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No. 14 USC Completes Sweep
March 19, 2023 | Baseball
The Gamecocks (20-1, 3-0 SEC) built a 6-0 lead by the third inning and then 10-0 before Georgia redshirt freshman Charlie Condon connected for his team-leading ninth home run in the sixth. Will McGillis and Gavin Casas hit two homers apiece to pace the Gamecocks 10-hit attack. McGillis began the game with a home run off Bulldog starter Charlie Goldstein.
Jack Mahoney pitched six innings and allowed one run on six hits with a walk and six strikeouts to improve to 3-0. Goldstein fell to 0-1, allowing five runs on three hits with six strikeouts.
"You've got to be able to turn the page as quick as possible, you can't let it linger," said Georgia's Ike Cousins head baseball coach Scott Stricklin. "We did not play very well this weekend, certainly South Carolina played really well, they had a lot to do with that. Their starting rotation is as good as you're going to see. The bottom line is we've got to turn the page and move on and get ready to play on Tuesday (Ga. State) and then go to Auburn next in the SEC, and we certainly can't play the way we played this weekend. The team that played against Georgia Tech, that's the team who I think we are, and we didn't see much of that team this weekend."
Condon had two of Georgia's six hits on the afternoon and extended his hitting streak to 19 games. After Goldstein, Kyle Greenler, Dalton Rhadans, Collin Caldwell and Will Pearson saw action on Sunday. The new 10-run rule came into play as the game ended after seven innings.
Georgia (13-7, 0-3 SEC) was swept at home in an SEC series for the first time since 2017 (Florida), and the first time in league play since 2019 (at Mississippi State). Up next, Georgia returns to Coolray Field in Lawrenceville where it will face Georgia State on Tuesday at 6 p.m. The Bulldogs next SEC series starts Thursday against the Tigers in Auburn. Georgia will play eight of its next nine games on the road.
