Coach Tanner Gets 900th Career Win!

Our South Carolina Gamecock's defeated the Clemson Tigers today for the second time this weekend in a 5-1 game in Clemson, South Carolina. The game started off slow with 5 scoreless innings. Carolina earned two runs in the top of the sixth with hits by Kyle Enders, Justin Hopper, Scott Wingo, and Reese Havens. With two outs in the bottom part of the 6th, the Tigers' Ben Paulsen capitalized on a overthrown ball by third baseman James Darnell by scoring from first base. This would be the Tigers only run of the game.
The Gamecocks went on to score another run in the 7th and two in the 9th. Blake Cooper looked great on the mound for the Gamecocks. Working 6 innings, he only allowed one unearned run.
Carolina's next game is Tuesday, March 4th at 7 pm against Gardner Webb in Columbia, SC.

SEC Championship!

Today the mens 4x400 meter relay team had the fastest time at the SEC Championship with a time of 3:07.19. This was the nations 3rd fastest time of the year. The men finished seventh overall and the women ninth. The rest of the information regarding the championship can be found HERE at the Official Gamecock Sports Page

Good Game Cocks!

Today was a good game for USC athletics. Congradulations to the men's basketball team who defeated Auburn in Alabama 69-63. Devan Downey lead the team with 21 points. They're tied for 5th place in the SEC and the win snapped a 3 game losing street. Let's all hope some momentum carries over to the March 5th game against UK at 7.

Also, congradulations to the baseball team, ranked 3rd, who beat Clemson, ranked 13th, 10 to 1 this afternoon. The teams meet again tomorrow afternoon at 2.

Gamecock Sports

Many of us Gamecock fans pride ourselves on sports. Here's some info about my favorites:

FOOTBALL

This year the Gamecock's came out strong winning 6 of their first seven, beating UGA, with their only loss being to LSU. Sadly, after this strong start, things just stopped. With a 6-6 finish, the season was nothing short of horrible. Looking back, we played decent though. I'll highlight some facts.

• USC averaged 26.1 Points Per Game while their opponents averaged 23.5
• USC Rushed for 1364 yard, but let opponents rush for 2511 yards
• We averaged 3.6 yards per rush
• USC had 16 Rushing touchdowns and gave up 19 Rusing touchdowns.
• USC Passed for 3098 yards and help their opponents to 2025 yards
• 443 Passes were thrown for 258 Completions, 17 Interceptions, and 20 Touchdown
• We fumbled the ball 23 times, 11 times the ball was lost
• We had 69 penalties for 532 yards, an average of 44.3 yards per game!
• 3rd and 4th down conversion percentages were 35% and 47% respectively
• We scored 86% of the time from inside the redzone, but only 64% of the time was it a touchdown

So what is their to say. While on paper it says we outscored the opponents on average, it wasn't enough to finished with an above .500 record. Next ear we need to have a more balanced offense and hold onto the ball! Those penalties certainly didnt help us one bit. Hopefully the baseball team can do better for us this year!

BASEBALL

Ah, America's past time. USC has always had a good baseball team, lets hope this year isnt different! So far we're 4 games into the season with a 3-1 record, beating East Carolina University twice and UNC-Asheville once and a loss to East Carolina University. To see the remaining schedule, please check out the Gamecocks Official Online Site at http://gamecocksonline.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/sched/scar-m-basebl-sched.html

Good Luck guys! Win the College World Series

BASKETBALL

Definately not my favorite sport, but I'll follow it as best I can. Feel free to email me if I miss information or you have something I should add. I would be more into it if the team could perform better, but as with football, this year has been a disapointment. Currently 12-15 (4-9 in the SEC) the team has had a mediocore year. Coming up is an away game, at Auburn on March 1 at 6pm. The final home game of the year is March 5 against Kentucky at 7pm. The final game of the year is March 9th at Tennessee. The SEC Tournament begins in Atlanta, GA on March 13, but with how we've been playing our seasons over. All that can be said is hopefully a new young class will come in and give this team a fresh start.

Welcome! First PostI

Hello everone, I'm thrilled you have found my blog. Hopefully you will find it both entertaining and informative. Ive never blogged before, so please bare with me for the first few posts. Please feel free to email me with your questions and comments. I'll begin by telling about myself.

My names John and Im current a High School senior, class of 08, currently in North Carolina. In the fall I will be attending the University of South Carolina. In this blog I'm going to be taking of everything abut Carolina, my likes and dislikes (if I have any). I will also post daily news related to all aspects of the University. I hope that this will give people considering Carolina as their school and people justed interested in USC a unique first hand look at things while telling all the important news. So if you want to be in the loop about academic and sport achievement, daily news, and everthing related to Carolina down in Columbia, SC, check back here often!