(34-18), ranked as high as #14 in the nation, will play host to

College of Charleston (37-15) on Tuesday night at Doug Kingsmore

Stadium.  First pitch is scheduled for 7:15 PM.  The game

will be broadcast live on the radio by WCCP (104.9 FM) out of Clemson

and can be heard live on the internet at WCCPFM.com.  The game

will also be shown live via webcast at ACCSelect.com.  Live stats

will be available at ClemsonTigers.com as well.

and College of Charleston have met 17 times on the diamond.  The

Tigers have won all 17 games, including two wins last season by scores

of 6-0 at College of Charleston and 1-0 at Clemson.  In the first

game, three Tigers combined for a six-hit shutout in #1 Clemson's

victory in front of a record crowd of 3,122 fans at Patriots Point

Field.  Then later in the year at Doug Kingsmore Stadium, P.J.

Zocchi pitched 8.2 scoreless innings of five-hit ball to earn the win

over the #21 Cougars.

       During the 2005

season, Clemson won both matchups, including an 8-5 win at the end of

the regular season and a 6-0 victory in the Clemson Regional. 

The Tigers won both meetings in 2002, 2003, and 2004 along with a

single game in 2001.  Before the game in 2001, the two had not

played each other since 1912.

Tigers lead 11-0 in games played at Clemson and 7-0 in games played at

Doug Kingsmore Stadium.  Head Coach Jack Leggett is 11-0 against

the Cougars as well.

of Charleston will start junior lefthander Michael Bunton (4-0, 6.52

ERA) on the mound Tuesday.  The Tallahassee, FL native has made

12 starts and one relief appearance for a total of 59.1 innings

pitched.  He has allowed 86 hits (.333 opponents' batting

average) and 24 walks with 41 strikeouts.

        The Tigers'

starter has yet to be determined.

of Charleston, led by eighth-year Head Coach John Pawlowski, enters

Tuesday's game with a 37-15 overall record and 18-6 Southern

Conference mark after fallling twice in three games at home to UNC

Greensboro over the weekend.  The team is also 15-8 on opponents'

home fields this season.

  Pawlowski lettered at Clemson three times

(1983-85) and went on to play two years (1987,88) in the Major Leagues

with the Chicago White Sox.  He later went on to be Clemson's

pitching coach from 1994-98, coaching the likes of Kris Benson, Billy

Koch, and Ken Vining.

      The Cougars are hitting

.352 as a team with a .426 on-base percentage this season, thanks in

part to 85 hit-by-pitches.  They have also totaled 133 doubles,

23 triples, and 78 home runs, good for a .565 slugging percentage,

along with 63 sacrifice bunts.

  College of Charleston has also stolen 82 bases

in 109 attempts.  Four players have double-digit steals,

including Oliver Marmol (26), Gabe Marchant (15), Clay McCord (13),

and Stuart Haywood (10).

    Ben Lasater is hitting .392 with 14

homers and 51 RBIs, and Miami (FL) transfer Alex Garabedian is batting

.354 with 12 homers and 54 RBIs.  Michael Harrington has added 10

homers, 19 doubles, and 57 RBIs, and Chris Campbell is hitting .385

with 19 doubles, eight triples, seven home runs, and 73 RBIs.

  The Cougars have a 4.67 ERA and .273 opponents'

batting average.  Freshman righthander Russ Tomlinson has a

team-high three saves and a 5-1 record in 24 relief appearances. 

The team sports a .956 fielding percentage as well.

enters Tuesday's game with a 34-18 overall record and 17-10 ACC mark

after winning two of three games at #2 Florida State over the

weekend.  The Tigers, who are 24-11 at home, are ranked as high

as #14 in the nation.

        The team is

hitting .289 with a .372 on-base percentage.  Brad Chalk is

hitting a team-best .407 with a .531 on-base percentage, but has sat

out the last 11 games due to a back injury.  Doug Hogan is

hitting .328 with nine homers and 32 RBIs, while Andy D'Alessio has

come alive to raise his batting average to .314.  The reigning

ACC Player-of-the-Week also has 14 homers and 41 RBIs, giving him 56

career long balls.

pitching staff has a 3.57 ERA and .258 opponents' batting average. 

It has combined to strike out 449 against 180 walks.  Daniel

Moskos has a team-high six saves and 2.63 ERA, while Stephen Clyne has

a 1.88 ERA along with three saves in 25 relief appearances.  The

team is fielding at a .971 clip as well.

climbed to the #15 spot in the Baseball America poll and #15 in the

Collegiate Baseball poll on Monday after going 3-2 in five games last

week, including winning two of three games at #2 Florida State over

the weekend.  Clemson also jumped to #14 in the Sports Weekly

poll.

Tigers' #1 ranking by Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball on

February 12 was their first since February 27, 2006, when Clemson was

ranked #1 by those same two polls.  The Tigers have been ranked

#1 for 20 weeks by at least one of the major polls in Head Coach Jack

Leggett's 14th season at Clemson.

tasted victory twice in three games at #2 Florida State from May

11-13, a feeling it had not had for quite some time.  In fact,

the Tigers had not won more than one game in a three-game series in

Tallahassee in the last six series, and last won a series there in

1993, the year before Jack Leggett became Clemson's head coach.

  The Tigers also handed the Seminoles their first

back-to-back losses and their first series loss of 2007.  The

Seminoles entered the series with a 32-2 home record, but Clemson

doubled their loss total with two wins in the final two games of the

series.

all-sports perspective, the series win had significance as well. 

The Tiger football team defeated the #9 Seminoles 27-20 in Tallahassee

in September, and the Clemson men's basketball team downed Florida

State 68-66 in Tallahassee in January.  Therefore, Clemson beat

the Seminoles in all three sports (series win in baseball) in

Tallahassee in the same academic year for the first time in school

history.

D'Alessio was one of three players selected as national

player-of-the-week by Collegiate Baseball on May 14.  He also

earned ACC Player-of-the-Week honors for his efforts in five games

from May 8-13.  He was 10-for-19 (.526) with seven runs scored,

two doubles, five homers, 11 RBIs, a 1.421 slugging percentage, and a

.609 on-base percentage.  He hit two homers and a double against

Wofford at Greenville, SC on May 8, then hit three home runs in the

series at #2 Florida State, leading the Tigers to two wins.  On

May 13, he slugged two homers with five RBIs in Clemson's 11-6

victory as well.

Take Me Away From Home

Farina likes to get away from home.  In seven appearances on the

road, all in relief, he is 3-1 with a miniscual 0.42 ERA in 21.1

innings pitched.  He has also allowed just eight hits (all

singles), one run, and three walks with 31 strikeouts on the road as

well.  And he has put up those numbers against solid competition,

including #4 South Carolina (two appearances), Maryland, Georgia,

Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, and #2 Florida State.

the Seminoles, the nation's top-hitting team, Farina entered the

game with the Tigers trailing 6-3 in the fifth inning on May 12. 

In 4.1 innings pitched, he allowed just four hits, no runs, and no

walks with six strikeouts to record the win.  His stellar

performance allowed Clemson to earn a dramatic 7-6 comeback victory. 

It was a memorable day for the Florida native, as both his parents

graduated from Florida State and he grew up a Seminole fan. 

Farina also attended Mike Martin's Camp on that very field five

times as a youth.

game-one on May 11, Tony Thomas, Jr. reached base in all five plate

appearances to lead Florida State to an 11-1 win over Clemson at Dick

Howser Stadium.  Thomas was 3-for-3 with two doubles, a walk,

hit-by-pitch, and two steals, as the Seminoles totaled 15 hits and

were 9-for-13 with runners in scoring position.  A six-run

seventh-inning blew the game open for the Seminoles, who clinched the

ACC Atlantic Division title with the victory.  Starter Bryan

Henry allowed eight hits, one run, and no walks with eight strikeouts

to improve to 13-0 on the season.  D'Alessio's solo homer in

the fourth inning scored Clemson's lone run.  The Tigers

totaled 10 hits, but they were just 2-for-18 with runners on base.

      In game-two on May 12,

Clemson scored three runs in the ninth inning to top Florida State 7-6

at Dick Howser Stadium.  Taylor Harbin tied the score in the

ninth with a two-run double down the left-field line, then Hogan beat

out a potential double play to allow D'Alessio to score the go-ahead

run.  The Seminoles took a 6-1 lead in the third inning, but they

did not score the rest of the way.  Alan Farina pitched 4.1

scoreless innings of relief, allowing just four hits and no walks with

six strikeouts to record the win.  It was the first time all

season the Seminoles lost when leading at any time after the third

inning.

      In game-three on May 13,

D'Alessio went 3-for-5 with two homers and five RBIs to lead Clemson

to an 11-6 win over Florida State at Dick Howser Stadium. 

D'Alessio gave the Tigers an early lead on a three-run homer in the

first inning.  After the Tigers scored four runs in the sixth

inning, D'Alessio blasted a two-run homer in the seventh inning to

give Clemson a 10-2 lead.  Florida State rallied with four runs

in the seventh, but Stephen Clyne shut the door to record the save. 

D.J. Mitchell pitched 6.0 effective innings in his first career

weekend start to earn the win on his 20th birthday.  Clemson

outhit the Seminoles 12-7 and totaled eight extra-base hits, including

a two-run homer by Harbin.

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