The very newest member of South Carolina baseball won’t have to wait long to make an impact for the Gamecocks, partly because of the team’s desperate need, but also due to his unusual freshman poise.
USC head coach Mark Kingston and his squad, including early enrollee pitcher John Gilreath, took the field at Founders Park for three scrimmages this past weekend, opening their spring schedule ahead of their season opener against VMI on Feb. 16.
In those three scrimmages, Gilreath, a left-hander who graduated from his high school in Rock Hill, S.C., a semester early to join the program, threw three innings, starting on Monday and working his way our of several jams.