State schedule, May 11-17

Monday, May 11

No games scheduled

Tuesday, May 12

College of Charleston at Georgia Southern, 6 p.m.

The Citadel at Coastal Carolina, 6 p.m.

USC Upstate vs. Clemson, Spartanburg (Fifth Third Park), 6 p.m.

Western Carolina at Presbyterian, 6 p.m.

Winthrop at South Carolina, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 13

No games scheduled

Thursday, May 14

Elon at USC Upstate, 5 p.m.

Wofford at Samford, 5 p.m.

Clemson at Virginia Tech, 6 p.m.

Longwood at Winthrop, 6 p.m.

Presbyterian at Gardner-Webb, 6 p.m.

Radford at Charleston Southern, 6 p.m.

The Citadel at VMI, 6 p.m.

William & Mary at College of Charleston, 6 p.m.

South Carolina at Vanderbilt, 7 p.m.

Coastal Carolina at Louisiana, 7 p.m.

NCAA Division II Southeast Regional
Ray & Bea Dillard Field, Tigerville
Double elimination

Game 1: No. 8 Lander vs. No. 1 North Greenville, 6 p.m.
Game 2: No. 5 Francis Marion vs. No. 4 North Georgia, 2 p.m.

Friday, May 15

Clemson at Virginia Tech, 3 p.m.

Radford at Charleston Southern, 3 p.m.

Wofford at Samford, 5 p.m.

Longwood at Winthrop, 6 p.m.

Northern Kentucky at USC Upstate, 6 p.m.

Presbyterian at Gardner-Webb, 6 p.m.

The Citadel at VMI, 6 p.m.

William & Mary at College of Charleston, 6 p.m.

Coastal Carolina at Louisiana, 7 p.m.

South Carolina at Vanderbilt, 7 p.m.

NCAA Division II Southeast Regional
Ray & Bea Dillard Field, Tigerville
Double elimination

Game 3: Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, TBA
Game 4: Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner, TBA

Saturday, May 16

Clemson at Virginia Tech, 1 p.m.

Northern Kentucky at USC Upstate, 1 p.m.

Presbyterian at Gardner-Webb, 1 p.m.

Radford at Charleston Southern, 1 p.m.

The Citadel at VMI, 1 p.m.

William & Mary at College of Charleston, 1 p.m.

South Carolina at Vanderbilt, 2 p.m.

Wofford at Samford, 2 p.m.

Coastal Carolina at Louisiana, 3 p.m.

Longwood at Winthrop, 6 p.m.

NCAA Division II Southeast Regional
Ray & Bea Dillard Field, Tigerville
Double elimination

Game 5: Game 4 loser vs. Game 3 winner, TBA
Game 6: Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 winner, TBA

Sunday, May 17

NCAA Division II Southeast Regional
Ray & Bea Dillard Field, Tigerville
Game 7: if Game 5 winner wins Game 6, TBA

S.C. college baseball recap, Sunday, May 10

Palmetto State Baseball team rankings, May 10

 

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 NCAA Division I

Rank	School	Week W-L	Season W-L	Last Week	Streak
1.	Coastal Carolina	1-3	34-17	1	L2
2.	Clemson	2-2	30-22	2	L1
3.	Wofford	2-1	33-18	4	L1
4.	The Citadel	2-1	27-23	5	L1
5.	Winthrop	0-3	30-21	3	L4
6.	College of Charleston	3-1	25-25	6	W3
7.	Charleston Southern	4-0	28-19	8	W4
8.	South Carolina	0-3	22-30	7	L8
9.	USC Upstate	3-1	25-27	9	W2
10.	Presbyterian	1-3	11-41	10	L2

NCAA Division II

Rank	School	Week W-L	Season W-L	Last Week	Streak
1.	North Greenville	0-1	47-10	1	L1
2.	Francis Marion	0-0	42-12	2	L1
3.	Lander	3-0	36-19	3	W3
4.	USC Aiken	0-0	36-17	4	L1
5.	Erskine	0-0	27-26	5	L2
6.	Newberry	0-0	28-25	6	L1
7.	Benedict	0-0	23-16	7	L1
8.	Anderson	0-0	25-25	8	W2
9.	Coker	0-0	17-34	9	L1
10.	Southern Wesleyan	0-0	16-35	10	L1
11.	USC Beaufort	0-0	12-34	11	L6
12.	Claflin	3-0	7-36	12	W3

NAIA/NCCAA

Rank	School	Week W-L	Season W-L	Last Week	Streak
1.	Spartanburg Methodist	0-0	26-24	1	L2
2.	Columbia International	0-0	17-31	2	L4
3.	Morris	0-0	10-17	3	W1
4.	Bob Jones	0-2	14-27	4	L2
5.	Voorhees	0-0	11-24	5	L1

NJCAA/USCAA

Rank	School	Week W-L	Season W-L	Last Week	Streak
1.	Florence-Darlington Tech	2-2	50-12	1	L1
2.	USC Sumter	0-0	35-20	2	L2
3.	USC Union	0-0	32-24	3	L1
4.	USC Lancaster	0-0	24-28	4	L1
5.	USC Salkehatchie	0-0	3-49	5	L36
6.	Denmark Tech	0-0	1-12	6	L5

Lander, Francis Marion, North Greenville in NCAA DII Tigerville Regional

North Greenville (47-10) is top seed for the NCAA Division II Southeast Regional and will one of two host sites for the eight-team event beginning this weekend.

The Trailblazers won the regular-season championship in Conference Carolinas, but lost to Young Harris in the tournament finals. Coach Landon Powell's team will play Peach Belt Conference Tournament champ Lander (36-19) on Thursday at Ray and Bea Dillard Field in Tigerville. The Bearcats are is the No. 8 seed.

Francis Marion (42-12) qualified as the fifth seed and will play No. 4 North Georgia (41-146) on Thursday.

The four other Southeast Regional teams will compete in Salisbury, N.C., with No. 2 seed Catawba (42-11) as the host. The Indians will play No. 7 Belmont Abbey (38-14). The other first-round game there has No. 3 Wingate (39-17) meeting No. 6 Young Harris (39-16).

Both sites are double-elimination events. The last team standings at each site advances to a best-of-three super regional the following week, with the higher seed to host. The super regional winner joins seven other teams in the NCAA Division II World Series in Cary, N.C. later this month.

NCAA Division II Southeast Regional
Ray & Bea Dillard Field, Tigerville
Double elimination

Thursday, May 14
Game 1: No. 8 Lander vs. No. 1 North Greenville, 6 p.m.
Game 2: No. 5 Francis Marion vs. No. 4 North Georgia, 2 p.m.
Friday, May 15
Game 3: Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, TBA
Game 4: Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner, TBA
Saturday, May 16
Game 5: Game 4 loser vs. Game 3 winner, TBA
Game 6: Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 winner, TBA
Sunday, May 17
Game 7: if Game 5 winner wins Game 6, TBA

Newman Park, Salisbury, N.C.

Double elimination
Thursday, May 14
Game 1: No. 7 Belmont Abbey vs. No. 2 Catawba. 2 p.m.
Game 2: No. 6 Young Harris vs. No. 3 Wingate, 6 p.m.
Friday, May 15
Game 3: Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, 2 p.m.
Game 4: Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner, 6 p.m.
Saturday, May 16
Game 5: Game 4 loser vs. Game 3 winner, 2 p.m.
Game 6: Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 winner, 6 p.m.
Sunday, May 17
Game 7: if Game 5 winner wins Game 6, 2 p.m.

NCAA brackets

Team of the week, May 4-10 (tie): Charleston Southern, Claflin, Lander

Charleston Southern (4-0 for the week)

(beat College of Charleston went 3-0 at Longwood)

Claflin: (3-0 for the week) 

(beat Bluefield State, went 2-0 at Virginia State)

Lander (3-0 for the week)

(beat Columbus State, went 2-0 at North Georgia

Just call me a copout.

I thought three teams were worthy of team of the week so, I picked all three.

* Charleston Southern clinched back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since 1987-88 with a sweep at Longwood. Coach Karl Kuhn has done it in his first two seasons at the school.

* Claflin followed up a four-win regular-season with three wins in three days. The Panthers went 1-24 over the final 25 games of the season before coach Jaylan Bledsoe's squad dominated the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (unofficial) Championship Series.

* Lander survived an if-necessary game to reach the Peach Belt Conference Championship series, then swept regular-season champion North Georgia in two games in Dahlonega. The Bearcats are led by first-year coach Nick Popp.

Up next

* Charleston Southern: at home vs. Radford, Thursday
* Claflin: season is complete

* Lander:  NCAA Division II Southeast Regional Round 1 at North Greenville (schedule TBA) 

Also considered

College of Charleston (3-1) - road sweep at Elon

The Citadel (2-1) - series win over Samford
USC Upstate (3-1) 

Previous winners
Jan. 23-Feb. 1: North Greenville
Feb. 2-8: Anderson
Feb. 9-15: Francis Marion 

Feb. 16-22: Charleston Southern
Feb. 23-March 1: Benedict
March 2-8: Clemson

March 9-15: Coastal Carolina
March 16-22: Florence-Darlington Tech

March 23-29: Winthrop

March 30-April 5: North Greenville
April 6-12: Wofford
April 13-19: Winthrop
April 20-26: Coker

April 27-May 3: The Citadel

State scoreboard, Sunday, May 10

Henry Zenor set a career high with
5 RBI on Sunday. (USC Upstate photo)

Player of the day: Henry Zenor, USC Upstate, 3B, HR, BB, 2 R, 5 RBI

* Briefly: No. 14 Florida State (36-15, 17-10 ACC) scored three runs in the second inning and held on the beat Clemson (30-22, 9-18) in the rubber game of the series ... Will Tippett homered for the second straight day and College of Charleston (25-25, 15-12 CAA) evened its record by completing a sweep at  Elon (19-31, 10-20) ... Henry Zenor tripled, homered, walked twice and drove in five runs as USC Upstate (25-27, 13-11 Big South) took the deciding game of a series at Presbyterian (11-41, 7-14) ... Charleston Southern (28-19, 12-9 Big South) scored 13 runs in the sixth inning and wrapped up a sweep of Longwood (28-23, 10-11). Kain Collins had two hits, walked, stole three bases, scored twice and drove in three for the Buccaneers ... Old Dominion (27-24, 13-14 Sun Belt) ended No. 8 Coastal Carolina's (34-17, 20-7) streak of 16 consecutive conference series wins ... No. 19 Alabama (35-15, 16-11 SEC) survived a late comeback by South Carolina (22-30, 7-20) to complete a series sweep and hand the Gamecocks their eight straight loss. The 30 losses set a school record ... East Tennessee State (30-19, 10-8 SoCon) scored five runs in the third inning and salvaged the last game of its series at Wofford (33-18, 11-7) ... High Point (34-17, 15-6 Big South) built a two-game lead over Winthrop (30-21 13-9) in the conference standings with three games left by polishing off a series sweep.

Beyond the border
* ACC: No. 3 Georgia Tech wrapped up a sweep of  Duke, 14-1 ... No. 2 North Carolina finished its sweep of  Pitt, 7-3 ... California took the rubber game of a series at No. 23 Virginia, 8-7 ... Stanford get a series win over N.C. State, 9-5 ... Wake Forest beat Western Carolina, 9-5 ... Notre Dame beat Oakland, 9-3 ... Virginia Tech outlasted UNC Greensboro, 11-9 ... NJIT won the first game at Boston College, 8-7, but the Eagles took the finale, 6-3.

* ACC standings: Georgia Tech 22-5; North Carolina 20-7; Boston College 17-10; Florida State 17-10; Miami 15-12; Wake Forest 14-13; N.C. State 13-14; Virginia 13-14; Virginia Tech 13-14; Stanford 12-15; Louisville 11-16; Notre Dame 11-16;  California 10-17; Pitt 10-17; Duke 9-18; Clemson 9-18.

* Final weekend schedule (Thursday-Saturday)
Clemson at Virginia Tech
Georgia Tech at Boston College
Miami at Florida State
Notre Dame at Pitt
North Carolina at N.C. State
Stanford at California
Virginia at Louisville
Wake Forest at Duke

* SEC: No. 5 Georgia completed its sweep of LSU, 12-1 ... No. 21 Florida beat Kentucky, 9-6, to get a series win ... No. 24 Oklahoma beat No. 17 Arkansas, 15-10 ... No. 4 Texas avoided a sweep at Tennessee, 13-6 ...Missouri win the series finale over Vanderbilt, 4-1 
* SEC standings: Georgia 21-6; Texas A&M 16-10; Texas 16-10; Auburn 16-11; Alabama 16-11; Arkansas 15-12; Mississippi State 15-12; Florida 15-12; Ole Miss 14-13;  Oklahoma 13-14; Tennessee 13-14; Kentucky 12-15; Vanderbilt 11-16; LSU 9-18; South Carolina 7-20; Missouri 6-21.
* Final weekend schedule (Thursday-Saturday)
South Carolina at Vanderbilt

Arkansas at Kentucky
Florida at LSU
Georgia at Auburn
Mississippi State at Texas A&M
Missouri at Texas
Ole Miss at Alabama
Tennessee at Oklahoma

Alabama 7, South Carolina 6 - USC: KJ Scobey 1B, HR, 2 RBI
Charleston Southern 21, Longwood 3, 7 innings - Cha: Blake Edgmon 2-3, SB, 3 R, 3 RBI
College of  Charleston 11, Elon 3 - Cha: Kaden Myers S, 3 IP, H, 0 R, 3 K
East Tennessee State 9, Wofford 5 - Wof: Ben Timblin 2 HR
Florida State 6, Clemson 3 - Cle: Jarren Purity 3-4, 3B, R, RBI
High Point 11, Winthrop 3 - Win: Gabe Natividad 2B, 2 RBI
Old Dominion 9, Coastal Carolina 2 - Coa: Jackson Winer 1B, 2B, RBI
USC Upstate 13, Presbyterian 4 - Up: Alex Ritzer HR, 3 BB, 3 R, 2 RBI

(8/1269)

S.C. college baseball recap, Saturday, May 9

State scoreboard, Saturday, May 9

Danny Nelson retired all 12 batters he faced
to keep the Tigers in comeback range. (Clemson photo)

Player of the day: Danny Nelson, Clemson, W, 4 IP, 0 baserunners, 3 K

Honorable mention: Max Kaplan, USC Upstate, CG, W, 9 IP, 5 H, R, BB, 7 K

* NCAA Division I: Jarren Purify drove in three runs and Clemson (30-21, 9-17 ACC) scored the go-ahead run in a wild pitch in the eighth inning to even its series with No. 14 Florida State (35-15, 16-10). Purify had a two-run homer in the fourth and an RBI single in the sixth. Hayden Simmerson struck out all three Seminoles in the ninth to nail down the save ... Logan Tribble singled and doubled to drive in three runs and Wofford (33-17, 11-6, SoCon) moved within a half-game of first-place Western Carolina with a series-clinching win over East Tennessee State (29-19, 9-8) ... Old Dominion (26-24, 12-14 Sun Belt) scored the game's final three runs to even its series at No. 8 Coastal Carolina (34-16, 20-6) ... Max Kaplan (5-5) pitched a complete game as USC Upstate (24-27, 12-11 Big South) evened its series with Presbyterian (11-40, 7-13) ... Reece Holbrook, Alex LaCoste and Will Tippett had three hits apiece and College of Charleston (24-25, 14-12 CAA) run-ruled Elon (19-30, 10-19) to clinch a series win ... Charleston Southern (27-19, 11-9 Big South) clinched a series win at Longwood (28-22, 10-10) and assured itself of back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since 1987-88 ... No. 19 Alabama (34-17, 15-11 SEC) hit three home runs and clinched its first series win in Columbia since 2006 by sending South Carolina (22-29, 7-19) to its seventh straight loss. The 29 losses match the school season record set last year ... High Point (33-17, 14-6 Big South) scored four runs in the third inning and took sole possession of first place with its second straight win over Winthrop (30-20, 13-7) ... Samford (26-23, 10-8 SoCon) scored a run in the eighth, two in the ninth and one in the 10th to avoid a sweep and snap The Citadel's (27-23, 8-10) six-game winning streak.

Postseason
*NJCAA East District: Florence-Darlington Tech (50-13) fell a game short of the NJCAA World Series, losing to Harford (54-6) in the decisive game of the East District Championship Series. The Stingers fell behind 12-3 before rallying. Down 13-11, they loaded the bases with none out in the ninth, but a run-scoring double play and a groundout blunted the rally.

* Peach Belt Conference: A two-run homer from Zach Cowart put Lander (36-19) ahead to stay for the second straight day and Bearcats clinched a bid to the NCAA Division II playoffs with a two-game sweep regular-season champ North Georgia (41-14) in the Conference Championship Series. The eight team Southeast Regional field will be announced Sunday night.

Beyond the border
* ACC: North Carolina clinched a series win over Pitt, 12-2 ... Georgia Tech beat Duke for the second straight day, 15-2 ... No. 23 Virginia evened its series with California, 2-1 ... Miami took the rubber game of the series with Louisville, 10-8 ... N.C. State evened its series at Stanford, 12-7 ... Notre Dame beat Oakland, 15-5 ... UNC Greensboro outslugged Virginia Tech, 18-13 ... Wake Forest whipped Western Carolina again, 14-2 ... Boston College and NJIT were postponed and will play two games on Sunday.

* ACC standings: Georgia Tech 21-5; North Carolina 19-7; Boston College 17-10; Florida State 16-10; Miami 15-12; Wake Forest 14-13; N.C. State 13-13; Virginia 13-13; Virginia Tech 13-14; Stanford 11-15; Louisville 11-16; Notre Dame 11-16; Pitt 10-16;  Duke 9-17; California 9-17 Clemson 9-17.

* SEC:  No. 5 Georgia clinched the regular-season championship with a 13-8 win over LSU ... No. 12 Arkansas topped No. 24 Oklahoma, 12-8 ... No. 6 Auburn beat No. 11 Mississippi State, 13-2 ... Missouri beat Vanderbilt, 8-7 in 10 innings, in the completion of Friday's fog-suspended game, then the Commodores rallied to win Game 2, 11-8 in 11 innings ... Tennessee beat No. 4 Texas again, 14-9 ... No. 9 Texas A&M beat No. 20 Ole Miss, 18-5, in Game 1, but the Rebels won the second game, 6-5 ... Kentucky evened its series with No. 21 Florida, 4-2.

* SEC standings: Georgia 20-6; Texas A&M 16-10; Texas 15-10; Auburn 16-11; Alabama 15-11; Arkansas 15-11; Mississippi State 15-12; Florida 14-12; Ole Miss 14-13; Tennessee 13-13; Kentucky 12-14; Oklahoma 12-14; Vanderbilt 11-15; LSU 9-17; South Carolina 7-19; Missouri 5-21.

Alabama 9, South Carolina 6 - USC: Jake Randolph 1B, HR, BB, 2 R, 3 RBI
Charleston Southern 7, Longwood 1 - Cha: Blake Edgmon 2-4, BB, R, 2 RBI
Clemson 4, Florida State 3 - Cle: Luke Gaffney 2-4, 2 R

College of Charleston 11, Elon 1, 7 innings - Cha: Will Tippett 3-4, HR, SB 3 R 

High Point 7, Winthrop 3 - Win: Chazz Grossington 2-3, BB, R, RBI

Old Dominion 6, Coastal Carolina 3 - Coa: Trace Mazon 1B, SB, RBI

Samford 5, The Citadel 4, 10 innings - Cit: Trip Brown 7 IP, H R, 8 K
USC Upstate 7, Presbyterian 1 - Up: Preston Lucas 3-5, 3B, SB, R, RBI
Wofford 6, East Tennessee State 5 - Wof: Austin Laughlin S, 3 IP, 0 ER, 4 K 

NJCAA Atlantic District Tournament

Best-of-three
Harford CC 13, Florence-Darlington Tech 12 - Flo: Jake Little 1B, HR, 4 RBI
Harford wins series, 2-1

Peach Belt Championship Series

Best-of-three

Lander 11, North Georgia 7 - Lan: Brody Winter 2B,HR, BB, 2 R, 2 RBI

Lander wins series, 2-0

SAC Championship Series

Best-of-three
Wingate 15, Catawba 5, 7 innings,
Wingate 8, Catawba 6
Wingate wins series 2-1
(11/1261)