AU 9-7
2. Eichelberger/Tan vs. Jardim/Altman
USC 8-6 l
3. Sutton/C. Brown vs. Edwards/C. Maurer*
USC 8-6
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NCAA Leadership Conference |
selects Carolina's McAlpine j
Women’s Soccer Roundup
Gamecock Sports
Carolina freshman soccer player Kanika
McAlpine was selected to participate in the
fourth annual NCAA Foundation Leadership
Conference to be held at Disney’s Coronado
Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., May
28 - June 1.
Student athletes who are involved in the
NCAA Foundation Leadership Conference ac
tively participate in many challenging and
thought-provoking activities to develop leader
ship abilities. These abilities can be used on the
field as well as off the field, in college and be
yond.
The conference teaches the student athletes
skills for better communication with other stu
dent athletes, coaches, administrators, faculty
and members of the community.
A total of 352 student-athletes have been
invited to attend the 2000 conference. McAlpine,
a freshman mid
fielder on the USC
women’s soccer
team, was selected
from 885 nomina
tions, including
three others from
USC.
McAlpine, a bi
ology major with a
4.0 GPA. tutors stu
dents at the YM- McALPINE
CA and is involved
in the Minority Assistance (Mentoring) Program
at USC. McAlpine has also volunteered at a Co
lumbia area Boys and Girls Club and a local a».
imal shelter.
McAlpine’s other campus activites include
membership in the Fellowship of Christian Ath
letes and the campus West African Dance Com
pany.