The blend point is underway between winter and spring sports at Presbyterian College.

Basketball and wrestling wind down as tennis, lacrosse, softball, etc., begin their seasons.

St. Peter’s University of Jersey City, N.J., visits Elton Pollock Field for a three-game, season-opening baseball series on Friday. The Blue Hose and Peacocks play on 4 p.m. Friday, 1 p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday.

Presbyterian stopped a four-game skid with a 57-50 women’s basketball victory over Radford on Saturday, and the Blue Hose attempt a continued regroup with a Wednesday-evening game at Templeton Center versus UNC Asheville.

PC won the earlier Big South contest against the Bulldogs, winning, 55-46, in Asheville on Jan. 6.

Presbyterian (13-13, 4-7 BSC) averages three players – Bryanna Brady, Mara Neira and Tilda Sjokvist – between 12 and 13 points a game.

UNC Asheville (9-15, 3-8) has split the previous 34 games against the Blue Hose. McKinley Brooks-Sumpter leads the Bulldogs at 13.7 points a game.

Tipoff is at 6:30 p.m.

In most instances, when the women’s basketball team is at home, the men are on the road, where the odds are often longer, this one in particular.

UNC Asheville (17-9, 9-2) has the Big South’s leading scorer in Drew Pember, who dropped 48 on the Blue Hose the last time they visited Asheville in the 2022-23 season. Pember normally scores about 21.

UNCA won the first meeting this season, 84-80, in Clinton on Jan. 6. Marquis Barnett scored 22 points to lead Presbyterian (12-14, 4-7). The Blue Hose lead the Big South in field-goal shooting at .478.

Tipoff is also 6:30 p.m. at Asheville’s Kimmel Arena.

Men’s wrestling faces its last two home tests over the next few days.

Presbyterian (3-11, 0-4 SoCon) takes on Appalachian State (6-3, 3-1) on Thursday, followed by Campbell (11-3, 5-0) on Sunday. Both matches begin at 1 p.m., though the ASU match is at Christian Life Center and Campbell wrestles the Blue Hose at Templeton Center.

PC has never beaten either school in wrestling.

Kasey Wolfe of PC is Big South Freshman of the Week in softball.

Batting .583 (7/12) along with a team-high five RBI during the season-starting Blue Hose Invitational over the weekend, Wolfe, from Spartanburg, was responsible for at least one score – either batting or running – in three of the team’s four games.

Emma Claire Mills is Big South Freshman of the Week in lacrosse. She scored twice in her first college game against Stetson, a 20-7 setback.

Wolfe is from Milton, Ga.

The past two weeks I’ve been suffering from shingles, which have curtailed my live coverage. On Tuesday night, I covered a game for the first time in a while. Even while laid up, though, at least one piece has been posted here for 33 straight days.

I still don’t feel so hot. I’m not sure whether or not I’m going out tonight, how far I’m going, or whether I’m going.

A coach would probably list me as questionable. It may be a game-time decision.

Shingles has also knocked me off my financial rocker. I’m strapped for cash.

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