SEC Baseball Tournament 2018: Thursday Scores, Updated Bracket and Schedule

Day three of the 2018 SEC baseball tournament features eight teams in four games, including two elimination matchups.

Defending conference tournament champion LSU is clinging to life after a 4-3 loss against top-ranked Florida on Wednesday. South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi are also facing the possibility of leaving Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Alabama sooner than expected. 

The winner's portion of the bracket features No. 7 Auburn and No. 11 Texas A&M in a matchup of two teams that made it out of the single-elimination first round and pulled off upsets in their first second-round game.

The matchup between No. 1 Florida and No. 4 Arkansas was postponed until Friday morning after the first two games both went to extra innings, pushing the final game's start time back until they ultimately decided to move it to the morning.

For the updated tournament bracket and Friday schedule, be sure to check out SECSports.com.

Thursday's Matchups

No. 2 Mississippi def. No. 3 Georgia, 5-4 (10 Innings)

No. 8 LSU def. No. 5 South Carolina, 6-4 (12 Innings)

No. 11 Texas A&M 4, No. 7 Auburn 2

No. 1 Florida vs. No. 4 Arkansas, 11:00 a.m. ET on Friday, May 25

Results

LSU 6, South Carolina 4 (12)

Another extra-inning affair in the SEC tournament went in the favor of LSU, which knocked off South Carolina 6-4 in 12. 

The Tigers jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the top of the second on Zack Watson's RBI single and a balk by South Carolina starter Adam Hill. 

Trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the ninth, South Carolina tied the score when LT Tolbert led off the inning with a triple and crossed home plate on Jacob Olson's single two batters later. 

After two scoreless innings by both teams, LSU finally broke through with three runs in the top of the 12th. Daniel Cabrera drove in the go-ahead run with an RBI single, and reliever Todd Peterson, in his first at-bat for the Tigers, provided the cushion with a two-run double. 

Peterson did allow one run in the bottom half of the inning, but closed things out by getting Jonah Bride to strike out. 

LSU's win sends it to the quarterfinals on Friday and one step closer to repeating as SEC tournament champions. 

South Carolina had an abrupt exit from the tournament with back-to-back losses, but it was in D1Baseball.com's most recent NCAA tournament projection as the No. 2 seed in the Raleigh regional.

Mississippi 5, Georgia 4 (10)

Tim Rowe's walk-off seeing-eye single in the bottom of the 10th inning gave Mississippi a 5-4 win over Georgia and a spot in the SEC tournament quarterfinals. 

The heroics from Rowe capped off a wild three-inning stretch that featured two lead changes and two ties. Ole Miss held a 3-1 lead heading into the eighth. Starting pitcher Brady Feigl cruised through 6.1 innings, allowing one run on three hits. 

Georgia tied things at three in the top of the eighth thanks to a mental mistake by Rebels reliever Parker Carraci, who tried to get a force at home when there were already two outs:

After a scoreless ninth inning sent the game to extras, LJ Talley gave the Bulldogs a brief 4-3 lead with a solo homer off Carraci. 

Nick Fortes, who led off the bottom of the 10th with a single, scored on Thomas Dillard's double. Georgia reliever Aaron Schunk got the next two outs before Rowe's base hit allowed Dillard to cross home plate. 

Mississippi was able to stave off elimination with the win and finds itself three victories away from its first SEC title since 2006. 

Despite the crushing end to its conference tournament, Georgia is still in good shape to make the NCAA tournament. D1Baseball.com projects the Bulldogs to host a regional site as the No. 4 overall seed.

Texas A&M 4, Auburn 2

While all eyes were supposed to be on Auburn Tigers star Casey Mize as he continues to build his case to go No. 1 overall in June's MLB draft, Texas A&M sophomore John Doxakis stole the show.

Texas A&M outfielder Zach Deloach opened the scoring in the bottom of the third with a clutch two-out RBI single against Mize. For most of the night, it appeared that would be all the Aggies would need—because Doxakis was absolutely dealing on this night.

Doxakis retired the first 12 Tigers he faced before hitting a batter to lead off the fifth inning, and he would hit plunk another in the sixth. But as the seventh came to a close, the no-hitter watch was officially on:

His effort was aided by Texas A&M outfielder Allonte Wingate robbing Conor Davis at the wall:

Auburn senior outfielder Jay Estes broke up the no-hitter with an infield to lead off the eighth inning. With that, it ended any thought of the Tigers being held out of the hit column in an SEC tournament game for the second consecutive year.

Even though he did not get the no-no, Doxakis still himself an impressive line: 7.1 innings, two hits, one run, 10 strikeouts, zero walks and two hit batters.

Texas A&M sophomore Braden Shewmake gave the Aggies some breathing room with a two-run double in the sixth to open the game up to 3-0. That proved to be an important hit because once the Tigers managed a hit, they also got on the board with a run in the eighth.

The Aggies added an insurance run in the bottom of the inning and would wind up holding off a Tigers rally in the ninth. Texas A&M improved to 3-0 in the double-elimination SEC tournament, while Auburn heads to the loser's bracket at 2-1. 

Both of these squads appear to be in good position for the NCAA tournament. At the beginning of the week, D1Baseball.com had Auburn as a 2-seed and Texas A&M as a 3-seed.