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BRIEFLY Georgia beats USC in SEC Tournament In the second round of the SEC Women’s Tennis Championships in Knoxville, the seventh-seeded USC wom en’s tennis team (13-10) was eliminated 4-0 by the second seeded Georgia Bulldogs. The Bulldogs took the dou bles points from USC and won three of the six singles match es before play was suspended. At No. 3 singles, Danielle Wiggins was the only Gamecock leading her oppo nent when play was stopped. Carolina defeated Auburn 4 1 in the first round of the SEC Tournament. USC won the dou bles point and Kathy Boyanovich, Jodi Kenoyer and Wiggins each defeated the Tigers in singles. USC will now wait to see where it will go for its NCAA Regional match to take place May 9 through May 11. Three USC athletes on SEC Honor Roll . . Three USC student-athletes were among 26 total named to the 2002-03 SEC Men’s Basketball Academic Honor Roll by SEC Commissioner Mike Slive. The Gamecocks named to the team were Marius Petravicius, Mike Boynton and John Chappell. Chappell’s cumulative GPA of 3.89, including a 4.0 in the fall 2002 semester, is the highest among all the Gamecocks. Five other schools also had at'least three student-athletes on the honor roll, which is based on grades from the 2001 02 academic year. In other USC men’s basket ball news, assistant coach Ernie Nestor has left the pro gram to become head coach at Elon University. Nestor has been a longtime assistant to basketball coach Dave Odom, both at USC and at Wake Forest, and has had head coach ing experience at George Mason University. Odom also announced that the team will not be partici pating at the Alaska Shootout in November; instead, it will keep open the option of playing in another in-season tourna ment. He cited the team’s youth as one reason for delay ing Carolina’s appearance at the annual tournament. On the injury front, Rolando Howell is recovering from a stress fracture in his foot. Women’s golf ends SECs in fourth The 16th-ranked USC wom en’s golf team shot a 311 in the third round, finishing the SEC Tournament in fourth place on Sunday. The Gamecocks land ed 11 strokes behind the cham pion Auburn Tigers at the par 72 University Club course in Lexington, Ky. Carolina’s Kristy McPher son, the two-time defending in dividual SEC champion, shot an 81 to finish in third place. McPherson had led the tourna ment after the first day, but con stant breezy winds affected the overall Gamecock effort. Adrienne Gautreaux landed in a tie for eighth place, with a two-over-par 74 in the third round. Marci Robinson shot a career-low round with a 73 on Sunday to finish in a tie for 29th place. Kacy Thompson tied for 38th place, while Tiffany Catafygiotu tied for 42nd place. USC’s third-place finish was its third top-five finish this season and eighth in 12 SEC Championship appearances. The Gamecocks will wait to see where they will go for the NCAA Regionals in May. The team could he playing at a re gional in Winston-Salem, N.C.; Tempe, Ariz.; or Lincoln, Neb. Equestrian finishes 10th at Texas A&M The USC equestrian team finished 10th at the Varsity Equestrian Championships, held by Texas A&M University on Saturday. Captain Sarah Tomasi, lead ing the Hunt Seat team, won in the equitation over fences cat egory, while Tara Brothers fin ished fourth in equestrian on the flat and Brooke Spitzer was sixth in equitation on the flat. Georgia won the overall championship, and Oklahoma State finished second. USC will travel to Athens, Ga., on Saturday for the Southern Equestrian Championships. Softball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 lead and win the game. But an even bigger story was the Senior Day-festivities, and three of the seniors contributed in the first game: Troesh, Quinones and Jodi Fittro each had two hits in the game. Game 3: Alabama 3 - USC 2 Starting pitcher Stacey Johnson and the Gamecocks nursed a 2-0 lead going into the final inning, only to see the lead — and their hopes for a win — fall apart. Carolina broke through in the fourth inning when Quinones homered and added another run in the fifth inning when Kim Evans, USC’s fourth senior, smashed a triple to drive in Sandel. But after surviving a potential ly dangerous sixth inning, Henkes (14-3) allowed two runners to get on base in the seventh before Emily Currie blasted a three-run home run to put the Tide ahead. The Gamecocks had runners on base in the bottom of the seventh, but couldn’t push the tying run across. Disappointed after not getting the final SEC home win, Quinones said USC would get its revenge against Alabama at the SEC Tournament. Alabama “capitalized when they needed to. They had the op portunities to make it happen, and we didn’t,” she said. Carolina will now turn its at tention to a doubleheader tonight against the Furman Paladins, which will be the final home games of the year for USC. First pitch at Beckham Field is slated for 7 p.m. The Gamecocks are three games behind Georgia, the SEC Eastern Division leader. USC still has three games to play in the SEC, all against the Ole Miss Rebels. “We’ve got to go all out right now in every game because it’s coming down to the line, I guess,” Troesh said. “We’re much better than that. We’ll rebound.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmai l. com Baseball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 Campbell and Kevin Melillo all hit home runs in the victory. USC got down early when Daniel Pruitt hit a solo home run off Matt Campbell in the third inning. Carolina came right back in the fourth when Powell took the first pitch of the bottom of the inning to right field to tie the game at 1-1. Harris put the Gamecocks on top in the fifth inning with an RBI single that scored Coutlangus. Carolina added three more runs in the eighth inning when Michael Campbell hit a two-run homer over the scoreboard in Senkiw CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 weeks later, golfers can trek across the Atlantic Ocean for the unique courses of the British Open. ♦ The end of school also means the onset of several oth er events. If you are around Columbia, cross your fingers that the USC baseball team will hold a regional in the NCAA Tournament. And don’t forget the College World Series, either. Even if the Gamecocks can’t re peat last year’s second-place fin I— —-RS-\ ! 1 ' — right center field. With two outs, Melillo hit his sixth home run of the season to left-center field to seal the Gamecock victory. It was Tanner’s 300th win at Carolina, and he didn’t think it had much impact on him. “It doesn’t mean a heck of a lot except you’re getting an op portunity to work, and I’m hap py about that,” Tanner said. “I’m just happy to have been involved in college baseball for as long as I have, and I hope I can stay for a few more years.” The Gamecocks get no time to rest; they will take the field against Davidson at Sarge Frye tonight at 7 p.m. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com ish, it’s still an exciting event to watch. So there you have it. Making these sports and events big will lead to a successful sports sum mer. I know it seems like the sports world has become dor mant, but, especially in Columbia, these are some things to keep everyone’s sports hamster cranking until Aug. 30, when those white hel mets come flying out of the smoke and sports begins a re naissance. Senkiw is a third-year print journalism student. ---- . .. .. .-—-f- ” . 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