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Monday, May 06, 2013  The South Carolina baseball team is holding steady in the latest polls despite dropping a weekend series to No. 2 Vanderbilt.  The Gamecocks are ranked 15th in this week's Baseball America top-25.

Sunday, May 05, 2013  South Carolina's series finale with No. 2 Vanderbilt was rained out Sunday afternoon and the game will not be made up.

Saturday, May 04, 2013  Vanderbilt raced out to a five-run lead and was able to to withstand a late push from South Carolina to beat the Gamecocks 5-2 on Saturday afternoon at Carolina Stadium.

Friday, May 03, 2013  Despite a late-inning push, No. 15 South Carolina fell 3-2 to second-ranked Vanderbilt Friday night at Carolina Stadium in game of a three-game weekend series.

Wednesday, May 01, 2013  For the second time in four years, a South Carolina Gamecock has been named "Mr. Irrelevant."

Wednesday, April 24, 2013  Clemson's athletic booster group has named Davis C. Babb as its first chief executive officer.

Saturday, April 13, 2013  Eighth ranked South Carolina opened up a 3-1 lead on Florida but the Gators rallied for three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning highlighted by a two-out two-run single by Harrison Bader as the Gamecocks fell 4-3 to Florida on Friday evening in game two of a three-game SEC baseball series at McKethan Stadum.

Monday, April 08, 2013  With perhaps billions of dollars stake, a hearing Tuesday over concussion litigation filed against the NFL promises to be a brawl between legal heavyweights.

Sunday, April 07, 2013  Eleventh ranked South Carolina belted out a season-high 21 hits with 10 different Gamecocks recording at least one hit on the way to a 19-2 victory over Tennessee to sweep a three-game SEC series at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

Saturday, April 06, 2013  Eleventh ranked South Carolina pounded out a season-high 17 hits and all nine starters reached base at least once as the Gamecocks defeated Tennessee 12-8 to clinch the three-game series at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

Thursday, April 04, 2013  The Gamecocks hit the road to Knoxville this weekend when they take on Tennessee in a three-game series.

Thursday, March 28, 2013  LB Dantzler smashed a two-run double off the left field wall in the sixth inning to bring South Carolina back from a two-run deficit, and Graham Saiko delivered the go-ahead run in the seventh inning as No. 14 South Carolina rallied for a 3-2 win over Texas A&M Thursday night at Carolina Stadium.

Sunday, March 24, 2013  No. 17 Arkansas scored two runs in the top of the 11th inning to cap a sweep of the fifth-ranked Gamecocks on Sunday at Carolina Stadium.

Friday, March 15, 2013  South Carolina sophomore Evan Beal struck out a career-high 10 batters as the No. 5 Gamecocks beat Missouri 4-1 on Friday in the SEC opener at Taylor Stadium.

Saturday, March 09, 2013  Rod Odom and Dai-Jon Parker each scored 18 points to lead Vanderbilt to a 74-64 victory over South Carolina on Saturday in the regular-season finale for both teams.