Top-seeded Gators fall to Arkansas

Hunter Wilson hit a grand slam and Casey Martin had a two-run homer to lead Arkansas to an 8-2 victory over top-seeded Florida on Friday in the Southeastern Conference Tournament in Hoover, Ala.

The Razorbacks (39-17) moved on to the semifinals in a game that had been postponed from Thursday night. The Gators (42-16) faced LSU late Friday night in an elim- ination game.

Blaine Knight (10-0) allowed just one run on four hits in six innings for Arkan- sas. Wilson’s home run in the top of the ninth was his first of the season. Martin had a two-homer game Thursday night against South Carolina.

Closer Matt Cronin worked out of a bases loaded, oneout jam in the eighth and earned his 11th save. He struck out five in two innings.

SEC player of the year Jonathan India got Florida on the board with a leadoff homer in the sixth.

ACC: Drew Wharton and Chris Williams homered during a six-run sixth inning, and Clemson beat Miami 7-1 late Thursday night at the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament in Durham, N.C.

Kyle Wilkie and Seth Beer each had run-scoring singles during the big inning that helped the second-seeded Tigers (45-13) advance to the semifinals. Clemson will play the North Carolina State-Florida State winner today.

The Tigers put together big innings in both of their tour- nament games. They scored an ACC Tournament-record 17 runs in the fourth inning of their 21-4 rout of Notre Dame on Wednesday.

Wharton led off the sixth with a solo homer off starter Jeb Bargfeldt to break a 1-all tie. Wilkie and Beer had back-to-back RBI singles, and came around on Williams’ drive to right off reliever Frankie Bartow.

Dylan Cloonan hit a run-scoring triple in the fourth for the seventh-seeded Hurricanes (28-26).