Following a 14-4 win over Gardner-Webb on Tuesday, South Carolina head coach Paul Mainieri met with the media. Below is a summary of what he had to say. — The game started a little inauspiciously. Fell behind quickly 2-0.

South Carolina head coach Paul Mainieri is encouraged by the early tough games for the Gamecocks. While the South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team is undefeated, not every game has been pretty. The Gamecocks had a tight contest against Winthrop,

Heading into Sunday, the Gamecocks’ offense was a two-man show. If Ethan Petry or Nathan Hall didn’t get on base, didn’t bring home a run, didn’t score a run — well, the odds weren’t great than anyone else would.

The Paul Mainieri Era of South Carolina Baseball is set to get underway with the start of the 2025 season Friday night at home vs Sacred Heart. Here's a full pr

Mainieri and the Gamecocks beat Sacred Heart 5-3 on Opening Day on Friday at Founders Park, scoring runs in the seventh and eighth innings after the MAAC squad from Connecticut tied the game in the sixth. For Mainieri, it’s win No. 1,502 across 40 years and now five teams in his college baseball coaching career.

A sixth-inning grand slam proved to be the difference, but the Gamecocks’ starting pitcher had to exit the game early.

With the bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth, junior fielder Ethan Petry earned a walk, and freshman infielder Beau Hollins had an RBI single to put South Carolina up 12-4. A bases-loaded hit by pitch and a sacrifice fly gave the Gamecocks a 14-4 lead going into the seventh and last inning.

Opening Day is always the start of something new. A new season. New players. New hope. But as the South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team begins its 2025 season at 4 p.m. Friday against Sacred Heart, the newness will feel magnified. Here are five things to know as Carolina baseball begins its quest for Omaha.

Mainieroi led South Carolina to a 3-0 record on opening weekend and a win on Tuesday. The Gamecocks took down Sacred Heart in the three-game series and recorded a win at Winthrop.

South Carolina played baseball in a winter hellscape. Just 37 people sat in the Founders Park seats on a 36-degree rainy day where frigid air whipped onto bare skin like shards of glass. At one point in that Feb.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Paul Mainieri started the day with 1,505 career wins. He now has 1.506 as South Carolina broke a 3-3 tie with a pair of runs late in a 5-3 victory over Sacred Heart, giving the coach a win in his first game as the Gamecocks' head coach.

Right from the jump, South Carolina came out swinging as Blake Jackson and Ethan Petry hit back-to-back RBI doubles in a three-run first inning. Petry kept his great start to the year going as he went 2-for-3 with two doubles and brought home another run.