New Lander men’s basketball coach Drew Richards announced the commitments of six players to the Lander men’s basketball program for the 2019-20 season. The incoming class hails from four different states.

Two Lander players were selected Wednesday on the final day of the 2019 Major League Baseball Draft.

South Carolina football coach Will Muschamp set out this recruiting season to upgrade his team’s running back talent, and he got that done Monday when MarShawn Lloyd (5-foot-10, 210 pounds) released a video on Twitter announcing a commitment to the Gamecocks.

Erskine’s softball team won the National Christian College Athletic Association national championship Friday in Botetourt, Virginia, with a 2-1 win against Biola University (La Mirada, California).

Make it 31.

Carson Jones is the new owner of Lander’s career home run record.

Lander baseball player Carson Jones calls former Bearcat slugger Thomas Berry the GOAT — an acronym for the greatest of all time.

Late last Wednesday night, Lander coach Jason Burke’s phone rang. The third-year Bearcats coach was at home, having wrapped up a 4-3 win against rival Erskine hours earlier.

DUE WEST — Erskine baseball coach Mark Crocco and Lander coach Jason Burke are good buddies. Their teams are also big rivals, and the Bearcats came into Wednesday’s game sporting a 16-game winning streak in the series.

A rebound from cold and wet conditions Tuesday morning earned Lander’s women’s golf team a fifth-place finish in the Bearcat Invitational at The Links at Stoney Point.

Most teams in any sport bring in freshmen who lean on talented seniors, people who have been there and done that.

DUE WEST — Lander’s Chandler Carey had tears in her eyes.

Lander junior Jon Parker finished on a tear, shooting a birdie on No. 15 and finishing with an eagle on No. 18, as Lander finished third Tuesday in the 10th annual Bearcat Classic at the Greenwood Country Club.

Lander and 21 other Division II competitors enjoyed sunny, 75-degree weather as the first round of the Bearcat Classic unfolded.

Breshay Johnson became Lander women’s basketball’s all-time leading scorer last season as the team’s center.

Lander has hired Drew Richards as its head men’s basketball coach, the school’s athletic department announced Wednesday.

ANDERSON — Lander coach Kevin Pederson took two brisk steps toward his bench in the second quarter and implored his players.

Lander women’s basketball coach Kevin Pederson came close to his dream job last April.