Tigers Take Two, Sweep Gamecocks in Final Home SEC Series

No. 8 Auburn baseball took both games of Friday’s doubleheader to sweep the series against South Carolina. 

Friday marked the end of Auburn’s SEC home games where they finished 12-3, tying the 1999 team for the most league wins at Plainsman Park in a single season. 

“The offense absolutely won this series,” said Auburn Head Coach Butch Thompson. “It’s hard to talk about one offensive player when they all played for three games. It was as offensive as I can remember. Everybody contributed. We hit the long ball. We passed it down. We had the safety squeeze. We did some things that just leaded to success. I have heard a lot of confidence with the players, and that is what you need this time of year.”

Third baseman Eric Guevara led the way for Auburn tallying eight hits and four RBIs across the two games. The Tigers recorded 31 hits on the day, including 11 extra-base hits. 

“I would say just being on time for the fastball,” Guevara said of his success for the weekend. “Obviously, the guys in front of and behind me having good at-bats, giving me a lot of pitches to hit, it makes it easier. But being on time for the fastball and reacting to the offspeed for the most part was key.”

Lucas Steele also had an outstanding day, tallying six hits across the two games.

"I feel like this weekend we clicked as a whole,” Steele said. “Everybody in the lineup did their part, whether that was walking or getting a hit or hitting a homer. We put it all together, and it’s a really good feeling.”

The orange and blue will wrap up the regular season next week, taking on Jacksonville State in the midweek and No. 24 Ole Miss on the weekend. 

“This is a three-week push, and now that two weeks are out of the way, we’ve got one more midweek home game and then travel for our series,” Thompson said of the finish to the regular season. “We have one more week to keep our head down and keep trying to play, and we will reevaluate and get ready for the tournament.”