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BRIEFLY Tennis players make SEC Honor Roll Five USC women's tennis play ers were named Tuesday to the 2002 SEC Academic Honor Roll by Commissioner Roy Kramer. Seniors Katarina Markovski, Jennifer Radman, Tamara Sutton and Lynn-Yin Tan each were named along with junior Catherine Brown. The list runs the team’s all time total of honor roll honorees to 47. That* figure is more than any other SEC program since 1992, the year USC joined the conference. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must have a 3.0 GPA for either the past year or for their career, be a sophomore or higher in academic classification and have 24 semester hours count able toward a degree. The 2002 SEC Women's Tennis Academic Honor Roll is based on grades from the 2000-2001 academic cal endar. SEC Championships starts Thursday The SEC Women's Tennis Championships begins Thursday and runs through Sunday in Columbia. USC finished in fourth place in the Eastern Division at 7-4 and earned a first-round bye for the tournament. The Lady Gamecocks wiU face the winner of tomorrow's Tenness ee/Arkansas match in the quar terfinals Friday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. Cornett named SEC Player of the Week Freshman first baseman Meghan Cornett was named SEC Player of the Week on Tuesday for her efforts last week against Georgia and Kentucky. This marks the third time that a USC softball player has been named SEC Player of the Week, and the second in as many weeks. Cornett hit .611 last week as she went ll-for-18 with four runs scored, four RBIs and two home runs. The Cocoa, Fla., na tive recorded a hit in all six games as the Lady Gamecocks went 5-1. Her home run in game three against Kentucky broke a scoreless tie and led to a series sweep. The Lady Gamecocks travel to Gainesville this weekend to take on the Florida Gators in a three game series. USC is 34-12 over all, 15-6 in the SEC, and is in first-place in the SEC Eastern Division. Mens go It to Tinisn conference play The USC men’s golf team heads to St. Simons Island, Ga., this weekend for the SEC Championships. This is the second year that Sea Island Golf Club is hosting the event. Carolina's best finish at the SEC Championships was a second-place finish ip 1998. Last season, USC finished sev enth out of 12 teams with a three day score of 880. Ernie Rose tied for sixth place to lead the team. Kyle Thompson also broke the top 10 with a ninth-place score of 216. John Bloomfield finished 39th, while Johan Kok placed 46th and Nash Elliot was 48th. Freshman Martin Rominger has carried the team this season with a low stroke average of 725. The Pontresine, Switzerland na tive posted three top 10 finished and five top 20 finishes. Rominger was named SEC Golfer of the Week on Feb. 6 for his efforts at the PING Arizona Intercollegiate. He finished 10th in the prestigious tournament after firing a 211. Rominger's best finish of the sea son was a tie for second at the Seminole Intercollegiate on March 12. Playing in all nine tourna ments this season, sophomore Brent Delahoussaye is second on the team after registering a low stroke average of 73.1. Delahoussaye tallied three top 20 finishes while recording a season low round of 68 at the Conrad Rehling Invitational. Rominger is currently 11th in the SEC with a stroke average of 72.5. Sophomore Brent Delahoussaye is 21st with a 73.1 stroke average. Rounding out the SEC's top 30 is freshman Alex Hamilton, who posts a 74.2 stroke average. Draft CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 “We wanted him to get in here ■ and get things taken care of so we can have his full attention,” coach Dom Capers said. “He’s go ing to need to have all the dis tractions out of the way and fo cus on football." Carr will become the 12th quarterback selected with the top overall pick since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970, and the fourth in the last five years. He led the nation with 4,839 passing yards and 46 touchdowns in 2001, while leading Fresno State to an 11-3 record. With Carr almost aboard and a good base of players from the expansion draft, general manager Charley Casserly is looking to the future in the college draft. “We could line up right now and go play,” Casserly said. “The draft will supplement that. We want to take the best player avail able. So, would we take an offen sive tackle with the first pick of the second round? Sure. “One of the objectives we had going into this was to be able to line up before the draft.” The Texans made a bigger im pact in the expansion draft than previous new teams by selecting quality players from teams with salary cap problems. They’ll play their first season with a good offensive line an chored by tackles Tony Boselli and Ryan Young. They also nabbed linebacker Jamie Sharper and defensive linemen Seth Payne and Gary Walker. That eases the burden of fill ing holes in their first draft. “You don’t want to go into the draft with so many needs that you have to draft for needs and not for the best players and that might come back to hurt you,” Casserly said. Although the Texans will draft the best players on the board, any linebackers they choose might have the best chance of playing sooner because of the Texans’ 34 defense. “Eight or nine linebackers will make the club,” Casserly said. In addition to Sharper, the Texans already have linebackers Kailee Wong, Billy Granville and Greg Jones. Houston gets the first pick in each of the seven rounds. In rounds 2 through 7, they get an extra pick following all the teams with losing records last season. The Texans will have 13 selec tions in the draft after sending one to Pittsburgh as compensa tion for kicker Kris Brown. After taking Carr in the first round, Casserly made it clear the Texans would be ready to deal. “Once people see what they can get at the top of the second round, then I think that’s when we will start getting calls,” Casserly said. “Obviously with 13 picks, we’re going to get a lot of phone calls. We will be flexible about moving up and down in the draft. “Right now we feel good about the nucleus that we have but we have only a couple of players un der contract for four years so the key thing is getting a nucleus of players you can build on and re load every year.” Tennis CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 Sterijoyski, 6-4,6-2, in the No. 1 position to get things rolling. Niculescu followed suit with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Jaxnin Thompson out of the No.2 position. Westman won at No. 3 by a score of 7-6, 6-4 over Robinson. At No. 4, Nelson kept things rolling with a 6-4,1-6,6-1 victory over Koning. Wermee joined in out of the No. 5 posi tion by claiming a 6-4,6-2 victory over Gojanovic. Rodrigo Pacheco closed out the Gamecocks sweep with a 3-6, 6 3,6-3 win at No. 6. Carolina returns to the courts Thursday afternoon at the SEC Championships in Knoxville, Tenn. The Gamecocks open the tourna ment against Arkansas. USC will be trying to avenge a tough 4-3 loss suffered at Arkansas on March 10. USC leads the all-time series 7-5. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com Take a ip . in Gd Maymester/Summer School 2002 When Jackie was five she dreamed of being a ballerina. When she turned 13 she wanted to be a movie star. When she was 17 she wanted a career in health care. Today she’s a respiratory therapist. And she just helped save the life of five-year-old Miranda- who dreams of being a ballerina. 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