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Texas WR Parker Livingstone is taking an OV to South Carolina for June 2-4th. We’re starting to see the month of June setting up to be huge for 2024 recruiting.

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Spring game takeaways here! 10 of them, in fact with quotes from Shane Beamer, Spencer Rattler, Trey Knox and Joshua Simon about them.

What were your takeaways from the game?

I was one of the first to criticize you ladies I am sorry your play has vastly improved including the Clemson game which we should have won but we swept Texas A&M today great job

lasting nearly 2 1/2 hours and stretching over 42 rounds. The contenders were 25 year old, John Carmel Heenan, the 6' 2", 195 lbs, all-American Champion, and England's "Titch" Sayers, 34, who stood 5' 8" at 149 lbs.

Bare Knuckle Boxing was illegal on April 17, 1860 and at the start of the 43rd Round, local police stormed the ring, putting an end to the proceedings, with both pugilists fleeing to escape arrest.

The fight was declared a draw and each man was paid 200 pounds.

Neither man ever fought again and both men died while still in their 30's.

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DT Jordan Thomas, who visited this past weekend and spent Friday with Nyckoles Harbor and Dylan Stewart, has set several official visits for the summer, including a June 23rd trip back to Columbia, currently his final of the summer, and a weekend that is ramping up to be a major one for the 2024 class.

Thomas also set up summer OVs with Rutgers (June 2nd), Georgia (June 9th), and Michigan (June 16th).

Checking in for game three of the series in Nashville, the decider. South Carolina won 14-6 on Friday, but lost 8-5 yesterday. One of these teams will lose their first series of the season today.

Matthew Becker is the starter for South Carolina after Mark Kingston went with "TBA" all week. Becker started the midweek on Tuesday against USC Upstate, but only went two innings and was under 30 pitches. I would expect him to maybe go 3-4 innings, with a Johnny Whole Staf approach to cover the rest of the day. Might be able to see some more Eli Jones after he only went two innings on Friday, maybe Cade Austin for a couple innings.

Here is the lineup:

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

Matthew Becker - P

Anybody have any insight as to how I go about getting season tickets for the horseshoe club and about how much it’ll cost

Hopefully that kind of day will not happen again in the rubber game with Vandy today.

The 21 year old prodigy pitcher for Cleveland beat the Chicago White Sox 1-0 a Comiskey Park on a windy, 40 degree day.
Mr Feller pitched 3 No-hitters and 12 complete game one-hitters during his career.

Gamecocks will seek to take a 2-0 lead in the series here in about 40 minutes.

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Checking in from the Press Box at Willy B, where the annual Garnet and Black game will start in a little under two hours.

Here are the rosters for the two teams:

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I've just gotten word that LB/EDGE player Jabrill McNeill from the Oregon Ducks joins the elite list of visitors on campus today.

Login to view embedded media McNeill was a 4-star DE coming out of high school, but has played OLB in his time at Oregon.

As A Sophomore (2022)
Appeared in three games for the Ducks, playing 13 snaps on special teams … Opted to enter the transfer portal following the season.

As A Freshman (2021)
Appeared in 13 of Oregon’s 14 games as a true freshman … Played 151 of his 156 snaps on special teams, with five on defense in Oregon’s win over Stony Brook (Sept. 18) … Assisted on three tackles, with one each against Ohio State (Sept. 11), Colorado (Oct. 30), and Utah in the Pac-12 Championship Game (Dec. 3).

Sanders having another rough start. Gotta cut down the walks.

If I counted correctly, that's 22+ 4-stars on campus, and perhaps even more we haven't gotten confirmation on yet. Talk about a big boy recruiting weekend.

I'm going to put out the full visitor's list for this weekend in a couple of hours, but one we found out about last night is pretty intriguing and I wanted to share.

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We've gotten word that Nyckoles Harbor is spending time with 4-Star EDGE Dylan Stewart, also from the same area as Harbor, which we already were anticipating, but we've also gotten word that a big-time 4-star DT is spending time with Harbor as well, Jordan Thomas out of NJ, a state Pete Lembo has recruiting coverage on in the northeast. At 6'6" and nearly 300 lbs already, Thomas has offers from nearly every major program in the country, and getting him down for big Gamecock weekend is certainly a big step in putting the Gamecocks squarely in the mix.

I'm not in Nashville, but I'll have updates on the game all night from my couch. Huge series for the Gamecocks this weekend at Hawkins Field against the No. 4 Vanderbilt Commodores. Right now Vanderbilt is 11-1 in conference play and leading the league, with South Carolina 1.5 games behind at 9-2. Here is the lineup for game one:

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

Will Sanders - P

First pitch is at 7 p.m. on SEC Network+.

Story from game one of the Vanderbilt series:

Is the spring game televised, if so who is carrying?

A couple updates from Shane Beamer going into the spring game via tonight's edition of Carolina Calls.