COLUMBIA \u2014 Jake Randolph homered twice and South Carolina upset No. 4 Arkansas 9-4 to give the Gamecocks their first win since Monte Lee took over for Paul Mainieri as baseball coach.<\/p>\n
The Gamecocks (13-12, 1-5 SEC), who snapped a seven-game losing skid, lost a heartbreaker the day before in Lee\u2019s first game since Mainieri stepped down. This time, USC took charge early, taking a 5-0 lead on the strength of homers by Talmadge LeCroy, Randolph and Tyler Bak.<\/p>\n
Randolph\u2019s second homer, a shot to right center in the sixth inning, was followed later in the inning by Bak\u2019s RBI double to make it 8-2.<\/p>\n
Randolph finished 3 for 3 with a walk, two homers and three RBIs, while Bak was 3 for 5 with a homer, double and three RBIs. Luke Yuhasz went 2 for 4 with an RBI.<\/p>\n
USC starter Brandon Stone allowed two runs on five hits and two walks in 51\/3 innings, striking out five against Arkansas (18-7, 4-2).<\/p>\n
Notre Dame 7, No. 19 Clemson 4<\/p>\n
NOTRE DAME, IND. \u2014 Notre Dame allowed only four of 17 baserunners to score in its 7-4 victory over No. 19 Clemson at Frank Eck Stadium on March 22 to sweep the series 3-0.<\/p>\n
Nate Savoie was 4 for 5 for Clemson (18-7, 1-5 ACC), which outhit Notre Dame 13-8. Jacob Jarrell was 2 for 4 with an RBI and Luke Gaffney 2 for 5 with an RBI.<\/p>\n
Tigers starter Drew Titsworth (3-1) suffered the loss in four innings after allowing three runs, two earned, on five hits to go with five strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Noah Coy had two hits and drove in two for the Fighting Irish (14-6, 6-3).<\/p>\n
College of Charleston 6, UNC Wilmington 3<\/p>\n
MOUNT PLEASANT \u2014 Dylan Johnson went 2 for 3 with a homer, double and three RBIs as College of Charleston beat UNCW 6-3 at Patriots Point.<\/p>\n
Jake Amman also homered for Charleston (10-13, 5-4 CAA), which handed the Seahawks (16-8, 5-1) their first league loss. Amman finished 2 for 4 with a walk, while Jackson Berini was 1 for 2 with a double, two walks and two RBIs.<\/p>\n
Carson Bryant and freshman Kaden Myers combined to allow just one run across the first 61\/3 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBIA \u2014 Jake Randolph homered twice and South Carolina upset No. 4 Arkansas 9-4 to give the Gamecocks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[3788,5,79036,4547,648,81618,58967,1694,2341,6491,6392,69214],"class_list":["post-638358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-baseball","tag-arkansas","tag-baseball","tag-charleston-southern","tag-clemson","tag-college-baseball","tag-college-baseblal","tag-college-of-charleston","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball","tag-notre-dame","tag-south-carolina","tag-the-citadel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116276558811284021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}