The South Carolina women’s tennis team’s 5-2 loss at the hands of No. 9 Texas A&M Sunday captured what has plagued the Gamecocks all season: an inability to finish. Even with a decisive 6-1 victory over Missouri on Friday, it is Sunday’s match that appears to define the weekend.
Although the No. 4 South Carolina women’s basketball team locked up the regular-season SEC title Thursday night, the Gamecocks still had one game on their schedule before the conference tournament.
If the students were reminded once, they were reminded a thousand times not to storm the court. But there was no keeping them in their seats Saturday night as they poured onto the floor to celebrate South Carolina’s 72-67 upset victory over No. 17 Kentucky.
It wasn’t the way the No. 3 Gamecocks have grown accustomed to winning this season, but ultimately South Carolina worked out the hiccups in their starting pitching to pull away from No. 11 Clemson, 9-6.
The end of Thursday night’s 67-56 win over Georgia was unlike any the South Carolina women’s basketball team has ever experienced.
The second of two free throws dropped, and the scoreboard illuminated a 68-62 Gamecock advantage over No. 1 Kentucky. The remaining 1.9 seconds expired, and students rushed the court of Colonial Life Arena, relishing in the Gamecocks’ upset of the Wildcats.
No matter what sport the two schools are playing, South Carolina and Clemson continue to prove that garnet and orange don’t mix. And when they renew their series on the baseball diamond this weekend, the stakes will be higher than ever, with both the Gamecocks and the Tigers in the top-15.
In the 2013-14 season, the Gamecocks shattered a number of their previous records on their way to a 21-9-2 mark, the most wins in school history. In the process, South Carolina scored more goals than ever before (154) and Patterson set the individual program record for goals scored in a year (22).
The South Carolina softball team hits the road this weekend to escape Columbia’s gloomy forecast in favor of somewhere sunny and 75 down in the badlands of Tempe, Ariz., for the Arizona State Louisville Slugger Invitational.
Eight top-25 teams stand between the South Carolina track and field team and an SEC championship.
Unless the South Carolina men’s basketball team can magically catch fire in the SEC tournament, an NCAA tournament appearance this season is unlikely.
The South Carolina softball team closed out Sunday’s game against UNC Wilmington in dramatic fashion and capped off the weekend with its fourth win as many games, securing their place as the unofficial winners of the Gamecock invitational.
In the four days between a crushing 5-2 defeat at the hands of in-state rival Clemson and a busy weekend slate consisting of three matches, coach Kevin Epley emphasized mental fortitude to his Gamecocks women’s tennis team.
As the ball fell out of bounds, freshman Andrew Schafer of the South Carolina men’s tennis team let out a thundering scream. He faced his team and threw his shirt and racquet in the air.
Behind a few dominant pitching performances, the South Carolina baseball team completed a three-game sweep of Eastern Kentucky in which the Gamecocks allowed no runs across the entire weekend.
With the South Carolina women’s basketball team’s 69-55 victory over Florida on Sunday afternoon, the Gamecocks clinched at least a share of the regular season SEC title for the first time since joining the conference in 1991.
When the South Carolina and Georgia men’s basketball teams retreated back to their respective locker rooms for halftime during Saturday’s game, the score was tied and the Gamecocks looked to be in prime position to avenge their earlier loss to the Bulldogs.