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For eight innings, Friday, it looked as if Clemson would suffer through another defeat, again hamstrung by their inability to strike the big blow with runners on base. But it all changed in an instant as Billy Amick delivered a walk off grand slam to lift the Tigers to a 9-8 victory over Georgia State and send the Doug Kingsmore Stadium crowd into a frenzy.

It’s every child’s dream to play the role of the hero, to score the winning touchdown, beat the buzzer from the 3-point line or drive home the winning run. But a walk off grand slam with two outs in the ninth for your first career homer? Even the most imaginative among us may not have played out the fantastical scenario Amick, who grew up in Batesburg, lived out with his teammates, Friday.

The Tigers trailed 8-4 entering the ninth, having already stranded 14 runners on the basepaths. Nathan Hall’s single to center kickstarted the rally. Three batters later, Cam Cannarella singled to left center to load the bases. Cooper Ingle drove home Hall to cut the Panthers lead to 8-5 and set the stage for Amick. Amick, in just his fifth at-bat of the season, wasted little time, launching a 1-0 pitch over the centerfield fence just to the right of the scoreboard, clearing the bases and turning fantasy into reality. It was Amick’s first homer as a Tiger and he won’t soon forget it. The Tigers (8-6) poured out of the dugout to mob Amick as he crossed the plate and flung his purple helmet in celebration.

While Amick’s big fly will garner the headlines, the contributions of Cannarella and Ingle shouldn’t be overlooked. Cannarella scored four runs and racked up five hits to raise his average to .467. Ingle also picked up five hits, with a homer among them, and drove in four runs.

Clemson starter Austin Gordon didn’t shine as he gave up six runs (three HRs) in 3.2 innings and saw his ERA rise to 6.27. The bullpen held steady, however, surrendering just a pair of unearned runs the rest of the way to keep the door cracked for the comeback. Nick Hoffman (1-1) allowed just one hit over the last 1.2 innings to pick up the win.

The same two teams go back at it in a doubleheader, Saturday. Due to forecasted inclement weather on Sunday, the decision has been made to conclude the series, Saturday. Game 1 is scheduled for 1 p.m. and Game 2 will begin approximately one hour after the first game ends.

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Clemson press conference with Erik Bakich, Cooper Ingle and Billy Amick

The No. 1 ranked UNC Women's Tennis team hits the road for the second time of the ACC dual match season heading to No. 26 Georgia Tech and No. 38 Clemson. The Tar Heels are coming off a 2-0 weekend defeating Louisville 6-1, and No. 14 Notre Dame 7-0.

Friday, March 10 – Georgia Tech 5 PM ET Ken Byers Tennis Complex – Atlanta, Ga. Live Scoring Live Video

Carolina and Georgia Tech will square off on the Ken Byers Tennis Complex in Atlanta at 5 PM on Friday, March 10. The Yellow Jackets are coming off a 0-2 week, falling to NC State 3-4, and Wake Forest 2-4. Georgia Tech is 7-4 overall, 2-2 in the ACC. The Yellow Jackets have three ranked singles individuals in No. 8 Carol Lee (4-0 in ACC), No. 27 Kylie Bilchev (3-0 in ACC), No. 99 Mahak Jain (3-1 in ACC), who will look to stop the Heels on the hard court.

Sunday, March 12 - Clemson 12 PM ET Duckworth Family Tennis Center – Clemson, S.C. Live Scoring Live Video

The 9-5 Tigers, 0-2 in the ACC will square off against the Tar Heels Sunday, March 26 at 12 PM at the Duckworth Family Tennis Center. Clemson is coming off a 0-2 weekend 0-4 against NC State and 1-6 against Wake Forest. The No. 38 ranked Tigers moved up seven spots in the latest ITA Rankings.

Carolina enters ACC dual match play with a 18-0 overall record, 4-0 in the ACC are coming off two wins last weekend. with her wins last weekend reached the 106-win mark in her career, ranking her 11 all-time at UNC, tying her with Gina Suarez-Malagu. was named ACC Freshman of the Week for the third time this season, coming off a 2-0 weekend.

The top ranked Heels in that ITA poll, have seven ranked players in singles with No. 1 , No. 15 , No. 16 , No. 22 , No. 33 , No. 67 , No. 73 .

In doubles, the pairings of No. 3 /, No. 15 /, No. 35 / continue to be ranked with pairing of No. 44 / joining the rankings for the first time this season.

Following a weekend slate of ACC road games, the Tar Heels will hit the road yet again traveling to Boston College and Syracuse.

Stay up to date on all of the news from UNC Women's Tennis by following them on Twitter @UNC_Wtennis or Instagram @unc_wtennis.

TOURNAMENT

America East

Semifinal

Mass.-Lowell 75, New Hampshire 64

Vermont 79, Binghamton 57

Atlantic 10

First Round

Richmond 71, UMass 38

Saint Joseph's 72, Loyola Chicago 67

La Salle 73, Rhode Island 56

Atlantic Coast

First Round

Georgia Tech 61, Florida St. 60

Boston College 80, Louisville 62

Virginia Tech 67, Notre Dame 64

Big Sky

Semifinal

N. Arizona 83, Montana 71

Montana St. 60, Weber St. 58, 2OT

Big West

First Round

CS Bakersfield 51, CS Northridge 47

Cal Poly 88, Long Beach St. 68

Colonial Athletic Association

Championship

Coll. of Charleston 63, UNC-Wilmington 58

Horizon League

Championship

N. Kentucky 63, Cleveland St. 61

Metro Atlantic Athletic

First Round

Mount St. Mary's 67, Canisius 66, OT

St. Peter's 70, Fairfield 52

Marist 61, Manhattan 50

Northeast

Championship

Merrimack 67, Fairleigh Dickinson 66

Southland

Semifinal

Texas A&M-CC 80, McNeese St. 63

Northwestern St. 74, New Orleans 70

Summit League

Championship

Oral Roberts 92, N. Dakota St. 58

West Coast

Championship

Gonzaga 77, Saint Mary's (Cal.) 51

Western Athletic

First Round

Cal Baptist 69, Abilene Christian 62

Grand Canyon 82, Texas-Arlington 77

Tarleton St. 74, Texas Rio Grande Valley 70

Utah Tech 80, Stephen F. Austin 76, OT

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TOURNAMENT

America East

Semifinal

Mass.-Lowell 75, New Hampshire 64

Vermont 79, Binghamton 57

Atlantic 10

First Round

Richmond 71, UMass 38

Saint Joseph's 72, Loyola Chicago 67

La Salle 73, Rhode Island 56

Atlantic Coast

First Round

Georgia Tech 61, Florida St. 60

Boston College 80, Louisville 62

Virginia Tech 67, Notre Dame 64

Big Sky

Semifinal

N. Arizona 83, Montana 71

Montana St. 60, Weber St. 58

Big West

First Round

CS Bakersfield 51, CS Northridge 47

Cal Poly 88, Long Beach St. 68

Colonial Athletic Association

Championship

Coll. of Charleston 63, UNC-Wilmington 58

Horizon League

Championship

N. Kentucky 63, Cleveland St. 61

Metro Atlantic Athletic

First Round

Mount St. Mary's 67, Canisius 66, OT

St. Peter's 70, Fairfield 52

Marist 61, Manhattan 50

Northeast

Championship

Merrimack 67, Fairleigh Dickinson 66

Southland

Semifinal

Texas A&M-CC 80, McNeese St. 63

Northwestern St. 74, New Orleans 70

Summit League

Championship

Oral Roberts 92, N. Dakota St. 58

West Coast

Championship

Gonzaga 77, Saint Mary's (Cal.) 51

Western Athletic

First Round

Cal Baptist 69, Abilene Christian 62

Grand Canyon 82, Texas-Arlington 77

Tarleton St. 74, Texas Rio Grande Valley 70

Utah Tech 80, Stephen F. Austin 76

Copyright 2023 Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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A grant from the Mellon Foundation will preserve Black history at Clemson University and in the cities of Clemson and Seneca.

A $3,445,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project has been awarded to Clemson University to support the creation of a Black Heritage Trail on campus and in the cities of Seneca and Clemson. The Black Heritage Trail will feature walking trails that connect heritage sites with interactive signs, artwork and digital content that share the stories of local Black history and South Carolina historical markers at significant historic sites.

“There is a rich history of African American life in Upstate South Carolina that has been overlooked and is relatively unknown outside of the area and even by many who live in the region,” said Rhondda Thomas, Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson.

The project will be led by representatives from each of the three trail locations, and it will include community engagement and collaboration both across campus and in local communities.

On the University campus, Thomas will lead the effort. Thomas is the faculty director of the Call My Name research project, which for more than 15 years has researched and shared the stories of Black people throughout Clemson University history through books, tours, exhibits and more.

The University portion of the trail will weave through the Woodland Cemetery and African American Burial Ground. Woodland Cemetery predated the University as Cemetery Hill, first established by the John C. Calhoun family, on whose plantation the campus was built. For nearly two centuries, the cemetery has been an active burial site for members of the Calhoun family and for workers and employees—Black and white, enslaved and free—for the Fort Hill Plantation and later Clemson University. The Black Heritage Trail project grew out of Thomas’s work as coordinator of research and community engagement for the cemetery project when the Clemson University Trustee David Dukes, chair of the Legacy Council, requested that she seek innovative opportunities for collaborative partnerships between the University and local communities.

“We are grateful for the Mellon Foundation’s support of this extraordinary project,” said Clemson University President Jim Clements. “The preservation and expression of Clemson’s story, including our history and connection to the surrounding communities, is key to honoring those who helped to create and support this university. We are appreciative of Dr. Thomas for leading this project alongside our partners in Clemson and Seneca.”

In 2020-2022, hundreds of unmarked graves were recovered using ground penetrating radar after Clemson students Morgan Molosso and Sarah Adams requested a memorial for a neglected burial ground then known as the Fort Hill Slave and Convict Cemetery. Many of the graves are believed to belong to African American enslaved persons, sharecroppers, domestic workers, tenant farmers, convicted laborers, wage workers and their families.

“The trail will make this history visible and accessible to those who come to Clemson, reinscribing it on the University’s landscape and affirming Clemson’s indebtedness to Black people, particularly laborers, for its existence, development, and success and its commitment to share its complete history,” Thomas said.

In Seneca, the effort will be led by Shelby Henderson, the city’s executive director of arts, history and culture. Henderson is the founding director of the Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum and is a member of the SC African American Heritage Commission.

“The Heritage Trail will be an extension of Seneca’s commitment to preserve, interpret, and share a composite local history and its relation to the broader national narrative,” Henderson said.

The Seneca portion of the trail will be developed in one of the city’s historically Black neighborhoods near the Blue Ridge Community Center. The community center is located in the former Blue Ridge High School, which served African American students in Oconee Countyprior to desegregation and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The trail is expected to connect the Community Center with Blue Ridge Field, a city park across the street which was the former site of the high school football field.

“The trail will inspire future investment in and renewal of public spaces that support a more equitable and resilient quality of life for local underserved communities,” Henderson noted.“Moreover, the Trail will perpetuate a sense of place for a vanishing local history.”

In the City of Clemson, the project will be led by Angela Agard, executive director of the Clemson Area African American Museum. The museum was founded in 2007 in what was once the Calhoun Colored School. Agard joined the museum in 2019 when it was adopted as a department by the city.

“The presence of the trail will assist the museum in fulfilling its mission to tell a complete story of African Americans in and around the Clemson community,” Agard said.

The Clemson portion of the trail is in the conceptual phase, but the initial vision is to connect the Clemson Area African American Museum to other city-owned lands that are significant to African American history.

“The trail will provide an opportunity for the neighboring communities to collaborate in efforts to forge paths of connection both literally and figuratively,” Agard explained. “It will become not only a recreational, public health and economic development resource but also solidify a culturally significant legacy that will impact community members and visitors for generations.”

Agard, Henderson and Thomas are members of the Call My Name Coalition, a partnership of local organizations that grew out of their mutual interest in documenting the African American experience in the counties of Anderson, Oconee and Pickens.

The grant project also capitalizes on the unique interdisciplinarity of Clemson’s College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities. Thomas, from the Department of English, will collaborate with the School of Architecture’s Community Research + Design Center (CR+DC) under the direction of Professor Dan Harding for community stakeholder input and design solutions.

“This project can become the gold standard for the rewards of truly interdisciplinary work,” said Nicholas Vazsonyi, dean of the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities. “It requires myriad disciplines and sets of expertise to make this overdue and vitally necessary project a reality, but when we can work together and share our knowledge, great things happen.”

The project relies on additional collaborators across campus. Assistant Professor Aby Lat Soukabe Sene Harper of the Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management faculty will advise the team in the development, delivery and assessment of interpretive products. Also, Carl Redd, archive specialist in Clemson Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives, will assist as an archival consultant, identifying historical materials to support the development of signage and selection of sites for the South Carolina historical markers.

About the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and it believes that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom to be found there. Through its grants, the foundation seeks to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. The foundation makes grants in four core program areas: Arts and Culture; Higher Learning; Humanities in Place; and Public Knowledge.

About CAAH

Established in 1996, the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities celebrates a unique combination of disciplines—Architecture; Art; City Planning; Construction Science and Management; English; History; Languages; Performing Arts; Philosophy; Religion; Real Estate Development and interdisciplinary studies—that enable Clemson University students to imagine, create and connect. CAAH strives to unite the pursuit of knowledge with the practical application of that knowledge to build a better and more beautiful world.

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Clemson University is launching the nation’s first undergraduate Bachelor of Science program in automotive engineering to meet the rapidly changing needs of an industry that is starting to trade the internal combustion engine for batteries and human drivers for self-driving cars.

The new program solidifies Clemson’s position as the premier University for automotive engineering research and education in the Southeast and beyond and adds to the offerings at its award-winning Greenville campus, the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR).

The degree program’s creators expect it will help meet massive demand for a new breed of automotive engineer to lead the design and manufacture of cars and trucks that are quickly becoming computers on wheels powered by electricity.

“Clemson University will continue to lead the way for automotive engineering,” said President Jim Clements. “We are at the heart of the Southeast’s auto industry, and as South Carolina’s leading provider of engineering talent, Clemson is uniquely positioned to launch the nation’s first Bachelor of Science degree in automotive engineering. Through working in tandem with industry, state and federal partners, we are able to shape the future of mobility and create a robust workforce.”

Students can expect an interdisciplinary curriculum with a strong experiential learning component that is aimed at preparing them for the future of automotive manufacturing with an emphasis on cutting-edge technologies ranging from electric vehicles, advanced materials, advanced manufacturing and semiconductors to e-hailing, artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicle software.

The program’s creators expect it to launch with as many as 30 students in fall 2023 and grow to over 200 by fall 2027.

Undergraduates majoring in automotive engineering will be based on the main campus for their first two years, providing them the opportunity to immerse themselves in the full Clemson Experience, including cheering on the Tigers football team in Memorial Stadium, swimming in Lake Hartwell and eating ice cream at the ’55 Exchange.

For their final two years, students will shift to CU-ICAR, a campus that is home to Clemson’s automotive engineering faculty and graduate program. On the campus, they will be able to take full advantage of the unique experimental facilities and the expertise located there.

A bus service already in place connects CU-ICAR to the main campus 45 minutes away.

Clemson launched its graduate program in automotive engineering in 2006 and was the first university in the country to graduate a Ph.D. student in automotive engineering and the first to graduate a woman with a Ph.D. in automotive engineering.

Zoran Filipi, founding director of the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, said Clemson will build on talent and infrastructure already in place to create the undergraduate program.

“Some of the world’s leading thought leaders and most creative innovators in automotive engineering are on the faculty in the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering,” Filipi said. “We offer cutting-edge facilities, impactful learning experiences and opportunities to collaborate closely with industry partners. Clemson is uniquely positioned to lead in automotive engineering at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.”

Clemson also has a unique geographic advantage that helps position the University to offer the program. The auto industry in South Carolina employs 74,000 and has an economic impact of $27 billion, according to the state Department of Commerce.

The broader Southeast region is home to a growing number of Original Equipment Manufacturers. Within 500 miles of Clemson, the community includes BMW, Volvo, Proterrra, Mercedes-Benz Vans, Honda, Tesla, Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Mazda, Nissan and Kia. Each brings a network of suppliers that also create jobs.

The switch to autonomous and electric cars could create as many as 115,000 additional U.S. automotive and mobility industry jobs in the coming decade, including 45,000 for mobility engineers alone, according to a 2019 report by Boston Consulting Group.

Several recent investments that are helping create those jobs in South Carolina were mentioned in Gov. Henry McMaster’s Jan. 25 State of the State address.

To name a few examples:

* Redwood Materials will invest $3.5 billion for a new battery materials recycling facility, the single largest announcement in the history of South Carolina.

* BMW is investing $1 billion to prepare its Spartanburg plant to produce electric vehicles and $700 million to build a new, high-voltage battery assembly facility.

* Bosch plans to invest $200 million in Anderson County to create the company’s first production operation of fuel cell technology in the United States and another $260 million as Bosch launches production of electric motors in Dorchester County to support the U.S. market demand for electrified vehicles.

Those three investments alone are expected to create 2,500 jobs.

Laine Mears, chair of the Department of Automotive Engineering, said demand for automotive engineers is soaring.

“The entire global automotive industry is turning on a dime, and Clemson is stepping up to take the lead to meet industry’s changing needs for both technology and workforce,” he said. “The new undergraduate degree will be a truly integrative program that brings together talent from across a spectrum of disciplines, preparing students for the challenges of the future.”

Students will start with a General Engineering curriculum that includes calculus, physics and other foundational courses required of engineering majors at Clemson. After their first year, students will be eligible to begin taking automotive engineering classes.

By their senior year, students will be ready to work on Deep Orange prototype vehicles as capstone projects.

Those who complete the undergraduate program will receive a Bachelor of Science in automotive engineering. Students who decide to join the first cohort are currently in their first year in college and would be on track to graduate in 2026.

Srikanth Pilla, the ExxonMobil Employees Endowed Chair and Professor of Automotive Engineering, led the development of the curriculum for the new undergraduate program.

“While the new degree program was created in an automotive context, the curriculum has been designed broadly enough that impactful experiences will reach far beyond the car, and students will be well-qualified for a number of careers in the mobility and technology workforces,” said Pilla, who is also the founding director of AIM for Composites Energy Frontier Research Center and the Clemson Composites Center.

“Employers could range from car and aerospace companies to the U.S. Army and software companies such as Google, Apple and Meta. This is a robust curriculum filled with hands-on learning experiences aimed at preparing students to make a contribution on day one of their careers.”

The undergraduate degree adds to a growing list of marquee programs at CU-ICAR that include:

* A graduate program that has graduated 791 master’s students and 100 Ph.D. students, with virtually all finding jobs in the automotive industry or academia

* Deep Orange, a program that gives students a chance to design and build a prototype vehicle, mirroring the experience of working at an original equipment manufacturer or supplier

* Virtual Prototyping of Autonomy-Enabled Ground Systems (VIPR-GS), an organization that is part of a research partnership aimed at developing innovative virtual prototyping tools to design the next generation of autonomy-enabled, on- and off-road vehicles, with the U.S. government committing up to $100 million

* AIM for Composites, an Energy Frontier Research Center that is advancing how composite materials are created through artificial intelligence and inverse engineering

Clemson’s new undergraduate program will differ from automotive specialties in traditional departments and automotive. While technology programs concentrate on manufacturing, routine design, construction and end operations, Clemson is going beyond the technical requirements by creating an automotive engineering degree that will focus on advanced design, development and technical management of the vehicle realization process.

Anand Gramopadhye, dean of the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences, said Clemson’s new undergraduate degree program will help meet workforce needs for the growing automotive industry.

“This multidisciplinary program brings together top talent, cutting-edge facilities and impactful experiences to create the leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs of the future,” he said. “By creating the future workforce, the program will help strengthen the automotive industry in South Carolina and the broader Southeastern region. I thank the team that designed the new program and congratulate its members on a job well done.”