Thursday, May 20, 2021

State scoreboard, Thursday, May 20

Briefly: Tennessee used a six-run fourth inning to end an 11-game losing streak in Columbia and assure South Carolina of playing in Tuesday's single-elimination round of the SEC Tournament ... Chris Crabtree homered twice and Duke pitchers struck out 12 as the Blue Devils won the series opener at Clemson ... Noah Rabon was 5-for-6 and drove in five runs, but USC Upstate had its  Big South Conference regular-season title hopes dashed when Campbell won. Jordan Marks got his 100th strikeout of the season and his school-record 21st career victory for the Spartans ... Jeremiah Boyd and Kyle Merkle hit back-to-back homers in the ninth and Presbyterian, with the help of a Radford loss, clinched the final espot in the Big South Conference Tournament ... Reid Hardwick had three hits and drove in five runs as Charleston Southern won the opener and the Buccaneers wriggled out of a ninth-inning jam of Game 2 to complete the sweep ... Coastal Carolina had five extra-base hits in winning the opener of its Sun Belt Conference series ...Mercer pulled ahead of Wofford in the Southern Conference Red Division standings... Jake Pilarski struck out nine in six innings for The Citadel, but Western Carolina used a two-run third inning to take the opener of their Southern Conference series ... Elon moved a game ahead of College of Charleston in the CAA South Division with two games left ...

Charleston Southern 10, Longwood 8, Game 1 - Cha: Brooks Bryan 1B, 2 2B, R
Charleston Southern 6, Longwood 4, Game 2 - Cha; Andrew Bullock 2-3, R, RBI
Coastal Carolina 10, Texas State 5 - Coa: B.T. Riopelle 2 2B, HR, 3 R, 3 RBI
Duke 5, Clemson 1 - Cle: James Parker 2-4, R
Elon 10, College of Charleston 7 - Cha: Luke Stageberg 3-5, 2 2B, R, RBI
Mercer 7, Wofford 5 - Wof: Brennen Dorighi 3-3, HR, BB, 3 RBI
Tennessee 10, South Carolina 4 - SC: Andrew Eyster 1B, HR, 2 R, 2 RBI
Presbyterian 5, Winthrop 2 - PC: Kyle Benson 2, 3 IP, 2 H,  0 R, 1 K
USC Upstate 14, UNC Asheville 4 - Up: Jason Matthews 4-5, 2B, 3 RBI
Western Carolina 2,  The Citadel 1- Cit: Ryan McCarthy HR

Noah Rabon leads the Spartans
in hits and RBIs this season.
(USC Upstate photo)

Player of the day: Noah Rabon, USC Upstate, 5-for-6, 5 RBI

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