Wofford travels to Greenville, S.C. for the Southern Conference Baseball Championship Presented by Holston Gases hosted at Fluor Field, home of the Greenville Drive. The Terriers enter the tournament fresh off a road sweep of The Citadel to enter at 37-17 overall and 12-9 in SoCon action, good for the No. 3 seed in the event. Wofford claimed a one-day bye into the double-elimination portion of the tournament, playing its first game on Thursday, May 25 at 12:30 p.m. That game time has changed from its originally scheduled time of 7:00 p.m. due to forecasted weather for the weekend in Greenville. The Terriers will match-up against No. 6 UNCG. The Spartans enter at 23-32 (9-12 SoCon) after losing two-of-three to close the regular season at ETSU and walking-off No. 7 Western Carolina 4-3 in Wednesday's play-in game. The squads have met 84 times with UNCG holding the all-time lead 53-31. In the regular season, Wofford dropped two-of-three in Greensboro, which was Wofford's only road series loss of the season. This marks the second consecutive season in which Wofford's first game of the SoCon Tournament is against UNCG.

QUICK HITS
• Wofford won four-straight series to open SoCon play before dropping two in a row, but the Terriers bounced back to end the league slate with a road sweep at The Citadel.
• The Terriers top the country in a pair of statistical categories: sacrifice bunts (79) and walks allowed per nine innings (2.28)
• Wofford owns one of the best offenses in the nation, ranking 14th in average (.316), 10h in OBP (.423), 14th in scoring (8.6) and 26th in hits (569).
• D1Baseball named its top 50 players by position in the nation, with Ryan Galanie (sixth, first base) and Cameron Gill (23rd, catcher) being ranked.
• Ryan Galanie leads the SoCon in two of the three triple crown categories, pacing the league in average (.408) and RBI (64) while sitting seventh in homers (16), five behind Samford's John Anderson with 21.
• Jack Renwick is the best bunter in the nation, topping Division I with 25 sacrifices laid down to pace Wofford's national-best 79 sac-bunts. Renwick is already Wofford's career leader in bunts and has set the single-season mark for both Wofford and the SoCon.
• The Terrier pitching staff as a whole has been pinpoint, giving up only 121 walks this season. At a rate of 2.28 per nine innings, this is the lowest mark in the NCAA.
• Wofford was picked as the SoCon's preseason favorite in both the coaches and media polls, but the Terriers finished third.
• Ryan Galanie was named SoCon Player of the Year as a consensus selection, the third Terrier in a row to claim the honor.
• Ryan Galanie and Lucas Mahlstedt were named to the All-SoCon First Team; Matthew Marchal, Coulson Buchanan, Cameron Gill and Dixon Black to the second team; Zac Cowan, Branton Little and Charlie Weber to the all-freshman team.
• The Terriers secured back-to-back SoCon regular season titles for the first time in program history (2021-22).
•  With 143 steals, Wofford has stolen 100 or more bases in now 10-straight full seasons dating back to 2013, the longest active streak in Division I.

THE OPPONENT - No. 6 UNCG SPARTANS

• UNCG advanced out of the single-elimination portion of the tournament with a walk-off win over No. 7 Western Carolina Wednesday night in the bottom of the ninth.
• Kennedy Jones was named a consensus All-SoCon First-Team selection alongside Luke Thomas and Julien Peissel garnering SoCon All-Freshman Team honors.
• UNCG is leading the conference in double plays (55) and double plays per game (1.02).
• Nationally, the Spartans are second in double plays per game, third in double plays, and 84th in stolen bases (71).
• On the mound, 10 different Spartans have at least one win with Jake Wolf leading the way with a 4-2 record and one save in 67.0 innings pitched. 
• Kennedy Jones and Dosi Jonas tie for the team lead in homers with 14 each.

WHAT AN HONOR
A pair of Terriers were named semifinalists for national awards. Sophomore right-hander Lucas Mahlstedt was tabbed a semifinalist for College Baseball Foundation's National Pitcher of the Year Award, the first Terrier to ever earn the distinction. Ryan Galanie then became just the second Terrier ever (Mac Doyle, 2010) to be named a semifinalist for the Dick Howser Trophy. The accolades did not stop there, as Tuesday saw the announcement of the Southern Conference postseason awards and all-conference teams, with nine Terriers winning big. Galanie led the way as the SoCon Player of the Year, marking a third-straight season with a Terrier winning player of the year in at least one of the polls (Colin Davis, 2021; Lawson Hill, 2022). Mahlstedt joined Galanie as a first-team honoree. Four Terriers earned second-team recognition: Coulson Buchanan, Matthew Marchal, Cameron Gill and Dixon Black. Wofford led the league with three all-freshman selections: Zac Cowan, Branton Little and Charlie Weber.

SMALL BALL
The Terriers use a combination of stolen bases and sacrifice bunts to advance on the basepaths. Wofford has dropped down 79 sac-bunts, tops in the nation. Wofford also features the best bunter in the country, as Jack Renwick's 25 sac-bunts lead the NCAA, 12 ahead of the next closest players, three tied with 13 each. Brice Martinez is eighth nationally with 11, second in the SoCon. Three other Terriers rank top 10 in the SoCon, as Marshall Toole is third in the league with nine bunts. Trey Yunger has seven sacrifices, seventh in the league, and Connor Larson owns six to rank ninth. With 143 steals, the Terriers are second in the SoCon and fifth nationally. Wofford's 2.65 steals per game check in at fifth in the country. With 25 steals, Trey Yunger ranks fifth in the SoCon. Marshall Toole is not far behind with 23 steals in seventh, and Ryan Galanie owns 18 steals for eighth place. The Terriers have secured a 10th consecutive full season with 100 or more steals. 

THE JACK ATTACK
Nobody has embodied the Wofford small ball philosophy quite like Jack Renwick. His 25 sacrifice bunts this season top the nation by a mile, 12 more than the next-closest players. As a junior, he is already Wofford's career leader in sacrifice hits with 41 and counting. The previous mark was 29, originally set by Alex Lee (2008-11). Renwick's career total is good enough to rank sixth all-time in Southern Conference history, and he is one shy of matching fifth place - Georgia Southern's Ben Morgan with 42. His 25 sacrifices this season are a new single-season program record, topping the prior mark set in 2013 by Alex Paradowski. With two sacrifices against Mercer on May 12, Renwick set another record by topping the SoCon's single-season mark for sacrifice hits. He bested the previous high of 22 set in 2017 by Mercer's Jackson Ware. He is now aiming for the NCAA single-season mark, nine away from matching the record of 34 set in 2007 UC Irvine's Ben Orloff. With 79 career stolen bases, Renwick is six off of the Wofford career record of 85, set by Brett Rodriguez (2017-20).

GRAND MARCHAL
RHP Matthew Marchal was tabbed First-Team All-SoCon at the conclusion of the 2022 season. The senior ace entered 2023 as a Preseason All-American (second team, Collegiate Baseball) and as the SoCon Preseason Pitcher of the Year. In 2023, he owns a 10-3 record with a 5.13 ERA over 17 starts and one relief outing. That lone relief appearance saw him notch a save at Georgia Tech. Marchal boasts 75 punchouts in 79.0 innings. With a K/BB ratio of 4.17, he leads the league. Marchal's 10 wins lead the SoCon and are two off of the national lead. Toeing the rubber frequently, Marchal's 17 starts are tied with three others for most in the nation, including teammate Coulson Buchanan. His walks per nine clip of 2.05 sits third in the league. Marchal was tabbed Second-Team All SoCon by the league's coaches.

RECORD WATCH
A few Terriers have either broken program records already this season or are on the cusp of doing so. Jack Renwick is already the program's career record holder for sacrifice hits with 41, and his 25 this season have set both the program's and SoCon's single-season records. Ryan Galanie owns 86 hits this season, which are three shy of the program's single-season record of 89, set three times prior. With 64 RBI, he is 11 off of Mac Doyle's record of 75 set in 2010. Matthew Marchal touts 10 wins this season, which is one shy of the program's record of 11, set four times prior, most recently in 2007 by Ben Austin. With six triples, David Wiley needs just one more to match Mac Doyle's mark of seven from 2011.

WOFFORD IN THE SOCON TOURNAMENT
Wofford enters the 2023 Southern Conference Championship presented by Holston Gases as the No. 3 seed, earning a one-day bye to day two of the tournament. This is the second-straight season that the Terriers and Spartans have met in Wofford's opening contest of the SoCon Tournament. The teams met three times in last year's tournament, with Wofford claiming that opener 6-3 before UNCG bounced back to down Wofford twice on championship Sunday to claim the title. The Terriers are 2-6 all-time against the Spartans in the SoCon Tournament. Should Wofford win, it will face No. 2 Mercer in a winners' bracket match-up later in the night at 7:30 p.m. A loss would send the Terriers to the losers' bracket for a 9:00 a.m. elimination contest on Friday, May 26. That game would be against the loser of game five, which would be one of No. 1 Samford, No. 4 ETSU or No. 8 The Citadel. The Terriers are 18-23 all-time in the SoCon Tournament and are 7-12 since the event moved to Fluor Field in Greenville in 2016. Wofford has only won the tournament once, a Cinderella run in 2007 as the No. 9 seed. Thirteen different Terriers all-time have earned SoCon All-Tournament Team honors, with a pair claiming them last season: Matthew Marchal and Brennen Dorighi. Marchal returns to the squad for this season's tournament run.