Wednesday baseball legend Hank Aaron returned to the site of his final minor league game 60 years later. Aaron played against the Columbia Reds in 1953 at Capital City Stadium. As part of the farewell festivities to the stadium this season, the Home Run King returned to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Wednesday night’s Coastal Plain League game.
Howard’s Rock, the iconic fixture Clemson players rub prior to running down the hill during the football team’s entrance into Memorial Stadium, was vandalized sometime June 2 or June 3. A small portion of The Rock was broken off of its pedestal after vandals broke the casing that protects the artifact.
South Carolina senior LB Dantzler has earned third-team All-America honors at the designated hitter position by Baseball America, it was announced on Wednesday afternoon. Dantzler was the Gamecocks’ leading hitter this season with a .322 average (69-for-214) with 15 homers and 53 RBI as well. His .444 on-base percentage and .617 slugging percentage were also top marks among the squad.
Clemson redshirt junior Brianna Rollins has been named National Women’s Track Athlete of the Year for the 2013 outdoor season, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced Wednesday. Arizona high jumper Brigetta Barrett was named the organization’s National Women’s Field Athlete of the Year.
All 19 of the University of South Carolina’s countable intercollegiate sports posted a multi-year score of 950 or better for the second-consecutive year, according to the Academic Progress Rate (APR) statistics that were released Tuesday.
Click to watch postgame comments from USC head baseball coach Chad Holbrook, sophomore outfielder Tanner English and senior closer Tyler Webb after USC’s season ended with a 5-4 loss at North Carolina Tuesday afternoon.
North Carolina scored three times in the bottom of the sixth and held on for a 5-4 win in the third and deciding game of the Super Regionals at Boshamer Stadium Tuesday afternoon. With the win, the Tar Heels (57-10) advance to the College World Series and will take on NC State in the 3 p.m. ET game on Sunday, June 16 in Omaha, Neb. The Gamecocks (43-20) have their season come to an end one game short of a fourth-straight trip to the CWS.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Jordan Montgomery pitched a four-hit shutout Sunday, leading South Carolina past North Carolina 8-0 in the NCAA super regionals for the Tar Heels’ most lopsided loss this year.
South Carolina head swimming and diving coach McGee Moody has been named to the U.S. men’s swimming coaching staff for the 2013 World University Games, USA Swimming announced Tuesday.
Former Clemson All-Americans Lucas Glover and Kyle Stanley will compete in the 113th United States Open at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, PA this week. It will be the eighth US Open for Glover, more than any other former Clemson golfer, and the fourth for Stanley, who is just 25 years old. The tournament begins Thursday at the par 70 course that is outside Philadelphia, PA.
