State scoreboard, Friday, March 1

Graham Peeler's eighth-inning single put
the Rams ahead to stay. (CIU photo)

Player of the day: Graham Peeler, Columbia International, 3-6, 3B, 2 R, 2 RBI

Briefly: In Bluefield, Va., Matthew Garris pitched five shutout innings and Columbia International collected 17 hits to stretch its winning streak to a season-high three games in the only state game able to be played.

Columbia International 11, Bluefield 8 - Col: Scott McDonough 3-4, HR, 2 BB, 2 R, 3 RBI

Canceled

Bob Jones at Carolina University

Nebraska at College of Charleston

St. Bonaventure at Presbyterian

Postponed

Belmont Abbey at Francis Marion to Monday

Clemson at South Carolina, makeup date TBA
Findlay at Newberry, to part of Saturday DH

Flagler at Lander, to part of Saturday DH

Fordham at Wofford, to part of Saturday DH

Georgia Southwestern at USC Beaufort, to part of Saturday DH

Harvard at The Citadel, to part of Saturday DH
King at Erskine (I'm guessing it will be canceled)

Liberty at Coastal Carolina, to part of Saturday DH
Maine at Winthrop to part of Saturday DH

Penn at USC Upstate to part of Saturday DH

Rutgers at Charleston Southern, to part of Saturday DH

First Pitch Invitational, Fluor Field, Greenville
Illinois vs. Florida State, to Saturday

Western Michigan vs. Michigan State, to Saturday

(1/410)

Beyond the border

* North Carolina scored 11 runs in the first inning and Princeton coach Scott Bradley, a former Tar Heel, got a rude homecoming welcome in a 12-2 rout. Mauldin High product Alberto Osuna was 3-for-4 with a homer and two RBI for UNC ... Duke pitchers struck out 17 in a 6-0 win over Akron ... VMI scored three runs in the eighth and one in the ninth for a walk-off 6-5 win over New Jersey Tech ... Former Wofford coach Todd Interdonato has Boston College off to a 5-2 start after a 7-2 win over Richmond ... A 14-3 win over Kentucky Christian gave Montreat coach Jason Beck his 800th win ... Clemson transfer Billy Amick hit his seventh and eighth homers of the season as Tennessee beat Bowling Green, 11-1, in a game halted in the eighth inning by the run rule. Amick is batting .375 ... Wofford transfer Coulson Buchanan struck out three in two hitless innings to finish Alabama's seven-inning 12-0 over Indiana ... Jac Caglianone hit one of Florida's three home runs in a 7-3 win over Miami to open that series ... Georgia Southern handed Campbell its second straight loss since entering the national rankings, 9-4 ... All the scoring happened in the first inning of Northern Kentucky's 3-1 win at Missouri ... Towson tied the score in the ninth, but N.C. State got a 6-5 walk-off win in the bottom of the inning ... Georgia Tech's Drew Burress hit his 10th homer of the season, but Georgia held a 9-3 lead when the game was suspended because of weather/field conditions. It will be resumed at a date TBA ... USC transfer Michael Braswell hat teo hits and drove in the game's first two runs in LSU's 6-3 win over Texas ... Marshall played an on-campus game for the first time in decades and beat Manhattan, 3-0. Herd leadoff batter Tre Honduras homered on the first pitch of the bottom of the first ... Ole Miss scored five runs in the eighth to tie the game, then allowed six runs in the ninth to lose to Iowa, 13-7 ... Virginia scored a run in the ninth to tie and another in the 10th to beat UMass, 4-3.