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Basketball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 commandeer that second-half surge, contributing 12 of his 17 points after halftime, including the dunk that put the Final nail in the coffin. The pace of the game was rather stifling, though, largely due to the 50 personal fouls called throughout the contest, especial ly in the last three minutes as the Gamecocks hung on to a double digit lead. “We tried every defense, we tried to change the pace of the game, and Clemson was too good to buy into that,” Odom said. Carolina managed to come out on top in the rebounding catego ry 41-29, only allowing one addi tional offensive rebound to Clemson, while adding eight of their own. Odom praised the effort, not ing that it was a complete team effort. Four Gamecocks finished with double-digit point totals. Aside from Eidson and Warren, Tony Kitchings contributed 14 points and Rolando Howell had 10 in the win. Eidson also had five assists to lead Carolina. Scott, a Lower Richland High School product, scored a game high 21 points for the Tigers, while Babalola added 12. USC will return to the court to morrow against the struggling Arkansas Razorbacks. Tip-off at the Carolina Center is scheduled for 1 p.m. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com •Hitting the Road ’'l 1 > Y„.>fc-g—-■- ■•■‘%,-m«trtir ■ i ■*■ ■ .... FILE PHOTO BY JOHNNY HAYNES/THE GAMECOCK Carolina’s Jodi Ffttro takes a swing at the ball during the Carolina Invitational on Sunday. The softball team will play at the Desert Classic Tournament in Las Vegas this weekend. SPORTS CHALLENGE THE CHALLENGE: Matt Brad Jill Corey Staci Heather The Gamecock’s readers and Rothenberg Senkiw Martin Ganiott Jordan Simmons staff test their sports knowledge Sports Asst. Sports Editorin The Mix Page Readerof with predictions of the Editor Editor Chief Editor Designer the Week weekend’s games. (Rankings (28-12) (29-11) (28-12) (27-13) (26-14) (29-11) are from the Associated Press.) 11 Marquette at 2 Louisville Louisville Louisville Louisville Louisville Louisville Louisville 10 Notre Dame at 17 Syracuse Notre Dame Notre Dame Notre Dame Syracuse Notre Dame Notre Dame 15 Wake Forest at 16 Maryland Wake Maryland Maryland Maryland Maryland Wake 14 Illinois at Purdue_Illinois_Illinois_Illinois Illinois_Illinois Illinois 25 St. Joseph's at Dayton_St. Joe’s St. Joe's St. Joe's St. Joe's Dayton Dayton LSU at 3 Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky 4 Florida atTennessee Florida Florida Florida Florida Florida Tennessee 19 Mississippi St. at Ole Miss Miss. St. Miss. St._Miss. St. . Miss. St Ole Miss Miss. St North Carolina at Clemson_Clemson UNC UNC UNC UNC . UNC Arkansas at USC USC USC USC USC ■’ USC USC 79-67 75-70 71-65 65-60 68-63 72-69 LAST WEEK’S WINNER: Brad Senkiw (8-2) - The Assistant Sports Editor picked Notre Dame to upset Pittsburgh, which led him to his second victory in Sports Challenge. Had Reader of the Week Kyle Almond not picked Alabama, he could have gotten himself a T-shirt. Almond went 7-3, putting him in a four-way tie for Second place. Also tied for second were Justin Bajan, Jill Martin and Erin O’Neal. Matt Rothenbergwentatriftng5-5, and he now sits in a tie for second place, along with Martin. He warns, however, that this week, he will not be denied victory. WANT TO BE READER OF THE WEEK? E-mail your selections next week to gamecocksports@hobnail.com. If you’re picked and have the best record, you’lt win a free Gamecock T-shirt and be able to talk ad the trash you want. Baseball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 players because of an injury. Sophomore Kevin Melillo only played in one game in last week end’s series and pinch-hit in an other. Last season, Melillo hit .280 with 44 hits, and the Gamecocks need his batting and experience in the upcoming games. “I want to get Kevin Mellilo in the lineup everyday. He’s a gamer for us and we need him on the field. Him being banged up in the beginning of the season was a setback. He brings a lot of expe rience. Hopefully he’ll be healthy this weekend and he’ll be an ev eryday player for us,” Tanner said. Bondurant will try to redeem himself against James Madison in USC’s first game of the Berkeley Co-op Shootout. The Dukes made it all the way into the NCAA Regionals last season. The Gamecocks are 7-1 in the overall series with the Dukes. Their third opponent, the Citadel, has been a perennial NCAA contender for five out of the past 10 seasons. Bondurant and the other USC starters will look to turn around last week end’s disappointing start and build up momentum going into March. “I had a lot of confidence, and I still do, that our starting pitch ing would be very strong,” Tanner said. He said the “quali ty starting pitching” should be a basis'the team could build on. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com Rourk CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 However, if they have to pull from the university’s funds, then they should just scrap the idea now. There’s no sense creating an even bigger budget problem because of a baseball stadium. The university simply cannot op erate using the concept of deficit spending; only the United States government can pull that one off year after year. In all, the stadium is a good idea. I think it will help a lot of people if USC and the Bombers get the new stadium. I believe that McGee and those helping him from the university know it will take a great deal of thought and planning to come up with a solution that will help everyone and get everything done. It’s not going to be an easy task. And if, sometime down the road, they do come up with an economically sound plan to make this stadium, I have only one re quest of McGee and company: re member us sports writers when you design the stadium. Remember, we like a comfy, air conditioned place to sit while we report on USC’s games. Rourk is a first-year print journalism student. BRIEFLY USC athletes’ GPAs remaining steady The overall grade-point aver age for University of South Carolina student-athletes con gatinues to remain steady, as the "athletics department released its academic report for the 2002 fall semester Thursday. The overall team GPA for 457 stu dent-athletes was 2.823, which was 2.865. Eight teams recorded a GPA of 3.0 or higher, led by the wom en's golf team at 3.532. Other squads exceeding the 3.0 mark included women's swimming (3.377), men’s tennis (3.297), women’s soccer (3.283), men's swimming (3.233), men's golf (3.152), softball (3.071) and wom en's tennis (3.028). The football team's GPA was a 2.381 and the men's basketball team's GPA was 2.220. The overall GPA for full-time {^students at USC was 3.01 for the fall 2002 semester. Henkes named SEC Pitcher of the Week USC softball pitcher Melanie Henkes was named the SEC Pitcher of the Week for the week ending Feb. 9. Henkes helped lead the Gamecocks to a 3-1 record over the weekend and the Carolina Invitational title. The freshman from Aiken went 2-0 at the Invitational, throwing complete-game shutouts against 19th-ranked Georgia Tech and UNC-Greensboro. The 6-foot-3-inch pitcher struck out 12 batters, earning a season-high seven strikeouts against UNC-Greensboro. The Avin over UNC-Greensboro was iier third consecutive shutout. She is the first Carolina fresh man to throw three straight shutouts since Megan Matthews in 1999. For the weekend, Henkes pitched 12 innings, allowed five hits and walked only two batters. Equestrian team to hold competition The USC equestrian team will hol^l an IHSA competition Feb. 15 at their home stables, the Irish Oaks Equestrian Centre, in Irmo. All teams from the IHSA Zone 5 Region 2 will par ticipate in the event. The show will be open to both Hunt Seat and Western disciplines. Hunt Seat competition will run from 8:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., and Western will go from 2 until 6 p.m. The jumping event will take place around 10 a.m., and the reining event will start around 2 p.m. There is a good chance for rain, so fans are advised to bring raiffSoats. Umbrellas are dis couraged because they scare the horses if too close to the ring. If umbrellas are brought, they musfstay 20 feet away from the rail of the ring for the competi tors’ safety. 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