Presbyterian won another Big South baseball series, taking two out of three at UNC Asheville with a split of a Saturday doubleheader.

The Blue Hose (14-15, 6-3 conference) lost the first game, 5-4, and won the second over UNCA (10-18, 3-6), 12-7.

The Bulldogs took a 4-0 lead in the former game that PC couldn’t overcome. After Trey Fenderson’s double, the Blue Hose got on the board when he scored on a wild pitch. In the ninth, Amman Dewberry hit his fourth home run, and Ryan Ouzts belted a two-run shot, his seventh, that brought PC within a run.

PC dominated the nightcap, led by Fenderson, who was 5/5. Dewberry doubled in the second and eighth innings, and Sean Hollister pitched 4-1/3 innings of one-run relief, allowing three hits and fanning four.

Rylen Stockton went 2/2, with two RBI and a home run, in both games, for the Bulldogs.

The Blue Hose visit South Carolina on Tuesday for a 7 p.m. game against the Gamecocks.

Laurens’ football schedule will, like Clinton’s, be the same as last season, with the sites reversed.

If the schedule, which has not been released yet, reflects the same approximate dates as last year, it will be as follows:

Aug. 22, at Hillcrest, 7:30; 29, CLINTON, 7:30.

Sept. 5, BELTON-HONEA PATH, 7:30; 12, A.C. FLORA, 7:30; 19, bye; 26, at Lexington, 7:30.

Oct. 3, at Southside , 7:30; 10, WREN, 7:30; 17, at Westside, 7:30, 24, EMERALD, 7:30; 31, at Fountain Inn, 7:30.

This schedule will be updated, if necessary.

The baseball teams of Clinton and Laurens are ranked in the latest standings of the S.C. Baseball Coaches Association.

The Red Devils are ranked third in Class 2A, while the Raiders are sixth in 4A.

Mid-Carolina, which defeated Clinton twice to open the Region 3 schedule, is ranked at the top of Class 3A.

Fountain Inn, which Laurens has not yet faced, is the top-ranked team in Class 4A. Westside, which the Raiders defeated two times in three games, is ranked ninth. The Raiders are to face the Fury on April 7, 9 and 11, with the first and third games to be played at Ed Prescott Field.

Abbeville, which has defeated Thornwell Charter twice, is at the top of the Class A rankings.

The Saints take on fourth-ranked Ware Shoals on Tuesday and Friday of this week, and ninth-ranked Dixie on April 15 and 17. Tuesday’s game against Ware Shoals is at home.

Presbyterian lacrosse used a fast start to defeat Radford, 13-12, on the road Saturday in Virginia.

Willow Hammond and Emma Claire Mills combined for eight goals, all in the first 30 minutes, as the Blue Hose logged their first conference win.

Presbyterian (4-7, 1-1) gets a full week off before its next outing in Big South action, staying on the road to take on Winthrop at 1 p.m. next Saturday.

Radford (3-7, 0-2) got three goals apiece from Mady Cheney and Madison Driscoll.

Reigning state champion Wren defeated Laurens in golf by a margin of 165-179. Raider freshman Ashton Wilson was medalist, thanks to his 37. The other scores were Rich Coggins 45, Michael Hamby 47, Landon James 50 and Layden Kernells 59.

Clinton finished seventh in the Spartanburg County Championship Tournament, won by Dorman at 299 on Friday.

The Red Devils shot 329 in the 18-hole event. Clinton scores were Mia Carles 75, Luke McMurray 79, Aiden Bragg 81 and John Carles 94.

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