What Mark Kingston talks baseball fall scrimmage against UNC Wilmington
The Gamecocks and UNC Wilmington played a pair of six-inning games at Founders Park. Carolina had a home-and-home with both N.C. State and Georgia Tech. The first game ended in a 7-7 tie as the Gamecocks rallied to tie it but stranded bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth. Andrew Eyster provided the biggest spark in the game by hitting a 400-foot homer in the first game.
In Game 2, South Carolina scored five runs in the fifth on just one hit to defeat the Seahawks, 8-4. Braylen Wimmer had a two-run single for the lone hit in the fifth inning. “We saw a lot of good things for the most part, a couple things we need to work on,” Gamecock coach Mark Kingston said. “We started five freshmen in the first game, and I don’t know how many in the second game. Today was a big day in our program getting guys on our field playing in a game. The winning and losing is secondary to getting new guys on our field.
WHICH NEW PLAYERS STOOD OUT Lot of the new players on the Gamecocks roster got a chance to play and did definitely have a chance to make an impact. Virginia Tech transfer Kevin Maddon started at third in the first game and second in Game 2. Madden had three hits including an RBI single. Missouri transfer Brandt Belk was 2 for 4 with two RBI in the first game. Michael Braswell and Thad Ector, the two highest-ranked high school signees in the Gamecocks signing class, showed flashes and Ector had two hits in the second game and played in center field.
The Gamecocks and UNC Wilmington played a pair of six-inning games at Founders Park. Carolina had a home-and-home with both N.C. State and Georgia Tech. The first game ended in a 7-7 tie as the Gamecocks rallied to tie it but stranded bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth. Andrew Eyster provided the biggest spark in the game by hitting a 400-foot homer in the first game.
In Game 2, South Carolina scored five runs in the fifth on just one hit to defeat the Seahawks, 8-4. Braylen Wimmer had a two-run single for the lone hit in the fifth inning. “We saw a lot of good things for the most part, a couple things we need to work on,” Gamecock coach Mark Kingston said. “We started five freshmen in the first game, and I don’t know how many in the second game. Today was a big day in our program getting guys on our field playing in a game. The winning and losing is secondary to getting new guys on our field.
WHICH NEW PLAYERS STOOD OUT Lot of the new players on the Gamecocks roster got a chance to play and did definitely have a chance to make an impact. Virginia Tech transfer Kevin Maddon started at third in the first game and second in Game 2. Madden had three hits including an RBI single. Missouri transfer Brandt Belk was 2 for 4 with two RBI in the first game. Michael Braswell and Thad Ector, the two highest-ranked high school signees in the Gamecocks signing class, showed flashes and Ector had two hits in the second game and played in center field.