A Pair of Gamecocks Makes Tallahassee All-Regional Team

May 19, 2014

COLUMBIA, S.C. – A pair of Gamecocks made the 2014 Tallahassee All-Regional Team, as senior Ashlyn Masters and Kristen Struett earned such recognition for their play in the 2014 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament’s opening round.

Masters had two homers in the regional, the only student-athlete to have more than one, and she tied for the lead in the event in hits and runs scored. Her two homers on Saturday put her into a tie for seventh in South Carolina history with eight round-trippers in a season. Struett went 3-for-10 in the event and had the only triple of the weekend.

Florida State’s Lacey Waldrop took home the regional MVP award after winning her three starts, tossing 23 innings and giving up only one run. She was joined by teammates Alex Kossoff and Maddie O’Brien. The two Gamecocks also made the team with USF’s Sara Nevins, Juli Weber and Kristen Wyckoff as well as Fordham’s Elise Fortier and Cora Ianiro.

South Carolina completed its fourth year under head coach Beverly Smith with a 36-22 record, the second-straight 30-win season that included back-to-back NCAA Regional Appearances for the first time since 2003-04. The team set four new single-season offensive marks, including its first 50-homer, 200-walk season as a squad.