Kyle Wilkie hit a walkoff single with one out in the 10th inning to lift No. 7 Clemson to a 9-8 win over Winthrop. The Tigers, who defeated Winthrop for the third year in a row with a walkoff single, improved to 8-0, while the Eagles dropped to 3-6.
The University of South Carolina baseball team’s offense exploded for a season-high 15 runs and six Gamecock pitchers held Winthrop in check in a 15-2 win over the Eagles Wednesdayafternoon (Feb. 21) at Founders Park. South Carolina has now won four straight games.
Pat Kelsey had a change of heart and will not take the UMass coaching job, citing “personal reasons” for his decision. Kelsey had signed a contract to coach at UMass on Tuesday. Athletic director Ryan Bamford said in a statement that Kelsey asked to be released from that contract at 3:30 p.m. ET Thursday — 30 minutes before he was…
UMass officially announced the hiring of Winthrop’s Pat Kelsey as the team’s new head coach on Tuesday. Kelsey, 41, took Winthrop to the NCAA tourney this season, his fifth with the Eagles. He was previously an assistant at Xavier and Wake Forest, where he worked for Skip Prosser. “UMass is a national college basketball brand with a proud, powerful tradition,”…
ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) – Winthrop University’s top academic award will no longer bear the name of avowed segregationist and former South Carolina governor “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman. Media outlets report the university’s president Dan Mahony told faculty, staff and students in an email Friday that the university will discontinue the 75-year-old Tillman Award. Instead, the students with the highest GPA…
