Arlo Elkins, Palmetto State tennis icon and longtime University of South Carolina women’s tennis head coach, died Saturday at his home in Columbia, S.C. He was 62. Elkins stepped aside from day-to-day activities as head coach in February for health-related reasons. Funeral arrangements for Elkins are still pending at this time.
Dale Carey’s two-out, two-run single in the seventh inning gave #7 Miami (FL) a one-run lead and the Hurricanes worked out of several late-inning jams to defeat Clemson 4-2 on Sunday afternoon.
Vanderbilt sent 12 batters to the plate in the bottom of the fourth inning and tallied seven runs on seven hits on the way to a 12-4 victory over 10th ranked South Carolina on Saturday afternoon.
Richie Shaffer’s two-out, two-run double in the seventh inning coupled with Dominic Leone’s strong pitching performance lifted Clemson to a 3-1 victory over #7 Miami (FL) on Saturday.
Kenny Miles ran the football four times for 52 yards in USC’s morning scrimmage Click on the video as Rob Brennan recaps the action from Williams-Brice Stadium.
Christian Walker tallied his first two-homer game of his Gamecock career, senior left-hander Michael Roth allowed just three runs in six-plus innings of work to improve to 3-0 and junior right-hander Matt Price pitched three hitless innings of relief for his first save of the year as 10th ranked South Carolina defeated Vanderbilt 8-3 in the series opener at Hawkins Field.
elievers Matt Campbell and Scott Firth combined to allow only one hit, no runs, and no walks with nine strikeouts in the final 5.2 innings pitched to lead Clemson to a 3-1 victory over #7 Miami (FL) at Doug Kingsmore Stadium on Friday night.
Clemson’s Bryan Narcisse put on a quite a show in Thursday night’s College Dunk Contest. Narcisse didn’t win the contest, but he did win a lot of fans with two dunks to remember. Tim Hill has the story from the Thursday ABC Columbia News at 11.
“We had a decent practice today,” said head coach Steve Spurrier following Thursday’s two-hour workout. “A lot of youngsters got some work in like we usually do in spring ball. So it was a good practice. Same thing tomorrow.”
USC all-time home run leader Justin Smoak hit his first major league home run in the second game of the season. It was Seattle’s only run of the game in 4-1 loss to Oakland in Tokyo, Japan. Tim Hill has the story from the Thursday ABC Columbia News at Six.
