The offense showed some signs of life for South Carolina baseball, but this time, it was the Gamecocks' young arms that let them down, as USC fell 7-4 to Presbyterian at Founders Park on Tuesday.
A total of four freshman pitchers took the mound for all nine innings for South Carolina (20-17, 6-9 SEC), and led by starter Carmen Mlodzinski, all looked short of their best.
A week after cruising through five innings in his first career start against The Citadel, Mlodzinski struggled against some crafty hitting from the Blue Hose (13-26, 6-9 Big South), as PC manufactured three runs in the first two innings, using a walk, two singles, sacrifice bunt and RBI groundout to score twice in the first frame, then two hard-hit doubles to add another in the second.