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of his 13 shot attempts. Kerbrell
Brown added 10 points in the
loss. The team hit only three of
its 14 3-point shots on the night.
USC was once again out-re
bounded 42-24.
Brown got the Gamecocks go
ing with a layup and a jump shot
to make it a 4-0 game. Carlos
Powell put USC ahead 6-5 with
14:41 left, and that was the last
time the team controlled the
scoreboard in the first half. The
two teams tied twice in the next
several minutes, and Brett
Nelson’s 3-pointer gave the Gators
the lead for good. Florida then
went on a 15-2 run in the last 5:32.
A layup and 3-pointer by Nelson
and a pair of layups by Lee helped
the Gators build the 35-23 lead
over Carolina. Florida shot 50 per
cent from the field, but the
Gamecocks could manage only
35.7 percent shooting. Nelson led
the way with eight points at the
half, and the team connected on
four of its nine 3-point attempts.
In the second half, it didn’t get
any better for the Gamecocks.
Carolina trailed the entire half
and Florida went on several big
runs, hitting eight 3-pointers and
adding a 17-8 run. The Gators
started with an 11-4 run that
turned into a 49-31 lead with 16:59
left in the game. USC got no clos
er than 19 with 9:38 left, before
Florida scored 17 points in the
last five minutes. The Gamecocks
scored only three points in the
last 7:30 in the game.
The Gamecocks must now re
group as they come back home to
take on Vanderbilt on Saturday.
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Equestrian to compete
at Augusta State show
BY MATT ROTHENBERG
THE IIAMKCOCK
Coming off a strong showing
in the fall part of its schedule, the
USC equestrian team is looking
to continue its success through
the remainder of the spring sea
son. Head coach Boo Duncan has
a talented group of veterans and
younger riders, who are making
a quick impact on the program.
Carolina finished the fall sea
son with an appearance at the
California Division I Equestrian
Classic, where the Gamecocks
finished third overall behind
Auburn and Oklahoma State.
Sophomore Tara Brothers was
the star for USC in that competi
tion; she won the championship
flat class and was named second
in the jumping championship.
She also won both sections of her
flat and fences classes. Senior
Brooke Spitzer also won her sec
tion of hunt seat flat, while
Kerrie Reeves took second place
in Western horsemanship.
A couple of weeks ago, USC
played host to a show at its
home stables, the Irish Oaks
Equestrian Centre, in Irmo.
There, freshman Chelsea
Koomick won her section of the
hunt seat open flat. Among the
seeond-place finishers in their
sections were Lindsey Wilson,
Lisa Boykin, Michelle Jenkins,
Jessica Keels, Ashley Williams
and Lindsay Weathers.
Carolina was the fourth-place
finisher in the hunter seat com
petition.
Courtney Borton and Kyra
Hufford won the open Western
and Western intermediate II
competitions, respectively.
The top returners for Carolina
in hunter seat are Sarah-Ki
Tomasi, Lisa Wilson, Spitzer,
Kelly Girtman and Tracy
Tomala. Returning in Western
are Reeves, Keels and Cindy
Davis.
The Gamecocks travel to
Augusta, Ga., this weekend, for
a show at Augusta State.
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Potts with 30 and six, respec
tively.
Carolina’s Penn and Ujhelyi
will be honored, along with
Linda Hoglund, who’s been out
with an injury, in their final
home game during the Senior
Day celebration. The three se
niors will take part in a pre
game ceremony to applaud
their achievements as part of
the USC women’s basketball
program.
Another Gamecock who will
play an important role against
Kentucky is Ciocan. She is sec
ond on the team in scoring at
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12.7 points per contest and is
second in the SEC with 6.8 as
sists per game.
Ciocan has now recorded five
double-figure assist games this
season, for a total of nine in her
career, to go along with three
double-doubles this season.
Ciocan’s position as point
guard and her ability to create
opportunities should help
Ujhelyi and Penn get easy
shots.
The game is set for Thursday
night at the Carolina Center,
and tip-off is scheduled for 7
p.m.
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CLUB
CORNER
Cycling Club
The Cycling Club would like
to congratulate some of its
members — Adrianne Brown,
Blake Kyzer, Stephanie Lareau,
Dylan Mitchell, John Neil and
James Wilson — on outstand
ing performances last weekend
at the University of Florida cri
terium. The team will travel to.
Greenville this weekend for
more racing action. To find out
more information the club or to
join, visit: www.geocities.com/
carolinamultisport.
BRIEFLY
Tickets available
for USC-Clemson
The USC Athletics Ticket
Office is adding 250 standing
room-only tickets so that more
fans can see the March 2 base
ball game between Carolina
and Clemson. Tickets for the
1:30 p.m. game at Sarge Frye
Field will go on sale today at
8:30 a.m. at the ticket office,
which is on Rosewood Drive.
The tickets are $6 and fans are
allowed four tickets per pur
chase. USC students, faculty
and staff can also get tickets at
the ticket office with proper
identification. Students may
receive only one ticket, and
faculty and staff may receive
a maximum of two tickets.
Campbell awarded
Player of the Week
USC pitcher Matt Campbell
earned Louisville Slugger
National Player of the Week
honors, as voted by Collegiate
Baseball. He was also named
SEC Pitcher of the Week after
Sunday’s performance, in
which Campbell pitched a
near-no-hitter in a 9-0 win over
Duquesne.
Campbell had a no-hitter go
ing into the eighth inning, but
a bloop single ended the effort.
It was his first win of the sea
son, as he combined with Steve
Bondurant to give the
Gamecocks their first shutout
of the season. Campbell had a
career-high nine strikeouts and
also received the first save of
his career, with the final 11/3
innings on Feb. 19 at The
Citadel. His five strikeouts
against The Citadel helped USC
gain a 7-5 win in its first road
game of the season.
Carolina is ranked 10th in
the nation this week, up two
spots from last week’s poll, by
Baseball America. The
Gamecocks will play Clemson
this week with a pair of
games. Saturday’s contest at
Clemson will begin at 1 p.m:,
with Sunday’s game at Sarge
Frye Field in Columbia at 1:30
p.m.
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on Saturday, but the
Gamecocks used their power
hitters to make a big comeback
to beat the Owls.
The Owls made their push in
the top of the first inning, as
Jess Rohn drew a walk and ad
vanced to second on Katie
Weigle’s base hit. Two batters
later, cleanup
hitter Bari Lynn
Pflueger drilled
a pitch over the
center field wall
to put Temple up
3-0.
USC cut the
lead a little bit,
scoring a run in
the second in
ning, but the Owls made up for
it by bringing in another run in
the following inning. But that
was as far ahead as Temple
would get.
Ashley Smith cut the Owl
lead to one with a two-run
home run in the fourth inning,
and Troesh followed that
round-tripper with one of her
own, tying the game at four
runs apiece.
In the next inning, Troesh
struck again, this time with a
double to bring Smith around to
score. Against Temple, Troesh
went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and
two runs scored.
USC extended its lead late in
the game with RBI singles from
Amber Curtis and Danielle
Quinones.
Johnson relieved Henkes on
the hill for Carolina, retiring the
side in the seventh inning to seal
the win.
. The Gamecocks’ seven runs
against Temple (1-2) were the
second-highest single-game
run total this season. USC
scored eight runs against
Georgia Tech more than two
weeks ago.
USC 3-Michigan 0
Stacey Johnson starred on the
mound for the Gamecocks in
their shutout victory over the
15th-ranked Wolverines (3-5) on
Sunday. The junior from
Newtown, Pa., pitched all seven
innings, striking out eight bat
ters to earn her fifth win of the
season.
Carolina opened the scoring
in the fourth inning when
Cornett hit a bases-loaded single
to score Rogers and Melissa
Sandel. The two runs were
enough for Johnson to keep the
lead, as Troesh hit her third
home run of the Lead-Off
Classic, a solo shot, to put
Michigan away.
Johnson (5-3) allowed only
two hits from Michigan, one
each from Meghan Doe and
Melinda Moulden. Jennie Ritter
(1-1) took the loss for the
Wolverines, giving up all three
runs on six hits, while striking
out six batters.
After returning to Columbia
for a few days, the Gamecocks
will again head on the road,
traveling to Plant City, Fla., for
the Strawberry Festival
Tournament. USC will face a
tough slate of five games, from
Friday through Sunday,
against Troy State, Western
Michigan, Central Michigan,
Oakland College and Virginia
Tech. Central Michigan was the
only one of the five to appear in
the NCAA tournament last sea
son.
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tires so many numbers that 93 is
the only unassigned jersey left.
Regardless of the reason, most
ballplayers and coaches will wear
numbers one to 59 during the reg
ular season, with a few exceptions,
of course. Heck, there are even
Web sites out there by fans that
like to keep track of teams’ uni
form-number histories. I’ll even
admit I’m in the process of devel
oping something like that with a
certain NHL team, but I digress.
It’s easy to get caught up in the
numbers game.
Whether it’s statistics or jersey
numbers or salaries or ticket
prices, they generally make some
sense to some people and less to oth
ers. Baseball is like that, really.
Some people see spending an after
noon at the ballpark as a nice and
easy way to while away the day.
Others don’t get baseball: why
it’s so slow, the chess-like strate
gy involved or how it’s pointless
to pay the often-ridiculous prices
today.
You might not care that Tony
□ Clark is wearing
00 in spring train
ing with the New
York Mets or that
the Yankees’ Drew
Henson is sporting
57 this spring, but
whatever the case,
Clark just remember
that it’s all a num
bers game. From
all sorts of statistics to the price of
a hot dog, as we near a new base
ball season this spring, let us keep
that in mind. Baseball is back, and
I have the numbers to prove it.
Rothenberg is a fourth-year
sports and entertainment
management student.
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an All-American. “In Jamaica, it
is pretty much the same people ev
ery time out.”
Bailey’s track career has flour
ished in the States.
She helped the women’s out
door track team win USC’s first
national championship by a team,
but Bailey, a sprinter, has set her
sights on an even bigger prize —
the Olympics. And according to
her coach, she has a legitimate
shot at a spot in the 2004 summer
games. But as a Gamecock, Bailey
wants to win the 200-meter dash
indoor and outdoor league title,
while trying to get the record in
the 200 and 100, and then race in
the world championships this
summer
Right now the senior co-captain
is running 22.59 seconds in the 200
and an 11.14 in the 100. Last week
end, Bailey ran a personal best in
the 55 with a time of 6.84 seconds.
She has finished first in the 60
twice this season, and has gar
nered the top spot in the 200 on
three occasions.
The . SEC Indoor
Championships, starting this
weekend in Gainesville, Fla., will
be Bailey’s first big test. Touting
the number two spot in the nation
in the 200 makes her confident.
“I like winning,” Bailey said.
“And the atmosphere at the SEC
is always exciting.”
Her secret is simple.
“I don’t get caught up in the
whole track thing; it is just a past
time,” Bailey, a sociology student,
said. “I don’t see myself doing if
for the rest of my life. I take ev
eryday with caution, because I
know tomorrow I might go out
there and pull something and not
be able to run.”
She also knows how to relax
and group before a race. This
year she is shadow boxing in the
minutes leading up to the start,
but in the past she has recited
song lyrics to calm her mind.
Bailey also focuses on what a
former coach once told her, “Get
out there, and do your best, be
cause only your best is good
enough.”
Bailey, who describes herself
as shy and quiet, has given her
best to Carolina, and Carolina
hopes it has taught Bailey some
thing in return.
“I hope we have reassured her
that her understanding, her hon
esty, her frankness and her can
dor work,” Frye said. “She has al
ready brought to the table every
thing we hope this program is
about.”
“In turn, I think she gives more
to us than we give to her,” Frye
said.
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