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Basketball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 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. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com 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. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com Women CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 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 Check out the spring sports section in today’s issue. Previews of USC’s sports teams in action. 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. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com 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. Softball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 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. Comments on this story? E rrfnil gamecocksports(a)hotmail.com Rothenberg CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 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. Bailey CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 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. Commentson this story? E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com Tin i Wed. Feb. 26.2003 nhhptf I \J Ml VMW www.sc.eilu/career . I AAFKS Mayo Umfc Aibemerfe Corporation MCG Health System AMG0L System*, in«. Midland* Technical College American Rape#* Financial Adviaoc■» Upward Hound AmeriCJorpa MUler Brewing ( ompany Around Camptt* lad. 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