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BRIEFLY
Johnson a two-time
SEC award honoree
USC pitcher Stacey Johnson
was named SEC
pitcher of the
week last week.
This is Johnson’s
second player-of
the-week honor
this season. She
went 3-0 in four
games she
Johnson pitched, record
ing 10 strikeouts
and earning a 0.34 ERA during
the week.
Johnson, a Newtown, Pa., na
tive, won a game over Arkansas
and two over Auburn. One of
the wins over Auburn was a 4-0
shutout, her third shutout of
the season. Johnson also tossed
three complete games. She is
the first Carolina pitcher to be
named SEC pitcher of the week
twice in one season since
Megan Matthews in 2001.
Elliott leads golf
team in Charleston
Nash Elliott’s four-round to
tal score of 286 led the
Gamecock golf team this week
end at the Azalea Amateur, held
at the Country Club of
Charleston.
Elliott landed in a tie for
eighth place, which was the
best finish for all of the
Gamecocks competing at the
event.
Martin Rominger tied for 17th
place, with a total score of 289.
In the last round, Rominger shot
an 81 after three under-par
scores in the previous three
rounds.
USC’s Matt Robinson also
competed, but missed the cut by
one stroke. Robinson shot a
three-day total of224.
Carolina returns to action at
the ASU-Cleveland Golf
Collegiate in Augusta, Ga., next
weekend.
Link scores six in
two USC victories
The USC men’s soccer team
continued to time up for the 2003
season with a pair of games this
past weekend at the Graveyard.
Carolina beat Winthrop on
Friday 5-1, and downed
Hampden Sydney 5-2 on Sunday.
The star of the weekend for
USC was striker Ben Link, who
had six goals — a hat trick in
both games.
Carolina was down 1-0 to
Winthrop on Friday before re
ceiving the three goals from
Link along with tallies from J.C.
Desriac and Jordan Quinn to
earn the win.
Link scored three times again
on Sunday, and the Gamecocks
got two goals from Jack
Cummings to defeat Hampden
Sydney.
Zac Jordan and Geoffrey
Anatole split time in goal for the
Gamecocks.
Football
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eluding a 53-yard pass to Troy
Williamson. Some problems came
up with the rushing attack; there
was only one run of more than
eight yards. The cornerbacks, es
pecially Dunta Robinson, played
rather well. Defensive linemen
Eric Stroman and Chris Tucker
are out for the rest of the spring
season with injuries.
The football team will resume
practice today, and its spring-prac
tice-ending scrimmage is set for
April 12.
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Rothenberg
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Lopez, when
healthy, can
match up decently
with Jorge
Posada. Posada,
though, will prob
ably have consid
erably more op
Posada portunities to
drive in runs than
Lopez might.
In terms of baseball minds,
Bobby Cox and his crew far out
weigh mine — I definitely can ac
knowledge that, no question about
it.
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As far as television coverage
goes, the Braves have their
Turner superstation, TBS, which
will show 90 of Atlanta’s games
this season. TBS’s new television
tandem of Don Sutton and Joe
Simpson will replace Skip Caray
and Pete Van Wieren in the broad
cast booth in 2003, thus ensuring
that Braves fans will actually get
past the second inning without
falling asleep. Naturally, a lot of
Atlanta fans aren’t pleased with
the move, but they enjoy far bet
ter coverage than my fantasy
team.
I’ve considered creating my
team on a computer game and
then having it play the other
teams while I videotape those
games, complete with play-by-play
and color commentary. Then I’d
try to sell it to WRHA, which
doesn’t quite have the same-sized
viewer base.
Besides, there’s rarely, if ever,
any sports programming on
WRHA, anyway. I don’t have a ra
dio deal, either, but I’m willing to
talk about it to anyone who will
listen.
But at least no matter how bad
ly my fantasy team stinks this sea
son, it would still have a much bet
ter shot of making the playoffs
than the Braves have this year.
Rothenberg is a fourth-year
sports- and entertainment
management student.
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Hockey tournament in China
canceled because of virus
GENEVA(AP) — The women’s
world hockey championships in
China were called off Sunday be
cause of the mysterious disease
that has killed at least 57 people
and sickened 1,600 worldwide.
The tournament was to have
started Thursday and end April
9. The International Ice Hockey
Federation in Zurich said it
could no longer assure the health
of the teams and has yet to decide
whether this year’s event will be
rescheduled.
The IMF advised teams in the
eight-nation tournament to re
turn home as soon as possible.
Switzerland, Sweden, Russia
and Germany already were in
Beijing with the host Chinese
team. Squads from the United
States, Canada and Finland were
about to leave.
“Obviously our team, players
and staff wanted to play,” said
Doug Palazzari, executive direc
tor of USA Hockey. “It is a huge
part of our program. At this
point we think the IMF made the
right decision under the circum
stances. It is a very, very difficult
situation obviously.
“But we have to consider first
and foremost the safety of our
players and staff. I think they
made the right decision.”
The federation consulted with
chief medical-officer Mark Aubry
and other medical experts before
calling off play, the IIHF said.
The federation said it initial
ly decided to proceed with the
tournament because Beijing did
not appear to be hit by the out
break of Severe . Acute
Respiratory Syndrome.
However, the IIHF said the “sit
uation took a drastic turn to the
worse in the last few days.” China
is the most severely affected coun
try with 800 cases and 34 deaths.
“We decided that canceling or
postponing the championship
was the only responsible thing,”
IIHF president Rene Fasel said.
“Now, the present situation gives
us reasons to be extraordinarily
concerned.”
The U.S. and Canadian teams
originally we- e scheduled to
leave Thursday u«t delayed then
departures.
“The health of the athletes
must always be our prime con
cern, and with the new reports
regarding the spread of the pneu
monia and the strong medical ad
vice we received, this was really
the only decision we could take,”
Fasel said. “We were no longer
in a position to guarantee the
health of the athletes and team
staff.”
Canada and the United States
are the top two teams. Canada
has won all seven world champi
onships and has never lost a
game in the tournament. Canada
won the 2001 title, beating the
United States. There were no
worlds in 2002, an Olympic year.
“We’ve won the gold medal sev
en times and we want to be able
to go back and defend it and not
just have it handed to somebody
else or give it away,” Canadian de
fenseman Becky Kellar said.
Canadian Hotkey Association
president Bob Nicholson had
said if Canada could not go, Fasel
should call off the tournament.
“Every day it was up and
down so you kind of started to ex
pect the worst,” Canadian play
er Cassie Campbell said.
“It would be really hard to live
with, if the event went on, say
players got sick,” Team Canada
coach Karen Hughes said. “I
don’t think anyone would want
to live with that situation, not on
our team or other teams.”
World Health Organization of
ficials who went to China to in
vestigate. said Beijing has
promised to improve monitoring
of the illness, with daily updates
from every province.
The 2004 women’s hockey
championships are scheduled for
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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