(Any roundups I get to do for the next few days will likely be shorter than normal)
Coastal Carolina and College of Charleston were the state's only NCAA Division I schools to get through opening weekend unscathed, with both going 3-0.
On the bright side, all 11 teams won at least one game.
Both Clemson and South Carolina scheduled challenging opening series, and both had a 2-1 record to show for it.
* Coastal Carolina hit .340 as a team during weekend wins over Virginia Commonwealth, Maryland and Campbell.
* College of Charleston won a pair of routs wrapped around a come-from-behind win in Saturday's game of its series with UNC Asheville. The Cougars hit .337 as a team and seven starters hit .300 or better.
* Freshman Davis Sharpe made an impact as a pitcher and a hitter in Clemson's doubleheader split with South Alabama on Saturday. He struck out eight and pitched five shutout innings to win the opener, then hit two home runs as the designated hitter in Game 2. While the Tigers had a 2.67 staff ERA for the weekend, they batted just .207. Clemson did hit six homers and earn 22 walks while striking out 32 times. The pitching staff held the Jaguars to .188 hitting while striking out 37 and walking just five..
* South Carolina likely will remember its lost leads in Friday's series-opening loss to Liberty more vividly than its win in the rubber game of the series on a walk-off wild pitch. The Flames were down a run with two out in the ninth before homering to force extra innings. Gamecocks pitchers struck out 38 for the series, but walked 13 over the first two games and several of those walks came around to score. That was a bugaboo for USC much of last season. Carolina was also less than stellar defensively, committing eight wild pitches and a passed ball in addition to four errors.
* The Citadel, USC Upstate and Wofford also went 2-1. Shane Connolly had a three-hit complete-game shutout for the Bulldogs on Saturday. Upstate's series with Kansas wraps around to Monday, and a Spartans athletics spokesman notes a win on Monday (or a rainout) would give Upstate its first-ever baseball series win over a team from what based on football terms is a "Power Five" conference. Wofford had a combined shutout in its Friday win over Ohio.
* Presbyterian went 1-2 at Alabama, even though it hit .302 for the weekend compared to Alabama's .293 for the series
* North Greenville won two of three against Nova Southeastern in a matchup of ranked NCAA Division II teams, while USC Aiken went 1-2 in its home series with a ranked Florida Southern team.
* Newberry capped a 5-0 week with a pair of doubleheader sweeps of Kentucky Wesleyan, while Claflin and Southern Wesleyan had three-game sweeps of Bluefield State and Virginia Wise, respectively.
* USC Beaufort was outscored 58-3 in losing a three-game Sun Conference series to Southeastern, the defending NAIA national champion.
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