Eagles Stay On The Street, Journey To Gardner-Webb Wednesday Night

Rock Hill, S.C. – Winthrop ladies’s soccer is again in motion Wednesday night time because it travels to Boiling Springs, N.C. to tackle Gardner-Webb.
 

SERIES HISTORY VERSUS GARDNER-WEBB
This marks the 24^th assembly all-time between Winthrop and Gardner-Webb. The Runnin’ Bulldogs lead the all-time collection 12-10-1. The Eagles are 4-6-0 all-time in video games performed at Gardner-Webb. The Runnin’ Bulldogs have gained 4 of the final 5 conferences in Boiling Springs. Winthrop is 2-2-1 within the final 5 conferences with Gardner-Webb.

ON THE ROAD IN BIG SOUTH PLAY
Winthrop has an all-time document of 37-49-8 in common season Big South highway video games. Over the final six seasons the Eagles are 7-18-3. The final convention win on the highway was Oct. 15, 2022 with a 1-0 victory at Presbyterian College.

FOOT NOTES

• Off to an 0-2 begin in league play with two one-goal losses (3-2 vs. USC Upstate, 1-0 at Charleston Southern)
• In the final 5 video games the Eagles are 0-3-2
• Eagles are 2-2-2 at house and 0-3-1 on the highway this season
• All 4 shutouts have come at house
• Eagles had their third scoreless draw on the season and fourth shutout of the yr within the 0-0 draw with Queens
• The 4 shutouts are probably the most by an Eagle groups because the 2022 season completed with 5
• Eagles had an unbeaten streak got here to an finish at 4 video games after falling 2-0 to Western Carolina
• The Eagles have been 2-0-2 in that stretch which included three consecutive shutouts
• It was the primary time because the 2013 season by which an Eagle group has recorded three consecutive shutouts
• Dating again to the 2024 season, 4 of the final 5 victories have been shutouts
• It was the 13^th time in program historical past the Eagles have been in a scoreless draw and the primary time in a non-conference match because the 2007 season
• The 2-1-2 begin matched the 6^th finest begin in program historical past by way of the primary 5 contests
• Looking to increase the unbeaten streak to 4 video games, which was final achieved throughout the 2019 season with 4 straight wins
• Eagles are 5^th within the Big South Conference with a 1.50 objectives in opposition to common and tied for first in shutouts (4)
• Posted back-to-back wins after a late purpose to tug off a win over Southern Wesleyan
• Despite dominating the sport, the Eagles had a tough time discovering the again of the online however finally did within the 80^th minute as Monssi Avila-Gutierrez knotted her second of her season to seize the win
• In the win over The Citadel, the Eagles scored two objectives within the remaining 10 minutes to earn 2-1 victory
• Cordelia McIntosh got here off the bench for 3 factors as she netted the game-winner within the 88^th minute and helped arrange the game-tying purpose within the 80^th minute
• Avila-Gutierrez scored the game-tying purpose, which is the 7^th of her profession
• It is the second time in her collegiate profession that Avila-Gutierrez has scored in back-to-back video games
• Eagles opened the season with a 4-0 loss at UT Chattanooga on Aug. 14
• Eagles return seven starters and a complete of 18 gamers from final yr’s squad
• Among the returning starters are the group’s high 4 scorers
• Junior Sophia Balliet led the group in factors (7) for a second straight season
• Mia Vrataric performed each second of each contest final season, ending the yr with a 1.64 objectives in opposition to common and three shutouts
• Allowed simply 23 objectives, the seventh fewest in a single-season in program historical past
• In her first two seasons, Balliet has eight objectives, that are tied for 20^th all-time by an Eagle
• In her first two years she posted 18 factors and proper behind her is Avila-Gutierrez with 15 factors (6g,3a) who now has 17 after the purpose in opposition to The Citadel
• Eagles have Winthrop was voted to complete 7^th within the 2025 Big South Conference Preseason Poll
• Eagles are of their 23^rd season total and this may mark the 402^nd sport in program historical past
• The Eagles are 155-197-49 all-time and performed the 400^th sport in program historical past on Sept. 20 vs. USC Upstate
• Spencer Smith is in his 16^th season as head coach and coached in his 200^th sport for the Eagles on Sept. 25, 2021 vs. USC Upstate
• Smith is 4^th all-time in Big South historical past for victories and captured his 100^th win at Winthrop within the 2-0 victory over VMI (9/12/24)
• It is Smith’s 37^th season total as he posted a profession document of 274-314-60
• He is 102-124-32 with Winthrop soccer and posted a 172-90-28 mark teaching collegiate males’s soccer
• Smith earned 137 of these wins at Radford, the place he was two-time Big South Coach of the Year and led the Highlanders to 2 NCAA College Cup appearances
• The 137 wins at Radford rank 5^th all-time in Big South historical past

2025 HONORS

• Cordelia McIntosh – Sophomore
  

  • Big South Offensive Player of the Week (Aug. 25)
    

    • Game-winning purpose and assisted on game-tying purpose vs. The Citadel

  • Big South Midseason Player Watch List (Sept. 18)

• Evyn Schokora – Sophomore

  • Big South Preseason Returning Players Watchlist – Midfielders

• Monssi Avila-Gutierrez – Junior

  • Big South Preseason Returning Players Watchlist – Midfielders

• Kylie Full – Senior

  • Big South Preseason Returning Players Watchlist – Defenders

• Sophia Balliet – Junior

  • Big South Preseason Returning Players Watchlist – Forwards

WATCH THE EAGLES ON ESPN+
Select ladies’s soccer house video games throughout the 2025 season will air dwell on ESPN+. You also can catch choose highway video games in Big South Conference play on ESPN+. To watch Big South video games on ESPN+ you need to have a subscription to ESPN+. For extra info on tips on how to subscribe, click here.

BE A BALL RUNNER FOR WINTHROP SOCCER MATCHES
Interested in getting nearer to the motion of school soccer? Winthrop males’s and ladies’s soccer groups are searching for ball runners to assist at house video games in 2025 and past. Become a ball runner for official video games and grow to be part of our sport day expertise. Sign up as a person or enroll a complete group/membership to attend a match and assist the sport maintain tempo as ball runners. Available for grades third via eighth. If please fill out the ONLINE FORM.

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UP NEXT
Winthrop returns house on Saturday, Oct. 4 as it should tackle UNC Asheville at 6 p.m. for Senior Day. There might be a pregame ceremony to honor this yr’s senior class.

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