An unblemished six-game homestand pushed the Gamecocks into a first-place tie atop the SEC East with No. 15 Florida last week. Three games and two losses later, No. 5 South Carolina finds itself in the same situation entering this week.
If the dramatics against Tennessee were enough for Gamecock baseball fans, they weren’t for one of the heroes of this past weekend’s series.
When Joey Pankake’s two-out fly ball was soaring towards the glove of Tennessee’s Vincent Jackson, the game was over. But the right fielder dropped it.
Freshman starting pitcher Wil Crowe has built a team-leading 5-0 record in his first year with the South Carolina baseball team and, according to head coach Chad Holbrook, he’s well on his way to a spot on the Freshman All-America team.
Sophomore Evan Beal took the mound for the first time this season in Wednesday night’s 4-0 win over Coastal Carolina. For Beal, it was the final step in a long road to recovery after sitting out parts of preseason practice and the regular season due to a lingering back problem.
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.
Two days after losing its first series of the season, No. 2 South Carolina will return home to the friendly confines of Carolina Stadium to open up a six-game home stand.
In its first road trip of the season over the weekend, the South Carolina baseball team would find itself longing for the comforts of home after dropping its first series of the season at Kentucky.
After defending its No. 1 ranking with a series victory over Ole Miss last weekend, the South Carolina baseball team will play its first conference series on the road this weekend.
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.