SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Following up an eight-run outburst in game one of its weekend series, USC Upstate baseball tallied a pair of five-plus run innings to claim a series victory over Charleston Southern behind a 13-8 victory Friday night.
Carrying its momentum from game one, Upstate jumped on the board first with a six-run frame before adding a five-spot in the third to build an 11-0 lead, scoring 19 unanswered runs to open the series. Charleston Southern dominated the middle innings, plating a run in the fourth, four in the fifth, and one in the sixth as the Spartans answered with a pair of runs in the fifth. The Buccaneers closed the scoring on the game with a pair of runs in the eighth.
Senior second baseman
Cameron MacIntosh and redshirt sophomore first baseman
Grant Sherrod led the way offensively as each produced a three-RBI and multi-hit game. For MacIntosh, Friday's game marked his third multi-hit game and sixth multi-RBI game while Sherrod's night stands as his first such game in both categories this year.
Game Information
Score: USC Upstate 13; Charleston Southern 8
Records: USC Upstate (20-15; 9-5 Big South); Charleston Southern (14-21; 6-8 Big South)
Location: Cleveland S. Harley Park | Spartanburg, S.C.
Scoring Summary
- B1: Opening the home half of the first with six straight batters reaching base, including five straight hits after a leadoff hit-by-pitch, Upstate posted a six-spot to bust open game two. Noah Sullivan, Cameron MacIntosh, Noah Rabon, and Adam Grob each produced RBI in the inning as a pair of runs came into score off Buccaneer defensive miscues.
- B3: Following back-to-back hits and a hit-by-pitch to load the bases, Grant Sherrod cleared the bags with a double into the leftfield corner. MacIntosh later cleaned up the traffic on the basepaths as he drove in two more runs with a single into left.
- T4: Putting themselves on the board, the Buccaneers struck in the fourth as Ryan Waldschmidt homered to left.
- T5: Following up Waldschmidt's homer in the fourth, Ajay Sczepkowski hit a two-run blast to the left of the scoreboard to trim the lead to 11-3. Peyton Mills followed with a single into center with the bases loaded to add the fourth Charleston Southern run of the game before an Austen Izzio sac fly tacked on the fifth.
- B5: Answering the four-spot by the Buccaneers in the top half of the inning, Troy Hamilton and Easton Cullison ripped back-to-back pull-side doubles to add two more runs to the Spartans' tally and make it 13-5.
- T6: Connor Carter added another run to the board for Charleston Southern in the sixth, pushing across a run with a single to right.
- T8: Finishing the game's scoring, Sczepkowski homered for the second time Friday night on another deep drive to left, sending home two.
Notable
- Picking up his team-leading 17th multi-hit game of the season, Noah Sullivan extended his reached-base streak to a team-best 17 games Friday night.
- Collecting both a multi-hit and multi-RBI game against Charleston Southern, Cameron MacIntosh and Grant Sherrod recorded their 12 and sixth, and first, multi-hit and multi-RBI games, respectively, of the season.
- Taking two more HBP Friday night, Upstate improved its season total in the hit-by-pitch category to 73. The Spartans have been hit by multiple pitches in all three games played this week and in 22 games this season.
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