Our long national nightmare has come to an end, South Carolina won an SEC baseball game by beating Vanderbilt 8-2 on Friday night, snapping the Commodores’ 18-game winning streak and setting up a rubber game on Saturday.
The Gamecocks wasted no time scoring runs, going up 3-0 in the first inning. Brandt Belk started things off with a double, Kevin Madden knocked a base hit, and with one out, Andrew Eyster and Michael Braswell both singled to bring runners in, making it 2-0. Thad Ector then brought the third run in with a line out.
USC broke things open in the second, scoring four more runs.