Spartans Fall to Charleston Southern

Wednesday, March 21

Harley Park (ASUN.TV)

6 pm

University of South Carolina Upstate Athletics

11-10-1

Charleston Southern

7-15

Charleston Southern

USC Upstate

3/21/2018 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

Box Score (.pdf)

Spartanburg, S.C. – The USC Upstate baseball team dropped a 6-1 non-conference contest to Charleston Southern on Wednesday evening at Harley Park.

Charleston Southern improves to 7-15 while USC Upstate drops to 11-10-1.

Scoring Breakdown

Top 1^st – Kyle Vesnesky led off the game with a triple and scored on a Mike Sconzo two-out single.
Top 2^nd – Alex Andronica reached on a one-out single and advanced to second on a walk to Josh Litchfield. Andronica scored on a Vesnesky single while Litchfield scored on a sacrifice bunt.
Top 3^rd – Sconzo scored on a sacrifice fly for a 4-0 Charleston Southern lead.
Bottom 3^rd – Jeff Taylor reached on an infield single and reached second on a Zach Lea base hit. Taylor would score on a Charleston Southern error.
Top 5^th – Andronica drove in a pair of runs with a single.

Notables

Andronica went 3-for-5 with three singles, a run scored and two RBI.
Vesnesky went 2-for-5 with a single, triple, run scored and RBI.
Sconzo, Ryan Risk, Derek Horton and Christian Maggio each had two hits.
Eddie Hiott (1-0) earned the win as he struck out two batters in 1.0 innings.
Taylor, Lea, Toran Shahidi, Andres Kim, Russell Schwertfeger and Chris Rodriguez each had one hit.
Will Wheeler (1-1) took the loss, allowing four runs on seven hits with a walk and two strikeouts in 2.1 innings.
Charleston Southern left 12 runners on base while USC Upstate left 10 baserunners.

Up Next

USC Upstate opens a weekend series against Dayton on Friday at 6 p.m.

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