Raiders stay alive, take down Daniel, 7-4
Coleman Coker (17) hit a home run in the 8th to help lift Laurens to a 7-3 playoff win at Daniel Saturday.
Laurens third baseman Coleman Coker led off the eighth inning with solo home run to left field, and the Raiders added a pair of insurance runs for a 7-4 Class 4A District B Upper State playoffs Saturday.
The win sets up a winner-take-all game at Daniel at 6:30 p.m. Monday for the District B championship. The winner will face overall top seed Fountain Inn Wednesday in the Upper State semifinals.
After Coker’s solo shot, Jireh Brown was hit by a pitch, made it to second on a Logan Martin walk and reached third on a passed ball.
Avery Madden’s sacrifice bunt drove in Brown for a 6-4 Raiders lead. Tristan Buzbee followed with a double to center field that scored pinch runner Hunter
Richardson from second for a 7-4 lead.
Bennett Edwards moved from catcher to the mound and pitched the final two innings to pick up the win for LDHS (19-10). Edwards allowed one hit and struck out two in two scoreless innings.
Starter Noah Hughes went 4 1/3 innings and allowed six hits with four runs, two of which were earned.
Coker went 2-for-3 with 2 RBI and a run scored, and Edwards went 2-for-4 and drove in a run.
Jackson Ownby pitched two innings in relief and took the loss for the Lions (20-8).
Oceanside downs Red Devils for 5th straight tennis title
Oceanside Collegiate defeated Clinton 6-0 in the Class 3A/2A/1A finals to win its fifth straight boys tennis championship Saturday at the Cayce Tennis & Fitness Center.
Details were not immediately available.
The match was delayed by rain for nearly two hours before resuming indoors.
Oceanside breezed through the state tournament without dropping a match.
Seneca eliminates Raiders, 6-1
No. 5-seeded Seneca eliminated No. 13 Laurens Saturday with a 6-1 ome victory over the Raiders in the Class 4A District B Upper State softball playoffs Saturday.
The Bobcats (19-9) scored in each of the first three innings and led 5-0 after the third. Lead-off hitter Sophia Wylie went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI for Seneca.
Kassidy Wood picked up the win, pitching five scoreless innings with three strikeouts and no walks.
LDHS pitcher Savannah Nations gave up 10 hits and three earned runs in the complete game. Myleigh Robertson and Carly Edwards both went 2-for 3 at the plate.
Nations drove in the Raiders’ lone run in the sixth, scoring Edwards, who had led of with a single, with a sacrifice bunt.
