State scoreboard, Tuesday, May 6

Patrick Evans moved into the team lead in RBI (68)
with Tuesday's performance. (FD Tech photo)

Player of the day: Patrick Evans, Florence-Darlington Tech, 4-5, 3 SB, 2 R, 4 RBI

No. 14 Coastal Carolina (38-11) scored twice in the fifth inning to take the lead and held on to beat No. 9 Clemson (37-13) in front of a record crowd of 5,300 at Springs Brooks Stadium.

The Chanticleers, who have won eight straight games, took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a balk and a sacrifice fly by Blagen Pado.

Tryston McCladdie got Clemson a run back with a third-inning homer, and Cam Cannarella singled in McCladdie to tie the game in the fifth.

Coastal regained the lead on a fifth-inning passed ball that scored Sebastian Alexander and Ty Dooley  singled in Walker Mitchell moments later.

Mitchell scored on Dom Tozzi's single in the seventh inning to give the Chants a three-run cushion.

Luke Gaffney singled in Josh Paino in the Clemson eighth, but that was as close as the Tigers would come.

Ryan Lynch pitched the ninth inning to get his fourth save as Coastal Carolina completed a two-game season series sweep.

* Other NCAA Division I:  Ethan Plyler tripled, drove in three runs and scored three times as College of Charleston (28-19) run-ruled The Citadel (25-21) ... Wofford's (28-22) five-run sixth inning was the margin of victory in its win over Presbyterian (17-28).  Starter Branton Little went five shutout innings and Carter Rasmussen struck out seven if the 12 batters he faced to close the game out.

* Region 10: Florence-Darlington Tech got 15 hits and stole 10 bases to beat Gaston College and win the tournament championship. Patrick Evans had four singles, stole three bases and drove in five runs. for FD Tech.  It was Tech's second straight Region 10 title and fourth in the past five years. The Stingers play host to Harford in the East District Tournament this weekend. The winner advances to the NJCAA World Series in Grand Junction, Colo.

* NCCAA South Regional: Top-seeded Fort Lauderdale held off a late comeback attempt to beat Bob Jones (11-28). Earlier in the day, Bob Jones scored five runs in the eighth inning - capped by Angelo Gomez's two-run homer - to beat Southeastern Baptist in the completion of a game suspended by rain on Monday. The Bruins play Southeastern Baptist again Wednesday at 11 a.m.

Coastal Carolina 5, Clemson 3 - Coa: Sebastian Alexander 3-5, 2 R
College of Charleston 14, The Citadel 1, 7 innings - Cha: Dariyan Pendergrass 2-4, SB, 2 R, RBI
Wofford 7, Presbyterian 2 - Wof: Tyler Bak 2-3, BB, SB,  R, RBI

NCCAA South Regional

Oakland Park, Fla.
Bob Jones 12 Southeastern Baptist 7, 8 innings - BJU: Conley Burk 3-5, 2B, 3 R
Trinity Baptist 2, Toccoa Falls 0

Fort Lauderdale 7, Bob Jones 3 - BJU: Cayden Kennedy 2B, R, RBI
Southeastern Baptist 6, Toccoa Falls 3

NJCAA Region 10 Tournament
Lexington County Baseball Stadium

Florence-Darlington Tech 19, Gaston College 8 - Jackson Proctor 1B, HR, BB, 2, R, 3 RBI

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