Baseball . February 23, 2025

Baseball Run-Rules Milwaukee to Complete Three-Game Sweep

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COLUMBIA – The University of South Carolina baseball team completed a three-game sweep of Milwaukee with a 14-4, 8-inning win on Sunday afternoon (Feb. 23) at Ray Tanner Field at Founders Park. The Gamecocks moved to 8-0 on the year with the victory.

Carolina scored multiple runs in four of its eight frames. They started with a three-run first on RBI doubles by Blake Jackson and Ethan Petry and a Nolan Nawrocki sacrifice fly. Milwaukee answered in the second on a three-run home run from Thomas Otto, but the Gamecocks took the lead for good in the bottom of the second on Petry’s RBI groundout.

Nawrocki belted his first home run as a Gamecock in the third. Then in the fourth, Carolina scored on a pair of wild pitches and a Ryan Bakes groundout.

Bakes homered to center field in the sixth, part of a four-run frame that included Beau Hollins’ first RBI single in his career. Carolina ended the game in the eighth on an RBI double from Will Tippett and a throwing error plating Hollins.

Tippett went 4-for-5 with an RBI and two runs scored. Nawrocki and Petry had two hits and two RBI apiece and Bakes drove in three runs.

On the mound, Ashton Crowther earned the win in relief, striking out three in two innings. Jake McCoy had eight strikeouts in four innings, allowing two hits and three runs with three walks. Copper Parks and Aydin Palmer each made their first appearance in a Gamecock uniform with Palmer striking out the side in the eighth.

POSTGAME NOTES

Nawrocki now has four sacrifice flies on the year.
Carolina has stolen 17 bases in eight wins this season.
Tippett had a career high four hits in the win. His previous career high was three against Georgia on May 23, 2023 in the SEC Tournament.
Eight of the Gamecocks nine starters had at least one hit in the win.
The Gamecocks are 8-0 to start the year for the second time in the last three seasons.

UP NEXT
Carolina wraps up its homestand on Tuesday night (Feb. 25) against Gardner-Webb. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m., and the game will be streamed on SEC Network Plus.