Gamecocks pick up midweek win over NC A&T

COLUMBIA – The University of South Carolina baseball workforce scored 6 runs in the initial a few innings and experienced a period significant 15 hits in a 9-4 win in excess of North Carolina A&T Wednesday evening (May perhaps 4) at Founders Park.

Carolina plated three in the first as Josiah Sightler belted his ninth household operate of the season with two outs. Hits from Andrew Eyster, Braylen Wimmer and Michael Braswell plated two a lot more operates in the frame. In the third, Wimmer drove in his 2nd operate with a single to still left. A Braswell sacrifice fly and a Colin Burgess double to still left designed it 6- Gamecocks.

Evan Stone doubled in Burgess in the fifth to make it 7- Carolina. North Carolina A&T scored a run in the sixth and a few in the seventh, but the Gamecocks answered with a pair in the base of the seventh as Wimmer scored on a handed ball and Burgess homered for the fourth time this period.

Eli Jones picked up his initial get of his career, striking out a few in 3.2 scoreless innings. Aidan Hunter pitched 2.2 innings, hanging out a batter when Cam Tringali and Cade Austin equally struck out the aspect in their inning of operate.

Burgess and Wimmer had three hits apiece although Stone, Sightler and Eyster had a pair of hits.

POSTGAME NOTES

• Carolina has 29 hits in the very last two game titles.
• Sightler now qualified prospects the workforce with nine property operates just after his solo shot in the very first.
• Carolina experienced seven added-base hits (five doubles, two residence runs).
• The Gamecocks ended up 12-of-19 at the plate with two outs.

UP Next

Carolina heads to Bryan-College or university Station, Texas, for a a few-video game sequence at No. 13 Texas A&M. The series starts Friday night (May 6) at 7:30 p.m. Jap (6:30 p.m. Central).