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Softball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 error by Trojan shortstop Erin Flater. But the onslaught continued in the seventh and final inning, as the Gamecocks scored seven. Debralee Troesh hit a two-run home run to begin the fireworks. Samantha Jennings scored on Sandel’s sacrifice fly, while Kristen Hall then came home on a wild pitch. Cornett came in on Curtis’ single, and Fittro ended the offensive outburst with a two run base hit. Stacey Johnson picked up the 1 victory to improve her record to 6-3. Johnson only gave up one hit in four innings. Aleca Johnson tossed the final three innings in relief, also allowing one hit. Troy State’s Ashley Floyd bore the brunt of the Gamecocks’ beating, allowing 12 runs — six of them earned — on 12 hits in just over six innings of work. USC 8-Virginia Tech 4 The Gamecocks opened with a four-run lead against the Hokies and managed to keep them from coming back, winning their third game 8-4. Meghan Cornett opened the scoring in the second inning, coming home on an error, and Quinones’ third-inning double brought in senior Debralee Troesh. Troesh added a two-run double in the fourth inning to in crease USC’s lead. Virginia Tech threatened to close the gap when it scored a run in the fourth, but a three-run fifth inning for the Gamecocks put the game out of reach. Henkes (6-1) pitched another complete game for Carolina, al lowing three earned runs on nine hits and striking out two Hokies. USC now faces Virginia (6-8) today, and the Gamecocks will be ready for them. Troesh is leading Carolina with five home runs, far surpassing her previous career total of one. “Deb really has been eating her Wheaties. She’s been seeing the ball really big right now, and it’s helping us out a lot,” Quinones saidofTroesh’s Troesh performance at the plate. Stacey Johnson is also coming up big on the mound, with a 0.98 ERA and 47 strikeouts. “Each game we’re getting bet ter and better,” Quinones said. Come tonight’s game, “we’re go ing to have our game faces on.” The doubleheader at Beckham Field begins at 3 p.m. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com Rothenberg CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 him? Sure Steinbrenner is sign ing Jeter’s check, but give the guy a break, and let him party all he wants. Jeter is a man, not a child, and should accept respon sibility for his actions. So, if Jeter feels like staying out until 3 a.m., so be it. George should shut his mouth and deal with it, unless he wants to go out and find a new shortstop willing to abide by the owner’s laws. There is no doubt Steinbrenner is only fueling a bad feeling inside the Yankee clubhouse. I know he’s spending a lot of money for his players, but can’t he just lay off matters like this? What’s his problem? I guar antee that if the Bronx Bombers E don’t win the World Series this year, it’s only go ing to get worse. But when pitcher David Wells’ new book conies out, Wells Steinbrenner has no plans to talk to the hurler about some of the material featured, specifically statements about how many ballplayers use steroids and claiming that he was “half drunk" while pitching a perfect game in 1998. Wait a second. Steinbrenner feels free to air his laundry about Torre and Jeter but refuses to speak with Wells about a book that General Manager Brian Cashman says “tarnishes the Yankees’ image”? This is just ab surd. Steinbrenner should let his coaches coach and his players play and stay out of their private lives in the meantime. Is there favoritism in complaining about Torre and Jeter but not Wells? I doubt it. But the fact is that the Yankees have to win it all this year because if they don’t, zookeeper Steinbrenner is going to have an awfully difficult time tending to the menagerie. He keeps feeding the animals when he should just let them be. He had just better be cautious, though, or this zoo is going to get out of control. Rothenberg is a fourth-year sports and entertainment management student. Auburn - 2003 SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament Kentucky Tennessee WHERE: Alltel Arena - Little Rock, Ark. South Carolina - WHEN: Thursday through _ Sunday. Ole Miss - -1 Miss. State Arkansas - Championship Game - _ Sunday, March 9, Alabama 4 p.m. ESPN2 LSU Vanderbilt - l Florida Georgia BRIEFLY Riders fare well at Augusta State meet The USC Equestrian Team finished first on Saturday and fourth on Sunday at the IHSA competition, held at Augusta State University in Augusta, Ga. UGA, Auburn and Berry College also competed in the event. Sunday’s competition brought better weather than Saturday’s, but the team fin ished fourth behind Auburn, UGA and Berry College. On Saturday, Tara Brothers was named reserve high point rider when she won the open over fences class and placed sec ond in the open flat. Brooke Spitzer won the open flat on Saturday. During Sunday’s competition, Lisa Wilson placed first in the novice flat, and Amy Strong fin ished first as well in the advanced walk/trot/canter. Sarah Tomasi, Chelsea Koomick, Kerrie Reeves, Lisa Wilson and Kyra Hufford all had second-place finishes during the two-day competition. The team will travel to Auburn to compete in its final MSA show of the regular season this coming Saturday. The com petition will feature two hunt seat shows and one Western show. Track places in top five at SEC indoors The USC women’s track team finished second and the men’s team third with strong showings at the 2003 SEC indoor Championships in Gainesville, Fla., this weekend. These finishes were the highest for both teams since the 1999 SEC Indoor Championships, when both teams landed in sec ond place. USC swept the 4-by-400-meter relay events. The quartet of Tiffany Ross, Miki Barber, Demetria Washington and Lashinda Demus ran an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 3 minutes, 32.9 seconds. The men’s team of Kenneth Ferguson, Otukile Lekote, Otis Harris and Jonathan Fortenberry ran an NCAA au tomatic qualifying time of 3:07.09. Fortenberry and Harris both ran NCAA automatic qualifying times in the 400 dash, as Fortenberry finished second, while Harris placed fifth. In the women’s 400 dash, Demus finished second with an NCAA automatic time of 52.91 and Washington posted an au tomatic time of 53.79 to place fourth. Martin Jackson finished fourth in the 200 dash, record ing a provisional qualifying time of 21.48, which is a season best for him. The Carolina women finished 2-3-6 in the 200, with Aleen Bailey leading the way. Bailey ran a time of23.54, while Barber finished third, and Erica fin ished sixth. Corey Taylor and Ferguson performed well,in the 55 hur dles, placing third and fourth, while on the women’s side, Ross finished third in the 55 hurdles, running an NCAA automatic qualifying mark of 7.63. Otukile Lekote was the run ner-up in the 800 run with a time of 1:47.58, an automatic quali fying time. The second-place finish by Lekote was the only race that he has not won this year. USC had a second-place fin ish in the women’s distance medley relay, anchored by Jenny Lake, with a time of 11:30.72. The Gamecocks will face the nation’s best at the NCAA Indoor Championships, which will take place on March 14 and 15 in Fayetteville, Ark. Women’s golf gets seventh in tourney The USC women’s golf team finished in seventh place after firing a combined score of 303 on Saturday at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic in Humacao, Puerto Rico. The Gamecocks finished with a total score of 908, one stroke back of the top five. Duke won the tournament, recording a 293 in the final round for a total score of 872. Two-time defending SEC Champion Kristy McPherson finished in a tie for second place, as she shot a two-under par 70 on Saturday to finish with a total score of two-over par 218. McPherson had her third top-five and fourth top ten finish of the year. Senior Kacy Thompson fin ished in a tie for 23rd, while junior Marci Robinson tied for 31st place. Other top finishers for the Gamecocks were sophomore Tiffany Catafygiotu (75,231, T50) and junior Adrienne Gautreaux «*• Interested in taking The Gamecock’s Sports Challenge? If you can beat the editors, you’ll win a free Gamecock T-Shirt. Ranking are from Send in your picks to gamecocksports@hotmail.com by 2 p.m. Thursday. We’ll select * The Associated ONE person at random to be our reader of the week, whose picks will be published. Press. mis week s games: 4 Texas at 5 Oklahoma 6 Kansas at Missouri 10 Duke at North Carolina 16 Notre Dame at Georgetown Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Mississippi Valley State 2 Kentucky at 3 Florida Auburn at 23 Mississippi State Alabama at LSU Clemson at Georgia Tech 25 Georgia at USC ▼ run iiCDncMivHiu runruoto, rmwc ircuLuuc fuun otunc run me ucunuiM-uou GAME. AND DONT FORGET TO INCLUDE YOUR NAME. Basketball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 Crimson Tide. Carolina, which trails in the overall series 16-8, has lost the last four meetings and has only one win in eight attempts in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Alabama will say goodbye to three seniors as Dudley, Terrance Meade and Kenny Walker play their last game in Coleman Coliseum. All three have been starters since their freshman year. Crimson Tide head coach Mark Gottfried thinks his team needs this game to help its effort for the postseason and to honor its seniors. “South Carolina is playing well right now,” Gottfried said. “They have won five of the last seven. We are looking at the big picture right now as far as we are concerned, and South Carolina is the next step that we want to take. It’s important to all of us to make the NCAA tour nament, but it’s very important for our seniors for all they have done. Hopefully, we can finish strong and make that happen.” The Gdmecocks are just hoping to get wins in their last two games to better last year’s SEC record of 6-10. Carolina hopes to repeat the success of Saturday’s 76-64 win over Vanderbilt, when Carlos Powell snagged four career highs. 1 ^ USC head coach Dave Odom thinks the game with Alabama brings different motives for each team and that it will be a chal lenge for Carolina. “It’s an important game for both teams, but for different rea . sons,” Odom said. “We are trying to improve our record and getting ready for next season. Alabama is fighting for a lot. They started out hot and have played through then tough period. Now they are play ing very well. It will be a tough game for the Gamecocks.” Tip-off is scheduled for 8 p.m. in Tuscaloosa. .Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com mmmmm———— tsaseoaii CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 RBI single. Following McDaniel’s RBI, Gardner-Webb replaced Gonzalez with freshman reliever Zachary Ward. Ward started his night with a strikeout and then hit Justin Harris with a pitch. Triplett stepped up and knocked a three-run double over the left fielder’s head. “The offense came out and did a great job for us, and it was just an all around great effort,” Marchbanks said. Carolina followed the seventh with another huge inning in the eighth. Powell and Triplett each singled and recorded a RBI, as well. Melillo, Powell, McDaniel and Gardiner all scored runs in the inning for Carolina. Marchbanks (4-0) finished the game with a career-high eight in nings pitched, allowing only one run on six hits while recording a season-high eight strikeouts. These statistics earned him praise from his head coach, Ray Tanner. “David Marchbanks gave us a quality game and he was out standing,” Tanner said. “To play a great team like Gardner-Webb, David Marchbanks is a great play er to have out there. He’s pitching very well.” Triplett led the team by going 2 for-4 on the game and knocking in four runs. 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