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SEASIDE, California - Monterey Bay F.C. (3-2-3, 12 points) returns to action against Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC (2-2-4, 10 points) on Friday at 7 p.m. PT for Cinco de Mayo Night at Cardinale Stadium in Week 9 of the 2023 USL Championship regular season, presented by Taylor Farms. Friday's match will be broadcast locally via KION on FOX 35 (46.2 over the air, 35 Dish, 47 DirecTV and 3/702 HD Xfinity), with live streaming available on ESPN+.

Currently unbeaten in its last six matches in all competitions dating back to April 5, Monterey Bay F.C. comes into the match against Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC off the heels of a surprisingly scoreless result at home that yielded the Club's first clean sheet of the season in USL Championship league play. Friday's matchup between the Union and the Riverhounds will be the first-ever matchup between the two interconference opponents, and will also mark Alex Dixon's first match against the side he spent the 2021-2022 seasons with. Overall, Monterey Bay enters the weekend in sixth place in the Western Conference with hopes of climbing the table with three points at home.

"I've never played against Pittsburgh, but you hear a lot of stuff about them. So I think it's going to be a tough game, a 90 minute battle," said Monterey Bay F.C. defender Grant Robinson. "We're all really looking forward to it. I think there was a bit of a letdown from this past weekend. We didn't come out and show ourselves the way we had been showing the five games leading up to that, so we're going to really be looking to bounce back. We're going to come out quick and flying and create some excitement this weekend. It's going to be a good one for sure."

Monterey Bay F.C. vs. Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC

Cardinale Stadium; Seaside, California

Friday, May 5, 2023; 7:00 p.m. PT

FiveThirtyEight Predictor

MBFC 37%, PIT 33%, Draw 30%

2023 Records

Monterey Bay F.C. (3-2-3, 12 pts, 6th West); Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC (2-2-4, 10 pts, 5th East)

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CHARLOTTE — More like Dakereon’s Mayo Bowl.

A wrinkle always there but barely utilized for South Carolina was ironed into a stunning tapestry on Dec. 30 as North Charleston’s Dakereon Joyner, former S.C. Mr. Football as a high school quarterback who switched back and forth from QB to wide receiver throughout his career at USC, spearheaded an offensive attack that destroyed North Carolina in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl, 38-21.

The Gamecocks (7-6), substantial underdogs and missing 16 scholarship players due to opt-outs, transfers and COVID-19, were expected to show up, display the same feeble offense they have all season and have their defense be the last highlight in UNC QB Sam Howell’s NFL audition reel.

Instead, knowing supposed starting QB Zeb Noland couldn’t move very well and having no other proven option, embattled offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield turned to Joyner, figuring he could at least extend plays and burn clock. Joyner, always game to help however he can, nodded, “Sure.”

Then he gave Satterfield, who already has Oklahoma transfer Spencer Rattler, highly-rated freshman Tanner Bailey and the returning Luke Doty to compete for QB next year, another heavy consideration.

Joyner hadn’t thrown a ball in the past 23 games (Texas A&M, 2019). His first toss on Dec. 30 was a 69-yard bomb to Jaheim Bell, who caught it a step ahead of his man and hit the afterburners for a jaw-dropping touchdown. By the time the shocked Tar Heels recovered, USC led 18-0 and Bell had another 60-plus yard touchdown catch, this one thrown by Noland.

The burst was enough as Howell and the Tar Heels (6-7) never went away but never got closer than 11 points in the second half. Joyner, an alum of Fort Dorchester High, finished a glittering 9-of-9 passing for 160 yards and a touchdown, 10 carries for 64 yards, no turnovers, several crucial first-down sprints and more snaps than the man who was supposed to start over him. He was named the game’s MVP.

“It means everything to me. This is like a dream,” said Joyner, the fourth quarterback to start for USC this year, the most in a season since 1981. “I knew from the jump, the last two weeks, we knew what we were going to do.

“Never give up on your dreams. Adversity’s going to come, it’s just how you overcome it.”

As for Shane Beamer, just the second coach in school history to begin his Gamecocks tenure with a bowl win, the smile didn’t leave his face even after a celebratory postgame mayonnaise bath.

Preseason oddsmakers said USC would be fortunate to win four games. Instead, USC is 7-6, its first winning season in three years, and has an immense foundation for his resurrecting project.

“Everything that we said how we were going to win this football game is exactly how it happened. This is a special, special group,” Beamer said. “We were certainly shorthanded today. We didn’t sit around and feel sorry for ourselves.”

Satterfield’s flawless game plan was to keep the ball on the ground, let Joyner and tailback Kevin Harris handle it, and hopefully hit enough explosive plays early to make it count. The two Bell touchdowns plus a 30-yard field goal from Parker White, earning him the program’s career scoring record, did that and USC’s defense stepped into the spotlight.

Howell, who is expected to leave UNC early for the NFL, was merely decent, completing 12 of 20 passes for 205 yards and a touchdown. The Gamecocks sacked him four times.

Summerville native R.J. Roderick and All-American Jaylan Foster tied for the team lead with six tackles each, while Jordan Strachan had 1½ sacks.

Meanwhile, Harris returned to form with 182 rushing yards on 31 carries and a score, while Bell finished with five catches for 159 yards and the two scores. Previously anonymous receiver Ahmarean Brown caught four balls for 61 yards and Juju McDowell added 52 rushing yards and a score.

It was domination from a team that looked incapable of dominating considering the players it was without. Yet it defined what Beamer promised the day he took the job 12 months ago.

It will be better. And it won’t take as long as some may think.

“It’s a great statement about where we are. To win a bowl game, to go into the offseason with so much momentum, so much belief with our players, I can’t wait for them to go back and get right back to work,” Beamer said. “We had some setbacks, certainly. Every Sunday after a loss, you always worry, ‘What’s the mentality going to be?’ Every week, they came back to work.”

The celebratory images of Gatorade being dumped over a coach is synonymous with winning any big football game. It's tradition.

But things are different this year in college football. Coaches have been receiving some non-traditional baths after bowl games. Cheez-Its. French Fries. And now, mayonnaise.

South Carolina coach Shane Beamer received a mayonnaise bath — 4½ gallons of mayonnaise, to be exact — after his Gamecocks beat North Carolina 38-21 in the Duke's Mayo Bowl at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday.

His first thought after the game clock hit zero? "Honestly, I'm thinking, 'Oh my God, I have to go do this mayo bath now,' " Beamer said.

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He squeezed his eyes shut as they hoisted a yellow cooler full of Duke's mayonnaise over his head. He was hit in the head with the cooler before they poured its contents all over him, most of which landed on his hat.

"It hit me," Beamer said. "The cooler got me in the back of the head, then the mayo. It's awesome. It's a little heavy, for sure. I'm weighed here down in the back, but mayonnaise has never felt so good."

Beamer said he would retire his messy outfit for good.

"I think these are done," he said of his clothing. "They may go in some sort of Hall of Fame ... for the people back in Carolina. I don't think we will be wearing these anytime soon."

Beamer was presented with a $10,000 check to donate to his charity of choice for being such a good sport.

The Gamecocks won in part thanks to wide receiver Dakereon Joyner, who served as one of the shorthanded team's quarterbacks. He finished 9-of-9 passing for 160 yards and a touchdown and also ran for 64 yards.

Joyner was named the game's MVP and awarded a trophy, but he didn't get in on the mayo fun. He didn't mind. When asked about Beamer's mayo bath, Joyner said his coach "can have that."

COLUMBIA – By his own admission, Shane Beamer is not a big fan of mayonnaise.

So what would it take for the South Carolina football coach to get a mayo bath, in place of the standard dunking of Gatorade, at the Duke’s Mayo Bowl?

His Gamecocks (6-6) getting a win over North Carolina (6-6) would be the start of the conversation. Throw in $10,000 for charity?

That’s enough convincing for Beamer, a not-so-big fan of the condiment.

“I’m not a big mayonnaise guy,” Beamer said during his bowl game announcement news conference Sunday night. “I mean, I’ll gladly take one for the team on that one if it means we won a football game but woof.”

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USC will meet the Tar Heels at 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 30 in Charlotte at Bank of America Stadium in the Duke's Mayo Bowl. It's the first bowl game in three season for the Gamecocks and the first of the Beamer era.

Dan Morrison, the executive director of the bowl, revealed a couple of hours prior to Sunday's announcement of the South Carolina-North Carolina matchup that the bowl game would be offering up to $10,000 for a charity of the winning team’s choice if a Duke’s Mayo bath is administered after the game.

“I apologize for misleading you about the possibility of a Duke’s Mayo bath following last year’s bowl game,” Morrison said in a video posted on the bowl game’s social media account, where it is famously known for its humor and satire.

“But this year, we are offering $10,000 to the winning team’s charity of choice if Duke’s Mayo is dunked after the game.”

Fans, attendees and watchers of the Duke’s Mayo Bowl have been calling for a mayo bath since the company put its name on the bowl three seasons ago.

This year, they just may get their wish.

As of Tuesday, North Carolina football coach Mack Brown had not publicly stated where he stands on a potential dunking of mayonnaise.

Beamer, who was in uptown Charlotte on Monday night as the keynote speaker at the Bronco Nagurski Award banquet for college football’s top defensive player, doubled down on his initial statement about the mayo bath.

“One billion percent. If it means we win the football game, I’ll do whatever I have to do to win a football game,” Beamer said with a laugh. “It’ll be a big challenge. Coach Brown and North Carolina have a fantastic team.

“But I’ll take one for the team and do whatever I have to do to get a win.”

Cory Diaz covers the South Carolina Gamecocks for The Greenville News as part of the USA TODAY Network. Follow his work for all things Gamecocks on Twitter: @CoryDiaz_TGN

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — South Carolina coach Shane Beamer had a bucket of mayonnaise dumped over his head Thursday, putting a memorable and messy finish on the Gamecocks' 38-21 victory over North Carolina in the Duke's Mayo Bowl.

Jaheim Bell had five catches for 159 yards and two touchdowns for South Carolina (7-6), which rebounded nicely after it lost 30-0 to Clemson in its regular-season finale on Nov. 27. Kevin Harris added 169 yards rushing and a score, helping secure the mayo bath for Beamer.

Bell came into the game with 338 yards receiving and three TDs during the regular season, but figured prominently into the game plan early on.

The sophomore tight end got free for a 69-yard touchdown reception from wide receiver-turned-quarterback Dakereon Joyner and hauled in a 66-yard TD catch from former graduate assistant coach Zeb Noland on South Carolina's first two possessions.

Juju McDowell added a 35-yard TD run in the second quarter as South Carolina averaged 11.6 yards per play while opening a 25-13 lead in the first half.

Sam Howell threw for 205 yards and a touchdown for the Tar Heels (6-7), and reserve running back British Brooks had a bowl record 63-yard touchdown run for the Tar Heels.

South Carolina rotated Joyner and Noland under center, and both were effective.

Joyner came into the game having attempted only one pass this season and 31 in his college career.

But the element of surprise proved effective on the Gamecocks' first possession, when Joyner hit the 6-foot-3, 232-pound Bell in stride down the middle of the field.

Joyner finished 9-of-9 passing for 160 yards and also ran for 64 yards. Noland was 3-of-6 passing for 82 yards as the Gamecocks went nearly three quarters before their first incomplete pass.

Howell, a projected first-round pick in the NFL draft, made several impressive throws with his strong, accurate arm. But the junior quarterback spent most of the game under heavy duress playing behind an offensive line that struggled most of the season.

The Tar Heels cut the lead to 11 midway through the third quarter on a double-reverse flea flicker, with Howell finding a wide-open Garrett Walston for a 37-yard touchdown.

But South's Carolina's offense proved too much for a porous North Carolina defense as the Gamecocks racked up 543 yards on offense.

THE TAKEAWAY

South Carolina: The Gamecocks posted wins over Florida and Auburn this season in what was expected to be down season and now added a bowl win to the resume. Winning seven games was an encouraging sign that Beamer may finally have this once-proud program headed in the right direction. This is the first time since 2018 the Gamecocks have finished the season with a winning record.

North Carolina: The Tar Heels started the season ranked 10th in the country and finished the year with a losing record, so it's hard to describe this season as anything but a major disappointment. The defense needs major improvements and offensive line is in need of upgrades as well.

UP NEXT

South Carolina: There is plenty of excitement about the program moving forward. A lot of that has to do with former Oklahoma quarterback Spencer Rattler's decision to transfer to South Carolina.

North Carolina: With Howell expected to move on to the NFL, the Tar Heels will look to either Jacolby Criswell or Drake Maye to inherit the quarterback spot. Maye is a native of nearby Huntersville, North Carolina, and the younger brother of former UNC basketball star Luke Maye.