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2 Spring Sports ♦ THE GAMECOCK ♦ Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Baseball fired up
for 2003 season
Landon Powell, Steve Bondurant lead the
Gamecocks into a tough SEC schedule
BY BRAD SENKIW
THE GAMECOCK
The USC baseball team is up and run
ning again this season and is looking to ac
complish many of the same goals it had
last year. USC head coach Ray Tanner has
his team primed for another spectacular
season.
“We want to be one of the last teams
playing at the end of the year,” Tanner
said. “You want to be one of the best teams
in the country and be playing at the end
of the year when everyone else is at
home.”
The Gamecocks are coming off one of
the best seasons in school history. Not only
did USC compile a 57-18 record and cap
ture the SEC East regular-season title, but
the team also advanced in the College
World Series to the final game against
Texas. Carolina knocked off Georgia Tech,
Nebraska and state-rival Clemson twice
in Omaha, Neb., before losing to the
Lon’ghorns, 12-6, in the National
Championship game.
Tanner said it was great getting to the
final game of the College World Series, and
that knowing they didn’t win means a lot
to the players coming back this season.
“It’s just assurance that this is the type
of program that we have here, and it was a
wonderful experience playing in the World
Series. There are a lot of guys on this club
who would like to do that again,” Tanner
said.
USC is already off to a great start at 8-1.
The team has won seven straight games
after dropping its second game of the sea
son to Charleston Southern. Carolina took
two games against the Bucs, and after win
ning three straight at the Berkeley Co-op
Shootout last week, swept a series from
♦ BASEBALL, SEE PAGE 7
FILE PHOTO BY JOHNNY HAYNES/THE GAMECOCK
Nick Gardiner connects with a pitch against Charleston Southern. The
Gamecocks won two of three games against CSU to begin their new season.
On the cover...
Lashinda Demus runs in the 2002 NCAA Track and Field Championships. She
was the 2002 Track and Field News National Athlete of the Year.
PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK