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Intriguing pick up here. Hughes has D1 experience at Charlotte. Staff saw him up close last year. We’ll have more on Hughes in the coming days.

Tournament play began this morning. Gamecocks are the #1 seed at the Athens Regional. The men had a poor year and did not qualify for the men's tournament.


Top 5 advance. Georgia is up early. They don't have as strong of a team as Carolina but they are playing on their home course. Again making the top 5 is all that matters. The regional round is 54-holes, 18 a day for 3 days.

Greetings from a sweltering hot Founders Park, over 90 degrees right now for this penultimate midweek game of the season. The visitors today are the North Florida Ospreys, who have a 25-23 record out of the A-Sun conference.

Talmadge LeCroy is back in the starting lineup three weeks after his hamstring injury, a very welcome sight for the Gamecocks. Will Tippett is out with a wrist inury though, so the game of musical chairs on the infield continues. Here's the full lineup for the 4 p.m. first pitch on ESPN+.

Dylan Brewer - LF
Gavin Casas - 1B
Ethan Petry - RF
Cole Messina - 3B
Michael Braswell - SS
Talmadge LeCroy - 2B
Carson Hornung - DH
Jonathan French - C
Evan Stone - CF

James Hicks - P

I didn’t like it when it happened and we are 2-5 since. And almost swept twice

When Veacher ( I think it was veach). Hand counter 1-2-3 after the last strike against UF . It wasn’t a good look

UF players didn’t come out and shake hands afterwards. - I’m not a fan of UF. Or their coach - But you dont need to rub it in after a hard fought series.

I know there have been injuries. But karma is a bitch.

Hopefully they can get it together. - starting today. Start playing to win and leave the Busch league stuff out of it.

Btw. It was only one player but ironically it’s the pitching that is hurting the most.

Story with quotes from Mark Kingston on today's game. He also said that they are "not quite ready" to announce anything on Eli Jerzembeck, that Will McGillis took BP on the field today and nearly started, and also that Braylen Wimmer's status for playing is "maybe this weekend, maybe next weekend."

I've noticed that a lot of fake names keep popping up and spamming the board with posts. In general, if you don't recognize a link from Rivals or another major news site, I'd probably refrain from clicking on it. If you flag the post as spam or harmful or whatever I'll get a notification and ban the member and delete the posts. I've mostly caught them within a day or two, but I'm not on here 24/7 so just be careful out there.

On May 8, 1909, American, Albert Raines, runs a World Record Marathon (2:46:04.6) in New York City.

On May 8, 1909, British runner Harry Barrett, runs a World Record Marathon (2:42:31) in the Polytechnic Marathon in London.

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We will have a recap of his pro career in the next professional Gamecocks column.

Last game of the weekend in the Bluegrass state, and one South Carolina could really use after dropping the first two by a combined score of 21-10.

Mark Kingston shook things up a little today as a result, going with Michael Braswell as his new lead-off hitter in an attempt to jump start the offense.

Here is your full lineup, with first pitch at 2 p.m. on SEC Network

Michael Braswell - SS
Dylan Brewer - CF
Ethan Petry - RF
Cole Messina - 3B
Gavin Casas - 1B
Caleb Denny - LF
Jonathan French - C
Carson Hornung - DH
Will Tippett - 2B

Matthew Becker - P

No Midweek, this week (???, whaddaheck dat mean?). Can't overlook any team but, auburn is a good team to play after a short break.

We still have work to do but, God willing and the creek don't rise ... seriously, ... we can pull this off. It's a long road to Omaha but, keep the faith!

Per the university, there will be a ceremony before Friday's baseball game to retire Kip Bouknight's jersey. Bouknight won the 2000 Golden Spikes award and still holds the school records for inning pitched and stirkeouts in a career.

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Posting this thread to follow on along as the spring sports head to championship season. I'll update with any significant announcements or happenings.

Aneesha Morrow and Van Lith commit to L.S.U.- hold off on Dawn's statue. WBB recruiting is getting killed by Mulkey at L.S.U.

My name is Peyton Butt and I will be live updating for the USC Gamecocks vs Kentucky Wildcats Game #2 remotely.

Story on tonight's game:

After quarterback Braden Davis entered the transfer portal this afternoon, South Carolina is up to four players in the transfer portal since the spring window opened. Davis joins cornerback Anthony Rose, defensive tackle Demetrius Watson, and walk-on offensive lineman Colin Henrich.

Players can enter the portal through April 30th, but are still eligible to be signed by schools even after that deadline once they are already in the portal. This page will be continually updated as more transfers unfold.

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Haley Van Lith at Louisville.
Lauren Betts at Stanford. She was the #1 rated recruit for the 2022 class and is 6’7.
Ashley Owusu at VT.
Nina Rickards at Florida.
Aicha Coulibaly at Auburn
Aneesha Morrow at DePaul
Lexi Donarski at Iowa St
To name a few

Dawn won’t have interest in all of them. I do believe she would like some post depth and a guard that can shoot. Bree Hall and Raven Johnson will likely start at 1-2 guards spots next season, but a zone buster off the bench is needed. Lauren Betts didn’t have a huge freshman year but her and Cardoso would make grabbing rebounds nearly impossible for opponents. I’m trying to check and around and see if Dawn has interest in any of these players.

What's it looking like?

Game one of another SEC series starts for the Gamecocks tonight, this time in Lexington, Kentucky. South Carolina comes in 14-6 in SEC play and trying to turn around last weekend's series loss to Aubrun, while the Wildcats are reeling off the back of four straight SEC series losses, although are still a tick over .500 in the league at 11-10 in SEC play.

Here is South Carolina's lineup tonight, which still does not feature injured infielders Talmadge LeCroy, Braylen Wimmer or Will McGillis:

Dylan Brewer - CF
Michael Braswell - SS
Ethan Petry - RF
Cole Messina - 3B
Caleb Denny - LF
Gavin Casas - 1B
Jonathan French - C
Carson Hornung - DH
Will Tippett - 2B

Will Sanders - P

Saying hello from The Winthrop Ballpark, home of the world's largest batter's eye (or so I'm told) and the site of tonight's midweek matchup between the Gamecocks and Eagles.

Eli Jones is starting on the mound for South Carolina, but he will almost surely be on a pitch count with another SEC series starting in two days. Expecting to see Dylan Eskew for a bit out of the bullpen, maybe Sam Simpson and anyone else the Gamecocks can use without dipping into the high leverage arms.

Mark Kingston is also suspended tonight after his ejection on Sunday, so here is the lineup that acting head coach Monte Lee put out there:

Dylan Brewer - LF
Michael Braswell - SS
Ethan Petry- RF
Cole Messina - 3B
Gavin Casas - 1B
Caleb Denny - LF
Jonathan French - C
Carson Horung - DH
Will Tippett - 2B

Eli Jones - P

Hey everyone, I talked to former South Carolina kicker Mark Fleetwood about Travian Robertson last night, and how Fleetwood invited Robertson to a suburban Atlanta high school for a meeting in 2015 that ended up starting his coaching career.

Forward Daniel Hankins-Sanford is transferring to UMASS to reconnect with Frank Martin.

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