Baseball Travels to Charlotte to Face North Carolina

FOR STARTERS

• Carolina travels up I-77 to Truist Field in Charlotte, N.C., for a 7 p.m. first pitch against No. 21 North Carolina.
• The game will be streamed on SEC Network Plus.
• Tuesday’s game also will be on the Gamecock Sports Network presented by Learfield with Derek Scott and Stuart Lake on the call.

PROBABLE PITCHING ROTATION
Tuesday
South Carolina Brendan Sweeney (Jr. RHP) 0-2, 9.00 ERA, 8.0 IP, 7 BB, 12 SO
North Carolina Cam Padgett (Jr. RHP) 2-1, 4.76 ERA, 17.0 IP, 5 BB, 12 SO

SCOUTING NORTH CAROLINA

• The Tar Heels won 2-of-3 games at Boston College this past weekend, including winning Sunday’s game, 10-0, in seven innings.
• Aidan Haugh allowed just one hit in seven innings on Sunday while Hunter Stokely was 3-for-5 with three RBI in the win.
• Stokely leads UNC with a .374 batting average, nine home runs and 30 RBI.
• On the mound, Hough is 3-2 with a 1.93 ERA and 43 strikeouts in 32.2 innings pitched.
• Scott Forbes is in his fifth season as head coach at North Carolina. He has led the Tar Heels to four NCAA Tournament bids and a trip to the 2024 College World Series.

SERIES VS. NORTH CAROLINA

• North Carolina leads the all-time series, 64-40-1, heading into Tuesday’s contest.
• South Carolina has won the last three meetings in Charlotte. The Gamecocks picked up a 2-1 win last year. Dylan Brewer had three hits and Roman Kimball struck out five in the win.
• The two teams have faced each other in Charlotte in each of the last eight meetings. Each team has won four games in those eight contests. 

HALL OF HITTING

• Junior Nathan Hall continues to lead the Gamecocks at the plate this season.
• Hall has a .404 batting average, good for ninth in the SEC, to go along with three home runs and 20 RBI.
• Hall is slugging at a .574 clip and is reaching base 48.2 percent of the time.
• Hall leads the team with seven steals and has added seven doubles.
• In Sunday’s game against Arkansas, Hall led off the game with a home run and had three hits on the day.
• It was the first time a Gamecock led off a game with a home run since Will McGillis in the 2023 Gainesville Super Regional.
• Hall carries a 15-game hitting streak and an 18-game reached base streak into Tuesday’s game.

EVANS REMAINS PERFECT IN 2025

• Junior Jarvis Evans is a perfect 3-0 with a 3.42 ERA and 27 strikeouts in 26.1 innings pitched this season.
• He went six innings in a 4-3 win over the College of Charleston on March 18, striking out five and allowing just one run.
• Evans had a spot start in Sunday’s game against Arkansas, pitching three innings and allowing two runs.
• Evans has the longest outing by innings this season, going seven strong at The Citadel on March 5.

BATS SHINE IN OKLAHOMA SERIES

• Carolina hit .336 in the three games against Oklahoma and are only behind Arkansas in conference batting average after one weekend.
• The Gamecocks had 14 hits in Saturday’s 11-6 win over Oklahoma. Kennedy Jones had three of those hits, including a monster home run.
• Henry Kaczmar led the team with six hits on the weekend. He moved his batting average to .257 on the year.
• Jordan Carrion and Nathan Hall each had hits in all three games. Carrion is now hitting .309 this season with 11 RBI. Hall leads the team with a .404 batting average and has a current 15-game hitting streak. 

SCOBEY LOOKING LIKE A VET

• Freshman third baseman KJ Scobey had three hits in Friday’s game against Oklahoma, then belted a solo home run in Saturday’s 11-6 win over the Sooners.
• Scobey had four hits and three runs scored in the series against OU.
• Scobey added four hits in the Arkansas series and is now hitting .333 in SEC only games.
• On the season, Scobey is hitting .300 with three home runs, 12 RBI and has committed just two errors at third base.

UP NEXT

• The Gamecocks host top-ranked Tennessee this weekend for a three-game series at Ray Tanner Field at Founders Park.
• Friday’s game starts at 7 p.m., with Saturday and Sunday’s games at 4 and 5 p.m., respectively.
• Friday and Saturday’s games will be on SEC Network Plus with Sunday’s game on SEC Network with Tom Hart and Chris Burke on the call.