South Carolina supplied a weekend’s worth of dramatic moments to make the NCAA tournament Super Regional.
Now the ninth-seeded Gamecocks must to do it again.
Kennedy Clark extended the school season home run record with the Gamecocks’ 65th in the seventh inning, but that was about all the offense they could muster in a 5-2 loss to eighth-seeded Arizona State in the first game of the best-of-three series at ASU’s Farrington Stadium.
Arizona State sophomore left-hander Giselle Juarez took a no-hitter into the seventh inning before Alyssa VanDerveer hit a hard single up the middle to break it up.