HARDEEVILLE, S.C. - For the second time this year, the USCB baseball team swept a Sun Conference foe, as the Sand Sharks upended Ave Maria, 12-1, in the series finale to complete the sweep of the Gyrenes at Richard Gray Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

Blaize Minick - seven innings, win, two hits, no earned runs, one walk, 10 strikeouts 

Brian Meyer - 3-for-4, triple, two singles, two runs

Leandy Castro - 1-for-2, two RBIs, one run

Alexander Humphrey - 2-for-4, two singles, one run

Nick Milhan - 1-for-2, double, two RBIs, two walks, two runs

Tavaris Terrell - 2-for-4, two singles, one RBI, two runs

Kyran Russ - 1-for-3, two RBIs, one run

HOW IT HAPPENED

After two uneventful innings, the USCB offense woke up in the third with a very crooked number - nine runs. Terrell, Clint Sellers and Meyer started the inning with three straight singles. On Meyer's single, Terrell touched home on a throwing error, and Meyer and Sellers followed with a successful double-steal to take the 2-0 lead. Castro and Russ followed with two hits of their own to take the four-run lead. After a Humphrey single, Milhan cracked a two RBI double to push the game to 6-0. Kaden Geelen plated a run on a ground out, and Terrell reached on an error to score Wesley Ambrose. Up 8-0, Russ collected a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch to push the lead to 9-0. 

After a hitless fourth inning, both ball clubs exchanged a run in the fifth. Daniel Caylor scored the run for AMU, while Castro tallied the sacrifice fly to make the contest 10-1.

After leaving a Gyrene on base in the top of the sixth, USCB pushed the lead to double-digits, 12-1, with a pair of runs in the home half of the inning. Terrell smoked a RBI single, and Jack Slavin earned a RBI off a bases-loaded walk.  

Minick continued to mow down the Gyrene lineup, as he worked a 1-2-3 seventh inning. In five of the seven innings, Minick struck out least two AMU batters.

TEAM RECORD UPDATES

USCB - 23-17 overall, 10-11 The Sun Conference

Ave Maria - 14-28 overall, 4-14 The Sun Conference

WHAT'S NEXT?

USCB will play its final home games of the 2021 season, as it will host Edward Waters for a non-conference doubleheader on Tuesday, April 20. First pitch of the two seven-seven inning games is set for 1 p.m. at Richard Gray Stadium.