Bullpen Leads Cougs to Midweek Win

Tuesday, April 8

Charleston, S.C.

6:00 PM

College of Charleston

19-12

Charleston Southern

17-13

Col. of Charleston

Charleston Southern

4/8/2025 10:49:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – College of Charleston baseball beat Charleston Southern, 6-4, Tuesday evening at Nielsen Field.

Backed behind eight innings of one-run ball from the bullpen, the Cougars swept the season series and improve to 64-18 all-time against the Bucs.

CRITICAL POINTS AGAINST CHARLESTON SOUTHERN:

CofC jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first, courtesy of a sacrifice fly from graduate Avery Neaves and two-run double off the bat of senior Dylan Johnson.
After giving up a three-run shot in the home half of the opening frame, sophomore Brent Gibbs roped a two-run double to right in the second, giving the Cougars the lead for good.
Redshirt junior Ethan Plyler added an insurance marker in the seventh, scoring Gibbs on an RBI groundout.
CSU looked to come back, singling in a run in the eighth to make it 6-4, but couldn't get any more runners to score as senior Davis Aiken recorded the four out save to close the door for the visitors.
CofC's bullpen allowed one run across eight innings of work. Freshman Drew Medley earned his first career victory, tossing three scoreless innings of relief while allowing just one hit.

OF NOTE:

Charleston is 64-18 all-time against CSU and 32-6 as the visitors.
The Cougars have won nine of the last ten meetings between the two schools.
Johnson extended his hitting streak to nine straight games and picked up his eighth multi-hit and sixth multi-RBI performances of the year.
Senior Dariyan Pendergrass swiped third in the first inning, giving him 26 stolen bases this season and a swiped bag in six of the last seven games.
With the bag, Pendergrass is two stolen bases away from entering the top 10 all-time for swiped bags in a single season.
Redshirt junior Alex Lyon appeared in his 65th career game out of the bullpen Tuesday.
Aiken earned his sixth save of the campaign and 17th career stop with Charleston, tying him with Michael Hanzlik (2013-14) for sixth all-time in program history.

UP NEXT:
Charleston hosts Delaware for a weekend series at Patriots Point April 11-13. First pitch on Friday is set for 6 p.m. with all three contests airing live on FloCollege.

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