State scoreboard, Sunday, March 10

Marty Neal set a school single-game record
for strikeouts and helped the Saints snap
a three-game losing streak. (Limestone photo)

Player of the day:  Marty Neal, Limestone, CG, 4 H, 14 K

Offenses ruled on Sunday: State teams scored 10 runs or more in 12 games and allowed 10 or more in 12 as well!

Briefly: Coastal Carolina remained torrid, beating Michigan for its 14th straight victory ... Clemson came from behind for the third straight game to complete a weekend sweep of UNC Greensboro and extend its winning streak to nine ...  South Carolina finished up with an 11-run sixth inning to run-rule Longwood for a series sweep. The Gamecocks drew 18 walks ... Wofford had 18 hits and 17 walks in blowing past Lafayette for the third straight game. Dixon Black had two singles, a double, a triple and six RBI. Jack Renwick became Wofford's all-time stolen base leader with 86 ...  USC scored 11 runs in the fifth inning as it completed a series sweep of Rider ... The Citadel claimed the final game of its series with Valparaiso as Travis Lott tripled and homered twice to drive in four runs ...  North Greenville bounced back from its first home shutout in eight years with a pair of wins over Mount Olive ... Florence-Darlington run-ruled USC Salkehatchie twice to open Region 10 play ... Spartanburg Methodist got solid pitching in both games to sweep USC Union in the Region 10 doubleheader ... Connor Droze and Chris Manriquez hit two-run homers in the bottom of the ninth in Game 2 to give Lander a split with Augusta ...  Christian Bauman had three hits and drove in four runs as Charleston Southern avoided a series sweep at Samford ...  Peyton Starkey's eighth-inning grand slam gave Francis Marion a win in the opener of a Conference Carolinas series ... Marty Neal got a school-record 14 strikeouts in Game 2 of Limestone's SAC split with Lincoln Memorial ... Chandler Mims had two hits and drove in four runs as Newberry topped Coker ... Butler handed Presbyterian its first loss of the of the Grind City Classic ... Penn scored three runs in the ninth to salvage the series finale at College of Charleston ... Appalachian State scored four runs in the first and never looked back in beating Winthrop ... Gaston College took both games of its Region 10 doubleheader with USC Sumter ... Georgia College completed a conference sweep of USC Beaufort ... North Georgia extended Claflin's losing streak to 19 in the finale of their PBC series ... Georgia Highlands completed a four-game sweep of USC Lancaster ... Spring Hill snapped Benedict's four-game winning streak and went on to sweep their SIAC twinbill ... A walk-off win in Game 2 completed Wingate's conference sweep of Anderson ...  A day after a tight loss to Georgia Southwestern, USC Aiken suffered a pair of conference blowouts ...

Appalachian State 16, Winthrop 1 - Win: Jaylen Hernandez 2B, R

Augusta 9, Lander 6, Game 1 - Lan: Connor Droze HR, BB, 4 RBI
Lander 10, Augusta 8, Game 2 - Lan: Connor Droze 2 2B, HR, 5 RBI

Charleston Southern 12, Samford 7 - Cha: B.J. Banyon 4-6, 3 R
Clemson 6, UNC Greensboro 3 - Cle: Jarren Purify 2-3, 4 RBI
Coastal Carolina 11, Michigan 6 - Coa: Jake Books 2B, HR, 2 RBI

Florence-Darlington Tech 16, USC Salkehatchie 1, Game 1 - Flo: Josh Campos 1B, HR, BB, 3 R, 3 RBI
Florence-Darlington Tech 12, USC Salkehatchie 2, Game 2 - Flo: Ethan Plyler 3-4, HR, 3 R, 3 RBI
Francis Marion 6, Chowan 5 - Fra: Chas DeBruhl W, 7 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 8 K
Gaston College 7, USC Sumter 2, Game 1 - Sum: Landon Nease 2 IP, 3 K

Gaston College 14, USC Sumter 11, Game 2 - Sum: Israel May 1B, 3B, BB, 3 RBI
Georgia College 13, USC Beaufort 3, 7 innings - Bea: Seth Robinson 3-4, 2B, 2 R
Georgia Highlands 11, USC Lancaster 1, Game 1 - Lan: Tristan Hunt 2B, RBI

Georgia Highlands 10, USC Lancaster 0, Game 2 - Lan: Luke Garabedian 2B, 2 BB
Georgia Southwestern 11, USC Aiken 1, Game 1 - Aik: Josh Sharp 2-3, SB

Georgia Southwestern 23, USC Aiken 3, Game 2 - Aik: Brock Myers HR, 2 R
Lincoln Memorial 17, Limestone 12, Game 1 - Lim: Evan Havreluk, 2-5, R, 3 RBI

Limestone 6, Lincoln Memorial 3, Game 2 - Lim: Davis Turner 2-3, HR, 2 R, 2 RBI

Newberry 13, Coker 5 - New: Donovan Ford 3-4, 2B, BB, 3 R, RBI
North Georgia 17, Claflin 0, 7 innings - Cla: Kyntin Gay 2-3

North Greenville 5, Mount Olive 1, Game 1 - Nor: Kaleb Hall HR, 2 RBI

North Greenville 5, Mount Olive 3, Game 2 - Nor: Jake Sears 1B, HR
Penn 6, College of Charleston 5 - Cha: Cole Singsank HR, BB, 2 RBI
South Carolina 22, Longwood 6, 7 innings - USC Tyler Causey 2B, HR, 2 BB, 5 RBI
Spartanburg Methodist 7, USC Union 1, Game 1 - Spa: Davis Wright W, 6 IP, 2 H, R, 10 K
Spartanburg Methodist 3, USC Union 1, Game 2 - Spa: Kai Tullos HR

Spring Hill 8, Benedict 4, Game 1 - Ben: Taj Bates 1B, 2B, 2 RBI

Spring Hill 3, Benedict 1, Game 2 - Ben Anthony Makinster 1-3, SB, RBI

The Citadel 10, Valparaiso 6 - Cit: Garrett Fulmer 3-4, 3 RBI

USC Upstate 16, Rider 10 - Up: Vance Sheahan 2-3, 2 BB, R, 3 RBI
Wingate 12, Anderson 2, Game 1 - And: Kevin Sosa 3B

Wingate 5, Anderson 4, Game 2 - And: Mac Ketchin 3B, R

Wofford 27, Lafayette 4 - Wof: Andrew Mannelly 3-6, 2B,  BB, 4 R, 5 RBI

Grind City Classic
FedEx Park, Avron Fogelman Field, Memphis

Butler 4, Presbyterian 1 - PC: Jay Wetherington 1-2, BB, 2 SB, R

Jackson State 6,  Memphis 4, 10 innings

First Pitch Invitational
Fluor Field, Greenville
Western Carolina 18, Western Michigan 6, 7 innings
VCU 8, Michigan State 4
(34/586)

Beyond the border

No. 12 Duke took the deciding game of its series with No. 1 Wake Forest, 10-8 ... No. 13 Virginia salvaged its series finale with Miami, 14-11 ... In another ACC slugfest, N.C. State outlasted Boston College, 18-16 ... Xavier topped No. 3 LSU, 2-1 ... No. 16 North Carolina needed 10 innings to beat Pitt, 6-5 ... No. 4 Florida avoided being swept by St. Mary's with a 10-0 win ... No. 24 Texas won the rubber game of its series with No. 17 Texas Tech, 9-7 ... Northwestern halted Louisville;'s 10-game winning streak, 6-3 ... Kentucky avoided being swept by Kennesaw State with a 5-2 victory ...