Sunday’s area sports briefs

Tyler Skulina struck out a career-high eight batters in six shutout innings and Billy McKinney provided all of the offense via a pair of solo home runs to lead the Myrtle Beach Pelicans to a 2-1 win over the Lynchburg Hillcats on Sunday.

Skulina allowed just one hit and walked one batter, while McKinney went deep in fourth and seventh innings.

The Hillcats got their lone run when Eric Haase was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the ninth inning. However, James Pugliese got Paul Hendrix to ground out to strand the bases loaded and end the game in the next at-bat.

Sunday’s win was the Pelicans’ third straight and they will try to complete a four-game sweep in the series finale at 6:30 p.m. Monday.

College baseball

▪ Auburn 3, (at) South Carolina 0 | Dalton Rentz, Justin Camp and Trey Wingenter held the Gamecocks to three total hits en route to winning the rubber tilt of the three-game series.

Kyler Deese drove in two runs and Damon Haecker plated one for the Tigers.

▪ Louisville 5, (at) Clemson 3 | Corey Ray drove in three runs and the Cardinals held on to beat the Tigers.

CCU softball

▪ The Coastal Carolina softball team will be the second seed when the Big South tournament begins Thursday in Buies Creek, N.C.

The Chants finished the regular season 31-22 and 16-7 in conference play and earned the second seed when the tournament bracket was announced Sunday.

Coastal will open against seventh-seeded Campbell at 5 p.m. Thursday in the double-elimination tournament.

This story was originally published May 3, 2015 at 9:59 PM with the headline "Sunday’s area sports briefs."