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USC Beach Volleyball Drops Two Friday Duals at NCAA Championship

GULF SHORES, ALA. (USC SID) – The South Carolina beach volleyball team made history Friday on the beach of Gulf Shores, taking part in its first NCAA Championship. The team fell to defending national champion Southern California in the morning session, 4-0, and were eliminated after dropping a close 3-0 decision to Florida State in the consolation bracket. The Gamecocks finish…

Gamecocks hold off (15) LSU, 3-2

BATON ROUGE, LA. (USC SID) – A three-run second inning and 4.2 scoreless innings of relief by Josh Reagan and Tyler Johnson highlighted a 3-2 win for 25th ranked South Carolina over 11th ranked LSU on Friday night at Alex Box Stadium.  The Gamecocks improve to 27-17 and 11-11 in the SEC with LSU now 30-16 and 13-9 in league…

Gamecocks Gain 5-4 Victory over No. 18/19 LSU

COLUMBIA, S.C. (USC SID) – Getting contributions throughout the lineup, South Carolina (31-21, 7-14 SEC) tallied a 5-4 win on Friday night over No. 18/19 LSU (37-16, 11-11 SEC) at Carolina Softball Stadium at Beckham Field. Eight batters came to the plate in the four-run fifth that led the Gamecocks to the win. Freshman second baseman Mackenzie Boesel singled, and…

Gamecocks Travel to Baton Rouge to Face LSU

Dates: Friday May 5/Saturday May 6/Sunday May 7 First Pitch: 8 p.m. ET/8 p.m. ET/3 p.m. ET Location: Baton Rouge, La. Stadium: Alex Box Stadium/Skip Bertman Field Television/Video: SEC Network Plus/SEC Network/ESPN (Dave Neal and Chris Burke) Radio: 107.5 The Game & The Gamecock Radio Network (Derek Scott and Tommy Moody) COLUMBIA, S.C. (USC SID) — South Carolina (26-17, 10-11…

USC Beach Volleyball Makes NCAA Tournament Debut Friday

GULF SHORES, ALA. (USC SID) – The 2017 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship gets underway Friday morning on the beach of Gulf Shores, Alabama, and the South Carolina Gamecocks will be looking to make a splash in their first-ever appearance in the national tournament. The team, coming in as the number-eight seed, will face the defending national champion Southern California (34-1) at…

Elliott Fry Gets Tryout with Bucs

Former Gamecock placekicker Elliott Fry will have a tryout with the Tampa Bay Bucs this weekend at rookie camp. Fry was a four-year starter at USC and made 77 percent of his field goals his senior season in 2016, while finishing as Carolina’s all-time leading scorer in Gamecock football history (359 points). Categories: Local Sports, Sports, USC Gamecocks Tags: Gamecocks

Martin Visits Rock Hill on the Spurs Up Tour

Gamecocks head men’s basketball coach Frank Martin spoke with the media before meeting with Carolina fans Thursday on the Rock Hill stop of USC’s Spurs Up Tour. As the NBA Draft combine approaches for Sindarius Thornwell and PJ Dozier, coach breaks down where the two are at in their draft process. He also updates his search to replace lead assistant…

Alex Destino breaks through slump with HR Wednesday

In our profession (journalism), the best advice for writer’s block is to keep writing. For baseball players painfully enduring a hitting slump, the advice is much the same: keep swinging. Alex Destino, one the Gamecocks’ best hitters the last two seasons, entered Wednesday night’s game against Wofford batting just .119 in his last 19 starts. Things got so bad for…

Muschamp on Skai Moore, Deebo Samuel, Summer Plan on Spurs Up Tour

Will Muschamp made his latest stop on the Gamecocks’ Spurs Up Tour just outside of Columbia, visiting garnet and black fans in Rock Hill Thursday. Before speaking to supporters at American Legion, he met with the media to briefly comment on alleged assault accusations against Skai Moore, Deebo Samuel, and former football player Jalen Dread from April 27 at a…

Attorney says, Deebo Samuel’s name cleared in Saloon incident

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — An attorney for Gamecocks wide receiver Deebo Samuel says his client should be cleared of any “wrong doing” in connection with an alleged assault on April 27 at a Columbia bar. Attorney Neal Lourie, in a statement obtained Thursday afternoon by ABC Columbia, states “Mr. Samuel is innocent of all allegations surrounding the alleged assault at…