Friday, March 15, 2024

State scoreboard, Friday, March 15

George Derrick Floyd got the Bulldogs out of
 a bases-loaded jam in the 5th and pitched shutout ball
the rest of the game. (The Citadel photo)
Player of the day: George Derrick Floyd, The Citadel, W, 4.1 IP, H, 0 R, 6 K

Briefly: No. 16 Coastal Carolina's Blake Barthol's second home run of the game - a grand slam - capped an eight-run eighth inning for a run-rule win over James Madison and the Chanticleers' 15th straight victory. Zack Beach hit a grand slam earlier in the eighth of Coastal's Sun Belt Conference opener  ... Logan Bravo had a pair of home runs and both pitching staffs struck out 15 as No. 6 Duke won the opener of an ACC series over No. 10 Clemson, snapping the Tigers' 11-game winning streak ... Cole Singsank homered in the first inning and Jake Brink and Davis Aiken combined for a three-hit shutout as College of Charleston ended Wofford's six-game winning streak. The Terriers were scoring 13.8 runs per game prior to the series opener at Patriots' Point ... Noah Sullivan and Jake Cubbler combined for a shutout as USC Upstate took its Big South Conference opener with its sixth straight win ... Ole Miss rallied from a two-run deficit to top No. 20  South Carolina in the SEC opener for both teams. The Rebels won their eighth consecutive game and snapped USC's six-game skein ... Wells Sykes had three hits and scored twice as The Citadel took the series opener against UMass ... North Greenville scored five runs in the second and three in the fourth to take the opener of a Conference Carolinas road series at UNC Pembroke ... A nine-run sixth put Charleston Southern on the path to its third straight victory and a winning start in Big South Conference play ... Erskine had eight hits to Belmont Abbey's four, but two of them were homers to give the Crusaders the win to open a Conference Carolinas series ... Catawba took Game 1 of a South Atlantic Conference series over Limestone ... Presbyterian pitchers struck out 10, but so did George Washington in winning Game 1 of the series on a two-hitter ... Flagler broke up a scoreless game with a three-run eighth to hand USC Aiken its seventh straight loss ... 

Belmont Abbey 6, Erskine 1 - Ers: Daniel Hernandez 2-3, RBI
Catawba 8, Limestone 4 - Lim: Wyatt Stone 1B, 2B, BB, R, RBI
Charleston Southern 14, High Point 8 - Cha: Dakota Miller 1B, 2B, HR, 2 R, 4 RBI 
Coastal Carolina 12, James Madison 1, 8 innings - Coa:  Alexander Meckley W, 7 IP, 2 H, R, 4 K
College of Charleston 4, Wofford 0 - Cha: Avery Neaves 1B, 2B, R, 2 RBI 
Duke 5, Clemson 2 - Cle: Blake Wright 1B, HR, BB, 2 RBI
Flagler 3, USC Aiken 0Aik: Jacob Fletcher 7.1 IP, 2 R, 7 K
George Washington 6, Presbyterian 3 - PC: Eli Lazio HR, BB, 2 RBI
North Greenville 9, UNC Pembroke 5 - Nor: Landon Shaw 3-5, 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI
Ole Miss 5, South Carolina 4 - USC: Will Tippett 2B, 2 RBI
The Citadel 6, Massachusetts 2 - Cit: Javier Crespo 2-4, R, RBI
USC Upstate 4, Gardner-Webb 0 - Up: Koby Knopf 2 2B, R, RBI

Canceled
Covenant at Bob Jones
Montreat at Voorhees

Postponed
Claflin at Augusta, to 1 p.m. Sunday
Coker at Virginia Wise, to 1 p.m. Sunday
Lander at Columbus State, to 1 to p.m. Saturday
Longwood at Winthrop, to 1 p.m. Saturday
Newberry at Anderson, to 2 p.m. Sunday
Southern Wesleyan at Emmanuel, to 5 p.m. Saturday
USC Beaufort at North Georgia, to noon Saturday
(12/637)

Beyond the border

No. 17 Virginia outslugged No. 7 Wake Forest, 16-10, to open their ACC series. Elsewhere in the ACC: Miami hammered No. 15 North Carolina, 14-1,  Georgia Tech knocked off No. 13 N.C. State, 8-5,  Pitt beat Boston College, 12-5, unbeaten Florida State topped Notre Dame, 8-4 and Louisville beat Virginia Tech, 9-6 ... No. 21 Campbell scored four runs in the seventh and one in the ninth to edge Valparaiso, 10-9 ... No. 8. Florida overcame a 5-2 deficit to hand No. 6 Texas A&M its first loss. Elsewhere in the SEC, No. 1 Arkansas beat Missouri, 8-0,  Mississippi State whipped No. 2 LSU, 10-4, No. 9 Vanderbilt run-ruled No. 18 Auburn, 11-1, in 11 innings, No. 5 Tennessee dumped No. 14 Alabama, 11-3, for its nation-leading 6th straight win and Kentucky pounded No. 25 Georgia, 16-10  ... Washington topped No. 23 Texas, 9-3 ... Oklahoma beat No. 12 TCU, 7-3 ...

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