State scoreboard, Tuesday, May 21

Before Tuesday, Chris Veach had not pitched
 more than four innings in 54 career appearances
at Presbyterian and South Carolina. (USC photo)

Player of the day: Chris Veach, South Carolina, W, 5 2/3 IP,3 H, 0 R, 6 K 

SEC Tournament

* South Carolina 10, Alabama 5 - Dalton Reeves' grand slam gave South Carolina the lead and Chris Veach pitched a career-high 5 2/3 innings of shutout relief as the Gamecocks beat Alabama in a play-in game of the SEC Tournament.

Alabama took a 3-0 lead into the third inning, but Gavin Casas and Ethan Petry hit solo homers and Reeves gave Carolina the lead with his blast in a six-run third.

Veach came in with one out in the fourth inning and stymied Bama the rest of the way, giving a boost to USC's flagging hopes for an NCAA Tournament bid and snapping a six-game losing streak.

Cole Messina also homered and joined Petry and Blake Jackson in getting three hits for Carolina (34-21).

The Gamecocks advance to play Arkansas in the double-elimination portion of the tournament on Wednesday.

Sun Belt Conference Tournament

* Coastal Carolina 5, Georgia State 1 - Sam Antonacci's two-run single gave the Chanticleers the lead in the seventh inning and Dean Mihos and Zack Beach homered in the eighth as the Coastal advanced into the double-elimination portion of the tournament.

Riley Eikhoff struck out eight in 6 1/3 innings, but fell behind on JoJo Miller's homer in the seventh. Antonacci gave the Chanticleers the lead with a two-run, two-out flare to left field in the seventh and Mihos and Beach provided insurance in the eighth as coach Gary Gilmore's team extended its winning streak to five and enhanced its prospects of getting an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Coastal (34-21)  plays Southern Mississippi on Wednesday.

NCCAA World Series
* Oakland City 5, Columbia International 0 - The Rams' bid for a second NCCAA World Series title ended with a loss to top-seed Oakland City. CIU was held to four hits.

* Columbia International 9, Concordia Ann Arbor 7 - Earlier Tuesday, the Rams survived their third elimination game as  Graham Peeler had four hits and drove in three runs for CIU. 

Scott McDonough singled and doubled to drive in two runs for the Rams.

ACC TOURNAMENT

Truist Field, Charlotte

Miami 8, Louisville 5

Florida State 12, Georgia Tech 9 

Duke 11, Virginia Tech 8

SEC TOURNAMENT
Hoover (Ala.) Metropolitan Stadium
LSU 9, Georgia 1

South Carolina 10, Alabama 5 - USC: Cole Messina 1B, 2B, HR, BB, 2 R, 3 RBI

Vanderbilt 6, Florida 3
Mississippi State 2, Ole Miss 1

SUN BELT CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT
Riverwalk Stadium, Montgomery, Ala.
Coastal Carolina 5, Georgia State 1 - Coa: Dean Mihos 1B, HR, BB, 2 R, 2 RBI

Old Dominion 3, South Alabama 2

NCCAA WORLD SERIES

Kansas City Urban Youth Academy

Oakland City 11, Southwestern Christian 8

Columbia International 9, Concordia Ann Arbor 7 - Col: Britton Morris 1B, HR, 4 RBI

College of the Ozarks 18, Mission 5

Oakland City 5, Columbia International 0 - Col: Britton Morris 2-3, BB

Southwestern Christian 10, College of the Ozarks 0, 7 innings

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Beyond the border

* ACC: Miami topped Louisville, 8-5, in a meeting of the two teams Clemson will face in pool play ... No. 10 Florida State hit four home runs to beat Georgia Tech, 12-9 ... No. 17 Duke rallied from five runs down to beat Virginia Tech, 11-8.

* SEC: LSU scored three runs in the first inning and coasted past No. 11 Georgia, 9-1 ... Bryce Cunningham struck out six in six shutout innings as Vanderbilt dumped Florida, 6-3 ... Connor Hujsak's  two-out two-run homer gave No. 15 Mississippi State a 2-1 win over Ole Miss. Eastside High product David Mershon drew a walk, went to second base on a wild pitch and took third on a groundout, setting the stage for the walk-off. Will Furniss had provided Ole Miss its run when his fifth-inning blast went off Hujsak's glove and over the center-field fence.

* Elsewhere: No. 9 East Carolina scored all 12 runs in the eighth inning to win its American Athletic Conference Tournament opener over Rice, 12-4.