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Baseball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 Derek Tharpe pitched eight and 1/3 innings to get the win de spite his allowing 11 hjts. Hochevar closed out the game for Tennessee and earned his second save of the series and the season. i Sunday: Tenn. 10 - USC 6 The Vols once again defeated the Gamecocks in the final game of the series, but this time in dra matic fashion. Rawl gave up a grand slam to Javi Herrera in the bottom of the eighth inning, and Tennessee held on in the ninth to send the Gamecocks to their fifth straight loss. Rawl (4-2) recorded the loss. He gave up five runs on six hits in five and 1/3 innings of relief. Powell went l-for-2 on the day with three RBIs and drew three walks. Carolina had its chances, as 12 men were left on base and Tennessee out-hit the Gamecocks 13-8. Michael Rivera’s 4-for-5, two Rfil performance led the Vols, as Joey Andrews (1-1) recorded his first win of the season for Tennessee. The problems for Carolina be gan in the second inning when Matt Campbell walked the first four batters to put the Vols on the scoreboard. Cliff Donald came in to relieve Campbell and walked the very next batter for another Tennessee run. Rivera then knocked a two-run single off Donald to give Tennessee a 4-0 lead. The Gamecocks came right back in the third a Powell double brought in Jon Coutlangus and Buscher to close the gap. Tennessee added a run in the bot tom half of the third inning and another in the fourth to take a 6-2 advantage. USC rallied in the seventh in ning with one run, as well as in the eighth inning when, with the bases loaded, Buscher walked to bring Parks in for a run. After Triplett was hit by a pitch that brought Michael Campbell home, the Vols walked Powell, which brought Tolleson in for a run. Demetric Smith then came up to the plate with two outs and grounded into a double play to end the inning tied at 6-6. Herrera then went deep in the eighth inning to bring in Josh Alley, Nick Crowe and Czarniecki as the Gamecocks couldn’t get anything in the ninth inning and took the loss. USC’s next game comes Wednesday against Furman at Greenville Municipal Stadium at 7 p.m. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmai l. com Basketball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 a difficult year — especially con sidering now the post-season suc cess of so many of our noncon ference opponents,” Odom said. When Odom first arrived in Columbia, Athletics Director Mike McGee’s thought USC should be an NCAA Tournament participant every year. Because the basketball team has not made the tournament since 1998, Odom thinks he is beginning to feel t some heat, though not exactly pressure, to go back to the Big Dance. “Yes I feel it. I would not call it pressure; I would call it re sponsibility. I expect to be there, and I expect to have a team with ’me,” Odom said. “Beyond that, I don’t feel any uneasiness, if that is what you mean. But I do feel a responsibility myself to be there. Whatever you do is not enough. “That said, I do think it is re alistic for us to be among the best; I have already said that to you, and if you are among the best, you will be playing this time of year. “There is no reason why this program should not be in post season play every year when our system, building a winning foun dation, is in place. What are the things it takes: a great league, a great arena, great players, and great fans and supporters. We have all those things, and I see no reason why we can’t do that. I be lieve that when I came, and I feel that now.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com WWW.DAILYGAMECOCK.COM We’ve got USC sports covered. WWW.DAItYGAMECOCK.COM Senkiw CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 have for each other and brings back a sense of overall respect for the league. Iverson was quite thankful for Shaq’s comments about Iverson needing to be on the team. “The most-dominant player in the league, for him to stay some thing like that, it was a great compliment,” Iverson said. “I guess it says a lot about what I’ve done in my career.” I think the right decision will be made and Iverson will have the chance to represent our country in the 2004 Olympic games. Iverson wants to be a part of this team, but won’t con cern himself with decisions he can’t make. He will just keep his team in con tention for the top spot in the Eastern 0’Nea| Conference. If summer ball pre sents itself, look for Iverson bringing the desire the U.S. team needs to bring home the gold. Senkiw is a third-year print journalism student. Hands-on demonstration PHOTO BY MARK SHILLING/THE GAMECOCK Head coach Lou Holtz shows members of his football team how to perform a drill during the Gamecocks’ first spring practice Friday. USC's spring game will be held April 12. Iraq war sends waves through < sports events around the world Spectators from Washington to South Africa display views BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The war in Iraq reverberated across sports this weekend, from marathoners in Washington to na tional anthems at NHL games to military updates during TV cov erage of the NCAA tournament. There were protests at a soccer game in Spain, an auto race in Malaysia and at cricket’s World Cup in South Africa. The run in Washington on Sunday was known as The Unofficial Washington DC Marathon — no streets were closed along the route and run ners stopped for red lights. Organizers decided Wednesday to call off the real race because of se curity worries. Some of the 500 people who ran through the capital’s streets wore T-shirts that read, “Can’t blow up what you can’t catch.” More than 6,800 runners from 50 states and 14 countries had reg istered for the official race. Hockey fans in Montreal cheered the U.S. anthem before the Canadiens’ win over Carolina on Saturday. The anthem also was greeted warmly in Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto this weekend. The applause in Montreal was a reversal from the jeers greeting “The Star-Spangled Banner” be fore Thursday’s game against the New York Islanders. In Montreal, a videotaped mes sage from former Canadiens play er Jean Beliveau was played on the scoreboard. The Hall of Famer invited fans to sing both anthems “to celebrate the game of hockey.” After Thursday’s game, Canadiens president Pierre Boivin expressed “deep regret” for the booing. “O Canada” drew steady boos Saturday in Sunrise, Fla., before Ottawa’s victory over Florida. The Panthers said they were disap pointed “a number of fans be haved disrespectfully.” Fans cheered both anthems be fore the NBA game between the Raptors and 76ers in Toronto on Sunday. The NCAA men’s basketball tournament was shown on CBS on Saturday, with updates on devel opments in Iraq. CBS has the op tion of switching games to ESPN or other cable channels, and did so on Thursday, the first day of the tournament. The tournament’s ratings on CBS have dropped 23 percent from last year. Through three days of games, the overnight ratings — measuring viewership in the country’s biggest markets — av eraged 5.0, down from 6.5 over the same span in 2002. In Spain, players from soccer m club FC Barcelona wore anti-war ® T-shirts before Sunday’s game and carried a banner urging peace. Many of the 100,000 fans stood and applauded. England’s 2004 European Championship qualifier in Liechtenstein, scheduled for next weekend, could be called off or moved because of security con cerns. Hundreds demonstrated in Johannesburg, South Africa, at cricket’s World Cup final between Australia and India. Some signs were critical of Australia’s par ticipation in the war. -- 4 Track wins 26 in home relay meet In two days of competition at the Weems Baskin Relays in Columbia, the USC track teams came away with first place in 26 events. Tiffany Ross took top honors in the 100- and 400-meter hurdles, while the women’s relay teams swept their four races. The men’s team took three of its four re lays. Aleen Bailey scored the top time in the 100 dash, and Lauren Paige placed first in the 5,000 run. USC finished in the top three spots in the men’s 100 hurdles, with Kenneth Ferguson winning the 400 hurdles. William Emase won two BRIEFLY races, the 800 race and the 1,500 run. In the field events, Antoinette Wilks won the women’s long jump title with a mark of 6.52 meters, while India Odum won the shot put. Chris Steddum and Jared Farabee took the top two places in the men’s pole vault. Men’s golf finishes 7th at invitational Shooting a three-round score of 869, the USC men's golf team finished in seventh place at the EZ-GO Invitational at Forest Heights Country Club in Statesboro, Ga. The top three fin 1 ishers in the Invitational were Wake Forest, Clemson and Georgia. Twelve of the teams that participated are among GolfWeek’s top 50. Eirik Johansen finished in 11th place with a final score of 213. This was his seventh top 20 finish this season, and the fifth tournament that he has led the team. Nash Elliot tied for 20th, with an even-par 216, while Martin Rominger finished in 26th place. Alex Hamilton ended the com petition in 55th place, and West Streib tied for 60th with a 226. | The men's golf team will re turn to action April 5 and 6 at the Cleveland Golf-ASU Invitational in Augusta, Ga. 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