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CHARLESTON, S.C. – College of Charleston baseball finishes their four-game road swing Tuesday as they head to Clemson for a Tuesday afternoon battle with the Tigers. The Cougars and Tigers split a pair of midweek games last season with Clemson taking the first in a 2-1 pitcher's duel and Charleston claiming the second game at SEGRA Park in Columbia.
 
Charleston is coming off a 2-1 series win at William & Mary that saw the win streak reach as high as 10 with Saturday's 2-1 series-clinching win. The final three contests of Charleston's 10-game win streak came by the exact same 2-1 final score – the finale of the Longwood series and first two contests in Williamsburg against the Tribe.
 
Clemson is on a five-game streak of their own having most recently swept Georgia State at home over the weekend scoring 29 runs in the process. The Tigers are 10-3 at Doug Kingsmore Stadium this season and have won six-straight at home since a series loss to UCF the second weekend of the season.
 
Charleston is looking for their second Power 5 win this season as well as second ACC win after taking down then-No. 14 Virginia Tech 5-2 on Opening Night from Patriots Point. The Cougars and Tigers meet again in exactly two weeks in Columbia, S.C. with Charleston as the designated home team in a neutral site affair.
 
Scouting the Tigers

• Cam Cannarella is hitting .446 to lead the Tigers with five doubles and 14 RBI and has been a threat on the base paths stealing 10 bags in 11 attempts.
• Will Taylor and Cooper Ingle have clubbed six home runs and driven in 24 RBI combined. Clemson as an offense is hitting .300 with an OPS of .844 and swiping 40 bases.
• Tuesday's starter Ethan Darden is 0-1 with a 5.14 ERA entering the matchup tossing seven innings across five appearances to this point. The freshman southpaw has surrendered six hits, six runs – four earned, walked four and struck out four with Tuesday coming as his first collegiate start.
• Ethan Darden will become the eighth different Tiger to start a game on the mound in 2023 under first year head coach Erik Bakich. Ten different Tigers have claimed a win for the pitching staff that has a 4.21 ERA.

 
Pitching Matchup
Tuesday: RHP Cole Mathis (1-0, 2.19) vs. LHP Ethan Darden (0-1, 5.14)
 
Series History

• Charleston has taken three of the last four meetings with the Tigers including a 7-5 neutral site victory in May of 2022 from SEGRA Park in Columbia. Clemson took the first meeting 2-1 last season at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.
• In all three Charleston wins since 2020 the Cougars have scored at least seven runs including a 13-6 win at Clemson in 2021 and 11-2 victory before the 2020 season came to an end.
• Clemson leads the all-time series 24-5 but the Cougars are 3-3 against the ACC power since Chad Holbrook took over ahead of the 2018 season.
• Of the 29 previous meetings since Charleston became a Division I program in 1991, 21 have come at Doug Kingsmore Stadium, two have been neutral site battles and six have taken place in the Holy City.