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Clay Whittemore becomes the ninth baseball player in the JSU Athletics Hall of Fame and the first from the Jim Case era after a stellar three-year career with the Gamecocks. The Cullman, Ala., product helped guide the Gamecocks to two Ohio Valley Conference championships and a berth in the 2006 NCAA Regionals in Tuscaloosa. A three-time All-OVC recipient after spending his freshman season at Georgia, he also earned OVC All-Tournament honors in all three seasons with the Gamecocks. His walk-off, two-run double in the bottom of the ninth inning that lifted Jax State over top seed Samford to win the 2006 tournament crown and a berth in the NCAA Regionals earned him Tournament MVP honors. In 2007, he led the OVC with 93 hits en route to his first of back-to-back OVC Player of the Year Awards and became JSU's first Division I baseball All-American after being tabbed a Louisville Slugger All-American that season. As a senior, he belted a team-high eight home runs to lead JSU to the OVC regular-season title with a 23-4 conference mark. He still ranks fourth in school history with 256 hits and fifth with 175 RBIs.
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