MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – No. 2/2 South Carolina got a third-straight double-double from junior center Alaina Coates and a season-high 18 points from senior guard Tiffany Mitchell to collect an 88-57 win over East Carolina Sunday afternoon at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. The Pirates (6-6) got into foul trouble early against the inside action by the Gamecocks (11-0), and…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (USC SID) — No. 2/2 South Carolina plays its lone December game away from home on Sun., Dec. 20, as the Gamecocks travel to Myrtle Beach, S.C., for a 1 p.m. tipoff against East Carolina at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. Playing as part of the CresCom Bank Carolinas College Women’s Challenge, South Carolina (10-0) will face a…
Clemson, S.C. (CU SID) — Clemson freshman golfer Lauren Stephenson won the Women’s Dixie Amateur Championship in Coral Springs, Fla. on Saturday afternoon. Stephenson won the event that included an original field of 137 players, by two shots over Maria Fassi, an amateur from Mexico who has signed to play at Arkansas next year. The four-day 72-hole event was played…
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. – South Carolina women’s golfer Katelyn Dambaugh concluded play at the Dixie Amateur on Saturday, tallying a 3-over (75) at TPC Eagle Trace on her way to fourth place. She totaled a score of 285 (-3) and finished as one of just eight golfers to end the 72-hole event under par. The Goose Creek, S.C., native marks…
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Austin Kendall threw for a pair of touchdowns and ran for another to lead North Carolina to a 54-39 win over South Carolina Saturday in the 79th Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas. The 93 total points scored broke the previous high of 80 points in 2000. Kendall is an Oklahoma commit from Cuthbertson High. He completed…
GREENVILLE, S.C. — It was a game fitting of a historic rivalry, as the Gamecock men’s basketball team held off Clemson (7-4) Friday night in their first true road game of the season, 65-59. The win helped Carolina improve to 10-0, its best start since 1933-34, but it would take all 40 minutes for it to be decided. Early nerves would…
DANBURY, Conn. (Newberry SID) — Newberry running back Romelo Doctor earned ECAC Division II Offensive Player of the Year honors to highlight five Wolves as ECAC Division II All-Stars, released Friday. Doctor, a junior from Summerville and Ashley Ridge HS, finished the regular season as the state of South Carolina’s leading rusher, had seven games this season of over 100 yards rushing, is a finalist…
The Cockburn Cougars (Australia-2nd Division) MSBL squad have signed former Benedict College standout Marcus Goode. Goode, a 6-foot-11 center, was playing with the Seattle Mountaineers in the ABA. Goode was also drafted by the Erie Bay Hawks in the NBA D-League in 2014. Goode currently leads the Mountaineeres in scoring (24 ppg), rebounding (12.2 rpg) and blocks (3.6 bpg). He…
Clemson, S.C. (CU SID) — Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson and defensive end Shaq Lawson have been named consensus All-Americans for the 2015 season. Consensus All-Americans are recognized by selection to at least two of the five major teams selected: The Football Writers Association of American, the American Football Coaches Association, The Associated Press, Sporting News and Walter Camp Foundation. Watson…
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina will have its first true road test when it travels to face intrastate rival Clemson on Friday in Greenville at Bon Secours Arena. The matchup is the 166th all-time between the two schools and the 11th contest in the Palmetto Series this season. GAME STORYLINES – South Carolina is in its 108th season of varsity basketball…
