South Carolina Baseball Ranked 18th

By USC Sports Information Office
Published: March 03, 2009

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Columbia, S.C. – The South Carolina baseball team has returned to the Top 25 as the Gamecocks come in at No. 18 in this week’s latest NCAA Division I poll by Collegiate Baseball. Carolina is 4-0 on the year after earning a 3-1 victory at Clemson on Saturday afternoon. South Carolina (4-0) kicks off a seven-game homestand on Tuesday afternoon with a non-conference tilt vs. Georgia State (6-1). First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m. at Caroilna Stadium. The Gamecocks will also host Charleston Southern in midweek action on Wednesday night with that contest scheduled for 7 p.m. Carolina has not met Georgia State in baseball since the 1998 season when the Gamecocks swept the Panthers in a two-game series. South Carolina defeated the Panthers 12-6 on Mar. 24 and 15-0 on Mar. 25. Game time was changed for Tuesday’s conteset due to forecasted cold temperatures in the evening in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina’s Wednesday night game with Charleston Southern will reunite head coach Ray Tanner with one of his former assistants. Charleston Southern head coach Stuart Lake served as an assistant for Tanner from 1999-02 at Carolina. He is in his first year as head coach for the Buccaneers.

Carolina is 65-11 all-time vs. the Buccaneers with a 6-3 win on Mar. 21, 2006, the last contest vs. CSU. Pitching Rotations Game 1 Pitcher 09 Stats SC Blake Cooper (RHP, So.) 1-0, 0.00 ERA, 6.0 IP, 0 BB, 7 K GSU Will Palmer (LHP, Sr.) 1-1, 3.72 ERA, 9.2 IP, 2 BB, 4 K Game 2 Pitcher 09 Stats SC Jay Brown (RHP, Sr.) First appearance of the season CSU TBA

Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's NCAA Div. I Poll (As of March 2, 2009) Rank School (Record) Points Previous 1. Louisiana St. (7-0) 496 1 2. Georgia (8-0) 494 3 3. North Carolina (7-1) 493 2 4. Texas (9-0) 490 8 5. Arizona St. (8-1) 484 4 6. Florida St. (6-1) 481 5 7. Rice (5-2) 478 10 8. Texas A&M (7-2) 477 6 9. Georgia Tech. (6-1) 475 9 10. Miami, Fla. (6-1) 473 14 11. Texas Christian (5-1) 469 16 12. Cal. St. Fullerton (5-2) 466 17 13. Oklahoma St. (6-1) 465 11 14. Baylor (6-2) 462 13 15. U.C. Irvine (5-2) 459 15 16. Coastal Carolina (6-1) 455 18 17. Cal Poly SLO (6-1) 452 - 18. South Carolina (4-0) 449 - 19. Clemson (4-1) 448 25 20. Florida (5-3) 445 12 21. Mississippi (3-3) 437 22 22. Pepperdine (5-2) 435 23 23. Lamar (9-1) 432 - 24. East Carolina (5-1) 431 - 25. Ohio St. (7-0) 430 30 26. Mississippi St. (8-1) 428 - 27. Oklahoma (7-3) 427 20 28. Michigan (7-2) 426 28 29. Kentucky (4-2) 425 29 30. San Diego (6-3) 420 27