White Knoll won two-straight games Friday night against Ashley Ridge to win the 5A lower state softball championship and advance to the state title series Monday.
No. 10 South Carolina women's tennis (20-6, 11-2 SEC) advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament with a 4-0 sweep over Quinnipiac on Friday at the Carolina Tennis Center.
Athletes, spouses, mascots and a movie star received honors at The Post and Courier’s inaugural CHARLEYS Awards. The event held May 11 at the Charleston Gaillard recognized major sports moments and South Carolina’s leading athletes with special guest Houston Texans quarterback and former Clemson star Deshaun Watson.
No. 12 South Carolina broke the school record for home runs in a season on its way to a 3-1 win over No. 19 Arkansas in the first semifinal game of the SEC Softball Tournament at Mizzou Stadium on Friday. Tiara Duffy blasted a two-run home run in the bottom of the fourth as the Gamecocks fought their way to their first SEC Tournament Championship appearance since 2001.
Jason Bilous posted a career-high 11 strikeouts over seven scoreless innings to lead #19 Coastal Carolina to a 4-0 victory over Little Rock Friday afternoon at Springs Brooks Stadium.
Columbia was aiming to leave Hickory with a victory and that’s exactly what Manager Pedro Lopez’s team did on Friday night. The Fireflies avoided being swept and defeated the Crawdads, 8-3. Columbia had trailed until the fourth inning before it took a lead it wouldn’t relinquish the rest of the night. The Fireflies are back to two games above .500 (18-16) and snapped their three-game losing skid.
Austin Peay scored four runs in the first two innings and held on for a 6-3 win over No. 8 Clemson at Doug Kingsmore Stadium on Friday night. The Governors, who took a 1-0 lead in the series, improved to 30-20, while the Tigers dropped to 37-13.
Clemson won the doubles point, and Tate Schroeder, Sydney Riley and Marie-Alexandre Leduc won their singles match, en route to the 41st-ranked Tigers’ 4-1 upset over 28th-ranked Ohio State (14-9) in the first round of the NCAA Championships in Nashville, Tenn. on Friday afternoon.
Wake Forest won a one-hole playoff by one shot over Clemson on Wednesday afternoon at the NCAA Tallahassee Regional to advance to the NCAA National Championship tournament in Stillwater, Okla. on May 18. It completed a wild back and forth day between the two ACC schools at the Don Veller Seminole Golf Course in Tallahassee, Fla.
Cardinal Newman used a strong, first-half offensive output Thursday night to cruise to a 7-0 win over Pinewood Prep, sending the Cardinals to the 3A SCISA championship.
No. 10 South Carolina women's tennis (19-6, 11-2 SEC) is set to host NCAA Regionals for the third straight season, meeting with Quinnipiac for the first time in program history at 2 p.m.Friday in the Round of 64 at the Carolina Tennis Center.
Charlotte Hornets President of Basketball Operations & General Manager Mitch Kupchak announced today the team has named James Borrego head coach. Borrego becomes the 11th head coach in franchise history.
Not many hitters in the South Atlantic League can keep pace with Quinn Brodey’s power numbers. The Mets prospect doubled twice on Thursday in Hickory, but the Crawdads got the better of the Fireflies, winning 5-2 at L.P. Frans Stadium.
No. 12 South Carolina softball used a two-run third inning and an Alyssa Kumiyama home run in the fourth to advance to the semifinals of the SEC Softball Tournament with a 3-1 win over No. 25 Mississippi State on Thursday at Mizzou Softball Stadium.
Joy Cheek, recently named one of the WBCA’s “Thirty under 30,” has joined the Clemson women’s basketball staff, head coach Amanda Butler announced Thursday.
No. 9 South Carolina women’s golf saw its bid for a spot in the 2018 NCAA Championship fall short after placing 10th in the San Francisco Regional Wednesday at TPC Harding Park.
Airport won a winner-take-all game against South Aiken Wednesday night, 11-4, advancing to the 4A state championship series for the first time since 2013.