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Gamecocks fall on walk-off homer vs. Florida, lose fifth SEC series in a row

South Carolina baseball’s Wesley Sweatt pitches against Georgia on Friday at Founders Park. Dwayne McLemore dmclemore@thestate.com

South Carolina baseball had its first SEC series win of the year just a strike away on Saturday.

Then, everything fell apart as Florida got a three-run walk-off home run to top the Gamecocks, 6-4, and hand USC its fifth consecutive series loss.

UF freshman Jordan Butler had the game-winning slam, a shot to right field with two runners on base against freshman reliever Wesley Sweatt, who had struck out the first two batters in the ninth and had a 3-2 count on the next one before losing control as rain poured down in Gainesville.