SC wins season opener

[cocky4ever]

Well, we started out on the right path today by getting a victory in our season opener. Sure it wasnt a great opponent but its a good way to start the season. Hopefully we will end up back in Omaha at the end of the year with a national championship to bring home.

[SPURED]

what was the score and who did we play?

[IrmoCock]

what was the score and who did we play?

We scored a 5-1 victory over Longwood University of Virginia.

[USC66]

GAMECOCKS OPEN BASEBALL SEASON WITH 5-1 WIN OVER LONGWOOD
Senior pitcher Aaron Rawl strikes out five over seven innings

Feb. 11, 2005

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Aaron Rawl pitched seven strong innings Friday and catcher Ian Paxton drove in three runs with a homer and a single as South Carolina opened its baseball season with a 5-1 win over Longwood University.

The second game of the three game series is scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Saturday at Sarge Frye Field.

Rawl, a senior right-hander, allowed four hits, one earned run, no walks and struck out five in notching his 27th career victory. Paxton, a newcomer from Gulf Coast Junior College, hit a two run second inning home run and drove in a third run with an infield single in the fifth inning. He also picked a runner off first base and caught another trying to steal second.

Conor Lalor, who missed the entire 2004 season due to Tommy John surgery following a freshman season when his record was 5-0, pitched two hitless innings with two strikeouts.

Longwood, which opened its season with five games in Hawaii last week, saw its record drop to 1-5. Starter John Farrell, 0-1, was charged with the loss. He allowed seven hits and four runs, three earned, in 3 1/3 innings.

South Carolina collected 12 hits, two each by Paxton, Davy Gregg, Michael Campbell, Steven Tolleson and Joey Friddle. Gregg, Tolleson and Neil Geisler recorded doubles.

Rawl faced the minimum over the first five innings. Charlie Yarbrough singled in the second but was erased by a double play. Tyler Ames singled in the fourth but was picked off by Paxton. Longwood scored in the sixth inning. Tyler Childress doubled and Robert Gillis was hit by a pitch. Both runners advanced on a sacrifice and Childress scored on an infield hit by Brett Mooney.

South Carolina scored in each of the first three innings. In the first, Campbell singled, stole second, and scored on Tolleson's double. In the second Tommy King reached on an error and scored ahead of Paxton's drive over the left field fence. In the third inning Tolleson beat out a bunt, stole second and scored on Geisler's double.

The final Gamecock run scored in the fifth inning when Geisler walked, moved to third on a hit and run single by King, and scored on Paxton's infield hit.

[JBryant12]

Looks like we found a good catcher after all...

[cocky4ever]

Looks like we found a good catcher after all...
Yeah, we have two pretty good catchers. One is great at throwing out players attempting to steal and the other is great at catching anything thrown at him. We wont have a catcher who will play every game this year like Powell, but we should have a catcher for any particualr situation.

[cocky4ever]

Well, we won our first series by beating Longwood 4-1 today. I say we'll probably sweep the series.

[JBryant12]

Gamecocks Down Longwood 4-1 Behind McCamie, Gregg & Campbell
Michael Campbell hit a two-run home run for South Carolina

Feb. 12, 2005

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Zac McCamie scattered seven hits over six innings to pick up his first win, Davy Gregg had three hits, and Michael Campbell homered Saturday in a 4-1 win that gave South Carolina its second consecutive victory over Longwood University.

The final game of the series is scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Sunday at Sarge Frye Field. The Gamecocks are 2-0 on the season and Longwood fell to 1-6.

Gregg singled in the first, seventh and eighth innings and scored two of South Carolina's four runs.

Campbell gave the Gamecocks two insurance runs with a seventh inning home run. He also had a single. Brendan Winn drove in a first inning run with a sacrifice fly and Steven Tolleson also had an RBI with a single.

McCamie allowed at least one hit in each of the first five innings but left with a 2-1 lead. Andrew Cruse pitched two perfect innings with three strikeouts. Brent Marsh pitched the ninth to earn credit for his first save although he gave up two hits. Longwood out hit the Gamecocks 9-7.


Clay Horn, 0-1, allowed only three hits in five innings and only one of the two runs off him was earned but he was charged with the loss. South Carolina took a 1-0 lead with an unearned run in the first inning. Gregg Singled, stole second and moved to third when Longwood left fielder Joe Bott dropped Campbell's long fly ball. Gregg scored on Winn's sacrifice fly.


Longwood tied it in the second inning. Corey Huemmer singled, moved to second on a sacrifice, and scored on a double by Tyler Childress. The Gamecocks took a 2-1 lead in the third. Campbell singled, took second on a wild pitch, and scored when Tolleson singled to right field. Gregg led off the Gamecock seventh with a bunt single and scored ahead of Campbell's drive over the right field fence.


Huemmer and Childress had two hits apiece for Longwood with Childress' double the Lancer's only extra base hit. Pinch hitter Steven Reinhold had a double for the Gamecocks.

[USC66]

Gamecocks Pound Longwood, 13-3, Sweep Three-Game Series
Brendan Winn slammed a two-run home run, his first of the season


Feb. 13, 2005

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina pounded out 16 hits Sunday, three each by Steven Tolleson and Cory Vanderhook plus a home run by Brendan Winn, to defeat Longwood 13-3 and complete a sweep of a three game college baseball series. The Gamecocks improved to 3-0 while Longwood's record dropped to 1-7. South Carolina's next action will be a three game series with Radford University beginning Friday at Sarge Frye Field.

Forrest Beverly, seeing his first action in nearly two years due to arm surgery, pitched four innings and left with an 8-3 lead but did not go the required five innings to get the win. Freshman Wynn Pelzer pitched two hitless innings, walked one and struck out two, to notch his first collegiate win. Three other Gamecocks pitched one hitless inning apiece.







Beverly allowed eight hits and three runs, two of them earned. Isaac Wiederman, 0-2, the first of four Longwood pitchers, was charged with the loss. In 1 2/3 innings he gave up seven hits, eight runs, five earned.


South Carolina jumped out to an 8-0 lead with four runs in each of the first two innings. Tolleson drove in the first of his three RBI, Ryan Mahoney had a two run double and Cory Vanderhook doubled in the fourth run of the first inning. Tolleson doubled in a run and Winn it a two run homer, his first of the season, to highlight the second inning.


South Carolina added three runs in the fifth inning and two more in the seventh to complete its scoring.


Longwood scored one in the third on singles by Tyler Ames, Corey Huemmer and Chris Balus and added two runs in the fourth inning. Tyler Childress walked, the first base on balls by the South Carolina pitching staff after 21 innings. Nick Von Gersdorff singled. Both runners advanced on a bunt. Childress scored on an infield hit by Brett Mooney and Von Gersdorff crossed on a Gamecock error.


Davy Gregg, Michael Campbell and Mahoney had two hits apiece for South Carolina. Ames and Mooney had two hits for Longwood. The only Lancer extra base hit was a first inning double by Mooney. Tolleson, Mahoney, Vanderhook and Ian Paxton registered doubles for the Gamecocks.

[JBryant12]

Bout time we started winnin decisively agaisnt a horrible Longwood team....

[RW13]

yeah agreed, bout time we are in a season of a sport which we can succeed at.....