Sunday, January 25, 2026

State schedule, Jan. 26-Feb. 1


Fourteen S.C. college baseball teams begin their season this week as the 2026 schedule gets busier.

Among the highlights are three tournaments:

* North Greenville, No. 6 nationally in the DivIIBaseball.com rankings,  plays three games in the Houston Winter Invitational at the home of the Houston Astros. Included is a Sunday game against No. 3 East Stroudsburg State.

* Claflin plays three games in the Willie Mays HBCU Invitational at Rickwood Field in Birmingham.

* Florence-Darlington Tech heads to Florida for the second straight weekend to play in the Visit Panama City Beach Classic.

Elsewhere, six teams will play their first games under new head coaches. That includes the Lander-Erskine series, where Bearcats coach Nick Popp goes up against Flying Fleet co-coaches Scotty Bateman and Jimmy Prince.

Also,  Keith Gorman and USC Aiken meet Mars Hill, Brian Lewis and USC Beaufort face Davis & Elkins and Tyler Miller and Spartanburg Methodist play Cumberlands. The new coach is at home in all three series.

The sixth new coach at USC Sumter's Will Thompson, who moved up after serving as an assistant to the now-retired Tim Medlin. The Fire Ants play host to Cleveland CC in Sumter's Riley Park.

The state's NCAA Division I teams begin play Feb. 13.

Monday, Jan. 26
Florence-Darlington Tech at Florence Southwestern, 1 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 29
Rio Grande at Voorhees, DH, noon
Walters State at USC Salkehatchie, 2 p.m.
Columbia International at Point, DH, 3 p.m.
Visit Panama City Beach Classic
Publix Park
Florence-Darlington Tech vs. Chattahoochee Valley, 4 p.m.
Florence-Darlington Tech vs. Northwest Florida State, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 30
Rio Grande at Voorhees, DH, noon
Southern Wesleyan at Newberry, DH, noon
Walters State at USC Salkehatchie, DH, 12:30 p.m.
Belmont Abbey at Coker, 1 p.m.
Columbia International at Point, DH, 1 p.m.
Concord at Francis Marion, DH, 1 p.m.
Erskine at Lander, DH, 1 p.m.
USC Lancaster at East Georgia, DH, 1 p.m.
Mars Hill at USC Aiken, DH, 2 p.m.
North Greenville vs. Alabama Huntsville, Houston Winter Invitational, 2:30 p.m.
Claflin vs. Clark Atlanta, Willie Mays HBCU Invitational, Birmingham, 3:30 p.m.
Visit Panama City Beach Classic
Publix Park
Florence-Darlington Tech vs. Gulf Coast, 11 a.m.
Florence-Darlington Tech vs. Wallace-Dothan, 6:30 p.m.

Moved from Saturday
Cleveland CC at USC Sumter, DH, 1 p.m.
Canceled
Cumberlands at Spartanburg Methodist
Davis & Elkins at USC Beaufort

Saturday, Jan. 31
Mars Hill at USC Aiken, 2 p.m.
North Greenville vs. Central Missouri, Houston Winter Invitational, 2:30 p.m.
Canceled
Coker at Belmont Abbey
Concord at Francis Marion
Cumberlands at Spartanburg Methodist, DH
Davis & Elkins at USC Beaufort
Moved to 1 p.m. Monday
King at Anderson, DH
Lander at Erskine
Postponed
Newberry at Southern Wesleyan, 6 p.m. March 10

Sunday, Feb. 1
Florence-Darlington Tech vs. TBA, Visit Panama City Beach Classic
North Greenville vs. East Stroudsburg, Houston Winter Invitational, 11 a.m.
Stillman vs. Claflin, Willie Mays HBCU Invitational, Birmingham, noon
King at Anderson, 1 p.m.
Philander Smith vs. Claflin, Willie Mays HBCU Invitational, Birmingham, 2:30 p.m.
Canceled
Cleveland CC at USC Sumter
Davis & Elkins at USC Beaufort
Postponed or canceled
East Georgia at USC Lancaster, DH

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