South-Carolina
Baseball Opens Super Regional Play Friday at Florida
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The University of South Carolina baseball team will play in its 14th super regional in school history as the Gamecocks travel to Gainesville, Fla., to face second-seeded Florida in the Gainesville Super Regional. The series starts on Friday night (June 9) at 6 p.m. at Condron Family Ballpark. Game two of the series will be Saturday afternoon (June 10) at 3 p.m., with an if necessary third game Sunday, June 11.
All Gainesville Super Regional games will be broadcast on ESPN2 with Dave Neal and Chris Burke on the call. All games also will be broadcast on the Gamecocks Sports Network from Learfield with Derek Scott and Tommy Moody on the call.
The Gamecocks won the Columbia Regional this past weekend, outscoring its opponents 41-11 after defeating Campbell, 16-7 in the regional final game. Gavin Casas was named the Columbia Regional MVP and was one of six Gamecocks on the All-Regional team.
SCOUTING FLORIDA
The Gators won the Gainesville Regional by winning three games in two days after falling to Texas Tech on Saturday night. Florida defeated UConn, 8-2, on Sunday morning and beat Texas Tech by scores of 7-1 and 6-0 to advance to the Super Regionals. Jac Caglianone was the Gainesville Regional Most Valuable Player and one of six Gators on the All-Regional team. Wyatt Langford leads Florida with a .387 batting average, while Caglianone has 31 home runs and 84 RBI. Florida leads the SEC and is tied for third in the country with 126 home runs. On the mound, Caglianone is 7-3 with a 3.78 ERA and 81 strikeouts in 69 innings pitched.
SERIES VS. FLORIDA
Carolina holds a 54-51 series advantage on Florida heading into the weekend. The Gamecocks swept the Gators in the regular season, winning 13-3 in seven innings on Thursday (April 20) and 5-2 and 7-5 on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Ethan Petry was 5-for-11 with two home runs and eight RBI in the series while Will Sanders struck out 10 in a six-inning start on Thursday night. Florida won the last series played in Gainesville, taking 2-of-3 to end the 2022 regular season.
PROBABLE PITCHING ROTATION
Friday
South Carolina James Hicks (R-Jr. RHP) 8-1, 3.61 ERA, 62.1 IP, 14 BB, 54 K
Florida Brandon Sproat (Jr. RHP) 7-3, 4.70 ERA, 90.0 IP, 38 BB, 113 K
NCAA TOURNAMENT HISTORY
Carolina is 140-71 all-time in the NCAA Tournament. The Gamecocks won back-to-back College World Series titles in 2010 and 2011 and have made 11 trips to the College World Series. This is the 33rd appearance in the NCAA Tournament and the 14th appearance in the Super Regionals. Carolina has faced Florida three times in the NCAA Tournament and are 3-0 with a pair of wins to take the 2011 College World Series and a 7-3 win to open the 2012 College World Series.
GAMECOCKS AND GATORS ARE SUPER
South Carolina and Florida are both in the top seven of all-time super regional appearances. Both teams are making their first appearance in a super regional since 2018. The Gamecocks are tied with Cal State Fullerton and Stanford with 14 appearances while Florida is seventh with 11 appearances.
Florida State 17 99-00-01-02-03-04-05-08-09-10-11-12-13-15-16-17-19
LSU 16 99-00-01-02-03-04-08-09-12-13-15-16-17-19-21-23
South Carolina 14 00-01-02-03-04-06-07-10-11-12-13-16-18-23
Cal State Fullerton 14 99-01-03-04-05-06-07-08-09-10-13-15-17-18
Stanford 14 99-00-01-02-03-06-08-11-12-14-19-21-22-23
Texas 13 00-02-03-04-05-09-10-11-14-18-21-22-23
Miami 12 99-00-01-02-03-04-05-06-08-10-15-16
Florida 11 04-05-09-10-11-12-15-16-17-18-23
ALL-REGIONAL TEAM
Gavin Casas was named the Columbia Regional Most Valuable Player as he was 6-for-13 with six runs scored, two doubles and six RBI. He was joined on the All-Regional team by Braylen Wimmer, Talmadge LeCroy, Ethan Petry, Will McGillis and James Hicks. LeCroy drove in five runs in the regional championship win over Campbell on June 4.
PITCHING STOUT IN REGIONAL PLAY
The South Carolina pitching staff walked just three batters in 27 innings in the Columbia Regional while striking out 33 batters in three wins. James Hicks, who was named to the All-Regional team, allowed just one hit in five innings while striking out six in the win over Central Connecticut State. Jack Mahoney also had six strikeouts in six innings, allowing three runs with no walks in a win over NC State. Will Sanders made two appearances and struck out eight while allowing one hit in four innings.
DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE HITTING
The Gamecocks hit .357 with 41 runs scored, eight doubles, five home runs, a .557 slugging percentage, 30 walks and a .507 on-base percentage in the three games of the regional. Talmadge LeCroy was 6-for-11 with six runs scored and six RBI. Carolina had seven players hit above .300 in the regional.
A ride at a historic Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, amusement park turned into a nightmare that left a man paralyzed, a North Carolina couple alleges in a lawsuit.
The couple, identified as Gangia Adhikari and husband Kul Sannyashi, said they visited the Family Kingdom Amusement Park July 23, 2021, and rode the wooden Swamp Fox Roller Coaster.
“While riding the roller coaster as a result of the negligence, carelessness, recklessness, willfulness and wantonness of the Defendants, Plaintiff’s husband suffered an acute injury to his spinal cord which caused quadriplegia,” the lawsuit, filed June 20, alleges.
MINNESOTA AMUSEMENT PARK STAYS OPEN WHILE CLOSING POPULAR RIDE AFTER UNPRECEDENTED FLOODING
Family Kingdom, a seaside amusement park in Myrtle Beach, S.C. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The couple alleged the coaster was “extremely dangerous, more so than a typical roller coaster.”
The lawsuit said Family Kingdom Amusement Park “failed to adequately warn customers” of the dangers the roller coaster could present to riders.
The lawsuit also alleged the amusement park failed to take precautions to ensure the ride would not cause serious injuries to its users.
Attorney Morgan Martin told The Sun News Sannyashi is in “horrible condition.”
“The allegation is that he gets on [the roller coaster] fine and then gets off as a quadriplegic,” Martin told the outlet. “It’s such a sad, sad day for that young man, who is just in horrible condition.”
BEAR EUTHANIZED AFTER INJURING TENNESSEE THEME PARK CONCESSION STAND EMPLOYEE
Sannyashi claimed he had to undergo operations that required expensive medical treatment, hospitalization and intensive care.
A North Carolina man is reportedly paralyzed after riding the popular Swamp Fox roller coaster at Myrtle Beach’s Family Kingdom Amusement Park. (Family Kingdom)
The lawsuit claims he requires 24-hour nursing assistance and suffers from extreme pain, mental anguish and depression due to his permanent injuries.
According to the lawsuit, Adhikari is suing for loss of companionship, fellowship, aid, assistance, company and more.
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South-Carolina
Mary Elle Marchant, River Bluff native, crowned as Miss South Carolina Teen 2024 – ABC Columbia
Photo Courtesy: Amanda Upton Photography
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — The Miss South Carolina Scholarship Organization has crowned Miss River Bluff’s Teen, Mary Elle Marchant, as Miss South Carolina’s Teen 2024.
According to Gavin Smith with the organization, Marchant hails from Lexington, SC, and is an 18-year-old who recently graduated from River Bluff High School.
Performing a musical theatre dance to “I Hope I Get It” from “A Chorus Line to Life,” Marchant was a preliminary winner in the teen evening gown and teen talent award categories.
She received a $12,500 savings bond and will compete for the title of Miss America’s Outstanding Teen.
The Miss South Carolina Scholarship Organization also named four additional delegates as runners up in the 2024 Miss South Carolina’s Teen Competition:
First runner up: Miss Daniel Island’s Teen, Tess Ferm
Second runner up: Miss Columbia’s Teen, Le’Daviah Terry
Third runner up: Miss Greer High School’s Teen, Madison Harbin
Fourth runner up: Miss Greater Greer’s Teen, Lilykate Barbare
The Miss South Carolina 2024 competition will continue Saturday evening, beginning at 8 p.m.
Miss South Carolina 2024 will receive a $60,000 scholarship and will compete for the title of Miss America.
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Editorial: Long-awaited reform on how SC picks judges will help, but it doesn’t go far enough
The reform measure the Legislature sent to Gov. Henry McMaster on Wednesday won’t solve the multitudinous problems with the way South Carolina picks judges.
The governor still won’t have anywhere near as much say as the Legislature in selecting the members of the third branch of government.
And lawyer-legislators still will retain inordinate sway over the careers of judges they practice before — creating the appearance if not the reality of preferential treatment.
But the bill — more than a year in the making and far longer than that in the needing — provides a good first step to addressing real and perceived flaws that threaten public confidence in our judicial system. We urge Mr. McMaster to sign it.
For the first time, it allows the governor to appoint some members to the Judicial Merit Selection Commission, which decides who legislators can elect or reelect to the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals and the Circuit and Family courts. Governors have never had any say in those elections, and they still won’t participate in the vote, but S.1046 lets the governor appoint four of the 12 commissioners.
House and Senate leaders will still pick the eight other members, and six of them have to be legislators; technically, the bill allows all eight to be legislators, which would ensure legislators’ continued majority on the panel, but if House or Senate leaders choose to interpret it that way, it will be a massive betrayal of the public trust.
Perhaps equally important, legislators will be limited to four consecutive years on the panel, and all but three current members will be expelled from the commission when the law takes effect in a year. Among those leaving will be House Democratic Leader Todd Rutherford, who has made himself the poster child for how lawyer-legislators can manipulate that position to their personal advantage. (Additionally, commissioners have to resign if a relative files to run for a judgeship.)
As long as the Legislature elects judges, the governor should appoint all the members of the screening panel; that’s the only way to create the balance of powers that is foundational to our nation’s system of governance. Barring that, lawyer-legislators should be prohibited from serving on the panel: One chance to influence who becomes a judge — when they vote in the election — is enough; that second opportunity is the root of most of the evil that South Carolina’s prosecutors have been complaining about for more than a year.
It’s worth noting that lawmakers agreed to give the governor some say on the commission at the very same moment they reduced the commission’s power: It still will be able to end the careers and the hopes of judges and would-be judges, but in most cases, it no longer will be able to nominate its favorites from among multiple qualified candidates. Now, instead of nominating a maximum of three candidates for each seat, the so-called cap will be six — which is more than the number of candidates in most contests — so if six candidates are found qualified, all six of them will stand for election.
The other smart reforms are a requirement that screening hearings be livestreamed and a related ban on candidates dropping out before the commission issues its report on their qualifications. Both are designed to stop the panel from pressuring candidates to drop out after screening by suggesting that the public will see unflattering material about them if they don’t.
As Upstate Solicitor Kevin Brackett tells us, “This is helpful, but some of the main structures that ensure legislative dominance are still in place and need to be addressed.” That means getting lawyer-legislators off the screening commission and, ideally, allowing the governor to appoint all 12 members. It’s not too soon to start working on that next round of reforms.
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