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.
The Gamecock baseball team will play its final SEC home series this weekend as the Gamecocks welcome Missouri to Founders Park.
Hammond blanked Porter-Gaud Thursday night, 5-0 in the 3A SCISA semifinals in Charleston, advancing to this year’s SCISA final.
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.
