Rock Hill, S.C.— The Winthrop softball game scheduled for Wednesday, Apr. 6 at South Carolina has been moved to Thursday, Apr. 7 at 6 p.m. due to the weather forecast for Columbia on Wednesday.
WINTHROP at USC UPSTATE
WHERE: Columbia, S.C. |
Carolina Softball Stadium at Beckham Field
WHEN: Wednesday, Apr. 7, 6 p.m.
RECORDS: Winthrop (11-24, 5-7 Big South) / South Carolina (18-17, 2-10 SEC)
LIVE STATS: Statbroadcast |
LIVE VIDEO: SECNetwork+
FOLLOW: @Winthropsoftbal
GLANCE AT THE EAGLES
- Winthrop enters the game on a five-game losing streak while South Carolina has dropped nine straight
- Batting .250 (5th in Big South) as a team and ranks 3rd in the league in on-base percentage (.354)
- Eagles are 2nd at 2.03 stolen bases per game
- Macy McCall leads the team with 19 stolen bases and ranks second in the league
- Ashton Vanhouse is third in the league with 16 steals and Paige Rivas is tied for 5th with 14
- McCall leads the Eagles with 28 runs
- Junior outfielder Paige Rivas leads the team in batting (.360) and ranks 8th in the league
- McCall is now second on the team with a .317 average and has a four-game hitting streak
- Eagles feature a trio of starters in the circle with freshmen Reese Basinger and Sydney Boulware and junior Bella Roy
- Basinger and Boulware lead the team with 13 starts and Roy has eight
- Basinger and Boulware are tied for the most wins with four each while Roy has three
- Boulware is 4th in the league in strikeouts with 100 while Basinger is 9th with 78
LOOKING BACK AT 2021
- Eagles are coming off a 26-24 campaign in which the team won six out of the final eight games of 2021
- In 2021 the Eagles as a team finished with the 4th most homeruns (49) and stolen bases (88) in a single-season in program history
- The team set the program single-season mark for hit-by-pitch and the 5th best on-base percentage
- Return 12 players from last year's team while welcoming nine newcomers
- Among the departed are Big South All-Conference performers Ansley Gilreath, Ashley Westbrooks and Madyson Watson
- Westbrooks and Gilreath combined for 67 doubles, 59 homeruns, 251 RBI and 135 walks in their careers
- Watson was the ace in the pitching circle and also did damage at the plate with 17 runs, seven homeruns, and an on-base percentage of .354
- Also gone is catcher Taylor Charlton, who batted .283 with 12 homeruns and 31 RBI
- One of the top returning players is junior Macy McCall, who set the program record for stolen bases in a season with 48
- Her 48 stolen bases were also ranked 2nd in the nation (NCAA D1)
- McCall led the Big South Conference in runs with 43 and her .362 average was second-best in the league
- Other returning starters include Kaitlyn Tucker, Lauren King, and Bailey Warren
- Tucker was 1-of-3 players on the team in 2021 to appear in all 50 games (49 starts) as she made 48 starts at short
- King made 27 starts at second, 16 at third and was 1-of-5 players with 21 or more RBI (21)
- Warren spread out her 44 starts between catcher, left field, right field and the designated player
- Tucker and Warren were both named to the Big South All-Freshman Team
- Warren was second behind McCall in stolen bases with 14 (14-for-15)
- The Eagles were voted 4th in the Big South Conference Preseason Poll
HEAD COACH WINDY THEES
- Head coach Windy Thees is in her fourth season at Winthrop and in her 17th season as head coach of a collegiate softball program
- Has a record of 79-84 overall and 30-27 in the Big South in her time with Winthrop
- 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 18 seasons she's compiled an overall record of 483-421 and a record of 320-329 at the helm of a D1 program
- In her first season with the Eagles the team earned 30 wins, which are the second-most for a first-year head coach in program history
- In her first season she also guided the team to the Big South Conference Tournament Championship game, falling in the if necessary game to Longwood
- 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
BIG SOUTH WEEKLY HONORS
- Bailey Warren, So., DP/C (Mar. 14)
- Warren batted .626 with five runs, two home runs, three RBI and was 5-for-5 on the bases in the series sweep of N.C. A&T
- Warren also had an on-base percentage of .750 and 1.375 slugging percentage
- Went 2-for-3 with a home run and two RBI in the series opener against the Aggies
- Went 2-for-3 with three steals and a home run in the finale
RECORD BOOK WATCH
- McCall's single-season record of 46 stolen bases in her first year with the Eagles has her 3rd all-time in program history
- McCall now has 65 career stolen bases as an Eagle and is closing in on the program record of 71 held by Charlene Smith (1989-92)
- If McCall can match her run total of 43 from last season, she'll pull within 25 runs of the program's all-time Top 10
- McCall in her career is closing in on 100 runs (90) and has 80 career stolen bases
- She surpassed 100 hits in her career earlier this season and now has 115
UP NEXT
Winthrop returns to Big South Conference action this weekend at home when it welcomes Charleston Southern for a three-game series Apr. 9-10. The series begins on Saturday, Apr. 9 with a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. and the finale in Sunday, Apr. 10 at 1 p.m.
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