Steven Trout owes Ricci Woodard.
In the second weekend of April, both head coaches saw their teams drop a three-game series — Woodard’s softball team falling to Louisiana-Monroe on the road and Trout’s baseball team losing its first series of the season to Georgia Southern at home. The two coaches texted one another afterward, encouraging the other to get on a roll.
Both programs followed through, each side winning nine in a row over the next two weeks. As the victories piled up, Trout and Woodard made a bet with each other to see who could keep their win streak going the longest.
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