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Eagles vs. Hokies This Weekend From Blacksburg at English Field

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CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — The Boston College Eagles five-game road stretch continues with a three-game series at Virginia Tech’s English Field. The series begins Thursday and each game will be streamed on ACCNX at 1 p.m.

About the Eagles…
BC has lost four in a row and is just 3-8 since peaking at 9-2. At 12-11 overall and 3-9 in the ACC, the Eagles are hitting .282 as a team; third-best in the league. Boston College is also third in scoring at 6.9 runs per game, but a staff earned run average of 6.65 is at the bottom of the conference. Junior center fielder Sal Frelick is second in the ACC with a .394 batting average to go with 26 runs and a 1.117 OPS. Sophomore third baseman Luke Gold is hitting .340 with a team-high .713 slugging percentage, eight home runs, and 27 RBI. Graduate shortstop Brian Dempsey is a career.297 hitter and hitting .297 in 2021. He recorded his 200th hit on a leadoff-home run vs. Clemson and now ranks eighth all-time at BC with 204 career hits. On the mound, junior right-hander Emmet Sheehan has produced a 3-2 record and 5.08 ERA in the traditional Saturday role. In four ACC starts, he is 2-1 with a 3.68 ERA and 31 strikeouts to eight walks in 25.2 innings. Five of Sheehan’s six starts this season have gone six innings or more.


Weekend Pitching Match-Ups (Blacksburg, Va. • English Field)
Thursday, 1 p.m. (ACCNX): RHP-Mason Pelio (2-3, 6.52) vs. LHP-Peyton Alford (1-1, 4.05)
Friday, 1 p.m. (ACCNX): RHP-Emmet Sheehan (2-2, 5.08) vs. RHP-Anthony Simonelli (2-0, 4.26)
Saturday, 1 p.m. (ACCNX): TBA vs. TBA


Scouting the Hokies…
Virginia Tech peaks in the polls at No. 13 by Baseball America with a 13-8 overall record and 9-6 ACC mark. The Hokies are hitting .272 as a club, led by right fielder Gavin Cross at .382 with a team-high 1.154 OPS and five home runs. First baseman TJ Rumfield is hitting .364 with 18 runs. The Hokies own a 4.16 team ERA and 3.04 strikeout-walk-ratio. Lefties Chris Gerard is 2-0 with a 2.33 ERA and 1.07 WHIP, while Peyton Alford is 1-1 with a 4.05 ERA and 42 strikeouts.

Last Time They Met…
Boston College picked up a series win in Blacksburg in 2019 behind a 2-1 win in the opener and a 5-2 clincher in game three. Dan Metzdorf dealt with traffic all night in game one, stranding 10 runners, in 7.2 innings of shutout ball. In a Monday night ESPNU game, the Eagles claimed the series behind a 3-for-4 night, including a home run from Joe Suozzi.

All-Time vs. VT…
BC trails the all-time series against Virginia Tech, 22-26. The series was even 6-6 as Big East rivals between 2001-2004 with the Hokies sweeping a series in the first-ever meeting of the two programs in 2001. Each team has held a significant advantage on its home field with BC posting a 14-7 home record and VT holding an 18-7 home record.

Pure Power is Pure Gold…
In just 23 games, Luke Gold has hit eight home runs; leading a BC lineup that has gone deep 23 times; already besting season totals from 2018 (14), 2017 (15), and 2016 (20). Gold is just the third BC hitter with six or more home runs in a season since 2015; Chris Shaw (11, 2015) and Jack Cunningham (9, 2019). Gold posted a three-home run weekend at Auburn and homered in three straight games vs. Holy Cross and UNC. He became the first Eagles since Mickey Wiswall (2010 vs. Clemson).

Frelick Keeps it 100…
Sal Frelick needed three hits in the final game of the weekend vs. UNC (3/21) to pass teammate Cody Morissette for the fastest to 100 in program history. In his 72nd career game, Frelick went 3-for-5 to best Morissette by a game. A year earlier, Morissette became the fastest to 100; passing former first-round pick Tony Sanchez (81 games). Sanchez still holds the record for most hits (119) in 100 career games; set in 2008. Morissette sits at 117 hits in 89 games, while Frelick has 108 in 77 games

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