SPARTANBURG, S.C. (Interstat) — South Carolina Upstate scored five runs in the second inning and beat Clemson 6-3 on Tuesday afternoon at Cleveland S. Harley Baseball Park. The Spartans improved to 26-27, while the Tigers fell to 30-23.

Clemson took a 3-0 lead in the first on an RBI double by Tryston McCladdie. The Spartans answered with a run in the bottom half on a single by J. Sweeney. In the second, South Carolina Upstate scored five times, including an RBI single by A. Ritzer, a run-scoring single by H. Zenor, a double by Maloy Heaghney and a sacrifice fly by Trey Lang.

The Tigers got a run back in the fifth on a sacrifice fly by McCladdie, but Lang added another sacrifice fly in the sixth. Clemson scored once in the ninth on a groundout by Jacob Jarrell. The Spartans outhit the Tigers 9-8.

Key performers included Jacob Kirby, Max Bianchini and Jack Gibson for South Carolina Upstate. Talan Bell, Landon Fowler, Justin LeGuernic, Nathan Dvorsky, McCladdie and Jarrell led Clemson.