SPARTANBURG, S.C. – USC Upstate baseball, facing a doubleheader for the first time during the 2025 campaign, dropped both ends of its twin bill Saturday afternoon against East Tennessee State, falling 15-9 and 7-3 at Cleveland S. Harley Park as the three-game non-conference series on the first of two "bye" weeks during Big South Conference play concluded.
 
Slugging three home runs on the day, redshirt sophomore centerfielder Scott Newman paced the Spartans at the plate, recording a team-best four hits and six RBI in the twin bill. His three homers directly produced all six of his RBI as he finished the day with a pair of multi-RBI efforts with four RBI in game one and two in game two.
 
In game one, Newman secured his second multi-homer game of the season, his first since March 14 versus Radford, becoming the sixth Spartan in the Division I era (2007-pres.) to record multiple multi-homer games in a career. His three long balls Saturday pushed him to 11 home runs on the campaign, giving him the ninth double-digit home run season in the D1 era.
 
In total, Upstate launched six long balls in the doubleheader with redshirt junior second baseman Jake Armsey, redshirt junior rightfielder Scott Campbell, and junior first baseman Wylie Waters all hitting a homer each. Armsey produced the Spartans' other multi-RBI game, posting three in game one while he and Campbell each collected a multi-hit effort—Armsey in game one and Campbell in game two.
 
Game Information (Game One)
Score: ETSU 15; USC Upstate 9
Records: USC Upstate (14-12; 3-3 Big South); ETSU (20-6; 2-1 SoCon)
Location: Cleveland S. Harley Park | Spartanburg, S.C.
 
How It Happened (Game One)

• T1: Leading off the game, ETSU's Jamie Palmese slugged a solo homer to right-center.
• T2: Seeing three straight players recording increasingly more RBI, the Buccaneers plated six in the second frame. A walk to Cody Miller produced the first before a two-run single from Cooper Torres and three-run homer from Grant Gallagher followed.
• T4: Adding another RBI to his total, Gallagher drove in a run on a groundout to short.
• B4: Answering the Buccaneer runs, Scott Campbell launched a solo shot to left.
• T5: Getting its run back, ETSU slugged a solo home run of its own, this time from Axel Melendez.
• B5: In its biggest inning of the day, Upstate scored six in the fifth behind a pair of three-run homers as Scott Newman and Jake Armsey provided the pop.
• T6: Extending their lead, the Buccaneers' Miller and Torres slammed back-to-back jacks.
• T7: ETSU added three more before the stretch, seeing a solo homer, throwing error, and sac fly lead to its tallies.
• T8: Tacking on another run, Will Smoot ripped an RBI single through the left side.
• B8: Splitting the left-center gap, Preston Lucas hung a run on the board with an RBI single, scoring Armsey.
• B9: Slugging his second homer of the day, Newman's solo shot capped game one's scoring.

 
Game Information (Game Two)
Score: ETSU 7; USC Upstate 3
Records: USC Upstate (14-13; 3-3 Big South); ETSU (21-6; 2-1 SoCon)
Location: Cleveland S. Harley Park | Spartanburg, S.C.
 
How It Happened (Game Two)

• T2: The second of consecutive hits, a double from Lenny Montesano into the leftfield corner began the scoring in the nightcap, plating a single run.
• T3: Cody Miller added to ETSU's lead in the third, slugging a no-doubt two-run blast to left.
• T4: Bouncing into a fielder's choice, Blake Jacklin picked up an RBI as Montesano came home to score on an attempted double play turn from the Spartans.
• T7: A pair of RBI doubles in the inning from the Buccaneers' Cooper Torres and JD Yakubinis led to three tallies in the seventh.
• B7: Using back-to-back homers, Upstate hung three on the board in the home half of the seventh as Wylie Waters' solo shot followed a two-run blast from Scott Newman.

 
Notable

• Saturday's twin bill marked the first since May 15, 2021 (versus Campbell) to see Upstate drop both ends of a doubleheader. The pair of losses snaps a streak of seven doubleheaders seeing the Spartans either sweep or split.
• Hitting a pair of home runs in game one Saturday, Scott Newman became the sixth Spartan in the Division I era (2007-pres.) to record multiple multi-homer games in his career. He joins Charlie Carpenter (two), Koby Kropf (two), Jace Rinehart (four), Grant Sherrod (two), and Noah Sullivan (five) as the Spartans with two or more multi-home run efforts in a career in the D1 era.
• With three homers Saturday, Newman also upped his season total to 11, securing the ninth double-digit homer season in the program's D1 era. His 11 homers in a single season tie for the seventh-most in a single season in the D1 era, matching Carpenter's 11 from the 2017 season.
• Going back-to-back in the seventh inning of game two, Newman and Wylie Waters notched the third instance of the 2025 campaign where Spartans have homered in successive plate appearances. The last instance came on March 7 versus Troy when Vance Sheahan followed Newman. The season's first instance happened on Feb. 14 versus Boston College when Sheahan, Waters, and Johnny Sweeney went back-to-back-to-back.

 
Up Next for the Spartans
In the second of three matchups during the 2025 season, USC Upstate faces Wofford as the two crosstown rivals open Fifth Third Park, the home of the Hub City Spartanburgers, Tuesday evening. First pitch between the Spartans and Terriers is set for 6:30 p.m. ET.
 
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