Weekly Recap - May 10-16

After the past week’s Big South Softball Tournament, only a pair of sports and an individual is still in competition. Baseball has only one midweek game against UNC Wilmington as well as a very important early-weekend series against High Point left in their regular season. The track and field programs have the NCAA First Round in Greensboro at the end of the month, while Kelvin Day represents CSU as an individual in the NCAA East Region this week.

With a school record performance in the heptathlon, Patria Norman has been named this week’s CSU Athlete of the Week. Norman finished eighth overall in the competition with a two-day, seven-event total of 4,728 points.

Norman finished in the top-10 in all but one event, including a victory in the shot put competition. She also finished as the runner-up in the 100 meter hurdles and third in the long jump.

Brantley Meier and Megan Hall were also nominated for the honor.

May 11 – Baseball @ Georgia Southern – L, 12-7
Drew Woodall hit his first collegiate home run, and the team hit a season-high four homers with Jesse Cadenhead, Nick Chinners and Derek Smith also homered, but even that wasn’t enough to get the victory on the road.

May 12 – Baseball @ South Carolina – L, 10-2
It was a rough start for CSU as they faced one of the best and hottest teams in the country in a midweek affair. After giving up four homers and a 7-0 lead in the first couple of innings, CSU fought hard the rest of the way, scratching out a pair of runs, including a home run by Matt Still.

May 13-14 – Softball @ Big South Championship
The Buccaneers did exactly what they couldn’t afford to, lost in the first game, falling 8-3 to Gardner-Webb in the first game of the 2010 Big South Championships. In a double elimination tournament, it doesn’t sound like it would be a major blunder, but it forced CSU to win three games on Friday and three more on Saturday if they wanted to win a championship. They started the trek with a victory Friday over Presbyterian, but couldn’t overcome the home team as Coastal Carolina used a big inning to end the season for CSU. They still finished with 30 wins, the most since 1993 and the first winning season since 2001.

May 14-15 – Track and Field @ Georgia Tech
CSU decided to take on the best in hopes of improving placement, and even adding qualifiers, to the NCAA First Round as they went to Georgia Tech. It didn’t happen, despite a number of solid performances for CSU. Before the Ga. Tech meet, Patria Norman also went to Wake Forest, setting a new school record in the heptathlon, but even that wasn’t enough to get her into the NCAA meet.

May 14-16 – Baseball @ UNC Asheville
The baseball team continued to struggle on the road in big south play, suffering a sweep at the hands of UNC Asheville, including two one-run losses in the final two games of the series. In the race to the finish line, CSU now finds themselves in ninth place, 1.5 games behind Asheville, and will need to win a couple of games this weekend against High Point.

What’s Coming Up
May 18 – Baseball vs. UNC Wilmington – 2 p.m.
May 20 – Baseball vs. High Point – 2 p.m.
May 21 – Baseball vs. High Point – 2 p.m.
May 22 – Baseball vs. High Point – 2 p.m.

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