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SPORTS BRIEFS
Women’s basketball
to face Lady Terriers
Tomorrow afternoon, the South
Carolina women’s basketball team
(7-1) will square off against in-state
rival Wofford in a 2 p.m.
showdown at the Carolina
Coliseum. Wofford is 5-1 (1-1) after
losing its first game of the season
Wednesday night against East
Tennessee State in overtime, 76-74.
In the match versus the Lady
Bucs, Jenny Nutt led Wofford with
22 points. Phoebe Clark also led the
way for the Lady Terriers with 15
points and 10 rebounds.
USC, off to its best start in 13 years,
is averaging 77 points per game. The
Lady Gamecocks also have a strong
.473 shooting percentage.
Shaunzinski Gortman has been
impressive this season, with an
average of 18.2 points per game.
Jocelyn Penn is pulling in about 14
points per game, as well as making
2.3 steals per game. Kelly Morrone is
averaging 8.7 points per game.
16 players commit
to USC baseball
The USC baseball team has
announced that 16 players have
signed national letters of intent for the
Gamecock baseball program. Eight
players are from South Carolina
“We are very pleased with this
recruiting class,” said USC head
coach Ray Tanner. “We are off to a
great start for next year’s team, and
these athletes will be an outstanding
complement with the student-athletes
who are currently on our squad. Our
coaches do a great job recruiting, and
this group could be our third Top 10
class in the last three years.”
“We will lose 11 seniors off our
team this year and possibly four
or five draft-eligible juniors,”
Tanner said. “It is very likely that
several of these signees will also
be picked in the Major League
Baseball draft held in June.”
The signess are Forrest
Beverly, LHP; Sadry Cafe’, OF,
R/R; Michael Campbell, OF, L/L;
Nick Gardiner, OF, R/R; Conor
Lalor, RHP; Ryan Mahoney, C,
L/R; Trey McDaniel, 3B/1B, L/R;
Hank Parks, IB, R/R; Zach
Reeves, LHP; B. J. Richmond,
OF/IB, L/L; John Marshall
Smith, INF, L/R; Steven
Tolleson, INF, R/R; Nick
Touchstone, LHP; Bryan
Triplett, INF, R/R; Bobby White,
LHP; and Walker Whitley, RHP.
Game
Last-second shot
downs Gamecocks
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9
three-pointer to put his team up
by four points that a team had led
by more than three. Braswell was
able to hit a jumper with about
two and a half minutes to main
tain the run. However,
Petravicius put in a bank shot to
put USC back up by two but
wasn’t able to connect on the free
throw. Kitchings grabbed the of
fensive rebound and put it home
to force a 65-65 tie with 1:59 re
maining.
With the crowd more revved
up than it was all night, they
watched as Wilson gave
Georgetown a short-lived 67-65
lead on two foul shots.
“Our fans were great. The at
mosphere was all a coach could
hope for,” Odom said.
The Gamecocks still had more
gas in the tank, as Lucas nailed a
three-pointer in the comer to give
Carolina a one-point advantage.
With 48 seconds to go, Braswell
connected on one of two free
throws to tie the match.
Lucas drove down the court on
the ensuing possession and forced
up a missed shot in heavy traffic.
Georgetown handled the rebound,
bringing the ball back up the
court with the seconds ticking
away. After a timeout, Braswell
held the ball and hoisted the shot
to win the game.
“As soon as I saw [the game
winning shot] go up, I knew it was
in,” said Hoya coach Craig
Esherick.
This was South Carolina’s
third loss to a team ranked in the
Top 25 after falling to Duke and
UCLA last month in Maui.
Esherick gave credit to his
team after the victory, noting “the
biggest thing is that we played a
great team on their home floor
and put in a group effort.”
Now, the Gamecocks will recoup
from Thursday’s defeat and look for
ward to facing archrival Clemson
on Saturday at Littlejohn Coliseum.
“We have to make this game a con
fidence builder,” Odom said.
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