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SEC.News.and.Notes Sawatski, Corley receive SEC honors The SEC announced Monday that Mississippi State’s Brad Corley and Arkansas’s Jay Sawatski have been named SEC Player of the Week and Pitcher of the Week, respectively. Bulldog right fielder Corley led his team to its first SEC se ries victory in his home state of Kentucky last weekend. He hit five home runs over the series, six for the week, and totaled 11 RBI over the five-game road trip, giving him a batting average of .478 for the week. Of his eight hits in the weekend series with Kentucky, six of them were for extra bases. Eight of Corley’s career-high 10 home runs have come in the last seven games, four of which were part of back-to-back mul ti-homer games in the Kentucky series. The third home run of the series tied the game in the top of the ninth and started a rally in which the Bulldogs would cap off a 10-8 comeback win. Corley also was instru mental in MSU’s two game sweep of No. 11 Southern Miss during the mid-week with five RBI. Sawatski was an integral part of Arkansas’s sweep of LSU last weekend, earning a win and a save for his efforts. The sweep of the Tigers was the first time any SEC team had swept the Tigers since 1998. Sawatski’s win was the first for Arkansas in Baton Rouge since 1996. He also struck out Derek Hebert to end the game on Saturday in the 10th in ning. 5 SEC players vie for baseball award This year’s Golden Spikes Award, presented by USA Baseball in partnership with Major League Baseball, released its watch list last week, which includes five SEC players. These players include Ole Miss’s Stephen Head, LSU’s J.C. Holt, USC’s Landon Powell, Steven Register from Auburn and Vanderbilt’s Jeremy Sowers. The award is presented to the best amateur baseball player in the country and underscores the commitment of USA Baseball and the MLB to support the de velopment of baseball from the roots of the sport. The award is the most prestigious in amateur baseball and the finalists will be announced in June. Brothers CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 feeling.” " Ryan said his parents are split on how to react to the situation, with the brothers playing against each other four times a year in the regular season and possible post season match-ups. “My father’s more calm about it, but my mom’s real nervous about it, so she just cheers for Mo, and that covers both ends of me and Collin." Ryan said. “My father loves it, though. That’s all he talks about at work.” Before he came to USC, though, Ryan didn’t understand the rival ry between the two schools. “I didn’t understand it at all,” Ryan said. “I went to a football game and there were 80,000 people screaming at Clemson, and every one was wearing orange and peo ple had the Clemsux shirts and ev erything.” Now that he’s here, Ryan said he appreciates the level of the con tention between the schools. “The first game, I was amazed how many people were here and going nuts,” Ryan said. “It’s really good for the state, it’s really good for college baseball. I mean, it’s one of the top rivalries in all col lege sports and I love it.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocksports@gwm.sc.edu NBA CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 gitimate chance at the 10th re bound. Unfortunately, they made most of them — the Hawks shot 58 percent in the game, including 17-of-25 on 3-pointers — and it didn’t look as if he would get the chance. Then, with the final seconds ticking off, reserve center Michael Bradley tossed the ball the length of the floor to Sura, who was un contested under the basket. He missed the shot, grabbed the re bound and stood there grinning as the horn sounded. The Nets didn’t seem too upset about Sura’s intentional miss, though Kenyon Martin declined comment and Jason Kidd, the NBA’s triple-double leader, said he’s never had to resort to those sort of tactics. Briefly Ring makes great start to season USC soccer alumnus Henry Ring has jumped off to a great start in the 2004 Major League Soccer season, recording two shutouts in his first two games at goalkeeper for the Chicago Fire. In the season’s opening matchup with Kansas City, Ring posted four saves to record his first career shutout. In the game, Ring made a diving save off a shot from former Gamecock Josh Wolff, who now plays for Kansas City. The game ended in a 0-0 tie. In the Fire’s most recent game, Ring was impressive again, preserving a 0-0 tie with the San Jose Earthquakes after recording one save. Ring has been part of the Fire since 2001 after being drafted 33rd in the MLS Superdraft. He was an All American in 1998 and 2000 for the Gamecocks. Baseball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 with three home runs in one game, Campbell tied the USC record for triples in a game with two on Saturday. He is the 12th Gamecock to accomplish that feat. Clemson, on the other hand, is reeling after a sweep at the hands of the Virginia Cavaliers. The Tigers lost all three games in Charlottesville, marking the first time the Cavaliers have swept the Tigers since 1972. Clemson was befuddled by Virginia’s pitching staff, going 3-for-32 with runners on base. Despite Clemson’s poor per formance in its last outing, USC head coach Ray Tanner said he understands that any game against the Tigers is a big game for the Gamecocks. “I think it’s big, I think it’s huge,” Tanner said. “I think it’s like — you get evaluated on or if your team gets in the postseason — whether you beat Clemson.” The game won’t be the only thing that will be attracting at tention on the field, as Clemson’s usual lead-off batter, second baseman Herman Demmink, was named a 2004 NSCA Strength & Conditioning All American. Demmink has personal bests in the weight room that include a 275-pound bench press and a 450-pound squat, along with a 295 pound power clean. Prior to the Tigers’ game with Wofford on Tuesday, Demmink was batting .320 with 31 hits, three home runs and20RBIs. “Herman has a work ethic that cannot be matched,” former Clemson baseball strength coach Tom Melton said in a news re lease. “As a true freshman, he broke the school records for the 225-pound rep. test and pull-test. He was awarded the Dedication Lifter Award, which is voted on by his teammates. For the sec ond year in a row, Herman won the Omaha Challenge, which is a four-day event comprised of re sistance, agility and condition ing tests to measure muscular endurance, mental toughness and team unity.” Two USC players aren’t in as good physical condition going into the Clemson game. Second baseman Kevin Melillo will not play tonight, although a cast has been removed from his right arm and has been replaced by a soft brace. Shortstop Steve Tolleson is back to full practice, but ac cording to Tanner, is question able for the Clemson game. Comments on this story?lZ-mail gamecocksports@gwm.sc.edu CU’s Barnett says all to blame BY JON SARCHE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BROOMFIELD, COLO. - Insisting the Colorado football program does not condone sexual misconduct, suspended coach Gary Barnett said Tuesday there is “no question” there was mis behavior at a 2001 party at the center of a rape scandal—but ev eryone at the gathering shared the blame. Barnett, questioned for near ly five hours by a panel investi gating recruiting practices at Colorado, said there were 10 peo ple at the off-campus party, in cluding four football athletes. All of them lost their scholarships af terward and were charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor for providing alcohol. Two women contend they were raped at the party by play ers or recruits; a third said she was assaulted in a dorm room shortly afterward. They are su ing in federal court, seeking un specified damages for what they say was the school’s failure to rein in athletes and provide equal protection to women. At least eight women since 1997 have accused Colorado foot ball athletes of rape though no charges have been filed. Separate probes are under way by the state attorney general and university. Barnett’s testimony was the most dramatic yet before the Board of Regents’ panel investi gating whether Colorado uses sex and alcohol to entice recruits. The panel voted to ask for more time to complete its work, mean ing a report wouldn’t come out until the end of May. Barnett, occasionally raising his voice, said he feels responsible for his players’ performance on the field as well as their behavior in the community. But he said there is only so much he can do. Barnett was put on paid leave for comments he made about two of the alleged rape cases, includ ing that of Katie Hnida, a former kicker who said she was raped by a teammate in 2000. He called her an “awful” player as he answered questions about why she left Colorado to later enroll at New Mexico. Barnett waded into the con troversy again, telling the panel he spoke with Hnida’s friends, former teammates and a rape counselor who spent time with the young woman, and that none heard her talk about harassment or assault. “I couldn’t find anybody to substantiate one single claim and I was looking to substantiate it,” Barnett said. A few hours before Barnett spoke, the panel released a March 30 e-mail from Dr. David Hnida, the woman’s father and an Army surgeon now in Iraq. Hnida said Barnett and other university officials must have known about sexual harassment problems his daughter was hav ing at Colorado before she left. “We both have been distressed at the information we read com ing from the university, as well as Gary Barnett,” the father wrote. “To be blunt, there is quite a bit of lying and deception right now.” He also said his daughter would be willing to speak to the panel. The school has made sweeping changes in its recruiting since the scandal began. The NCAA is also looking at recruiting reforms. As an engineer in the U.S. Air Force, there’s no telling what you’ll work on. (Seriously, we can’t tell you.) United States Air Force applied technology is years ahead of what you'll touch in the private sector, and as a new engineer you’ll likely be involved at the ground level of new and sometimes classified developments. You'll begin leading and managing within this highly respected group from day one. 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