Rock Hill, S.C. – Coming off dropping all three games at Presbyterian over the weekend, Winthrop welcomes the Wildcats of Davidson College on Tuesday night.
 

Davidson (14-20, 2-7 Atlantic 10) at Winthrop (13-20-1, 4-8 Big South) | The Winthrop Ballpark | Rock Hill, S.C.
Date	Tuesday, Apr. 16, 2024
First Pitch	6 p.m.
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Probable Pitching Matchups (2024 Stats)	Grant Shepherd (0-0, 8.31 ERA) vs. Jason Ban (1-1, 6.08 ERA)

 
SERIES HISTORY VERSUS DAVIDSON
This will be the 51st meeting between the Eagles and the Wildcats, with Winthrop leading the series 33-16-1. The first meeting was on Apr. 25, 1980 with Winthrop winning 13-9 in Rock Hill on the way to winning 8 of the first 10 contests from 1980 to 1989. Davidson won four of the next five meetings from 1989 to 1991, but Winthrop then went on another big run, going on a 20-5 spurt from 1991 to 2015. Since 2016, the two teams have split the last 10 meetings. The two teams last met in 2022, with Davidson winning both games by scores of 15-5 in Rock Hill on Apr. 19 and 12-2 in Davidson on May 4. The two teams were scheduled to play on Wed., Apr. 9 at Davidson but was canceled due to inclement weather.
 
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.
• Winthrop is 3^rd in the Big South in overall pitching with an ERA of 5.62.
• Riley Huge is 10^th in the Big South in earned runs allowed with 4.73.
• Owen Sarna is 4^th in the Big South in earned runs allowed with 2.84.
• Huge leads the Big South in batters struck out with 90.
• He is third in the nation in strikeouts, one behind Ryan Johnson of Dallas Baptist (91).
• 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.
• Charlie Evans and Nate Chronis rank 4^th and 9^th in the Big South, respectively, in overall fielding percentage.

 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 continues Big South play by hitting the road for the second straight weekend, traveling to the North Carolina mountains to face UNC Asheville in a three-game series. The series starts on Friday, Apr. 19 with the first pitch taking place at 5 p.m. on ESPN+.
 
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