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Schedule
■ Baseball vs. Louisiana Lafayette, 7 p.m. Friday
■ Baseball vs. Louisiana Lafayette, 7 p.m. Saturday
■ Baseball vs. Louisiana Lafayette, 1 p.m. Sunday (if nec.)
Kinloch
leaves
program
Forward transfers
to Tennessee Tech
by Jeff Romig
Sports Editor
After the commitments of Rolando
Howell, Michael Boynton and Greg Tay
lor last Fall, Eddie Fogler had a decision
to make.
Fogler would enter the 2000-01 sea
son with 14 potential scholarship stu
dent-athletes, but only 13 scholarships
available.
Damien Kinloch solved the problem.
On May 19, Fogler announced that
the sophomore forward had left the Game
cock basketball program to transfer to
Tennessee Tech where he will play for
former USC assistant coach Jeff Lebo,
who earned Ohio Valley Conference
Coach of the Year honors last season.
Kinloch see page n
USC signees
lead Mauldin
to state title
by Jeff Romig
Sports Editor
UNION - David Marchbanks and Chris
Carter shared positions this season - when
one pitched, the other played right field.
This equation worked as they led
Mauldin to the AAAA state champi
onship with a 8-3 victory over Richland
Northeast on May 19. Next year, they
will share a room in the Roost.
All year long, USC baseball coach
Ray Tanner has credited his team's suc
cess to the depth of his pitching staff. It's
about to get deeper.
Marchbanks, who went 134 in 2000,
is a 6-3 left-hander who throws in the low
90s and Carter, who finished 8-1, is a 6
1 right-hander who is consistently clocked
in the mid 80s.
Signees see page n
Sean Rayford Sports Photo Editor
The Gamecocks went on to win the regional, defeating Wake Forest 6-1 on Saturday and 8-4 on Sunday. USC will host Louisiana Lafayette
this weekend in the Super Regional.
One step closer
Gamecocks within two
victories of World Series
by Jeff Romig
Sports Editor
At the beginning of the collegiate
baseball season, every coach will state
his team’s goal as making it to Omaha.
In January, Ray Tanner followed suit,
and set the Gamecocks’goal as nothing
less than the College World Series.
They’re one step away.
The host-Gamecocks blew through
their regional last weekend defeating
Liberty 6-4 on Friday and Wake Forest
6-1 on Saturday and 8-4 on Sunday.
Bouknight named
player of the year
• USC pitcher Kip Bouknight has
picked up another honor, being
named national player of the yearby
Collegiate Baseball magazine.
Bouknight is 16-1 with a 2.87
ERA and 129 strikeouts. The SEC
player of the year won his first 3 5
games, before losing to Kentucky in
the opening round of the conference
tournament
'Bouknight is scheduled to start
tire sups-regional game Friday night
I jgainst Louisiana Lafayetta .
“I’m really proud of this team and
what they’ve been able to accomplish,”
Tanner said after Sunday’s win.
“We’ve been a tough group all sea
son long. I’ve said many times that
we’re not the most talented team in
th world, but we play hard.”
That work ethic provided results
on the field and those results provided
recognition.
The Gamecocks were the No. 1
team in the nation over the final half of
the season and were rewarded first with
the chance to host a regional, and now
USC will host the University of Louisiana
at Lafayette this weekend in the Super
Regional, a best-of-three format.
If the Gamecocks can defeat the
Ragin’ Cajuns, they will be on their way
to Omaha. The Gamecocks, however,
aren’t looking past Louisiana Lafayette.
“I don’t worry about a complacent
attitude,” Tanner said. “(The players)
know that we’re not that good We’re
not that good
“We can’t just show up and people
are going to be in awe of us and lay
down. It just doesn’t happen.”
The Gamecocks know they’re in
for a tough matchup, but with the Game
cock faithful cheering them on, the edge
is theirs.
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Sean Ravford Sports Photo toiTOR
The No. 1 Gamecocks celebrate after their 6-4 victory over Liberty on
Friday night at Sarge Frye Field.
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