State scoreboard, Sunday, March 5

James Hicks missed most of the 2022
season with an injury. (USC photo)

Player of the day: James Hicks, USC, W, 5 IP, 0 R, 6 K 

Gavin Casas hit two home runs and Jack Mahoney and James Hicks combined to hold Clemson's offense in check as No. 23 South Carolina beat Clemson, 7-1, in the rubber game of their season series. 

Talmadge LeCroy also homered for the Gamecocks (11-1). USC took a 1-0 lead in the first, but Clemson tied the score in the top of the second.

Casas, a transfer from Vanderbilt, broke the tie with a solo homer in the second and added a two-run blast in the fourth. LeCroy added another homer as the next hitter.

Casas has 7 homers and 16 RBI this season. He had 15 RBI in 31 games covering two seasons at Vandy.

Tigers pitchers struck out 11 Gamecocks. Mahoney struggled through four innings, striking out four. Hicks (3-0) shut out Clemson on two hits and struck out six in five innings.

Clemson had its chances. The Tigers (5-6) were 1-for-12 with runners in scoring position and 2-for-17 with runners on base.
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LeCroy was named winner of the Tom Price Award, given to the most valuable USC player in the series. Clemson Cam Cannarelli was selected the Bob Bradley Award recipient. The awards are given in memory of the former sports information directors at their schools. Both had a particular love of baseball.

Gilmore hits milestone

Longtime Coastal Carolina coach Gary Gilmore got his 1,300th career victory with Sunday's 12-5 win over Davidson.  Gilmore, who also coached at USC Aiken, led Coastal to the 2016 College World Series title.

Briefly: Ryan Galanie and Dixon Black hit two-run homers in the first inning as Wofford extended its winning streak to 10 games ... Jared Payne's RBI single capped a two-run 10th inning as Charleston Southern rallied past Air Force ... Trotter Harlan was 3-for-5 and drove in three runs as College of Charleston win its sixth straight game ... Thomas Rollauer was 5-for-6 with three RBI as The Citadel completed a sweep of winless Long Island ...  Coastal Carolina fell behind by five runs for the second time in the series before roaring back to sweep Davidson. ... Darin Horn struck out 10 in 4 1/3 innings of relief ... Brandon Osypczuk homered in each game of USC Sumter's doubleheader split ... Javier Crespo singled, doubled, tripled, walked twice, stole a base, scored three times and drove in five runs as Florence-Darlington Tech pushed its winning streak to 15 games before losing in Game 2 ... Justin Byrd singled twice and doubled, scoring twice and driving in three runs as USC Aiken completed a sweep of USC Beaufort ... Henry Gibson singled, homered and drove in four runs as Newberry evened the series in Game 1 of a doubleheader at Limestone ... Reece Fields struck out 9 in 5 2/3 innings in Game 1 and North Greenville completed a road sweep of Emmanuel with a pair of  wins ... Reliever Bennett Nance struck out four and allowed one hit over 4.2 innings as Lander salvaged Game 3 of a road series ... Coker suffered its third one-run loss of the weekend ... Unbeaten Troy scored nine  runs in the first two innings and cruised to a run-rule win over USC Upstate to complete a series sweep ... Maine scored three runs in the 10th inning to deny Winthrop's bid for a series sweep ... Previously winless Lane completed a three-game sweep of Benedict ...

Charleston Southern 7, Air Force 6, 10 innings - Cha: Kaleb Hill W, 4 IP, 1 ER, 8 K

Coastal Carolina 12, Davidson 5 - Coa: Derek Bender 1B, 2B, BB, 2 R, 3 RBI
College of Charleston 10, Michigan State 3 - Cha: Cole Mathis 1B, 2 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI
Columbus State 14, Claflin 1 - Cla: Joshua Cooper 2-4, RBI
Florence-Darlington Tech 12, Lackawanna 2, Game 1 - Flo: Will Dorrell 3-for-3, SB, 2 

BB, 2 RBI
Lackawanna 10, Florence-Darlington Tech 5, Game 2 - Flo: Rio Foster 2B, SB, R, 2 RBI
Georgia State 10, Presbyterian 5 - PC: Joel Dragoo 1B, 2B, HBP, 2 R

Lander 5, Georgia Southwestern 1 - Lan: Chandler Moeller: 1-3, 2 RBI
Lane 12, Benedict 7, Game 1 - Ben: Jalen McDuffie 2 2B, BB, 2 R
Lane 14, Benedict 2, Game 2 - Ben: Quentin Watts 3 IP

Lenoir-Rhyne 11, Anderson 10 - And: Carlos Hernandez 3-5, 5 RBI
Maine 10, Winthrop 7, 10 innings - Win: McKinley Erves 2-4, BB, 2 SB, R, RBI
Newberry 12, Limestone 6, Game 1 - New: Rhett Jolly 3-5, SB, 2 R, 2 RBI
Newberry 17, Limestone 0, Game 2 - New: Braylin Marine 3-4, 3B, BB, SB, R, 4 RBI

North Greenville 9, Emmanuel 5, Game 1 - Nor: Pat Monteith 3-3, R, 2 RBI

North Greenville 5, Emmanuel 3, Game 2 - Nor: Carter Dierdorf 1-3, 2 BB, RBI, IP, 3 K

South Carolina 7, Clemson 1 - Sou: James Hicks W, 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, BB, 6 K, 
The Citadel 16, Long Island 5 - Cit: Noah Mitchell 1B, 2 2B, BB, 2 R, RBI 
Troy 10, USC Upstate 0, 7 innings - Up: Noah Sullivan 2-3
Tusculum 2, Coker 1 - Cok: Kody Hanna 1B, BB, SB, R
USC Aiken 16, USC Beaufort 3, 8 innings - Aik: Jackson Hannon 1B, 2 2B, 2 R, SB, 3 RBI
USC Sumter 5, Potomac State 3, Game 1 - Sum: Nick Petit CG
Potomac State 3, USC Sumter 2, Game 2 - Sum: Brandon Osypczuk HR
Wofford 5, Sacred Heart 1 - Wof: Coulson Buchanan W, 5 IP, 0 R, 6 K

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