Thursday, May 27, 2021

State scoreboard, Thursday, May 27

I decided to cut back on my coverage a little while I take a few days vacation. Thanks for your understanding.

Big South: Blue Hose win; Spartans lose

Zacchaeus Rasberry and Eric Toth homered and drove in three runs as Presbyterian upended regular-season champion Campbell in a first-round game in Fayetteville.  Rasberry had three RBI hits as the Blue took a 4-0 lead, then Toth added a three-run blast late. The Blue Hose play Gardner-Webb at 3 p.m. Friday. Gardner-Webb jumped on USC Upstate ace Jordan Marks for six runs in the second inning to send the Spartans into a Friday elimination game against Campbell.

CAA: Cougars fall into losers bracket

Top-seeded Northeastern scored six runs in the first inning and coasted to a 10-3 win over the College of Charleston in Wilmington, N.C. The Cougars play William & Mary at 11 a.m. Friday in an elimination game.

SoCon: Catamounts pound Terriers

Pascanel Ferreras doubled, homered twice and drove in six runs as Western Carolina ripped top-seeded Wofford, 16-5, at Fluor Field in Greenville. The Catamounts led 7-0 after three innings and scored the final seven runs after Wofford had pulled within 9-5. The Terriers play an elimination at at 3:30 p.m. Friday against Mercer. Western will play Samford, which beat Mercer, 10-8 early Friday morning.

NCAA DII Southeast: Crusaders fall in opener

Wingate held North Greenville to three hits - although three were homers - to top the Crusaders, 6-4, in a first-round game of the NCAA Division II playoffs at Tigerville.

ACC Tournament
Truist Field, Charlotte
Pool play
Duke 3, Miami 2
Georgia Tech 9, Louisville 8, 12 innings
N.C. State 3, Pitt 2

Big South Conference Tournament
Segra Stadium, Fayetteville, N.C.
Double-elimination
Presbyterian 7, Campbell 2 - PC: Charlie McDaniel W, 6 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 6 K
Gardner-Webb 11, USC Upstate 4 - Up: Devin Buckner 2B, HR, 2 RBI

CAA Tournament
Brooks Field, Wilmington, N.C.
William & Mary 7, Towson 3
Northeastern 10, College of Charleston 3 - Cha: Tanner Steffy 2-4, RBI
UNC Wilmington 2, Elon 0

NCAA Division II Southeast Regional
Ray & Bea Dillard Field, Tigerville
Double elimination
Mount Olive 7, UNC Pembroke 6
Wingate 6, North Greenville 4 - NGU: John Michael Faile HR, BB
Catawba 10, Columbus State 2

SEC Tournament

Hoover (Ala.) Metropolitan Stadium
Tennessee 12, Mississippi State 2, 8 innings
Mississippi 4, Georgia 0
Florida 7, Alabama 2
Arkansas 6, Vanderbilt 4

Southern Conference Tournament
Fluor Field, Greenville
Double-elimination
Western Carolina 16, Wofford 5 - Wof: Shane Lussier 3-3, BB, 2B, 3B, RB, RBI
Samford 10, Mercer 8

Sun Belt Conference Tournament
Riverwalk Stadium,  Montgomery, Ala.
South Alabama 6, Little Rock 2
Texas Arlington 8, Arkansas State 3
Louisiana 7, Appalachian State 2

Zacchaeus Rasberry leads the Blue
Hose with 18 extra-base hits this
season. (Presbyterian photo)

Player of the day: Zacchaeus Rasberry, Presbyterian, 2B, 3B, HR, 2 R, 3 RBI

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