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In a funky Wednesday doubleheader where the Pelicans played one road and one home game in Charleston, the Birds took down the RiverDogs 7-2 in game one and 8-2 in game two. The two wins boosted Myrtle Beach's record to 9-7 while Charleston dropped to 6-11.

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Game One: The top of the lineup had strong performances with Parker Chavers (2-4, 2 HR, 5 RBI) hitting two home runs and Reivaj Garcia (2-4, 2B, RBI) also posting a multi-hit performance. Chavers is the first Pelicans this season to hit multiple home runs in one game. Rafael Morel (2-3) also posted a multi-hit game with a pair of singles.

It was the third start of the year for Cade Horton as he allowed just one hit through four shutout innings and two strikeouts. The win went to Saul Gonzalez (1-1) after closing out the final three innings with two earned runs off four hits and a pair of strikeouts.

Both runs for Charleston came from Odalys Peguero (2-3, 3B, 2 RBI) off a two-run triple. The RiverDogs posted just five hits and went 1-for-4 with runners in scoring position.

The loss went to Marcus Johnson (0-1) after allowing five runs, all earned, in 4 1/3 innings. Johnson allowed the first home run while Alex Cook gave up the second.

The first two frames were scoreless as the Pelicans scored first in the top of the third. Garcia hit a two-out double and Chavers followed with his second home run of the year to right field that gave the Pelicans a 2-0 lead.

Myrtle Beach broke it open with four runs coming home in the top of the fifth. With one out and runners on the corners, Garcia grounded a single to left to score Reginald Preciado from third. Chavers came up with two runners on and blasted his second home run of the game to right field for a three-run homer to put the Birds up 6-0.

One more run came in the top of the seventh off a wild pitch by Cook that allowed Morel to score from third.

Charleston plated two runs in the bottom half as Peguero hit a triple to center field with two runners on to avoid the shutout. Jhon Diaz flew out to complete the 7-2 Pelicans win.

Game Two: Playing as the home team after the April 8 contest between the two teams in Myrtle Beach was postponed, the Pelicans continued their hot hitting with an 8-2 victory. Two more home runs came from Moises Ballesteros (1-3, HR, 3 RBI) and Morel (1-2, HR, 2 RBI, BB). Cristian Hernandez (3-4, 2 RBI) also brought in two with three singles, and Chavers (2-2) smashed two more hits following his game-one performance.

Johzan Oquendo (2-0) tossed three scoreless innings in relief with six strikeouts while allowing just one hit and one walk. Starter Branden Noriega didn't allow a hit but walked five and allowed an earned run while striking out five in his 2 2/3 frames.

The RiverDogs' lineup failed to get a hit until the sixth in the seven-inning contest. Peguero (1-3) and Ryan Spikes (1-4) were the only two players to collect hits in the game. Charleston left nine on base while going 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position.

Game two starter Cade Halemanu (0-2) took the loss with three earned runs across three innings off three hits, one being a home run, and a walk with four strikeouts. Kikito Severino sacrificed the other home run.

Both teams opened play with a run in the first inning. After walking the bases loaded, Noriega balked to score Cristopher Barete from third as the RiverDogs took their first lead of the day.

The Pelicans answered back with a sacrifice fly from Ballesteros to center with Garcia scoring from third to even the game at one.

Myrtle Beach took control with five runs across the third and fourth innings. With two outs in the third, Hernandez singled and Ballesteros smashed a two-run home run to center for his third of the year to give the Birds a 3-1 advantage.

Three more runs scored in the fourth as Jefferson Encarnacion and Chavers both singled to start the inning. Encarnacion would later score on a wild pitch by reliever Jack Hartman and Chavers would be thrown out at home on a fielder's choice play. With two outs in the inning, Morel and Garcia both walked to load the bases and give way for Hernandez, who singled up the middle to score two more runs for a 6-1 Pelicans lead.

Morel's home run came in the bottom of the sixth as he pulled a ball to left-center field with a runner on base to put the Pelicans up 8-1. It was his first of the season.

With Charleston being no-hit until the sixth, they scored their second run in the top of the seventh. With two outs and a runner on second, Spikes hit an infield single to short and Hernandez committed a throwing error on the play that allowed Barete to score to make it 8-2. Estanlli Castillo flew out to right field to end the game.

The series moves to Thursday night at 7:05 p.m. for the fourth game with Myrtle Beach ahead 2-1.

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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Myrtle Beach may no longer have an ‘off-season’.

Visitors and locals may have to pay for parking year-round in Myrtle Beach, WPDE reports.

The beach’s current paid parking season currently runs from the beginning of March through the end of October. Between 9 a.m. and midnight, neighborhood parking lots and street parking meters can cost anywhere from $2 to $15. The city’s ‘off-season’ may no longer exist if the city council votes for year-round parking.

WPDE spoke with Mark Kruea, the Public Information Director for Myrtle Beach, who said a goal of getting rid of the city’s ‘off-season’ is to decrease confusion about when and where to pay for parking.

“I know that sounds strange, but if you have regular parking throughout the year, there’s no learning curve for everybody when you go back to having paid parking in March or when you go away from having paid parking at the end of October,” Kruea told WPDE.

Myrtle Beach estimates that the new year-round paid parking will bring an additional quarter of a million dollars into the city. Kruea said the new funds will be given back to the city for different projects.

“The parking money gets reinvested back into the area from which it was generated, so it will go back into the downtown projects that we’re doing, the arts and innovation district, and it would also help provide additional parking down the road,” Kruea said.

The question is: how or if this new parking model will impact local businesses? WPDE spoke with Lauren Ross, a local restaurant manager who doesn’t think the change will impact her or other business owners anytime soon.

“Most people have the idea that they have to pay for parking; even when I’ve been outside of Myrtle Beach and I’ve visited somewhere in the off-season, my thought is, ‘Oh, I’m going to have to pay to park,’ whether that happens or not, so I don’t think it’s really going to affect too much,” Ross said. “I’m sure there will be one or two people, but not enough to make a really detrimental impact on business.”

If passed, the change won’t go into effect until July 1; residents and visitors won’t feel the impacts until the beginning of November, WPDE reports.

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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WPDE) — This weekend Myrtle Beach State Park visitors shared a video with WPDE showing what looked like a small eruption taking place not far off of the coast.

While many followers gave their own assumptions of what the bubbling activity was. Some thought it was potentially related to the offshore earthquake from last week, the mythical creature known as the Kraken, a submarine, and the infamous Red Jeep making its return from the deep (even though it was pulled out of Dorian floodwaters in 2019). All good guesses, but not in fact the case.

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The cluster of bubbles fizzing off the coast was captured by Aaron McAleese.

He said his kids were playing in the water when the bubbles abruptly began- that's when he grabbed his phone and started recording.

“A buddy of mine who was with me, he used to be a diver and that was where he identifies the boat and he said ‘That’s a dive flag on the back of the boat,’ And then the boat moved closer to the bubbling and they threw a buoy into the bubbles and it bubbles for about five minutes, and then it just stopped," he said.

Other witnesses commented that with the bubbling, they noticed another vessel and some diver flags nearby.

One witness told WPDE'S Ed Piotrowski that it was related to, "A directional boring machine is literally sitting in the parking lot up by the shelters. They’re blowing air through the drill head and it’s coming to the surface. You can hear it running from a mile away. My money is on that and probably not submarines, aliens, or any of the other things."

What the viewer is talking about is simply a drilling operation. According to officials with the SC Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism, the bubbling was due to work to install the Firmina cable. At least, that is the 'best assumption' that they can provide us.

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"The footage was captured as horizontal drilling related to the Firmina cable project wrapped up," said Sam Queen the department's Director of Corporate Communications. "We aren't positive it was associated with horizontal drilling, but that's our best assumption."

So, what exactly is this conundrum that's gained the attention of so many of you?

The Vice President of Marketing for DC Blox explains.

“Most recently we've been laying the board pipes that go out under the beach and into the ocean. That's what you're experiencing as part of the bubbling," Bill Thomson, said.

Thomson confirmed DC Blox's sub-sea cable project is correlated to the bubbling, and you can expect to see this happening more often as they continue the project.

“Our responsibility is up to the board pipe which is basically the conduit that the sub-sea cables get pulled. Google would be responsible for laying the sub-sea cables and they’ll come in with ships that come off the coast, lay the cable, and they’ll locate the entry point into the conduit of the board pipes and then pull them through to the connection in the parking lot," he said.

Thomsan said most sub-sea cables on the Eastern seaboard are located in the North.

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He explains why this project is such a big deal.

“These sub-sea cables carry international data traffic and there’s a significantly growing amount of traffic going internationally. So, this provides all local traffic, anywhere in the Southeast to get to international destinations and vice versa," he said.

Google officials chose the Grand Strand as their US location for a one-of-a-kind cable. The Firmina Cable will run from Myrtle Beach State Park and will connect to Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Thomsan said so far they've laid down around 1,000 miles of board pipe.

DC Blox's $31.5 million cable landing is set to be finished in the fall.

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Through three months of the season, the No. 3 South Carolina baseball team featured one of the most fearsome offenses in the country.

But injuries have mounted in recent weeks, and USC’s thinned-out lineup struggled for a second-straight game against Auburn on Saturday. Playing without their starting shortstop, third baseman and second baseman, USC fell to Auburn 9-5,dropping just their second series of the season.

The series loss is a rare brush of adversity for the No. 3 Gamecocks (34-8, 13-6 SEC), who had vaulted up the national rankings after sweeping then-No. 3 Florida last weekend.

“My message to the team was, if you think you’re gonna go through an entire 30-game SEC season and never have a little adversity, never have it go against you, then you haven’t followed SEC baseball,” head coach Mark Kingston said. “It’s part of it. So how we handle it is going to be key for how we do moving forward.”

Auburn’s (25-17-1, 9-11) bats picked up where they left off from Friday’s eight-run effort against USC ace Will Sanders, pounding right-hander Jack Mahoney for six runs — including two home runs — in the first two innings. The explosion put the Gamecocks in an imposing hole out of the gate, and USC didn’t have the hitters it needed to spark a comeback.

Kingston had no choice but to trot out a new-look lineup Saturday after the Gamecocks lost shortstop Braylen Wimmer to a hamstring injury late in Friday’s game. Kingston said Saturday that Wimmer could miss up to two weeks. In past weeks, USC lost second baseman Will McGillis (broken arm) and third Talmadge LeCroy (hamstring), sapping the lineup of much of its top-of-the-order punch.

With all of the injuries, catcher Cole Messina started at third base Saturday, Jonathan French started at catcher, Michael Braswell moved from third to short and freshman Will Tippett got the nod at second base. Much like Friday, the lineup seemed overpowered against Saturday starter Christian Herberholz.

The right-hander mimicked the formula teammate Tommy Vail employed in Game 1, using his fastball up in the zone to generate swings and misses. Touching 94 mph, Herberholz struck out six and allowed just one run on three hits in four innings before giving way to the bullpen.

The Gamecocks showed hints of life in later innings, thanks in large part to the efforts of Messina at the plate. The sophomore drilled a two-run double in the fifth inning, then added a two-run homer in the seventh to cut the deficit to three runs. But Auburn first baseman Cooper McMurray hit his second homer of the game in the ninth to take an insurance run back.

With rain in the forecast Sunday morning, Game 3 will start at 3 p.m. instead of its original noon first pitch. The Gamecocks will try to avoid their first sweep of the season. Their only other series loss came on the road against No. 4 Vanderbilt earlier in the month.

“We all have to pick each other up,” Kingston said. “The pitchers have carried us on many days. And on the days where the starting pitchers are not quite as good, offensively we need to try to pick them up. So it’s a team game. You win together, we lose together, and pitchers and hitters have to complement each other.”

Sunday: vs. Auburn, 3 p.m. (SEC Network)

Wednesday: at Winthrop, 6 p.m. (ESPN Plus)

Friday: at Kentucky, 6:30 p.m. (SEC Network Plus)

Saturday: at Kentucky, 2 p.m. (SEC Network Plus)

This story was originally published April 29, 2023, 6:52 PM.