The University of South Carolina baseball team begins the 2013 season ranked No. 5 in the nation according to the USA Today Coaches’ poll. That’s two spots higher than the preseason ranking USC received earlier this week from Baseball America.
South Carolina finished last season with a 49-20 record – advancing to the finals of the College World Series against the Arizona Wildcats.
After claiming national championships in 2010 (over UCLA) and 2011 (over Florida), the Gamecocks came up just short in their bid for a three-peat in longtime head coach Ray Tanner’s final year at the helm. Tanner is now the school’s athletics director – handing off the reins of the baseball program to Chad Holbrook.
USC opens its 2013 season on February 15 against Liberty College with four preseason All-Americans on its roster – sophomore catcher Grayson Greiner, senior left-handed pitcher Tyler Webb, senior right-handed pitcher Colby Holmes and sophomore left-handed pitcher Jordan Montgomery.
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Pics: Laurie Giarratano
13 comments
Uhh, that’s Liberty University. Home of Falwell and such.
just please dont sit in section fits
EDIT: in my section
‘Will really miss,Ray Tanner;at most of his games since 1997…but,can’t wait to watch *real* Carolina ball,again…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOwPr6kGHRE
The Crowd At The Ball Game
William Carlos Williams
The crowd at the ball game
is moved uniformly
by a spirit of uselessness
which delights them—
all the exciting detail
of the chase
and the escape, the error
the flash of genius—
all to no end save beauty
the eternal—
So in detail they, the crowd,
are beautiful
for this
to be warned against
saluted and defied—
It is alive, venomous
it smiles grimly
its words cut—
The flashy female with her
mother, gets it—
The Jew gets it straight— it
is deadly, terrifying—
It is the Inquisition, the
Revolution
It is beauty itself
that lives
day by day in them
idly—
This is
the power of their faces
It is summer, it is the solstice
the crowd is
cheering, the crowd is laughing
in detail
permanently, seriously
without thought
Hopefully they’ll get to kick some ass in the CWS again this year! Go Gamecocks!
haha at the coots baseball team. got wacksed in the cws last year and now cheater tanner got run out its all over. jack has the boys ready for another titel in Clemson!
Yabba dabba doodoo dabo dun lost to dem coots again, huh my drunk gay ass think it tis football season cuz thedem dare tigers always dun lost to dem coots in baseball. dam we taters suck as much as i does
Are u a complete idiot clemshit couldn’t even make it to the CWS last year cause they were terrible and what cheated are uvtalking about cause obviously the cocks have owned Clemson
Yes, “cheater tanner got run out”, all the way to a promotion to AD.
Does USC(east) have a mens basketball team?
They do and in the last 4 years that ACC powerhouse Clemsux has beaten them only once.
By the way, I will never complain about a lack of respect again. Baseball America ranked Arizona, last year’s champion, #24. Yowza.