Baseball Starts Homestand Tuesday Night vs. The Citadel

FOR STARTERS

• Carolina starts a five-game homestand this Tuesday night (April 15) against The Citadel.
• First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.
• Tuesday’s 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.

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: 6:30 p.m.
Stadium Opens: 5:15 p.m.
Business Lots Open: 4:30/5 p.m.
Lot 1, STDM, HDG PGDL Open: 4:30 p.m.

PROMOTIONS SCHEDULE
Tuesday – Early Bird Special (5:15 p.m.)

PROBABLE PITCHING ROTATION
Tuesday
South Carolina Jackson Soucie (Jr. LHP) 3-0, 4.76 ERA, 17.0 IP, 9 BB, 20 SO
The Citadel Connor Cummiskey (Gr. RHP) 0-0, 11.25 ERA, 12.0 IP, 13 BB, 9 SO

SCOUTING THE CITADEL

• The Bulldogs won the middle game of a three-game series at Samford this past weekend, winning 4-3 on Saturday.
• George Derrick Floyd pitched eight innings in the win over Samford, allowing just three runs with four strikeouts.
• Floyd has a 3.89 ERA and a 3-1 record while the team has a 4.86 ERA.
• Travis Elliott leads The Citadel with a .294 batting average.
• Russell Triplett is in his first season as head coach at The Citadel. He was the head coach at Newberry for 14 seasons.

SERIES VS. THE CITADEL

• Carolina has a 144-50-1 series lead on The Citadel heading into Tuesday’s game.
• In the two teams’ first meeting in Charleston on March 5, the Gamecocks won 9-1 thanks to seven innings from Jarvis Evans Jr., with six strikeouts and three hits from Ethan Petry and Beau Hollins.
• Carolina is 82-18-1 in games played against The Citadel in Columbia.

HALL OF HITTING

• Nathan Hall continues to have a stellar junior season for the Gamecocks.
• Hall has a .355 batting average to go along with five home runs and 28 RBI.
• Hall leads the team with 11 steals, which is tied for six in the SEC, and has added nine doubles.
• In the game against Arkansas March 23, 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.

KACZMAR CONTINUES TO HIT IN SEC PLAY

• Junior Henry Kaczmar is hitting .378 in 15 SEC games this season.
• The shortstop hit a pair of home runs in Saturday’s game against Mississippi State and now has four on the season.
• Kaczmar is 17-for-45 in conference games and leads the team with 12 RBI in SEC contests.
• Overall, Kaczmar is hitting .291 with 22 RBI and 21 runs scored and has reached base safely in the last 19 games. 

FOUR HIT CLUB

• Carolina had three hitters with four hits in a game against Tennessee (March 28-30).
• On Friday night, both Ethan Petry and Jordan Carrion had four hits against the Volunteers. Carrion was a perfect 4-for-4 on the night.
• Both players tied their career high in hits in a game.
• Then in Saturday’s game, Beau Hollins was a perfect 4-for-4 at the plate.
• Those three join Nathan Hall (vs. Queens) and Will Tippett (vs. Milwaukee) and Hollins (vs. Mississippi State) with four-hit games this season. 

FROSH AT THE CORNERS

• Freshmen KJ Scobey and Beau Hollins are manning the corners for Carolina this season.
• Scobey had four hits and three runs scored in the series against Oklahoma and added four hits in the Arkansas series.
• Scobey has played in 36 games this season and is hitting .252 with three home runs and 14 RBI. He also has committed just three errors at third base.
• Hollins had four hits in games against Tennessee and Mississippi State and currently has a .326 batting average with 20 runs scored.
• The duo is joined by fellow freshman Gavin Braland, who had a two-run single in the win over Presbyterian on April 1.

PETRY SHOOTS UP CAREER HOME RUN LIST

• Junior Ethan Petry will enter The Citadel game with 54 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 eight home runs away from tying Justin Smoak (2006-08) for the all-time mark.
• Petry had a solo home run in the third inning in the 8-7 loss at Texas A&M on April 10.
• The junior is hitting .351 with nine doubles, a triple, 10 home runs and leads the team with 33 RBI.

UP NEXT

• The Gamecocks face Ole Miss in a three-game SEC series at Ray Tanner Field at Founders Park.
• The series starts Thursday night (April 17) at 6:30 p.m. Friday’s game is at 4 p.m. with Saturday’s game at 2 p.m.
• All three games will be streamed on SEC Network Plus.