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Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Dedeaux Download Podcast: Assistant Sergio Brown joins after 7-0 Trojans sweep Rice

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

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4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Shotgun Spratling and Kasey Kazliner return on the Dedeaux Download Podcast to break down USC baseball's 7-0 start to the season following a 10-run rule midweek win over Loyola Marymount and a sweep of Rice. The Trojans' weekend starting pitching was again electric as Mason Edwards, Grant Govel and Andrew Johnson all three won their starts to help USC get off to its best start since 2015.

The Trojans' weekend starters did collectively give up their first run of the season but only combined to give up one while striking out 28 over 17 innings. USC's bats didn't have the same proficiency as they tallied only 13 runs on 18 hits over the three-game series, but they did enough to put the Trojans in position to stay unbeaten this season.

Shotgun and Kasey break down all the action and look forward to the upcoming matchups after they talk with USC assistant coach Sergio Brown, who talks about moving back into an on-field instruction role after being the director of player development the last three years for the Trojans.

Brown also discusses the success of USC's pitchers, the Trojans' freshman class that is already providing key contributions and the impact getting Kevin Takeuchi back in the lineup has had after he missed much of last season with injury.

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome back to the Dato download podcast, a USC baseball podcast presented by USCF Football.com, the Pairstile podcast family shows. I'm your own shotgun sprangling alongside my co-host Casey Casley. Casey, how are we feeling today? I'm feeling great. USC baseball is 7 and 0. That's a better start than last year. You know, so it's just got to keep things rolling and we're going to have some good coverage of the team coming up. So I'm excited.

0:38.0

Yeah, that's the best start. It's better to start than last year and the year before, the year before, the year before, all the way back to 2015. The last time that USC started out 7-0 in a season, that season, they started 12 and 0. We'll see if they can get that big weekend coming up against Cal Poly four games. that's going to be tough to get a four-game sweep there.

0:55.2

But we'll see what the Chargers can do. The way they're pitching might be possible. We'll talk about that a little bit later. But for any newcomers, listen to the first time here, on the day no download podcast, it's part of the Pairs style podcast from the shows. We break down all the latest news and developments with the USC baseball program. each week during the season, we'll recap the latest action and look forward to the upcoming matchups. And as always, please make sure you guys are like, share, subscribing on your favorite podcast, listening platforms. Leave us a review. Give us a five-star review. We appreciate those as well. You don't want to miss out on all our episodes talking all things USC not just baseball but basketball

1:27.9

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1:33.3

a review to grow the site as much and grow the show as much as possible you can also submit

1:37.3

questions comments concerns for future episodes by emailing podcast at uscfielball.com just make

1:43.0

sure to specify what show it is for the email headline.

1:45.5

So if you're sitting one for the baseball, put the baseball pod or the dado download or that one with Casey.

1:50.7

I like that guy.

1:51.7

Put that as your headline.

1:52.5

That works too.

1:53.4

This week on the data download, we'll be looking at USC's sweep of rice for three well-pitched games for USC.

2:00.6

We'll be talking about the starting

2:02.1

pitching, which has been phenomenal, like, best in the country. Good, so far on the weekends.

2:09.1

We'll also be taking a look forward at their upcoming matchups against Cal Poly, a team that

2:14.0

is Cal Poly. That's not a good opponent necessarily right. Now, this is the NCAA tournament team coming off a trip to the NCAA tournament that brought back a lot of pieces.

2:22.3

So this will be a big matchup for USC should be a decent RPI matchup by the end of the season as well.

2:29.3

But first, we're excited to have a special guest joining us as USC assistant coach Sergio Brown joins us to talk about the Trojans and their hot start.

2:36.8

Sergio, thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

2:39.2

Thanks for having me. Excited to be here with the guests. Well, always good to have you on. Always good to see a familiar face. last time we talked to you, we were, you know, we had to wear some hard hats and coming out to

2:49.6

Dayto Field to check out the, the improvements as they were, everything was under construction.

2:56.5

Just start there.

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