Sunday, April 10, 2011

DeLand, Fla. – In a career full of achievements, USC Upstate pitcher Morgan Childers earned the win in the first game of a doubleheader sweep of Stetson, tying the A-Sun career record for wins with 108. In addition to the Childers' career achievement, the Spartans collected 21 hits on the day and picked up two important league wins by scores of 4-2 and 5-0.

Childers (Kings Mountain, N.C.) went the distance in game one. She allowed two runs on three hits with nine strikeouts to improve to 24-5 on the year. She picked up career win No. 108 to tie the A-Sun all-time record also held by Nikki Myers, who played at Florida Atlantic from 1999-02. In addition to her A-Sun record, Childers owns 10 career records at Upstate.

"It's amazing how time flies," said Upstate head coach Chris Hawkins. "For someone who has done so much for our entire program, to have a day today where she led us to an important win and reach a tremendous career achievement is something special and well deserved.

"Getting these two wins was very important today. We obviously got very good pitching and played solid defense. Even more, it was very good to see us explode for 21 hits today after our performance on Thursday. It shows that the players are determined to do what they need to do to finish out the season they way we need to."