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COLUMBIA, S.C. – Although the cold weather influenced the postponement of Friday afternoon's game between the Northeastern baseball team and No. 12 South Carolina, it had less of an affect on cooling down the Gamecocks' bats during Saturday's doubleheader as the Huskies suffered 10-1 and 6-0 setbacks against the top-15 squad.

Northeastern was outhit by a combined 23-9 during both games by the third-ranked team in the SEC preseason poll.
 
Nick Berger (1-1, 4.77 ERA) started the first game of the day and lasted 4.1 innings, throwing two strikeouts and two walks while allowing five earned runs on eight hits. South Carolina center fielder Gene Cone made Berger work right from the very first at-bat of the game as he led off the bottom of the first with a solo blast over the right-center field wall. Three batters later, first baseman Kyle Martin hit another solo home run to right-center, giving the Gamecocks a quick 2-0 advantage.
 
Michael Foster, Gabe Levanti, and Mason Koppens managed to produce the only three NU hits of the first game off South Carolina starter Jack Wynkoop (1-1, 3.46 ERA). Foster poked a two-out lead-off single up the middle during the Northeastern half of the first, while Koppens and Levanti worked together to put the Huskies on the board during the sixth inning. Wynkoop pitched eight innings, striking out nine.
 
Trailing South Carolina, 5-0, after five frames, Northeastern put two runners on base after a lead-off walk by Mike Piscopo and a single by Koppens. Piscopo advanced to third base as a result of Josh Treff grounding into a 4-3 double play, and Levanti brought him home with a base-hit up the middle that cut the South Carolina lead to 5-1.
 
Isaac Lippert took the mound for the Huskies with one out in the fifth inning and did not surrender a hit until the seventh when the Gamecocks successfully loaded the bases. After Lippert, Treff, and Piscopo turned a 1-2-3 double play, South Carolina's Jordan Gore hit a 2-RBI single that made the score 7-1 in favor of the home team. The Gamecocks tacked on three more runs in the eighth inning en route to a 10-1 game one victory.
 
Defensive miscues proved to be the key to South Carolina's success during the second game of its doubleheader with Northeastern. The Huskies accumulated four defensive errors during the late game, bringing their season total to 12 in five games.
 
Dustin Hunt (1-1, 3.86 ERA) continued his strong start to the 2015 season with another solid 5.2-inning performance, striking out two batters, walking two, and allowing four earned runs on nine hits.
 
Hunt retired six straight South Carolina hitters after giving up a lead-off single to Cone in the bottom of the first inning, but the Gamecocks mustered up a three-hit, two-run rally in the bottom of the third that proved to be the difference in the game. The sophomore ace recovered though, pulling another one-two-three inning out of his hat in the fourth. South Carolina added runs in the fifth and sixth innings, and scored two more during the bottom of the seventh.
 
Northeastern cracked four of its six hits off Wil Crowe (1-0, 0.87 ERA) during his 4.0 innings on the mound for South Carolina. Treff and teammate Pat Madigan both finished the second game going two-for-four, with Madigan posting a double in the top half of the sixth. 
 
Koppens extended his rookie hitting streak to five straight games to open the year after belting out a single against the Gamecocks during the second game, while Foster improved his hitting streak to four consecutive games.
 
Northeastern (2-3) and No. 12 South Carolina (5-1) will play the series finale at 12 noon on Sunday, Feb. 22. The game was moved up 90 minutes from its original scheduled start time of 1:30 p.m. to accommodate weather that may move into the region during the late afternoon. James Mulry (0-1, 4.50 ERA) is expected to start opposite Josh Reagan (0-0, 4.76 ERA).