Saturday, May 18, 2019

State scoreboard, Saturday, May 18

North Greenville (45-9)  advanced to the championship series of the NCAA Division II Southeastern Regional with n 8-3 win over Lincoln Memorial Saturday in Tigerville.

The Crusaders, winners of 14 straight, play host to Catawba in a best-of-three series next weekend to determine a spot in the Division II College World Series in Cary, N.C., next month. Catawba won the Newberry portion of the Southeast Regional bracket.

Lincoln Memorial (34-19) scored a run in the top of the first, but Utah Jones doubled in the tyuing run and later scored to give coach Landon Powell's club a lead it never relinquished.

Briefly: College of Charleston scored three unearned runs in the ninth to complete the CAA road series sweep and push its winning streak to eight games ... Wofford's offense came up big for the second straight game and the Terriers took second place in the SoCon ...  Closer Brett Kerry pitched into the seventh inning and South Carolina hit three home runs to qualify fore the SEC Tournament ... Hunter Lipscomb homered and drove in three runs as Winthrop clinched a series win ... Greenville native Patrick Frick was five-for-six and scored four runs as Wake Forest salvaged the series finale at Clemson ... Furman wrapped up fifth place in the SoCon and a series win over Mercer ... After being winless on the road until Friday, The Citadel won its second straight game to take the SoCon series in Cullowhee ... Presbyterian took the rubber game of its series at Charleston Southern ... Zach Biermann homered and drove in five runs as Coastal Carolina clinched the fifth seed for the Suhn Bet Tournament ... Presbyterian hit four home runs in its regular-season finale ...

Coastal Carolina 9, Appalachian State 6 - Coa: Zach Biermann 3-5, HR, 5 RBI
College of Charleston 5, Delaware 2 - Cha: Tanner Steffy 1B, 2B, BB, RBI
Furman 5, Mercer 3 - Fur: Jared Mihalik 2-3, BB, SB, 2 R
Presbyterian 15, Charleston Southern 6 - PC: Jonathan White  2 HR, 3 RBI
South Carolina 10, Mississippi State 8 - SC: Andrew Eyster 1B, 2 HR, 3 RBI
The Citadel 3, Western Carolina 1 - Cit: Lathan Todd 6 IP, 1 H, 5 K
Wake Forest 14, Clemson 5 - Cle: Chad Fairey HR, BB, 2 RBI
Winthrop 9, USC Upstate 1 - Win: Spencer Yankle 1B, HR, 3 RBI
Wofford 14, UNC Greensboro 5 - Wof: Mike Brown 1B, 2 2B, 3B, 2 R, 2 RBI

NCAA Division II Southeast Regional
North Greenville Regional
Ray and Bea Dillard Field, Tigerville
North Greenville 8, Lincoln Memorial 3, North Greenville advances - NG: Utah Jones 4-5, SB, 2 RBI

Newberry Regional
Smith Road Complex, Newberry
Catawba 7, Young Harris 5, Catawba advances

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