PITCHER OF THE WEEKAndrew Cruse • South CarolinaSophomore • RHP • Cornelius, N.C.
Pitched a career-high 5.2 scoreless innings of relief to pick up the victory in South Carolina’s 6-2 win over No. 1 Clemson.
The sophomore right-hander struck out a career-high seven batters and yielded just one walk and three hits in the victory … Improved his season record to 2-0 and lowered his season ERA to 0.68.
Andrew pitched one hell of a game last Saturday; he came in for Hempy and took over the game. Clemson did not know what to do with his variety of pitches. Sitting behind home plate in the standing room only section were we all cheered as Andrew shut out the overrated #1 tigers. It only took a week for the tigers to fall from graces, as the GT yellow jackets jumped into the number one spot. My only complaint was Jack Leggett might be the biggest cry baby coach ever. He came out of the dugout 4 times to complain about bad calls and how the ref’s were screwing his tigers, but the refs called the game pretty fair, most high outside pitchers were called strikes. SC has a decent chance of making it back to Omaha, the pitching seems to be the key for this team, as the offense is still pretty young with 3 true freshman playing everyday.
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