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Gamecock Nation Today
- Monday, May 13, 2019 -
Good morning from Gamecock Central.
The men's golf team competes in the NCAA Pullman Regional, Monday-Wednesday.
The baseball team hosts USC Upstate Tuesday and plays at Mississippi State, Thursday-Saturday.
The Spurs Up Tour makes a stop in Charleston on Tuesday. It's the last meeting of the tour.
Tavien Feaster
1. Five things to know about Tavien Feaster
Clemson graduate transfer running back Tavien Feaster entered the transfer portal in late April. That fact got much more interesting to South Carolina fans on Friday when news broke that USC has now officially offered the former four-star running back.
Here are five things to know about Feaster.
• Feaster's career numbers at Clemson aren't staggering, but he's come up with big plays with his opportunities. Feaster's 5.99 yards per carry average ranks second in school history among those with a qualifying number of rushes. In his three years, Feaster had 1,330 career rushing yards and 15 touchdowns on 222 carries.
• An Army All-American out of Spartanburg (S.C.) High, Feaster was ranked the No. 3 all-purpose running back and the No. 102 overall prospect in the 2016 class by Rivals.com. The four-star prospect, who also played in the Shrine Bowl, was considered the top prospect in the state for that year.
• Feaster had already been committed to Clemson for 10 months when Will Muschamp landed the South Carolina job in December of 2015. Area recruiter Bobby Bentley dropped in on Feaster's school shortly after his hire, but Feaster never gave much thought into flipping his commitment.
• Feaster does have connections to a couple of former South Carolina stars. Feaster and former Gamecock Deebo Samuel remain friends after growing up in the Spartanburg area, even though Feaster graduated from Spartanburg High and Samuel from Chapman.
A young Feaster also grew up watching and admiring former South Carolina All-American running back Marcus Lattimore when he was running through high school defenses at nearby Byrnes High. Feaster once said he believed that Lattimore was the best running back in the country during his college days.
• Other than South Carolina, several other schools have been linked with Feaster: Texas, Alabama, Oklahoma, Virginia Tech, Mississippi State and East Carolina. He's expected to take some visits and then make a decision fairly quickly. As a graduate transfer, he'll be eligible immediately this season.
• Related: More on the offer and where things stand (subscribers)
– Wes Mitchell
2. ⚾ USC win series versus Kentucky
• South Carolina won its first SEC series of the year this weekend against Kentucky, taking two of three games against Kentucky with close, one-run win Friday night and another blowout win Saturday before a really poor defensive showing Sunday in a 6-2 loss.
• There’s now a three-way tie for the 12th and final spot in the conference tournament between South Carolina, Kentucky and Alabama with that to be determined the final weekend of the year.
• The Gamecocks got solid starts out both Cam Tringali and Reid Morgan, who gave their team enough to win the first two games of the series. It’s the first time the Gamecocks won a series opener in SEC play.
• Jacob Olson, Chris Cullen and TJ Hopkins all had solid senior weekends in their final home series, anchoring a lineup that put up 16 runs the first two days of the weekend. Wes Clarke and Brady Allen each had monster weekends as freshmen with Allen tripling and doubling while Clarke hit his first-career homer Saturday.
• Entering this week, Noah Campbell is day-to-day nursing a hip injury and is questionable for all four games this week. George Callil’s status is a little more in doubt with the shortstop still in concussion protocol and is very much in doubt for this weekend’s series at Mississippi State.
Game 1: Gamecocks win series opener versus Kentucky (story/pics)
Game 2: Strong finish leads to Game 2 victory (story/pics)
Game 3: Gamecocks drop Sunday baseball finale (story/pics)
Up next: South Carolina finishes its home slate Tuesday, hosting USC Upstate at 7 p.m.
– Collyn Taylor
3. This, that, and the other
Football: Muschamp previews matchup, talks summer workouts - Football season is still over 100 days away, but that won't stop Will Muschamp and Mack Brown from getting excited and talking about it. Both coaches were at Friday's luncheon to preview August's matchup. (link)
Softball: Carolina to travel to Tallahassee for regional - For the seventh-straight year under head coach Beverly Smith the softball team has made the NCAA Tournament. (link)
Track & Field: SEC Championships
Friday: Gamecocks collect two podium finishes Friday (link)
Saturday: Hall earns 400m title to close championships (link)
Women's Tennis: No. 4 Gamecocks are quarterfinals bound - USC is headed to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championships after a dominating, 4-0, victory over Southern Cal on Saturday. (link)
Men's Golf: USC begins NCAA play Monday in Pullman - The third-seeded Gamecocks will be paired with No. 5 Oklahoma (first seed) and No. 8 Georgia Tech (second seed) in the opening round, teeing off at 10:30 a.m. ET. (link)
– Jackson Fields
4. This Date in Gamecock History
May 13, 2005 – Aaron Rawl blanked Ole Miss on the road, holding the Rebels to just three hits in a complete-game victory.
5. ⌚ Key Events (Countdown)
• May 14 – Charleston, Spurs Up Tour (1 day)
• May 18 – SC Legends Baseball Camp (5)
• May 21 – SEC Baseball Tourney (8)
• July 15 – SEC Media Days begins (63)
• July 20 – Ladies Football Clinic (68)
• Aug. 31 – Football: Gamecocks vs UNC (110)
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Gamecock Nation Today
- Monday, May 13, 2019 -
Good morning from Gamecock Central.
The men's golf team competes in the NCAA Pullman Regional, Monday-Wednesday.
The baseball team hosts USC Upstate Tuesday and plays at Mississippi State, Thursday-Saturday.
The Spurs Up Tour makes a stop in Charleston on Tuesday. It's the last meeting of the tour.
Tavien Feaster
1. Five things to know about Tavien Feaster
Clemson graduate transfer running back Tavien Feaster entered the transfer portal in late April. That fact got much more interesting to South Carolina fans on Friday when news broke that USC has now officially offered the former four-star running back.
Here are five things to know about Feaster.
• Feaster's career numbers at Clemson aren't staggering, but he's come up with big plays with his opportunities. Feaster's 5.99 yards per carry average ranks second in school history among those with a qualifying number of rushes. In his three years, Feaster had 1,330 career rushing yards and 15 touchdowns on 222 carries.
• An Army All-American out of Spartanburg (S.C.) High, Feaster was ranked the No. 3 all-purpose running back and the No. 102 overall prospect in the 2016 class by Rivals.com. The four-star prospect, who also played in the Shrine Bowl, was considered the top prospect in the state for that year.
• Feaster had already been committed to Clemson for 10 months when Will Muschamp landed the South Carolina job in December of 2015. Area recruiter Bobby Bentley dropped in on Feaster's school shortly after his hire, but Feaster never gave much thought into flipping his commitment.
• Feaster does have connections to a couple of former South Carolina stars. Feaster and former Gamecock Deebo Samuel remain friends after growing up in the Spartanburg area, even though Feaster graduated from Spartanburg High and Samuel from Chapman.
A young Feaster also grew up watching and admiring former South Carolina All-American running back Marcus Lattimore when he was running through high school defenses at nearby Byrnes High. Feaster once said he believed that Lattimore was the best running back in the country during his college days.
• Other than South Carolina, several other schools have been linked with Feaster: Texas, Alabama, Oklahoma, Virginia Tech, Mississippi State and East Carolina. He's expected to take some visits and then make a decision fairly quickly. As a graduate transfer, he'll be eligible immediately this season.
• Related: More on the offer and where things stand (subscribers)
– Wes Mitchell
2. ⚾ USC win series versus Kentucky
• South Carolina won its first SEC series of the year this weekend against Kentucky, taking two of three games against Kentucky with close, one-run win Friday night and another blowout win Saturday before a really poor defensive showing Sunday in a 6-2 loss.
• There’s now a three-way tie for the 12th and final spot in the conference tournament between South Carolina, Kentucky and Alabama with that to be determined the final weekend of the year.
• The Gamecocks got solid starts out both Cam Tringali and Reid Morgan, who gave their team enough to win the first two games of the series. It’s the first time the Gamecocks won a series opener in SEC play.
• Jacob Olson, Chris Cullen and TJ Hopkins all had solid senior weekends in their final home series, anchoring a lineup that put up 16 runs the first two days of the weekend. Wes Clarke and Brady Allen each had monster weekends as freshmen with Allen tripling and doubling while Clarke hit his first-career homer Saturday.
• Entering this week, Noah Campbell is day-to-day nursing a hip injury and is questionable for all four games this week. George Callil’s status is a little more in doubt with the shortstop still in concussion protocol and is very much in doubt for this weekend’s series at Mississippi State.
Game 1: Gamecocks win series opener versus Kentucky (story/pics)
Game 2: Strong finish leads to Game 2 victory (story/pics)
Game 3: Gamecocks drop Sunday baseball finale (story/pics)
Up next: South Carolina finishes its home slate Tuesday, hosting USC Upstate at 7 p.m.
– Collyn Taylor
3. This, that, and the other
Football: Muschamp previews matchup, talks summer workouts - Football season is still over 100 days away, but that won't stop Will Muschamp and Mack Brown from getting excited and talking about it. Both coaches were at Friday's luncheon to preview August's matchup. (link)
- Could other neutral-site games be on the horizon? (link)
- Brown: Gamecocks 'one of the better teams we’ll play' (link)
Softball: Carolina to travel to Tallahassee for regional - For the seventh-straight year under head coach Beverly Smith the softball team has made the NCAA Tournament. (link)
Track & Field: SEC Championships
Friday: Gamecocks collect two podium finishes Friday (link)
Saturday: Hall earns 400m title to close championships (link)
Women's Tennis: No. 4 Gamecocks are quarterfinals bound - USC is headed to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championships after a dominating, 4-0, victory over Southern Cal on Saturday. (link)
Men's Golf: USC begins NCAA play Monday in Pullman - The third-seeded Gamecocks will be paired with No. 5 Oklahoma (first seed) and No. 8 Georgia Tech (second seed) in the opening round, teeing off at 10:30 a.m. ET. (link)
– Jackson Fields
4. This Date in Gamecock History
May 13, 2005 – Aaron Rawl blanked Ole Miss on the road, holding the Rebels to just three hits in a complete-game victory.
- USC's runs came in the second inning on an RBI double by 2B Chris Brown and an RBI single from 3B Neil Giesler.
- The win moved Rawl up to third place on the list for career victories, trailing only Earl Bass and Greg Ward at that point.
- Rawl struck out six, walked none and allowed just three singles in the dominant performance.
- The 20th-ranked Gamecocks improved to 34-17 on the year with the win over the 19th-ranked Rebs.
5. ⌚ Key Events (Countdown)
• May 14 – Charleston, Spurs Up Tour (1 day)
• May 18 – SC Legends Baseball Camp (5)
• May 21 – SEC Baseball Tourney (8)
• July 15 – SEC Media Days begins (63)
• July 20 – Ladies Football Clinic (68)
• Aug. 31 – Football: Gamecocks vs UNC (110)
