#2 Texas 4-South Carolina 1 Game Summary
Founders Park
- After scoring nine runs on 11 hits in a Thursday night win, South Carolina managed just four runs and six hits the next two games. Saturday, the Gamecocks were held to one run on two hits and struck out 15 times.
- Gamecock pitchers only allowed two earned runs on six hits and struck out 15 on Saturday. They did walk five.
- The Longhorns scored a pair of runs in the top of the first off of Gamecock starter Amp Phillips. A walk with one out was followed by a passed ball on a swinging strikeout putting runners on the corners. Following a steal of second, Anthony Pack Jr. doubled to left to score both runs, one of which was unearned.
- Phillips kept the Longhorns at bay until the fifth when left fielder Patrick Evans misplayed a high fly ball that reached the track. That turned into a three base error, and a sac fly scored the runner from third for a 3-0 Texas lead.
- Texas starter Dylan Volantis (4-0) retired the first 12 Gamecocks he faced. The 13th, Talmadge LeCroy, took him deep for what turned out to be the Gamecocks’ only run of the game. It was his seventh home run of the season. Volantis then struck out the next three hitters swinging. He left with one out in the sixth after allowing the one run on two hits and striking ot six.
- Texas threatened in the sixth with runners on the corners and two outs, but Zach Russell replaced Logan Prisco and got a fly ball to end the inning.
- The Gamecocks had a big threat in the sixth as well as they loaded the bases with two outs on a walk, a single and a fielder’s choice in which Luke Yhasz beat the throw to the bag at second. That brought LeCroy to the plate but this time he struck out swinging on a 1-2 pitch.
- That was the last chance for the Gamecocks as they didn’t get a hit against Longhorn relievers over the final three innings, and their only baseunner reached in the eighth on a hit by pitch. Three Texas releivers did not allow a hit or a walk and struck out nine over the final 3.1 innings
- Texas added one more insurance run in the ninth on Carson Tinney’s third home run of the series.
- Phillips (2-4) allowed two hits and one earned run over 4.2 innings. He struck out eight and walked four. Prisco, Russell and Cooper Parks allowed one run on four hits and struck out seven over the final 4.1 innings.
- South Carolina is 15-18 and 2-10 in the SEC and will host the College of Charleston on Tuesday night. Texas is 26-5 and 9-3.
