Corrick tossed her 32nd career shutout, setting a new AAC record
ORLANDO, Fla. May 7, 2021 – The University of South Florida softball team earned a 2-0 shutout victory over UCF to take game one of the War On I-4 on Friday night. A pair of runs in the third inning was all the Bulls needed to take the weekend opener.
Georgina Corrick (Sanford, Fla.), in earning her 21st win of the season, tossed her 32nd career shutout, breaking the American Athletic Conference record set by Tulsa’s Emily Watson in 2018. Her 13 shutouts this season are a career-high and are tied for third on USF’s single-season list with Jennifer Thompson (1996).
USF, while threatening with two runners in scoring position in the first inning, didn’t break through until the third. Alexis Johns (Sarasota, Fla.) and AnaMarie Bruni (Schwenksville, Pa.) reached to begin the inning and were advanced into scoring position on a sacrifice bunt from Kyndall Williams (Trenton, Fla.). A sacrifice fly from Bethaney Keen (Bradenton, Fla.) scored Johns, and Bruni scored on the next at bat as Josie Foreman (West Palm Beach, Fla.) singled to third.
Corrick sat the Knights down in order in the third, fourth and fifth innings to keep UCF off the board. UCF challenged in the sixth, loading the bases with only one out. However, Corrick struck out the next batter and forced a ground out to defuse the threat. The junior followed it up in the seventh with another shutdown inning, improving her record to 21-5 this season.
Quotable
Head coach Ken Eriksen on today’s win…
“Our defense did its job tonight, keeping the other team off the board. We had some really good leadoff at bats from Lexie Johns and some good moving stuff from Bruni and Williams tonight. You have to give a lot of credit to the top of the lineup for creating runs. Let’s hope we come back out tomorrow and do the same thing.”
Notables
- Corrick’s 32 shutouts rank third on USF’s all-time list, only five behind Monica Triner’s 37 from 1996-1999. She also only needs two more shutouts to tie USF’s single-season record of 15, set by Leigh Ann Ellis in 2004.
- Williams stole her first base of the season in the first inning.
- USF needs to win two of the remaining three games to earn its third consecutive American Athletic Conference regular season title.
- AnaMarie Bruni needs only one stolen base to set a new program single-season record. She’s currently tied with Shelly Riker, who swiped 33 bases in 2002.
Up Next
The War On I-4 continues tomorrow with a doubleheader in Orlando. Game one is scheduled for a 2 p.m. first pitch.
About USF Softball
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