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Track and field end
season at S.C. meet
The USC men’s and women’s
track and field teams will play
host to their last outdoor track
meet of the year today in the
S.C. State Meet at Weems
Baskin Track and Field. The
meet will be free and open to the
public. The event will begin at
12:30 p.m. with the men’s ham
mer throw. Track events will
begin at 4 p.m. when the wom
en’s 3000-meter steeplechase
will take place.
Top athletes who will com
pete for USC include two-sport
k star Taqiy Muhammad and Fred
* Townsend in the 110-meter hur
dles at 5:55 p.m. Also competing
will be NCAA champion
Lashinda Demus in the 100-me
ter hurdles at 5:40 p.m. and
Reanna Townsend in the same
event.
USC sends 4 riders
to championship
Four riders from USC’s
equestrian team qualified for
the Varsity Equestrian
Championships, which are
coming up on April 24 in
Conyers, Ga. This comes after
a solid showing for the team
last weekend in the IHSA Zone
Finals.
■ The Gamecocks had two se
nior qualifiers for the event.
Lindsey Wilson qualified in the
intermediate Hunt Seat class,
while Kyra Hufford qualified in
the Walk, Trot and Canter.
Also qualifying for USC was
junior Tara Brothers and fresh
man Rachel Sternoff. Brothers
qualified by winning the
Equitation over fences division
and Sternoff won the Open
Horsemanship.
The Championships will take
place at the Georgia
International Horse Park and
will be co-hosted by USC,
Georgia and Auburn.
Women's golf 14th
in national tourney
Competing in the Bryan
National Collegiate Tournament
in Browns Summit, N.C. last
weekend, the USC women’s golf
team placed 14th with an over
all score of 928 (+64).
Winning the tournament at
the par 72 Bryan Park
Champions Course was the
Duke Blue Devils, who cap
tured their fourth consecutive
team title in the event. The Blue
Devils also took home the indi
vidual championship, as
Elizabeth Janangelo rallied
from eighth place and shot a 70
(-2) in the final round to win the
tournament.
For the Gamecocks, senior
captain Adrienne Gautreaux led
the way with a final score of 226
(+10) in a tie for 24th place over
all. Also in the top 50 was sopho
more Erica Battle who shot a 230
(+14) to finish in 39th place.
Rounding out the scores for USC
was senior Kory Thompson (234,
+18), freshman Jenna Pearson
(242, +26) and Megan Miller (247,
+31).
Men's golf ties with
N.C. State, Texas
Finishing in a tie for eighth
at the Cleveland Golf/Augusta
State Invitational in Augusta,
Ga., the USC men’s golf team fin
ished with a 54-hole score of 882.
That score was 21 strokes off
event champion Minnesota,
which was the only team to
shoot under par for the tourna
ment. The Gamecocks would fin
ish in a tie with N.C. State and
Texas.
Individually, Alex Hamilton
and Jake Thompson led the
Gamecocks and finished in a tie
for 28th place. Their score of 221
was 14 shots off co-medalists
Matt Hendrix of Clemson and
Nathan Smith of Duke. Tied for
35th place was USC’s Martin
Rominger with a score of 222.
Rounding out the field for USC
was Eirik Johansen with a score
of 225 and West Strieb with a
score of 227.
SEC.News.and. Notes
Harris named SEC
Player of the Week
LSU’s junior first baseman
Clay Harris was named Player
of the Week by the SEC
Monday.
Harris’s bat was on fire this
week as he hit for an average of
.467, connecting on 7-for-15. On
the week, Harris had three
home runs, one double, eight
RBIs and six runs.
He also led the Tigers to a se
ries win over their division ri
^al Auburn, hitting 5-for-ll
with two home runs and seven
RBIs.
After leading the SEC last
year with 16 home runs, Harris
came into last week with just
one, only to hit a home run in
three straight games to bring
his total to four. Harris’s hit
ting was also very timely for
the Auburn game.
On Friday, his home run in
the top of the ninth inning was
enough to send the game into
extra innings, which led to an
LSU win.
On Saturday, Harris’s eighth
inning home run would knot
the contest at three before LSU
would again pull away to a 5-3
win.
Finally, in the last game of
the series, Harris would break a
seventh inning scoreless tie
with an RBI single, leading LSU
to a 3-2 series sweeping victory.
Also, Georgia’s Will Startup
was named Pitcher of the Week
for his performance against
Florida over the weekend.
Startup earned two saves in
the three-game sweep of the
Gators.
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signments are given out.
When Holtz was asked if the
fullbacks were going to get the
ball, he said no.
“We can, but we haven’t,”
Holtz said. “This role is more
of a guard position we have
sometimes when we can give
them the ball, but if you’ve got
a running play I’d rather put
it under Gonzie (Gray) or Cory
(Boyd) or Demetris (Summers)
or Daccus’ (Turman) hands
than I would one of those full
backs. No, we can give them
the ball and do some different
things with them, but right
now we have not explored that
option.”
USC will hit the practice
field again Thursday. The
Spring Game is set for April 17
at 1 p.m.
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