Joyce Edwards scored 25 points and Ta’Niya Latson 24 to lead No. 2 South Carolina to its most points in coach Dawn Staley’s 18 seasons with a 121-49 romp over Queens on Sunday.
South Carolina State defeated Delaware State 28-17 in a regular-season finale Saturday to decide the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title with its seventh straight win.
LaNorris Sellars ran for two touchdowns and threw for two more, including a 75-yard strike to his younger brother Jayden Sellers on the game’s first snap, in South Carolina’s 51-7 rout of Coastal Carolina.
Newberry College (10-1) won their eighth consecutive game and broke Kentucky State’s eight-game winning streak with a 45-24 victory in the first round of the NCAA Division 2 playoffs.
In one of the wildest finishes in all of college football action on Saturday, the Benedict College Tigers stunned the Wingate Bulldogs on a last-second touchdown to take a 25-24 victory in the first round of the NCAA Division II championship.
Irmo native Antonio Williams caught two first-half touchdown passes from senior quarterback Cade Klubnik to lead the Tigers to a 45-10 victory over FCS-opponent Furman.
South Carolina receiver Nyck Harbor, who leads the team with five touchdown catches and 21 yards per reception this season, didn’t play for the Gamecocks against Coastal Carolina on Saturday.
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Michael Ajayi had 15 points, 14 rebounds and two blocks on Friday and Finley Bizjack scored 13 of his 18 points in the second half to help Butler beat South Carolina 79-72 at the Greenbrier Tip-Off.
South Carolina sophomore guard Maddy McDaniel suspension has been lifted, Gamecock women’s basketball announced Thursday via social media.
