All-Around Performance Lifts Baseball at The Citadel

CHARLESTON – Jarvis Evans Jr. struck out six in seven innings of work and the University of South Carolina baseball team used early power and 13 hits to defeat The Citadel, 9-1, Wednesday night (March 5) at Riley Park.

Carolina used the long ball in the first three frames to jump out to a 3-0 lead. Ethan Petry hit a two-run home run to left center, scoring Evan Stone, who reached on an error. Stone then hit a solo shot in the third to left field.

After The Citadel plated a run in the third, Carolina bounced right back with two in the fourth as Henry Kaczmar’s triple scored Beau Hollins and Nathan Hall’s RBI single brought in Kaczmar.

The Gamecocks put up a three-spot in the eighth on a Kaczmar RBI groundout and run-scoring doubles from Stone and Petry. Carolina ended the scoring on a Jordan Carrion RBI groundout in the ninth.

Petry had three hits with three RBI while Hollins added three hits and two runs scored. Stone had two hits, three runs scored and two RBI and Hal added a pair of hits.

Evans allowed just three hits and a run in his seven innings of work to improve to 2-0 on the season.

POSTGAME NOTES

• Petry now has 48 career home runs and is tied for second with Hank Small (1972-75) on Carolina’s all-time home run list. Petry is 14 home runs away from tying Justin Smoak (2006-08) for the all-time mark.
• Stone also hit a home run in the fall game against College of Charleston at Riley Park.
• Attendance at Riley Park was 4,937.
• Evans set a career high with seven innings pitched. His previous high was 5.1 while with Georgia against Missouri on April 11, 2024.
• Charleston native Zach Russell pitched a scoreless eighth inning in the win.

UP NEXT
Carolina opens a three-game series with Morehead State on Friday night (March 7) at 7 p.m. at Ray Tanner Field at Founders Park. The game will be streamed on SEC Network Plus.