Baseball Ended the Week 3-1 Against Gaston and Guilford

Week Recap Gaston and Guilford Tech

            SMC Baseball went 3-1 this week splitting the mid-week DH with Gaston College (7-4L, 8-6W) and sweeping Guilford Tech (8-1, 7-6) in a non-conference DH on Saturday. Another good week has the Pioneers sitting at 23-12 overall and 11-1 in conference play.

Wednesday:

Game 1 vs. Gaston College 7-4 Loss. Baker Cox picked up his first start and picked up his first loss of the season. SMC struggled to throw strikes and couldn’t get the offense going enough to pull it out. McFarland and Wallace both had 2 hits each, leading the offense. 

Game 2 vs. Gaston College 8-6 Win. Grayson Hollingsworth got the start on the mound and went 3 innings allowing 3 earned runs. After some bullpen struggles JJ Shelton came in and shut the door, throwing the last 3 innings. He allowed no runs and struck out 6 Gaston hitters. The Pioneer offense in game 2  was led by Pendergrass, Wallace, and Young with multiple-hit games and 7 RBIs between them. Rhogue Wallace homered.

Saturday:

Game 1 vs. Guilford Tech 8-1 Win. Graham Edwards earned his 6th win of the year throwing a complete game 1 run gem. He struck out 7 allowing only 1 walk. The offense scored 8 runs on 10 hits and 2 Guilford Tech errors. The offense was led by Pendergrass who was 3-4 and Jordan Young who was 2-4 with 3 RBIs.

Game 2 vs. Guilford Tech 7-6 Win in 8 innings. The Pioneers won in dramatic fashion taking the game into extra innings, by way of a 2 run inside-the-park HR by Dariyan Pendergrass in the bottom of the 7th inning. SMC eventually won it in the bottom of the 8th. BJ Bailey got the start and Baker Cox eventually came in relief picking up his 3rd win of the year.

There are multiple opportunities to catch your SMC Pioneers at home this week. Monday afternoon Columbia International’s JV team comes and plays a DH starting at 3 pm. This weekend Florence-Darlington Tech comes into town as your Pioneers resume Region 10 play. This should be a highly competitive match-up between 1st in the conference (SMC 11-1) and 2nd (Florence-Darlington Tech 14-3). Both Saturday and Sunday’s double-headers will start at 1 pm in Spartanburg.