Fire Ants, Gamecocks and Tigers all hosting weekend series
There will be baseball a plenty at Riley Park beginning today and running through Sunday.
The University of South Carolina Sumter will be playing host to four other teams with a total of eight games being played over the three days.
The Fire Ants, who are 5-6 on the season, will play one game each day. They will play Florida State College at Jacksonville on Friday at 6 p.m. in the day's only game. The teams will play again on Saturday at 1 p.m., the second of four games on the day.
USC Sumter will face Walters State Community College of Morristown, Tennessee, in the final of three games on Sunday at 4 p.m.
Four of the five teams have reached the Junior College World Series in the past decade. Walters State has gone six times since 2003, the most recent in 2015. Potomac State from West Virginia has gone four times, the most recent in 2011.
USC Sumter made it to Grand Junction, Colorado, in 2015 and Region X foe Florence-Darlington Technical College made it in 2016.
Flo-Dar is coached by former Lakewood High School and Sumter P-15's standout Preston McDonald. The Stingers will play Potomac State at 10 a.m. on Saturday and will play a doubleheader on Sunday. They will play Potomac State again at 10 a.m. and will meet Walters State at 1 p.m.
UTAH VALLEY AT USC
The USC baseball team will be back in action this weekend against Utah Valley (1-2) at Founders Park for a 3-game series. The Gamecocks, now 3-1, are coming off a 2-1 series win against Liberty and an 8-6 come-from-behind win against Winthrop on Tuesday. The team was supposed to play against Presbyterian on Wednesday, but the game was canceled due to rain. The UVU series kicks off today at 4 p.m., will continue with the second game on Saturday at 2 p.m. and will finish with Game 3 on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Carmen Mlodzinski (Friday), Dylan Harley (Saturday) and Reid Morgan (Sunday) are the probable starting pitchers for the Gamecocks.
VMI AT CLEMSON
The Clemson baseball team will be in action this weekend at Doug Kingsmore Stadium in a three-game series against Virginia Military Institute (2-3). The 3-1 Tigers are coming off a 2-1 series win over South Alabama last weekend and a 7-6 victory over Charlotte on Monday. Clemson's Wednesday tilt with Tennessee Tech was postponed due to weather. First pitch on Friday will be at 4 p.m. with Brooks Crawford on the bump for the Tigers. Davis Sharpe will start Saturday's 3 p.m. game and Justin Wrobleksi will toe the rubber at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
From staff reports