GAINESVILLE \u2013 The University of South Carolina baseball team dropped its Sunday (March 15) contest to No. 23 Florida, 13-3, in seven innings at Condron Family Ballpark.<\/p>\n
Florida went up 3-0 in the first inning on a sacrifice fly and two-run double from Colton Schwartz. The Gamecocks tied the game in the top of the second on Luke Yuhasz\u2019s three-run home run, his first as a Gamecock. Brendan Lawson\u2019s three-run home run in the bottom of the second gave the Gators back their three-run advantage.<\/p>\n
The Gators scored five runs in the bottom of the fourth inning, capped by a grand slam from Cash Strayer. Florida added a pair in the fifth on a two-run double.<\/p>\n
At the plate, Will Craddock was 2-for-4 while Yuhasz drove in three. The loss went to Alex Valentin, who allowed six runs in 2.2 innings of relief.<\/p>\n
POSTGAME NOTES<\/p>\n
Yuhasz now has 15 career home runs between Louisiana-Lafayette and Carolina.
\nCraddock now has eight multi-hit games.
\nThe Gamecocks used five pitchers on the day.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
South Carolina will start a four-game homestand on Tuesday afternoon (March 17) with a 4 p.m. first pitch against Charlotte. The game will be streamed on SEC Network Plus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE \u2013 The University of South Carolina baseball team dropped its Sunday (March 15) contest to No. 23…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3816,44898,44900,44901,44899,28,30,29,44897,44902,1801,6759,25853],"class_list":["post-192695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-baseball","tag-carolina","tag-columbia","tag-featured-articles-home-page","tag-fighting-gamecocks","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gamecocks","tag-headlines-home-page","tag-south-carolina","tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","tag-usc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}