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scoring with a two-run home run
in the sixth inning.
Quinones, who went 4-for-6
Saturday with four RBIs, noted
the importance of beating
Kentucky after the Georgia loss.
“That was a cheap loss,” she
said. “We just came out here and
played like we knew we could play.”
Game 3: USC 2,
Kentucky 0
Sunday afternoon, the Lady
Gamecocks used a two-run fifth
inning to sweep Kentucky.
Cornett hit a solo home run and
Jodi Fittro singled in Baggetta to
complete the day’s scoring.
Matthews again got the start and
pitched six scoreless innings while
allowing six hits and striking out
five. Aleca Johnson came in for re
lief and earned her fifth save of the
season. A pair of wins in the series
improved Matthews’ record to 18-5.
Compton brought in Aleca
Johnson on Sunday to give her
some innings this weekend.
“When we can save an inning
here and there, it will help us to
wards the end of the season,” she
said. Aleca Johnson “wasn’t seeing
as many innings this weekend, so we
just wanted her to get a little action. ’’
With nine strikeouts over the
weekend, Matthews needs only
three more to break the old USC
record of 1,032 set by Trinity
Johnson, and she should do so this
coming weekend at Florida.
Matthews reflected on the possi
bility of setting the record at home.
“I really would have liked to,”
she said. “But I was just trying to
go out and do what I could do.
“I give Trinity Johnson credit.
She (set the record) in three years,
but me, I’ll do it in four. I realize that
she had one less year than I will, but
I like the win column in the end. ”
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Women’s track
breaks record
USC track and field head coach
Curtis Frye was pleased when the
Sea Ray Relays were over.
It might have been the colle
giate record his women’s 400
meter relay team set or the four
school records his teams broke.
Or maybe it was junior Aleen
Bailey, who was named MVP
of the meet.
I Any of them gave Frye reason
to smile as his women’s team,
ranked No. 4 nationally, and his
men’s team, ranked No. 12, con
tinue to improve each week.
Bailey was named MVP after
winning the 200 meters with the
world’s best time this year (22.84
seconds), and then she won the
100 meters with the world’s
third fastest time at 11.33.
The women’s 400m relay team
--
BRIEFLY
of Tiffany Ross, Lashinda Demus,
Lisa Barber and Demetria
Washington ran a time of 3 min
utes, 26.98 seconds, breaking
Texas’ collegiate record from 1999
(3:27.38). The time is a school
record, an NCAA automatic time
and the best time in the world for
a 400m relay in 2002. USC also
holds the collegiate record in
doors in the same event.
The women won two other re
lay events on Sunday: the 100
meter relay with a time 44.33,
and the 100-meter shuttle hurdle
relay — with a school and meet
record of54.28.
The men also put up a good
time in the 400m relay, finish
ing second to Tennessee with an
NCAA automatic time of 3:02.49
— breaking the school record
for the second time in 2002.
Women’s tennis
team falls short
The 19th-ranked USC women’s
tennis team had their upset bid
fall short Saturday afternoon as
the 2nd-ranked Florida Gators es
caped Columbia with a 4-2 win in
the final regular season match for
both teams.
USC fell to 14-6 overall and
7-4 in the SEC. Florida, mean
while, improved to 16-1 overall
and 10-1 in the SEC.
USC jumped out to a 1-0 lead »
in the match by taking two dou
bles matches for the valuable
doubles point. Carolina’s 28th
ranked duo of Lynn-Yin Tan and
Jodi Kenoyer disposed of
Florida’s Alexis Gordon and
Julia Scaringe 8-5 at No. 2 dou
bles for the first win. At No. 1
doubles, USC’s 45th-ranked pair
of Jennifer Radman and Kathy
Boyanovich recorded an 8-6 up
set win over fifth-ranked Lindsay ■
Dawaf and Jessica Lehnhoff.
In singles action, Florida got
on the board first with a win at
No. 2 singles, as 19th-ranked
Dawaf beat 85th-ranked
Radman 6-1,6-1.
USC retook the lead hiomen
tarily when Kenoyer beat Scaringe.
But the Gators pulled even again •
when 39th-ranked Zerene Reyes
beat Tan at No. 4. Lehnoff and
Annika Bengtsson each won their
respective matches over Katarina
Markovski and Tamara Sutton to
give the Gators the win.
Both teams are back in
Columbia next weekend as
USC hosts the 2002 SEC
Tournament from April 18-21.
Men’s tennis team
can’t upset Florida
In the final SEC match of the
season, the 24th-ranked USC I
men’s tennis team was unable to
upset No. 15 Florida on Sunday
at Florida’s Linder Stadium.
With the win, Florida moved
to 15-5 on they year (7-4 SEC).
Carolina dropped to 14-7 (4-7 SEC).
Florida pulled ahead early by
taking two doubles matches from
USC to go on top 1-0. Carolina
never recovered, as it recorded
only two victories in singles play.
Winners for the Gamecocks
were No. 55 Seth Rose and David
Nelson. Rose, playing out of the
No. 2 position for the first time
this season, only needed two sets
to dispose of No. 74 Eleazar
Magallan 6-0,6-4. Playing out of
the No. 4 position, Nelson also
. recorded a straight set victory,
7-6,6-3, over Troy Hahn.
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