The University of South Carolina baseball team completed a three-game sweep of Missouri with a 6-4 win on Saturday afternoon (April 11) at Taylor Stadium. Dawson Harman had two of Carolina’s four home runs in the contest.

Harman’s two-run single brought in Ethan Lizama and KJ Scobey, giving Carolina a 2-0 lead in the top of the second. Harman extended the lead to 3-0 in the top of the fourth with his second home run of the season.

Missouri cut the Gamecock lead to 3-2 in the bottom of the fourth on a two-run Jase Woita home run. Carolina answered in the top of the sixth as Scobey and Harman each hit solo home runs to left field, giving the Gamecocks a 5-2 advantage.

Carolina ended its scoring on a solo home run from Will Craddock in the top of the ninth. Missouri scored a pair of runs in the ninth but Alex Philpott induced a fly out to right to end the game and complete the sweep.

Harman and Scobey had three hits apiece in the 11-hit attack while Lizama and Patrick Evans had two hits apiece.

Cooper Parks earned the win on the mound, improving to 3-1 on the year. He did not allow a hit in three innings of relief. Alex Valentin picked up the start. He allowed just one hit on two runs with five strikeouts in four innings. Philpott earned his third save of the season, getting the final out in the ninth.

POSTGAME NOTES

• Carolina picks up its first-ever sweep at Missouri and first road SEC sweep since March 18-19, 2023, at Georgia.
• The Gamecock pitching staff allowed just five runs in the series.
• It was Carolina’s first SEC sweep since the Gamecocks swept Vanderbilt on March 23-24, 2024.

UP NEXT

Carolina opens a nine-game homestand on Tuesday night (April 14) when the Gamecocks host Davidson. First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. and the game will be streamed on SEC Network Plus.

First responders rescued an individual that fell and landed near the Missouri River on Friday.

On April 10, shortly after 2:30 p.m., Osage County Emergency Management Agency received a call reporting that a subject had fallen down a steep embankment and landed near the bank of the Missouri River in the Smokey Waters Conservation Area.

Osage Ambulance District said the individual sustained injuries.

Osage Fire Protection District, Osage County Sheriff’s Office, and Missouri Department of Conservation responded to assist.

Crews determined the best access to the patient would be by water due to the remote location.

Emergency crews used what3words technology to help identify the exact location of the individual.

Responders were able to safely access, rescue, and transport the individual to Osage EMS for transport to a trauma center.

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A Missouri lawmaker hopes legislation filed this year will help to eliminate single-use plastics from the state’s parks.

Earlier this year, Rep. Colin Wellenkamp (R – 105th District) filed House Bill 3193, legislation that would phase out single-use plastics like plastic silverware, bags, foam takeout containers, and plastic water bottles from Missouri state parks and historic sites.

If approved, it would apply to the concession stands and any gift or retail shops in those state parks.

Missouri lawmaker works to remove single-use plastics from state parks

“So, at least we can keep plastic waste out of these pristine, ecologically significant and historically important places,” Wellenkamp told me.

The legislator admits this is just small step in addressing what he and environmentalists see as a bigger problem.

In Missouri, there’s actually a law that bans cities and municipalities from banning single-use plastics.

Wellenkamp’s initial bill sought to overturn that preemptive ban, something environmental groups have been pushing for.

“It just basically gets us back to square one in terms of local control, and municipalities being able to do something about it if they want to,” Missouri River Bird Observatory’s Dana Ripper told me.

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But that part was eventually dropped from House Bill 3193 in order to get a hearing, scheduled for Monday, April 13, at the State Capitol in Jefferson City.

“I think removing the preemption, the preemptive ban on bans that exists today statewide, is going to be a larger, more time-consuming conversation,” Wellenkamp said. “I’m up for doing that. I am ready to begin and have that debate, I’m ready to begin to go down that road. I just think it’s going to take some time to get there. But, there are things we can do right now that maybe don’t take as much time, and that’s really what I’m trying to achieve in the near term.”

In order to further support Wellenkamp’s bill and push other lawmakers to support a reversal of Missouri’s preemptive ban on banning single-use plastics, the Missouri River Bird Observatory and Stream Teams United are hosting a free workshop open to this weekend.

It offers the public a chance to learn more about plastic pollution in the environment and how to best combat it.

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“We will give attendees a background about the entire plastic pollution situation, its history. We’ll talk about effective community action and outreach,” Ripper told me. “And then we’ll talk about some of the things that communities can really do, locally, to sort of get a handle on this problem that they’re concerned about.”

The workshop runs from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 11, at the Mid-America Regional Council, 600 Broadway Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri. A link to register is available.

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