COLLEGE BASEBALL Ohio St. trips Clemson

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) -- Steve Caravati credits aggressive swinging for his recent hitting tear. Ohio State teammate Matt Davis was the beneficiary when Clemson's hitters turned passive.
Caravati hit a two-run homer and Davis struck out two batters looking with the bases loaded in the ninth, for a 10-8 victory in the first round of NCAA regional play on Friday.
The Buckeyes (42-19) meet the Auburn-Princeton winner today while Clemson (38-21) faces the loser.
Caravati has driven in 16 runs in six postseason games, including the Buckeyes' Big Ten tournament championship run.
"I'm being aggressive on strikes," he said. "The past couple of weeks before this I had taken a lot of fastballs for strikes.
"I'm just hitting strikes and doing my job."
Anderson raps pair
Drew Anderson homered twice and drove in three runs for the Buckeyes.
Ohio State led 7-6 entering the ninth, but added three runs on RBI singles by Caravati and Brett Garrard and Derek Kinnear's sacrifice fly.
The Buckeyes would need them, giving back two of the runs on a pair of errors in the bottom half. Davis struck out Herman Demmink looking for the second out after Anderson bobbled a likely double play ball to load the bases. Davis then walked Zane Green to make it 10-8.
He caught Collin Mahoney looking on three pitches to leave the bases jammed, ending Clemson's bid for a 20th come-from-behind win.
"They were trying to get a pitch to drive and I threw two sliders on the corner and at the knee," said Davis, who earned his 12th save. "I made a couple of good pitches and they just laid off them."
Garrard was 3-for-4 with a double for the Buckeyes.
Anderson hadn't homered since going deep twice against Cincinnati on May 7.