Baseball Defeats College of Charleston Tuesday at Segra Park

COLUMBIA – The University of South Carolina baseball team scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning in a 4-3 win over the College of Charleston Tuesday night (March 18) at Segra Park, home of the Columbia Fireflies.

The Cougars got the first out of the seventh but Nathan Hall and Evan Stone reached on back-to-back singles. After a walk and a fielder’s choice got the second out, Kennedy Jones and Dalton Mashore walked to tie the game at three. The winning run came home on a balk that scored KJ Scobey.

Scobey brought in the game’s first run in the first with an RBI single to left. The Cougars answered with a run in the second and scored two in the top of the seventh. Ryder Garino came in the game in the seventh and struck out the side, keeping it at 3-1 CofC.

Garino earned the win on the mound for Carolina, striking out four in 1.2 innings of work. Parker Marlatt earned his first save, striking out three in 1.1 innings. Jarvis Evans gave Carolina a quality start, striking out five and allowing five hits and a run in six innings.

Stone had two hits to lead the Carolina offense.

POSTGAME NOTES

• The Gamecocks and Cougars played for the first time since the 2018 season, with that game also at Segra Park.
• Hall extended his hitting streak to 12 games.
• Gavin Braland returned to the Carolina lineup after missing the previous two weeks to injury.

UP NEXT
Carolina starts a three-game series at No. 3 Arkansas on Friday night (March 21) at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time. The game will be streamed on SEC Network Plus from Baum-Walker Stadium.