Baseball. Pitt Baseball Unable To Hold Off Florida Atlantic Rally
Boca Raton, Fla. - The Pitt baseball team (7-4) could not withstand a late-game push from Florida Atlantic as the Panthers saw a 7-1 lead disappear as the Owls went on to take the 10-7 win over the Panthers Wednesday afternoon.First baseman David Chester (Collinsville, Okla./Seminole CC) led the Panthers offensively hitting 3-for-4, while adding three RBI and a run scored. Third baseman Joe Leonard (Dawson, Pa./Connellsville) was 3-for-5 with a run scored.In the first inning, Pitt's bats were hot, as the first three hitters in the rotation reached base on a single. Junior Sean Toole (Edwardsville, Pa./Lackawanna CC) reached ...
Pitt to face Notre Dame in Big East Tournament
NEW YORK -- Notre Dame easily handled Pitt without its best player two weeks ago. Now the Fighting Irish will face the Panthers with their superstar looking like he's 100 percent healthy again.Luke Harangody, the Big East's leading scorer who has been slowed by a bone bruise in his knee, scored 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds Wednesday night to lead No. 7 seed Notre Dame past No. 10 seed Seton Hall, 68-56, in a Big East tournament second-round game at Madison Square Garden.The Irish will face No. 2 seed Pitt at 7 p.m. Thursday in a quarterfinal round game.Harangody ...
Wrestling. Pitt Wrestling Sends Six To NCAA Tournament
PITTSBURGH - Pitt’s wrestling team will send six to the upcoming NCAA Championship to be held March 18-20 in Omaha, Neb.The Panthers earned five automatic qualifiers following its Eastern Wrestling League Championship, and picked up an at-large bid to redshirt senior Eric Albright at 149.Joining Albright (York, Pa./Red Lion Area/Virginia) will be Anthony Zanetta at 125, Tyler Nauman at 141, Zac Thomusseit at 184, Matt Wilps at 197 and Ryan Tomei at 285.Zanetta (Pittsburgh, Pa./Keystone Oaks), a true freshman at 125, has recorded a 33-8 record on the season. In his first championship, he will meet up with Andre Gonzales ...
Softball. Berliner Earns A Big East Weekly Honor Roll Nod
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Junior Cory Berliner earned Big East Weekly Honor Roll accolades, after posting a perfect 2-0 weekend on the mound. Berliner recorded the first nod of the season for the Panthers.Berliner (3-2) tossed two complete games and gave up just two earned runs in 14 innings, as Pitt returned from the Morehead State Invitational with a 3-1 record. Berliner also held her opponents to a stingy .160 batting average and struck out six batters.On the season, she leads the squad with eight appearances in the circle and has put in 42.2 innings of work.As a whole, Pitt’s pitchers lead the ...
Ray Fittipaldo's Pitt basketball chat transcript: 3.10.2010
Ray Fittipaldo:Welcome to the Pitt basketball chat live from the Big East tournament. Fire away with questions.PittFanDave:Hi Ray. I saw your Q&A post today regarding Dixon's use of timeouts. When I saw the topic, I thought for sure it would be in reference to his end of game timeouts against Providence. The Friars tied the game with 35 seconds left, and Dixon calls a timeout with the ball under the opposing basket. A move that I hate since it allows the defense to get set up. I much prefer to see them get the ball past half court before calling ...
From 347 to 65: Bubble Breakdown by Joe Sheehan
Butler saved a spot by waxing Wright State, which made any number of teams on the bubble happy. Well, not Charlotte and Connecticut, who removed themselves from consideration with bad losses that capped ugly ends to their seasons. Cincinnati and Seton Hall tried, very hard, to reach the same fate by managed to pull out wins in at the Garden over bad teams, and live to see another day.Finally, North Texas and Oakland won their conference championships and the automatic bids that go with them. This changes nothing on the bubble, but congratulations just the same.Here?s where we stand through ...
NATIONAL PREP CHAMPIONSHIP OPENING DAY
Leave a Comment by PAT STEVENSNEW HAVEN, Conn. – Gerard Coleman (Tilton/Providence) had the day’s high of 43 points as the fourth annual National Prep Championships are underway, this year from Albertus Magnus College. Big East signees Isaiah Epps (Pittsburgh), CJ Fair (Syracuse) and Austin Carroll (Rutgers) all helped their teams to victories that have them slated for Wednesday’s semifinals and potential championship game. Epps and No. 1 seed Hargrave Military Academy meet No. 5 Northfield Mount Hermon and Fair and Carroll lead No. 2 seed Brewster Academy against No. 6 St. Thomas More, with the championship set for 7:30 ...
2010 BIG EAST TOURNAMENT COVERAGE: WEDNESDAY PRIMER
Leave a Comment *********Follow NBE Sports on Twitter: http://twitter.com/NBESports*****After a thrilling doubleheader Tuesday to close the first day of action of the 2010 Big East Tournament, we roll on into Wednesday with four more games as the action will continue to heat up into the weekend at Madison Square Garden.Here is Wednesday’s schedule (and your chance to get tickets to the games):9) South Florida vs. 8] Georgetown, Noon.13) St. John’s vs. 5) Marquette, 2 PM.Big East Basketball Tournament Tickets – Session 3 March 10 2010 (USF vs GTown & SJU vs. MU)10) Seton Hall vs ...
Big East Tournament: Keeping sharp is key for Pitt
NEW YORK -- The first four games of the Big East men's basketball tournament took place Tuesday afternoon and evening. Four more games are on tap today and two more Thursday afternoon before Pitt finally takes the court for its quarterfinal-round game at 7 p.m. Thursday.More than half of the tournament's games will be played and 10 of the conference's teams will be eliminated before the Panthers even set foot inside Madison Square Garden. But don't expect the Panthers to get stale or lose focus. Not after what happened last season.Pitt was the No. 2 seed for that tournament and ...
Dixon's curious timeouts ...
Submit your Pitt basketball questionA quick programming note: my weekly live Pitt basketball chat will not be on Tuesday next week, and will instead take place Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. live from New York, site of the Big East tournament.And I'll be blogging from New York exclusively on my Pitt basketball blog on PG-Plus. Membership in that site is only $3.99 per month or $36 per year. Q: Jamie Dixon called timeouts after Pitt scored and just before the under eight-minute media timeout in the last two homes games. Against Providence it seemed to be a bit of a momentum ...
A Celebration of Excellence....
This is a Pitt blog and we will certainly get back in the swing of things around here next week when Pitt Spring Football begins, but in the mean time, let me take a few moments to expand the parameters of this to include one of my other beats - women's basketball.The Pitt women's team will, for the first time since 2006, not be in the NCAA Tournament and it isn't because they aren't talented enough to be there. They are and they should be there but they aren't going to be there because they lack a very critical intangible that ...
Pirates Alive for Big East, NCAAs
NEW YORK – Seton Hall remains alive in the Big East tournament and alive for an NCAA tournament berth. But they didn’t make it easy on themselves. The No. 10 Pirates blew a 29-point second-half lead and advanced to the second round of the Big East with a 109-106 victory over No. 15 Providence after Friars freshman Duke Mondy missed a potential game-tying 3-pointer at the buzzer. “Luckily Mondy missed and the ball came off,” Seton Hall coach Bobby Gonzalez said. “To get an ...