Charleston Opens Series with Win

Thursday, May 14

Mount Pleasant, S.C.

6:00 PM

College of Charleston

26-26, 16-12

William & Mary

21-30, 12-16

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
William & Mary	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	5	1
Charleston	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	3	X	9	13	0

Alex Lyon throwing a pitch May 14, 2026 vs William & Mary.

5/14/2026 9:51:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

MT PLEASANT, S.C. – College of Charleston baseball took game one of the weekend series over William & Mary, 9-2, Friday evening at Patriots Point.

Graduates Dylan Johnson, Reece Holbrook and Will Tippett each had two hits and scored twice in the win.

CRITICAL POINTS AGAINST WILLIAM & MARY:

Scoreless through two, Charleston took a 6-0 lead in the third after putting a six-spot on the board with 12 batters coming to the plate.
Sophomore Landon Penfield led off the frame with a 400-foot solo homer.
The Cougars continued the early onslaught with five straight singles before a pair of sacrifice flies and an RBI groundout by Penfield.
Freshman Carter Harrington picked up his third win of the season, allowing a lone run over 5.0 innings while striking out four before handing the ball to redshirt senior Alex Lyon.
Lyon threw 3.2 frames, yielding one run on two hits.
Holding a 6-2 lead in the bottom of the eighth, Tippett and Holbrook began the frame with back-to-back doubles down the left field line.
Redshirt senior Ethan Plyler added two more insurance runs with a two-out, two-run single through the right side to plate Holbrook and Johnson.

OF NOTE:

Charleston improves to 35-14 against William & Mary and 19-4 at home.
With the two-run single in the eighth, Plyler extended his hitting streak to 11 games.
Charleston has at least 13 hits in each of the last four games and double-digit hits in seven of the last nine contests.
With his 99th appearance, Lyon has tied Carter Love for the most appearances in school history. His 99 appearances are also sixth in CAA history.
Tippett now has a five-game hitting streak where he's gone 10-for-17 with 10 runs scored.
Johnson is now hitting .381 with 13 doubles in conference play.

UP NEXT:

Charleston continues the series against William & Mary Friday for Military Appreciation Night, presented by Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum. First pitch is set for 6 p.m.

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