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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Ticker) -- Seventeen games and counting. Clint Stoerner passed for 168 yards and three touchdowns as Arkansas handed South Carolina its 17th straight loss with a 48-14 rout in a Southeastern Conference battle. Arkansas (4-2, 1-2 SEC West) raced out to a 24-0 lead after the first quarter and cruised to its second straight blowout, one week after a 58-6 pasting of Middle Tennessee. South Carolina (0-7, 0-5 East) saw its school-record losing streak increase as first-year coach Lou Holtz remained winless. He will suffer his first losing season since his inagural campaign at Notre Dame in 1986 when the Irish were 5-6. Stoerner threw all three scoring passes in the opening period, including a 41-yarder to Michael Williams less than three minutes into the contest. Stoerner increased his school record to 49 touchdown passes. Anthony Lucas and Nathan Norman also caught scoring passes in the opening period for Arkansas, which improved to 9-0 at home under coach Houston Nutt and 5-3 all-time against South Carolina. Michael Jenkins rushed for 69 yards on 10 carries, including a 1-yard plunge late in the third quarter for a 45-7 Arkansas lead. Tony Dodson booted his second field goal, a 48-yarder, early in the fourth quarter for a 31-point bulge. Freshman Mikal Goodman came on in relief of Kevin Sides and threw a nine-yard scoring pass to Jermale Kelly with 65 seconds left to close the scoring. Sides completed just 6-of-25 passes for 48 yards and Goodman was 4-of-6 for 30 yards. The 17 points were the most the Gamecocks have scored this season.
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