By Will Vandervort.

Reed Rohlman just knew Wednesday was going to be a good day.

Clemson’s left fielder was feeling it during batting practice prior to their 11-5 victory over Wofford at Doug Kingsmore Stadium in Clemson.

“I felt it coming in,” he said afterwards.  “I felt good about today.”

On the first at-bat, while hitting in the Tigers’ No. 2 spot in the lineup, Rohlman ripped a double down the left field line that keyed a two-run inning to start the game. On his next plate appearance in the bottom of the third inning he sent a bomb over the right field fence for his first career home run.

That shot to right field gave the Tiger a 3-1 lead at the time.

“It always feels good to hit one of those,” the redshirt freshman said. “I was expecting a fastball and he ended up throwing me one right down the zone so it did feel good.”

Rohlman continued to feel good after that as he banged out two more hits, finishing his day 4-for-4, while scoring four runs.

“After the first couple of course my confidence grew and I felt more comfortable in the box,” he said.

That is why Clemson head coach Jack Leggett has Rohlman out there in there in the first place. Since becoming a full-time starter in Game 3 of the West Virginia series, the Moore, S.C. native has recorded at least three hits in two of his five starts.

“He is just relaxed at the plate and has really good presence. He knows the strike zone pretty well. It seems like he has a lot of confidence in himself right now,” Leggett said. “It is a good thing to see. We were trying to figure out who was going to be our leftfielder at the beginning of the year and he has kind of solidified that right now.

“We will just keep giving him the opportunities and hopefully he will keep taking advantage of them.”

So far he has. Rohlman, while starting if left field, is second on the team with a .455 batting average and is tied for the team lead with six RBIs. He also has a slugging percentage of .682 and an on-base percentage of .458.

“Reed has done a nice job in the two-hole,” Leggett said. “He has also played good defense for us. He made a nice play on that ball in left-centerfield (against Wofford). That was a big play at that time. He continuously gets his hits. He has a lot of confidence up there so we need to keep him in that groove.”

Rohlman has helped get the Tigers in a groove. Clemson totaled 13 hits, including 10 runs batted in while handing Wofford its first loss of the season and has now scored 10 or more runs in three of the last four games.

“Coming into the season we knew we were going to hit. We were confident,” Rohlman said. “Everything is starting to jell together. It took a couple of games the first weekend, but we got that out of the way, but now we are starting to feel more comfortable in the box and we are all pulling together and we know we can do it.”

Can the Tigers continue to do it and can they continue to do it with a three-game series with South Carolina starting on Friday in Clemson? The 12-ranked Gamecocks have owned the series the last eight years, winning 24 of the last 32 meetings between the two. But Rohlman, like he did prior to the Wofford game, is feeling good about the weekend, too.

“I have been waiting my whole life to play in this,” he said. “Last year, I was redshirted and I got to experience it being there, but this year it is going to be fun. I got a good feeling about this weekend.”