Big Second Inning Lifts Baseball Past Penn

COLUMBIA  – The College of South Carolina baseball workforce scored 5 runs within the second inning on its solution to a 7-4 win over Penn Friday afternoon (Feb. 24) at Founders Park, shifting to 6-0 on the season.

The large blast within the second was Ethan Petry’s three-run house run down the left area line. Will McGillis adopted with a triple and and with the bases loaded, Caleb Denny delivered a two-run single to proper for the 5-0 lead. Denny added an RBI single within the sixth for a 6-1 Gamecock lead.

Penn scored three within the seventh, two off a Ben Miller house run, and had two runners on within the eighth. Chris Veach got here in and bought a groundout to finish the menace, then pitched the ninth to report his first save of the season.

Cole Messina added insurance coverage within the eighth inning with a solo blast to left to place Carolina up three.

Denny had three hits within the win, whereas McGillis added a pair. Petry and Denny had three RBI every.

Will Sanders picked up his first win of 2023, pitching 5 innings with 4 hits, one unearned run, two walks and 6 strikeouts. The bullpen of Cade Austin, Nick Proctor, Jackson Phipps and Veach mixed for six strikeouts in 4 innings.

POSTGAME NOTES

• Sanders strikes to 15-6 in his Carolina profession with right this moment’s win.
• Carolina now has 22 house runs on the yr, with Petry and Messina every hitting their fourth of 2023.
• The 2 groups mixed to go away 21 runners on base.
• Veach now has 5 profession saves. He had 4 at Presbyterian in 2021.
• Caleb Denny moved his on-base streak to 34 video games (courting again to final season at Oral Roberts) and leads the workforce with 17 RBI.

UP NEXT
Carolina continues its season-opening 9 recreation homestand on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 25) towards Penn. First pitch is about for two p.m. The sport will probably be streamed on SEC Community Plus.