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Baseball Hosts Tennessee This Weekend
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Baseball Hosts Tennessee This Weekend

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FOR STARTERS

  • Carolina hosts No. 1 Tennessee for a three-game SEC series starting Friday night (March 28) 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 streamed on SEC Network Plus.
  • Sunday’s game is televised on SEC Network with Tom Hart and Chris Burke 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.

PARKING INFORMATION

GAME DAY PARKING INFORMATION (including public game day lots (PGDL: $10 per game). All gameday lots are cashless. Please have a debit card or credit card ready for payment upon entry into parking lots.

Weekdays
Game Time: 7 p.m.
Stadium Opens: 5:30 p.m.
Business Lots Open: 5/5:30 p.m.
Lot 1, STDM, HDG PGDL Open: 5 p.m.

Saturday
Game Time: 4 p.m.
Stadium Opens: 3 p.m.
Business Lots Open: 2/2:30 p.m.
Lot 1, STDM, HDG PGDL Open: 2 p.m.

Sunday
Game Time: 5 p.m.
Stadium Opens: 4 p.m.
Business Lots Open: 3/3:30 p.m.
Lot 1, STDM, HDG PGDL Open: 3 p.m.

PROMOTIONS SCHEDULE
Friday – Early Gates (5:30 p.m.)
Saturday – Game Show Day
Sunday – Kids Run the Bases

PROBABLE PITCHING ROTATION
Friday
South Carolina Jake McCoy (So. LHP) 2-2, 6.57 ERA, 24.2 IP, 12 BB, 45 SO
Tennessee Liam Doyle (Jr. LHP) 3-1, 2.03 ERA, 31.0 IP, 11 BB, 62 SO

Saturday
South Carolina Jarvis Evans Jr. (Jr. LHP) 3-0, 3.42 ERA, 26.1 IP, 6 BB, 27 SO
Tennessee Marcus Phillips (Jr. RHP) 2-0, 1.47 ERA, 30.2 IP, 9 BB, 35 SO

Sunday
South Carolina TBA
Tennessee TBA

SCOUTING TENNESSEE

  • The Volunteers are coming off a 14-3 win over Queens on Tuesday night. Blake Grimmer had five RBI in the win.
  • Gavin Kilen leads Tennessee and is second in the SEC with a .431 batting average and has a team-best 10 home runs.
  • On the mound, Marcus Phillips is 2-0 with a 1.47 ERA and 35 strikeouts in 30.2 innings pitched.
  • Tony Vitello is in his eighth season as head coach at Tennessee. He guided the Volunteers to a 2024 national championship.

SERIES VS. TENNESSEE

  • Carolina leads the all-time series with Tennessee, 67-48, heading into Friday’s game.
  • Tennessee won all three games between the two teams last season in Knoxville.
  • In the last meeting at Founders Park, the Gamecocks won the middle game of the three-game series, 6-1, in seven innings in 2023. Braylen Wimmer had two hits and Jack Mahoney struck out nine in the win.
  • The last time the Gamecocks faced the number-one team in the country was last year’s Tennessee series on May 16-18, 2024.

HALL OF HITTING

  • Junior Nathan Hall continues to lead the Gamecocks at the plate this season.
  • Hall has a .398 batting average, good for ninth in the SEC, to go along with four home runs and 23 RBI.
  • Hall is slugging at a .592 clip and is reaching base 47 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 then had three RBI, including a home run in the first inning, on March 25 against North Carolina.
  • Hall carries a 16-game hitting streak and a 19-game reached base streak into Friday’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.

PETRY SHOOTS UP CAREER HOME RUN LIST

  • Junior Ethan Petry will enter the Tennessee series with 50 home runs at Carolina, which has him in second place on the all-time home run list.
  • The Land O’ Lakes, Fla., native had 23 home runs in his freshman season in 2023, then followed that up with 21 his sophomore season.
  • Petry has been named to the preseason All-America second team by both D1 Baseball and Perfect Game, the third team by the NCBWA, was named to the Preseason All-SEC first team and is on the Golden Spikes Award Watch List.
  • Last season, Petry hit .306 with 21 home runs and 53 RBI while leading the team with 51 walks. He was named to the All-Raleigh Regional team.
  • Petry is 12 home runs away from tying Justin Smoak (2006-08) for the all-time mark.
  • Petry had a solo home run in the first inning on March 25 against North Carolina in Charlotte.
  • The junior is hitting .359 with eight doubles, a triple, six home runs and is tied for the team lead with 23 RBI.

UP NEXT

  • The Gamecocks wrap up the four-game homestand on Tuesday night (April 1) against Presbyterian.
  • First pitch is set for 7 p.m.
  • The game is televised on SEC Network with Roy Philpott and David Dellucci on the call.

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