Anderson
Troj-antics: Ryan Brash has thrown 8 2/3 shutout innings in his last four appearances. He has a team-leading two saves, while seven teammates have one apiece ... Ben Smith (5-5) has earned a decision in all 10 starts this season ... After a stretch of getting 10 or more hits in seven of nine games, the Trojans were held to five or less in their next three.
Benedict
Bene-feats: Taj Bates is 9-for-17 during his five-game hitting streak, improving his batting average to .434 ... Jamel Mitchell Jr. has walked 21 times and struck out seven.
Bob Jones
Bru-insights: Riley Ramsey has raised his batting average to .442 during his 13-game hitting streak. He is 25-for-52 (.481) during the streak with 4 doubles, 1 triple, 4 homers, 15 runs scored and and 11 RBI. He wasn't bad before the streak, either, going 21-for-52 (.404).
Charleston Southern
Buc blasts: Mark MacMillan got his 100th win as Buccaneers coach with Friday's win at Longwood ... Chandler Tuopo was 5-for-13 with 2 homers and 5 RBI in the Longwood series ... Dakota Miller had a season-high four hits on Sunday. He has 14 of the Buccaneers' 60 doubles ... Peter Werth hit two homers last week after hitting three in his first 25 games.Claflin
Claf-lines: Kobe Miller has reached base in his last 12 games. He leads the team with a .309 batting average ... Panthers pitchers have given up 11 or more hits and 11 or more runs in 13 consecutive games. The staff ERA is 14.51 ... The Panthers have been shut out seven times and just missed being no-hit for the second time over the weekend. Claflin's lone win this season was a shutout of Morris.
Clemson
Tiger tales: Clemson has been outscored by opponents 20-10 in the ninth inning after Notre Dame scored five on Sunday to force extra innings ... The key to beating the Tigers appears to be limiting them to one homer. They are 2-3 when hitting a single home run and 26-0 when not ... Jacob Hinderleider has raised his batting average from .274 to .343 during an 11-game hitting streak. He is 20-for-46 in the streak ... Blake Wright's average has dropped to from .352 to .316 since the Florida State series. He is homerless in his last seven games ... Aidan Knaak has averaged at least one strikeout per inning in seven of eight starts.
Coastal Carolina
Chanti-sphere: Sam Antonacci has a 14-game hitting streak and has raised his batting average to .406 by going 24-for-51 ... Cameron Flukey has pitched five shutout innings and struck out eight in both of his last two starts, improving his prospects of nailing down the No. 3 weekend starter spot ... While the Chants have an uncharacteristically high 5.40 ERA, opponents are much worse at 9.29.
Coker
Snake strikes: The Cobras had recorded double-digit hits in five straight games and seven of their last eight before being held to seven in the Tusculum series finale - which they won ... Coker has stolen at least one base in every game and has 130 as a team ... Jaylen Mack has walked 30 times and struck out 12 ... Freshman reliever Benjamin Blackwell went a career-high six innings to pick up the win in the opener against Tusculum. He is 6-0 with 4 saves and a 0.98 ERA in 15 appearances.
College of Charleston
Cougar curves: Luke Wood is on a seven-game hitting streak, going 11-for-30 with 2 homers, 5 doubles, 8 runs scored and 9 RBI ... Dariyan Pendergrass went 8-for-12 in the first three games last week before going 0-of-4 on Sunday ... The College had 10 or more hits in six straight games before being held to nine on Sunday.
Columbia International
Ram-egrams: Scott McDonough has not gone consecutive games without getting a hit since Feb. 23-24 ... Shane Hammonds has hit safely in seven of his last eight games, driving in 11 runs and scoring eight ... James Lovera went 6-for-10 last week, scoring seven runs and driving in four ... Deric Hanko pitched a season-high seven innings to get a win against Montreat ... Collin Otte has picked up a win and two saves while striking out 11 in six shutout innings in his last five appearances.
Erskine
Fleet filberts: Josean Sanchez is 11-for-22 with six runs scored in his six-game hitting streak ... Tyler Smith is 8-for-19 during a five-game streak ... Jude Littrell was 8-for-17 last week ... Alex Heintz has 74 strikeouts in 51 2/3 innings and has average at least strikeout per inning in his last nine appearances ... Slugger Dale Francis Jr. left Game 2 of the Francis Marion series midgame and did not play in Game 3. There has been no word of an injury.
Florence-Darlington
Stinger zingers: North Carolina commitment Rom Kellis continues to lead the Stingers in batting average (.414), homers (10) and RBI (51) ... Devin Mitchell was 7-for-15 over the weekend with 2 doubles, 3 homers, 10 RBI and 7 runs scored ... Josh Campos had a seven-game hitting streak snapped in the final game of the Spartanburg Methodist series ... Tyler Kamerer, who missed two weekends, has a seven-game hitting streak ... Tech hit 11 homers and batted .378 against SMC. The Stingers are batting .390 over their last nine games.Francis Marion
Lander
Lander liners: The Bearcats are hitting .401 over their last seven games, scoring 98 runs ... Ethan Wilder was 11-for-21 in four games last week with 12 RBI. His 11-game hitting streak has raised his average to .401 ... Taichi Nakao has a seven-game hitting streak, going 16-for-30 with at least two hits in every game. He has driven in 10 runs and scored five ... Chandler Moeller (15-for-29) has a six-game streak with 10 RBI and five runs scored ... Chris Manriquez has gone 15-for-32 during his seven-game hitting streak ... Ethan Califf and Bennett Nance left their starts against USC Aiken without allowing any runs.
Limestone
Halo happenings: Sion Barnette has driven in eight runs during his five-game hitting streak ...The Saints have had 10 or more hits in five of their last six games, but have gone 2-3 in those games.
Morris
Hornet heaters: Christopher Titus was 5-for-7 with 8 RBI in last week's doubleheader with Benedict ... Guillermo Morell pitched in Game 1 and went 3-for-3 in Game 2.Newberry
Wolf howls: Donovan Ford was 7-for-7 in Saturday doubleheader sweep of Lenoir. He was 9-for-11 in the series. The Greenville native has an 18-game hitting streak, with multiple hits in 14 of those games. He has had a hit in 33 of the 37 games in which he has played ... The Wolves have hit 17 triples, with Ford and Jacob LeBron having five apiece.
North Greenville
Crusader capers: Dakota Britt had an eight-game hitting streak snapped in Game 1 on Saturday, when the Crusaders were held to one hit ... Landon Shaw got North Greenville's lone hit in that game and has extended his hitting streak to six. He has hit three homers and driven in 13 during the streak ... Reece Fields is holding opponents to a .197 batting average.Presbyterian
Kilt kernels: The sweep of of Radford was PC's first ever over the Highlanders ... Eight players had a double in Sunday's series finale ... Joel Dragoo has a six-game hitting streak and hit a home run in the extra-inning loss at Georgia Tech. Dragoo and Brody Fahr are a combined 80-for-215 (.372) at the plate. The rest of the team is batting .208 ... Daniel Eagen has a 1.56 ERA and has not allowed more than two earned runs in a start. He has 65 strikeouts in 34 2/3 innings ... The three earned runs Charlie McDaniel gave up against Radford marked the first time he had allowed more than two runs. He has a 1.82 ERA.
South Carolina
Fowl fare: Catcher Cole Messina missed the final two games of the Texas A&M series after taking some punishment from foul balls in Game 1 ... The Gamecocks went into the Texas A&M series leading NCAA Division I in walks received, with the Aggies second. Carolina stills leads (232) and the Aggies (226) are still second .... USC pitchers are striking out 10.6 batters per nine innings, but Gamecocks hitters are striking out 10.8 times per nine innings ... Matthew Becker, who started the series finale against the Aggies, has 29 strikeouts and 6 walks in 22 2/3 innings ... Closer Garrett Gainey has struck out 27 batters and walked 3 in 17 innings ... Ty Good struck out six and allowed an unearned run in 5 2/3 innings on Saturday, lowering his ERA to 1.93 ... Sophomore Ethan Petry has 36 career home runs, sharing 14th place with Derick Urquhart on USC's career list.
Southern Wesleyan
Southern cooking: Cam Mitchem had a 17-game hitting streak snapped in Game 1 of the Mount Olive series, but doubled in the final two games. He is batting .312 ...The Warriors hit .143 at Mount Olive.
Spartanburg Methodist
Pioneer pearls: With SMC's impending move to four-year status, this weekend's series at USC Sumter is scheduled to be the final regular-season Region 10 series of Pioneers coach Tim Wallace's storied career. Sumter coach Tim Medlin plans to recognize his colleague prior to Saturday's series opener, and has invited Wallace's former SMC players to participate. They can contact Medlin for more information ... With the way the schedule worked out, Wallace's final home region win was over former assistant Jeremy Joye's USC Salkehatchie team March 17 ... FD Tech held SMC to less than 10 hits in three consecutive games for just the second time this season.
The Citadel
Bulldog bombs: After a 14-4 start, the Bulldogs have lost seven straight and 10 of 11 to fall to .500 for the first time since Week 1. They have not scored more than four runs in a game during the slide. Nine of the losses are in Southern Conference play. The team batting average has dropped from .313 to .269 ... Wells Sykes matched his season high with three hits on Sunday against Samford ... Luke Kissenberth lowered his ERA to 1.74 with 5 2/3 shutout innings over the weekend. He has not allowed a run in his last six appearances covering 11 1/3 innings.
USC Aiken
Pacer patter: Aiken has lost four straight, 10 of its last 11 and 20 of 22 ... Opponents have gotten 10 or more hits in nine of the last 10 games ... Josh Sharp hit safely in all three games of the Lander series and has a five-game hitting streak.USC Beaufort
Shark bites: USCB collected just four hits on Sunday against Columbus Stater in being shut out for the second time in four games ... The Sand Sharks had a 9-0 lead after 2 1/2 innings on Saturday, but lost 10-9 ... Leading hitter Carson Phillips has missed the last seven games ... Aiden Driscoll-Sadusky was 5-for-12 in the Columbus State series ...
USC Lancaster
Lancer-lots: Joe Sperry has a .424 batting average, 16 homers and 64 RBI ... Luke Garabedian hit safely in all four games of the USC Sumter series.
USC Salkehatchie
Indian items: Salkehatchie, which did not play last week, is on a 26-game losing streak and has not won since Feb. 25. Coincidentally, Feb. 25 is the date Florence-Darlington Tech last lost a game before starting a 25-game winning streak.
USC Sumter
Ant hills: The shutout loss in Sunday's opener with USC Lancaster was the Fire Ants' fourth this season, but first since Feb. 10. Freshman Quinn Gammage was 8-for-15 against Lancaster. He is 10-for-19 with a pair of homers during a five-game hitting streak.
USC Union
Bantam bits: Union's two wins over then-No. 1 Gaston College came almost a year to the day after the went 2-2 in series with Florence-Darlington Tech to hand the Stingers their first two region losses of last season ... The shutout loss in Game 1 on Sunday was the Bantams' second of the season ... Brayden Corn had a 10-game hitting streak snapped on Saturday, but was 2-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI in Sunday's win ... Mason Elrod was 5-for-10 for the weekend.
USC Upstate
Uppercuts: Sunday's combined one-hitter by Mathieu Curtis and Cooper Ellingsworth was the first one-hitter of the school's NCAA Division I era, which started in 2007. They combined for 12 strikeouts ... Grant Sherrod was 6-for-15 at Winthrop.Voorhees
Bengal bingles: Isaiah Palmer was 5-for-11 in the weekend series with Trinity Baptist ... Xander Casarez struck out 14 in a complete-game loss.
Winthrop
Eagle eggs-tra: Sunday's shutout loss was the Eagles' second of the season ... Harrison Wilson's grand slam on Saturday helped him reach a season-high five RBI ... Parker Whittle pitched a season-high four innings in relief on Sunday ... Riley Huge's four strikeouts on 6 1/3 innings on Friday matched his season low. He has struck out 85 in 47 2/3 innings.
Wofford
Terrier tappers: Wofford failed to score in double figures in the three games against UNC Greensboro - just the second time the Terriers have gone three games without reaching double figures. But, they won two of three and are still averaging 11.4 runs per game ... Marshall Toole went 6-for-13 against the Spartans and was 12-for-21 in five games last week. He had 2 doubles, 2 triples, a homer, scored 8 runs and drove in 10 ... Dixon Black was 9-for-20 last week with 2 homers and 9 RBI ... Brice Martinez has a 16-game hitting streak, going 27-for-64 (.422) ... Toole is batting .421, Black is at .411 and Martinez is at .405 ... Freshman Camden Wicker made his first start on Saturday, going seven innings and allowing a hit and an unearned run.
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