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Winthrop's volleyball team lost a five-set match against Charleston Southern (26-28, 25-13, 23-25, 25-12 and 14-16) on Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Big South tournament.
Lady Eagles coach Bud Childers is looking for more minutes of “Winthrop basketball” tonight at Towson and less of the sloppiness that has characterized much of his team's play in the first two games of the season.
Winthrop is 1-1 after taking a season-opening wallop at Georgia Tech and then playing an encouraging second half to beat Division II Coker on Tuesday. The Georgia Tech game was Winthrop's introduction to the preseason WNIT, a 63-30 loss.
The first round of the consolation bracket in that tournament is tonight against the Towson Tigers. Towson (0-1) lost 79-42 at West Virginia.
The highlight tape for Winthrop's victory over Limestone on Saturday in the season basketball opener could consist of just this.
The camera pans to the scoreboard and shows: Winthrop 57, Limestone 55.
For the second day in a row, Winthrop advanced in the Big South Conference men's soccer tournament on a penalty shootout, this time using a 4-3 advantage on penalty kicks to defeat top-seeded Coastal Carolina on Saturday and earn a spot in the tournament final.
You can't blame Matt Morgan, Andy Buechert and Gideon Gamble if their intensity meter runs a little hot this afternoon when Winthrop opens the basketball season in the Winthrop Coliseum against Limestone.
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.
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.