State scoreboard, Sunday, April 7

Devin Mitchell and his Stingers teammates are in first place
in Region 10 and have their last 25 games. (FD Tech photo)

Player of the day: Devin Mitchell, FD Tech, 3-7, 2B, HR, SB, BB, 4 R, 5 RBI

Honorable mention player of the day
* Aidan Knaak, Clemson, 7 IP, 9 K, 6.1 no-hit innings

* Blake Baldwin, USC Union, W, 5.1 IP, 1 R vs. No. 1 Gaston College. 

We're just eat up with worthy Game of the Day candidates, and I didn't want to pick one over the others. Listed in alphabetical order by winner.

* Benedict 8, Clark Atlanta 6 - The Tigers overcame n early five-run deficit and scored three runs in the seventh to take the finale of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference series.

* Clemson 13, Notre Dame 12 -  The No. 2 Tigers were two outs away from a run-rule no-hitter by Aidan Knaak before the Fighting Irish forced extra innings, Clemson used two unearned runs in the 11th to complete the ACC series sweep. Knaak, who struck out nine, had an 11-1 lead and a no-hitter one out into the Notre Dame seventh. Conference rules call for games to be stopped if a team is ahead by 10 runs after seven innings. The next three batters singled ending the no-hit bid and cutting the margin to nine. Notre Dame scored four runs in the eighth and five in the ninth to tie the game. Two Fighting Irish errors in the 11th put Clemson ahead by two, and a Tigers error helped Notre Dame get a run in the bottom of the inning before the game ended.

* South Carolina 6, Texas A&M 5  - Matthew Becker struck out eight in four innings, No. 22 South Carolina gave him an early lead and the Gamecocks held on to beat No. 3 Texas A&M and take the final game of the SEC series. Ethan Petry and Kennedy Jones homered for USC and Garrett Gainey recorded a rocky nine-out save.

* USC Lancaster 2, USC Sumter 0, Game 1 - The Lancers scored their runs in the bottom of the sixth and held on to win as Ron Robinson pitched a shutout and struck out eight. The Fire Ants split the day - and series - with a Game 2 win, 8-6.

* USC Union 2, Gaston College 1, Game 2 - For the second straight day, the Bantams rallied from a first-game blowout (14-0) to beat the top-ranked Rhinos in Region 10 play. Mason Elrod singled in Brayden Corn with the go-ahead run in the fifth and Blake Baldwin pitched into the sixth inning to get the win and a 2-2 series split. Gaston College had one region loss entering the weekend.

* USC Upstate 4, Winthrop 0 - Mathieu Curtis and Cooper Ellingsworth combined for a one-hit, 12-strikeout shutout to complete a Big South Conference series sweep.

* Wofford 8, UNC Greensboro 7 - Dixon Black homered hit a walk-off sacrifice fly in the ninth as the Terriers took the rubber game of the Southern Conference series. There were five ties and five lead changes before Black's late heroics.

Briefly:  Cameron Flukey and two relievers combined on a three-hit shutout as Coastal Carolina clinched a Sun Belt Conference series over Old Dominion with a run-rule victory ...  Presbyterian scored six runs in the second and eight players doubled as the Blue Hose finished a Big South Conference sweep of Radford ... Florence-Darlington Tech ran its winning streak to 25 and put its  Region 10 lead at one game with a sweep of at Spartanburg Methodist ... Ethan Wilder had four hits and drove in four runs as Lander completed a series sweep of Peach Belt Conference rival USC Aiken ... Samford scored the game's final 12 runs to complete a SoCon series sweep at The Citadel ... UNCW moved a game head of College of Charleston in the CAA standings by taking the finale of their series ... Longwood scored eight runs in the bottom of the eighth to thwart Charleston Southern's bid for a Big South Conference series sweep ... Columbus State scored two runs in the seventh to wrap up a Peach Belt Conference sweep of USC Beaufort.

Benedict 8, Clark Atlanta 6 - Ben: Jalen McDuffie 1B, 2B, 2 RBI

Clemson 13, Notre Dame 12, 11 innings - Cle: Jacob Jarrell 1B, HR, 4 RBI
Coastal Carolina 10, Old Dominion 0, 8 innings - Coa: Sam Antonacci 1B, 3, BB, 2 R, RBI
Columbus State 2, USC Beaufort 0 - Bea: Aiden Driscoll-Sadusky 2-4
Florence-Darlington Tech 15, Spartanburg Methodist 3, 5 innings, Game 1 - Flo: Devin Mitchell 3-4, HR, 4 RBI
Florence-Darlington Tech 11, Spartanburg Methodist 6, Game 2 - Flo: Rom Kellis 2B, HR, 2 R, 2 RBI
Gaston College 14, USC Union 0, 5 innings, Game 1 - Uni: Michael Adams 1B

USC Union 2, Gaston College 1, Game 2 - Uni: Blake Baldwin  W, 5.1 IP, 3 H, R, 6 K
Lander 9, USC Aiken 3 - Lan: Anson Merrick W, 8 IP, 3 R, 8 K
Longwood 12, Charleston Southern 5 - Cha: Dakota Miller 4-5
Presbyterian 9, Radford 2 - PC: Fenix DiGiacomo W, 6 IP, 2 R
Samford 12, The Citadel 4 - Cit: Wells Sykes 3-4, R
South Carolina 6, Texas A&M 5 - USC: Matthew Becker 4 IP, 1 R, 8 K
UNCW 6, College of Charleston 3 - Cha: Kevin Madden 3-4, RBI
USC Lancaster 2, USC Sumter 0, Game 1 - Lan: Luke Garabedian 1B, R

USC Sumter 8, USC Lancaster 6, Game 2 - Sum: Tristan Tillman 4-4, 2 2B, R, 2 RBI
USC Upstate 4, Winthrop 0 - Up: Mathieu Curtis W, 5.2 IP, H, 8 K
Wofford 8,UNC Greensboro 7 - Wof: Dixon Black 3-4, HR, 4 RBI

(18/1022)

Beyond the border

ACC: Louisville completed a series sweep over No. 19 N.C. State, 7-6 ... No. 14 Florida State won its series finale at Boston College, 9-2 ... No. 9 Duke edged Miami, 11-10, in 10 innings ... No. 21 Wake Forest beat No. 11 Virginia Tech, 10-4 ... Georgia Tech took the deciding game at Pitt, 7-4.

SEC: Missouri scored three runs in the ninth to walk off with a series sweep of No. 6 Florida ...No. 17 Kentucky completed a sweep of No.13 Alabama, 10-1 .... No. 4 Tennessee was a run-rule winner over Auburn, 19-5. ... No. 23 Mississippi State topped Georgia, 9-8.

Elsewhere: Ohio State beat No. 24 Nebraska, 9-3