Winners and losers, April 5-11

Colin Davis leads Wofford in 
batting average (.365), homers (7),
runs scored (28) and RBIs (29).
  (Wofford College photo)

Winners

* When you're in your first season of competition, accomplishing program firsts isn't very hard to do. Bob Jones' baseball team plowed new ground this week. The Bruins' sweep of Johnson University in a Friday doubleheader gave the program its first doubleheader sweep, its first three-game winning streak and its first series win. A three-run seventh-inning rally was the final offensive step to the sweep.

* Voorhees got back on the field for the first time in a while Wednesday and doubled its season win total by beating Morris twice. It avenged a sweep by Morris earlier in the season. Terrell Dent had four hits for the Tigers.

* North Greenville split its four-game Conference Carolinas series with King between Saturday and Monday. The Crusaders won the first two games to pull within two games of first-place Mount Olive.

* Wofford's Colin Davis had a seven-game hitting streak snapped in Game 1 of a SoCon series at East Tennessee State. He rebounded by going 6-for-9 in Sunday's doubleheader.

Losers

* Clemson had won three straight ACC series entering the weekend home matchup with a struggling Virginia squad. After being handcuffed by Mack Anglin for six innings in losing in the series opener, the Cavaliers rallied against the Clemson bullpen the final two days to take the series. The Tigers fell to 9-9 in the conference with 18 conference games remaining. A positive for Clemson was catcher Adam Hackenberg's progress in his return after missing the early part of the season with an injury. He was 4-for-for-11 with two doubles, a homer and four RBIs. He raised his batting average from .200 to .232.
 

* The Citadel lost a three-game series at Samford over the weekend and has lost its last 12 games. The Bulldogs saw an 11-5 lead melt into in a 12-11 walk-off loss when Samford scored four runs in the ninth inning of Game 1.  But there's been another loss in addition to the ones that counted in the standings. Leading hitting Tyler Corbitt who announced earlier in the week that he was entering the transfer portal. Corbitt, who was batting .376, was released by The Citadel after his announcement, Corbitt's father told The Post and Courier newspaper. Corbitt is on target to graduate in May and would have two years eligibility remaining. Ryan McCarthy, second to Corbitt in hitting, tried to do his part in Corbitt's absence at Samford. He was 8-for-12 with three doubles, a homer and five RBIs.

A little of  both

* South Carolina's bats went into hibernation in a midweek loss to North Carolina and Friday setback against SEC East cellar-dweller Missouri. Things picked up for the Gamecocks in the final two games with the help of some wildness by Tigers pitchers. One positive for Carolina on Sunday was there were no walks by its pitchers. Control has been a recurring issue for USC's staff this season. Four weeks into the SEC season, the Gamecocks are in third place in the East Division, one game behind co-leaders Tennessee and Vanderbilt.

* USC Beaufort lost two of three to NAIA No. 2 Southeastern, but the Sand Sharks did get a walk-off win in Game 3.

Miscellaneous

* Both Florence-Darlington Tech and USC Lancaster had a nine-run inning in Game 1 of their Sunday doubleheader. Lancaster's came first, then FD Tech responded to take a lead. The host Lancers got a walk-off double from Noah Skeen to take the game, 14-13. It was the most dramatic of three Sunday walk-offs involving state teams. Newberry won Game 2 against Lincoln Memorial on a 10th-inning error and Anderson scored the final run of its six-run ninth in Game 2 against Wingate on a bases-loaded walk.