Baseball Falls to Clemson Sunday Afternoon

CLEMSON – The University of South Carolina baseball team fell, 7-2, to No. 15 Clemson Sunday afternoon (March 1) at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.

The Gamecocks got on the board first with a pair of runs in the top of the second. KJ Scobey singled to open the frame. He went to third on a Logan Sutter double to left. Both runs came home on Dawson Harman’s single. Clemson answered with a pair of runs in the bottom of the second, scoring on a wild pitch and an RBI groundout.

Clemson put up a two-spot in the third and made it 5-2 on a Ty Dalley solo home run. The Tigers scored a pair of unearned runs in the sixth on Tryston McCladdie’s two-run, two-out single.

Harman had two RBI to lead the Gamecock offense. Riley Goodman was tagged with the loss, allowing three runs in two-plus innings with a pair of strikeouts.

POSTGAME NOTES

• Josh Gunther earned the Tom Price Award after Sunday’s game. That award is handed out to the Most Valuable Player of the Clemson series.
• Josh Gregoire and Elijah Foster pitched the final 2.1 innings of hitless relief.
• Carolina pitching limited Clemson to a .198 batting average in the series.
• The combined attendance at the three venues from this past weekend was 23,400.

UP NEXT

South Carolina starts a five-game homestand on Tuesday night (March 3) as the Gamecocks host USC Upstate. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m. and the game will be streamed on SEC Network Plus.