Dax Roper's 12th-inning single ended a personal 0-for-17 streak and gave Furman (12-21, 5-5) a 4-3 victory over East Tennessee State (23-10, 4-3) Friday night to open their Southern Conference series at Latham Stadium.
The Buccaneers took a 2-0 lead in the first, but Furman rallied with a solo homer by Sterling Turmon and a two-run blast by Brett Huebner to take a 3-2 lead after seven. ETSU responded with an eighth-inning homer to force extra innings.
Nik Verbeke pitched 2 2/3 scoreless innings of relief, getting out of a bases-loaded jam in the 12th by inducing a double-play grounder.
John Michael Boswell took a pitch off his left kneecap to begin the Paladins' 12th and went to second on a one-out wild pitch. Roper followed with a shot into the gap in right center to score pinch-runner Trent Alley.
David Webel had four hits and Jabari Richards added two for the Paladins.
The teams will play a doubleheader at 1 p.m. Saturday to complete the series.
Elsewhere:
* Cam Tringali allowed four hits and one run over six-plus innings and four players homered for South Carolina (21-14, 4-10) in a 6-3 win at Florida (23-14, 5-9) to even their SEC series at 1-1. George Callil, Luke Berryhill, Quinntin Perez and Chris Cullen homered as the Gamecocks took a 6-0 lead in the fourth inning. But USC got just two hits over its final five innings. Tringali left after allowing a leadoff single in the seventh. Four batters later, Bretty Kerry came in to get the final seven outs, although Florida twice got the potential tying run to the plate.
* Drew Parrish scattered three hits and a walk and struck out 12 over eight scoreless innings to spark Florida State (20-13, 8-8) to a 6-2 win over Clemson (25-9, 11-5) to open their ACC series in Tallahassee. The Seminoles broke a scoreless tie with four runs in the third, with the final three coming on a homer by Drew Mendoza against Tigers starter Davis Sharpe. Logan Davidson broke up the FSU shutout bnig by leading off the ninth with his 10th homer. Clemson added another run before being retired. Bo Majkowski had two of the Tigers' six hits. Clemson is a half-game ahead of Louisville and 1 1/2 games behind N.C. State in the Atlantic Division standings. State and Louisville were rained out Friday and will square off in a doubleheader on Saturday in Raleigh.
* Eric Miles (5-2) pitched seven shutout innings en route to his 18th career win for Presbyterian (16-18, 8-5) in an 8-0 win at USC Upstate (16-18, 4-9) to open their Big South Conference series in Spartanburg. Zacchaeus Rasberry singled and homered and Jimmy Marcelli had two hits for the Blue Hose, who have won five straight.
* Wofford (22-14, 5-2) scored in seven of eight innings and coasted to a 19-4 win over VMI (8-26, 6-4) to open their SoCon series in Spartanburg. The Terriers scored eight runs in the first inning to give starter Austin Higginbotham a comfortable working margin. Wofford had 14 hits and drew 11 walks. Matty Brown drove in four runs, Hudson Byorick had three hits and Colin Davis and John Dempsey drove in three runs each for the Terriers.
* Javon Martin had three hits and Max Ryerson had two hits and drove in three runs to lift Charleston Southern (13-24, 3-10) to a 9-6 win over Gardner-Webb (15-15, 6-7) to open their Big South Carolina series. Ryerson had a two-run double as part of a three-run fourth and Martin smacked a two-run homer in the fifth.
* Griffin McLarty had another superb start and College of Charleston (23-11) held on for a 4-3 win over Dallas Baptist (23-10) in the opener of a nonconference series at Patriots Point. McLarty struck out nine and allowed two hits and two unearned runs over six innings. Chris Graham's two-run double highlighted a four-run second for the College. Nathan Ocker allowed a ninth-inning homer before getting his eighth save of the season.
* Coastal (23-13-1, 8-6) lost both ends of a doubleheader at Little Rock (16-19, 9-5) to fall a half-game behind Georgia Southern (20-14, 8-5) in the Sun Belt Conference's East Division standings. The scores were 8-5 and 14-0. Six of the Chanticleers 10 first-game hits were for extra bases, but they fell behind 4-1 after one inning and couldn't catch up. Coastal was held to four hits in being blown out in Game 2.
* UNC Asheville (12-20, 7-6) scored the game's final 10 runs in a 12-2 win over Winthrop (18-15, 8-5) in Game 1 of their Big South Conference series. Alex Raines had four hits and scored a run for the Eagles, who fell into a third-place tie with PC. First-place Campbell (22-12, 10-3) lost to second-place Radford (17-16, 9-4), 6-2, to open their showdown series.
* First-place Samford (23-11, 6-1) stayed a game up on Wofford in the SoCon by rallying for an 8-4 win over The Citadel (10-23, 3-7). Ryan McCarthy homered and Ben Peden had three hits for The Citadel.
* Newberry (34-10, 17-2) won the opener of a showdown series between the top two teams in the South Atlantic Conference standings with a 4-2 win over Catawba (34-10, 17-5) at the Smith Road Complex. Colin Allman's two-run sixth-inning double wiped out a 2-1 deficit for the Wolves, who were outhit 10-5. But Charlie Fessler held the Indians to two runs over six innings and Quinton Driggers struck four four over the final three innings to get his fifth save.
* North Greenville (31-9, 18-5) didn't fare as well in its 1 vs. 2 showdown, losing both ends of a Conference Carolinas twinbill at Mount Olive (26-11, 14-8). The Crusaders had an eight-game wining streak snapped with a 7-4 loss in the opener. The host Trojans scored an unearned run on a sacrifice fly foulout for a 2-1 walkoff win in Game 2. But NGU still has a 3 1/2 game lead over the Trojans and can clinch the regular-season with a win - or a rainout - in Saturday's series finale.
* Southern Wesleyan (16-24, 7-14) used late heroics in a 5-4 walk-off win over Limestone (13-29, 7-15) in a Conference Carolinas series opener. The Warriors, down 4-1, scored three unearned runs in the eighth after a two-out error kept the inning alive. Conner Ewing had a two-run single and later scored the tying run seconds before Devin Patrick was thrown out at third trying to stretch a double into a triple. In the ninth, Sean Sutay walked and went to second on an error. An out later, Julio Justo delivered a game-winning hit and sent Limestone to its sixth straight loss.
* Erskine (24-18, 12-9) salvaged a split at King (14-23, 7-14), scoring seven runs in the seventh in a 9-0 win in Game 2 after dropping the Conference Carolinas series opener, 5-2.
* Lander (15-26. 10-12) lost a Peach Belt Conference game in bizarre fashion, giving up a two-run lead in the ninth and a three-run lead in the 12th of a 9-8 loss at Georgia Southwestern (15-26, 9-13). The Bearcats scored a run in the top of the ninth to take a 5-3 lead, but the host Hurricanes scored twice and had the potential winning run at third with one out before Lander escaped. The Bearcats scored three runs on four hits in the top of the 12th. In the bottom of the inning, Georgia Southwestern used a single, a wild pitch, a walk, a hit batsman, a pair of singles and a throwing error to score four runs without an out being made.
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