No. 17 South Carolina softball split its final two games in the OG&E Tournament on Sunday at the OU Softball Complex. The Gamecocks defeated Indiana in a 7-3 win before dropping a 5-1 game to No. 5 Oklahoma.
Ohio State scored four runs in the eighth and two in the ninth and held off a Coastal Carolina charge in the ninth to claim a 7-5 victory Sunday afternoon at Springs Brooks Stadium.
South Carolina senior forward A’ja Wilson was named espnW Women’s Basketball Player of the Year, the organization announced today on its website.
South Carolina (11-5) notched two wins on Saturday to earn a series sweep of Princeton (0-7) at Founders Park. The Gamecocks beat the Tigers 7-3 in game one and 6-4 in game two, combining for 20 hits and four home runs. Carolina picked up its first series sweep of the season with the wins.
No. 17 South Carolina softball split its games in its first day at the OG&E Tournament in Norman, Okla., at the OU Softball Complex on Saturday. Carolina overwhelmed Illinois State in a 9-0 win in five innings before dropping a hard-fought 4-2 game to No. 5 Oklahoma.
The No. 6 Clemson Tigers used strong offensive performances Saturday to win games two and three against Georgia Tech, sweeping the Yellow Jackets and opening conference play 3-0.
No. 3 seeded Claflin University defeated Clark Atlanta, 72-61, to advance to the 2018 NCAA DII Men’s Basketball South Region semi-final. The win pushes the Panthers record to 26-6 overall. Clark Atlanta close out the season at 24-6. This is the second NCAA Regional win for Claflin and the first in nine years. The Panthers defeated Valdosta State, 54-50, on March 14, 2009 in Lakeland, Fla. Claflin then lost its second round game to Christian Brothers (3-15-09), 72-53.
Coastal Carolina allowed three runs in the top of the ninth inning to tie the game, 8-8, but Parker Chavers drew a one-out walk in the bottom half and Seth Lancaster followed with a walk-off, two-run home run to lift the 21st-ranked Chanticleers to a 10-8 victory over Ohio State in day two of the Environmental Staffing Chanticleer Classic at Springs Brooks Stadium.
The Claflin University men’s basketball team will enter the 2018 NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball South Regional as the No. 3 seed and will face the No. 6 seed in the South Region Clark Atlanta University, also out of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC), Saturday, March 10 at 12 noon, in the opening game of the South Regional.
Patrick Cromwell’s run-scoring single in the eighth inning broke a 2-2 tie and lifted No. 6 Clemson to a 3-2 victory over Georgia Tech at Doug Kingsmore Stadium on Friday afternoon. The Tigers, who took a 1-0 lead in the series, improved to 13-1 overall and 1-0 in the ACC. The Yellow Jackets dropped to 9-4 overall and 0-1 in ACC play.
