Coastal Division champion North Carolina and Atlantic Division champion Clemson are the top two seeds for the 2018 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Championship, which gets underway Tuesday at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, North Carolina.
The Gamecocks will begin the SEC Tournament on Tuesday night as the five-seed, facing 12-seed Missouri in a single-elimination game for the right to advance on into double-elimination competition beginning Wednesday.
No. 4 Clemson completed the sweep of Pittsburgh with a 5-0 victory at Charles L. Cost Field on Saturday afternoon. The Tigers (43-13, 22-8 ACC), who secured at least a share of the ACC regular-season championship, recorded their 11th ACC road win in a row to set a school record and won their sixth game in a row overall.
Sophomore Cody Morris struck out seven in seven innings of work and the 25th-ranked University of South Carolina baseball team scored eight runs in the first three innings in a 10-1 rout of Texas A&M to close out the regular-season Saturday afternoon at Blue Bell Park.
Freshman Kelsey Oh tossed a career-high 13 strikeouts to lead the Gamecocks to a 3-0 win over UNCG to open the NCAA Columbia Regional on Friday at Carolina Softball Stadium at Beckham Field.
Graham Lawson pitched four scoreless innings of relief, Hunter Taylor doubled twice and the 25th-ranked Gamecock baseball team took advantage of three Texas A&M errors in a 5-3 win over the Aggies Friday night at Blue Bell Park.
Joe Cavallaro had a confidence and swagger on the mound Friday that Charleston’s hitters could not match. The righty fanned a new career-high nine batters and led Columbia to a 3-1 victory. The Fireflies have taken the first two games of the series and won three straight.
Gamecock forward Brian Bowen had a much better second day at the NBA Combine in Chicago.
No. 4 Clemson scored three runs in the first inning and held on for a 4-1 victory over Pittsburgh at Charles L. Cost Field on Friday afternoon to claim the ACC Atlantic Division title
South Carolina head women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley announced that Bianca Cuevas-Moore will return to the Gamecocks’ roster for 2018-19.
