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BRIEFLY
Track teams finish
in top five at NCAAs
Lashinda Demus led the way
with an individual national
championship and a pair of
school records in the men’s and
women’s 4-by-400-meter relays,
as the USC women’s track team
finished in a second-place tie at
the 2003 NCAA Indoor Track
Championships in Fayetteville,
Ark. The men’s track team land
ed in a three-way, tie for fifth
place. Both track teams com
bined for a total of 21 All
Americans at the competition.
The women’s team tied for
second with Florida at 44
points, as LSU took the title
with 62 points. The men fin
ished in a three-way tie for fifth
place with Tennessee and
Villanova.
“It was a great finish for us,”
USC head coach Curtis Frye
said. “We wanted to finish
among the top five, and to finish
second on the women’s side is a
great accomplishment. I am hap
py with the results.”
Demus won the 400 dash title
with a time of 51.79 seconds, her
season-best mark. Demetria
Washington placed fifth in the
event with a time of 52.32.
“I was just thankful to get to
the finals because of all the
tough competitors in the pre
liminaries,” Demus said. “I am
very thankful to get the win.”
Frye said: “Lashinda ran a
great race in the 400. She demon
strated how big-time athletes do
big-time things in big situa
tions.”
The women’s 4-by-400 relay
team set a school-record ol
3228.25, but Texas won with a col
legiate record 3:27.66. The team
of Tiffany Ross, Miki Barber,
Washington and Demus kept it
close with the Longhorns, espe
cially during the anchor leg of
the race.
The men’s 4-by-400 relay team
finished with a time of 3:05.10,
also a school record. Jonathan
Fortenberry’s late charge down
the final stretch capped the race,
allowing the Gamecocks to fin
ish third.
Fortenberry placed fourth in
the men’s 400 with a time of
46.01, while Aleen Bailey placed
fifth in the women’s 60 dash with
a time of 7.30 and Otukile Lekote
placed seventh in the 800 run
with a time of 1:48.68.
The USC Athletics Department
contributed to this report.
Men’s tennis beats
three over break
The 14th-ranked USC men’s
tennis team improved to 11-1 on
the season by defeating the
University of Nevada at Las
Vegas 6-1 Wednesday in Las
Vegas. The Gamecocks won all
the doubles matches before tak
ing five of the six singles matches.
The teams of Carl
Wermee/Seth Rose, Geraldo
Knorr/Angelo Niculescu and
Ben Atkinson/Tom Eklund all
recorded wins to pace the
Gamecocks to an early 1-0 lead.
USC’s singles players made
quick work of the opposition;
Wermee, Atkinson and Knorr
won each of their contests to win
the match. Rose also recorded a
victory for the Gamecocks at the
No. 1 position by a score of 6-3,
7-6. Niculescu, ranked 59th, im
proved to 12-0 in dual match play
with a win at No. 2,
On March 10, the Gamecocks
defeated 20th-ranked Arkansas,
4-2, in Columbia. USC recorded
doubles wins from
Eklund/Marcus Westman and
Wermee/Rose, while getting sin
gles victories from Niculescu,
Atkinson and Wermee.
Carolina beat LSU 4-3 on
March 8, as Westman, Niculescu,
Atkinson and Rose clinched sin
gles wins. The pair of Niculescu
and Knorr won their doubles
match.
The Gamecocks’ next home
match will be March 26 against
Clemson.
USC struggles over
spring break week
The lOth-ranked Vanderbilt
women’s tennis team picked up
its third straight SEC win on
Friday as it defeated the 24th
ranked Gamecocks 7-0 in
Nashville. The Commodores
have now defeated the
Gamecocks five straight times.
The Commodores (12-3,3-2
SEC) won all the doubles match
es easily over USC (8-3, 4-1),
while in singles, the Gamecocks
forced three singles matches to
go to three sets. But the
Gamecocks could not pull it out
in the end. Jodi Kenoyer took
the first set at the No. 2 singles
6-2 but loss the remaining two
sets 6-2,6-4. Magda Wojdylo lost
the first set 7-5 but forced a third
set tiebreaker and then lost 10
6. Catherine Brown dropped her
tiebreaker 10-3.
Kathy Boyanovich, Danielle
Wiggins and Justine Walsh
were all defeated in straight
sets.
Georgia Tech also swept the
Gamecocks 7-0 on Wednesday in
Atlanta. The victory was the
fourth straight for the Yellow
Jackets.
On March 10, the Gamecocks
won 6-1 over Arkansas in
Fayetteville, Ark. USC won the
doubles point, getting wins from
Wojdylo/Boyanovich and
Kenoyer/Wiggins.
Carolina received singles vic
tories from Boyanovich,
Wojdylo, Brown, Walsh and
Wiggins.
USC also played and beat
LSU 5-2 on March 8 in Baton
Rouge, La. The pair of
Kenoyer/Wiggins won the only
doubles match for the
Gamecocks, beating Jessica
Ferguson and Amanda Mang of
LSU. Walsh, Boyanovich,
Kenoyer, Wojdylo and Wiggins
all won their singles matches.
Carolina lost 4-3 to Kentucky
on Monday. USC will play
Tulsa at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday
at the Maxcy Gregg Tennis
Center in Columbia.
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Baseball
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Arkansas took the series in
game two with a 4-1 victory led
by Jarrett Gardner’s complete
game. Gardner silenced the
Gamecock bats with a seven-in
ning, one-run, four-hit perfor
mance. Campbell pitched five
innings and gave up one run on
four hits, but Rawl was beaten
up for three runs and three hits
to take the loss for USC.
Arkansas scored three of its
runs in the seventh inning on
Hode’s sacrifice fly and Nick
Pitts’two-run home run. USC’s
only run came on a sacrifice fly
by Melillo that scored Harris
in the third inning.
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Softball
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Smith’s grand slam was her
second of the season.
March 12: USC 4
NIU 1
Aleca Johnson received the
start against the Huskies in the
nightcap, picking up her first
victory this season.
Johnson (1-1) struck out six
and allowed one earned run on
three hits as the Gamecocks
swept NIU.
Amber Curtis’ single in the
second inning brought in
Melissa Sandel and Kristin
Hall, while Curtis and Debralee
Troesh each scored on fifth-in
ning singles.
March 16
Game 1: USC 3 -
LSU 2
Game 2: LSU 6 -
USC 3
Tia Rogers drove in the
game-winning run in the 10th
inning, and Stacey Johnson
pitched the entire game for
USC in a 3-2 win over the
Tigers in the first game of the
doubleheader. Rogers’ single
with two outs in the tenth
brought in Debralee Troesh
with the tiebreaker.
In the second game of the
doubleheader, the Gamecocks
lost 6-3 after getting behind
early in the game. Rogers and
Quinones both hit home runs
to account for USC’s runs.
Henkes took the loss for
Carolina.
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The Gamecocks struggled for
' most of the first half, shooting
a poor 26 percent, but used
enough defensive pressure
against the Bulldogs to go into
halftime down only four, 26-22.
USC did, however, come out
of the locker room with a mis
sion in the second half. To open
up play, the Gamecocks burst
out in a 26-11 run to claim a sol
id 48-37 lead with 9:49 left in reg
ulation. But USC was unable to
take advantage, and scored
only one more field goal for the
remainder of the game.
In overtime, Jarvis Hayes
and Steve Thomas were all the
offense UGA would need. The
two connected for all of
Georgia’s 10 points as the
Bulldogs were able to hold out
for the win.
The Gamecocks were led by
Warren with 14 points. Fellow
senior Tony Kitchings put up
10 points and nabbed 13 re
bounds. Howell also put in a
double-double with 10 points
and 11 rebounds.
Hayes led the Bulldogs with
19 points and 11 rebounds.
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