BASEBALL. MARCH 18, 2023
ATHENS – The University of South Carolina baseball team completed a doubleheader sweep of Georgia Saturday afternoon (March 18) with a 12-2, 7-inning win at Foley Field.
Ethan Petry was a perfect 4-for-4 with five RBI and two home runs in the game. Braylen Wimmer drove in three in a two-hit day, while Cole Messina, Petry, Jonathan French and Will Tippett each scored two runs in the win.
Noah Hall pitched a complete game, striking out five and allowing seven hits, two runs with no walks to improve to 4-0 on the season.
Carolina scored four runs in the third and broke it open in the fifth, scoring seven times, which included Petry’s second home run and two-run hits from Wimmer and Will McGillis.
POSTGAME NOTES
Gamecocks Complete Twinbill Sweep at Georgia
South Carolina AT Georgia (18 - 1 - 0, 1 - 0 - 0) (13 - 5 - 0, 0 - 1 - 0)
1ST | 2ND | 3RD | 4TH | 5TH | 6TH | 7TH | R | H | E | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
South Carolina | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
Georgia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
SOUTH CAROLINA | GEORGIA | |
---|---|---|
AB | 31 | 28 |
RUNS | 12 | 2 |
HITS | 12 | 7 |
RBI | 10 | 2 |
BB | 7 | 0 |
SO | 5 | 6 |
LOB | 7 | 5 |
ATHENS – The University of South Carolina baseball team completed a doubleheader sweep of Georgia Saturday afternoon (March 18) with a 12-2, 7-inning win at Foley Field.
Ethan Petry was a perfect 4-for-4 with five RBI and two home runs in the game. Braylen Wimmer drove in three in a two-hit day, while Cole Messina, Petry, Jonathan French and Will Tippett each scored two runs in the win.
Noah Hall pitched a complete game, striking out five and allowing seven hits, two runs with no walks to improve to 4-0 on the season.
Carolina scored four runs in the third and broke it open in the fifth, scoring seven times, which included Petry’s second home run and two-run hits from Wimmer and Will McGillis.
POSTGAME NOTES
- Carolina is 2-0 in SEC play for the first time since 2017.
- Petry is hitting .471 with nine home runs and 30 RBI after today’s pair of games.
- Hall now has 31 strikeouts compared to just seven walks in 31.1 innings pitched.
- The road team has now won the last four series between the Gamecocks and the Bulldogs.
- The 19-1 start is the best for the Gamecocks since the 2004 team also started 19-1.