CHARLOTTE – The University of South Carolina baseball team dropped a 9-1 contest to No. 13 North Carolina Tuesday night (March 24) at Truist Field, home of the Charlotte Knights.
The Gamecocks plated a run in the top of the first as Jake Randolph continued his hot hitting with an RBI single that scored KJ Scobey. North Carolina answered with a two-run home run in the bottom of the first.
The score remained 2-1 until the sixth when a wild pitch plated a run. North Carolina put up a six-spot in the seventh off three hits, four walks and a hit by pitch.
Logan Prisco was great out of the pen, striking out five and allowing four hits and a run in 4.1 innings of work. The loss went to Connor Chicoli, who allowed a pair of runs in 1.1 innings.
Randolph and Beau Hollins had two hits apiece to lead Carolina’s offense.
POSTGAME NOTES
Hollins is hitting .400 in the team’s last five games.
Carolina used seven pitchers on the night.
Attendance at Truist Field was 2,960.
UP NEXT
Carolina makes the trip to Athens, Ga., for a three-game SEC series at No. 7 Georgia. The series starts Friday night (March 27) at 6 p.m. The game will be streamed on SEC Network Plus.