Baseball Ends Homestand Tuesday Night vs. UNF

FOR STARTERS

• Carolina wraps up its five-game homestand Tuesday night (April 22) with a 6:30 p.m. first pitch against North Florida.
• 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 Cade Crenshaw 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.

Tuesday
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; Bark in the Park presented by CVETS

PROBABLE PITCHING ROTATION
Tuesday
South Carolina Jackson Soucie (Jr. LHP) 3-0, 3.98 ERA, 20.1 IP, 10 BB, 25 SO
UNF Tommy Groom (R-Sr. RHP) 0-0, 4.91 ERA, 3.2 IP, 2 BB, 6 SO

SCOUTING UNF

• The Ospreys are coming off taking 2-of-3 games against West Georgia this past weekend.
• Mitchell Collins had four hits and Brady Browning homered and drove in three in Saturday’s 10-3 win.
• Nick Monile leads UNF with a .338 batting average and Seth Alford had a team-best five home runs.
• On the mound, Will Ross is 5-2 with a 3.73 ERA.
• Joe Mercadante is in his second year at UNF. He was an assistant at Pittsburgh from 2021-23.

SERIES VS. UNF

• Carolina has a 4-1 series advantage on UNF heading into Tuesday’s game.
• The two teams last met in 2023 with North Florida coming away with an 8-5 win.
• Carolina’s last win over the Ospreys happened in 2022, a 4-2 win on April 12 that was highlighted by three hits from Josiah Sightler.

STONE GOES ALL NINE IN OLE MISS WIN

• Sophomore Brandon Stone went the distance in the 3-2 win over Ole Miss on April 17, striking out four and allowing two runs on six hits with no walks in nine innings.
• Stone needed just 86 pitches, with 61 of them for strikes, in the nine innings.
• It was Carolina’s first complete game since Noah Hall against Georgia in 2023 and first nine-inning complete game since Brett Kerry against Kentucky in 2021.
• The complete game was just the second nine-inning CG in the league this season (LSU’s Kade Anderson vs. Oklahoma).
• Stone’s defense was big as the Gamecocks turned three double plays, including one with a runner on and no one out in the ninth.
• Stone retired the first seven batters of the game and had four 1-2-3 frames.

OLE MISS SERIES NOTES

• Jake McCoy followed Stone’s performance was a great one of his own, striking out seven and allowing just three hits and a run in 6.1 innings in Friday’s 7-2 win.
• Junior Henry Kaczmar reached on base safely in 21 straight games after his single to lead off the fourth on Thursday.
• Beau Hollins belted his fourth home run of the season on Saturday. He now has 16 RBI in 31 games played on the year.
• Carolina turned six double plays in the three games this weekend.

HALL OF HITTING

• Nathan Hall continues to have a stellar junior season for the Gamecocks.
• Hall has a .358 batting average to go along with six home runs and 32 RBI.
• Hall leads the team with 12 steals, which is tied for seventh in the SEC, and has added 10 doubles.
• In the game against Ole Miss on April 18, Hall homered and drove in three runs, including a big two-run single in the eighth to give the Gamecocks insurance.

CROWTHER SETS ‘EM DOWN

• Sophomore Ashton Crowther has retired 18 of the last 19 hitters he has faced in the last three appearances.
• In the game against Texas A&M on April 10, Crowther retired all seven batters he faced with a pair of strikeouts.
• He then went 2.1 innings on April 15 against The Citadel, allowing just one hit with one strikeout and earned the save against Ole Miss on April 18, retiring the final four batters in the game.
• Crowther has pitched in 18.2 innings this season, striking out 14 batters and having a .225 opponent’s batting average.

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 40 games this season and is hitting .246 with four home runs and 15 RBI. He also has committed just four errors at third base.
• Hollins had four hits in games against Tennessee and Mississippi State and currently has a .317 batting average with 22 runs scored.
• The duo is joined by fellow freshman Gavin Braland, who had an RBI single in the 3-2 win over Ole Miss on April 17. 

PETRY SHOOTS UP CAREER HOME RUN LIST

• Junior Ethan Petry will enter the UNF 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 .333 with nine doubles, a triple, 10 home runs and leads the team with 34 RBI.

UP NEXT

• The Gamecocks visit Lexington, Ky., to start a three-game series at Kentucky from April 25-27. Friday’s game starts at 6:30 p.m., with Saturday and Sunday’s games at 4:30 p.m. and 1 p.m., respectively.
• All three games will be streamed on SEC Network Plus.