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The 2024 SEC tournament rolls on Wednesday with four more games, including each of the top four seeds making their first appearance.
Tuesday's biggest upset saw Georgia, led by presumptive Golden Spikes Award favorite Charlie Condon, losing 9-1 against LSU and leaving their fate for the NCAA tournament up in the air.
Reigning SEC tournament champion Vanderbilt scored a 6-3 win over Florida to advance past the single-elimination opening round.
2024 SEC Tournament Results - Wednesday, May 22 (Double-Elimination)
No. 11 LSU def. No. 3 Kentucky, 11-0
No. 10 South Carolina def. No. 2 Arkansas, 6-5
No. 1 Tennessee vs. No. 8 Vanderbilt (5:30 p.m. ET)
No. 4 Texas A&M vs. No. 5 Mississippi State (30 minutes after previous game)
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2024 SEC Tournament Schedule - Thursday, May 22
No. 3 Kentucky vs. No. 2 Arkansas (10:30 a.m. ET)
Tennessee/Vanderbilt loser vs. Texas A&M/Mississippi State loser (30 minutes after first game)
No. 11 LSU vs. No. 10 South Carolina (5:30 p.m. ET)
Tennessee/Vanderbilt winner vs. Texas A&M/Mississippi State winner (30 minutes after third game)
No. 10 South Carolina def. No. 2 Arkansas, 6-5
A good start for the lower seeds continued with South Carolina holding off Arkansas 6-5 in the second game of the day from Hoover Metropolitan Stadium.
Cole Messina played the role of hero for the Gameco*cks. He finished 3-for-4 with two homers, including the go-ahead two-run shot in the top of the ninth to break a 4-4 tie.
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Messina's five RBI tied his season-high, previously done on May 3 against Missouri. Parker Noland drove in the other run for South Carolina with an RBI single in the top of the first.
Arkansas had a chance to tie the game or win in the bottom of the ninth. Ben McLaughlin drove in a run to make the score 6-5 with one out and two men on base.
Garrett Gainey was able to escape the jam by getting Wehiwa Aloy to ground into a fielder's choice and Jared Sprague-Lott to fly out to center.
The Gameco*cks used three pitchers to get the win. Eli Jones started the game and lasted 3.1 innings before giving way to Ty Good. After Good allowed two earned runs in 2.2 innings, Gainey pitched the final three innings.
South Carolina advances to the winner's side of the bracket to take on LSU on Thursday. Arkansas will look to keep its SEC tournament hopes alive tomorrow against Kentucky in the first game of the day at 10:30 a.m. ET.
No. 11 LSU def. No. 3 Kentucky, 11-0 (8 innings)
Jared Jones and Tommy White hit grand slams in the seventh and eighth innings to turn a pitching duel between LSU and Kentucky into a lopsided 11-0 blowout win that was called after eight innings due to the run rules.
Kentucky tried to play the percentages in the top of the seventh by intentionally walking White to load the bases for Jones, hoping to set up a double-play opportunity. The strategy backfired when Jones crushed a 2-2 pitch from Cameron O'Brien over the wall in left field.
There was no opportunity to workaround White in the top of the eighth after Michael Braswell III was hit by a pitch to load the bases with one out. The Tigers' third baseman hit an opposite-field liner that cleared the fence to make it an 11-0 game.
Luke Holman gave the Tigers six no-hit innings on the mound. He walked two and struck out seven before being removed after his pitch count got to 100.
Mitchell Daly's leadoff single in the bottom of the seventh was the only hit Kentucky managed in the game.
Wildcats pitchers struggled to find the strike zone when they weren't giving up those grand slams. Six pitchers combined to give up just seven hits, but they also walked seven hitters.
The win sends LSU to the winner's side of the bracket on Thursday. Kentucky will play the first game tomorrow looking to avoid elimination.