VT spring game on ACC Network
The Virginia Tech Athletics Department confirmed Thursday that Tech’s 2020 spring game will be televised exclusively on the ACC Network on a tape-delayed basis at 10:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 18. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. that day. Further details about the 2020 spring game and other events on the Virginia Tech campus that weekend will be announced once they are finalized.
The ACC Network will televise ten spring games beginning with a triple-header on Saturday, April 4. Tech’s contest on April 18 will close out a triple-header of ACC spring games being broadcast on that date.
Head coach Justin Fuente is expected to return 20 of 22 offensive and defensive starters for the 2020 season. Tech’s 2020 schedule features seven home games at Lane Stadium, kicking off with Liberty on Sept. 5 followed by Penn State on Sept. 12. The Hokies will play host to ACC foes Boston College, Georgia Tech, Miami and Virginia in 2020, as well as non-conference foe North Alabama. Virginia Tech will seek to extend the nation’s longest active bowl streak to 28 consecutive seasons in 2020.
Lock Haven edges Concord
The Concord University baseball team rallied from a late-inning deficit but fell in 10 innings, 6-5, to Lock Haven Saturday afternoon in the MEC-PSAC Mixer at the Sue Morris Complex.
Trailing 4-2 in the top of the eighth inning, Concord (3-5) plated two runs to tie the game. Senior outfielder Ryan Fralin and senior infielder Nathan Neff reached base to start the inning with a double and a walk, respectively. Two batters later, freshman catcher Nick Funk came through with an RBI single to plate Fralin, and senior outfielder Adam Linkous followed with his own run-scoring hit to knot the game.
LHU (3-2) broke the tie in the bottom of the eighth, but the Mountain Lions came right back as freshman first baseman/catcher Michael Dupont doubled to start the inning and scored on a Lock Haven error to square the contest once again.
The Mountain Lions were primed to regain the lead in the top of the 10th as redshirt freshman outfielder Richard Ortiz got to third, but was stranded with two outs. In the bottom half, a one-out double from the Bald Eagles scored on a two-base hit during the next at-bat from Santino Nave.