No. 6 South Carolina took a while to get things going on Tuesday night, but they did enough in the late innings to come away with a 5-0 shutout of North Carolina in Charlotte.
Both teams were scoreless until the seventh inning, when the Gamecocks finally broke through. With two outs, Michael Braswell walked, Jonathan French doubled to bring him in and make it 1-0, and Evan Stone followed with a double of his own that got French home and put USC up 2-0.
The rest of USC’s runs came in the eighth. Gavin Casas started things off with a double, Ethan Petry singled, and Cole Messina came through with a base hit to get Casas in and make it a 3-0 game.