WESTERN2019 CATAMOUNT CAROLINABASEBALL GAME NOTES 13 SoCon Regular Season Championships • 10-Time SoCon Tournament • 12 NCAA Regional Appearances BASEBALL CONTACT: Daniel Hooker /// OFFICE: 828.227.2339 /// CELL: 828.508.2494 /// EMAIL: [email protected] F E B R U A R Y 2019 SoCon Baseball Championship: #8 WESTERN CAROLINA (20-30, 8-16 SoCon) 15 OAKLAND CULLOWHEE W 21 9 May 21-26, 2018 • Fluor Field at the West End (5,700) • Greenville, S.C. 16 OAKLAND (Gm1) CULLOWHEE W 9 8 SOCON OAKLAND (Gm2) CULLOWHEE W 12 2 COVERAGE: DIGITAL 24 ST. JOHN’S (Gm1) CULLOWHEE L 2 5 BROADCAST: NETWORK ST. JOHN’S (Gm2) CULLOWHEE W 13 4 VIDEOSTREAM: SoConDigitalNetwork.com E+ 26 INDIANA STATE CULLOWHEE L 4 8 CSN AUDIO: CatamountSports.com E+ 27 INDIANA STATE CULLOWHEE W 10 9 TWITTER: @Catamounts, @WCUCatamountBSB M A R C H WCU IN THE SoCon TOURNEY: 76-53 (L–1) In Greenville, S.C.: 11-11, (L–1) 1 vs. Wright State Greenville, N.C. L 3 5 Under Bobby Moranda: 16-21 (L–1) 2 vs. Utah Greenville, N.C. L 0 14 3 at #9 East Carolina ECU A/V Greenville, N.C. L 6 12 6 at UNC Asheville E+ Asheville, N.C. W 16 4 2019 Southern Conference Baseball Championship presented by Holston Gases 9 vs. Michigan State Greenville, S.C. W (10) 6 4 MAY 21 – (TUESDAY) – ON SDN MAY 24 – (FRIDAY) – ON SDN CSN 10 vs. Ohio State Greenville, S.C. W 8 5 Game 1: #8 Western Carolina vs. #9 The Citadel .......10 am Game 10: Winner Game 7 vs. Loser Game 8 ..........3:30 pm 13 NOTRE DAME E+ CULLOWHEE W 16 9 Game 11: Winner Game 6 vs. Loser Game 9 .................7 pm CSN MAY 22 – (WEDNESDAY) – ON SDN 15 ELON CULLOWHEE W 5 2 Game 2: Winner Game 1 vs. #1 Samford ..................... 9 am MAY 25 – (SATURDAY) – ON SDN CSN (10) 16 ELON CULLOWHEE L 11 12 Game 3: #4 Mercer vs. #5 Furman ........................12:30 pm Game 12: Winner Game 8 vs. Winner Game 9............12 pm 17 ELON E+ CULLOWHEE L 2 6 Game 4: #3 UNCG vs. #6 ETSU ................................... 4 pm Game 13: Winner Game 10 vs. Winner Game 11 .....3:30 pm E+ 20 GARDNER-WEBB CULLOWHEE L 4 5 Game 5: #2 Wofford vs. #7 VMI .............................. 7:30 pm Game 14: Winner Game 13 vs. Loser Game 12..............7 pm SDN / CSN 22 at ETSU * Johnson City, Tenn. L 9 10 MAY 23 – (THURSDAY) – ON SDN MAY 26 – (SUNDAY) – ON ESPN+ 23 at ETSU * CSN Johnson City, Tenn. L 4 5 Game 6: Loser Game 2 vs. Loser Game 3 ................... 9 am Game 15: Winner Game 12 vs. Winner Game 14 ........ NOON 24 at ETSU * SDN / CSN Johnson City, Tenn. L 3 10 Game 7: Loser Game 4 vs. Loser Game 5 .............12:30 pm ^Game 16: Winner Game 15 vs. Loser Game 15 ........ 40 min 29 at UNCG * E+/CSN Greensboro, N.C. L 5 7 Game 8: Winner Game 2 vs. Winner Game 3 .............. 4 pm ^ if necessary Game 9: Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 5 ......... 7:30 pm 30 at UNCG * CSN Greensboro, N.C. W 24 4 31 at UNCG * CSN Greensboro, N.C. W 2 1 NOTING WESTERN CAROLINA IN THE SOUTHERN CONFERENCE BASEBALL TOURNAMENT: A P R I L • Western Carolina enters the 2019 Southern Conference Baseball Championship as the No. 8 seed ... WCU is in the 3 at Marshall CSN Huntington, W.Va. L 9 10 single-elimination game for a second-straight season ... Since 2000, WCU has been seeded as low as eighth twice 5 WOFFORD * E3 CULLOWHEE L 5 20 before (2004 and 2011) posting a 4-4 record as the No. 8 seed – but WCU advanced to the SoCon Tourney title game in 6 WOFFORD * E3 CULLOWHEE W 4 3 2004 as the No. 8 and scored the epic 20-inning win over Elon as the No. 8 in the 2011 tournament ... Western Carolina has only missed one SoCon tournament since the event’s return in 1984, missing the 2000 tournament under then first- 7 WOFFORD * E3 CULLOWHEE L 4 7 year head coach Todd Raleigh; 9 APPALACHIAN STATE E+ CULLOWHEE CANCELLED 10 at Gardner-Webb CSN Shelby, N.C. W 4 3 • WCU had been one of the top two seeds four times over the past seven years ... the Catamounts were the No. 1 seed 12 at Mercer * CSN Macon, Ga. W 4 3 after winning the 2013 and 2014 regular season championships and the No. 2 seed in 2016 and 2017; 13 at Mercer * E3 / CSN Macon, Ga. W 11 7 • Including Tuesday morning’s opponent, The Citadel, Western Carolina went 4-8 this year against the four teams in its at Mercer * E+ / CSN Macon, Ga. L 2 6 side of the bracket, playing two series on the road – at No. 1 Samford (0-3) and at No. 4 Mercer (2-1) – with two at home 18 FURMAN * E+ CULLOWHEE L 4 9 – vs. No. 5 Furman (1-2) and vs. No. 9 The Citadel (1-2) ... the Catamounts enter the 2019 tournament with an overall 20 FURMAN (GM1) * CULLOWHEE L 3 4 record in SoCon Tournament play against those same four teams of 20-22 (The Citadel, 9-11; Furman, 6-5; Mercer, 2-3; 20 FURMAN (GM2) * CULLOWHEE W 5 1 Samford, 3-3); 24 UNC ASHEVILLE * E+ CULLOWHEE L 8 11 • WCU has won 76 games in the SoCon tournament all-time, the MOST among current conference schools ... The Cita- 26 VMI * E3 CULLOWHEE L (11) 11 15 del has won 73 tournament games, second all-time (73-41, .640) ... WCU has a .588 winning percentage (76-53) in the 27 VMI * E3 CULLOWHEE W 14 5 conference tournament ... the two winningest programs in SoCon history meet on Tuesday; 28 VMI * E3 CULLOWHEE L (10) 8 9 • Western Carolina snapped a six-game slide in SoCon Tournament games two years ago with its opening walk-off win 30 at Appalachian State Boone, N.C. L 3 6 over Wofford as J.D. Long drew a bases loaded walk to score the game-winning run ... the six-game slide spanned three years and began after game one of the 2013 tournament – a 13-7 victory for the Catamounts over eighth-seeded M A Y Samford in Greenville, S.C. ... During the slump, WCU dropped three, one-run games; 3 at #8 Georgia Tech ACCNE/CSN Atlanta, Ga. L 4 25 • Western Carolina is 11-11 (.500) in tournament games played at Fluor Field in Greenville in the six years since the tour- 4 at #8 Georgia Tech ACCNE/CSN Atlanta, Ga. L 3 16 nament first went to the park in the West End district in 2009 ... Five of WCU’s 11 victories came as a part of a 5-1 record 5 at #8 Georgia Tech ACCNE/CSN Atlanta, Ga. L 1 14 that led to the conference tournament title in 2016 with four (4-2) coming last year as the No. 9 seed ... Since 2009 10 at Samford * CSN Birmingham, Ala. L 4 16 season, the Catamounts are 13-14 (.481) overall in any games played at Fluor Field – 2-0 this year; 11 at Samford * CSN Birmingham, Ala. L 3 5 • The Catamounts have won TEN SoCon Tournament titles all-time, the most of any conference school ... WCU has also 12 at Samford * CSN Birmingham, Ala. L 2 4 made 16 appearances in the SoCon Tournament title game including twice under head coach Bobby Moranda, doing 14 vs. Eastern Kentucky CSN Mason, Ohio (Prasco Park) W 9 6 so in 2010 as a No. 6 seed and 2016 as the No. 2 seed ... Of WCU’s 10 tournament titles, seven have come when the 16 THE CITADEL * CSN / SDN CULLOWHEE W 4 3 Catamounts were a No. 1 seed and three as the No. 2 seed – but WCU has never won a title as a seed lower than No. 17 THE CITADEL * CSN / SDN CULLOWHEE L 2 5 2 – though it did advance to the title game as a No. 8 seed in 2004, winning its first three games before falling twice; 18 THE CITADEL * CSN CULLOWHEE L 1 3 • Including Western Carolina’s 10 titles, teams in WCU’s initial side of the bracket have won 23 of the previous 34 21 vs. #9 The Citadel CSN / SDN Greenville, S.C. (Fluor Field) 10:00 am Southern Conference Tournament Championships: Western Carolina, 10 (1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1997, CSN / SDN (Fluor Field) 22 vs. #1 Samford Greenville, S.C. 9:00 am 2003, 2016) ... The Citadel (8) ... Furman (2) ... Mercer (1) ... and defending champion, Samford (2); All times are listed as EASTERN | * — SoCon Game | ALL CAPS – home games CSN – Denotes Catamount Sports Network audio / online broadcast • Western Carolina’s five-straight tournament championships from 1985 through 1989 represent the longest string of SDN – Denotes SoCon Digital Network online video stream broadcast E3 – Denotes ESPN3 online video stream broadcast (satellite/cable subscription required) consecutive titles claimed by one program in conference history ... The Citadel was the last team to claim back-to-back E+ – Denotes ESPN+ online subscription ($) video stream broadcast ACCNE – Denotes ACC Network Extra video stream broadcast tournament championships, doing so in 1998-99. 2019 SoCon CHAMPIONSHIP PAGE 1 2019 CATAMOUNT BASEBALL CATAMOUNTSPORTS.COM /// WCU BASEBALL IN THE SoCon TOURNAMENT YEAR SITE OPPONENT W / L WCU OPP YEAR SITE OPPONENT W / L WCU OPP YEAR SITE OPPONENT W / L WCU OPP 1984 Cullowhee #2N VMI W 10 7 1999 Charleston #6 Georgia Southern L 5 8 2017 Greenville #7 ETSU L 6 8 1984 Cullowhee #1N Appalachian State L 5 9 1999 Charleston #7 VMI W 8 4 2017 Greenville #6 Samford L 1 6 1984 Cullowhee #2S The Citadel L 0 8 1999 Charleston #4 ETSU W 7 5 1999 Charleston #8 Furman W 11 4 2018 Greenville #8 The Citadel W 6 5 1985 Boone #1N Appalachian State W 3 2 1999 Charleston #2 Col.