University Southern California Trojans
USC Athletics: The Week in Review / Preview
This Week (Starting June 5, 2000)
| Sport | Record | Conf. | Rank | Last Week |
| Women's Track | - | - | 2nd | Finished second at NCAA Championships. |
| Men's Track | - | - | 7th | Finished seventh at NCAA Championships. |
| Baseball | 43-18 | 16-8 | 5th | Def. Georgia Tech, 7-2, 6-3. |
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| Football | 6-6 | 3-5 | - | |
| Men's Basketball | 16-14 | 9-9 | - | |
| Men's Volleyball | 22-5 | 16-3 | 3rd | |
| Women's Water Polo | 23-9 | 6-3 | 2nd | |
| Women's Basketball | 16-14 | 10-8 | - | |
| Women's Soccer | 14-6 | 7-2 | 13th | |
| Men's Water Polo | 22-5 | 6-2 | Third | |
| Women's Cross Country | - | Eighth place | - | |
| Women's Volleyball | 21-9 | 13-5 | 14th | |
| Women's Swimming/Diving | 5-3 | 2-3 | 7th | |
| Men's Swimming and Diving | 5-2 | 2-2 | 6th | |
| Women's Golf | - | - | 4th | |
| Women's Tennis | 18-9 | 4-4 | 12th | |
| Men's Tennis | 18-9 | 5-2 | 17th | |
| Women's Rowing | - | - | 13th | |
| Men's Golf | - | - | 33rd | |
This Week
| Friday: | Baseball, College World Series, Omaha, Neb., TBA | |
| Saturday: | Baseball, College World Series, Omaha, Neb.,TBA | |
| Sunday: | Baseball, College World Series, Omaha, Neb., TBA |
Baseball
Mark Prior shut down the high-powered Georgia Tech offense with eight
shutout innings and USC earned its 20th trip to the College World Series,
winning 6-3 Saturday night to complete a sweep of the Yellow Jackets at the
NCAA Super Regional. Josh Persell hit a solo homer in the second - his
third homer in two days - and Rob Garibaldi added a two-run shot as the
Trojans (43-18) took two straight in the best-of-three series. USC heads
to Omaha, Neb., with a 15-game winning streak, its longest since 1988. The
Trojans defeated Georgia Tech 7-2 on Friday night, then finished off the
team that was ranked No. 1 in two of the three major polls.
Track and Field
The Women of Troy track and field team made it a nailbiter, but couldn't
hold off a surging LSU team and had to settle for second - the best finish in
Women of Troy history - as the 2000 NCAA Track and Field Championships held
at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, N.C., came to a close on Saturday (June
3). It's the third-consecutive top five finish for the USC women under
coach Ron Allice. With 48 points heading into the final event - the 4x400m
relay - USC needed 10 points to have a chance for its first-ever team title.
LSU entered the event with 56 points. The meet was delayed for 110 minutes
prior to the 4x400 due to storms. With the track still soaked and under a
light drizzle, USC's relay finished third to favored South Carolina and
Texas and collected six points, while LSU finished seventh and collected 2
points. The final margin was in favor of LSU, 58-54. On the men's side,
USC had 27 points for its seventh straight top-10 finish - sixth-in-a-row
under Allice.
Athletes of the Week
Natasha Danvers, Women's Track and Field
Danvers, a senior from Great
Britain, finished her USC career in style, winning the NCAA 400m hurdles
championships in a time of 55.26--breaking her own school-record--on Friday
in Durham, N.C. Danvers,
who is perhaps the greatest all-around athlete in Women of Troy history,
also ran the opening leg on USC's third-place 4x400m relay.
Josh Persell, Baseball
Persell, a junior designated hitter, crushed three solo home runs to help
lead USC to a two-game sweep of No. 1 Georgia Tech and catapult the Trojans
into the College World Series.
