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South Carolina's Marzilli expects to play through injury

On Thursday, it was sophomore center fielder Evan Marzilli, who aggravated his hamstring Thursday afternoon at the Boys Town practice.

"It's just going to be day-to-day," South Carolina coach Ray Tanner said. "We've got two more practice days before we play. We'll see how he responds."

Tanner added that Marzilli, who played through a minor hamstring injury earlier in the season, has made it known that he expects to be in the lineup Sunday.

Marzilli appeared to be playing through it in Friday's practice at TD Ameritrade Park.

All about Roth

The South Carolina baseball team is discovering that it is Michael Roth's world, and they just get to live in it.

The junior left-hander started two huge games in the 2010 College World Series, including the national championship clincher against UCLA, and developed into the staff ace this season. But it is not his gaudy 13-3 record and 1.02 ERA that have drawn attention in Omaha.

It is his image on billboards around Omaha promoting this season's CWS that have the other Gamecocks buzzing. He laughs and admits that his teammates aren't that impressed.

"Guys have given me plenty of (grief) for being plastered all over Omaha right now," Roth said.

He caught it pretty good on the way to TD Ameritrade Park on Friday.

"We saw one as we were riding on the bus over here on the highway," he said. "It's pretty cool. I'm sure my parents are going to love it. I guess I'll take all the jabs from the guys."

Roth's image also resides on a large banner outside the stadium down the right-field line next to the ticket windows. The banner reads, "Champions Play Here. 2010 National Champions. South Carolina Gamecocks."

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Omaha baseball officials attempted to get Lambert Bartak to move with the College World Series from Rosenblatt Stadium to TD Ameritrade Park. But Bartak decided to retire as the ballpark organist after more than 50 years at age 91.

Hired in his place was 70-year-old Jerry Pawlak, a retired accountant from nearby Lincoln.

W makes a comeback

Former President George W. Bush will throw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to Saturday's opening game of the College World Series between North Carolina and Vanderbilt.

Bush also threw out the first pitch prior to the 2001 World Series. His father played in the 1947 and 1948 College World Series for Yale.

Legislators give S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley 'B-' grade - Local ...

COLUMBIA -- Gov. Nikki Haley earns her best marks for working with lawmakers and challenging federal policies that she thinks are not in South Carolina's interest - such as a recent National Labor Relations Board complaint against Boeing's North Charleston plant, according to a report card-style survey of lawmakers and nearly 10,000 readers of The (Columbia) State newspaper.

Haley, a Lexington Republican, took office in January.

Legislators surveyed by The State - a little more than a fifth of the General Assembly's members - gave the new governor a composite grade of B- for her performance.

Readers were far less complimentary, giving Haley poor grades across the board. In particular, they criticized her for failing to support incentives used to lure 2,000 Amazon jobs to Lexington County and, by a 9-to-1 margin, disapproved of her removal of Darla Moore - USC's largest donor - from that university's board of trustees.

Those responses were far more negative than those found in a June 9 poll by North Carolina-based Public Policy Polling, when 42 percent of those surveyed said they approved of Haley's performance while 41 percent disapproved.

Haley - who has said she will issue report cards grading legislators, based on their support of her agenda - declined a request for an interview about The State's report card. "I'm not going to comment," she said in a phone interview Thursday.

But in a June 4 post to her Facebook page, Haley questioned the fairness of the questions asked. "The State newspaper is doing a report card of me and my administration. They asked what I thought of their questions. Should I tell them it looks like [Haley antagonist and Lexington Republican] Sen. Jake Knotts wrote them?"

The post prompted dozens of responses supporting Haley.

Haley says she is her own toughest critic. She has told television interviewers that she gives herself an A+ for effort and made no mistakes during her first 100 days in office, the period that includes Moore's dismissal. Last week, Haley said one accomplishment she was proud of "is to give you a Cabinet that is top-notch."

Those appointments were praised by a large majority of lawmakers interviewed by The State.

The State surveyed 22 House members - 15 Republicans and seven Democrats - and 12 senators - seven Republicans and five Democrats - about Haley's performance as governor. (Republicans control both the House and Senate.

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