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WEEK 8 | GEORGIA STATE | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 | ATLANTA, GA. 2016 GEORGIA TECH SOFTBALL Georgia Tech Athletic Communications & Public Relations • 150 Bobby Dodd Way NW • Atlanta, Ga. 30332 • RamblinWreck.com Assistant Director (SB Contact): Lauren Rupert • O: 404-894-9737 • E: [email protected] • @lauren_rupert GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS 2016 Record: 14-21 @GaTechSoftball Georgia Tech Softball Head Coach: Shelly Hoerner (third season) 2016 SCHEDULE GEORGIA STATE PANTHERS Feb. 17 at Georgia State L, 3-2 (12) 2016 Record: 19-18 Series Record: Georgia Tech leads 45-22 Last Meeting: Feb. 17, 2016 in Panthersville, Ga.; GSU won, 3-2 (12) ACC/Big 10 Challenge (Atlanta, Ga.) Feb. 19 Ohio State ESPN3 L, 6-0 Feb. 20 Ohio State L, 4-3 (8) Feb. 20 Purdue L, 3-0 STAT LEADERS Feb. 21 Purdue L, 4-3 Feb. 23 St. John’s L, 5-4 (6) Santa Barbara Tournament (Santa Barbara, Calif.) Feb. 26 Cal Santa Barbara L, 6-4 Feb. 26 Southern Utah W, 5-1 Feb. 27 Cal Santa Barbara L, 4-0 Feb. 27 Southern Utah W, 2-0 (5) Feb. 28 South Carolina L, 3-1 March 2 Mercer (DH) W, 2-1 & W, 4-0 March 5 at Louisville* (DH) L, 12-3 (5) & W, 5-2 March 6 at Louisville* L, 5-4 #5THINGS PINK AUCTION March 11 Boston College* L, 8-4 1. Georgia Tech and Georgia State rematch March 12 Boston College* (DH) L, 4-1 (11) & Wednesday after a 12-inning marathon to open L, 9-0 (5) March 14 NC Central W, 3-2 the 2016 season in Panthersville in which Geor- March 15 NC Central W, 7-0 gia State prevailed, 3-2. March 16 Tennessee State (DH) W, 6-0 & W, 5-0 2. The Jackets have played 5 extra-inning USF Tournament (Tampa, Fla.) games this season - three of which went to 11+ March 18 Chattanooga W, 3-2 innings, including a school-record 13 innings at March 18 USF L, 8-0 (5) March 19 Hartford L, 4-3 Syracuse on April 2. March 19 LIU W, 4-0 3. Samantha Pierannunzi has reached base in March 20 Northwestern W, 3-2 the last six games. March 23 at UCF L, 1-0 4. Georgia Tech leads the league with 32 March 25 Virginia Tech* ESPN3 L, 1-0 sacrifice bunts. March 26 Virginia Tech* (DH) ESPN3 L, 5-0 & 5. March 26 was Georgia Tech’s annual W, 1-0 March 29 at Georgia SEC Network + L, 5-0 StrikeOut Cancer day. The Jackets donned pink April 2 at Syracuse* (DH) L, 8-7 (13) & W, 6-4 (8) jerseys and are auctioning off the jerseys online To bid visit: April 6 Georgia State 6 p.m. until April 9 to support breast cancer awareness. April 9 vs. North Texas 12 p.m. http://ramblinwreck.cstvauctions.com/gallery.cfm April 9 at Kansas 5 p.m. April 10 vs. North Texas 10 a.m. April 10 at Kansas 12:30 p.m. 2016 ACC STANDINGS April 12 at Kennesaw State 6 p.m. Team ACC Record Win % Overall Record Win % April 13 Georgia ESPN3 6 p.m. April 16 at Pitt* (DH) 1 & 3 p.m. 1. Florida State 7-1-0 .875 27-4-0 .871 April 17 at Pitt* 12 p.m. 2. Louisville 9-3-0 .750 24-8-0 .750 April 20 Troy 5 p.m. 3. Virginia Tech 9-3-0 .750 19-16-0 .543 April 23 Virginia* (DH) 1 & 3 p.m. April 24 Virginia* 12 p.m. 4. Notre Dame 5-3-0 .625 26-6-0 .812 April 26 Kennesaw State 6 p.m. 5. Boston College 3-3-0 .500 19-13-0 .594 April 30 at NC State* (DH) 4 & 6 p.m. May 1 at NC State* 12 p.m. 6. North Carolina 5-7-0 .417 19-18-0 .514 May 7 North Carolina* 5 p.m. 7. Pitt 5-7-0 .417 23-12-0 .657 May 8 North Carolina* (DH) ESPN3 1 & 3 p.m. 8. Syracuse 4-7-0 .364 17-16-0 .515 * Denotes ACC game | Home games are in bold, italics 9. NC State 3-6-0 .333 17-20-0 .459 All times Eastern and subject to change 10. Georgia Tech 3-8-0 .273 14-21-0 .400 11. Virginia 2-7-0 .222 12-25-0 .324 61 ALL-CONFERENCE SELECTIONS | 34 NFCA ALL-REGION HONOREES | 11 NCAA APPEARANCES | 9 ALL-AMERICANS 2016 GEORGIA TECH SOFTBALL PRONUNCIATION GUIDE No. Name Pos. Ht. YR B/T Hometown/Last School 2 Maddie Lionberger 2B 5-9 SR L/R Austin, Texas/James Bowie DARRAGH .......................................DARE-UH 7 Sydney Stavro OF/INF 5-3 FR L/R Buford, Ga./Buford 9 Malea Bell OF/INF 5-3 SO R/R Kennesaw, Ga./Kennesaw Mountain DRAVEN .........................................DRAY-VEN 10 Kendall Chadwick INF 6-1 SO R/R Atlanta, Ga./Marist School KRZUS ...............................................CRUISE 12 Jordan Deep INF 5-4 FR R/R Loganville, Ga./Buford 13 Jessica Kowalewicz INF 5-5 JR R/R Stone Mountain, Ga./Providence Christian Academy KOWALEWICZ .............KAH-VUH- LOVE - ITCH 14 Kaylee Ellebracht C 5-5 FR R/R Los Alamitos, Calif./Los Alamitos 15 Kelsey Chisholm INF 5-8 SO R/R Jacksonville, Fla./Bartram Trail MALEA .........................................MAH-LEAH 17 Morgan Taylor OF 5-3 SR L/L Jacksonville, Fla./Mandarin PIERANNUNZI .............PEER – AH – NUN - ZEE 20 Katie Krzus INF/OF 5-9 FR R/R Orland Park, Ill./Carl Sandburg 24 Colleen Darragh OF 5-5 JR R/R Jacksonville, Fla./Creekside ZIESE .............................................. ZEE-ZEE 27 Courtney Ziese C/INF 5-6 SR R/R Canyon Country, Calif./Canyon 52 Samantha Pierannunzi OF 5-11 JR L/R Suwanee, Ga./Peachtree Ridge 88 Emily Anderson P 5-7 SO R/R LaGrange, Ga./LaGrange 98 Jenna Goodrich P 5-8 FR R/R Davie, Fla./American Heritage School 99 Draven Sonnon OF 5-8 SO R/R Sugar Hill, Ga./North Gwinnett Head Coach - Shelly Hoerner Georgia Tech GaTechSoftball @GaTechSoftball Assistant Coach - Jake Jury Assistant Coach - Erin Wright Softball Graduate Manager - Alyssa Ishibashi GOT ‘EM EMILY ANDERSON FACILITY INFORMATION Freshman Kaylee Ellebracht has started every Despite having two pitchers on the roster, Geor- Stadium ......................................... Mewborn Field game, but three, behind the plate this season. gia Tech is holding it down in the circle. Capacity .....................................................1,500 Outfield Dimensions ............... 190 ft. down the lines She is first in the ACC in runners picked off (4) Sophomore pitcher Emily Anderson struck out and leads the league in runners caught stealing a career-best 14 batters in the 3-2 win against ..................................220 ft. at centerfield (10). NC Central. Surface ......................................................Grass - Her previous best was eight THE LONG HAUL - She is third in the ACC with 114 strikeouts 2016 PREVIEW Georgia Tech has played five extra-inning - She is fourth in the league, catching 32 bat- Starters Returning/Lost .....................................6/3 games, three of which have gone to 11+in- ters looking nings. Pitchers Returning/Lost ....................................1/2 Two days after she threw a career-high strike- Newcomers .......................................................5 In game one at Syracuse, the Jackets and outs, she took a no-hitter to the seventh inning Orange duked it out for 13 innings - officially against Tennessee State and ended up pitching SOFTBALL HISTORY the longest game in school history, beating the a one-hit shutout against the Tigers. First Year .....................................................1987 12-inning game the Jackets played in their season opener at Georgia State on Feb. 17. She pitched all of 55.1 innings last season All-Time Record ........................ 927-694-2 (.571) and this season is third in the ACC with 153.0 NCAA Tournament App/Last ......................11/2012 As if 13 innings wasn’t enough, 30 minutes innings pitched. NCAA Tournament Record ........................... 19-22 after that 13-inning game, the Jackets played another extra-inning game against the Orange, Against Virginia Tech, she allowed one run in this one going to eight innings. 15 innings pitched with zero walks and 12 2015 SEASON REVIEW strikeouts. She had an ERA of 0.47 and held Overall Record ........................................... 16-34 DINGERZ the opposition to a .154 batting average to go ACC Record/Place .................................6-18/10th The Yellow Jackets split a pair of games at 1-1 on the weekend. Final USA Today/NFCA Ranking ......................... NR Syracuse over the weekend in which Georgia ESPN.COM/USA Softball Ranking ...................... NR Tech hit six home runs. WALK THIS WAY Samantha Pierannunzi leads the team with 19 Tech blasted four home runs in game one, two walks; doing her job as the leadoff batter to get by Courtney Ziese, and hit a pair in game two on base. - another by Ziese and the go-ahead run in the - Those 19 walks are tied for eighth in the ACC eighth inning from Colleen Darragh. - As a team, Georgia Tech is eighth in the league with 89 walks. Ziese (6) and Samantha Pierannunzi (5) have combined for more than half of Georgia Tech’s Doing her job as a leadoff batter, Pierannunzi total home runs (19) had a 14-game reached base streak from Feb. 28-March 18. WALK OFF WIN - During that time she hit .395 with 15 hits Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech took a 0-0 tie in 38 at bats. She scored 11 runs with three to the bottom of the seventh in Atlanta. Maddie home runs to go along with 10 walks. Lionberger stepped to the plate and roped a leadoff home run to left for the walk-off win.