Marshall University Athletics
2018 Softball Roster
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Tolbert, Abigail
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Jersey Number 00
Abigail Tolbert
- Height:
- 5-8
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Cabell Midland High School
- Hometown:
- Barboursville, W.Va.
Bio
2019 (Senior)
2019 Conference USA Spirit of Service Award
2019 All-Conference USA Second Team
2019 Conference USA All-Tournament Team
2019 NISC Lynchburg Regional All-Tournament Team
2019 NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete: GPA 3.50 or better
2019 Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll: GPA 3.00 or better
2019 Top 10 NCAA Shutouts (T8th – 11)
GP/GS: 49/42 … Made another major jump forward to become the main arm in the circle for the Herd during senior season and put her name all throughout the Marshall softball record book … Led the team with career-highs in wins (28), ERA (2.64), appearances (49), games started (42), complete games (28), shutouts (11), innings pitched (255.0), strikeouts (187) and batting average against (.220) … Had some of the best single season numbers in team history with 42 starts (2nd), 11 shutouts (2nd), 49 appearances (T4th), 28 wins (4th), 28 complete games (6th), 255 innings pitched (7th) …Her 28 victories was tied for 11th-most in the country and 11 shutouts tied for eighth-best in NCAA and led Conference USA ... Added her name in the career records with 16 shutouts (7th), 40 victories (8th), 72 games started (8th), .242 batting average against (8th), 38 complete games (9th), 416.2 innings pitched (9th), 274 strikeouts (9th), 89 appearances (10th) and 3.01 ERA (12th) … Recorded at least one strikeout in first 22 outings and had just two appearances without at least one K … Started first game of the season and earned complete-game win over UC-Riverside (Feb. 8) allowing just two runs with one earned … Pitched back-to-back complete-game shutouts over Ohio (Feb. 27) and Rider (March 2) allowing seven hits in 12 combined innings with a total of 13 strikeouts including eight in the win over Rider … Earned 10th win of the year on March 8 against Monmouth with a 1-0, one-hitter with five strikeouts in snow-shortened game … Allowed just one run in 4.2 innings of relief with three strikeouts against No. 13 Kentucky (March 20) … Pitched a one-hitter in complete-game victory over UTSA (March 23) in game one of the series … Recorded a career-high nine strikeouts in game three against UTSA (March 24) …Received start and went 4.1 innings at No. 20 James Madison (March 27) ... Earned 15th win of the season at Southern Miss (March 30) in game two with 2.1 innings of relief and allowed just one base runner … Did not allow a run in 16 innings across all three games at Middle Tennessee (April 27-28) earning the win in all three contests, allowing just five hits, struck out 10 and did not allow a base runner in four innings of relief in game two … 20th win of the season came in game three of the series sweep at Middle Tennessee (April 28) … Pitched a complete-game shutout on Senior Day against Florida Atlantic (May 5) allowing three hits and six strikeouts to get Herd the series sweep and her 23rd win of the year … Tossed a complete-game shutout in the first round of the Conference USA Tournament in 8-0 win over UTSA (May 8) with two strikeouts, no walks and allowed just three hits … Shutout No. 1 seed North Texas in 1-0 victory in the second round of the C-USA Tournament (May 9) while tossing eight strikeouts … Pitched her 10th shutout of the year and earned her 26th win with another 1-0 complete-game, shutout of No. 1 seed North Texas in an elimination game of the C-USA Tournament (May 10) that put Herd into the championship game for the first time since 2014 … Went the distance against Louisiana Tech in C-USA Championship game loss (May 11) … Earned 27th win and 11th shutout of the year in elimination game against Rutgers at the National Invitational Softball Championship Regional in Lynchburg (May 17) allowing just four hits and struck out six … Recorded 28th and final win of the season, and record-tying 42nd for the team, with complete-game over Kent State (May 18) to put the Herd into the NISC Regional Championship game … Saw ERA steadily drop over final nine appearances allowing just 11 runs across 52 innings (1.48 ERA).
2018 (Junior)
2018 Conference USA Spirit of Service Award
2018 NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete: GPA 3.50 or better
2018 Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll: GPA 3.00 or better
GP/GS: 39/30 … Stepped up tremendously for the Herd in her junior season … After pitching just one inning in two seasons, led Marshall in appearances (39), starts (30), ERA (3.49), wins (12), complete games (10), shutouts (5), innings pitched (160.2) and strikeouts (86) … Earned first career start in 2018 season-opener at No. 13 Auburn (Feb. 8), pitched 5.1 innings and allowed four runs on six hits and one strikeout … First career win on Feb. 24 over Presbyterian (8-0) with a five-inning, complete game shutout and set career-high with seven strikeouts … Presbyterian win began a string of three-straight complete game, shutout victories with wins over Winthrop (Feb. 25) and George Washington (March 2) … Allowed four hits and struck out six in shutout of Winthrop … Finished the Spartan/Paladin Invitational with a 2-1 record, a 0.79 ERA and 16 strikeouts in 17.2 innings of work … Gave up just two hits and struck out four in shutout of George Washington … Started against No. 20 South Carolina and pitched six innings, striking out three … Conference USA record of 7-4 with wins over UAB (March 10), Southern Miss (March 17), Florida Atlantic (March 24), two at UTSA (April 7), Charlotte (April 15) and WKU (April 21) … Pitched career-high 9.2 innings in 1-1 tie at UAB (March 11) … Allowed just two runs in 16 innings at UTSA (April 7-8) and had 2-1 record … Seven games with five or more strikeouts … Pitched her fifth shutout of the season over No. 28 James Madison (April 18) going the distance and allowing just three singles to a team that had combined for 103 extra base hits in its previous 39 games … Pitched eight innings and recorded final strikeout in the bottom of the eighth to preserve win at WKU (April 21).
2017 (Sophomore)
2017 Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll: GPA 3.00 or better
GP/GS: 1/0 … Made one appearance as a pinch runner at Middle Tennessee State (April 29) in game two of the doubleheader.
2019 Conference USA Spirit of Service Award
2019 All-Conference USA Second Team
2019 Conference USA All-Tournament Team
2019 NISC Lynchburg Regional All-Tournament Team
2019 NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete: GPA 3.50 or better
2019 Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll: GPA 3.00 or better
2019 Top 10 NCAA Shutouts (T8th – 11)
GP/GS: 49/42 … Made another major jump forward to become the main arm in the circle for the Herd during senior season and put her name all throughout the Marshall softball record book … Led the team with career-highs in wins (28), ERA (2.64), appearances (49), games started (42), complete games (28), shutouts (11), innings pitched (255.0), strikeouts (187) and batting average against (.220) … Had some of the best single season numbers in team history with 42 starts (2nd), 11 shutouts (2nd), 49 appearances (T4th), 28 wins (4th), 28 complete games (6th), 255 innings pitched (7th) …Her 28 victories was tied for 11th-most in the country and 11 shutouts tied for eighth-best in NCAA and led Conference USA ... Added her name in the career records with 16 shutouts (7th), 40 victories (8th), 72 games started (8th), .242 batting average against (8th), 38 complete games (9th), 416.2 innings pitched (9th), 274 strikeouts (9th), 89 appearances (10th) and 3.01 ERA (12th) … Recorded at least one strikeout in first 22 outings and had just two appearances without at least one K … Started first game of the season and earned complete-game win over UC-Riverside (Feb. 8) allowing just two runs with one earned … Pitched back-to-back complete-game shutouts over Ohio (Feb. 27) and Rider (March 2) allowing seven hits in 12 combined innings with a total of 13 strikeouts including eight in the win over Rider … Earned 10th win of the year on March 8 against Monmouth with a 1-0, one-hitter with five strikeouts in snow-shortened game … Allowed just one run in 4.2 innings of relief with three strikeouts against No. 13 Kentucky (March 20) … Pitched a one-hitter in complete-game victory over UTSA (March 23) in game one of the series … Recorded a career-high nine strikeouts in game three against UTSA (March 24) …Received start and went 4.1 innings at No. 20 James Madison (March 27) ... Earned 15th win of the season at Southern Miss (March 30) in game two with 2.1 innings of relief and allowed just one base runner … Did not allow a run in 16 innings across all three games at Middle Tennessee (April 27-28) earning the win in all three contests, allowing just five hits, struck out 10 and did not allow a base runner in four innings of relief in game two … 20th win of the season came in game three of the series sweep at Middle Tennessee (April 28) … Pitched a complete-game shutout on Senior Day against Florida Atlantic (May 5) allowing three hits and six strikeouts to get Herd the series sweep and her 23rd win of the year … Tossed a complete-game shutout in the first round of the Conference USA Tournament in 8-0 win over UTSA (May 8) with two strikeouts, no walks and allowed just three hits … Shutout No. 1 seed North Texas in 1-0 victory in the second round of the C-USA Tournament (May 9) while tossing eight strikeouts … Pitched her 10th shutout of the year and earned her 26th win with another 1-0 complete-game, shutout of No. 1 seed North Texas in an elimination game of the C-USA Tournament (May 10) that put Herd into the championship game for the first time since 2014 … Went the distance against Louisiana Tech in C-USA Championship game loss (May 11) … Earned 27th win and 11th shutout of the year in elimination game against Rutgers at the National Invitational Softball Championship Regional in Lynchburg (May 17) allowing just four hits and struck out six … Recorded 28th and final win of the season, and record-tying 42nd for the team, with complete-game over Kent State (May 18) to put the Herd into the NISC Regional Championship game … Saw ERA steadily drop over final nine appearances allowing just 11 runs across 52 innings (1.48 ERA).
2018 (Junior)
2018 Conference USA Spirit of Service Award
2018 NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete: GPA 3.50 or better
2018 Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll: GPA 3.00 or better
GP/GS: 39/30 … Stepped up tremendously for the Herd in her junior season … After pitching just one inning in two seasons, led Marshall in appearances (39), starts (30), ERA (3.49), wins (12), complete games (10), shutouts (5), innings pitched (160.2) and strikeouts (86) … Earned first career start in 2018 season-opener at No. 13 Auburn (Feb. 8), pitched 5.1 innings and allowed four runs on six hits and one strikeout … First career win on Feb. 24 over Presbyterian (8-0) with a five-inning, complete game shutout and set career-high with seven strikeouts … Presbyterian win began a string of three-straight complete game, shutout victories with wins over Winthrop (Feb. 25) and George Washington (March 2) … Allowed four hits and struck out six in shutout of Winthrop … Finished the Spartan/Paladin Invitational with a 2-1 record, a 0.79 ERA and 16 strikeouts in 17.2 innings of work … Gave up just two hits and struck out four in shutout of George Washington … Started against No. 20 South Carolina and pitched six innings, striking out three … Conference USA record of 7-4 with wins over UAB (March 10), Southern Miss (March 17), Florida Atlantic (March 24), two at UTSA (April 7), Charlotte (April 15) and WKU (April 21) … Pitched career-high 9.2 innings in 1-1 tie at UAB (March 11) … Allowed just two runs in 16 innings at UTSA (April 7-8) and had 2-1 record … Seven games with five or more strikeouts … Pitched her fifth shutout of the season over No. 28 James Madison (April 18) going the distance and allowing just three singles to a team that had combined for 103 extra base hits in its previous 39 games … Pitched eight innings and recorded final strikeout in the bottom of the eighth to preserve win at WKU (April 21).
2017 (Sophomore)
2017 Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll: GPA 3.00 or better
GP/GS: 1/0 … Made one appearance as a pinch runner at Middle Tennessee State (April 29) in game two of the doubleheader.
2016 (Freshman)
2016 NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete: GPA 3.50 or better
2016 Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll: GPA 3.00 or better
GP/GS: 1/0 ... Made only appearance against #14 Tennessee at the BAMA Bash Feb. 27 ... Recorded first career strikeout on future NPF draftpick (19th overall) Lexi Overstreet ... Pitched one inning ... Allowed two hits and four runs ... Recorded one at-bat vs. Tennessee.
High School: Attended Cabell Midland High School … High School teammate of current Herd players Morgan Zerkle, Morgan Kelley and Jordan Colliflower … Participated in the North/South All-Star Game … Played travel ball one season for the Gold Coast Hurricanes and two years for the West Virginia Dusters … Team won the 2014 Myrtle Beach National Championship … Also lettered in basketball.
Personal: Born April 24, 1997 … Daughter of Kriste and Alan Tolbert … Dad played basketball at New Mexico Military College … Has two siblings, twin sister Allison (18) attends West Virginia University and brother A.J. (13) attends Barboursville Middle School … Chose Marshall because, “I have always loved Marshall, it’s hometown and family oriented.” … Plans to major in Biology with a focus on Pre-Med.
Marshall Softball Class of 2025 Graduates
Friday, May 02
Marshall Softball: Kaleea Washington & Brooklyn Ulrich (Post-Radford)
Tuesday, April 22
Marshall Softball: HC Morgan Zerkle, Haleigh Adkins, Paige Maynard (Post-Coastal)
Friday, April 18
Hype and Harmony: the Team Personality Fuels Success #softball
Thursday, April 17
