THE FLATS – Georgia Tech softball (15-8, 3-0 ACC) dropped its midweek home contest against Troy (13-6, 0-0 SBC), 6-2, on Tuesday night.
QUICK HITS
- Sydnie Watts made her sixth start of the season, 9th appearance of the season, on Tuesday night and struck out four batters across 2.0 innings pitched.
- Kenley Hilleary made her 10th appearance of the season, eighth relief appearance of the season and struck out one batter in her 1.0 innings pitched.
- Madalyn Johnson relieved Hilleary, making her 14th appearance of the season. Her fourth relief appearance of the season featured four strikeouts across 4.0 innings of work.
- Reese Hunter and Gracie King were responsible for Tech’s two runs on Tuesday bringing Hunter to 15 runs and King to six runs this season.
- Both Hunter and King also had a piece in Tech’s eight-hit performance against Troy with Hunter leading the team with two hits alongside Emma Simon who recorded two hits. King was one of four Yellow Jackets to record a hit on Tuesday with the other three hits coming from Gracyn Tucker, Holly Medina, and Madi Duffel.
- Hunter’s two hits against the Trojans marked her ninth game of the season recording multiple hits. The catcher sits one multi-hit performance behind Alyssa Willer who leads the team in multi-hit games (10).
- Tuesday also saw Hunter record a season high 10 putouts along with her first career triple.
- Tucker’s one hit keeps her 11-game hitting streak alive, which is the longest hitting streak of any Yellow Jackets so far this season.
- Medina’s one hit extends her safely reached streak to 14 games, setting a new longest reached streak for this season as she surpassed Willer’s 13-game safely reached streak set earlier this season.
- Tuesday’s loss was Tech’s first home loss of the season to an unranked team.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Tech scored first in the midweek contest after Willer was hit by pitch with the bases loaded, causing all runners to advance including Vukadinovich home from third.
- Troy was able to stack six runs on six hits along with one Tech error to force the Yellow Jackets to trail in the third inning. The Trojans saw their first two runs cross off a Tech throwing error. A pair of doubles added a combined three runs to the board while a triple sent in Troy’s final run of the game.
- Hunter scored Tech’s final run of the game after advancing home from third on Gracie King’s ground out.
UP NEXT
The Yellow Jackets will take to the road for their first conference road test of the season against Clemson March 6-8.
Purchasing 2026 Tickets
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2026 Softball Group Experiences and Video Board Messages!
Georgia Tech Softball is also offering special experiences for the 2026 softball season, including group postgame photos and special videoboard messages! Click the links below to purchase your experience today!
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On field Anthem Buddies experiences, for groups of 10-15 kids, ages 8-14, are also available for the 2026 season! To learn more, email gtmarketing@athletics.gatech.edu!
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Full Steam Ahead
Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to achieve Georgia Tech athletics’ goal of competing for championships at the highest level in the next era of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative projects for Tech athletics, including renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic home of Georgia Tech football), the Zelnak Basketball Center (the practice and training facility for Tech basketball) and O’Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable home of Yellow Jackets volleyball), as well as additional projects and initiatives to further advance Georgia Tech athletics through program wide-operational support. All members of the Georgia Tech community are invited to visit atfund.org/FullSteamAhead for full details and renderings of the renovation projects, as well as to learn about opportunities to contribute online.
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