Erin Poepping

Position:
RHP
Height:
5-5
Class:
Freshman
High School:
Totino-Grace
Hometown:
Lino Lakes, Minn.
Major:
Special Education

2020 (Junior): Appeared in 10 games in the circle with seven starts before the campaign was cut short due to the COVID-19 global pandemic … Compiled a 3-4 record and a team-best 2.29 earned run average in 33.2 innings pitched … Tallied 28 strikeouts against 11 walks while opposing batters hit .273 against her … Tossed two complete games … Picked up her first win of the season against Campbell (Feb. 7), tossing three scoreless innings while giving up just one hit and striking out three batters in East Carolina’s 12-0 five-inning victory … Notched a season-high eight strikeouts versus Virginia Tech (Feb. 8) … Collected five strikeouts in just two scoreless innings, securing the save in a 4-3 win over Fairfield (Feb. 28) at the Liberty Spring Classic … Allowed just one earned run and struck out four in a complete-game victory over Hofstra (March 1) … Struck out four batters in just two innings at then No. 25 Fresno State.

2019 (Sophomore): Made 45 appearances (tied for 10th most in a single season in program history) with 33 starts … Led East Carolina in earned run average (3.35), wins (15), complete games (19), shutouts (2), strikeouts (164) and innings pitched (215.1) … Ranked first among American Athletic Conference pitchers in appearances and games started, second in innings pitched, third in strikeouts and strikeouts looking and fourth in wins … Named the AAC Pitcher of the Week Feb. 11 … Tabbed to the AAC Weekly Honor Roll Feb. 18 … Racked up double-digit strikeouts in four games … Won her first six decisions of the campaign … Started off her campaign by allowing one unearned run and striking out five batters in East Carolina’s 9-1 run-rule victory over Miami of Ohio (Feb. 8) … Struck out seven in a 3-1 road win at USC Upstate (Feb. 10) … Fanned 10 hitters in a 7-5 win over Saint Francis (Feb. 16) … Tallied eight strikeouts in a seven-inning effort versus Boston College (Feb. 23) … Notched a season-high 12 strikeouts at George Mason (March 16) … Surrendered just three hits and struck out eight in twirling a complete-game shutout versus Cornell (March 17) … Racked up 11 strikeouts in the Pirates’ 5-4 eight-inning triumph at Memphis in the AAC opener … Registered 10 strikeouts in a 3-2 victory at Wichita State (April 19) … Went the distance in the American Athletic Conference Softball Championship quarterfinals against No. 2 seed Tulsa, striking out six and limiting the Golden Hurricane to three earned runs in eight innings as ECU knocked off the three-time defending tournament champions by a 4-3 margin.

2018 (Freshman): Made 42 appearances and started 31 games ... Paced the Pirates in earned run average (3.26), wins (13), complete games (9) and strikeouts (95) ... Named to the American Athletic Conference All-Rookie Team ... Ranked seventh in the league in wins and looking strikeouts (35) as well as eighth in innings pitched (165.1) and strikeouts ... Tossed a complete-game shutout in her collegiate debut, scattering six hits with no walks and two strikeouts in a 4-0 season-opening victory over St. John’s ... Twirled her second complete game shutout of the campaign in a 5-0 victory over Wichita State (April 28), recording five strikeouts with no walks while scattering three hits ... Tallied a season-high eight strikeouts against Arkansas-Pine Bluff (March 9) ... Excelled in her final nine appearances of the season, compiling a 4-4 record, 2.22 earned run average, four complete games, a solo shutout and 24 strikeouts in 47.1 innings pitched.

High School: Tabbed the No. 138 overall player in the nation by Flosoftball.com … Posted a 14-1 record, 1.18 earned run average and 101 strikeouts over 101 innings pitched during the regular season of her senior campaign … Notched a 4-0 record, 0.56 ERA and 26 strikeouts during the 2017 sectional playoffs … Tallied 97 strikeouts in 72.2 innings of work to go along with a 2.22 earned run average and a .462 batting average as a junior on her way to team MVP and all-conference honors … Racked up double-digit strikeouts in seven games her junior campaign … Produced a 0.17 ERA in the 2016 sectional playoffs … Played club softball for the Lady Lightning Gold Midwest under head coach Michelle Harrison.