HOT START: The Fireflies aim for their fifth straight win against the Hickory Crawdads. With a win tonight, it would match the club’s longest winning steak from the 2016 inaugural season (8/19/16-8/23/16). During this four-game stretch to start this year, Columbia outscored Augusta 36-12 in the series. 23 of these runs came in the first four innings. It took Columbia…
CLEMSON, S.C. (CAC) – Junior lefthander Charlie Barnes was named ACC Co-Pitcher-of-the-Week, announced Monday by the league office. Barnes received his first career weekly honor by the ACC along with Wake Forest righthander Parker Dunshee. It marked the fourth week in a row a Tiger was honored by the ACC, as Chris Williams was named ACC Player-of-the-Week on March 20, Alex…
CLEMSON, S.C. (CAC) – The Tigers moved up one spot to No. 4 in this week’s Collegiate Baseball poll and remained in the top five in the Baseball America ranking (No. 5) and USA Today coaches poll (No. 4). Clemson (28-5, 13-2 ACC) won all four games last week, including a three-game sweep of Virginia Tech last weekend. It marked…
Ever since the Gamecocks cut down the nets in Dallas, Dawn Staley’s been seen everywhere wearing her piece of history. There’s a reason for that. The Gamecocks’ head coach isn’t rocking the piece of her program’s first ever national championship to be boastful, but to inspire. Staley spoke at the Gamecocks’ title parade on Sunday about the reason behind her…
While recounting the Gamecocks’ journey to the top at their NCAA Championship parade Sunday, Carolina head coach Dawn Staley was provided with another, but unexpected blessing. The block leading up to Colonial Life Arena on Lincoln St., between Pendleton and Assembly, will now be known as “Dawn Staley Way”. Columbia’s Mayor Steve Benjamin announced the renaming of the street on…
COLUMBIA, SC (Fireflies PR) – The Fireflies shut out the GreenJackets on Sunday for a second time in three days. The 6-0 victory clinched Columbia’s four-game series sweep of Augusta to begin the 2017 season. Ironically enough, the club’s last four-game sweep came against these same GreenJackets from August 19-22 of last season. For the fourth straight night, at least…
CLEMSON, S.C. (CAC) – The No. 4 Clemson Tigers scored four runs in the fourth inning to take the lead for good in their 8-3 win over Virginia Tech at Doug Kingsmore Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The Tigers, who swept the series 3-0 and won their 20th game in a row over Virginia Tech at Doug Kingsmore Stadium dating to 1984,…
Sergio Garcia won his first major title on Sunday, making a birdie on the the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to beat Justin Rose at the Masters. Playing Augusta National’s 18th hole in the playoff, Rose had sent his tee shot into the trees to the right and was forced to punch out close to where Garcia’s tee shot…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Benedict SID)– The defense used a fumble recovery, a safety and an interception to help lead the Purple squad over the Gold offense 28-18 in the annual Benedict College Purple-Gold spring football scrimmage on Saturday afternoon at Charlie W. Johnson Stadium. “I thought there was a lot of enthusiasm and we went after each other very hard,” Benedict…
There was never a doubt that defensive end Xavier Thomas, the No. 1-ranked prospect in the ESPNJr300, was going to stay in his home state of South Carolina for college. The question that kept South Carolina and Clemson coaches and fans on edge was which school it would be. Thomas answered that question Saturday morning, committing to Clemson over South…
