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BRIEFLY Three sign on with men’s golf squad The USC men's golf team an nounced that David Kite, James Morrison and Robert Svensson have signed to play for the Gamecocks starting in the fall of 2003. Kite is the son of profession al golfer Tom Kite and was a member of the state champi onship golf team that won in 2001 and finished third in 2002 at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas. Morrison is a native of the United Kingdom and has played in several internation al tournaments, including the Stoke Park Junior Open, St. George's Hill Golf Club Senior Championships and the West Hill Junior Open. Svensson, originally from Sweden, is transferring from Alabama-Birmingham, where he played one season and led his team at the Gator Invitational, as well as this past fall’s Duke tournament. Also, USC is se.t to play at the 2003 Southeastern Conference Championships from today until Sunday in Sea Island, Ga. This is the third consecutive year that the Seaside Course at the Sea Island Golf Club has held the event. Eirik Johansen, Martin Rominger, Nash Elliot, Alek Hamilton and West Streib will represent the Gamecocks. Carolina will tee off at 8 this morning and will be paired with Georgia and Kentucky. Equestrian team to compete in Georgia The USC equestrian team heads to Athens, Ga., to compete in the Southern Equestrian Championship this weekend. The championships, held by the University of Georgia, will take place at the Animal Science Arena tomorrow. The new NCAA equestrian format and demonstrations of the new dis ciplines that will be used down the road will be introduced, as well. Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi State, Carolina and Vanderbilt are competing, afid the four classes will include English Equitation on the flat, English Equitation over fences, Western Equitation and Western Reining. Sarah Tomasi, Tara Brothers, Lindsey Wilson, Chelsea Koornick, Kerrie Reeves, „ Courtney Borton, Kyra HufFord and Laura Pipkin are scheduled to compete for USC. The Gamecocks will compete against Vanderbilt at 9:30 a.m. 7 volleyball players named to honor roll The USC volleyball team an nounced Wednesday that seven Carolina players were named to the 2002 SEC Women's Volleyball Academic Honor Roll by SEC Commissioner Mike Slive. Based on grades from the 2001-2002 academic calendar, Sam Alban, Niece Curry, Megan Hosp, Milica Perovic, Cally Plummer, Amy Pratt and Liz Price made the list out of 86 ath letes in the SEC. LSU led all schools with 12 athletes. Anthony to enter draft SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - With tears in his eyes and his voice trembling, Carmelo Anthony de livered the news most Syracuse fans were expecting but none wanted to hear. “I’m here in front of you today to announce that I will not be com ing back next year,” Syracuse’s standout freshman forward said Thursday, just 17 days after he led the Orangemen to their first na tional championship. “I will be moving on, moving on to the pros.” And just like that, all those pleas for Anthony to stay “One More Year!” were forgotten. “This is a very happy day for Syracuse basketball, and a sad one, too,” head coach Jim Boeheim said, his voice cracking with emotion, too. “The guy sit ting here has done more for Syracuse basketball than any player we’ve ever recruited or that’s ever played here. To lead his team to a national championship as a freshman is truly a historic moment in college basketball. I’m very thankful that he was here with us.” Anthony had delayed making the decision until after the season, preferring to focus on winning. He led the Orangemen during the reg ular season with 22 points and 10 rebounds per game and broke Lawrence Moten’s freshman scor ing records and Derrick Coleman’s freshman rebounding mark. At the Final Four in New Orleans, Anthony had a career-, best 33 points and pulled down 14 rebounds in Syracuse’s semifinal win over Texas. He then put up 20 points in the championship game victory over Kansas and was named Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four—just the third freshman to earn that honor, and the first since Louisville’s Pervis Ellison in 1986. “I’ve got to move on,” said Anthony, who will turn 19 in May. “We won the national cham pionship, I brought Coach Boeheim what he was waiting for for 27 years. I don’t want to make it sound bad, but there’s really nothing more that I could get out of college. And I’m going to get my degree — you can quote me on that.” The NBA draft is scheduled for June 26, and Anthony is expected to be a lottery pick. The draft lot tery will be held May 22. Softball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 j Paladins. Aleca Johnson took the hill for the Gamecocks and pitched a complete game, striking out seven batters while giving up one run on four hits. The vic tory helped even Johnson’s ! record at 4-4. Carolina had some chances early, but ended up breaking through in the third inning. Smith brought in the game’s first run, singling in Curtis, and Kristin Hall had a big two run single of her own to give USC an early 3-0 lead. From there on in, it was all Fittro, whose home runs pro vided the remainder of USC’s runs. They improved Fittro’s season home run total to five, which Compton credits to im provement in her mechanics. “Coach gave me a little ad vice right before the first one,” Fittro said. “She told me I was leaning my body out, and I needed to stay in. I did what she said, and it worked.” Furman managed to earn a run in the top of the sixth in ning, when Barr crossed home plate on a ground out by Alison McNulty. Now, the Gamecocks will turn their attention to their fi nal SEC series of the season when they travel to Ole Miss for a three-game set over the weekend. Though they have clinched a spot in the SEC Tournament, USC remains three games behind Georgia for first place in the SEC Eastern Division and a half game behind Florida for sec ond place. The Bulldogs have six SEC games remaining on their schedule. “The important thing is that you’re in the tournament, so pressure-wise, I don’t think there’s any pressure for that,” Compton said. “Georgia’s still got six tough games ahead of | them, so we’re not giving up on the East.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocksports @hotmail.com Rothenberg CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 standards. Schlegel even did an interview with Hans Wuthrich, who handled the computers con trolling the ice surface at the Winnipeg Arena. There’s actu ally a science between keeping the ice at the right temperature, along with the correct humidity and other factors. This was a helpful sidebar to those with lit tle curling knowledge, such as myself, and surely helpful to the several hundred American tele vision viewers. Even the advertisements lacked excitement. One, spon sored by USA Curling, featured two supermarket stock boys and an old lady in the frozen foods aisle. A frozen turkey falls to the floor and the old lady and one of the stock boys sweep it along the floor in curling fashion. Well, they appear at the end as if they won the competition. Another ad spot showed a wheel of Le Gruyere cheese sliding into the center of the house. I’d like to know who’s spending this much money to have their product shown during a curling compe tition. Is it really worth it? I have no more of a desire to eat Le Gruyere cheese or go curling than I did before I saw these commercials. How big is curling in Canada? Well, bigger than it is in the United States, that’s for sure. But almost 10,000 people packed the arena to watch the World Championships. There were some selected Americans in the crowd, but no word on whether they were just placed there by Canadian curling officials just for the heck of it. No matter how interesting it was to be watching curl ing on televi sion on Sunday, it sure isn’t one of the high- .. _ ,. , . „ ... McCormick lights of my life. Yet I must give props to McCormick and the rest of her team, including Ann Swisshelm Silver, Allison Pottinger and Tracy Sachtjen. They did what no other American women’s curling team has done — win a world championship. With all the thrills NBC will have in televising curling, who needs the NBA playoffs? After all, curling rocks. 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