Thornburg gave up just two hits and struck out 11 in the game, moving his season record to 4-1.
Also nominated were Kelvin Day, Nick Chinners, Olga Makhova, Patria Norman, Levi Brooks and Andrew King.
March 22 – 23 - W. Golf @ Pinehurst Spring Challenge – T-15th
Olivia Jordan Higgins finished in the top-10 for the fifth time this season, helping lead CSU to a 15th-place team finish. Katrin Rumpf finished second on the team in 67th, while Amanda D’Ostroph had a good third round to move into 80th. Madison Jeter (89th) and Katelyn Bensch (92nd) also finished in the top-100 of the event for CSU.
March 23 – Baseball @ Savannah State – W, 12-6
Nick Chinners, Patrick Dolan and Tyler Thornburg all homered, while Stew Brase shut the Savannah State bats down on the mound to give CSU a win on the road over Savannah State. Brase gave up three runs in the first but only one more over the next five innings, scattering five hits and striking out six. The performance earned Brase his first win of the season. Jon Matthews, Tom Burkett and Chinners all finished three-for-five on the day.
March 23 – Softball @ Campbell – L, 7-1, W, 9-2
Jana Matthews moved ever-closer to the school record for homeruns, even though we are only in March, as she homered twice against Campbell to help CSU earn a double-header split on the road. Erin Kegley had three hits while Megan Hall and Megan Lombard each notched a pair of hits on the day.
March 24 – Baseball vs. College of Charleston, L, 28-9
CSU took on their cross-town rivals for the second time this year on the baseball field and it seemed like a football game broke out. A CofC team that leads the SoCon and is near the top in the nation in just about every offensive category showed why as they blasted 25 hits and took full advantage of three CSU errors to put a 28-spot on the board. Knowing they had their work cut out for them, CSU did not help their case giving up 12 in the second inning, including two grand slams in the same inning. After falling into the 15-0 hole, CSU could never recover.
March 24 – W. Tennis @ UNC Charlotte – W, 6-1
The record moved to 11-0 with a dominant win on the road against UNC Charlotte. Both the #1 and #2 doubles teams (Schutte/Torres, Makhova/Dzakovic) won to give CSU the doubles point. From there, CSU lost just the #2 singles match as Andrea Schutte battled through an injury, but fell in a tie breaker. It was her first loss of the season in singles action.
March 25-26 – W. Track and Field @ Asics/Winthrop Invitational
Patria Norman led the trio of Lady Buccaneers who went to Rock Hill to compete in the heptathlon, finishing third overall in the event, just 88 points shy of her school record. Norman finished second in the 200m dash and third in the 100m hurdles and long jump to pace her finish of 4,511 points. Channell Futrell was second on the team in all but the javelin event, where she led CSU finishing fourth. Futrell finished seventh with 3,861 points, while Ellyn Decker finished 13th with 2,101 points.
March 25 – W. Tennis vs. AUM – L, 6-1
For the first time this season, the CSU women’s tennis team suffered a loss, playing the #1 team in the NAIA ranks on a neutral site. Don’t let the NAIA fool you, AUM is a six-time national champion. Marija Dzakovic filled in nicely for Schutte, who could not return from her injury the match before, winning at the #2 singles spot. All is not lost for CSU, though. Their undefeated Big South record is still in tact and they will battle essentially for the No. 1 seed in the upcoming Big South Championship as they face Coastal Carolina at home this week.
March 26-27 – Baseball @ #28 VMI – L, 13-3, W, 1-0, L, 7-2
A poor weather forecast changed the plans for the baseball team in Lexington, forcing a double header on Saturday. CSU jumped out to a 2-0 lead early in Friday’s game, but could not hold onto the lead as the big bats of VMI belted three homeruns. In game one of the Saturday double header, Tyler Thornburg shut down the Keydets and it was a good thing he earned the shut out as CSU managed just one run, but got the victory. In game three, CSU again got ahead early, building a 2-0 lead, but another VMI homerun put the Keydets on top 3-2 and they never looked back, giving them the double header split and the series victory over CSU.
Weather also played a part in the softball series, moving Sunday’s game up to 10 a.m., but it didn’t seem to faze the home team as they rallied to earn three big victories over CSU. The Bucs managed just a combined seven hits in Saturday’s double header, and the pitching didn’t show up in three as CSU scored seven runs but gave up 15. It was a nine-run first inning that did in the Bucs after they scored two in the top of the first. CSU got it back to 9-7, but RU combined to score six runs in the final two frames to earn the series sweep.
March 27 – Track and Field @ Weems Baskin Invitational
The track and field teams continued to prove that there are great things coming from them as they work toward the Big South Championships in a couple of weeks and the NCAA Championships beyond that. Gabrielle Houston finished fifth in the 100m dash, while the 4x100m relay team finished fifth. Sequoya Casey finished third overall in the long jump, the best finish on the day for the Lady Buccaneers. For the men, Levi Brooks won the 200m dash, while Andrew King finished as the runner up in the 1,500m run and also the 5,000m run. Shaun Bisson improved in the 3,000m steeplechase, finishing fourth, while Dantwan Spreads posted the fastest 100m dash time of the year for CSU finishing 3rd overall.
What’s Coming Up?
March 30 – Baseball @ College of Charleston – 5 p.m.
March 31 – W. Tennis vs. Coastal Carolina – 2:30 p.m.
March 31 – Softball @ Coastal Carolina (DH) – 4 / 6 p.m.
March 31 – Baseball @ The Citadel – 6 p.m.
April 1 – W. Tennis vs. Wofford – 2 p.m.
April 2 – 3 – Track and Field @ Florida Relays
April 2 – 3- Track and Field @ Duke Invitational
April 2 – 4 – W. Golf @ MSU Women’s Intercollegiate
April 2 – Softball @ Presbyterian (DH) – 2 / 4 p.m.
April 2 – Baseball @ Radford – 3 p.m.
April 3 – W. Tennis – Radford 11 a.m.
April 3 – Baseball @ Radford (DH) – Noon / 3 p.m.
April 3 – Softball @ Presbyterian – 1 p.m.
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