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Carolina beats Old Dominion,
James Madison at Shootout
BY SHAWN ROURK
THE GAMECOCK
Before the Berkeley Co-op
Shootout, USC head baseball
coach Ray Tanner said he want
ed sophomore sensation Kevin
Melillo in the lineup every game
for the Gamecocks. There’s a good
reason for that. Melillo showed
that he was rested and healed at
the tournament, blowing up with
five hits and two RBIs in two
games, including a 3-for-5 perfor
mance against Old Dominion.
The Gamecocks finished the
Shootout perfect with a 2-0 record
and improved their overall
record to 4-1 on the season.
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It took ten innings for the
Gamecocks to put away James
Madison. Reserve catcher Jared
Greenwood hit a double down the
right field line that drove in
Brian Buscher from first base for
the game-winning run Friday.
Justin Harris led off the tenth
with a base hit, but was thrown
out at second when Buscher got
on with a single.
Carolina sent the game into ex
tra innings in the bottom of the
ninth when designated hitter
Hank Parks hit a solo homer to
tie the game.
Melillo was the only Gamecock
with more than one hit in the
game. His two doubles led the
team to a 14-hit afternoon. Melillo
was walked in the second inning
after he hit his first double in
Carolina’s three-run first inning.
James Madison answered in
the fourth inning with a three-run
home run by Matt Deucher. They
took the lead in the fifth off two
singles and a sacrifice fly.
Carolina’s fielding hit a speed
bump as they committed a season
high five errors on the afternoon.
Aaron Rawl pitched the final 5
1/3 innings of the game to pick up
his second win of the season.
Starter Steven Bondurant was tak
en out of the game in the fifth in
ning after the Dukes took the lead.
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USC had no problem putting
away Old Dominion University,
the team’s second opponent in
the Shootout on Saturday, as
Carolina’s hitting continued to
roll over their opponents.
The Gamecocks had 16 hits on
the afternoon and Melillo and
Jon Coutlangus both had three
hits in the game. Melillo also
earned three more RBIs.
Sophomore Landon Powell
recorded his first home run of the
season, along with two RBIs.
David Marchbanks pitched
seven innings and struck out
three batters en-route to his sec
ond win of the season. He only al
lowed three runs in the first three
innings, while reliever Forrest >
Beverly pitched seven shutout in
nings. Two of the Monarchs’ runs
were unearned, which leaves
Marchbanks’ ERA at 2.45 for the
season.
Carolina had two errors on the
afternoon, bouncing back after
their five-error effort on Friday.
The final game for USC, against
The Citadel, was postponed be
cause of inclement weather.
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Basketball
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the Gamecocks from a loss.
The two who Odom called the
“backcourt of the future for the
SEC,” Ferguson and Modica, fin
ished with 20 and 17 points, re
spectively, to lead the
Razorbacks. Ferguson kept it
close, as his three second-half 3
pointers tightened Carolina’s
lead. More often than not,
though, Warren bailed the
Gamecocks out.
Arkansas even retook a brief
57-56 lead in the second half.
But minutes later, with USC
back on top, Warren’s 3-pointer
made the score 69-62, closing the
door on the Razorbacks’ hopes of
winning.
Despite being victorious in its
third game in a row, Carolina
was lacking in the rebound de
partment, grabbing only 27 and
allowing Arkansas to get 13 sec
ond-chance points.
Nevertheless, USC shot 49 per
cent from the field for the game
and, thanks to Warren, 41.2 per
cent from behind the arc.
Eidson finished with 14 points
and four assists for the Game
cocks, while Kitchings had seven
boards and three blocked shots.
Now, the focus shifts to
Wednesday’s game against
Tennessee, which upset the
Florida Gators on Saturday.
Odom knows how he is going
to proceed in preparing for that
contest; he says, “Our assign
ment right now is to get back to
practice, correct mistakes, get
better and hopefully play well on
Wednesday night.
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Senkiw
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While I’m on the topic of
golf, what is up with the deci
sion to let Annika Sorenstam
compete in the Colonial in
May? I hope the PGA is making
this an exhibition-type event
and not considering this a per
manent change in the future.
I’m not against letting wom
en compete against men in pro
sports, but I do not agree with
letting a woman play a PGA
Tour event without letting men
play on the LPGA Tour. I think
it should be equal on both sides.
If women can compete against a
field of men, then let a man com
pete against a field of women.
Senkiw is a third-year print
journalism student.
BRIEFLY
Men’s tennis easily
defeats N.C. State
Paced by a solid doubles per
formance, USC’s 17th-ranked
men’s tennis team defeated N.C.
State on Saturday. The Game
cocks were in control from the
opening serve as the doubles
teams of Carl Westman/Tom
Eklund, Seth Rose/Carl Wermee
and Ben Atkinson/Angelo
Niculescu rolled to easy victories.
In singles play, Rose led the
way in the first match, cruising
to a 6-3,6-1 victory. Niculescu
coasted over Val Banada, 6-1,6-4.
Westman, Eklund, Wermee and
Atkinson also posted victories
for the Gamecocks.
With the win, Carolina moves
to 5-0 on the season. The
Gamecocks play USC-Aiken and
Furman on Sunday beginning at
10 a.m. at the Sam Daniel Tennis
Center.
USC upset by Tigers
in women’s tennis
The 18th-ranked USC wom
en’s tennis team fell 6-1 to the
27th-ranked Clemson Tigers on
Saturday. The loss dropped USC
to 2-1 on the season, while the
Tigers improved to 5-1.
Clemson took ail three double
matches easily, while taking five
of the six single matches.
In singles, Danielle Wiggins
won the lone singles match for
the Gamecocks. USC had previ
ously won 11 of its past 14
against the Tigers, including six
in a row. The Gamecocks return
home to face N.C.'State on
Saturday at 1 p.m.
Track succeeds at
Meet of Champions
On the final day of the Meet of
Champions at the Armory in
New York City, the USC track
and field teams won seven events
and set four meet records. The
Gamecocks'recorded six NCAA
^automatic and seven NCAA pro
visional qualifying times.
The women’s 4x400-meter re
lay team recorded an automatic
qualifying time as it won the race
with a time of 3:34.13, its fastest
time recorded this year.
USC’s 200-meter-dash runners
were just as impressive; Aleen
Bailey won the race with an au
tomatic qualifying time of 23.28
seconds, her fastest mark of the
year. Miki Barber came in a
close second with another auto
matic qualifying time of 23.47.
Bailey also finished second in
the 60-meter dash with a provi
sional mark of 7.36 seconds.
Demetria Washington record
ed an impressive automatic qual
ifying time of52.60 seconds in the
400-meter dash, finishing second.
Jenny Lake represented the
Gamecock distance runners with
a third-place finish in the 3,000
meter run with a time of9:44.36.
On the men’s side, Otukile
, Lekote won the 800-meter dash
with a time of 1:48.90. Lekote set,
not only a provisional qualifying
mark, but also a meet record with
that time. Meanwhile, Corey
Taylor recorded an automatic
qualifying time of 7.74 in the 60
meter hurdles, winning that race.
The men’s 4x400-meter relay
team recorded its fastest time of
the season, winning with a pro
. visional mark of 3:07.82. That is
also a meet record.
Jonathan Fortenberry ran an
impressive 46.56 in the 400 dash,
winning the race. Chris
Steddum also set a meet record
with his provisional qualifying
mark of 17 feet, 8.5 inches in the
pole vault. Greig Cryer finished
second in the triple jump with a
mark of 50 feet, 1.25 inches.
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