USC Gamecocks sports news, photos and updates. Oops, you haven't selected any newsletters. SPORTS - USC Gamecocks. University of South Carolina Head Football Coach Steve. Alzheimer's Services Walk/Run to Remember relocated due to LSU vs. USC game.. Please check the box next to one or more of our email newsletters and submit again. Oops, you didn't provide a valid email address. Please double- check the email field and submit again. Clemson Tigers baseball team. The 2. 01. 3 Clemson Tigers baseball team was the varsity intercollegiate baseball team representing Clemson University in the 2. Baseball; Basketball; Football; Hockey; Soccer; College Sports News; Report a score; Sports Video; Video. As part of our 60th anniversary celebration in 2013.NCAA Division I baseball season. The Tigers competed in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and were led by twentieth- year head coach Jack Leggett. Clemson played its home games at Doug Kingsmore Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina. Preseason[edit]Clemson announced its 2. November 2. 01. 2. Clemson's non- conference schedule included two series against SEC teams– a three- game weekend rivalry series against South Carolina and a two- game midweek series against Georgia. Also in non- conference play, it included weekend series against William & Mary, Wright State, and Georgia Southern, along with midweek games against other mid- major programs. In ACC play, it included home series against Virginia, Duke, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, and Maryland, and road series against NC State, North Carolina, Boston College, Miami (FL), and Florida State.[2][3]After having many players from the 2. Clemson for the 2. ![]()
Clemson's recruiting class was ranked fifth in Division I baseball and first in the ACC. It included 1. 6 high school players, two junior college transfers, and one Division I transfer. ![]() Three players in the recruiting class– Tyler Krieger, Kevin Bradley, and Clate Schmidt– were selected in the 2. Major League Baseball Draft but chose to attend college.[4][5]Two Clemson players received individual accolades prior to the start of the season. Junior infielder Steve Wilkerson was named to both the Collegiate Baseball Preseason All- America Third Team and the College Baseball Insider Preseason All- America Honorable Mention Team. Senior pitcher Scott Firth was named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Stopper of the Year Award Watchlist.[6]Firth, senior outfielder Thomas Brittle, junior first baseman Jon Mc. Gibbon, and senior bullpen catcher Marcus Curry were named Clemson's captains for the season.[7]At the January American Baseball Coaches Association Convention and throughout the season, head coach Jack Leggett received media attention for his support of proposals to adopt a new baseball for NCAA play. Such a baseball would be modeled after the ball used in minor league baseball; it would have flat seams and a harder core that would allow it to travel farther off the bat.[8][9] Leggett and other head coaches supported the new baseball in response to the drop in offense following the adoption of BBCOR bats in the 2. In the preseason ACC coaches' poll, released in late January, Clemson was picked to finish third in the six- team Atlantic Division. The team received one first- place vote. NC State was picked to finish first in the Atlantic Division and to win the ACC.[1. The Tigers began the preseason on the fringe of the national rankings, #2. Collegiate Baseball poll, #2. NCBWA poll, and unranked in the Coaches' Poll and the Baseball America poll.[1. TigerNet is your source for Clemson Football. Clemson basketball, Clemson baseball. Clemson football team honored at halftime of bball game; Clemson included. The University of South Carolina Official Athletic Site. vs. Clemson: Greenville, S. Baseball Announces 2016 Schedule. The South Carolina baseball team has. The 2013 Clemson Tigers baseball team was the varsity. shutting out Presbyterian and USC Upstate on. 2013 Clemson Tigers Baseball Game Log. In early February, the team's regular season television schedule was announced. Ten games were planned to be televised on one of ESPNU, CSS, and RSN. ESPN 3 or Clemson's athletic website.[1. February[edit]Clemson's opening weekend rotation consisted of sophomore Daniel Gossett, sophomore Patrick Andrews, and senior Scott Firth.[1. Its opening day lineup was as follows: senior center fielder Thomas Brittle, sophomore left fielder Tyler Slaton, junior second baseman Steve Wilkerson, junior designated hitter Shane Kennedy, junior first baseman Jon Mc. Gibbon, sophomore third baseman Jay Baum, freshman right fielder Steve Duggar, freshman shortstop Tyler Krieger, and sophomore catcher Garrett Boulware.[1. On opening weekend, Clemson won two of three games at home against William & Mary. In Friday's opening day game on February 1. Clemson won, 2- 0, as a result of Kennedy's two- run home run in the bottom of the eighth. On Saturday, Clemson lost, 1. Andrews gave up four earned runs in three innings. Relievers Matthew Crownover, Mike Kent, and Brody Koerner each gave up multiple runs, as well. Clemson won the series with a 1. Sunday. The Tigers scored all 1. Firth was credited with a win in his first start since 2. In the second weekend of the season, Clemson swept a three- game home series against Wright State. After the series's Friday game was postponed due to rain, Clemson swept a Saturday doubleheader, 5- 3 and 6- 0. In the first game, Wilkerson homered and Matt Campbell was credited with his second save of the season. In the second, Clate Schmidt, who had replaced Andrews in the rotation, threw four scoreless innings. On Sunday, in the series's final game, Firth pitched eight scoreless innings, and Clemson won, 7- 0. With the 6- 0 and 7- 0 wins, Clemson recorded back- to- back shutouts for the first time since shutting out Presbyterian and USC Upstate on consecutive days in 2. Clemson's final game of the month came against Winthrop on February 2. Crownover started the game to become Clemson's first left- handed starting pitcher in 1. Winthrop won the game, 3- 2 in 1. Clay Altman sacrifice fly in the top of the 1. The Tigers finished the month with a 5- 2 record.[2. Clemson's first three games of March were a rivalry series against #7 South Carolina. Entering the series, Clemson held a 1. South Carolina entered with an 1. In 2. 01. 2, Baseball America writer Aaron Fitt called the two teams' rivalry "far and away the most compelling rivalry college baseball has to offer."[3. In addition to Clate Schmidt's joining the weekend rotation, the lineup changed slightly, with freshman outfielder Maleeke Gibson appearing in more games in left field than sophomore Tyler Slaton.[3. In game one at Clemson home field Doug Kingsmore Stadium on Friday, March 1, South Carolina won, 6- 0. South Carolina starting pitcher Jordan Montgomery pitched eight scoreless innings. Clemson had only three hits and committed three errors, including a dropped fly ball by Shane Kennedy in South Carolina's three- run seventh inning. Five of the six runs the Tigers' pitching staff allowed were unearned. The game one attendance of 6,0. Clemson's highest home attendance mark to that point in the season.[3. Game two was played at a neutral site, Greenville, South Carolina's Fluor Field; Clemson won, 6- 3, to break a three- game losing streak against South Carolina. Schmidt, in his second start, gave up two runs in seven innings to earn his second win, and Matt Campbell got his third save. Duggar had two hits and two RBI.[3. Clemson lost the series with an 8- 0 loss in Sunday's game three, played at Carolina Stadium. Similarly to Friday's loss, Clemson's offense had only three hits, and five of the six runs given up by starter Scott Firth were unearned. South Carolina starter Nolan Belcher pitched a complete game shutout.[3. A total of 2. 1,3. In the week three polls conducted following the series, Clemson was not ranked by any of the four national polls.[3. Through ten games, several young pitchers performed well for the team. Neither sophomore transfer Kyle Schnell (in 6. Zack Erwin (in 2. Freshman Matthew Crownover gave up one in his only appearance. Crownover started a midweek game on March 6, in which Clemson defeated Wofford, 9- 2. Duggar had four RBI in the game, and Kennedy had three.[4. In the season's fourth weekend, the team started Atlantic Coast Conference play with a three- game series at #8 NC State. Clemson won the series, two games to one. In game one, Clemson won, 1. Carlos Rodon (named 2. National Freshman of the Year by Baseball America), despite having struggled against left- handed pitching early in the season. Sophomore catcher Garrett Boulware hit two home runs in the game, while batting sixth in the lineup. Boulware had begun the season batting ninth, but because of strong performances was moved to the cleanup spot by the end of the series.[4. In game two, Clemson won the series with a 7- 4 win. Thomas Brittle second- inning grand slam gave Clemson an early lead. Starter Schmidt pitched only 3. Jonathan Meyer gave up two runs in relief. Schnell, after pitching 2. Friday, threw 2. 2 scoreless innings in the sixth, seventh, and eighth to set up Campbell's fourth save.[4. Clemson lost game three, 4- 1. Clemson's offense had ten hits, but left ten runners on base, and Firth took his second loss after giving up two runs (one earned) in 6. After not being ranked following the South Carolina series, Clemson was ranked #2. Collegiate Baseball following the series win over NC State.[4. Through the end of the NC State series, Clemson's starting pitching had been strong– each of the team's three weekend starters (Gossett, Schmidt, and Firth) had an earned run average of less than 2. Clemson won a March 1. Charleston Southern, 3- 1, to make Clemson's all- time record against the Buccaneers 1. Crownover pitched 6. Schnell pitched 1. The team played its first home conference series from March 1. Virginia; Clemson lost the series, two games to one. Tyler Slaton returned to the starting lineup for two of the three games against Virginia, and he started and batted leadoff for much of the rest of the season.[5. In game one, Clemson held a 5- 2 lead entering the ninth inning, in part because of a three- RBI game by Kennedy. Daniel Gossett gave up only two runs in 7. However, Virginia tied the game with three runs in the ninth off of Campbell and Schnell, then took the lead and eventually won, 6- 5, on a Mike Papihome run in the top of the eleventh.[5. Clemson won game two, 7- 6. Although Schmidt gave up five runs in four innings, Zack Erwin pitched five innings of one- hit, one- run relief to earn his first win. Boulware, who had a triple, home run, and three RBI, scored Thomas Brittle with a walk- off single in the bottom of the ninth.[5. On Sunday, Virginia won the series with an 8- 5 win. Firth gave up six runs in five innings to take his third loss of the season.[5. On March 1. 9 and 2. Clemson swept Morehead State in a non- conference two- game series. The Tigers won the first game, 1.
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