State scoreboard, Sunday, April 26

Player of the day: Jake Little, FD Tech, 5-for-8, 2 2B, HR,SB, 4 R, 7 RBI

* Briefly: Jeb Britt pitched a complete game as USC Sumter (34-18, 17-12 Region 10) run-ruled USC Salkehatchie (3-47, 1-28) to complete a sweep ... Jake Little drove in seven runs, Tristan Strickland drove in six and Jake Zehner knocked in five as Florence-Darlington Tech (46-10, 23-7 Region 10) swept USC Union (30-22, 10-18) ... Logan Busenlehner drove in five runs and Keillor Osbon added three hits and three RBI as Newberry (27-24, 19-14 SAC)  run-ruled Mars Hill (26-23-1, 19-11-1) ... Texas State (27-17, 10-11 Sun Belt)  avoided a sweep with a win over No. 9 Coastal Carolina (30-13, 17-4). There were positives for the Chants. Staff ace Cameron Flukey made his first start since missing a couple of months with an injury. He struck out four in two hitless innings ... Kentucky (27-15, 9-12 SEC) turned a stolen base and two throwing errors into the go-ahead run in the eighth inning as it foiled South Carolina's (22-23, 7-14) bid for its first conference home sweep ... Louisville (26-18, 10-11 ACC) got a two-run homer from Jimmy Nugent in the 10th inning to complete a series sweep of Clemson (26-19, 6-15). The Tigers had forced extra innings on Tryston McCladdie's two-out single in the ninth inning ... Charleston Southern (24-18, 9-9 Big South) scored six runs in the first inning and eight in the second inning of Game 2, but needed three runs in the 10th to split a doubleheader at UNC Asheville (17-27, 5-10) ... Jacob Budzik hit two of UNC Greensboro's (16-28, 3-12 SoCon) four homers and the Spartans avoided a sweep at The Citadel (21-22, 6-9). Budzik drove in five runs ... Mercer (32-12, 7-5 SoCon) had another big offensive day to complete a sweep of Wofford (30-14, 8-4). The Terriers outhit the Bears, 15-12, and socked four home runs ... Merik Carter singled in the bottom of the 10th to give Gardner-Webb (20-24, 8-10 Big South) a walk-off win and series victory over Winthrop (28-16, 11-4) ... Joey Morton's two-run homer in the third inning helped Campbell (29-14, 20-4 CAA) complete a series sweep at College of Charleston (20-23, 10-11) ... Radford (21-19, 9-9 Big South) scored four runs in the ninth and held on for a series win over Presbyterian (10-35, 6-12) ... Samford (23-19) scored four runs in the sixth to complete a series sweep of USC Upstate (19-26) ... North Georgia (38-12, 26-4 Peach Belt) scored six runs in the fourth inning and claimed the rubber game of a series at USC Aiken (35-15, 20-10).  The series loss dropped the Pacers into a three-way tie for second place and Lander won the tiebreaker for the second seed for the conference tournament and a first-round host spot ... Middle Georgia (19-31, 12-18 Peach Belt) scored the game's final six runs to complete a sweep of USC Beaufort (12-34, 4-26) ... USC Lancaster (22-26, 9-19) couldn't hold an early seven-run lead as Gaston College (50-3, 27-3) hit eight home runs for a run-rule win ... Wilberforce put up 12 runs in the third inning and eliminated Voorhees (11-23) from the HBCUAC Tournament.

Beyond the border
* ACC: No. 3 Georgia Tech completed a sweep of Wake Forest, 6-5 ... Pitt wrapped up a sweep of No. 10 Virginia, 7-3 ... Stanford won a series over No. 8 Florida State, 7-4 ... No. 22 Boston College edged Notre Dame 7-6 ... Virginia Tech beat N.C. State, 5-4  ... Miami took the rubber game against Cal, 4-1.

* ACC standings: Georgia Tech 19-5; North Carolina 17-7; Boston College 16-8; Florida State 12-9; Miami 12-9; Virginia 12-12;  N.C. State 10-11; Louisville 10-11; Stanford 10-11; Pitt 10-11;Wake Forest 11-13; Virginia Tech 11-13; Duke 9-15; California 7-14; Notre Dame 8-16; Clemson 6-15.

* SEC: No. 4 Texas stopped Vanderbilt, 4-3 ... No. 5 Georgia won its series at No. 17  Ole Miss, 5-1 ... No. 7 Texas A&M won the series finale at No, 21 Florida, 5-1 ... No. 11 Auburn took down No. 14 Oklahoma, 14-4 ...  No. 15 Mississippi State rallied for a series sweep of LSU, 13-8.
* SEC standings: Georgia 15-6; Texas A&M 14-6; Texas 13-7; Mississippi State 13-8; Auburn 12-9; Ole Miss 11-10; Oklahoma 11-10;  Florida 11-10; Arkansas 11-10; Vanderbilt 10-11; Alabama 10-11; Tennessee 10-11; Kentucky 9-12; South Carolina 7-14;  LSU 6-15; Missouri 4-17.

Campbell 6, College of Charleston 4 - Cha: Ethan Plyler 3-4, 2B, RBI

Florence-Darlington Tech 11, USC Union 6, Game 1 - Flo: Jake Little 2 2B, HR, 2 R, 5 RBI

Florence-Darlington Tech 21, USC Union 10, 5 innings, Game 2 - Flo: Tristan Strickland 1B, 2 HR, 2 BB, SB, 5 R, 6 RBI

Gardner-Webb 7, Winthrop 6, 10 innings - Win: Gabe Natividad 4-5, 2 R
Gaston College 19, USC Lancaster 11, 8 innings - Lan: Braden Mauro 3-4, HR, 2 R, 3 RBI
Kentucky 9, South Carolina 5 - USC: Ethan Lizama HR, BB, 2 RBI

Louisville 7, Clemson 5, 10 innings - Cle: Luke Gaffney 2-3, 3 BB, 2 R

Mercer 13, Wofford 8 - Wof: Cade Collins 1B, HR, BB, 2 RBI
Middle Georgia 13, USC Beaufort 12 - Bea: Tyler Gundelfinger 4-5, 2B, SB, 3 R, 3 RBI 
Newberry 11, Mars Hill 1, 7 innings - New: Nick Riedel W, 5 IP, 4 H, R
North Georgia 8, USC Aiken 5 - Aik: Evan Harding 1B, HR, 3 RBI
Radford 10, Presbyterian 6 - PC: Bo Moody 3B, HR, 2 BB, 2 R, 2 RBI

Samford 9, USC Upstate 6 - Up: Maloy Heaghney 1B, 21 BB, SB, 3 R, 2 RBI

Texas State 10, Coastal Carolina 6 - Coa: Blake Barthol 3-3, 2B, HR, BB, SAC, 3 R, 3 RBI

UNC Asheville 13, Charleston Southern 8, Game 1 - Cha: Alex Marot 3-5, 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI

Charleston Southern 19, UNC Asheville 16, 10 innings, Game 2 - Cha: Kain Collins 3-6, BB, 3 R, 2 RBI

UNC Greensboro 9, The Citadel 4 - Cit: Christian Stratis 2B, 3B, R, RBI

USC Sumter 11, USC Salkehatchie 1, 5 innings - Sum: Ryan Piekutoski 2-3, BB, HR, 2 R, 2 RBI

HBCUAC Tournament
River Run Park, Tuscaloosa, Ala

Huston Tillotson 13, Stillman 3, 8 innings
Talladega 14, Wilberforce 1

Wilberforce 14, Voorhees 2, 7 innings - Voo: Raekwon Wedderburn 1-3, RBI
Stillman 11, Dillard 6
Talladega 16, Huston Tillotson 6, 8 innings
(19/1152)