South Carolina vs Georgia
May 18th, 2002
Columbia, SC Regional
This is the 7th meeting between South Carolina and Georgia this year. UGA won 4 of the 7 games this year. The first 6 games this year were decided by one run. South Carolina leads the all time series 18-9.
Georgia eliminated from regional play. South Carolina will play UCLA tomorrow at 12pm Eastern.
South Carolina
Debralee Troesh home run in the first inning was her first homer of the season. Troesh has had 3 hits or more in 4 games this year. Samantha Jennings homer was the 6th of the year for her.
South Carolina has had 10 or more hits in 6 of their last 9 games.
South Carolina has hit a home run in 7 of their last 11 games. This is the 6th time this year that South Carolina has hit 2 or more home runs in the same game.
Megan Matthews in the record books:
Appearances—- 193 Tied 4th NCAA, 1st USC history
Games Started—–149 Tied 9th NCAA
Innings pitched——1106 10th NCAA, 1st USC history
Strikeouts——–1090 10th NCAA, 1st USC history
Shutouts——-43 4th USC| history
Complete Games—–122 Tied 19th NCAA, 1st USC history
Wins—-101 Tied 21st NCAA, 2nd USC history
The homer allowed by Megan Matthews in the 3rd inning was the first homer that she has allowed since April 28th, 2002 vs Alabama. Matthews in her last six games walked only one batter. Against Georgia she walked two.
Jodi Fittro has a hit in 15 of her last 19 games.
Meghan Cornett has hit safely in 11 of her last 14 games.
Georgia
Michelle Tyree’s homer was the 8th of the season for her. The homer tied the UGA season record for homers; Kristen Bell in 2002 and Jamie Rausch in 1997. She now has 88 RBI’s in her career which ranks 2nd in UGA history. The record for RBI’s is 89 set by Jessi Cerra from 1997-1999. Tyree has 244 total bases which is 5 shy of the UGA total base record which Cerra also holds.
The two errors made by Georgia is the most since April 27th, 2002 against Elon where they had 4.
