SPARTANBURG, S.C. --No. 13 South Carolina softball hit a season-high four home runs in a 7-1 win over USC Upstate on Wednesday night at Cyrill Stadium. The Gamecocks hit three in the top of the fifth to take the 4-1 lead it wouldn't surrender to earn win No. 38 on the year.
For the second-time in three games, Cayla Drotar and Alyssa VanDerveer hit back-to-back home runs, this time in the top of the fifth to break the 1-1 tie. Alyssa Kumiyama got in on the home run action with a deep shot a couple batters later to make it 4-1 Gamecocks through five.