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AS A FRESHMAN (2018): Saw action in 27 games from the circle, including 16 starts … Posted a 10-6 record and a 3.96 ERA in 100-2/3 innings pitched with 39 strikeouts and 32 walks … Also registered eight complete games and four shutouts … Held opponents to a .294 batting average … Picked up first collegiate victory in game two with Catawba, surrendering just four hits and striking out five as part of a complete game … Outing against Indians was first of four-straight appearances (21.0 IP) in which she did not allow a run … Struck out a season-best six batters and earned the victory at Elizabeth City State with 3-2/3 innings of work … Scattered four hits and did not allow a run over a complete game shutout in game two at USC Aiken.
 
HIGH SCHOOL: Prepped at Hickory Ridge High School for coach Patrick Helm … Earned all-conference honors following each of her last two prep seasons … Turned in a 12-2 record and a 1.50 ERA with 64 strikeouts in 79-1/3 innings of work as a senior … Also tallied a pair of shutouts and one no-hitter in nine starts (14 appearances) … Held opponents to a .215 batting average … Also hit .294 with four extra-base hits (2 HR) 12 RBI and two runs scored … Went 8-5 from the circle as a junior with a 3.76 ERA and 51 strikeouts in 67 innings of work … Also collected one shutout and a no-hitter.
 
PERSONAL: The daughter of Brenda and Todd Yelton … Has two brothers, Talon and Samuel … Maintained a 3.7 cumulative grade point average at Hickory Ridge High School and graduated in the top half of her 416-member senior class … Names her mother and Bethany Hamilton as her idols … Favorite movie is Soul Surfer and her favorite sports teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the Texas Rangers … Favorite foods are baked ziti and dessert of any kind … A psychology major at UNCP.
 

CAREER HIGHS AT UNCP (Updated: 5/6/19)
Pitches Thrown	104 vs. Limestone (2/17/18)
Inning Pitched	7.0, five times - last at USC Aiken (4/29/18)
Strikeouts	6 at Elizabeth City State (3/3/18)