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Softball travels to Gainesville for Gator game BY STEPHEN COLLINS THE GAMECOCK To start the 2004 season, the No. 25 USC softball team reeled off eight straight wins, and after ^Wednesday's shutout of the No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs, the Gamecocks sit at 21-13 overall, 10-11 in SEC play. Leftfielder McKenna Hughes hit a solo home run, and shortstop Kristin Hall singled to drive in the other run for the Gamecocks’ 2-0 win. On the mound, Stacey Johnson shut down the No. 1 of fense in the SEC, holding UGA to only three hits, all singles. Johnson upped her record to 13-4, as Georgia fell to 39-6 and 13-5 in the SEC. As a team, the Gamecocks are batting .244, eighth in the SEC, but are fourth in staff ERA, yielding only 1.5 runs a game. Batting a ro bust .351 with 40 hits, Nancy Crane leads the team in batting average and hits. Samantha Jennings leads in home runs with nine and total •ses with 57, while Ashley Smith ids the offense with 21 RBI. The team has hit 28 home runs this sea son, tying the record set by the 1994 team. With 13 regular season games left on the schedule, the team will certainly look to break that mark. The pitching staff is the strong point of the team, led by Stacey Johnson, who at 13-4, has only al lowed 14 earned runs in 116 in nings pitched, amounting to a .84 ERA. After staff ace Johnson are Aleca Johnson at 3-3 with a 1.02 ERA and Melanie Henkes at 5-6 with a 3.13 ERA. The staff has sur rendered only 78 runs, while the offense has amassed 118. While starting the season re markably with an eight game win streak, a midseason losing streak of six games knocked the Gamecocks from a top 15 ranking. The streak began March 27 against Auburn with three losses, and an other three to the No. 12 Tennessee Volunteers before defeating Kentucky 3-2 on April 3. The Gamecocks are 4-2 since the losing streak. This weekend Carolina travels to Gainesville, Fla., to p’-’v the Florida Gators. The Gators are ranked 16th in the USA Today/NFCA National Poll and have only lost one conference se ries this season with an outstand ing record of 35-9,12-6 in SEC play. Florida is seventh in the SEC in batting and third in pitching, sit ting one spot ahead of USC in both categories. Florida is 8-3 this sea son against ranked opponents, los ing only to No. 10 Alabama and twice to No. 5 Georgia. This sea son, thanks in large part to a sol id pitching staff, the Gators have outscored opponents by an aver age of 3.8 runs per game. On the Florida pitching staff, with a record of 17-4 Jenny Gladding has amassed 217 strike outs in 153.1 innings pitched with an ERA of 0.82.’Stacey Stevens is 11-2, and Amanda Moore rounds out the staff with a record of 4-0. This weekend’s series will fea ture a doubleheader on Saturday with games at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., wnile the final game will be played Sunday at 1 p.m. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@gwm.sc.edu rrlU IU bY JUMNINY HAYNto/ I rlt LiAMtUUUK Second baseman Chrissy Shoonmaker throws the ball to first base in USC’s series with Georgia. Carolina won 2-1. Baseball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 , 27 for his career that put him in a tie for 10th in the Florida career record books. Freshman catcher Brian Jeroloman is coming into Columbia red hot after going 4-for 11 with a .364 batting average against the Bulldogs last weekend. Jeroloman had two RBIs and scored four times against UGA. The pitch ing matchups for this weekend’s se A include Friday’s Florida right hander Tommy Boss (2-1,7.23 ERA) versus USC’s right-hander Billy Buckner (4-13.28 ERA). Saturday’s game features Florida’s righty Bryan Ball (5-13.74 ERA) against Carolina’s lefty Matt Campbell (5-1 2.03 ERA). Florida will wrap up the series Sunday with right-hander Justin Hoyman (6-0, 2.87 ERA) go ing against USC’s right-hander Aaron Rawl (6-2,3.83 ERA). The first game is set for 7 p.m. on Friday at Sarge Frye Field. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@gwm.sc.edu Pitching CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 He was throwing his three pitch es, getting his fastball in there, his slider and getting the change up over when he needed to.” To make matters worse for Carolina, the pitching fell apart as well. Starter Zac McCamie gave up three runs on five hits before being relieved by Arik Hempy, who also gave up a run. With the game tied, Tanner went to Aaron Rawl, who nor mally starts during the weekend series, to bad USC out. Instead, Rawl was sheded for six hits and five runs in ordy one and a third innings. “Rawl felt like he could go three or four innings, but he got hit a littie bit hard,” Tanner said. “You put in a veteran gu£|uay hopefudy do better on the road.” It didn’t get better on the road, and there were some errors on the defensive end that led to the • MM '*» Clemson rally. “We didn’t make a couple of plays we needed to, and that can hurt you in a game like this,” Tanner said. Even with all that went wrong for USC, Tanner said he isn’t about to let this game worry him. “We’ve got to manufacture runs, and you’re not going to drive them in all the time,” Tanner said. “We know we didn’t play like we’re capable of play ing, but I’m not going to take anything away from Clemson, especially Josh Cribb.” Carolina had won at Clemson earlier this season and com manded a 2-0 lead heading into the game, but this time around, the Tigers were emotionally ready,- and the Gamecocks weren’t as focused. Mahoney said that would need to change if Carolina wants to take the se ries win from the Tigers next Wednesday. “We just need to play our game,” Mahoney said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@gwm.sc.edu Defense CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 to change the playbook and the oth er steps that would have to be tak en, so the name of the position was changed. On the injury front, no one was injured at practice Thursday, while defensive end Moe Thompson came back from a leg injury to participate fully in the practice, and Jackson returned in a limited capacity after an ankle injury. Carolina will have a scrimmage today, with the offense concentrat ing on the pass more than in the first scrimmage April 3, when the run was emphasized. The Gamecocks will not practice Saturday or Sunday. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@gwm.sc.edu Golfers young and old compete in Masters BY DOUG FERGUSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUGUSTA, GA. - A boyish smile washed over Justin Rose as he walked off the 18th green with an other birdie, the perfect finish to an ideal start Thursday in the Masters. Moments later, a single tear streamed down Tom Watson’s face as he mourned the loss of his long ^feie caddie, Bruce Edwards, who ^Pd in Florida of Lou Gehrig’s dis ease about two hours before Watson teed off. And then there was Tiger Woods, growing increasingly frustrated with every shot that sailed into the trees, the weeds and the gallery. He was 4 over par through 14 holes wnen darKness cuasea him on Augusta National without a single birdie on his card. From sadness to thrills, from sunshine to rain that caused a two hour delay, the first round of the Masters had a little bit of every thing. Rose, at 23 the youngest profes sional in the field, started with back to-back birdies on a tough, crusty course and finished with birdies on the final two holes for a 5-under 67, living him a two-shot lead over flBris DiMarco and 50-year-old Jay TTaas. Ernie Els was at 2-under through 17 and will be among 18 players who return at 8:45 a.m. Friday to finish the round. DiMarco, the 36-hole leader three years ago at the Masters, provided , the biggest thrill when his 5-iron from 198 yards dropped for a hole in-one at No. 6. He was the only play er to avoid bogey and shot 69. The cheers, as usual, belonged to the King. ^ Nothing rocked this place more than when Arnold Palmer rolled in a 40-foot putt that went up a steep slope and crashed into the pin be fore disappearing into the cup. Never mind that it was for par, or that the 74-year-old Palmer wound up with an 84 in his 50th and final Masters. “I would have loved to have made the cut,” Palmer said. “I may make it yet, (but) I’ll have to quit after 9.” Woods might join him. For the second straight Masters, the focus Friday will not be on his pursuit of another green jacket, but whether he can extend his record cut streak. “I’m done today. Thanks,” Woods said as he drove away. Rose hasn’t heard these kind of cheers since he was a 17-year-old at the 1998 British Open, when he chipped in for birdie on the final hole at Royal Birkdale to finish fWiirtVi He turned pro the next week, then missed 21 consecutive cuts be fore his game slowly recovered. He has won four times in Europe, and tied for fifth at the U.S. Open last year. “There were times when you’re thinking this is going to be a long, uphill struggle,” Rose said. “But the last couple of seasons, I’ve recently enjoyed the situation I’ve been in. 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