Rock Hill, S.C.— Winthrop softball will have its second Big South Conference road series Apr. 2-3 when it travels to North Charleston, SC to take on Charleston Southern. The series begins with a single-game on Friday and then a doubleheader on Saturday.
WHERE: North Charleston, S.C. |
CSU Softball Field
WHEN: Friday, Apr. 2, 6 p.m. | Saturday, Apr. 3, 1 p.m. (doubleheader)
RECORDS: Winthrop (14-17, 2-6 Big South) / Charleston Southern (5-12, 2-7 Big South)
LIVE STATS: Sidearm
LIVE VIDEO: Game 2 /
Game 3
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SERIES HISTORY WITH CHARLESTON SOUTHERN
- Winthrop and Charleston Southern have met 109 times with the Eagles holding a 75-34 advantage in the all-time series
- Eagles have won two straight series over the Buccaneers
- The last time the Eagles played at Charleston Southern was 2019 and they earned two wins on late homeruns by Ansley Gilreath
GLANCE AT THE EAGLES
- Eagles have lost four straight games with all four being decided by two runs or less
- Lead the Big South in runs scored, RBI, homeruns, total bases, walks, walks per game and rank second in slugging percentage, on-base percentage, and hits
- Winthrop has the second best scoring offense in the league at 4.4 runs per game
- Macy McCall and Ansley Gilreath are tie for the league-lead with a .404 batting average
- McCall has reached base in all 31 games and leads the conference in runs, on-base percentage and stolen bases
- Gilreath leads the league in homeruns, slugging percentage, and total bases
- Gilreath and McCall are the only hitters in the league batting .400 or better
- McCall's 31-game streak of reaching base is second in program history for a single-season
- Madyson Watson is tied for third in the league in total wins (7), leads the league in strikeouts (133) and second in strikeouts per game (9.10)
- 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 4-8 on the road this season
- Gilreath is batting .471 on the road with seven runs, five homeruns and 13 RBI
- McCall is batting .417 on the road with 10 runs and is a perfect 11-for-11 stealing bases
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 460-390 and a record of 297-298 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 110 career RBI and moved into a tie for 8th all-time with Laura Hill
- 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 67 career walks, Gilreath is tied for 5th all-time
- Westbrooks has 59 career walks and is now 9th all-time
- Westbrooks is 13th on the all-time hit list with 188 and eight hits away from cracking the Top 10
- Westbrooks is also moving up the ranks in doubles with 38 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 394 career strikeouts put her 7th all-time (23 away from 6th)
UP NEXT
Winthrop will be back home for a midweek single-game against North Carolina A&T on Tuesday, Apr. 6 at 5 p.m.
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