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8 THE GAMECOCK ♦ Friday, March 8, 2002
GAME SCHEDULE
POMT'APT TN TRACK AND FIELD at NCAA Indoor Championships
VjUiA IrlVJ 1 UO in Fayetteville, Ark., Friday
Story ideas? Questions? Comments? BASEBALL vs. Seton Hall, 7:30 p.m. Friday
E-mail us at gamecocksports@hotmail.com SOFTBALL vs. Arkansas, 1 p.m. Saturday (doubleheader)
BASEBALL vs. Seton Hall, 4 p.m. Saturday
Baseball gets just enough
PHOTO BY ROBERT GRUEN
The USC baseball team squeaked by William & Mary 6-5 on Wednesday at Sarge Frye Field. The Gamecocks will play a three-game home series starting today
versus Seton Hall. The game Is scheduled for a 7 p.m. start.
use SPRING BREAK BASEBALL GAMES
Friday, March 8 Seton Hall 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 9 _ Seton Hall 4 p.m.
Sunday, March 10_ Seton Hall 1:30 p.m. j S
Tuesday, March 12 Purdue_7 p.m.
Wednesday, March^l3 Davidson 7 p.m.
Friday, March 15 at Mississippi State 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 16 at Mississippi State_3:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 17 at Mississippi State 2:30 p.m.
Bold text indicates Southeastern Conference games.
m W&M 5
g USC 6
USC defeats
William &
Mary on Dyson
single in ninth
BY J. KEITH ALLEN
THE GAMECOCK
Just 13 games into the season,
the USC baseball team has already
seen its share of dramatic games.
After losing two heartbreakers to
Clemson this past weekend, the
fourth-ranked Gamecocks topped
William & Mary 6-5 in another
nail-biter Wednesday night at
Sarge Frye Field.
With the score tied at five in the
bottom of the ninth inning, USC
head coach Ray Tanner called on
Trey Dyson to pinch hit. With
Drew Meyer on second base,
Dyson connected on the 3-1 pitch
and put the ball into shallow cen
ter field, just beyond the reach of
William & Mary shortstop John
Lentz. Meyer scored to win the
game.
Tanner reserved Dyson in case
of such a key situation.
“You don’t use your money guy
until you really have an opportu
nity to win it,” Tanner said.
“When you’ve got guys like Dyson
on the bench, you’re going to use
them when the game is on the line,
not earlier.”
Carolina came out of the gate
swinging, leading off the game
with a Jon Coutlangus walk, a
Meyer opposite-field double and a
Steve Thomas single. The
Gamecocks were able to score
three quick runs off William &
Mary starter Hunter Barden in
the first inning.
USC starting pitcher Tony
Adler cruised through the first
three innings without surrender
ing a hit and struck out six Tribe
batters before William & Mary
came alive in the fourth inning:
The Tribe (9-5) scored five runs
on two singles, a double, a walk
and a grand slam by right fielder
♦ BASEBALL, SEE PAGE 9
Richardson
firing not
due to news
conference
BY JENNY MARBERRY
(UNIVERSITY OF) ARKANSAS TRAVELER
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (U-WIRE) -
The decision to fire former
Arkansas men’s basketball head
coach Nolan Richardson appar
ently was reached Feb. 24, before
Richardson’s disparaging re
marks at a Feb. 25 news confer
ence, according to correspon
dences between Richardson’s at
torneys and University of
Arkansas lawyers.
UA Chancellor John A. White
and athletics director Frank
Broyles already had discussed re
moving Richardson, who also was
an assistant athletics director, be
fore the Monday news conference,
according to a letter from UA
General Counsel Fred Harrison to
Richardson’s attorney John
Walker.
A series of letters was released
to the media Wednesday under the
Arkansas Freedom of Information
Act.
The content of the letters pre
viously was undisclosed, because
UA attorneys said they were of a
personal nature and protected un
der privacy laws.
Walker wrote in a letter to
White that Richardson intends to
appeal the reasons for his termi
nation to UA System President B.
Alan Sugg, who will have the final
say on the decision.
Walker wrote a letter to White
on Monday, saying Richardson did
not express his “desire” to have
♦ RICHARDSON, SEE PAGE 9
Gamecocks in Atlanta
PHOTO BY ROBERT GRUEN
Aaron Lucas and the USC men's basketball team defeated Ole
Miss on Thursday night, 69-67. The Gamecocks will face
Kentucky next. See www.dailygamecock.com for game story.
No. 24 Lady Gamecocks
sweep doubleheader
BY MATT ROTHENBERG
THE (iAMECOCK
The No. 24 USC softball team
swept a doubleheader Wednesday
afternoon against UNC
Greensboro at Beckham Field.
With strong pitching and time
ly hitting, Carolina (15-6) shut out
the Spartans 6-0 in the opener
and followed with a 9-1 win in the
nightcap. These games were the
Lady Gamecocks’ final test before
SEC play begins this weekend.
USC 6, UNCG 0
In the first game, the Lady
Gamecocks got on the board early
with four runs in the first inning.
Debralee Troesh’s groundout
with the bases loaded scored Jodi
Fittro for USC’s first run. Melissa
Sandel followed with a two-run
single, scoring Troesh and Amber
Curtis. Meghan Cornett also came
home on an error by Spartan
pitcher Jessica Vanderploeg (3-2).
The Spartans’ sloppy play result
ed in six errors for the game, in
cluding three in the first inning.
Carolina added another run in
the third inning when Cornett
scored on Kristin Hall’s single,
and they scored again in the fifth
as Sandel scored on an error.
Sandel went 2-3 with a triple and
2 RBIs in the first game.
USC starter Megan Matthews
(8-2) was particularly sharp in
game one, as she notched her third
straight shutout. Matthews threw
a two-hitter and struck out seven
in the complete game victory.
“I just go out there and give my
best,” Matthews said. “You can’t
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PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK
Plcther Megan Matthews pitched her third straight shutout In
game one of Wednesday’s doubleheader.
get too ahead of yourself; just take it as USC forced the mercy rule in a
one batter and one game at a time.” five-inning affair. Behind 1-0 ear
ly, Carolina broke out with a
USC 9, UNCG1 four-run third inning.
With Fittro and Aleca
Solid pitching and two big in- Johnson on base, Troesh tripled
nings paved the way for the Lady
Gamecocks in the second game, ♦ SOFTBALL, SEE PAGE 9