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Baseball Travels To New York City For Three-Game Series With St. John's

Rock Hill, S.C. – Coming off a 16-6 home run-rule victory over Wofford in eight innings on Tuesday afternoon, Winthrop travels to New York City for a three-game series with the Red Storm of St. John's University. Game one of the series begins on Friday at Bartoszek Field in Kings Point, N.Y. at the home stadium of the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y. Saturday's game be a doubleheader and will take place at Kaiser Stadium in Queens, N.Y., the home of St. John's. 
 
Winthrop (11-12, 4-2 Big South) at St. John's (17-5, 0-0 Big East) | Kings Point and Queens, N.Y. | Bartoszek Field and Kaiser Stadium
Date  Friday, March 29 / GAME 1 Saturday, March 30 / GAME 2 (DH) Saturday, March 30 / GAME 3 (DH)
First Pitch 12:00 p.m. ET 11:00 a.m. ET 1:30 p.m. ET
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Probable Pitching Matchups
(2024 Stats)		 Harrison Wilson (0-0, 8.44 ERA)
vs. Xavier Kolhosser (5-1, 3.51 ERA)		 Riley Huge (4-1, 3.16 ERA)
vs. Evan Chaffee (1-0, 5.00 ERA)		 Reese Lumpkin (2-3, 3.03 ERA)
vs. Mario Pesca (3-0, 3.46 ERA)
 








SERIES HISTORY VERSUS ST. JOHN'S
This will be the 4th, 5th and 6th meeting between the Eagles and the Red Storm, with St. John's leading the series, 3-0. The only other meetings between the two teams was on Feb. 24, 26 and 29th of 2008, with the Red Storm winning all three games in Rock Hill by scores of 4-3, 2-0 and 3-2 in 10 innings.
 
WINTHROP AT A GLANCE
  • Winthrop has tied Coastal Carolina in overall wins all-time in league history, one away from becoming the all-time leader since the Big South was elevated to NCAA Division I status in 1986 (currently has 1157 wins since 1986).
  • Winthrop is the leader in all-time conference only wins with 478 since the Big South was elevated to NCAA Division I status in 1986.
  • Winthrop is 2nd in the Big South in overall pitching with an ERA of 5.24.
  • Owen Sarna, Reese Lumpkin and Riley Huge are 3rd, 4th and 5th in the Big South in earned runs allowed, respectively.
  • Huge also leads the Big South in batters struck out with 71, 27 more than Fenix Digiacomo (44).
  • Huge leads the Big South in innings pitched with 37.0.
  • Huge is the first Winthrop pitcher to record 10 or more strikeouts in four of the first five starts to a season since Heath Rollins had four in his first five starts in 2006.
  • Huge leads the nation in strikeouts with 71, three ahead of Chase Burns of Wake Forest (68).
  • Jaylen Hernandez is tied for first in the Big South in doubles with 11.
BIG SOUTH WEEKLY HONORS
Riley Huge-Big South Starting Pitcher of The Week-Feb. 27
  • Played 7.0 innings, giving up just one hit, no runs and no walks and striking out a career-high 13 batters in getting his first win on the season.
  • This came in his lone start of the week in the first game of the four-game home series with Toledo on Friday (a 3-0 Eagles victory).
  • This was Huge's first weekly award of the season and his career and the first time Winthrop was honored in 2024.
Riley Huge-Big South Starting Pitcher of The Week-Mar. 4
  • In his lone start of the week in the first game of the three-game home series with Maine last Saturday (an 8-0 Eagles victory in the first game of a doubleheader), Huge pitched 7.2 innings allowing only one hit and two walks while recording 20 of his 23 outs via strikeout to lead Winthrop to an 8-0 victory over Maine.
  • His 20 strikeouts are believed to be the all-time single-game Big South record and are the most by any NCAA pitcher since 2017.
  • He struck out the first six hitters he faced before permitting a baserunner, and of his 23 outs, he factored into 22 of the 23 comprised of 20 strikeouts and two groundouts back to the mound.
  • With this performance, Huge broke the Winthrop single-game strikeout record previously held by Kevin Slowey (19 vs. NYIT on Apr. 12, 2003).
  • This is Huge's second weekly award of the season and his career and the second straight week Winthrop has been honored in 2024.
HUGE WINS THREE NATIONAL HONORS
  • The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) released its Dick Howser Trophy National Player of the Week awards presented by The Game Headwear for the period ending March 3.
  • Huge was named National Pitcher of the Week.
  • The NCBWA Board reviews candidates from each Division I Conference and names winners each Tuesday throughout the season.
  • This is the first time that an Eagle has won a national player of the week honors by the NCBWA since Jacob Dempsey on May 11, 2006.
  • Huge also was named the National Pitcher of the Week by both Perfect Game and the NCAA.
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LOOKING AHEAD
Winthrop heads to Charleston, S.C. for a mid-week matchup with The Citadel Bulldogs. The game will take place on Tue., Apr. 2 at 6 p.m. on ESPN+.
 
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