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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.
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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
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Arkansas
- Championship Game -
_ Sunday, March 9,
Alabama 4 p.m. ESPN2
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
The Gamecocks will get back in
action quickly, with a game
tonight at 7 p.m. against Furman
at Sarge Frye Field.
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