Ron Morris
Ron Morris
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RON MORRIS
Errors cost USC a trip to Omaha
SOUTH CAROLINA picked the worst possible time to play its sloppiest baseball of the season.
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USC’s lefties are right on target
The idea long has been that a hitter can better see and, presumably, hit a curveball that is bending toward him rather than one that is breaking away from him.
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Morris: Montgomery mimics Roth’s success
JORDAN MONTGOMERY prepares to pitch every inning just as Michael Roth did. There is the sweeping of the rubber with his cleats, sometimes with both feet. There is the peering over the edge of the glove in front of his face before throwing his warmup tosses.
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MORRIS: The Pivotal Year for Hank Aaron
Hank Aaron does not remember a lot about playing a few baseball games in Columbia 60 years ago. He was a 19-year-old, second-year professional playing for Jacksonville, Milwaukee’s Single-A affiliate in the South Atlantic League.
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MORRIS: Talented Tar Heels turn tables on Gamecocks
CHAD HOLBROOK sounded like the Oklahoma coach a year ago following a Super Regional loss to South Carolina. Or, Holbrook could as easily have been the Arkansas coach after falling to USC in the College World Series. Or, was it the Virginia coach in the 2011 College World Series, or the Connecticut...
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Morris: College needs pitch counts
THE NCAA AND ITS baseball coaches will someday be forever grateful to ESPN’s Kyle Peterson for recently speaking out on behalf of the protection of pitchers’ arms in the college game.
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MORRIS: Times have changed for USC coach Chad Holbrook, college baseball
CHAD HOLBROOK can tell you how far college baseball has advanced since his playing days at North Carolina. All he had to do was look around the Boshamer Stadium premises Thursday afternoon.
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MORRIS: As usual, selection committee gets seeding right for NCAA baseball regionals
WITH THE arrival of the NCAA baseball tournament comes an annual passage of summer: Coaches across the country claiming every No. 3 or No. 4 seed in the field is a legitimate contender to reach the College World Series.
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Morris: Winning attitude permeates Gamecocks
MINUTES EARLIER, Jim Toman’s Liberty baseball team suffered elimination from the Columbia Regional when he was asked what makes South Carolina such a difficult team to beat in the postseason.
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Leggett can see sunshine on horizon
JACK LEGGETT calls it PSD syndrome. It stands for Post Season Depression, and it is what Leggett has allowed himself to fall into for a couple of weeks following each of his 20 seasons as coach at Clemson.





