Auburn 1B Cooper McMurray (Photo by Jamie Holt/Auburn Tigers)

Auburn beginning to find its stride with South Carolina series win

COLUMBIA, S.C. — For the first half of SEC play, it was easy to get the sense that Auburn was simply treading water. With a series loss to rival Alabama to wrap up the first five conference series, the Tigers were 5-10 and had won just one series, at home against Georgia the second week of league play. 

They played hard every week and they could reasonably be described as pesky, but it wasn’t resulting in too many wins. 

But that’s changed in the last two series. Last weekend, Auburn took a series against Mississippi State, winning two very different kinds of[…]