BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. The Winthrop men's soccer team advanced to the Big South tournament semifinals after defeating Gardner-Webb 4-3 in a penalty-kick shootout Friday at Gardner-Webb.

ATLANTA The Winthrop women's basketball team opened its 2009 season with a 63-30 defeat to the 19th-ranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets on Friday at Alexander Memorial Coliseum.

Winthrop University opens the men's basketball season on Saturday at home against Limestone, but the Eagles will be without one key player.

Winthrop's Lady Eagles open the 2009-2010 basketball season at 7:30 p.m. today with a stiff test at No. 19 Georgia Tech in the first round of the preseason WNIT.

Winthrop women's basketball will have a brand new look this season with seven new players on the roster, which stands as quite a contrast to the past four seasons, when fans could more or less count on Ashley Fann or Tiffany Rodd to lead the team.

Winthrop men's soccer team will wait one more day to start the 2009 Big South tournament in High Point, N.C.

The Winthrop men's soccer team enters the Big South tournament in High Point, N.C., on a three-game losing skid. Winthrop, the fourth seed, plays No. 5 Gardner-Webb in the first match of the tournament at noon Thursday.

It came as no surprise that one of the first questions Winthrop coach Randy Peele had to field at his first weekly basketball luncheon on Monday was this.

CHARLESTON Winthrop's run in the Big South Conference tournament came to an end in the finals Sunday, as the eighth-seeded Lady Eagles fell 4-2 on penalty kicks to seventh-seeded High Point at Blackbaud Stadium.

The Winthrop women's basketball team struggled mightily on Saturday, losing to Division II Francis Marion 65-56 in an exhibition game at Winthrop Coliseum.