It was a chilly night Tuesday when the South Carolina baseball team took on the College of Charleston. But the Gamecocks didn’t seem to mind the cold as they cruised to a 4-2 victory over the Cougars.
It took 17 games for the No. 1 Gamecocks to pick up their first loss of the season, but the inevitable happened Friday as the South Carolina baseball team fell to No. 12 Ole Miss.
Starting your season on the road against a team that has already played 12 games immediately puts you at a disadvantage.
After sweeping rival Clemson over the weekend, the Gamecock baseball team fought through the cold to win both meetings of a two-game homestand against Stetson on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The South Carolina baseball team held on to its undefeated record Tuesday afternoon, as they dominated Stetson, winning 7-1.
Kyle Martin trotted home in the bottom of the eighth after another wild pitch found its way to the backstop. The chants started growing in volume, undeniable to anyone in Carolina Stadium.
It wasn’t the way the No. 3 Gamecocks have grown accustomed to winning this season, but ultimately South Carolina worked out the hiccups in their starting pitching to pull away from No. 11 Clemson, 9-6.
No matter what sport the two schools are playing, South Carolina and Clemson continue to prove that garnet and orange don’t mix. And when they renew their series on the baseball diamond this weekend, the stakes will be higher than ever, with both the Gamecocks and the Tigers in the top-15.
Behind a few dominant pitching performances, the South Carolina baseball team completed a three-game sweep of Eastern Kentucky in which the Gamecocks allowed no runs across the entire weekend.
After playing Bucknell and Presbyterian in the first week of the season, it’s not too surprising that the South Carolina baseball team is unbeaten after four contests.
A double down the third base line by Conner Bright that plated teammate Grayson Greiner proved to be all that the No. 5 Gamecocks needed to power past Presbyterian College, as they picked up their fourth win of the season Tuesday, 4-0.
Entering his second year as head coach, Chad Holbrook claims he is getting more sleep than he was before last season, his first at the helm of the team.
Gamecock fans should expect a variety of names to contribute in the outfield this season on the South Carolina baseball team.
The South Carolina baseball team’s pitching staff last season took the nation as well as themselves by surprise. But as quickly as they burst onto the scene, they were gone, with the likes of Nolan Belcher, Tyler Webb and Adam Westmoreland graduating out of the program.
This time last year, South Carolina head baseball coach Chad Holbrook could go into town with relative certainty that he wouldn’t be stopped by a random passerby.
While the rest of Columbia was thawing out after an uncharacteristically icy week, the South Carolina baseball team was coming out of the gates hot with a three-game sweep of Bucknell to open the season.
Baseball earns 2 dominant wins to open season After postponing Friday’s season opener due to unfavorable weather, the Gamecocks got their 2014 campaign underway with a doubleheader Saturday.