Rock Hill, S.C. – Coming off using seven pitchers in a 5-0 shutout in a re-match with The Citadel on Wednesday afternoon, Winthrop steps back into Big South action with a three-game series with the Blue Hose of Presbyterian College.
 

Winthrop (13-17-1, 4-5 Big South) at Presbyterian (16-17, 7-2 Big South) | Clinton, S.C. | PC Baseball Complex
Date	Friday, April 12 / GAME 1	Saturday, April 13 / GAME 2	Sunday, April 13 / GAME 3
First Pitch	6:00 p.m. ET	4:00 p.m. ET	2:00 p.m. ET
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Probable Pitching Matchups (2024 Stats)	Riley Huge (4-3, 3.40 ERA) vs. Daniel Eagen (3-0, 1.56 ERA)	Reese Lumpkin (2-5, 5.27 ERA) vs. Charlie McDaniel (5-0, 1.82 ERA)	Owen Sarna (3-2, 2.78 ERA) vs. Fenix DiGiacomo (2-3, 5.23 ERA)

 
SERIES HISTORY VS. PRESBYTERIAN
The two schools will meet for the 43^rd time with the series tied at 21 but the Blue Hose leads the series 10-8 in Clinton. Winthrop won the most recent meeting last season in 2023 7-4 on Apr. 16 in Rock Hill. This was part of winning the season series from the Blue Hose at home last season, 2-1. The Eagles and the Blue Hose met for the first time on Apr. 10, 2009 in Rock Hill, with Winthrop winning 13-4 on the way to winning seven of the first eight meetings from 2009-2011. From 2011-2017, Presbyterian responded with 12 of the next 16 wins in the series but since 2018, Winthrop has won 10 games to PC's eight.

WINTHROP AT A GLANCE

• Winthrop is now the leader in overall wins all-time in league history since the Big South was elevated to NCAA Division I status in 1986 (currently has 1159 wins since 1986).
• Winthrop is the leader in all-time conference only wins with 480 since the Big South was elevated to NCAA Division I status in 1986.
• After Tuesday's contest at Davidson was canceled due to inclement weather, Winthrop returned to the friendly confines of The Winthrop Ballpark and combined to use seven pitchers in a 5-0 shutout in a re-match with The Citadel on Wednesday afternoon.
• The only runs of the game occurred in the bottom of the first inning for Winthrop.
• Ryan Yaroshuk, Grant Shepherd both made their first career starts.
• Joey Hylinski earned the victory, his first on both the season and his career.
• Winthrop is 2nd in the Big South in overall pitching with an ERA of 5.53.
• Riley Huge is 6^th in the Big South in earned runs allowed with 3.40.
• Owen Sarna is 4^th in the Big South in earned runs allowed with 2.78.
• Huge leads the Big South in batters struck out with 85.
• He is second in the nation in strikeouts, 12 behind Chase Burns of Wake Forest (97).
• 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.
• Jaylen Hernandez is 4^th in the conference 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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