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Baseball Roundup
Gamecock Sports
The No. 2 Gamecock baseball team
swept the Vanderbilt Commodores last
weekend in Nashville. USC will return
to Sarge Frye Field for a Tuesday game
against Davidson and a televised
matchup with Clemson on Wednesday
before traveling to Lexington, Ky., for
a three-game series with Kentucky this
weekend.
USC 7, Vanderbilt 3 (Sunday)
Vanderbilt starter Damon Yee
pitched a complete-game, 11 -strikeout
performance, becoming the school’s
new all-time career strikeout leader.
However, the effort wasn’t enough,
as counterpart Kip Bouknight pitched
eight innings and struck out eight for
his 11th victory of the season.
The Gamecocks jumped on Yee ear
ly, scoring one run in the first when
Drew Meyer singled in Nate Janowicz.
The third inning widened USC’s lead,
when the Gamecocks loaded the bases
with no outs and scored one run on a
wild pitch. USC was shut down, how
ever, when Yee struck out the next three
Gamecocks to end the threat.
In the fourth, Chris Plummer start
ed things off for USC with a single,
moving to third on a sacrifice bunt at
tempt by John McHenry. A Yee throw
ing error allowed McHenry to take first
and then run to third on a Janowicz sac
rifice fly to center that scored Plum
mer. Meyer then knocked a pitch back
to Yee, but another throwing error to
first allowed Meyer to get to first and
McHenry to score. Brennan Dees lat
er knocked in Meyer for a 5-0 lead.
Bouknight ran into trouble in the
fourth after an Ashley Freeman fly ball
was lost in the sun by Janowicz. The
double was followed by a walk to Karl
Nonemaker, and a double by Andy
Kropf. The second double scored Free
man, and Kropf scored when Sean
Luellwitz dumped a single into the out
field.
An Adam Blue sacrifice fly
scored Kropf, but the damage was con
tained after Vanderbilt narrowed the
gap to 5-3.
The Gamecocks tacked on insur
ance runs in the fifth and seventh in
nings to extend Bouknight’s unde
feated streak to 11-0, while reliever
Jamie Poston closed the door in the
ninth. USG won its 11 th consecutive
game, improving to 36-4, 15-3 SEC,
good for first place in the conference.
Vanderbilt slipped to 18-20,4-12 SEC.
USC 2, Vanderbilt 1 (Saturday)
USC rallied with two runs in the
top of the ninth inning Saturday on a
Trey Dyson RBI double and edged Van
derbilt 2-1 winning another last-inning
battle.
USC’s Scott Barber (5-1) pitched
a complete game, allowing just six hits
and an eighth-inning run while striking
out five. Chris Maultsby (l-3)limited
South Carolina to two hits, one of them
an infield Single, through the first eight
innings, but was charged with the loss
as Vanderbilt fell.
Catcher Brandon Pack walked to lead
off the Gamecock ninth inning and was
replaced by pinch runner Marcos Rios.
After Tripp Kelly struck out, Rios
moved to second base on a wild pitch.
With the Gamecocks two outs away
from a 1-0 loss, Dyson hit a drive that
fell just inside the foul line in right field
for a double, scoring Rios to tie the
game.
Maultsby was relieved by Jeff
Little, and pinch runner Steve Thomas
replaced Dyson. Thomas moved to third
on a single to left field by Marcus Mc
Beth. Then, Plummer hit a slow roller
to shortstop and was out at first, but
Thomas scored on the play to put South
Carolina ahead, 2-1.
Vanderbilt got the potential tying
run to third base with two out in the
bottom of the ninth. Ulises Cabrera
walked with one out and advanced to
second on a passed ball. He moved to
third when Blue grounded out to short.
Vanderbilt pinch hitter Kyle Flubacker
was then struck out on three straight
Barber pitches.
The game was scoreless through
seven innings, but Vanderbilt took a 1
0 lead in the bottom of the eighth. Kevin
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Tenth man Marcos Rios again came up big against Vanderbilt, scoring
the tying run Saturday in the ninth inning.
Watson, Kimrey lead White squad in spring game
Football Roundup
Gamecock Sports
Derek Watson’s 1-yard touchdown
plunge over the line with only 3:29 left
in the fourth quarter gave die USC White
team a 21-16 victory over the Black team
in Saturday’s spring game at Williams
Brice Stadium. The touchdown was Wat
son’s second, as he scored the first of the
day on a punt return.
Running back Andrew Pinnock led
the Black squad with 93 yards on 15
carries and had one touchdown. He was
helped by quarterback Phil Petty, who
was 14-of-35 for 263 yards with one touch
down and one interception. Wide receiver
Willis Ham gained 104 yards on four re
ceptions for the Black team.
Watson gained 65 yards on the ground
on 13 rushes and scored one touchdown
for the White team. Erik Kimrey direct
ed the White offense through most of the
day and completed 14-of-27 passes for
130 yards.
On defense, Tim Yam contributed 10
tackles, while Darion Hutcherson made
nine tackles for the White team. Defen
sive lineman Cleveland Pinkney disrupt
ed the line of scrimmage for the White
team by collecting two sacks and forc
ing two fumbles, one of which was re
covered for a White touchdown.
Down 16-15 late in the fourth quar
ter, the White defense stopped a poten
tial game-winning Black drive by knock
ing die ball out of Corey Alexander’s hands
after his reception and recovering the ball
at midfield. Led by quarterback Mikal
Goodman, the White team marched down
the field and punctuated the drive with
Whtson’s touchdown on the eighth play.
The Black team had a chance to win
the game on its last possession as it worked
its way downfield from its own 35-yard
line with big pass plays from Petty to Ham
and to Brian Scott. Facing a fourth-and
14 from the White 18-yard line with less
than a minute to play, Petty lofted a pass
to the back of the end zone towards re
ceiver Scott, but it was knocked away by
White defensive back Yam. The White
team took over on the change of posses
sion and ran the remaining 47 seconds off
the clock for the victory.
“I thought that it was a good, com
petitive game, other than the turnovers,”
head coach Lou Holtz said. “We didn’t do
a whole lot on defense or on offense.
We were very bland in what we allowed
them to do and what they could do.”
Watson started the day with an 88
yard punt return, following the Black
team’s first possession, for a quick 7-0
lead. The Black team regrouped later in
the first quarter and scored its first touch
down on a 6-yard run by Pinnock. Tak
ing the ball at the 1-yard line after re
covering a White fumble on the goal line,
Pinnock provided the punch for the Black
team, pinned in its own end zone as he
raced for 65 yards on the drive, including
a 50-yard gallop. The extra-point attempt
from Reid Bethea skimmed off the right
goalpost and left the Black squad down,
7-6.
In the second quarter, the White team
pinned the Black squad back on its own
goal line again and the poor field position
yielded points for the defense. Facing a
second-and-10 from his own 2-yard line,
Petty turned to hand the ball off to a back
and found no one in the backfield on the
busted play except himself and two White
defenders. Marco Hutchinson and An
thony Overstreet pulled the quarter
back down for the safety and gave the
White team a 9-6 advantage.
With two minutes left in the first half,
the Black team put together an 80-yard
drive with a 14-yard completion from Pet
ty to Scott for a 13-9 lead.
In the third quarter, the White team
again put points on the board as Pinkney
sacked Petty in the end zone, forcing a
fumble that was recovered by linebacker
Hutchinson for a touchdown and a 15-14
lead. The extra-point attempt failed, as a
bad snap from center forced holder Kevin
Sides to try a desperate scramble toward
the end zone.
The Black team regained the lead on
its next drive by traveling from its own
35 to the White red zone and knocking
. in a 31 -yard field goal from Bethea. The
big play of the drive occurred when Pet
ty hit a wide-open Ham over the middle
and the receiver scampered 29 yards to
the White 16-yard line. The defense held
and forced the field goal, giving the Black
team a 16-15 lead late in the third quar
ter.
The game culminated 15 days of spring
practice for South Carolina, and was
viewed by an estimated
crowd of5,500. Per Holtz’s
instructions, the Black squad
held a charity car wash Sun
day as their punishment for
losing.
The White team, led by
Watson, formed a circle at
midfield after the game,
jumping and dancing around
the painted gamecock on the
50-yard line. After his cue,
Watson raised his index
finger and “machine-gunned”
his teammates to celebrate
the victory.
Jets take Abraham. USC
linebacker John Abraham
was selected with the 13th
overall pick by the New
York Jets in the first round
of the NFL Draft on Satur
day. Abraham led the Game
cocks with six sacks and was
third on the team with six
tackles for loss in 1999.
Abraham had seven
sacks in 1998 as a defensive
end, and as a linebacker, he
made 60 tackles in 1999.
USC defensive back Ar
turo Freeman was also se
lected in the 2000 NFL Draft
Sunday as the Miami Dol
phins selected Freeman in
the fifth round (152nd over
all pick).
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Quarterback Phil Petty gets sacked by Cleveland Pinkney. The sack caused Petty
to fumble the ball to Marco Hutchinson for a touchdown.
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Arkansas ruins USC s softball Senior Day
Softball Roundup
Gamecock Sports
No. 19 South Carolina had its senior
day ruined Saturday by two tough losses
to Arkansas, 4-0 and 4-3 in 12 innings.
With the losses, USC fell to 30-21,11-12
SEC, while Arkansas moved to 32-23,11
7 SEC. Despite the losses, Carolina re
mains in second place in the SEC East be
hind Kentucky.
Arkansas 4, USC 0 (Game 1 Saturday)
The Lady Razorbacks took an early
1 -0 lead, squeezing a Brett Erickson dou
ble and an RBI single by Erin Stokey be
tween three Megan Matthews strikeouts.
Arkansas added another single run in
the second inning. After loading the bases
with a walk and back-to-back singles,
Matthews hit Kim Eiben, scoring Erick
son for her second run of the day.
Arkansas upped its lead to 3-0 in the
fourth inning when Sheri Wahrmund
opened the inning with a single to center.
After a fielder’s choice, Wharumund
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sparkling defensive plays by Kim Schultze
and Kendra McCutcheon to get runners
at the plate ended the Arkansas rally.
The Lady Razoibacks added one more
run in the sixth for the Game 1 4-0 win.
Matthews went the distance, taking the
loss. Matthews is now 19-13 on the sea
son. Rachel Talley pitched seven innings,
upping her record to 9-8.
Arkansas 4, USC 3 (Game 2 Saturday)
Matthews took the mound again in
Game 2. Arkansas took the early lead in
the second inning. Danica Howlett walked
to lead off. The walk came back to
haunt Matthews when Wahrmund dou
bled, scoring Howlett to give Arkansas a
1-0 lead.
The Lady Gamecocks scored their
first run of the day in the bottom of the
sixth inning. Carolina started the two-out
rally with a double to center by Adrienne
Genovese. Debralee Troesh tied the game
with her fifth double of the season, scor
ing Genovese.
USC threatened in the bottom of the
seventh, getting a base hit by Danielle
Quinones and a McCutcheon fielder’s
choice. But, Arkansas pitcher Tammy Kin
caid got out of the jam.
In the bottom of the eighth, leadoff
batter Sondra Hall reached on an error,
but once again Kincaid snuffed the USC
rally.
With a runner on second in the 10th
inning and a fielder’s choice to open the
inning, Arkansas took the lead. Erickson
doubled to deep right field, scoring both
runners and taking a 3-1 lead.
USC cut the lead to 3-2 in the bot
tom of the tenth with a Hall sacrifice fly
to center field. McCutcheon reached on
a bunt single and scored on a clutch sin
gle to left center, but Genovese was thrown
out at the plate on the play, sending the
game to the 11th.
Arkansas finally broke through in the
12th, scoring one on an Erickson double
with the basesjjpaded. The Lady G aline
cock defense came up big with two outs
on the play to end the rally. But, Arkansas’
last run would provide the Lady ‘Backs
with the 4-3 win in USC’s longest game
of the season.
The Lady Gamecocks ended No. 7
LSU’s team record 19-game winning streak
with a 6-2 win in Game 1, while the Tigers
(40-8,14-2 SEC) came back to win Game
2 6-0 in a doubleheader Friday at Beck
ham Field.
use 6, LSU 2 (Game 1 Friday)
The Game 1 win broke a winning
streak dating to a March 17 loss to Auburn.
The six runs allowed were the second
most allowed all season and the most ever
in a Tiger loss.
The Tigers threatened in the first itr
ning with back-to-back singles by Stephanie
Hastings and Tara Asbill. Shaunte’ Fremin
was hit by a Matthews pitch to load the
bases with two outs. Matthews got Stacey
Newtown to ground out to Schultze to
end the Tiger rally.
Carolina br>ke out for four run- in
the bottom of the second inning. The La
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