All-Around Performance Lifts Baseball Past UMass Lowell

COLUMBIA  – The College of South Carolina baseball crew’s offense erupted for the second straight day and the pitching workers didn’t permit a success after the primary inning because the Gamecocks bested UMass Lowell, 17-1, Saturday afternoon (Feb. 18) at Founders Park.

Braylen Wimmer tied a profession excessive with 5 RBI, together with a grand slam within the fourth inning. Caleb Denny, Gavin Casas and Will McGillis all homered in a 14-hit contest. Talmadge LeCroy went an ideal 3-for-3 with two RBI and two runs scored. Casas had three RBI and Evan Stone scored three runs.

Carolina scored all of its runs within the first 5 innings, together with 5 within the second and 4 every within the fourth and fifth frames.

Noah Corridor earned the win on the mound, going 5.1 innings and permitting two hits and a run with 4 strikeouts. The quartet of Trey Wheeler, Chris Veach, Jackson Phipps and Brett Thomas didn’t permit a success and struck out 5 within the closing 3.2 innings.

POSTGAME NOTES

• Carolina wins a season-opening collection for the 25^th straight season.
• The Gamecocks have hit back-to-back house runs in every of the crew’s first two video games after Casas and McGillis did the trick within the fifth.
• The 37 runs scored within the first two video games of the season are probably the most because the 2004 season when Carolina scored 41 runs in a pair of video games in opposition to Charleston Southern.
• Corridor now has 4 wins in a Gamecock uniform and 11 in his collegiate profession.
• Carolina is hitting .405 after two video games with 9 house runs and a .811 slugging proportion.
• Trey Wheeler and Chris Veach every made their first appearances in a Gamecock uniform in Saturday’s recreation.
• Via the primary two video games, Talmadge LeCroy is 5-for-6 with 4 runs scored and three RBI.

UP NEXT
Carolina and UMass Lowell wrap up the three-game collection on Sunday afternoon (Feb. 19) at 1:30 p.m. The sport shall be streamed on SEC Community Plus.