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Omani alumni create club
Courtesy of Tyler Macchio
Just under 50 alumni, prospective USC students, representatives from the Omani Embassy and guests attended an alumni reception Oman in September.
USC graduates develop first fully formed alumni club abroad in their home country Natalie Pita
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Going to a noon football game may seem difficult, but alumni in Oman are excited to wake up at 3 a.m. to watch the Gamecocks play. “It’s just cool to see the sense of community they still have and how much they talked about coming to USC and how much they loved living here,” Sponsored Student Coordinator Tyler Macchio said. “They really feel a sense of communit y even though they’re so far away and a completely different culture. They’re definitely doing the Carolina community proud over there.” The USC Alumni Club in Oman, which was formed in April, is the fi rst fully formed alumni club in a foreign country. Director for International Student Services Jody Pritt said Oman was an ideal place to begin comprehensive efforts for an alumni club abroad because of the strong presence of alumni there. “A real theme that I saw there was that they felt that Columbia, South Carolina was a second home now, and always will be,” Pritt said. “I feel like it’s really brought a real attention to Oman in the Middle East and these students who are so active and engaged and remarkable at the university.” There are currently 54 students from Oman at USC, and 30 more are already planning to come next year. When these Omani students graduate, they are very likely to advocate for their experience at USC when they return to their home country. “We have an active group there already. We have
students who made life-long friends when they were studying here and they’re maintaining these relationships,” Pritt said. “They’re going into the workplace and celebrating being Gamecocks for life.” Current, non-international USC students will also be able to benefit from this new organization. The first ever study abroad in Oman for USC students will be held this year, and USC students w ill have t he oppor t u n it y to i nteract w it h international alumni. “One major component of that program will be that the students from USC that are on the study abroad program will have ample opportunities to interact with the alumni there,” Pritt said. “The idea is that after the day of planned programming, they’ll go live the Omani life with those students.” The main event of the USC Alumni Club in Oman so far has been an alumni reception held on Sept. 25. Almost 50 alumni, prospective USC students, representatives from the Omani Embassy and guests attended the event, which was held in Oman’s capital city, Muscat. Two USC alumni currently living in Oman spoke at the event, which also included networking and dinner. The former students were united at the rooftop garden of the Muscat Grand Mall, the workplace of a USC alumnus. Salima Al Masrouri, a marketing and branding intern for International Student Services and a student from Oman, was largely responsible for planning the event. According to Al Masrouri, the most difficult parts were dealing with time differences and dealing with cultural differences. OMAN • 3
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USC sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma competed against other student organizations and won the inaugural Stroll Off, a 2014 homecoming event, on Monday at 6:30 on the Russell House patio.
40 years, still coming back for Moore Business school celebrates milestone for International Business Brandon Waltz
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The International Business (IB) program at the Darla Moore School of Business is celebrating its 40th anniversary this Thursday through Saturday by inviting its alumni to “Come back for Moore.” The school is celebrating by looking toward the future. Keynote speeches will be made on Friday by Devin Fidler, Research Director at Technology Horizons; Donna Fenn, author of “Upstarts! How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business” and contributing editor at Inc.com; and David T. Seaton, CEO of Fluor Corporation. These panels will highlight research from the Moore School, and will be moderated by former Moore School Dean and current IB professor Hildy Teegen. “I would like to see more of our students engaged in internships with S.C. firms as they work to expand their international reach,” Teegen said when asked about changes she’d like to see in the Moore School IB program. “Our underlying principle is that we give all of our IB students the tools to be successful IB leaders regardless of the location or industry where they find themselves through deep, rich experience, leading-edge curriculum and support from a devoted, successful network of alumni practitioners and corporate partners throughout the world who bring relevant insights into our education.” The undergraduate IB program at the Darla Moore School of Business has been ranked first in the nation for sixteen consecutive years by U.S. News and World Report. The graduate IB program also received the top ranking from U.S. News this year. “I’d also be delighted to see us expanding the areas of country/regional areas of specialization and language training, particularly given the increased importance of many emerging markets for global business,” Teegen said. The Moore School of Business IB program already has formal connections with multiple international universities, and the program’s strategic plan includes a goal to expand the school to 50 partnerships by 2015. More than 4,000 alumni of the graduate IB program now hold business leadership positions around the world in almost every industry. The IB program has given over 600 undergraduate degrees and enrolls 250 undergraduate students. The celebration of the 40th anniversary will conclude on Saturday with a special MyCarolina Homecoming Tailgate, the USC football game against Furman and reunion dinners for the IB alumni. DG
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Vacant house catches fire Woman injures boyfriend Man threatens deputies with toy gun twice in two days in fight with sword A vacant house caught on fi re for the second time in 24 hours Monday morning, The State reported. Columbia firefighters arrived at the vacant home the fi rst time at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday night. They were dispatched once again, to the same residence, at 6 a.m. Monday morning. No injuries were reported in either fi re, but the fi rst fi re at the house, which was located in the 3100 block of Broad River Road, stopped traffic for several hours while fi refighters worked to clear the area. The cause of the fire is currently unknown. Investigators are not sure if the fi re was reset or rekindled. Richland Country Fire Marshals are currently investigating the two fi res further. — Natalie Pita, News Editor
Marquita Swanigan, 30, kicked her boyfriend out of an apartment in West Ashley after what she called a “scuffle” in the living room, WIS reported. She was charged with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature. The 22-year-old victim was found running through a construction zone without a shirt. He was talking on a phone and saying, “Momma come get me!” Swanigan was upset with her boyfriend for his “inability to clean.” The police reported to the scene after she called them, and they noticed a cut between her thumb and finger. The victim also had a cut on his finger, which he said he received when he tried to disarm her out of fear for his life. The boyfriend also said that he was told to leave the apartment after a verbal fight. While he was collecting an overnight bag, Swanigan held the sword to his back. — Natalie Pita, News Editor
A man on probat ion for a prev ious armed robbery attempted to threaten sheriff’s deputies with a toy gun, WIS reported. Tanner Reece Brittain, 21, was hiding in an apartment when deputies came to arrest him because of his alleged two home invasions in Kershaw County. When the deputies arrived at the apartment, Brittain tried to get into another room where the toy gun was stashed, but deputies were able to arrest him fi rst. While Brittain was en route to the Kershaw County Detention Center, he escaped from the patrol car. Several employees apprehended him at a car dealership nearby. — Natalie Pita, News Editor
The blotter comes from police reports released by the USC Division of Law Enforcement and Safety and doesn’t include crimes reported by city or county law enforcement. Assault/simple assault — 1 Drug/narcotics violation — 2 Drunkenness — 2 Fake/other ID use — 1 Larceny/all other — 1 Larceny/theft from building — 2 Larceny/theft from vehicle — 1 Larceny/theft of motor vehicle parts — 1 Larceny/pocket picking — 1 Trespassing — 1 Vandalism/destruction of property — 1
— A n o f f i c e r w a s s e nt t o M c C l i nt o c k at 9 :34 a . m . i n response to theft from a building. The victim, who was moving into her room, was gone from her room between 2 p.m. and 3:05 p.m. One of her roommates was in the room the entire time. When the victim returned to her room, she noticed her f lowe r p ot w a s m i s s i n g. Several of the roommates told her that the other roommate, who had been in the room, gave the flower pot to them. They returned the flower pot to the victim. At 6 p.m., the victim noticed that six of her family photos were also missing. The roommate who had taken the flower pot admitted to an RM that she took the family photos, but she refused to give them back. The officer made an unsuccessful attempt to resolve the issues, but the victim no longer lives in the room.
— A n officer stopped a man running down Laurens Street in the direction of Five Points at 2 a.m. The officer asked him if he was okay, and he said he was just returning to Five Points to get his ID from the Pour House bar. The officer noticed the man had been drinking because of the smell of alcohol. When the officer asked the man for his name and date of birth, the man said his birth year was 1991, but he could not tell him how old he was. The man also said he was from Tennessee, but gave the officer an ID from Mississippi. The man admitted that the ID was a fake, and eventually gave the officer his real ID. He was given a citation for minor in possession of beer.
— An officer took a call on Oct. 9 about an incident that took place on Sept. 28 at the football game against M issou ri. The v ict im reported that a black man gave him two high fives at the game. W hen t he v ict im reached for the high fives, the man grabbed both of his hands. A second black man grabbed his wallet from his pocket, and bot h of t hem ran away. The victim had no money in his wallet, and he called his bank to cancel his credit card. Ten to fifteen days ago, the victim received a call saying that a black man had used his driver’s license in Texas and received a counter check of $1,500, but the victim only reported his wallet with his credit card missing.
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Courtesy of Tyler Macchio There are currently 54 students from Oman at USC, and 30 more are already planning to come next year.
OMAN • Continued from 1 “Here I know exactly who to call for catering. I know exactly who to call to get a sound system and a mic set up. But there, this was kind of new for everyone,” Pritt said. “I was really proud of the team when it all came together. We put something together with a vast ocean between us.” The members of the USC Alumni Club in Oman already want to serve as a model for alumni clubs in other countries.
Si nce t he for mat ion of t he organization in Oman in April, a USC Alumni Club in Taiwan has already started. A lthough it is not a f ully formed alumni club like the one in Oman, there is also an active group of alumni in London. There are USC alumni all over the world, and Pritt hopes to start more international alumni clubs for USC graduates in the future. DG
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International students build, maintain connections abroad are an untapped resource for forming those bonds. This type of network is valuable for st udents tr y ing to work internationally in the future w it h t he f irst st udy abroad opportunit y in Oman being
ISSUE The first overseas alumni group has formed in Oman.
OUR STANCE This formation creates new communities to be utilized.
“We commend these students ... They took this large university and found a community within it, albeit small.”
The Sultanate of Oman, bordered by Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the UA E for you geog raph ically challenged folks, apparently has an abundance of Gamecock pride. The first international alumni association was recently created in Oman, which is awesome, if entirely unexpected, for a myriad of reasons. The first is that this is reflective of the international scope that the university is gaining. As the university has the number one ranked international business program, we should strive to form these types of strong bonds w it h foreig n cou nt r ie s, a nd international students and alumni
held this year. Br idges l ike t h is ca n be t he connections that students need to have the opportunities that structure their post-grad lives. Straying from personal benefits, this formation also speaks to the home that can be found in the Carolina communit y, even if
home is thousands of miles away. We t h i n k of C a r ol i n a a s a pillar in Southern, down-home charm. We think of ourselves as all-American as it gets, but in reality we underestimate the international presence we have here. We commend these students for bringing home to here. It is difficult to go so far out of one's comfort zone and find a piece of one's self there that they feel the need to bring back across the Atlantic with them. They took this large university and found a community within it, albeit a small one. It speaks to the power of the Carolina experience, how one can change continents and still feel the need to come together with other Gamecocks. We hope we can see more communities like this pop up all over the world in the future.
Escape found in games Active escapism made possible by video games If I were to guess how many hours I spent playing video games in high school, I would have to round it up to somewhere around 10,000. Perhaps more. This is, in part, because video g a me s a re t he b e st for m of escapism that has ever existed. Playing a video game gives a sense of agency, of being able to directly affect a different world. This is so addicting because we so often associate choices with meaning. A nd the only popular entertainment medium with that option is video games (putting aside the hypertext from “chooseyour-own-adventure” books, some of which are fantastic). With movies, you are being shown a situation, and invited to spend two hours or so with a certain set of characters. When we watch Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter in all of those movies, we are watching a character grow, but we, as an audience, have no influence on him. We are given the exact amount of time it takes for a film to run, and then we are booted out of Hogwarts forever. (To combat this inevitable eviction from a world of magic, they’ve created a theme park.) With books, you get to know characters on precise levels and are able to move at your own pace. Nevertheless, you are, in the end, being dragged along on a plot line and end up in the same place as every other reader. You can take as long as you want,
but the words don’t change. Not so with video games. T he be st ex a mple is t he popular game adaptat ion of Robert Kirkman’s “The Walking Dead.” It is focused around one simple concept: you are in control of a survivor and most of their actions and responses. The game more or less f lows differently depending on your choices — although some, sadly, are unavoidable. You can play this game again and again, getting different reactions from different characters. The game, like all good games, is adept at tricking you into thinking that your choices ultimately matter. O t her g a me s , l i k e “ Wo r l d o f Warcraft” or “The Elder Scrolls I V: O b l i v i o n ,” y o u Ben Crawford can literally play for hundreds Second-year English and of t hou sa nd s of Russian student hou rs, because there is no winstate (wh ich is won k speak for t he “Congratulations, you won! Roll credits” part of the game). All this comes back to the idea of choosing as being meaningful. The central idea around most video games is to engage the player to such an extent that he or she forgets that none of the choices they make matter. The deception here is the belief that all choices are imbued with meaning. Every “gamer” must have a strong suspension of disbelief when it comes to making choices that matter. Just as we choose to believe, for an instant, that each character’s lines in a movie were created on the
spot, a video game player chooses to believe that everything they do in that world is spontaneous, personal and completely one’s own. For those who don’t feel as if they have agency in the real world, it is indescribable bliss to have an escape into a world where you are always the protagonist, where you are always “the chosen one,” where all the attention is focused on you. I don’t have to tell you how dangerous this could be. Virtually all of entertainment we choose is centered on escapism rather than enlightenment. This makes video games, by far, the most effective entertainment imaginable in terms of keeping the consumer sitting in one place for hours on end. Why live in the outside world? Why try, when there are so many pseudo-worlds to explore in my computer screen? This is not to say that video games don’t have room to grow or change. After so many years of mindless power-fantasy shooters, most of the gaming public has entered something like a postmodern phase. Ever since “BioShock,” (or, more precisely, “System Shock 2”) with its introduction of an unreliable quest-giver, more and more video games are beginning to explore it as a medium, which is well and good. Particularly engaging is “Spec Ops: The Line,” which presents itself as a power fantasy and ends up trying its hardest to make the player feel like a terrible person. It’s wonderful. Until the gaming public stops using this form of media as a refuge from reality instead of an art form among other art forms, the depths of the medium can never be fully explored.
Haley leads race in spite of self Despite faults, incumbent takes top spot The first debate of the South Carolina’s gubernatorial race is set for Tuesday night, and it marks the beginning of crunch time for the only major political contest in the state this year. Gov. Nikki Haley, one-time Tea Party favorite, is running for a second term against State Sen. Vincent Sheheen in a rematch of the 2010 election. Haley won her first term by only four percent of the vote. Not only is she part of the majority party in the state, Haley also has the “incumbency advantage.” Absent a reason for her to be voted out, voters will probably re-elect her to another term. Sheheen must convince voters why they should vote against Haley, not necessarily for him. For her part, Haley has touted her record and largely ignored Sheheen. As a result, this election has become a referendum on Haley. Haley’s campaign this cycle is focused on job creation, despite the fact that unemployment rate in South Carolina ranks above the national average. The governor has been investigated Ben Turner t w ice for et h ics v iolat ions by t he Third-year print Republican-led House Et hics journalism Committee. She was investigated by student the SC State Ethics Commission. She was forced to reimburse the state almost $10,000 for unethical travel. She has been accused by the independent candidate in the race of a massive bribery scandal. Haley has refused to expand Medicaid for free, leaving thousands of South Carolinians without healthcare. She signed a racial profiling immigration law similar to the one in Arizona, only to have it ruled unconstitutional. She signed a voter ID law that will disenfranchise voters. After the South Carolina Department of Revenue had their credit information hacked, Haley was forced to admit her administration didn’t do enough to protect taxpayer data. ABC News found that Haley’s Department of Social Services places children in dangerous situations. The directors of both agencies were forced to resign. The problem for Sheheen is that, while all of these things are great for attack ads, he struggles to get his policy ideas across to voters. He has never held statewide office before and, for many voters, he is an unknown entity despite his run four years ago. While Haley has been able to build a national profile and is excellent at getting press, Sheheen’s latest press conference on the issue of the confederate flag was panned as a desperate attempt to get attention for a struggling campaign. The fact that this race is competitive in a solid Republican state shows how weak Haley is. However, Sheheen must score big in the upcoming debates or hope for an October surprise, or else Haley will win another term despite being a terrible governor.
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You’re extra persuasive now. K e e p y o u r objective in mind. You could end up with too much. Co-workers apply pressure. Keep it respectful if controversy a r i s e s . A p p r e c i at e a lovely moment. Prepare lots of food and drink.
Use hidden resources. An unexpected reaction surprises you. No gossip. Reroute complaints to someone who ca n do s o me t h i n g ab out it . Check your figures and discover a bonus. Hold out for what you really want. Celebrate w it h something bubbly.
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5 Picking up in tempo, in mus. 6 Ending for ab or ad 7 Bucolic poem 8 __ Fables 9 Math subj. 10 Prefix for element #33 11 Gets a whiff of 12 “Never Gonna Give You Up” singer Rick 15 Texter’s “conversely” 16 They’re fleeting 20 Piano string vibration control 21 Roast VIPs 22 Psi preceder 26 Directed 27 Faux pas 28 Suffix with Water, commercially 31 Overtake on the track, in a way 32 ’50s pres. candidate 33 The Western Dvina flows through it 35 Aye offset 36 Scoundrel 37 Staying in the shadows 41 Bracket shape
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Chiodo earns weekly honor
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Senior Sam Chiodo has turned in scores of 76, 74.5 and 74.5, respectively, in South Carolina’s first three contests, all team-highs in the horsemanship category.
Senior named ‘Athlete of the Week’ for MVP performance in South Carolina’s 1st win of season against Auburn Friday Danny Garrison
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The No. 6 South Carolina equestrian team earned its first win of the season Friday, and made a strong statement to the rest of the nation in doing so. Lead i ng t he charge for Sout h Carolina was Sam Chiodo, whose MVP performance Friday earned her a nod as the AgSouth Athlete of the
Week. But the senior did her best to deflect that attention to the team as a whole following the victory. “ We’ve rea l ly ju st worked on improving ourselves from each week this year,” she said. “The fact that we only had one week to prepare for this and we came out the way we did (Friday) really says a lot.” The Gamecocks (1-2, 1-1 SEC) toppled No. 3 Auburn (1-1, 0-1 SEC) in its home facilities with a final count of 10-9, handing the Tigers a loss in their conference opener. Despite Auburn’s superior ranking heading into the matchup, South
Carolina had histor y on its side. Friday marked the Gamecocks’ fifthconsecutive win over the Tigers. And in a conference that features just four teams, that kind of consistency against SEC foes is what has propelled South Carolina equestrian to new heights in recent history. In a match that was neck-and-neck for most of the day, Chiodo tied the score in the western arena with her event-high score of 74.5, just one point clear of Auburn’s Griffin Knight. All three of Chiodo’s individual results this season, one 76 and two tallies of 74.5, are the team’s best in the horsemanship category.
South Carolina has one more SEC match this semester when it hosts Texas A&M at the end of the month, and the Gamecocks won’t rematch Auburn until they host the Tigers in February. And with all four of the conference’s teams ranked in the NCEA top-10, a 1-1 start to the year is nothing to complain about for South Carolina. “We really needed this win,” Chiodo said. “We really came together. We really made it just a one-of-a-kind kind of day.” DG
Blevins claims South Carolina fans must singles title at UVA adjust season expectations Kelli Caldwell As a junior at South Carolina, I’ve learned a few things since I first came to campus more than two years ago. By my own design, a lot has been football-related. And much like the curricula of college courses are designed to prepare you to enter the workforce, young Gamecocks are prepared early and often for the football team to be bad again. Insufferably bad. 0-21 bad, tragically partying like it’s 1999. As an out-of-state transplant, I share with a lot of South Carolina students the perspective of a viewer who has only seen the football team compete at the highest level. Sharing that fact with any lifelong Gamecock fan usually ser ves as a suggestion that maybe you should tell me how terrible South Carolina used to be. Danny That’s typically followed by how Garrison Sports Editor luck y I am to be a part of what’s @DannyLGarrison happened in recent years. For the most part, I shake it off and watch replays of “The Hit” until the carnage becomes too much. But after the Gamecocks’ most recent loss to Kentucky, I have a basic understanding of what I’ve been subconsciously trained for throughout my college career. I am in no way claiming to be one of the battlehardened cynics that knows just how disappointing South Carolina can be. I’ll reserve that distinction for anyone with memories of Nov. 17, 1984. For those of you with a single tear rolling down your cheek right now, I don’t have to remind you that this is the day the 9-0, No. 2 in the nation Gamecocks lost to Navy and set a glorious blaze to their national title hopes. That’s just one of the more painful examples of how South Carolina has tortured its fans in the past. It bares little comparison to this year’s loss to Kentucky. But , f or me a nd ot her r e c e nt l y adopt e d
Gamecocks, this is the fi rst time many of us have lost hope. I’m telling you, in mid-October, in no uncertain terms, that South Carolina will not play for the SEC championship. Over the last three-plus years, that hope has remained alive until the bitter end of the season, even if it may not have matriculated into an Eastern division title. It’s mid-October, and the Gamecocks have three losses. Over the last three years in which South Carolina has finished 11-2, it’s taken the team longer than that to lose twice. It’s time to adjust our expectations when it comes to the Gamecocks, at least for this year. For all we know, one of the incoming freshmen in South Carolina’s 16th-ranked recruiting class could do a four-year Connor Shaw impression and deliver the Gamecocks back to the promised land. Maybe Connor Mitch or Perry Orth messes around and wins the Heisman next season. College football is weird, and stuff like that happens all the time. Until then, we’ll have to settle for incremental goals. A good start would be a win over Furman this week, because South Carolina is in no position to overlook anyone. The Gamecocks go to No. 6 Auburn in two weeks, and we learned Saturday that the Tigers are at least beatable. And I don’t think I need to remind anyone reading this that South Carolina is in the middle of a fivegame winning streak against Clemson. If and when that comes to an end will mostlikely serve as the red light that puts a stop to the Gamecocks’ current glory years. That also might be a good time to hide in an old missile silo until the riots end. The 18-game home winning streak is over. The 69-consecutive weeks in the top-25 are done. But for many South Carolina fans, that’s all secondary to a win over the “team from upstate” as head coach Steve Spurrier likes to call them. And we’ve still got that going for us.
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The South Carolina women’s tennis team traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia this weekend to compete in the UVa Fall Invite. Beginning Friday, both Gamecock doubles teams advanced to the semifinals. Senior Meghan Blevins and sophomore Brigit Folland defeated Northwestern’s Erin Larner and Brooke Rischbieth in their first match. However, the South Carolina pair was defeated in the semifinals by a pair from Virginia. Sophomores Natalie Looney and Caroline Dailey defeated Northwestern’s Alex Chatt and Jillian Rooney 8-5, but then suffered a loss to a Marshall duo in a tiebreaker. In singles, Blevins faired just fine on her own, defeating Marshall’s Marija Bogicevic in three sets 4-6, 6-2, 7-6. Looney on the other hand, fell to Virginia’s Faure 7-6, 6-4. Dailey was also defeated by No. 121 Hudson of Arkansas 6-2, 4-6, 6-1. Also Folland is defeated by Virginia’s Skylar Morton 6-3, 6-3. S at u r d a y, L o o ne y s u f f e r e d a lo s s t o Northwestern’s Rheeya Doshi 6-4, 7-5. In the consolation quarterfinals Dailey defeated Northwestern’s Peri 6-7, 6-2, 6-1, but was quickly defeated by Northwestern’s Rischbieth 6-4, 6-3. Blevins advanced to the championship game on Sunday by defeating Arkansas’s Rubel 6-1, 6-1, and Maryland’s Hovsepyan 6-3, 6-0. Sunday’s matches consisted of Looney, Dailey, and Folland all defeating their opponents. Blevins took on Northwestern’s Lok Sze Leung, winning the singles championship 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. Blevins is now undefeated in her last six matches. South Carolina will be back on the road in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the USTA / ITA Carolina Regional Championships starting Thursday. DG
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