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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
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