Weekly Recap - May 16-22

Some tremendous things going on in the department as all of our sports continue to wind down. The baseball team beat a nationally-ranked Coastal Carolina team and ensured that they would have a top-4 seed in the upcoming tournament. As it turns out, they got the #3 seed after being picked eighth in the preseason poll! Also announced this week was the fact that
Javon Young, Tamisha Foster and the men’s 4x100m relay team will be going to the NCAA Preliminary Round in Indiana later this week, and Amanda D’Ostroph was named to the Capital One Academic All-District first team. Rounding out the good news and sticking with golf is a top-35 finish by Jacobo Pastor at the NCAA Southeast Region, and a 23-shot victory by Coach Kory Thompson in the Charleston Women’s Amateur Tournament. Way to go Bucs! As always, it’s a great time to be a Buccaneer!

Nick Chinners has been named this week’s CSU Athlete of the Week after going 6-for-12 against Coastal Carolina. Additionally, Chinners became the first player since Derek Smith more than a year ago to homer twice in the same game.

Chinners had three extra base hits, including the two home runs, and also accounted for three RBIs in the series. Jeff Hartsell also just wrote a great feature story about Chinners in today's Post and Courier..

Also Nominated: Brantley Meier (Baseball)

What’s coming up?
May 25-28 – Baseball @ Big South Championship (Lexington, Va.)
May 26-28 – Track & Field @ NCAA National Championships – Preliminary Round (Bloomington, Ind.)

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Weekly Recap - May 9 - 15

As the seasons continue to wind down, we see the end of another tournament as the softball team ended the year with their championship, entering the tournament as the No. 4 seed. After upsetting and eliminating the No. 3 seed, Presbyterian, the Bucs fell to the top-ranked Radford Highlanders. The baseball team took two of three games from Presbyterian and is in the third seed after this weekend’s action with three conference games remaining in their conference tournament.

Due to a staff retreat this morning in the department, this release will be slightly abbreviated too. We mentioned baseball and softball, but would be remised if we didn’t include track, who had an excellent weekend. Tamisha Foster (triple jump) posted the best collegiate mark, as did Javon Young (100m dash). The 4x100m relay team broke the Big South and school record, winning the event in the fifth-best time on the entire eastern side of the U.S. All three, along with Patria Norman, will likely earn a bid to the NCAA Championship First Round, which will be announced later this week.

Jaren Sustar has been named this week's CSU Athlete of the Week after batting .722 (13-18) in four games last week, with four doubles, seven runs scored and four RBI.

Sustar opened his week with two hits, one double and one run at defending national champion South Carolina, and followed with a .733 clip in a Big South-series win over Presbyterian College. Sustar went 5-6 with two doubles and four runs in the series opener against the Blue Hose, and collected three hits and three RBI in game two. He concluded his week 3-4 at the plate on Sunday, and finished with a .722 on base percentage and .944 slugging percentage in helping the Buccaneers win their most Big South games (14) since the 2000 season.

Also Nominated: Kimberly Hobbs (Softball), Javon Young (Men's Track and Field)

What’s coming up?
May 17 – Baseball vs. Georgia Southern – 2 p.m.
May 19 – Baseball @ Coastal Carolina – 6 p.m.
May 20 - Baseball @ Coastal Carolina – 6 p.m.
May 21 - Baseball @ Coastal Carolina – 2 p.m.

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Weekly Recap - May 2-8

Back to action this week, and it was a good weekend as the baseball team swept High Point on the road, and the softball team took two of three from regular-season champion Radford. Three track and field Lady Bucs also competed this weekend.

With back-to-back shut outs of Radford to give CSU the double-header sweep and series victory, softball pitcher Morgan Dowdy has been named this week’s CSU Athlete of the Week.

Dowdy did what no one in the Big South has been able to do since 2008 and that is shut out the Highlanders, and Dowdy did it for 14-straight innings as CSU won both games of the double header 3-0. The pair of victories helped CSU tie the program record for Big South wins in a season, and was the first victory over the Highlanders for CSU since the 2006 season.

Also nominated: Nick Chinners (Baseball), Megan Lombard (Softball)

Baseball @ Georgia Southern – L, 13-12
You always wonder how the team will bounce back after having a week off from competition due to finals, and the break clearly did not stifle the bats of CSU as they scored 12 runs against Georgia Southern. Nick Chinners had one hit, and with that base-knock, tied the school record for career hits. Freshman Alex Tomasovich was 5-for-5 with two runs and an RBI, and scored the game-tying run in the top of the ninth. CSU scored three runs in the top of the ninth and had a two run lead, but a two-run homer sent the game into extra innings, where GSU won it in the 11th.

Baseball @ High Point – W, 5-3
The bats may not have been as hot, but behind strong pitching performances by Stew Brase and Corey Deighan, CSU got all the offense they needed, holding a 5-0 lead before HPU scored three runs in the eighth. Chinners had another hit and became the sole-leader in CSU history in career hits with 245. CSU got three hits from Jaren Sustar and two each from Brantley Meier and Walt Quattlebaum, who also scored a pair of runs.

W. Track and Field @ Bob Pollock Spring Invitational
Tamisha Foster posted a season-best in the triple jump, finishing third behind a pair of Clemson jumpers, while Deona Jones took fourth in the long jump. The only other competitor for CSU, Daisy Whitaker finished eighth the shot put and fifth in the discus.

Baseball @ High Point – W, 10-3
The bats woke back up on Saturday as the Bucs had 16 hits and scored 10 runs to take the series victory. With a tough decision whether to skip the game and attend graduation back in Charleston, the seniors chose to play, and accounted for seven of the team’s hits, led by Brantley Meier who had three hits. Jaren Sustar and Walt Quattlebaum also had three hits on the day. Ali Williams earned the victory with 4.1 innings of relief work, striking out six while walking just one and not giving up a hit. Charlie McCready earned the three-inning save.

Softball vs. Radford (DH) – W, 3-0, W, 3-0
As mentioned, Morgan Dowdy stole the show with her 14 innings of shut-out ball in the circle, but she did get a lot of help from her defense, and some timely hitting to give CSU the double header victory. Megan Lombard tied the career home run record, pounding her 20th in game two. Jessica Brock also homered in game two, accounting for two of the team’s three runs on solo homeruns. Dowdy gave up a combined seven hits on the day. With a runner on third and one out in the sixth, a liner to Jana Matthews recorded the second out, and Matthews made a great throw home to nail the runner trying to tag, ending the threat and the inning.

Softball vs. Radford – L, 3-2
Kimberly Hobbs took the circle as CSU honored its three seniors, and Hobbs pitched another gem for CSU, going eight innings with just three runs scored against her. Trailing for the first time in the series, CSU tied the game 1-1 in the fifth as a sacrifice fly by Melissa Adams scored Trea Steele from third. Both teams scored in the eighth, and a leadoff double in the ninth proved costly as later in the inning Dowdy allowed the ball to get too far inside on an intentional walk and Nichole Beall reached out and poked it into center field to score what would be the game-winning run.


What’s coming up?
May 10-11 – W. Track @ Demon Deacon Combined Event
May 11 – Baseball @ South Carolina – 7 p.m.
May 12 – Softball vs. Coastal Carolina (Big South Tournament) – 3 p.m.
May 13-14 – Track and Field @ North Florida Invitational
May 13 – Baseball vs. Presbyterian College – 2 p.m.
May 14 – Baseball vs. Presbyterian College – 2 p.m.
May 15 – Baseball vs. Presbyterian College – 2 p.m.

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Weekly Recap - April 25 - May 1

Last week was the start of finals and they continue into the first part of this week here at CSU, so nothing new to report on the athletics front.

Here are a couple of things that did happen around campus over the past week:

W. Golf Season Recap
M. Golf Season Recap
W. Tennis Season Recap

Four Bucs Named NSCA All-American Athletes
Tom Burkett
Marija Dzakovic
Kelsey Wasmer
Joel Walton

Bucs Host 45th Annual Awards Banquet
VB Adds Junior College Player
MBB Adds One More as Well

What’s coming up?
May 4- Baseball @ Georgia Southern – 6 p.m.
May 6 – Baseball @ High Point – 6 p.m.
May 7 – Softball vs. Radford (DH) – 2/4 p.m.
May 7 – Baseball @ High Point – 7 p.m.
May 7 – W. Track @ Bob Pollock Spring Invitational
May 8 – Softball vs. Radford – 1 p.m.
May 8 – Baseball @ High Point – 1 p.m.

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