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BRIEFLY
NCAA violations
reported by USC
COLUMBIA (AP) -The USC
football program reported eight
secondary NCAA violations from
May through December. Three of
the violations involved the foot
ball team.
Each violation was ruled sec
ondary by the NCAA, which ac
cepted the corrective action tak
en by the university’s athletic de
partment and involved letters of
reprimand in most cases, athlet
ics spokesman Kerry Tharp said.
The Greenville News acquired
the information through a
Freedom of Information Act re
quest. The coaches and athletes
involved were not named.
The three football violations re
ported were:
- Two players attending sum
mer school at a junior college re
ceived tutoring from USC while
not enrolled at the university.
Both have reimbursed the school,
Tharp said.
- A player received more than
the SEC allotment of four tickets
for a home game.
- A walk-on player signed his
complimentary guest card allow
ing family members to attend a
game but then had guests admit
ted who were not family mem
oers.
The track and field team also
reported three violations, includ
ing a coach paying for athletes’
meals, an athlete competing with
out being listed on the official
squad list, and an athlete who
competed before being certified
as eligible.
One violation involved athletes
from several sports. Four players
had their names and pictures “as
sociated improperly with com
mercial entities,” the school said.
That involved a weekly athlete
of-the-week feature in the publi
cation Spurs & Feathers, Tharp
said.
The final reported violation in
volved men’s basketball player
Marius Petravicius, who was de
clared ineligible for playing for a
team that was a member of a
European pro league. He was sus
pended for three games before he
regained his eligibility.
Men’s golf finishes
9th in tournament
Three Gamecocks finished in
the top 25 of the Cleveland Golf
Augusta State Invitational this
past weekend to elevate USC’s
men’s golf team to a ninth-place
finish.
USC combined for a three
round total of 859. SEC foe
Tennessee blasted an 841 to lead
the 18-team field. Wake Forest fin
ished second while Clemson
placed third.
Martin Rominger continued
his success for Carolina with his
fifth top-20 finish of the season.
Rominger shot a 209 to finish in a
tie for 10th place.
Freshman teammate Alex
Hamilton shot a 67 in the final
round to vault him to 17th place,
his first top-20 finish of the season.
Hamilton posted a three-round to
tal of 211.
Also cracking the top 25 was
sophomore Brent Delahoussaye.
Delahoussaye fired a 213 to tie for
21st.
Carolina returns to action
April 19-21 at the SEC
Championships in Sea Island, Ga.
Last season, the Gamecocks fin
ished in seventh place.
Women’s golf plays
solid final round but
only finishes in 3rd
The USC women’s golf team
posted its best score of the
LSU/Cleveland Golf Classic on
Sunday by firing a 302, the best
round by any team for the day.
Auburn fired a 304 to win the
tournament, but the Lady
Gamecocks finished with a score
of 911, holding off Vanderbilt for
third place by two strokes.
Junior All-American Kristy
McPherson and sophomore
Adrienne Gautreaux led the Lady
Gamecocks, as each finished five
over (221) for the tournament and
in a tie for fifth place. McPherson
now has four top-five finishes on
the season, and Gautreaux now
has two. Gautreaux fired a one
over 73 on Sunday, while
McPherson shot a four-over 76.
Softball
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leads in slugging percentage (.558)
and on-base percentage (.435).
Kim Evans and Melissa Sandel
are second and third in hitting
with averages of .318 and .317.
Evans leads the team with Jodi
Fittro in runs scored with 26,
while Sandel has been on an of
fensive tear of late, knocking ir
Sunday’s winning run.
Amber Curtis has team-lead
ing numbers in doubles (nine)
home runs (five), and RBIs (25;
while batting .304.
On the mound, Carolina is lec
by senior Megan Matthews
Matthews is 15-4 with a 1.37 ERA
and 147 strikeouts this season
Matthews also has nine shutouts
Stacey Johnson sports an 8-E
record and a 1.69 ERA with 77
strikeouts, while SEC Pitcher of
the Week Aleca Johnson (6-1,1.91
ERA) comes off a big week where
she notched three victories and
struck out 13 in 8 2/3 innings.
First pitch forWednesday’s
doubleheader and Thursday’s se
ries finale is 5 p.m.
Comments on this story?E-mail
gamecocksports@hotmail.com
Quick Shots
♦ Megan Matthews is 19
strikeouts away from claiming the
- USC career strikeout record. With
four starts this week, she could
claim that this weekend.
♦ The strikeout record is held by
former standout Trinity Johnson,
who had 1,032 strikeouts in her
career from 1995-97.
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