Baseball . April 11, 2024

Baseball Faces Florida in Gainesville This Weekend

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FOR STARTERS

South Carolina visits Condron Family Ballpark in Gainesville, Fla., for a three-game series at No. 24 Florida April 12-14.
Friday’s game starts at 6:30 p.m., with Saturday and Sunday’s games at 4 and 12 p.m., respectively.
Friday and Saturday’s games will be streamed on SEC Network Plus.
Sunday’s game will be on SEC Network with Derek Jones and Lance Cormier on the call.
All three games also will be on the Gamecock Sports Network presented by Learfield with Derek Scott and Stuart Lake on the call.

SCOUTING FLORIDA

The Gators head into the weekend with a 17-15 overall record and an identical 6-6 conference mark to the Gamecocks.
Florida fell 19-4 at Florida State on Tuesday night. Jac Caglianone hit his 17th home run of the season in the loss.
The Gators have SEC series wins over Texas A&M, LSU and Mississippi State this season.
Caglianone is leading Florida with a .397 batting average to go along with the 17 home runs and 35 RBI.
Ty Evans is hitting .339 with 24 RBI and Colby Shelton has 15 home runs and 32 RBI.
Caglianone is 3-0 on the mound with a 3.67 ERA and 44 strikeouts in 34.1 innings pitched.
Kevin O’Sullivan is in his 17th season at UF and has led the Gators to eight College World Series and a national title in 2017.

SERIES VS. FLORIDA

Carolina holds a 54-53 series advantage on Florida heading into this weekend’s series.
The Gamecocks and Gators played five times last season with Carolina sweeping the regular-season series in Columbia and Florida taking both games of the Gainesville Super Regional.
The two teams have played each other nine times in the past two seasons.
In the three-game sweep last April, Ethan Petry was 5-for-11 with two home runs and eight RBI, while Matthew Becker struck out six in five innings to earn a win.

GAMECOCKS WIN CAROLINA BATTLE

Carolina picked up a 2-1 win over No. 13 North Carolina on April 9 in Charlotte.
The Gamecocks scored runs in the third and eighth frames and held UNC to six hits on the night.
Dylan Brewer, who was 3-for-4 on the night, had a big RBI double in the eighth inning that scored Talmadge LeCroy and put Carolina up for good.
Roman Kimball and Connor McCreery struck out five Tar Heels apiece in relief. McCreery earned the win, going the last 2.1 innings, allowing just one hit.

GAMECOCKS LEAD THE NATION IN WALKS

Carolina has drawn 235 walks in 33 games this season, which leads the country in free passes. The Gamecocks lead second place Texas A&M by three walks.
Ethan Petry leads the team with 31 walks, which is tied for fourth in the SEC.
The Gamecocks walked 18 times in the 22-6 win over Longwood on March 10. It’s the most dating back to 2005 (first year of game-by-game stats available).
Carolina is averaging 7.12 walks per game.

PETRY: 30 FOR 3(6)

Sophomore Ethan Petry hit a home run in the 6-5 win over Texas A&M which was his 36th career round tripper.
Petry is now in a tie for 13th place on Carolina’s all-time home runs list and is the 29th Gamecock to hit 30 or more home runs in a career.
The last player to achieve that feat was Braylen Wimmer (2020-23), who had 32 career home runs. Wes Clarke (2019-21) also had 32 home runs in his Gamecock career.
Petry is tied with Derick Urquhart (1995-98) for 13th place. He is two back of Eric Stanton (1996-98) for the 12th spot.

GOOD GREAT VS. TEXAS A&M

Fifth year senior Ty Good pitched a season high 5.2 innings of relief April 6 vs. Texas A&M, striking out six and allowing just two hits and an unearned run.
Good is now 4-0 with a 1.93 ERA and has 35 strikeouts in 28 innings pitched.
Good now has 29 career wins with 309 strikeouts between the College of Charleston and South Carolina.

BECKER SHINES IN SUNDAY WIN

Junior Matthew Becker struck out a season high eight batters in a four-inning start in a 6-5 win over Texas A&M on April 7.
Becker did not allow a walk while giving up five hits and a run as the Gamecocks picked up the one-run win.
This season, Becker is 4-1 with a 3.38 ERA and 37 strikeouts in 26.2 innings pitched.
Becker now has made 49 appearances in his Carolina career with 10 wins and 176 strikeouts.

MILESTONE CENTRAL

Head Coach Mark Kingston earned his 200th win at South Carolina in the Presbyterian game on March 26. Kingston now has 203 wins at Carolina and 476 wins overall.
Ethan Petry recorded his 100th career RBI in the Presbyterian win. Petry now has 106 RBI in only 95 career games.
Cole Messina recorded his 100th career hit at Carolina March 26 vs. Presbyterian. Messina now has 108 hits, joining Talmadge LeCroy (104) and Ethan Petry (118) in the 100-hit club at Carolina.
Ty Good recorded his 300th career strikeout March 30 at Alabama. Good has 309 strikeouts between the College of Charleston and Carolina.
Kennedy Jones and Parker Noland both are in the 200-hit club in college. Jones has 209 hits between UNC Greensboro and Carolina while Noland has 218 hits between Vanderbilt and Carolina.

PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUP
Friday
South Carolina Eli Jones (Jr. RHP) 2-1, 3.89 ERA, 39.1 IP, 10 BB, 32 K
Florida Brandon Neely (Jr. RHP) 1-0, 5.18 ERA, 24.1 IP, 13 BB, 34 K

Saturday
South Carolina Ty Good (5th RHP) 4-0, 1.93 ERA, 28.0 IP, 11 BB, 35 K
Florida TBA

Sunday
South Carolina Matthew Becker (Jr. LHP) 4-1, 3.38 ERA, 26.2 IP, 6 BB, 37 K
Florida Jac Caglianone (Jr. LHP) 3-0, 3.67 ERA, 34.1 IP, 25 BB, 44 K

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