Former Clemson golfer Kyle Stanley shot a third round 68 on Saturday and has a five-shot lead with an 18-under par 54-hole score entering the final round of the Famer’s Insurance Open at Torrey Pines Golf Club in La Jolla, CA.
South Carolina baseball officially began its quest for a third straight national championship by starting preseason practice Friday. USC opens the new season February 17th at home against VMI. Tim Hill has the sights and sounds from the first practice on the Friday ABC Columbia News at Six.
College of Charleston coach Bobby Cremins is taking an indefinite leave of absence for a medical condition. The school announced Friday that assistant coach Mark Byington will take over the team. The school did not specify what was wrong with Cremins or how long he may be off the bench.
Saying he wants a more experienced secondary coach, Steve Spurrier fired USC assistant coach Jeep Hunter. Hunter came to Carolina in 2009. This is the fifth assistant coaching change for Gamecock football since the end of the 2011 regular season.
The Benedict Tigers dropped their third straight game, falling 77-58 to rival Claflin College in front of a packed house at the Benjamin E. Mays HRC Arena on Thursday night. The loss dropped the Tigers to 8-6 overall and 7-5 in the SIAC. Claflin improved to 7-10 overall and 7-9 in the SIAC.
Markeshia Grant’s 20 points led South Carolina to a 61-43 victory over Ole Miss Thursday night at Colonial Life Arena. The Gamecocks (16-5, 5-3 SEC) had a strong first half with four 3-pointers from La’Keisha Sutton, which set the pace for the rest of the game. Leading scorer and rebounder Grant hit 4-of-7 from behind the line, three of those coming in the second half to seal the Gamecocks’ victory.
Highly-recruited quarterback Chad Kelly, the nephew of Hall of Famer Jim Kelly, caused quite a stir Thursday with Twitter comments that Clemson back-up quarterback Cole Stoudt responded to. Tim Hill has that story on the Thursday ABC Columbia News at Six.
South Carolina is ranked No. 2 in the nation in the 2012 USA Today/ESPN Preseason Top 25 Coaches’ Poll as announced on Thursday afternoon. South Carolina also ranked No. 2 in the Collegiate Baseball Preseason Top 40 and No. 3 in the Baseball America Preseason Top 25. The Gamecocks open the 2012 season on Friday, Feb. 17 hosting a three-game series with VMI at Carolina Stadium.
Bruce Ellington’s driving basket with 1.4 seconds left lifted South Carolina to its first Southeastern Conference victory this season, a 56-54 win over Alabama on Wednesday night. Rob Brennan has a postgame report from the Colonial Life Arena.
This week’s ABC Columbia MVP, meet Mark Wood. An athlete who will test death this coming summer in Vermont.
