Rock Hill, S.C.— Winthrop welcomes defending Big South Conference Champion Longwood to Terry Field Mar. 27-28 for a three-game Big South Conference softball series. The series will begin with a doubleheader on Saturday, Mar. 27 and the series will wrap-up with a single game on Sunday, Mar. 28.
WHERE: Rock Hill, S.C. |
Terry Field
WHEN: Saturday, Mar. 27, 1 p.m. (doubleheader) | Sunday, Mar. 28, 1 p.m.
RECORDS: Winthrop (14-14, 2-3 Big South) / Longwood (12-13, 3-0 Big South)
LIVE STATS: Game 1 /
Game 2 /
Game 3
LIVE VIDEO: none
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SERIES HISTORY WITH LONGWOOD
- Winthrop and Longwood last met in the 2019 Big South Conference Title Game
- Winthrop forced an if necessary game before falling 3-2
- In recent years this series has been very tight with 11 of the last 12 meetings decided by two runs or less and seven of them by a single run
- Eagles and Lancers have met 30 times with Longwood leading the series 19-11
- Longwood has taken the last two series 2-1 with the last series by the Eagles coming in 2017 with as sweep at home
GLANCE AT THE EAGLES
- Eagles are coming off a split doubleheader at home against Gardner-Webb on Tuesday
- Winthrop has the second best scoring offense in the league at 4.5 runs per game and the third best team batting average (.258)
- Lead the Big South in homeruns (31), walks (89) and batters struck out (191)
- Macy McCall (.430) and Ansley Gilreath (.413) are first and second in the Big South for batting average
- Gilreath and McCall are the only hitters in the league batting .400 or better
- Gilreath leads the conference in hits, homeruns, RBI, total bases, and slugging percentage
- McCall leads the conference in runs scored, on-base percentage and stolen bases
- McCall has reached base in all 28 games and is closing in on the 2nd best streak in program history for consecutive games reaching base
- Madyson Watson is third in the league in total wins (7) and leads the league in strikeouts (119) and strikeouts per game (9.54)
- In the first game of the doubleheader win over Gardner-Webb, Watson tossed a no-hitter allowing just one walk and struck out seven for her 7th win
- Watson has thrown nine complete games in 10 starts on the year and has 19 appearances overall
- Eagles are 6-3 at home this season and averaging 5.5 runs per game
- In the nine home games the Eagles have outscored their opponents 50-17
HEAD COACH WINDY THEES
- Head coach Windy Thees is in her third season at Winthrop and in her 17th season as head coach of a collegiate softball program
- Spent five seasons at Georgia State & College compiling a 163-92 record followed by six years at Memphis (172-151) and three seasons at Ole Miss (69-94)
- In her 17 seasons she's compiled an overall record of 460-387 and a record of 297-295 at the helm of a D1 program
- Led Ole Miss to five wins over nationally-ranked opponents that included a 2-0 victory at #1 Florida in 2014
- In 2003 she led Georgia State & College to a runner-up finish in the Division II National Championship
- Thees was a four-year starter at Florida State as both a catcher and second baseman
RECORD BOOK WATCH
- Westbrooks now has 124 career RBI, which is 6th on the all-time list and two back from 5th place
- She needs 21 to become the all-time leader in RBI at Winthrop
- Gilreath now has 109 career RBI, which ranks 9th all-time
- Gilreath moved into 2nd on the all-time homerun list with 32 while Westbrooks is now all alone in 5th with 24 after her homerun on Tuesday
- With 65 career walks, Gilreath ranks 6th all-time
- Westbrooks has 58 career walks and is now tied for 10th all-time
- Westbrooks is 13th on the all-time hit list with 186 and 10 hits away from cracking the Top 10
- Westbrooks is also moving up the ranks in doubles with 37 in her career, which is 8th
- Watson broke into the program's Top 10 for career wins and reached 300 career strikeouts in the win over Furman
- Watson is now 8th all-time in strikeouts and became the 10th player in program history to record 300 strikeouts in a career
- Her 380 career strikeouts put her 7th all-time (37 away from 6th)
UP NEXT
Winthrop stays with league competition and gets a chance to take the series against Gardner-Webb on Wednesday, Mar. 31 at 6 p.m. on Terry Field to end a six-game home stand.
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