SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Coming off a series win over Penn at Cleveland S. Harley Park, USC Upstate baseball heads on the road for the second consecutive midweek as it continues its stretch of games played against 2023 NCAA Regional participants with its first two-game midweek series against No. 18 Coastal Carolina.
Midweek Series
March 5-6, 2024 | 4:00 p.m. / 4:00 p.m. ET
USC Upstate (6-5; 0-0 Big South) vs. Coastal Carolina (9-2; 0-0 Sun Belt)
Spring Brooks Stadium | Conway, S.C.
TV: ESPN+ | Via WatchESPN.com or the ESPN App
How They Stack Up
Records: USC Upstate (6-5; 0-0 Big South); Coastal Carolina (9-2; 0-0 Sun Belt)
Series: Coastal Carolina leads 1-0
Last Five Meetings: March 11, 2009 (CCU 4; UPST 2)
Probable Starting Pitchers
USC Upstate | Coastal Carolina
Game One: RHP
Darin Kuskie (0-0; 13.50 ERA) | RHP Josh O'Neill (1-0; 2.25 ERA)
Game Two: To Be Announced | To Be Announced
Players to Watch
USC Upstate: Behind his first career multi-home run game, redshirt senior first baseman
Grant Sherrod tied the program's Division I era (2007-pres.) single-game record with eight RBI in the series finale against Penn Sunday. He concluded the series with three homers and 11 RBI as he slugged 1.182 against the Quakers. On the season, he's slugged five homers and driven in a team-high 19 RBI, ranking 14
th in the NCAA in the category, while fashioning a .341 batting average.
Coastal Carolina: Hitting six home runs on the season, including one last weekend in a three-game series versus Liberty, graduate student first baseman Zack Beach leads the Chanticleers in homers, ranking ninth in the NCAA and tied for first in the Sun Belt in the category. He enters the midweek holding a .325 batting average while driving in 16 runs, one of seven Coastal Carolina hitters totaling 10 or more RBI this season.
Up Next for the Spartans
Concluding their nine-game stretch against 2023 NCAA Regional participants, Upstate heads back to the friendly confines of Cleveland S. Harley Park to begin an eight-game homestand. The Spartans host Rider for a three-game set with game times slated for 3 p.m. ET Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday, and 1 p.m. Sunday.
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