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Gamecock Sports Golf from page 10 Frogs prior to joining the Carolina staff. Those numbers have increased to nine and-six with consecutive NCAA Cham pionship showings for the Lady Game cocks in 1995 and 1996, and five NCAA Regional appearances in five of her six years at Carolina. Homegrown Talent While the Lady Gamecocks have an international flair with Sarah Kidd and Emma Lofgren, five of the nine on the roster are from South Car olina. Three of those individuals, fresh men Kristy McPherson and Kacy Thompson and senior Apryl Arrants, will be among the five competing in the 2000 SEC Championships. McPherson has led USC for ( most of the spring in stroke average (77.17) and has a team-best four Top 20 finishes. Thompson, the younger brother of USC men’s golf All-Amer ican Kyle Thompson, has a 78.48 tally, including a sixth-place showing at the Lady Gamecock Classic. Arrants is having her best season as a Lady Gamecock and has a career best 77.83 stroke average and two Top 10 finishes. Two other Carolina players, Kristin Ruble and Dallas Ambrose, hail from South Carolina. Ambrose has a 78.89 stroke average, while Ruble has an 81.00 tally in three tournaments this JV/UJUII. Five make SEC Honor Roll The South Carolina women placed five team members on the SEC Hon or Roll, with seniors Apryl Arrants (3.785 GPA, business) and Emma Lof gren (3.722, media arts) making the team for the third straight year. Junior Abby Derman (3.355, busi ness) made the team for the second time in a row, while sophomore Sarah Kidd (3.063, sport administration) and junior Stefanie Reynolds (3.611, busi ness) are on the list for the first time. Heroes from page 10 A ered again in the 11th, as the No. 1 team in the country faced a one-run deficit with one out. Given new life by an error from Clemson right field er Justin Singleton, Dyson knocked a double down the right field line, scor ing Brennan Dees and sending the game to the 12th. Rios got his only at-bat of the game in the 12th with an 8-8 score, one out and the bases loaded, thanks to two Glaser intentional walks, an infield sin gle and a passed ball. On the first pitch, Kios knocked the single that Carolina fans will remember forbears to come. Before the game, Rios had proph esied he would get the game-winning hit. He wrote his message on his taped up wrist and then calmly came through, just as he did against Mississippi State 10 days earlier. In that game, Rios hit a game-winning single to pull out USC’s third one-run win of the weekend. “I just had that feeling,” Rios said. The two players probably didn’t realize it, but they became USC leg ends in just one game. What some play ers dream of accomplishing for 15 min utes was nabbed permanently Wednesday. By cheering for Carolina, fans get swept into the history and lore of USC athletics. But, some performances such as Dyson’s and Rios’ Herculean efforts, especially against USC’s biggest rival, manage to stand out and are told over and over again by the “officials” of Gamecock history. With their performances Wednes day, Dyson and Rios became part of that history. The team as a whole, how ever, continues to write its own leg end by winning close games, refusing to lose and never giving up when the stakes are stacked against them. The reason? The team is full of un sung heroes like Dyson and Rios, who will all receive their chances to achieve. We can only hope they will do as well for themselves as the other Gamecocks have done so far this season. Men’s Tennis The USC men’s tennis team is get ting ready for the 2000 SEC Tournament to be held at Mississippi State Univer sity in Starkville. The Gamecocks have been getting ready since their final regular-season match against Kentucky last Sunday. Carolina ended the season with two wins in a row to warm up for the big week end in Mississippi. Gamecock Players To Watch: Jerome Jourdon - The senior from Coutbevoie, France, is 17-11 on the year. Jourdon had been splitting time with Guillaume Legat at the Nos. 1-2 posi tions until getting injured before the North Carolina match on March 14, 2000. He came back 10 days later to find a temporary home at the No. 3 position. Jourdon is a four-year starter who has definite tournament experience. Seth Rose - Rose stepped up his posi tion on the Gamecock squad when he came in for several injured players mid way through the season with much suc cess. He is on an eight-match winning streak that started March 31. He holds the best SEC dual-match win record for the season at 8-2. Although he’s only a freshman, Rose is a key member of the team. Guillaume Legal - Currently ranked No. 49 by the ITA, Legal has led the Game cocks for most of the season in the No. 1 and No. 2 positions with the best over all record of 26-11. His longest win streak of the dual-match season was seven in a row. Legat also has been named to the second team All-SEC team for this sea son. Steckley/Jourdon - The doubles team of Robert Steckley and Jourdon has achieved a ranking of No. 36 with an overall record of 9-6. Their biggest wins came over doubles opponents from the two top-ranked SEC teams of LSU and Tennessee. Their longest winning streak was five in a row. Women’s Tennis The sixth-seeded South Carolina women’s tennis team easily beat ilth seeded Auburn 5-2 Thursday to advance to the second round of the 2000 SEC Tournament held at the Palmer/Salloum Tennis Center on the Ole Miss campus. The Gamecocks (15-10) are now 8 8 all-time in SEC Tournament play and an impressive 7-2 in first round matches. Carolina will next face third-seed ed Vanderbilt on Friday morning (9:30 a.m. EST) in round two action. USC will be looking for revenge as the Com modores beat USC 6-3 last Friday in Co lumbia. Carolina won four singles matches against Auburn and clinched the match at No. 3 doubles with an 8-0 win by Kata rina Markovski/Catherine Brown over Summa Edwards and Carolina Maurer. In singles play, Jennifer Radman, Leigh Eichelberger, Tamara Sutton and Lynn-Yin Tan all won in straight sets. Volleyball Two of South Carolina’s volleyball recruits received outstanding accolades this week as incoming freshmen Don isa Curry and Amy Pratt both were named to the All-Stater Sports Class of 2000 Super 75 team. Curry also was tabbed a “Fab 50” prospect by Volleyball Monthly. Cur ry is the first Gamecock to be named a Fab 50 prospect since Cally Plummer in 1998. Plummer, Curry and Game cock teammate Sam Alban all played for the Dead Frogs Club team in Kalama zoo, Mich. Curry, a 6-foot-3 middle blocker, plays volleyball at Portage Northern School. Her high school team, coached by Jack Maggelson, lost in the semi-finals of the state tournament. Pratt, a 5-foot-8 setter from Chino Valley, Mich., plays volleyball at Chi no Valley High School under Jim Ward. Her mother, Peggy, is an assistant coach with her high school. She plays for the Grand Canyon Junior Club, where she is coached by Terry Smith. Both are in the heart of the club sea son, preparing for Junior Nationals this July in Louisville, Ky. Awards Three USC student athletes were recognized Thursday at the school’s an nual campus-wide Awards Day cere mony on the Horseshoe. Ellakisha Williamson, a senior hurdler on USC’s No. 2 ranked women’s track and field team, received the Fe male Student Athlete of the Year award. Jerome Jourdon, a two-time All SEC performer on the men's tennis team, was named the Male Student Athlete of the Year and also received the Out standing Male Scholar Athlete Award. Cheryl Lemon, of the swimming and diving team, received the Out standing Female Scholar Athlete Award. Williamson, a native of Albany, N. Y, is a four-time track All-American and helped lead the Gamecocks to the 1999 SEC Outdoor Track championship. She won the 100 meters and 400 meter hur dles titles at the 1999 SEC Champi onships and was on the winning 4 x 400 meter relay at the ‘99 SEC meet. * Williamson is a three-time SEC cham yiuu. Jourdon is a two-time NCAA Tour nament participant and two-time All SEC selection. He has been ranked among the nation’s top 40 players, throughout his career. He carries a 3.89 GPA in business management. Lemon, a native of Westville, N.J., has a 3.827 GPA in biology. She was a top-25 finisher at the 1998 SEC Cham pionships and a top-20 diver at the 1997 SEC Championships. Men’s golf The South Carolina men’s golf team had four team members make the SEC honor roll, led once again by seniors Lars Cederqvist and Christoffer Ekebergh. Also, juniors Brent Roof and Kyle Thompson made the list. Gamecocks from page 10 logic and keep winning? In baseball, even the good teams lose a lot, right? Not necessarily. First of all, a great team it brings two things to the ball park every day - pitching and defense. The Gamecocks certainly have the pitching. Kip Bouknight, Peter Bauer and Scott Barber make up the “Killer B’s,” who have a combined record of 24 wins and only one loss. Seven Gamecock pitchers have an ERA under 3.00, and the pitching staff has five shutouts. Brett Price has pitched extremely well in his five starts, and Chris Spigner made a'triumphant return to the rotation with a combined shutout over Davidson on Tuesday. The defense is solid all around the diamond, but especially in the outfield and behind the plate. Mafcus Me Beth has yet to make an error in center field and routinely runs down balls that would be base hits against most teams. Brandon Pack anchors the catch ing position, having made only three errors and throwing out 13 of 29 base runners who have attempted to steal. The combination of pitching and defense has limited opposing hitters to a minuscule batting average of .214, a number unheard of in college base ball. In 43 games, the opposing team has scored only 144 runs. Perhaps even more astounding is that opposing hit ters have hit only 20 home runs. Which brings us to the.Gamecock offense, the supposed weak spot of the team, which has hit 66 home runs and scored 336 times. What makes the of fense look weak, at least on paper, is the lack of a hitting superstar. But what makes this team so dangerous offensively is that everyone in the lineuD can hit. Chris Plummer brings the lowest batting average of a regular starter at .280. Five Gamecocks are hitting better than .300. Compare those numbers to their opponents’, and you begin to see this offense is pretty dominating when the pitching keeps up. Besides, this certainly isn’t an of fense that can’t come back from a few runs down. USC repeatedly has come from behind this season in late-inning rallies to secure a win. The team also has the strength of' a wonderful coaching staff, led by head coach Ray Tanner. Tanner is in his fourth season at South Carolina, knows baseball as well as anybody and has a special rapport with his players that seems to bring out the best in them every game. Finally, this team has an intangi ble - heart. They play with emotion, led by Bouknight, who is the other players refer to as their emotional leader. They pull for each other, theyl rely on each other and most irnpor-" tantly, they have confidence in each teammate, whether he’s pitching star or a backup catcher, and this lets them play their type of baseball game. The scouts may come to the games very interested in Peter Bauer, but they also should open their eyes Co take a look at some other players, especial ly Bouknight, who has done nothing but win since coming here and has proven himself to be a team leader with his charisma and examples. I’m not going to jinx this team by predicting great things for them in the college postseason, but howev er far they go, rest assured this is the best baseball team that has probably ever taken Sarge Frye, including the ’ 1975 team to which everyone keeps comparing them. And right now, they’re the best baseball team in the country. And I don’t think that’s going to change anv time soon. Gamecock Sports Only for the strong-hearted. 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