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| Jake Randolph raised his batting average to .307 on Friday. (PC photo) |
Player of the day: Jake Randolph, PC, 5-8, 3 R, 3 RBI
Briefly: Blake Wright had four hits - including his 20th homer - as No. 4 Clemson clinched the No. 2 seed for the ACC Tournament with a win over Boston College. Jimmy Obertop homered and drove in four runs as the Tigers won the Atlantic Division title for the first time since 2018 ... Charlie McDaniel took a one-hit shutout into the seventh inning in Game 1 and Presbyterian went on to sweep a doubleheader from UNC Asheville and clinch its first Big South Conference regular-season championship and top seed for the conference tournament. The result also clinched fourth place for Charleston Southern ... College of Charleston won the Coastal Athletic Association regular-season championship with an extra-inning win at Elon. Cole Mathis doubled in the go-ahead run and scored an insurance run on a throwing error as he was stealing third base ... Garrett Gainey took a shutout into the bottom of the sixth inning, but No. 1 Tennessee rallied past No. 24 South Carolina to clinch as series win and send the Gamecocks to their fifth straight loss ... Henry Weycker allowed two runs and struck out six in 6 1/3 innings as Coastal Carolina clinched a Sun Belt Conference series win over Marshall ... Daniel Jackson had three hits and drove in five runs as Wofford evened its series with Samford and handed the SoCon regular-season title to UNCG. Earlier in the day, Wofford learned it would finish fifth because of Western Carolina's win over VMI in the opener of a doubleheader ... Charleston Southern took the series finale over Winthrop in a game called after five innings because of rain ... Luke Holland doubled and homered to drive in five runs as UNCG clinched a series win over USC Upstate.
NCAA Division II Southeast Regional 2
* Wingate 11, North Greenville 10 - The Bulldogs scored four runs in the first inning and held off several late threats from the Crusaders to win an elimination game. Wingate plays another elimination game on Saturday against Mount Olive, which lost to Georgia College.
Charleston Southern 4, Winthrop 3, 6 innings, rain - Cha: Dakota Miller HR, 2 RBI
* Elsewhere: Gardner-Webb beat High Point, 8-3, opening the door for Presbyterian to clinch the Big South Conference regular-season title ... Western Carolina beat VMI, 16-6, in the opener of a doubleheader, assuring Wofford of a fifth-place finish in the SoCon. VMI took the nightcap, 9-8 ... No. 21 Louisiana beat South Alabama, 6-5, in the completion of a game suspended by rain on Friday, but the Jaguars won the second game, 10-0 ... No. 13 East Carolina swept Rice, 15-5 and 6-4 ... Delaware beat UNCW for the second straight day, 5-4, to put College of Charleston within one win of taking the CAA regular-season title. The Seahawks won Game 2, 8-5 ... Cincinnati beat No. 12 Oklahoma, 10-6.
Charleston Southern 4, Winthrop 3, 6 innings, rain - Cha: Dakota Miller HR, 2 RBI
Clemson 11, Boston College, 6 - Cle: Tristan Bissetta 3-5, 2B, R, 2 RBI
Coastal Carolina 12, Marshall 2, 8 innings - Coa: Caden Bodine 3-5, 2 2B, 3,R, 2 RBI
College of Charleston 8, Elon 6, 11 innings - Cha: Dylan Johnson 2-5, RBI
Presbyterian 6, UNC Asheville 3, Game 1 - PC: Joel Dragoo 2B, 3 BB, R, 2 RBI
Presbyterian 6, UNC Asheville 3, Game 1 - PC: Joel Dragoo 2B, 3 BB, R, 2 RBI
Presbyterian 7, UNC Asheville 2, Game 2 - PC: Jake Randolph 3-4, 2 R, RBI
Tennessee 8, South Carolina 3 - USC: Cole Messina 3-4, R
UNCG 9, USC Upstate 1 - Up: Tyler Lang, 2-4, RBI
Wofford 8, Samford 5 - Wof: Champ Davis W, 5 IP, 3 H, R, 5 K
Wofford 8, Samford 5 - Wof: Champ Davis W, 5 IP, 3 H, R, 5 K
Postponed until Saturday
The Citadel at Mercer
The Citadel at Mercer
NCAA Division II playoffs
Southeast Regional 1
Newman Park, Salisbury, N.C.
Catawba 5, UNC Pembrole 4
Southeast Regional 2
Dillard Field, Tigerville
Southeast Regional 1
Newman Park, Salisbury, N.C.
Catawba 5, UNC Pembrole 4
Southeast Regional 2
Dillard Field, Tigerville
Wingate 11, North Greenville 10 - Nor: Pat Monteith HR, BB, 4 RBI
Georgia College 14, Mount Olive 5
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Beyond the border
* ACC: No. 7 North Carolina evened its series with No. 11 Duke, 6-4 ... A bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the ninth lifted No. 17 N.C. State over No. 8 Wake Forest, 2-1, clinching s series win ... No. 10 Florida State clinched a series win with an 11-3 win over Georgia Tech in the first game of a doubleheader. Game 2 was suspended in the bottom of the seventh with FSU leading, 7-6 ... No. 18 Virginia wrapped up a series win over Virginia Tech, 13-3 ... Louisville complete a series of Notre Dame, 14-6 ... Pitt evened its series with Miami, 5-3.
* SEC: Florida got two runs in the eighth and three in the 10th to even its series with No. 9 Georgia, 7-4 ... No. 2 Kentucky run-ruled Vanderbilt, 17-7, to clinch a series win and at least a share of the overall regular-season title, which brings the top seed for the tournament ... No. 3 Arkansas evened its series with No,. 5 Texas A&M, 6-3 and clinched the West Division title and No. 3 seed for the tournament ... No. 16 Mississippi State clinched a series win with an 8-2 win over Missouri ... LSU clinched a series win over Ole Miss, 4-2, and moved past the Rebels in the West Division standings ... Auburn survived a nine-run Alabama comeback to clinch a series win over the Crimson Tide, 12-11.
* Elsewhere: Gardner-Webb beat High Point, 8-3, opening the door for Presbyterian to clinch the Big South Conference regular-season title ... Western Carolina beat VMI, 16-6, in the opener of a doubleheader, assuring Wofford of a fifth-place finish in the SoCon. VMI took the nightcap, 9-8 ... No. 21 Louisiana beat South Alabama, 6-5, in the completion of a game suspended by rain on Friday, but the Jaguars won the second game, 10-0 ... No. 13 East Carolina swept Rice, 15-5 and 6-4 ... Delaware beat UNCW for the second straight day, 5-4, to put College of Charleston within one win of taking the CAA regular-season title. The Seahawks won Game 2, 8-5 ... Cincinnati beat No. 12 Oklahoma, 10-6.
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