1-seed South Carolina beat 3-seed North Carolina state 6-3 to advance in the winner’s bracket of the Columbia Regional.
The game was scoreless until the third, when the Gamecocks took a 2-0 lead after Will McGillis walked with two outs and Braylen Wimmer went yard. USC broke things open in the fifth. Wimmer, Ethan Petry, and Cole Messina walked to load the bases with two outs and Talmadge LeCroy walked too to force in a run and make the score 3-0. Gavin Casas followed with a base hit that brought Petry and Messina in to push the lead to 5-0, then Michael Braswell singled to score LeCroy and make it a 6-0 game.