NC State Wolfpack

Oct. 11, 2012

2013 NC State softball schedule

RALEIGH, N.C. – The NC State softball team will conclude its fall schedule with five games this weekend in the Ray Chandler Memorial Fall Softball Tournament at the Walnut Creek Softball Complex.

Admission is free for all spectators.

The Wolfpack will play three games on Saturday, beginning with a 9:30 p.m. contest against UNC Greensboro, followed by a 2:30 p.m. contest against North Carolina and a 5 p.m. game against Methodist.

On Sunday, the Pack will play two more contests, against Elon at 10 a.m. and UNC Pembroke at 12:30 p.m.

“This will be a good opportunity for us to get some games under our belts after all our individual workouts and team practices,” said first-year head coach Shawn Rychcik, who was hired in July as the Wolfpack’s head coach after eight successful seasons at Boston University. “We have been working on installing new things that we want to do next season.”

The Wolfpack was 23-31 overall and 5-16 in the ACC during the 2012 season.

Rychcik and his team have been conducting fall workouts since early September, including an exhibition doubleheader sweep of Longwood on Sept. 23. State won the first game, 5-0, and the second, 8-2.

Following the weekend tournament, the Wolfpack will continue with limited two-hour-per-week workouts. After a break for exams and the holidays, the team will begin practice in earnest for the spring on Jan. 7.

The Wolfpack returns senior outfielder Bethaney Wells, who had 11 homers and was fourth in the ACC with a .567 slugging percentage last season, and 2012 ACC Freshman of the Year Renada Davis, a shortstop who set school records for batting average and on-base percentage in her inaugural collegiate campaign.

The Wolfpack opens the 2013 season against Georgetown on Feb. 8 at the FIU Panther Invitational, a three-day, four-team tournament in Miami.

Ray Chandler Memorial Softball Tournament schedule of games
Saturday

                  9:30 a.m.                 NC State vs. UNC Greensboro (Field 1)
                                                      North Carolina vs. Peace (Field 2)
                                                      Elon vs. Methodist (Field 3)
                  Noon                          UNC Greensboro vs. UNC Pembroke (Field 1)
                  2:30 p.m.                 Methodist vs. Peace (Field 1)
                                                      North Carolina vs. NC State (Field 2)
                                                      Elon vs. UNC Pembroke (Field 3)
                  5 p.m.                       Methodist vs. NC State (Field 2)
                                                      UNC Pembroke vs. Peace (Field 3)

 Sunday

                  10 a.m.                     Elon vs. NC State (Field 1)
                 12:30 p.m.              UNC Pembroke vs. NC State (Field 1)
                                                      Lenoir-Rhyne vs. North Carolina (Field 2)
                  3 p.m.                       Lenoir-Rhyne vs. UNC Pembroke (Field 1)
                                                      North Carolina vs. Elon (Field 2)

Directions to Walnut Creek
From NC State
Take I-40 East
Take the Poole Road exit, EXIT 15
Turn Left onto Poole Road
Turn Left onto Birch Ridge Drive and follow road into the Walnut Creek Softball Complex

 
From the East of Raleigh
Take I-40 West toward Benson/Raleigh
Merge Right onto I-440 E via EXIT 301
Take the Poole Road Exit, EXIT 15
Turn Left onto Poole Road
Turn Left onto Birch Ridge Drive and follow road into the Walnut Creek Softball Complex