Baseball Southern Conference

Wofford-Furman game suspended, will resume Thursday

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Wednesday’s Wofford-Furman contest at the Southern Conference Baseball Championship presented by Mountain Shore Properties has been suspended due to rain in the bottom of the third inning with the Terriers leading 8-6. The contest will resume Thursday at 3 p.m.

Thursday’s schedule will see No. 8 seed The Citadel take on No. 1 seed Mercer at 9 a.m. No. 4 VMI vs. No. 5 UNCG will follow at 12 p.m., with the completion of the Wofford-Furman game after that at 3. Two losers’ bracket games will follow to wrap up the day, with the loser of Thursday’s first two games squaring off at 5:30 p.m. and the loser of the Wofford-Furman game taking on No. 7 seed Western Carolina at 8:30 p.m.

The Terriers will own a two-run lead when halted game resumes, having stormed back from an early 6-0 deficit to take an 8-6 lead before the game was called with two on and two out in the bottom of the third.

Furman bolted out to a 6-0 lead in the first on the strength of a two-run double by Brandon Elmy and a two-run home run from Ryan Morse, but Wofford answered with two in the bottom half and took the lead with a 5-spot in the second, highlighted by RBI singles by Matt Ramsay and Conor Clancey. Wofford pushed across one more run in the third on Derek Hirsch’s bases-loaded walk to cap the scoring before the game was called.


May 19 (Tuesday)
SoCon Championship presented by Mountain Shore Properties (all games on SDN)
(Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park; Charleston, S.C.)
Game 1: #8 The Citadel 8, #9 ETSU 2

May 20 (Wednesday)
SoCon Championship presented by Mountain Shore Properties (all games on SDN)
(Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park; Charleston, S.C.)
Game 2: #2 Samford 8, #7 Western Carolina 7 (10 inn.)
Game 3: #3 Wofford vs. #6 Furman, susp.

May 21 (Thursday)
SoCon Championship presented by Mountain Shore Properties (all games on SDN)
(Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park; Charleston, S.C.)
Game 4: #8 The Citadel vs. #1 Mercer    9 a.m.
Game 5: #4 VMI vs. #5 UNCG    12 p.m.
Game 3: #3 Wofford vs. #6 Furman resumption    3 p.m.
Game 6: Loser Game 4 vs. Loser Game 5    5:30 p.m.
Game 7: #7 Western Carolina vs. Loser Game 3    8:30 p.m.

May 22 (Friday)
SoCon Championship presented by Mountain Shore Properties (all games on SDN)
(Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park; Charleston, S.C.)
Game 8: #2 Samford vs. Winner Game 3    9 a.m.
Game 9: Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 5    12:30 p.m.
Game 10: Winner Game 7 vs. Loser Game 8    5 p.m.
Game 11: Winner Game 6 vs. Loser Game 9    8:30 p.m.

May 23 (Saturday)
SoCon Championship presented by Mountain Shore Properties (all games on SDN)
(Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park; Charleston, S.C.)
Game 12: Winner Game 8 vs. Winner Game 10    9 a.m.
Game 13: Winner Game 9 vs. Winner Game 11    12:30 p.m.
Game 14: Winner Game 12 vs. Loser Game 12^    5 p.m.
Game 15: Winner Game 13 vs. Loser Game 13^    8:30 p.m.
^ if necessary

May 24 (Sunday)
SoCon Championship presented by Mountain Shore Properties (ESPN3)
(Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park; Charleston, S.C.)
Championship game    2 p.m.

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