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The South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team took on Gardner-Webb in midweek action Tuesday looking to improve their season record to 8-1. They’d do so with a quick 7-1 dispatching of the Bulldogs in Founders Park.
The highlight of that contest came in fifth inning of action where the Gamecocks plated all seven of those runs to turn a one-run deficit into a blowout.
That frame was headlined by an absolute moonshot from infielder Gavin Casas.
Casas is in his second season with the Gamecocks after transferring from SEC rival Vanderbilt. The lefty is known for his power at the dish, racking up 19 home runs as a junior in Columbia.
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Casas stepped up to the dish for his third at-bat in that monster fifth inning and would bring fireworks. With two runners on, the lefty turned on a Gardner-Webb delivery and sent it flying over the right field wall.
Just prior to getting set at the plate, a Bulldog player was heard yelling, “Get in the box, Casas!”
Not a second later, he sent the pitch sailing.
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Gamecocks baserunner Talmedge LeCroy heard the chirp, and he made sure the Gardner-Webb dugout knew it.
You can see him turn towards those Bulldog players as he made his way around the bases.
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The homer was Gavin Casas’s first of the season, and it was an absolute no-doubter, sailing 429 feet and leaving the bat at more than 109 MPH.
With the win, the Gamecocks moved to 8-1 on the year. They’ll now prep for a Top 25 showdown against archrival Clemson.