Baseball Falls to North Carolina in Charlotte
CHARLOTTE – No. 21 North Carolina broke an 8-all tie with five runs in the eighth in a 13-8 win over the University of South Carolina baseball team Tuesday night (March 25) at Truist Field.
Carolina tied the game at eight in the seventh with a Beau Hollins double that scored Blake Jackson. North Carolina took the lead with a Luke Stevenson two-run home run and added three more runs in the frame.
The Gamecocks went up 2-0 on solo home runs from Nathan Hall and Ethan Petry. Carolina made it 3-1 in the second on Hall’s sacrifice fly. North Carolina scored three runs in the third, one in the fourth and three more in the sixth, but Carolina rallied with four runs in the bottom of the sixth. The big hit in that inning was a two-run double to right by Henry Kaczmar.
Zach Russell took the loss for the Gamecocks, allowing three runs on two hits. Offensively, Hall had three RBI while Petry, Hollins and Kaczmar had two hits apiece.
POSTGAME NOTES
- Hall extended his hit streak to 16 games.
- Petry hit his 50th career home run with a solo shot in the first. He’s now 12 home runs away from tying Justin Smoak for Carolina’s all-time home run list.
- The Gamecocks threw 12 pitchers on the night.
- The loss snapped a three-game winning streak against North Carolina.
UP NEXT
Carolina starts a three-game SEC home series with No. 1 Tennessee on Friday night (March 28). First pitch is set for 7 p.m., and the game will be streamed on SEC Network Plus.
