FLORENCE, S.C. - After three scoreless innings, USCB baseball erupted for 12 unanswered runs and cruised to a 12-1 victory over Francis Marion Sunday afternoon to kick off play at the Pepsi Invitational. 

Inside the Box Score

Hunter Miller: 3-for-4, RBI, 2B, 2 R

Alexander Humphrey: 3-for-6, RBI, 2 R

Nikko Andre: 2-for-5, 4 RBIs, 2B, R 

Wesley Ambrose: 2-for-5, 3 RBIs, 2B, R

Brandon Blume: WP (1-0), 7 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 4 SO

How it Happened

After a pair of scoreless innings to commence the game, the Patriots scored an unearned run in the bottom of the third inning. However, that quickly changed from the fourth inning-on.

In the fourth, Ambrose put USCB on the board with a two-run double and scored on a throwing error on the next play. 

Andre singled home USCB's fourth run in the fifth inning, and Humphrey plated another run the following inning with a single through the left side. Andre's spot came up again the same inning, and the Murrells Inlet native belted a two-run double to right center to push the Sand Shark lead to seven, 8-1. 

USCB pushed across another run on a wild pitch, and Miller singled to left to make it 10-1 in the seventh.

The Sand Sharks would push across two more runs, making it 12-1, and Tucker Dove came in to close it out and end the game via the 10-run mercy rule.

Team Records Updated

USCB: 2-4 

FMU: 2-3

What's Next?

The Sand Sharks will wrap up play in the Pepsi Invitational in Florence on Monday against Catawba at 11 a.m. and then against Francis Marion again at 5 p.m.