Once, twice, three times South Carolina baseball took the lead over Liberty at Founders Park on Friday. Three times, the Flames came back to tie things.
Eventually, Liberty made the Gamecocks pay for those second chances, defeating USC, 6-5, in extra innings on Opening Day.
“They played a little bit cleaner brand of baseball. They won. We got to move on, get ready for tomorrow,” coach Mark Kingston said of the Gamecocks (0-1)
Liberty scored the winning run in the bottom of the 11th inning without a base hit — senior Tyler Galazin reached out a fielding error by pitcher John Gilreath, advanced to second on a passed ball, made it to third on a groundout and raced home on a wild pitch.