CLEMSON BASEBALL

Santangelo's Two Homers Leads Tigers to 15-4 Win


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Mount Pleasant, SC -

Lou Santangelo hit two, three-run homers and Jack Leggett celebrated

his 50th birthday with a 15-4 win over College of Charleston Friday

at Patriots Point Field. The announced crowd in Mount Pleasant was

1,877, a majority of which were Tiger fans. The 18th-ranked Tigers

improved to 4-3, while the Cougars fell to 6-4. Starter Kris Harvey

(2-0) pitched 5.0 innings to earn the win, while Cougar starter Reid

Price (0-2) suffered the loss.

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Lou Santangelo got the Tigers in the board in the first inning when

he hit a three-run home run to straight-away centerfield, scoring

Russell Triplett and Brad McCann, who both walked.

The Cougars, coached by former Tiger righthander and assistant John

Pawlowski, cut into the Tiger lead in the second inning. Brian

Hastings slapped a two-out single through the left side to score a

run, then Steve Friend laced a single by McCann at third, scoring

Hastings, to narrow the Clemson lead to 3-2.

Brady Everett upped the Clemson lead by one when he hit a solo homer

to centerfield in the third inning, almost in the exact location

Santangelo hit his long ball. It was Everett's first homer as a

Tiger.

Clemson added another run in the fourth inning. With one out, Tony

Sipp hit his second triple of the year and scored when Triplett's

hard-hit ball was booted by second baseman Chris Campbell. It was

Campbell's second error of the game. College of Charleston had six

errors as a team.

College of Charleston continued its two-out success with two more

two-out, run-scoring singles in the fifth inning to cut the Tiger

lead to 5-4, but Santangelo answered in the sixth. The Seton Hall

transfer belted a shot over the left-field wall for a three-run

homer, his second three-run shot of the game and third three-run

homer of the season.

The Tigers added two more insurance runs in the seventh inning. With

runners on second and third and two outs, Triplett hit a two-run

double to gap in left field, giving the Tigers a 10-4 lead.

Clemson will travel to Columbia to play South Carolina Saturday at

Sarge Frye Field at 1:30 PM.

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