COLUMBIA \u2013 The University of South Carolina baseball team faces the College of Charleston Friday night (Oct. 16) at Segra Park, home of the Columbia Fireflies, in the second of four fall games against outside competition. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
The game against the Cougars will be nine innings. The Gamecocks will be the visitors on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n
Carolina is coming off a 15-2 win over High Point last Friday afternoon (Oct. 9) at Founders Park. The Gamecocks\u2019 pitching put up zeroes in 12 of the 13 innings played, while scoring seven runs in the first three innings and eight runs in the 12th frame.<\/p>\n
The Cougars, led by former Carolina head coach Chad Holbrook, are coming off a 2026 season with a 28-28 overall record and an 18-12 record in the Coastal Athletic Association. Alex LaCoste returns for the Cougars after hitting .311 with seven home runs last season while Ryan Hench had 26 strikeouts in 26.2 innings pitched out of the bullpen.<\/p>\n
Tickets are still available for Friday\u2019s game at Segra Park as well as Carolina\u2019s game against Duke at Fifth Third Park in Spartanburg on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBIA \u2013 The University of South Carolina baseball team faces the College of Charleston Friday night (Oct. 16)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[5,3726,648,8988,8991,8987,8986,8990,1694,2341,6392,6226,8989],"class_list":["post-829959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-carolina","tag-college-baseball","tag-columbia","tag-featured-articles-home-page","tag-fighting-gamecocks","tag-gamecocks","tag-headlines-home-page","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball","tag-south-carolina","tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","tag-usc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117445224247274646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}