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Inside: Schedule Cloningerbids farewell, Charlie Wallace re- a Basebal1 al UNC Asheville, 3 p.m. , ^ , , , „ ■ Softball vs. Georgia Southern (DH), 5 caps seasons for Gamecock football, bas- _ r p.m. ketball and baseball teams - ■ Track & field at Penn Relays (Philadelphia), Thu.-Sat. Page B10 ^OlC 03t11CCOCk Wednesday, April 26,2000 Gamecocks remain in No. 1 spot Baseball Roundup Gamecock Sports The South Carolina baseball team retained its unanimous No. 1 ranking Monday after an other undefeated week, going 5-0. The Game cocks, winners of 16 straight games, beat David son and No. 7 Clentson in two midweek games, then swept conference foe Kentucky in a three-game series at Lexington over the week end. USC will continue its road trip with a game at UNC-Asheville at 3 p.m. today, and will follow with a three-game SEC series at home against Georgia starting Friday. South Carolina 18, Kentucky 6 (Sunday) Trey Dyson hontered for a fifth consec utive game, Tripp Kelly hit a grand slam and ! Nate Janowicz set a school record with six hits as USC crushed Kentucky, 18-6. Carolina, which opened the season with a 22-game winning streak, improved its record to 41-4 and its SEC-leading mark to 18-3. Kentucky dropped to 29-13-1,7-12-1 in the SEC. Junior pitcher Peter Bauer scattered eight hits over the first seven innings, allowing three runs, to raise his season record to 8-0. Scott Wide (74), the first of five Kentucky pitch ers, took the loss. USC used two big innings to break open the game, scoring six runs in the third and nine in the seventh. The Gamecocks scored single runs in the fourth, eighth and ninth innings. They collected a season-high 19 hits for a to tal of 50 hits in the series, along with 44 runs and 12 home runs. Dyson hit a two-run homer in the third inning and Kelly homered with the bases loaded in the seventh. It was Kelly’s second grand . slam of the year and his 15th home run. Dyson’s ' homer was his eighth overall and liis fifth in five games during the past week. Janowicz had six singles, tying the school record for most hits in a game and establishing a new record for singles. The previous record was five.. Everyone in USC’s starting lineup had at least one hit. A fourth-inning triple by Bry on Jeffcoat was the 19th for the Gamecocks, setting a new modem-era record for triples. Kentucky scored all of its runs in the fi nal four innings. The Wildcats collected 11 hits, including Beau Moore’s fourth homer, which came in the seventh inning. Andy Green, Aaron McGlone and Robert Newton had two '.hiis each for Kentucky. South Carolina 11, Kentucky 10 (10 innings) (Saturday Game 2) and South Carolina 15, Kentucky 5 (Saturday Game 1) The Gamecocks hit 10 home runs in a doubleheader Saturday but needed an unearned run in the 10th inning of the nightcap to sweep Kentucky, 15-5 and 11-10. The rivals played two games Saturday due to the postponement of Friday’s game because of bad weather. Kip Bouknight was reached for 12 hits in the first six innings of Game 1 but claimed his 12th consecutive win of the season. John Wfes ley, 2-1, was credited with the second- game win after blowing a save opportunity when Kentucky sent the game into extra innings with a four-run, ninth inning rally. Scott Barber saved both games, working three innings in the first and a one-two-three 10th inning in the second game.Barber has 10 saves. Brandon Webb (5-3) took the loss in the first game and Josh Paxton took the loss in the nightcap. Switch-hitting catcher Brandon Pack hit three home runs in the doubleheader. He home red from both sides of the plate in the first game with two teammates on base each time, then hit a solo homer left-handed, his 14th of the season, in the second game. Dyson had a solo home run in hot games Saturday. Kelly also homered i each game, knocking two, three-ru: shots for a six-RBI day. Pack had sev en RBIs in the doubleheader, and Dyso; had four. Other South Carolina homers wer hit by Marcus McBeth, his seventh Nate Janowicz, his fifth, and Chri Plummer, also his fifth. Andy Green hit his seventh horn run for Kentucky in the first game, an the Wildcats took a 5-0 lead in the sec ond game on a first-inning grand slan by Aaron McGlone. Pack nominated. South Carolina junio catcher Pack is one of 40 finalists fo the Johnny Bench National Collegial Catcher of the Year award, presentei by the Greater Wichita Area Sport Commission. The list will be broket down to 10 semifinalists by May 15 The Salt Lake City, Utah, native i batting .306 on the year with 14 homi runs and 53 RBIs. Defensively, Pack has commit ted only three errors in 386 chances The award will be announced June 2( and is voted on by a panel of sports writers, sportscasters, scouts and Di vision I coaches. Projected regionals set Baseball Amer ica sized up the 64 teams eligible fo: the NCAA tournament. With 41 wins USC is virtually assured of making the tournament. If the Gamecocks continue theii winning ways, Baseball Amend predicted USC would play host anc No. 1 seed in its own regional, playinj with Rutgers, Coastal Carolina and The Citadel. AMY GOULDING rHOTO tDITOR The USC baseball team celebrates after another victory. After sweeping a weekend series with Kentucky, the Gamecocks retained their No. 1 ranking heading into tonight’s matchup at UNC-Asheville. Gamecocks among SEG Leaders ' Several members of the USC baseball leant are among the statistical leaders in the Southeastern Conference, (category, name, number, place (T-tie)) Hitting Statistics RBb Brandon Pack 53 T5 Triples Brennan Dees 5 3 NateJanowicz 4 T4 Home Runs Tripp Kelly 15 T3 Brandon Pack 14 T4 Stolen Bases NateJanowicz 18 T6 At Bats Brennan Dees 194 T7 Steal Attempts Nate Janowicz 21 T7 Pitching Statistics ERA Scott Barber 1.90 1 Kip Botiknight 2.41 3 Peter Bauer 3.01 8 Opponent's Scott Baiter 2216 1 Batting Avg. KipBouknight .219 4 Peter Bauer .230 6 Innings Kip Bouknight 97.0 2 Pitched Peter Bauer 80.2 6 Strikeouts K?) Bouknight 105 1 Peter Bauer 70 7 Strikeouts KipBouknight 31 12 (Looking) Peter Bauer 25 4 Wins KipBouknight 12 1 Peter Bauer 8 T3 Saves Scott Barber 10 T2 Appearances Scott Barber 21 T4 Games Kip Boukniglit 13 T3 Started Peter Bauer 12 T4 Games Scott Barber 15 3 Finished Fielding Statistics Fielding Marcus McBeth 1.000 T1 Percentage Chances Tripp Kelly 417 4 Brandon Pack 386 7 Putouts Tnpp Kelly 393 4 Assists Drew Meyer 130 T5 Golf teams finish seasons Golf Roundup K fa Gamecock Sports The No. 23 USC men’s golf team posted the best team round of the day Sunday and surged to a fourth-place fin ish at the 61st annual SE£ Men’s Golf Championships. No. 4 Georgia shot a final-round 288 and held off second place Auburn to capture the team title. Gamecock junior Kyle Thompson had the best individual round of the tour nament (six-under 66) and finished in a tie for eighth place at one-over 217. The 66 on Sunday was a 12-slroke im provement from Friday’s opening-round 78, vaulting the Columbia na tive from 27th to eighth on the final day. As a team, USC im proved each day, going from 308 on Friday to 292 on Sat urday before finishing with 280 on Sunday. Carolina moved from 11 th, after the opening round to fourth, and finished just three strokes behind third place Missis sinni State. Georgia’s team total of 852 outlasted Auburn’s 854 for the title. The Tigers shot a final-round 281 to cut the lead back from nine after the second day to the two-shot margin. Auburn’s Roland Thatch er shot a final round 68 to win individual medalist hon ors. Thatcher had a three round score of ' 208 and fin : ished three shots ahead of Mississippi State’s Alex Rocha, Auburn’s Jason Dufiier and Geor gia’s Erik Compton, who each had three round scores of 211. Georgia’s Michael Morrison rounded out the top five, at 212. The Gamecocks had four of their five players shoot at par or below Sunday. Freshman Michael Maness had an even-par 72 and finished tied for 19th (222), while senior Eric Ecker also had a 72 on Sunday and finished tied for 29th place (225). Rounding out Carolina’s individuals were freshman Scott Feast er (7Q on Sunday, 225 total, T29th place) and junior John Bloomfield (75, 226, T35th). Carolina now awaits word on a bid to the NCAA East Regional, held May 18-20, in Scranton, Pa. The No. 17 USC women’s golf team posted a final-round 319 on Sunday and finished ninth at the 2000 SEC Women’s Golf Championship. Auburn held off a late LSU surge and captured the 2000 title by two strokes of the par-72,5,943 yard course. South Carolina finished with a three day 959 score, with two golfers break ing the 80 barrier. Freshman Kristy McPherson capped off a strong show ing in her first SEC tourney, shooting a 74 on Sunday and finishing in 11th place with a 230 total. Senior Apryl Arrants carded an 8Ion Sunday and finished in a tie for 37th place, at 243. Classmate Emma Lofgren had a 79 and finished one stroke back of Arrants in 41st place. Junior Stefanic Reynolds was 45th with a 247 total (85 Sunday) while freshman Kacy Thomp son finished tied for 52nd place with a 252 total (85 on Sunday). Auburn led from start to finish with consistent rounds, following back-to back 306 rounds with a 307 on Sunday. The Tigers edged out Louisiana State by two strokes as LSU posted a 298 on Sunday to cut nine strokes off the Auburn lead. Tennessee remained in third place with a 925 total, while No. 2 Georgia (932) and Mississippi State (938) rounded out the top five. Caroli na’s 959 three-day total was 40 strokes back of Auburn. Carolina now awaits word for a bid to the NCAA East Regional, to be held May 11 -13 in Columbus,- Ohio. TO&^COCKSPO^r Junior Kyle Thompson had the best individual round o the SEC tournament over the weekend. USC Track & field fares well at , USCTA National Invitationals Track & Field RounDUP Gamecock Sports A trio of South Carolina track ath letes either maintained or took over the No. 1 spot nationally today with the Gamecocks winping three events and qualifying 15 for the NCAA Champi onships at the USTCA National Invita tional Team Championships in Austin, Tex. Sophomore speedster Miki Barber had her feet in three new school records for USC - the 400m, the 4x 100m relay and the 4x400m relay. At the first-ever National Invitational Team Championship, the South Caroli na women, ranked No. 3 nationally, were fourth with 82 points, just two points be hind Nebraska. The Gamecock men, ranked No. 14 nationally, were 11 th, with 30 points. Texas’ men and women both won the team titles. Jimmie Hackley shattered both the school and Mike A. Meyers Stadium record to win the 400m, at 45.64. His time also is the fastest time by a Collegiate athlete in 2000. The women’s 4x400m relay, anchored by Miki Barber, broke the school record by more than a second to finish as the runner-up to Southern Cal, at 3:31.61. Nationally, the time was the second fastest behind Southern Cal’s 3:31.31 in the same race. The relay consisted of El lakisha Williamson, Demetria Washing ton, Tacita Bass and Miki Barber. Miki Barber wonjthe 400m with a season-best and NCAA-automatic lime of 51.54 - a school record. Teammate Demetria Washington was the runner-up with ;ut NCAA-automatic and lifetime best time of 51.96. “What a beautiful race for Demetria. That was her best race ever outdoors,” said men’s coach Curtis Frye. Terrence Trammell won the 110m hurdles with a season-best 13.30 time. Trammell also r;m the second leg of the winning 4x100m relay at 39.25. Trammell was joined on the relay by Clint Crenshaw, Jimmie Hackley and Corey Taylor. “Terrence ran a smart hurdles race with such a strong wind. A strong wind makes a slower hurdler faster but can wreak havoc on a faster hurdler be cause it pushes them into the hurdler faster - a good race,” Frye said. Ellakisha Williamson was the runner up in the 100m hurdles with a season best and NCAA-automatic time of 12.93, just .01 off her lifetime best. Jackie Madi son was sixth, at 13.18. “That’s a great race for Ellakisha with wins over Houston’s Jenny Adams and Texas’ Nicole Hoxie.”. Charleston’s Rodena Barr shattered the school record by more than two feet to finish fourth and provisionally qualify for the NCAAs, at 42’ 4. Williamson was later third in the 400m hurdles at 58.50 - an NCAA pro visional mark. Tacita Bass was fifth, at 1:00.54. The women’s 4x100m relay (Lisa Barber, Miki Barber, Mechelle Lewis and Washington) was tliird at 44.22, tin NCAA provisional time. The time is a school record. Lisa Barber was sixth in the 100m, with an NCAA-provisional mark of 11.45. ** Lewis was seventh, at 11.50. Lewis was later fourth in the 200m with an NCAA provisional mark of 23.33, a personal best. On the women’s side, Candy Mitchell was fourth in the javelin with an NCAA provisional improvement of 168’ 2. Lynette Keepler was eighth in the shot put, at 47’. Alana Robinson was third in the discus, at 162’ 5. Andrea Hallmon was seventh in the 800m, at 2:13.26, and Kristina Brown was ninth, at 2:16.84, Anjoinette Wilks was 10th in the long jump with a mark of 20' 1 and was 10th in the triple jump at 39’9 3/4. Loren Thouvenot was 11 th in the hammer with a season-best toss of 171’ 5. Joyce Peebles was 11 th in the 1500m, at 4:44.97. Kylene Nixon was ninth in he pole vault, at 11 ’ 9 . On the men’s side, CJ Anderson was 11th in the high jump with a season best jump of 6’8 . Tennis teams lose in early matches of SEC Tourney The USC men’s tennis team lost 4-1 against the Auburn Tigers in the first round of the SEC tournament in Starkville, Miss., Thursday. The Gamecocks were blanked by the Tigers, with the exception of South Gtrolina’s second team All-SEC member Guillaume Legat defeating Mark Kpvacs in the first set, 6-2. Kovacs retired in the second set when he sprained his an kle, giving the match to Legat to give the Gamecocks a point towards the compe tition. The doubles team of Jerome Jourdon mid David Nelson also won their match over Geoiges Matijasevic and Tiago Ruf foni, 8-5. Seth Rose brought in the clos est match of the day when he fell, 64,6 4 to No. 86 Ruffoni. The Gamecocks will return to Co lumbia to wait for the NCAA selection committee's announcements for the team, individuals, and doubles tournaments, which began on May 12. The sixth-seeded USC women’s ten nis team was eliminated from the SEC tournament on Friday as the No. 21 Game cocks narrowly lost to No. 10 Vanderbilt, 5-3. Carolina (15-11) now waits to learn where it will be playing in the first round of the NCAA Championships, May 12 14, at sites around the nation. Splitting singles matches 3-3, the Gamecocks and Commodores went to doubles play with the match on the line for the second time in one week. Last Fri day, Vanderbilt slipped past USC, 6-3, in Columbia. At No. 1 doubles, the No. 15 team of Kristy Blumberg and Kate Burson beat Carolina’s Leigh Eichelbetger tuid Lynn Yin-Tan, 84, giving VU a slim 4-3 lead. The Commodores clinched the match at No. 3 doubles behind Jenny Miller mid Tennis see pag> «