Carolina would tie the game at one in the fourth on Colin Burgess’ RBI double, but Arkansas scored five runs in the final three innings to take game one.
Due to forecasted inclement weather on Saturday, University of South Carolina Athletics Department will reschedule home football and baseball events slated for that day.
The finalists will return for a training camp that will begin on June 1, and the official 12-member roster will be named prior to the team’s departure for the 2021 FIBA AmeriCup June 11-19 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Gamecocks have now won four-straight games in the series over the Lady Vols with three coming in walk-off fashion.
South Carolina takes 2-of-3 games in Baton Rouge for the first time since 2013.
Pauline Roussin-Bouchard becomes the fourth different Gamecock to win the SEC Championship, joining two-time champion Kristy McPherson (2001 & 2002), Katelyn Dambaugh (2017) and Ainhoa Olarra (2018).
A University of North Carolina alumnus, he came to Columbia to start the program in the spring of 1978 and opened the program with a 13-3-1 mark.
Jack Mahoney struck out seven in five innings of work as five pitchers combined on the shutout for the Garnet and Black.
Four different Gamecocks posted multi-hit games (Kenzi Maguire, Kassidy Krupit, Blampied and Aaliyah White) as the Garnet and Black out-hit the Rebels 13-2.
Brady Allen had three hits to lead the Gamecocks, while Josiah Sightler, Andrew Eyster and Colin Burgess had a pair of hits apiece.
