When Will Ethridge toed the rubber in his first career college start on Tuesday, he wanted to leave the mound on his own terms. Aside from a rising pitch count that spiked to 81 in the fifth inning, he did just that while striking out 10 and chalking up his first win in a 16-4 rout of Arkansas State.
“Coach B told me yesterday to go out there and pitch how we pitched during the fall and the spring, and that we had worked hard for it,” Ethidge said. “I just wanted to come out on my own terms there.