ATLANTA (AP) — Jarnell Stokes scored 22 points, matching his season high, and Tennessee beat South Carolina 59-44 on Friday in the SEC tournament quarterfinals, adding a strong defensive effort to the Vols’ NCAA tournament hopes.
The top-seed Nova Southeastern University Sharks scored the final 14 points of the game to pull away from a close contest and escaped with a 75-61 victory over Benedict College in the first round of the NCAA Division II South Region Tournament on Friday in the Don Taft University Center on the campus of NSU.
Auston Bousfield’s two-out grand slam in the top of the sixth inning lifted 12th ranked Ole Miss to a 6-4 win over top-ranked South Carolina on Friday night at Carolina Stadium. The Gamecocks are now 16-1 and 0-1 in the SEC while the Rebels improve to 17-2, 1-0 in the league.
Behind two runs in the eighth inning, Wake Forest rallied to top No. 14 Clemson 4-3 at Wake Forest Baseball Park Friday night. The Demon Deacons (13-6, 3-1 ACC) took a 1-0 series lead over the Tigers (10-6, 3-1 ACC).
Due to the weather forecast on Sunday, top ranked South Carolina and 12th ranked Ole Miss have adjusted the weekend series schedule with the two teams to meet in a doubleheader on Saturday beginning at 3 p.m. The second game of the doubleheader will be 45 minutes at the conclusion of the first game. Both games will be nine innings. There will be no contest on Sunday.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Wofford coach Mike Young was disappointed his Terriers weren’t part of the NCAA tournament the past two seasons. He was also bothered he had no other teams from South Carolina to pull for in those events.
Jarnell Stokes scored 22 points, matching his season high, and Tennessee beat South Carolina 59-44 on Friday in the SEC tournament quarterfinals, adding a strong defensive effort to the Vols’ NCAA tournament hopes.
Due to the threat of inclement weather Sunday, the Clemson vs. Wake Forest series will conclude with a doubleheader Saturday starting at 1 p.m. Saturday’s game was originally scheduled for 4 p.m. There will be approximately 40 minutes in between the nine-inning games Saturday.
For the first time since 2006 Gamecock basketball has back-to-back wins at the SEC tournament. Friday they’ll try to make it three in a row.
#13 seed USC takes on #4 seed Tennessee in the second game of the day in Atlanta Friday. The game will start 25 minutes after the conclusion of the first quarterfinal match-up between #1 seed Florida and #8 seed Missouri that starts at 1 p.m. Both afternoon games will air on ESPNU.
ATLANTA (AP) — South Carolina won its second straight game at the Southeastern Conference tournament, upsetting Arkansas 71-69 on Thursday behind 17 points from Sindarius Thornwell and likely knocking the Razorbacks out of the NCAA tournament.
