The Mountain Lion Talk

In terms of a march towards the top five of most competitive dual matches since 2015-16, junior Catarina Marcko Ferreira continued her slow-and-steady pace, with her appearance at both singles and doubles against Georgia Southwestern marking competitive dual match number 53 (assuming no more matches are canceled, April 18th v. Augusta will be her sixtieth competitive dual match).  *With their freshman seasons not completely calculated, alumni Maria Puerta and Laura Sanchez currently hold the five spot with 59 appearances each. Ana Rodriguez is fourth with 61.  Sophomores Louise Ratiu , Meghna Mallath and Joselyne Chapui each tallied their thirty-fifth competitive dual match against GSW. 

12th: Maddie Peek (78) 13th: Junior Ella Hancock (70) 14th: Kaylynn Roach (64) 15th: Katie McNutt (63) *Junior Kinsley Purser has 55 goals in her career  *Fifteenth moves nine rungs from 54 goals to 63 goals 

Junior defender Gwenyth Gibbons appeared in her fiftieth game for the women's lacrosse program against Alabama-Huntsville.  In the same contest, classmate midfielder Ella Hancock tallied her seventieth goal (thirteenth all-time), stands ninth all-time at 125 points with her 55 assists- which is tied for fifth- and is thirteen draw controls from second-place all-time (she has 184 and alumnus Rachel Lepine has 196).  Fellow junior midfielder Kinsley Purser , meanwhile, now has 55 career goals and her 112 draw controls moved past alumnus Taylor Greenberg (109) and into eighth all-time. 

Sophomores Louise Ratiu , Meghna Mallath and Joselyne Chapui now have thirty-four competitive dual match appearances, moving past Zoe Freke and into a three-way tie for the seventh-most since 2015-16. Junior Catarina Marcko Ferreira tallied her fifty-second competitive dual match appearance. This isn't a major milestone in and of itself, but combined with cross country meets she has now tallied sixty competitive appearances over her Mountain Lion career. 

7th: Zach Wall (119)  8th: Logan Worley (111) 9th: Senior Rome Wallace (108) 10th: Josh Rudnik (106)

7th: Zach Bricknell (130) 8th: Senior Ethan Underwood (121) 9th: Tucker Greer (120) 10th: Zach Wall (109)

The 11-1 win was buoyed by a strong pitching performance that yielded just three hits- of the eight SW batters with at least two at-bats, five were held hitless. Second baseman Ethan Underwood was 2-for-3 with two runs scored and a walk. The two runs gave him 121 for his career, moving past alumnus Tucker Greer and into eighth in the program's NCAA-era. Zach Bricknell is currently seventh with 130. The walk was the seventy-fifth of his career, moving into sixth by himself and past Adam Moore, who drew 74 over his career. Spencer Thomas, with 77, is currently fifth.  And his two stolen bases give him 31 for his career, tying Spencer Thomas for fifth.  Right fielder Rome Wallace also moved up the record books with his four-RBI game, as he currently has 108 in his career. This is good enough to place him ninth, moving past Josh Rudnik. Eighth on the list is Logan Worley, who drove in 111 runs during a 182-game career that ended last season. It's worth noting as well that both of ...

Senior 2B Ethan Underwood *His 74 walks is tied for sixth in the program's NCAA-era history with Adam Moore. Spencer Thomas, who drew 77 walks in his career, is currently fifth while Dom Wyshinski is fourth with 86.  *His 119 runs scored is one shy of tying Tucker Greer for eighth all-time. Zach Bricknell is currently seventh with 130.  Senior OF Rome Wallace *His 104 runs batted in is now tied for tenth in the program's NCAA-era history with current assistant coach Dahlton Cash. Josh Rudnik holds the ninth spot with 106.  Underwood has 134 hits in his career while Wallace currently has 129. Fifteenth on the NCAA-era list is Tyler Washington with 143. 

Fifth is held by Spencer Thomas with 77  6th: Adam Moore (74) 7th: Senior Ethan Underwood (72) 8th: Tucker Greer (70) 9th: Zach Odom (67) 10th: Tom Valichka (63) 11th: Tyler Washington (62) 12th: Brett Hawkins/Zach Wall (54) 13th: Cole Jackson (53) 14th: Logan Worley (52) *Senior Steven Spell has 51 

Despite the baseball team's one-run loss at Lincoln Memorial there were several notable stats from the game. Senior Ethan Underwood appeared in his 150th game for the team, with his two walks moving him into seventh in the program's NCAA-era with 72 and his two runs scored extending his ninth-best total to 116. Sophomore Jeremy Begora had a career day at the plate: 3-for-4 with a homer, two runs scored and four driven in. Sophomore Marco Colina scored three runs as part of a 2-for-4 day while fellow sophomore Jayden Carbonell-Smith went 2-for-4 with a double. Freshman Ryan Cross was the standout on the mound, as his four innings led all pitchers and his four strikeouts tied for game-high honors with LMU's winning pitcher Colin Murphy.  The men's lacrosse team defeated Emmanuel College on the road in OT 12-11, picking up their second win of the season and snapping a two-game losing streak. Both of their wins this year have been in overtime as they're 0-8 in regulatio...

*Her now 39 pitching appearances extends her ninth-best mark. Eighth on the list is Dharma Rosbrugh with 41. *Her 36 starts extends her hold on sixth. Louisa Disi's 37 starts is fifth. *Her 170.1 innings pitched extends her ninth-best mark, just thirteen shy of Rosbrugh in eighth.  *And her three strikeouts on the day give her 86 for her career, moving her into twelfth and past Haylie Shope. Sara King is eleventh on the list with 104. 

Men's and women's tennis will have their final tune-up match before conference action when they host Lee University at 2pm.  Softball will face Tusculum College in the Volunteer State in a 2/4 doubleheader. Baseball will also be in Tennessee, but in Harrogate as opposed to Greeneville, with a 4pm game against Lincoln Memorial.  And men's lacrosse will try to break a two-game losing streak when they travel to Franklin Springs in-state for a match against Emmanuel College at 4pm. 

Ethan Underwood, who's now a game away from 150 appearances, had four of the twelve Mountain Lion hits, going 4-for-5. This puts him at 129 for his career, fifteen shy of moving into the NCAA-era top fifteen.  Steven Spell, who tallied his eightieth varsity appearance on Friday, drew two walks, with his first being the fiftieth of his varsity career. He now stands at 51.  9th: Tom Valichka (63)  10th: Tyler Washington (62) 11th: Bret Hawkins/Zach Wall (54) 12th: Cole Jackson (53) 13th: Logan Worley (52) Rome Wallace went 1-for-4, collecting his 125th career hit in the process. 

5th: Sam Davis (188) 6th: Katie-Jo Gentry (187) *Senior Jill Dixon is currently seventh with 182.  In case anyone's curious, Louisa Disi is fourth with 235 and the school record, which is held by 65-win Darby Stanford, is 456 (eighty more than second). 

Sophomore Kylie Ferguson picked up her tenth career complete game in the opener, tying Victoria Sink, Louisa Disi and Sam Davis for seventh all-time. Dharma Rosbrugh's thirteen complete games is the sixth-best mark.  Senior Jill Dixon was the closing pitcher in the second game and was credited with her second save of the season and fourth of her career, tying Sink and fellow alumnus Darby Stanford for fourth all-time. Brittany Henry's five saves is third-best.  We also have an alteration to the top five in terms of innings pitched: Jill now has 225.2, surpassing the 223.1 of Disi. Fourth on the list is Katie-Jo Gentry with 297.2. 

With 29 swipes, senior Ethan Underwood is tied for sixth with alumnus Adam Moore (Spencer Thomas, who has 31, is currently fifth). Classmate Rome Wallace has 19 for his career, tying Trey Rogers for ninth. 

6th: Adam Moore (167) 7th: Junior Nate Lamb (127) *His 11 wins are tied for ninth *His 22 starts are tied for ninth  *And let's compare his opponent batting average of .241 to these: .278: McLain Harris, who has the most pitching appearances (103) and the most saves (25) .281: Michael Livingston, who has the career strikeout record (280)  8th: Donald Frew (115) 9th: Taylor Topping (114) 10th: Josh Rudnik (113) *The tenth-best mark for strikeouts has jumped from 105 to 113 

*Eleventh is Travis Donahoo with 140.1  12th: Drew Wilson (123) 13th: Junior Nate Lamb (120.2) 14th: James Mills/Oliver Pratt (107) 15th: Chad Brown (103.2) 

6th: Adam Moore (74) 7th: Senior Ethan Underwood /Tucker Greer (70) 8th: Zach Odom (67) 9th: Tom Valichka (63) 10th: Tyler Washington (62) 11th: Bret Hawkins/Zach Wall (54) 12th: Cole Jackson (53) 13th: Logan Worley (52) Updated spots if Underwood gets one more walk: Greer in 8th Odom in 9th Valichka in 10th Washington in 11th Hawkins and Wall tied for 12th Jackson in 13th Worley in 14th  *Senior Steven Spell , who now has eighty appearances for the varsity team after an unknown amount of games with the developmental team in 2019, has drawn 49 over those games. 

The current fifteenth-place mark is 143, which alumnus Tyler Washington set in 2019. Senior Ethan Underwood has 125, while classmate Rome Wallace has 124. 

The NCAA-era record is 178, set by David Atwood. The closest active player on the list is none other than senior Ethan Underwood , who extended his ninth-place total to 114 after two during Friday's doubleheader. Tucker Greer is eighth on the list with 120. 

The NCAA-era career record is 187, set by Jack Morrow and still standing a decade after the conclusion of his playing career. Senior Rome Wallace - who's now at 120 career games after Friday's doubleheader- is the only active player in the top fifteen, and his 102 runs batted in is currently eleventh on the list. Current assistant coach Dahlton Cash currently rounds out the top ten with 104. 

Women's Lacrosse: Gwenyth Gibbons tallied her 48th appearance, tying Breanna Farmer for sixteenth all-time. Ella Hancock's eight points gave her 117 for her career, moving her into the top ten. Kinsley Purser's opening draw control was the 100th of her career and she currently has 106, tying her with Aubrie Valvo for ninth all-time.  Softball: Kylie Ferguson tallied her thirty-seventh pitching appearance in the opener against West Georgia, moving past Sara King and into ninth in the program's NCAA-era history. Eighth on the list is Dharma Rosbrugh with 41 appearances. Her second strikeout of the game was also the eightieth of her career. 

7th: Tucker Greer (70) 8th: Senior Ethan Underwood (68) 9th: Zach Odom (67) 10th: Tom Valichka (63) 11th: Tyler Washington (62) 12th: Bret Hawkins/Zach Wall (54) 13th: Cole Jackson (53) 14th: Logan Worley (52) 

9th: Leigh Anne Turner (124) 10th: Junior Ella Hancock (117) 11th: Taylor Lincoln (116) 12th: Mary Deatrick (114) 13th: Sarah Bialecki (111) 14th: Maddie Peek (109) 

12th: Maddie Peek (78) 13th: Junior Ella Hancock (66) 14th: Kaylynn Roach (64) 15th: Katie McNutt (63)

Women's Tennis Junior Catarina Marcko Ferreira tallied her fiftieth competitive dual match against Oglethorpe, becoming just the seventh on the women's side to reach that milestone since 2015-16.  Men's Lacrosse Junior Jacob Haas , with eight ground balls against Florida Southern, has now tallied 146 in his career, extending his third-best mark on the men's side. He's also now fourth-best across both teams, trailing only alumni Rachel Lepine (168), Zac Barrett (194) and Zach Stephenson (327).  Baseball Senior Rome Wallace tallied his ninety-seventh RBI, moving him into twelfth all-time and surpassing Noah Fitzgerald. Alumnus Tucker Greer, with 99, is eleventh.  Classmate Ethan Underwood scored his 109th run, tying Zach Wall for ninth. 

One of the things I've been working on is an Individual Appearances Database which looks at every Mountain Lion sport since 2011. As part of that, I'm able to determine sport-by-sport career appearances records- Jill Torres, for instance, holds both the softball and overall record with 244 games, whereas Jackson Jones' 204 appearances is the current baseball record.  As part of the Individual Appearances Database, I've started a Top Five list for career games played in baseball- which has changed since I've looked at the 2011 roster (specifically with regards to the top three marks).  The new second-best mark belongs to David Atwood, who appeared 197 times between 2011 and 2014. He finished up with a career average of .317 while his 97 walks remains third-most in team history.  The current third-best mark is Jack Morrow's 193 appearances, also between 2011 and 2014. Even nearly a decade after his playing career finished up, he remains the team record-holder in d...

With 64 walks in his career, senior Ethan Underwood has moved past alumnus Tom Valichka, who tallied 63 free passes, and into ninth in the program's NCAA-era. The eight spot is held by Zach Odom, who last played in 2017 and recorded 70 walks in his 173-game career.  It's worth noting, as well, that Underwood has now started 100 games after Friday's contest against Georgia College.  

3rd: Jackson Jones (34) 4th: Zach Wall (29) 5th: Senior Rome Wallace (26) *Adam Moore, with 25 round-trippers, drops to sixth place

Sophomore Kylie Ferguson got the start and went just over five innings, tossing the only strikeout for Young Harris. This was her 35th appearance, tying Brittany Henry for tenth on the NCAA-era all-time list. Sara King, with 36, is ninth on the list.  Senior Jill Dixon was the second pitcher, facing four batters and yielding a hit in her 63rd appearance, extending her sixth-best mark.  Junior Shea Bayreuther 's RBI in the seventh inning was the fortieth of her career.  Freshman Gracie Hughes had an impressive outing with a 2-for-4 statline at the plate. This included a homer, a double, four RBI and plating two runs herself.  Junior Amber Divine 's lone hit was a double.  Three people tallied three hits each to tie for team- and game-high honors: freshman Bailee Brown , sophomore Aubrey Bourrie and junior Hannah Carey (GC's Madison Todd also collected three hits). 

5th: Louisa Disi (37) 6th: Senior Jill Dixon (36) 7th: Sophomore Kylie Ferguson (32) 8th: Sam Davis (31) 9th: Dharma Rosbrugh (23) 

11th: Sarah King (104) 12th: Haylie Shope (83) 13th: Sophomore Kylie Ferguson (76) 14th: Kennedy Kotula (59) 15th: Lisa Wilson (50) 

Softball 1. Sophomore Kylie Ferguson picked up the complete-game win in the opener, her fourth of the season and thirteenth of her career. It was also her thirty-fourth pitching appearance, tying Haylie Shope for eleventh. She needs just two to move into the NCAA-era top ten.  Women's Lacrosse 1. Junior Ella Hancock tallied her sixtieth career goal. She now has 61 with her two-goal outing and her lone assist was her forty-eighth, extending her sixth-best mark. In terms of career goals, Katie McNutt is fourteenth with 63 and Kaylynn Roach is thirteenth with 64. Her 109 points is currently tied with Maddie Peek for thirteenth-most.  2. Classmate Gwenyth Gibbons appeared in her forty-seventh game, tying Taylor Lincoln for seventeenth. Sixteenth on the list is Breanna Farmer with 48 appearances. 

1. Jackson Jones (204) He's one of just six Mountain Lions since 2011 with at least 200 appearances.  2. Logan Worley (182) 3. Zach Odom (173) 4. Tyler Washington/Zach Wall (157) 5. Brett Westmoreland (146) *Senior Ethan Underwood has appeared 142 times, which is sixth on the list. 

Junior midfielder Ella Hancock , with just 38 games under her belt, is moving rapidly up the scoring charts in 2023.  Her 59 career goals is fifteenth best.  Her 47 career assists extends her sixth-best mark (fifth all-time is Hayley Bartlett with 55). This means that she has 106 points in her career, which is fourteenth all-time and leaves her four shy of moving past Maddie Peek into thirteenth (Peek finished her 69-game career with 109 points on 78 goals and 31 assists). 

With junior Gwenyth Gibbons one game back of tying Lincoln for seventeenth-most games played in program history, let's look back at Lincoln's three-season career.  *She started all fifteen appearances in the inaugural 2013 season, also appearing in the 2015 and 2016 seasons. *Finished her career having started 82% of her appearances (39-of-47).  *She appeared in all eighteen games in 2016 and missed just four games in three seasons.  *Her 99 goals remains the seventh-best mark in team history, and she's also in the top ten for career draw controls (seventh with 117). *Finished her career with just under 2.5 points per game, as she added 17 assists to finish with 116 points.  *Scored on 65% of her shots on goal and 51% of her shots. 

Junior midfielder Ella Hancock tallied two goals in the contest, extending her fifteenth-place mark for career goals as she now has 59. Fourteenth on the list is alumnus Katie McNutt with 63 goals. Classmate and fellow midfielder Kinsley Purser , meanwhile, tallied her 54th.  Hancock and Purser combined for eleven draw controls during the game, with Ella's six extending her third-best mark to 171 and Kinsley taking home five. With five draws, Kinsley now stands at 97 for her career, seven shy of moving into the top ten.  Classmate defender Gwenyth Gibbons appeared in her 46th game for the team, extending her eighteenth-best career total. Alumni Taylor Lincoln (47 games) and Breanna Farmer (48) are ahead of her in seventeenth and sixteenth, respectively.  Junior goalie Maddy Meyers was credited with her second win of the season and tenth of her career. She needs three to move into third place all-time (Sarah Nudelman won 12 games over her career). 

*Note: this is only covering the NCAA-era at Young Harris. Senior Jill Dixon and sophomore Kylie Ferguson were the two pitchers in the Sunday game against Flagler (Mar. 5). Kylie was the opening pitcher and collected her 33rd appearance and thirtieth career start in the circle.  *Ferguson extends her eighth-best mark with start number thirty; meanwhile, Dixon's 36 career starts are sixth-best, with only Louisa Disi, Katie-Jo Gentry, Nikkie Kovalsky, Jeanie Perrucci and Darby Stanford ahead of her.  Dixon was the second of two pitchers in what was her 63rd pitching appearance, extending her fifth-best mark. Fourth on the list is Katie-Jo Gentry with 75.  Jill Dixon picked up her second win of the season and twentieth of her career, moving past Rosbrugh and into fifth all-time in that category. Only Rosbrugh (fourth with 22), Perrucci (32), Kovalsky (54) and Stanford (65) have more.  Jill is also within striking distance of fifth on the innings pitched list. She curr...

Men's Tennis: Junior Eric DelValle competed in both dual matches against Belmont Abbey, with the second match being his fortieth competitive dual match appearance. Women's Basketball: Junior Mackenzie Johnson set a record for most points in a season after 32 in the Peach Belt final against Georgia Southwestern gave her 525 points in 2022-23. This is the first 500-point season in program history and it demolishes the previous record of 498 set in 2013.   Baseball: Senior Rome Wallace 's third run scored in the first game of the day against Georgia College was the ninetieth of his career. Classmate Ethan Underwood 's run scored in the second game was the 108th of his 141-game career, putting him into a tie for tenth with alumnus Nick Sexton.   Women's Tennis: After missing four matches, sophomore Yureni Gomez returned against Belmont Abbey in what was her third appearance of the spring season and picked up her first dual singles win of 2023.  Women's Lacrosse: ...

*Appeared in 51 games with 45 starts, including starting all twenty-nine games in 2022-23, in addition to an undisclosed amount on the developmental team.  *Finished up a two-season varsity career as an 81% free-throw shooter, missing just 37 times in 196 attempts. His 159 free throws is ninth-best in the NCAA-era varsity ranks and his percentage- had he gotten four more attempts- would be second-best in that same span, trailing only the 87% of CJ Wilson.  *His 172 assists are seventh-best in the NCAA-era varsity ranks, meaning he jumped six spots from the beginning of the season.  *And his 679 points means he moves from outside the top fifteen to fourteenth in team NCAA-era history.  

Although Wednesday's match against Erskine was a 6-1 loss, there was a milestone reached by sophomores Louise Ratiu , Meghna Mallath and Joselyne Chapui . All three of them tallied their thirtieth competitive dual match appearance, extending their three-way tie for eighth-most since 2015-16. Zoe Freke holds the seventh spot with 33. 

1st: Ladondra Johnson (1,598) 2nd: Junior Mackenzie Johnson (1,013) 3rd: Lauren Smith (1,004) 4th: Briana Bell (885) 5th: Senior Carly Winters (849) 6th: Peyton Robertson (846) 7th: Niaya White (814) 8th: Meredith Tarver (787) 9th: Shereese Williams (667) 10th: Keta Robinette (654) 11th: Breanna Gleeson (587) 12th: Junior Kalen Surles (579) 13th: Jenny Vernet (559) 14th: Kaycee Cash (555) 15th: Sarah Woghiren (553)  How'd it look at the beginning of the season? *Carly Winters was seventh on the list while Mackenzie Johnson was fourteenth and Sara Jorgensen was fifteenth *Kalen Surles wasn't on the list at the beginning of the season as she had 356 points Who's now off the list? Sara Jorgensen, who started 59-of-81 games and scored 451 points in a three-season career from 2015 to 2018. Her 200 assists remains the third-best career total in team history.  

For the first time in program history, the women's basketball team will compete for the Peach Belt title and can win not only the first conference title in team history but the first women's Peach Belt title in Mountain Lion history (the previous titles were won by baseball and men's soccer) and first women's tournament title in any sport since the women's lacrosse three-peat in Gulf South tournament action from 2016 to 2018. Junior PBC Player of the Year Mackenzie Johnson continued her impressive scoring season with 27 points. This not only gave her 1,013 points for her career (now second-most on the women's side and fifth-most between both teams since 2011), but it also puts her within striking distance of the women's single-season scoring record, currently held by Ladondra Johnson with a 498-point season in 2013. Mackenzie has scored 493 points so far this year and needs just six to set the record.  She set the career rebounds record earlier this season ...

Senior Jill Dixon tallied her sixtieth appearance in the circle for the softball team, one shy of tying current assistant Sam Davis for fifth-most in the program's NCAA-era history.  Meanwhile, classmate Carly Winters tallied her eightieth appearance for the basketball team as the six-seeded Mountain Lions upset third-seeded South Carolina-Aiken for their first PBC tournament victory.  The game also saw junior and PBC Player of the Year Mackenzie Johnson tie alumnus Ladondra Johnson for ninth in team history with her 91st appearance, meaning she can set a new ninth-best mark in the program record books with the conference semifinal.  With what records will Johnson end her career? Third-most points in a career (986 and counting) Second-most points in a season (466 and counting) Career rebounds record Second-most blocks in a career 

Sophomores Pieke Bouman and Chimo Minguez Ribera both logged their twenty-fifth competitive dual match (against Reinhardt).  In terms of most competitive dual matches since 2015-16, junior Eric DelValle is seventh with thirty-eight, classmate Rodrigo Mendoza is ninth with 36 and fellow junior Janis Auslands is tenth with 26.  Who's one spot past DelValle? There is a three-way tie for sixth on the list- alumni Mateo Besada, Jan-Niklas Graetz and Herman Ronnberg with 41 competitive dual matches apiece.