State scoreboard, Friday, March 10

Billy Amick's first collegiate homer
was a walk-off grand slam. (Clemson photo)

Player of the day: Billy Amick, Clemson, 1B, grand slam 

Briefly:  Billy Amick's two-out grand slam to center field gave Clemson a walk-off win over Georgia State. The Panthers hit four home runs and led 8-2 entering the bottom of the eighth. Tigers freshman Cam Cannarella had five hits and has hit safely in all 15 games ... College of Charleston pitchers struck out 15 batters as the Cougars opened Colonial Athletic Association play with their ninth straight win ...  Wofford scored eight runs in the first and coasted to its 13th straight victory ...  South Carolina hit five home runs - two of them grand slams - in run-ruling Bethune-Cookman. Dylan Brewer and Will McGillis had grand slams and Cole Messina homered twice ... Josh Bookbinder picked off the potential tying run off second base with none out in the eighth and Winthrop held on to take the opener of a road series ... David Lewis homered twice and drove in four runs as North Greenville blasted Erskine in the opener of a Conference Carolinas series ... USC Upstate rallied from four runs down - scoring three runs in the ninth - to snap a five-game losing streak ...  A 10-run seventh turned the game around as Coastal Carolina won its fifth straight game ... Sawyer Reeves had three hits and drove in three runs as The Citadel won a series opener ... Justin Byrd doubled twice and drove in five runs as USC Aiken stayed unbeaten in Peach Belt Conference play ... Anderson rallied from three-run deficits twice to take a South Atlantic Conference series opener ... Braylin Marine drove in five runs and six teammates drove in two or more as Newberry won a SAC series opener ...Voorhees dropped a couple of games in the HBCU Spring Tournament in Miami Gardens, Fla. ... UNC Pembroke scored in double figures for the 13th time in 20 games to top Francis Marion in the opener of a Conference Carolinas series ... Columbia International scored six runs in the ninth and had the bases loaded when Union got the final out of the game ... Georgia slapped 20 hits en route to winning a series opener over Charleston Southern ... A couple of baserunning errors in the late innings contributed to Bob Jones being unable to wipe out a deficit as its losing streak reached 11 ... Limestone and USC Beaufort lost in the opener of conference road series ...

Anderson 10, Coker 9 - And: Gray Wells 4-5, BB, R, RBI
Clemson 9, Georgia State 8 - Cle: Cooper Ingle 5-6, 2B, HR, 4 RBI
Coastal Carolina 16, Illinois 8 - Coa: Chad Born 1B, 2 2B, BB, 3 R, 2 RBI
College of Charleston  2, William & Mary 1 - Cha: Will Baumhofer 2-run 2B
Eastern Kentucky 4, Presbyterian 2 - PC: Joel Dragoo 1B, HBP, 2 R

Emmanuel 4, Lander 1 - Lan: Matthew Burgess 1B, 2B, R
Georgia 18, Charleston Southern 9 - Cha: Jaylin Rae 1B, 2B, 2 BB, 4 RBI
Georgia College 11, USC Beaufort 1, 8 innings - Bea: Carson Phillips 2-4, R
Newberry 22, Mars Hill 9 - New: Donovan Ford 4-6, 2B, 4 R, 2 RBI
North Greenville 19, Erskine 6 - Nor: Zach Zarra 4-4, 2 2B, HR, BB, 4 R, 4 RBI
South Carolina 20, Bethune-Cookman 3, 7 innings - USC: Dylan Brewer grand slam, 5 RBI
The Citadel 11, Holy Cross 8 - Cit: Wells Sykes 4-5, SB, R, RBI
Trinity International 11, Bob Jones 8 - BJU: Riley Ramsey 1B, grand slam, SB
Tusculum, 11, Limestone 5 - Lim: Peter Adams 4-4, R
Union 18, Columbia International 16 - Col: Carter Willis 2-2, BB, 3 R, RBI
UNC Pembroke 17, Francis Marion 10 - Fra: Zack Summerville 3-5, 2B, 2 R, 5 RBI
USC Aiken 11, Flagler 8 - Aik: Jackson Hannon 1B, 2B, BB, 2 R, 2 RBI
USC Upstate 6, James Madison 5 - Up: Johnny Sweeny 2-4, walk-off RBI
Winthrop 4, East Tennessee State 3 - Win: Ricky Teel 1B, 2B, 2 RBI

Wofford 12, Cincinnati 3 - Wof: Ryan Galanie 3-5, HR, 2 R, 3 RBI

First Pitch Invitational
Fluor Field, Greenville
Michigan State 6, Western Carolina 5
Western Carolina 5, Kansas 4

Spring HBCU Tournament
Miami Gardens, Fla.
Florida Memorial  3, Paine 2
Paine 7, Voorhees 5 - Voo: Isaiah Palmer 2-3, BB, SB, R
Florida Memorial 8, Voorhees 3 - Voo: Jordyn Hill 2-3, BB, R

Lexington County Baseball Stadium
Marietta 7, Cortland 4

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