USC Upstate Falls at No. 15 South Carolina

Wednesday, April 17

Columbia, S.C.

6 pm

University of South Carolina Upstate Athletics

37-11

South Carolina

32-12

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
USC Upstate	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	3	1
South Carolina	0	4	0	2	0	4	10	14	2

4/17/2019 12:00:00 AM | Softball

Box Score

Box Score (.pdf)

Columbia, S.C. – The USC Upstate softball team saw its 14-game winning streak come to an end on Wednesday evening as the Spartans dropped a 10-2 non-conference decision in six innings against the 15^th-ranked South Carolina Gamecocks at Carolina Softball Stadium.

USC Upstate falls to 37-11 on the season while South Carolina improves to 32-12 overall.

Scoring Breakdown

Top 1^st – Alyssa Oakes gave the Spartans an early 1-0 lead in the first on a solo home run to right field. It was Oakes' team-leading 22^nd home run of the season.
Top 2^nd – Alicia Dorgan extended USC Upstate's lead to 2-0 in the top of the second on a solo home run, her fifth of the season, to center field.
Bottom 2^nd – The Gamecocks responded with four runs in their half of the second to go ahead 4-2. Jana Johns highlighted the inning with her two-RBI single to left field. Kennedy Clark and Lauren Stewart added RBI infield singles.
Bottom 4^th – South Carolina extended its lead to 6-2 in the fourth on an RBI double by Cayla Drotar and Stewart's RBI ground out.
Bottom 6^th – The Gamecocks added four more runs in the bottom of the sixth to secure the 10-2 victory. Alexis Lindsey and Madison Owens started the scoring with a pair of RBI singles. Jordan Fabian added an RBI fielder's choice and Mackenzie Boesel ended the game with an RBI sacrifice fly to center field.

Notables

Drotar (9-5) earned the win in relief pitching three scoreless innings and gave up one hit and had one strikeout.
Erin Hill (13-8) suffered the loss allowing four runs (three earned) on six hits, two walks and no strikeouts in two innings of work.
Celina Sullivan came on in relief and threw 3.2 innings and surrendered six runs on eight hits, three walks and two strikeouts.
Oakes, Dorgan and Kristen Wright all had one hit apiece for the Spartans.
Oakes and Dorgan contributed one RBI and one run scored.
With her home run in the first, Oakes is now one home run away from tying Shellie Robinson (2015) and two RBI from Stacey Berrong (1996) for the single-season school records.
Johns and Owens led South Carolina offensively with three hits.
Johns and Stewart each drove in a team-leading two RBI.

UP NEXT

USC Upstate plays its final conference series of the season this weekend, April 19-20, traveling to Winthrop for a three-game series.

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