Tuesday, April 21
Mount Pleasant, S.C.
6:00 PM
College of Charleston
20-20
7
vs
5
Charleston Southern
22-17
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Runs R | Hits H | Errors E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charleston Southern | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 3 |
| Charleston | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | X | 7 | 13 | 1 |
Johnson Records First Four-Hit Game in Victory
4/21/2026 10:34:00 PM | Baseball
MT PLEASANT, S.C. – Graduate Dylan Johnson went 4-for-5 with a pair of RBI as College of Charleston baseball beat Charleston Southern, 7-5, Tuesday evening at Patriots Point.
The Cougars have won nine of the last 10 games and improve to 20-20 on the season while the Bucs slide to 22-16 overall.
CRITICAL POINTS AGAINST CHARLESTON SOUTHERN:
OF NOTE:
UP NEXT:
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The Cougars have won nine of the last 10 games and improve to 20-20 on the season while the Bucs slide to 22-16 overall.
CRITICAL POINTS AGAINST CHARLESTON SOUTHERN:
- Graduate Will Tippet sent a 1-0 pitch 397 feet for a two-run shot in the second.
- Charleston Southern scored in the third before plating three more in the fourth to take a 4-2 lead.
- In the home half of the fourth, freshman Nick Diaz tripled down the right field line before scoring on a Tippett RBI groundout.
- Trailing 5-4 in the seventh, Johnson leveled the game with an RBI single to left before redshirt junior Braeden Smith gave the Cougars the lead again with a sacrifice fly.
- Johnson capped off his four-hit effort with an RBI single in the eighth for an insurance marker.
- Diaz finished the night 3-for-4 with three runs in the victory.
- Graduate Kurt Rogers earned his fourth win of the year, tossing 2.0 innings of relief.
- Redshirt sophomore Ryan Hench collected his first collegiate save, throwing two scoreless frames.
OF NOTE:
- Charleston increases its advantage to 69-18 in the series with Charleston Southern
- Sophomore Alex LaCoste singled to extend his hitting streak to 10 games and has hits in 25 of the last 26 contests.
- Redshirt senior Ethan Plyler had a team-high eight assists.
- Johnson tallied his team-best 15th multi-hit performance Tuesday while Tippett and Diaz recorded their third and fifth multi-hit games of the season, respectively.
- CofC improves to 9-3 in the month of April and 6-1 on Tuesdays.
UP NEXT:
- Charleston hosts Campbell for a three-game conference series beginning April 24 at Patriots Point.
For complete coverage of Charleston baseball, follow us X (@CofCBaseball) and Instagram (@CofC_Baseball).
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Rogers, Kurt (4-2)
L: ALTHOFF, Kayden (0-1)
S: Hench, Ryan (1)
Batting:
2B: SPEIRS, Gavin 1
RBI: WRIGHT, Tyler 3 ; SPEIRS, Gavin 1 ; MAROT, Alex 1
SH: WOLFLEY, Caden 1
Base Running:
RUNS: COLLINS, Kain 2 ; EDGMON, Blake 1 ; WOLFLEY, Caden 1 ; BARILE, Garrison 1
SB: COLLINS, Kain 2 ; BARILE, Garrison 1
Batting:
2B: Tippett, Will 1
3B: Diaz, Nick 1
HR: Tippett, Will 1
RBI: Diaz, Nick 1 ; Smith, Braeden 1 ; Tippett, Will 3 ; Johnson, Dylan 2
SF: Smith, Braeden 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Plyler, Ethan 1 ; Diaz, Nick 3 ; Holbrook, Reece 1 ; Tippett, Will 2
SB: Amman, Jake 1 ; Johnson, Dylan 1
Game Leaders
AB
5
R
0
H
4
RBI
2
AB
4
R
2
H
2
RBI
3
AB
5
R
0
H
1
RBI
0
Players Mentioned
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