South Carolina vs Charleston Southern – Gamecocks Hoping to Finish Season Strong
The South Carolina Gamecocks are looking to finish the season strong and it starts with a matchup vs Charleston Southern.
South Carolina’s baseball team is currently 25-20 on the year and they just recently dropped a series against the Kentucky Wildcats. They have three more conference series remaining before the regular season is over, so they will be looking to have a strong end to the season.
Jarvis Evans Jr. (Jr. LHP) is the expected starter for South Carolina. He has a 3-2 record, a 6.23 ERA in 39.0 IP and 12 BB with 38 SO. Brad Grindlinger (R-Fr. RHP) is the projected starter for Charleston. He has a 0-0 record, a 20.25 ERA in 2.2 IP and 6 BB with 2 SO.
SCOUTING CHARLESTON SOUTHERN
- The Buccaneers are coming off winning 2-of-3 games against Presbyterian this past weekend.
- Aidan McAskie had three RBI as CSU won 6-4 in 11 innings on Sunday.
- Kain Collins leads the Bucs with a .339 batting average while Kaden Smith has a team-best 11 home runs.
- On the mound, Tyler Henshaw is 6-1 with a 2.60 ERA in 34.2 innings pitched.
- Karl Kuhn is in his first season as head coach at Charleston Southern. He was on staff at CSU for the past two season as the associate head coach.
Following Tuesday’s midweek game, South Carolina will host the Florida Gators in a big-time conference series. Tuesday’s game is set to start at 6:30 PM ET and will be streamed on SEC Network+.
The University of South Carolina has been selected as a 2024 Super 11 Award winner, which recognizes the best performing College Sports Communicators departments in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, the Football Writers Association of America announced today.
It’s the third time in the past four years that the South Carolina football communications staff, under the direction of Senior Associate Athletics Director Steve Fink, has been recognized with this prestigious award.
The 11 Awards for the 2024 season with their CSC directors and their staffs went to Clemson – 12th time (Ross Taylor), Nebraska – 11th time (Keith Mann), Navy – eighth time (Scott Strasemeier), and Pittsburgh – seventh time (E.J. Borghetti). California (Keeler McJunkin), Iowa (Matt Weitzel), South Carolina (Steve Fink), Tennessee (Bill Martin) and West Virginia (Mike Montoro) each won for the third time, while Texas Tech (Matt Dowdy) was recognized for a second time. The lone first-time recipient in the 2024 Super 11 was Army (Eric Szczepinski). The Super 11 dates to the 2009 season.
This year’s winners were deemed to have had excellent accessibility during the week of their games and after the game with a program’s players, coaches and coordinators/assistant coaches. Other criteria regarding beat reporter access, interview requests, and decorum and protocols in the press box and locker room are listed in the 2024-25 FWAA Directory.
“Access is required to write the best examples of story-telling in our business,” said 2025 FWAA President Bill Bender of The Sporting News. “These departments set a standard with a friendly working relationship in an era where access is in some ways more difficult to come by. That professionalism helps create an environment where we can tell those behind-the-scenes stories about their players and coaches. We are grateful to these 11 schools for promoting that model.”
