Good morning. You voted for it, and now it’s official: the first Gamecock Athletics Photo of the Week for the year is in!

What else is mixed in today’s Brew? ⤵️

🌟 An overnight star
🏐 Block party
🤙 And much, much more

🎥 GAMECOCKS+

CockTales & Sandstorms. It’s home opener time! South Carolina is under the lights at Willy B on Saturday night and to get ready, we’ve got another episode of The CockTale Hour with Jay Philips and Bill Gunter streaming tonight at 8 p.m. ET.

As a reminder, the live 8 p.m. streams of The CockTale Hour are always free for everyone; subscribers can catch the replay on-demand on Gamecocks+ anytime.

Grab your cocktails and settle in for some CockTales as we gear up for the first Sandstorm of 2023!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 An Overnight Star. Senior Bowl executive director Jim Nagy loved what he saw from Spencer Rattler on Saturday night.

“He’s got nice feel in the pocket, he got out of there a bunch,” Nagy said. “(He) put a ton of NFL throws on tape in that game that scouts are going to love. It’s the compromised pocket into tight windows. He was doing all that stuff and he lost arguably his best receiver in Juice Wells in the first half. He kind of turned Xavier Legette into an overnight star, he played his butt off the other night.”

And speaking of the Rattler-to-Legette connection, Legette landed on PFF’s Week 1 Team of the Week after his nine-catch, 178-yard explosion on Saturday night.

🔼 Block Party. Senior Ellie Ruprich earned SEC Defensive Player of the Week honors after posting 25 total blocks in South Carolina volleyball’s wins over Clemson, Miami, and Troy. Ruprich averaged 1.92 blocks per set en route to earning the fourth weekly award of her career.

🔼 Run Wild. We’ve got yet another Gamecock grabbing recognition from the SEC! Judy Kosgei earned SEC Women’s Runner of the Week honors after setting a new school record in the 5K over the weekend. She’s the first person to earn SEC Women’s Runner of the Week since Heather Stone did it in 2018.

🔼 Folds Of Honor. Gamecock men’s golf is in second place after two days at the Folds of Honor Collegiate. South Carolina is three shots off the pace 36 holes in with 18 more to go today. The final round gets underway at 8:30am ET; you can catch some of the live action on the Golf Channel.

🤔 GAMECOCK TRIVIA

Nothing Past Her. In honor of Ellie Ruprich’s weekly award, do you know who owns the Gamecock record for most total blocks in a career in the Garnet & Black?

Think you have it? Scroll down to the bottom of this email for the right answer!

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📬 THE WEEK AHEAD

Wednesday 9/6

⛳ Men’s Golf @ Folds of Honor Collegiate

Thursday 9/7

⚽ Women’s Soccer vs.  North Carolina @ 7:00pm ET

Friday 9/8

🏐 Volleyball @ Cincinnati @ 6:00pm ET

⚽ Men’s Soccer vs. Queens University Charlotte @ 7:00pm ET

Saturday 9/9

🏐 Volleyball @ Cincinnati @ 1:30pm ET

🏈 Football vs. Furman @ 7:30pm ET

Sunday 9/10

⚽ Women’s Soccer @ Furman @ 6:00pm ET

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Stephanie Pflughaupt posted 725 total blocks from 1986-89.

🤙 Have a good Wednesday, y’all.