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1. PANTHERS CONTINUE ACC PLAY WITH THREE-GAME HOME SERIES AGAINST VIRGINIA TECH
The Pitt baseball team (9-9, 1-3 ACC) welcomes another ACC opponent to Charles Cost Field this weekend as the Panthers play host to Virginia Tech (13-7, 1-5 ACC) to close out its current homestand.
The series opener is set for Friday (March 24) at 3 p.m. Game two (Saturday, March 25) is also slated for a 3 p.m. start while the series finale on Sunday (March 26) will get underway at 1 p.m. All three games will be streamed live on ACC Network Extra.
Pitt vs. Virginia Tech | Friday, March 24 | 3 p.m. | Charles Cost Field | Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Pitching Matchup: Pitt Jr. RHP #43 Jack Sokol (2-1, 8.41 ERA) vs. Virginia Tech So. RHP #15 Drue Hackenberg (1-2, 4.72 ERA)
Pitt vs. Virginia Tech | Saturday, March 25 | 3 p.m. | Charles Cost Field | Pittsburgh, Pa.
ACC Network Extra | StatBroadcast
Pitching Matchup: Pitt Jr. RHP #17 Kyle Mosley (0-2, 7.27 ERA) vs. Virginia Tech Jr. RHP #46 Griffin Green (0-1, 7.06 ERA)
Pitt vs. Virginia Tech | Sunday, March 26 | 1 p.m. | Charles Cost Field | Pittsburgh, Pa.
ACC Network Extra | StatBroadcast
Pitching Matchup: Pitt TBA vs. Virginia Tech TBA
2. MIDWEEK WIN OVER KENT STATE
CJ Funk, AJ Nessler and Jack Anderson provided Pitt with three home runs en route to an 8-3 victory over Kent State on Wednesday at Charles Cost Field.
Holden Phelps gave Pitt a strong start on the mound, striking out four in three innings of work.
The Panthers went in front in the fourth inning on Funk’s two run home run to center. The round tripper was Funk’s team leading seventh of the season. Pitt tacked on three more runs in the sixth as Nessler blasted a three-run home run to center to make it a 5-1 lead for the Panthers.
The middle innings saw relievers Logan Evans, Kyle Mosley and Matthew Fernandez provide Pitt with four scoreless frames. Evans struck out two of the four batters he faced. Mosley permitted just one walk. Fernandez went two innings and fanned one.
Kent State cut into the Pitt lead with a two-run home run in the eighth, but the Panthers put the game out of reach in the home half courtesy of Anderson belting a three-run homer over the wall in left center.
Nash Bryan then came on to pitch the ninth and struck out the side to end the…
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