Before the record-breaker, late heroics helped USC's Gene Cone keep hitting streak alive
COLUMBIA — It could have ended at Vanderbilt, where he twice needed singles in his final at-bat to keep it going. It could have ended against College of Charleston, where it was saved by a ninth-inning rally. And it threatened to flatline at Georgia, where Gene Cone belted a two-out, two-run homer in the top of the ninth to keep it alive.