Donnie Gobourne

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position Pitcher
height 5-8
class Senior
B/T R/R
Hometown Lake Placid, Fla.
High school Lake Placid
Previous School Florida Atlantic

position Pitcher
height 5-8
class Senior
B/T R/R
Hometown Lake Placid, Fla.
High school Lake Placid
Previous School Florida Atlantic

AWARDS:

2023 All-SEC First Team

2023 NFCA All-Region Second Team

2023 SEC All-Tournament Team

Selected 17th overall in the 2023 WPF draft

2023:

Selected 17th overall (5th round, 1st pick), in the Women’s Professional Fastpitch Draft on April 18, 2023, by the Oklahoma City Spark … Became the first Gamecock drafted professionally since 2013 … Named to the All-SEC First Team … Named NFCA All-Region Second Team … Named to SEC All-Tournament Team … Threw a no-hitter against No. 17 Auburn (4/29), the first since 2017 and 53rd in recorded program history … It was the first no-hitter by a Carolina pitcher in SEC play since 2002 … Appeared in 38 games, starting 13 … Led the team in every pitching category on the season … Finished the year with a 14-7 record and six saves … Nationally ranked in ERA (124th), hits allowed per seven innings (16th), innings pitched (195th), saves (11th), shutouts (133rd), strikeouts (26th), strikeouts per seven innings (5th), and wins (122nd) … Her 10.54 strikeouts per seven innings rank second all-time in a season … Led Division I in strikeouts per 7 innings for seven straight weeks at one point … Her six saves rank 6th most all-time in a season … Her 202 strikeouts rank 13th all-time … Her 4.10 hits per seven innings rank 12th all-time … 25 relief appearances are 4th all-time … Threw seven complete games and three shutouts … Carried a no-hit bid down to the last strike in the top of the seventh in against #11 Florida (4/2) before surrendering a hit … Finished with 15 strikeouts against Florida (4/2), the first Carolina pitcher to record 15 in a game since 2007 … Recorded her first career save against Delaware (2/17) … Recorded double-digit strikeouts five times on the season.

Prior to SC:

2022 (FAU):

Pitched in 17 games and made 14 starts in the circle for the Owls … Tallied a 4.33 ERA … A power pitcher, Gobourne struck out 89 batters in 64.2 innings … Had a 9.7 strikeout per seven inning ratio, which was 24th best in the country … Limited batters to a .192 average against to lead Conference USA … Ranked first in the conference in hits allowed (44) … Her 4.76 hits allowed per seven innings ranked 45th in the nation … Ranked first in C-USA in home runs allowed (4) … Picked up a season-high 13 strikeouts in the win over UTSA … Threw four complete games.

2021 (FAU):

Finished her first season of NCAA season by tossing 58.1 innings, second on the squad … Appeared in 16 games, starting 15 and recording two complete games … Top outing of the 2021 season was a 1-0, eight inning complete game affair at USF, a NCAA tournament bound team, where he hed the Bulls to four hits, five walks and struck out two … Second complete game was versus C-USA foe Charlotte, a seven-inning game, where she had a season high eight strikeouts, a season game high for all the Owls … Season game high pitch count was 122 versus Charlotte … Offensively she tallied 25 plate appearances hitting for herself or as a DH, had three hits and one RBI, which came against South Dakota.

2018-2020 (Santa Fe College):

Named to the All-Conference team … Earned player of the week honors … Cumulated a .322 batting average with seven home runs and 24 RBIs … Threw 83.2 innings with a 2.68 ERA striking out 103 batters.