Brian Bryant hit a lay-up off an inbounds pass as the buzzer sounded to give Mississippi State a 69-67 overtime win Wednesday night over South Carolina. Click to see USC Head Coach Darrin Horn’s postgame comments.
Joey Pankake hit a solo home run in the bottom of the fourth inning to break a 1-1 tie and four Gamecock pitchers combined to allow just one run on five hits as second ranked South Carolina defeated Presbyterian 2-1 on Tuesday afternoon in non-conference baseball action at Carolina Stadium. South Carolina is now 7-0 on the year while the loss drops Presbyterian to 0-8 for the season.
Benedict College junior center Marcus Goode was named the SIAC Men’s Basketball Player of the Year for the second year in a row. The Chapin native led the SIAC in scoring, rebounding, and blocked shots during the regular season, averaging 18.7 points, 11.2 rebounds, which currently ranks sixth in Division II, and 2.3 blocks per game.
Clemson will open and close the 2012 football season against SEC teams and will play host to four teams who won at least eight games in 2011 according to the 2012 schedule released by the Atlantic Coast Conference on Monday.
South Carolina pitcher Michael Roth has been named the co-pitcher of the week in the SEC. Roth pitched seven innings, allowing zero earned runs, and seven strike-outs in the Gamecocks 8-1 victory over Elon on Friday night.
The Newberry College Wolves wrestling team earned the Super Region I championship for the fifth consecutive season with 131 team points, sending seven wrestlers to the 2012 NCAA Division II National Tournament.
COLUMBIA, S.C.(USC Athletics) – South Carolina closed its regular season with a 53-47 win over Arkansas, behind a defensive effort that shut down the Razorbacks’ leading scorer in the second half and a rebounding effort that yielded 18 of the 36 on the offensive glass.
Second ranked South Carolina raced out to a 5-0 lead in the first two innings and behind 5.2 scoreless innings from junior right-hander Colby Holmes, the Gamecocks defeated Elon 6-0 on Sunday afternoon to sweep a three-game baseball series.
The Dreher girls will play for a class 3A championship. Newberry boys will play for the class 2A state title, and the Columbia girls will play for a class 2A state title.
Andre Young scored 12 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer with 11.5 seconds left, to help Clemson beat North Carolina State 72-69 in overtime on Saturday.
