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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Will Muschamp had no worries about sending Elliott Fry out for the longest field goal of his career. Even though this was the coachs first game with South Carolina, he had seen the kicker connect repeatedly in clutch situations.Fry kicked a career-long 55-yard field goal with 35 seconds left, and the South Carolina Gamecocks rallied from a 10-point halftime deficit to beat Vanderbilt 13-10 Thursday night in Muschamps debut as head coach.I had total confidence, Muschamp said.So did senior quarterback Perry Orth.Ive been here the same amount of time as Elliott, Orth said. Ive seen him make those in practice. Hes made a few clutch kicks in games. I knew if we got the ball close to the 35 and in, wed have a chance.Muschamp started Orth at quarterback and also played freshman Brandon McIlwain. But it was Orth who went back into the game in the third quarter and threw for 152 yards rallying the Gamecocks to their eighth straight victory over Vanderbilt in the Southeastern Conference opener for both teams.Vanderbilt now is 0-3 in season openers under coach Derek Mason, though his Commodores did manage to score an offensive touchdown in the first half. But Tommy Openshaw missed a 45-yard field goal wide left with 3:44 left, and Vandy turned it over on downs with 14 seconds left.Every decision we made will be questioned, Mason said. The bottom line is we didnt win this game. Now we have to get back to next week and play MTSU.Fry also kicked a 48-yard field goal in the third quarter, and Deebo Samuel atoned for a fumbled punt in the first quarter by scoring an 8-yard TD on an end-around with 7:30 left. Fry had total confidence he could connect from 55 after barely coming up short from 62 in warmups.I knew I could hit it, said Fry, whose previous long was 52 yards.TAKEAWAYSSouth Carolina: The second half was a complete turnaround from the first with the Gamecocks nearly pinning themselves deep on the opening kickoff before officials ruled the returner had knelt down for the touchback. McIlwain took over at the beginning of the second quarter after Orth managed 23 yards of offense in the first.Muschamp said the plan coming in had been to get McIlwain into the game early. But McIlwain lost a fumble, so the coach went back to Orth. The senior was 6 of 8 for 117 yards in the second half as the Gamecocks gained 220 yards on offense.Vanderbilt: The Commodores got their hands on lots of passes defensively but couldnt pick off even one despite that being an area of focus this season. They forced two fumbles but couldnt get off the field in the second half.COOPERS REPLACEMENT: The Gamecocks might have been wondering who would replace Pharoh Cooper, now with the Los Angeles Rams in the NFL. Freshman Bryan Edwards did his best to step up, pulling in catch after catch. His best was a 43-yarder, and he finished with eight receptions for 101 yards in his first game. Hes that kind of talent, and hes going to be huge for us the rest of the season, Orth said.QB ISSUESSouth Carolina knew it had questions at quarterback with Muschamp unable to pick between his trio. Mason had said repeatedly before the opener that Kyle Shurmur was his starter with Wade Freebeck the backup. But Vandy brought in Freebeck the drive after the Commodores scored a TD to go up 10-0. Freebeck was in for two consecutive drives and managed 1 yard over six plays. The switch had fans wondering what happened and was reminiscent of quarterback struggles in recent years.It was predetermined, Mason said. We needed to get Wade a series or two ... Kyle needed to find more rhythm. He didnt have rhythm. We needed to make some plays. We wanted to find momentum.UP NEXTSouth Carolina: The Gamecocks visit Mississippi State, a team theyve beaten seven straight games, on Sept. 10.Vanderbilt: The Commodores host Middle Tennessee looking for a second straight victory over a school 40 miles away. MTSU won three straight before Vanderbilt ended that skid a year ago.Wholesale Jordan Retro 12 . PETERSBURG, Fla. Jordan 12 Clearance Ireland . Numbers Game looks into the Canadiens securing the services of Thomas Vanek in a trade with the New York Islanders. The Canadiens Get: LW Thomas Vanek and a conditional fifth-round pick. http://www.cheapairjordan12ireland.com/ .com) - Following a late-game loss to the reigning NBA champs, the Toronto Raptors will look to sustain their recent high-level play as they travel to Indiana to take on the Pacers. Jordan 12 Online Store Ireland . 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Wally Hammond had taken just 11 innings to aggregate 1000 runs against New Zealand. Javed Miandad had done so in 13 innings.2005 The last time South Africas openers put up a bigger partnership than their 133-run stand in this innings in Tests at home. Graeme Smith and AB de Villiers had added 217 runs in South Africas first innings of the Cape Town Test against Zimbabwe. Since then the stand in this match is only the fifth hundred stand by South Africas openers in 90 innings in Tests. This was also South Africas first century stand for their first wicket in 35 innings since Smith and Alviro Petersen added 103 in the first innings in Durban in 2013-14.2012 Last time before this both South Africa openers made fifty-plus runs in a Test innings. Graeme Smith and Alviro Petersen had made 122 and 54 in the famous Adelaide Test. The last such instance for them in home Tests had come in 2010-11, against India at the same venue, when Smith and Petersen made fifties in South Africas first innings.238.00 Quinton de Kocks batting average in Tests at the SuperSport Park. This was the first time he was dismissed at this venue in Tests from four innings. Before his 82 in this innings he had hit an unbeaten century against England in January this year. In seven Tests elsewhere de Kock has made 284 runs at an average of 28.40. He has made 522 runs in Tests at an average of 47.45.4 Consecutive fifty-plus scoress for Amla in Centurion.dddddddddddd He has made 1201 runs at an average of 85.78 at this venue and has hit five hundreds and six fifties in just 15 innings. Amlas sequence of four such scores is the second longest by a batsman in Centurion. De Villiers had a sequence of five fifty-plus scores at this venue between 2009 and 2014.2014 The last time before this JP Duminy hit a fifty in Tests, which was against Zimbabwe in Harare. In 11 innings since then Duminy had scored only 157 runs at an average of 15.70.397 The lowest a team had scored in the first innings of the previous four Tests at this venue. Australia had won that Test by a margin of 281 runs in 2013-14. Each of the four Tests had been won by teams batting first. The hosts themselves had put up scores of 418, 409, 552 for 5d and 475 the last four times they had batted first in a Test at this venue. Kane Williamson went against the numbers by asking the hosts to bat first in this Test.2010 The last time before this innings each of South Africas top-four batsmen hit at least 50 runs in a Test innings. That instance too had come in Centurion where South Africas top five had made two fifties and three hundreds in their first innings against India. Overall, this is only the ninth such instance for South Africa.22 Overs bowled by Neil Wagner on the first day of the Test. He was the most economical of the New Zealand bowlers, giving away only 51 runs, and took the wickets of de Kock and Amla. Wagner has been the most successful bowler for the visitors so far on tour, taking five wickets at an average of 19.60. The other New Zealand pacers have taken six wickets at an average of 62.83. ' ' '