Weekly Recap - February 14 - 20

Highlighting this week’s action was the men’s basketball team claiming the Big South’s lone victory in the Sears/ESPN BracketBuster games, while the baseball team took a game from North Florida in their season opener. Additionally, the women’s basketball team set a new Big South record for 3-pointers made in a game (18) in a rout of UNCA and the softball team took down Virginia Tech in their home tournament. We also want to give a shout out to the golf programs who claimed hole in ones on back-to-back days. Even though it didn’t count in competition, Katelyn Bensch, hit a hole in one on the ninth hole during a practice round at Kiawah. Then the next day Coach Mike Wilson hit one on 13 at Crowfield in a match play competition, winning the match for him putting him four up.

With 51 points in two games, both victories, Jamarco Warren has been named the CSU Athlete of the Week.

Warren started the week with a 31-point performance in the Bucs’ victory over UNC Asheville, a victory that kept them in the heart of the race to finish in the top-4 and earn the first round home game in the upcoming Big South Tournament. He followed that up with 20 points against UNC Wilmington in a non-conference game that was part of the Sears/ESPN BracketBuster series. The Bucs were the lone team in the Big South to win out of the nine conference teams participating.

Also Nominated - Kelsey Wasmer (WBB), Stew Brase (Baseball), Trea Steele (Softball)

February 15 – MBB vs. UNC Asheville – W, 79-70
Jamarco Warren bounced back from a tough weekend to drop 31 points and lead CSU back from an 11-point hole to beat UNC Asheville and make a big claim to a top-4 seed in the conference tournament. With the victory the Bucs continue to control their own destiny in regards to getting that placement and in turn, a first-round home game. With two games remaining, if the Bucs win out, they are guaranteed a home game. Kelvin Martin also returned to the lineup for the Bucs with a 13-point, 11-rebound performance.

February 18-19 – SB vs. Va. Tech, Ohio, Mercer (Buccaneer Invite) – 1-3 Record
After taking down Virginia Tech 10-9 in extra innings, the Buccaneers looked like they would roll to the championship game, but offensive struggles in the final three games dashed those hopes. The Bucs fell 5-0 to Mercer in a game that stretched over two calendar days due to darkness on Friday night, and then had the bases loaded in the bottom of the 7th against Ohio, but a fluke play on a ball that looked like it was going up the middle ended the game at 1-0 for Ohio, and put CSU at 1-2 after the round-robin play. The loss also put CSU in the consolation game against Mercer, where they scored once late but fell 5-1.

February 18-19 – Baseball vs. North Florida – L, 12-8, W, 2-1, L, 7-0
Walt Quattlebaum, Nick Chinners and Brantley Meier each had five hits on the weekend, while Stew Brase turned in an excellent pitching performance on Friday to help the Bucs get the victory, going 5.1 innings with one run allowed and scattering five hits. The Bucs had plenty of hits, just one less than UNF, but couldn’t get the timely ones as they were outscored 20-10 on the weekend.

February 19 – WBB vs. Asheville – W, 98-79
Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, was falling for the Lady Buccaneers in the first half as they shot 60 percent from the floor, and scored 58 points in the first half alone with 11 3-pointers. The 58 points was more than CSU has scored in 10 different games this season. Lakeitha Alston had 21 points, including a 3-3 mark behind the arc, while Kelsey Wasmer led all scorers with 23 points and seven 3-pointers.

February 19 – MBB vs. UNC Wilmington (BracketBuster) – W, 63-58
As mentioned, out of nine teams participating, the Bucs were the only Big South team to win their BracketBuster game, doing so in what some on the team described as the best atmosphere this season, facing a homecoming crowd in Wilmington. Jamarco Warren had 20 points and seven rebounds, while Kelvin Martin just missed his second-straight double-double back from injury as he had 13 points and nine rebounds.

What’s coming up?
February 20 – 22 – W. Golf @ Edwin Watts/Kiawah Island Classic
February 21 – WBB @ Presbyterian – 7 p.m.
February 22 – Baseball vs. Furman – 2 p.m.
February 22 – SB @ C of C (DH) – 4 p.m.
February 22 – MBB vs. Gardner-Webb – 7:30 p.m.
February 24 – 25 – Track & Field @ Big South Indoor Championship
February 24 – W. Tennis vs. North Florida – 2 p.m.
February 25 – 27 – SB @ Stetson Tournament
February 25 – Baseball vs. Michigan State
February 26 – Baseball @ Clemson – 1 p.m.
February 26 – Baseball vs. Cincinnati – 7 p.m.
February 26 – W. Tennis vs. Gardner-Webb – 1 p.m.
February 26 – WBB vs. Radford – 2 p.m.
February 26 – MBB vs. Coastal – 4:30 p.m.

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