COLUMBIA, S.C. — The University of South Carolina baseball team starts a four-game road trip this Tuesday as the Gamecocks visit Fluor Field for a 7 p.m. contest against Furman.

The Furman game will be streamed on the SoCon Digital Network. Every game will be on the IMG Gamecock Radio Network with Derek Scott and Tommy Moody on the call.

South Carolina swept No. 19 LSU this past weekend, scoring 30 runs in the three games and capped the series with a come-from-behind, 8-6 win on Sunday.

SCOUTING FURMAN

> Furman took the series finale from VMI, another Carolina opponent, with a 19-1 win as the Paladins had 22 hits, four from Bret Huebner, and scored 15 runs in the game’s first three innings. Ben Anderson leads Furman with a .386 batting average and has 10 doubles on the season. Brandon Elmy has the team lead in home runs with seven while Jason Costa has collected 30 RBI. The Paladins will send righthander Jake Crawford on the bump. Crawford has a pair of saves and also is hitting .268 with 22 RBI this season.

SERIES VS. FURMAN

> South Carolina has a 115-62-1 series advantage on Furman, but the Paladins won the first meeting between the two teams this season, winning 6-4 in Columbia on Feb. 27. Madison Stokes had two hits, including a home run, while Carlos Cortes drove in two runs on a longball. Carmen Mlodzinski, who will start on Tuesday night, struck out three in 2.1 innings of relief.

PROBABLE PITCHING ROTATION

Tuesday
South Carolina Carmen Mlodzinski (Fr. RHP) 1-4, 3.47 ERA, 23.1 IP, 11 BB, 20 SO
Furman Jake Crawford (Jr., RHP) 1-1, 7.80 ERA, 15.0 IP, 12 BB, 15 SO

GAMECOCKS BREAK OUT THE BROOMS AGAINST LSU

> South Carolina outscored No. 19 LSU 30-10 and hit .355 with 13 extra-base hits in a three-game sweep April 20-22. Carolina earned its first-ever sweep over LSU in Columbia and third sweep overall. The Gamecocks swept the Tigers in back-to-back years in 2005 and 2006 in Baton Rouge. Logan Chapman helped the Gamecocks to an 11-0 win on Friday, striking out six in 6.2 innings pitched. TJ Hopkins also had a big week, hitting .467 with six RBI in his return to action from injury. Carolina picked up its third shutout of the season in Friday’s win. In fact, Carolina held LSU without a run for the first 16.1 innings of the series. It was Carolina’s third series sweep in 2018 and second in conference play (Tennessee on March 29-31).

CHAPMAN NAMED SEC CO-FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK

> Logan Chapman was named the Southeastern Conference’s Baseball Co-Freshman of the Week, it was announced Monday afternoon (April 23). Chapman helped the Gamecocks to a sweep of No. 19 LSU this past weekend. Chapman, who made his second career SEC start, shut out the Tigers on Friday night in an 11-0 win, striking out six and allowing just two hits, one that got out of the infield, with six strikeouts and a pair of walks. He set a career-high with 6.2 innings pitched and tied a career high with the six punchouts. After hitting the first batter of the game, Chapman settled down to retire the next seven batters.

ROW STEPPING UP IN SEC PLAY

> Senior Justin Row leads the Gamecocks with a .360 batting average in conference play and he stepped up big in the 8-6 win over LSU on April 22. Row made a brilliant play in the field for the third out of the first inning. He then tied the game at six in the seventh frame with a two-run home run. Row has 18 hits in SEC play with two doubles, a home run, five RBI and a .411 on-base percentage.

WHAT A COMEBACK!

> Carolina fell behind LSU, 6-0, on April 22, but responded with eight unanswered runs in the 8-6 win. The Gamecocks scored four runs in the sixth to get back in the game. Then in the seventh, Justin Row homered to left to tie the contest. LT Tolbert had the game winner, a two-run single in the eighth. Carolina picked up its third win this season when trailing entering the seventh.