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No. 13 Virginia Hosts No. 20 Duke in Coastal Division Showdown
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – No. 13 Virginia (34-9, 12-9 ACC) will host a three-game sequence towards No. 20 Duke (29-12, 12-8 ACC) at Disharoon Park. The sequence opener is scheduled for Friday (April 28) at 8 p.m. and can broadcast stay on ACC Community.
HOW TO FOLLOW
TV: ACC Community (Friday) | ACCNX (Saturday & Sunday)
RADIO: WINA (98.9 FM/1070 AM/WINA.com) – Friday & Saturday solely
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WEEKEND PROMOS
Friday: Pajama Evening – Youth Pillowcase Giveaway, UVA Scholar Fanny Pack Giveaway, Sabre Rewards Evening
Saturday: Seashore Social gathering – Beachnik Giveaway to first 1,000 followers
Sunday: Youth Day
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PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUP
Friday – 8 p.m.
Duke: RHP Alex Gow (3-2, 4.50 ERA, 38.0 IP, 20 BB, 42 SO)
Virginia: RHP Brian Edgington (6-2, 3.13 ERA, 54.2 IP, 17 BB, 55 SO)
Saturday – 4 p.m.
Duke: RHP Ryan Higgins (3-0, 2.97 ERA, 30.1 IP, 9 BB, 27 SO)
Virginia: RHP Nick Parker (3-0, 4.86 ERA, 37.0 IP, 14 BB, 46 SO)
Sunday – 1 p.m.
Duke: TBA
Virginia: RHP Jack O’Connor (4-2, 3.65 ERA, 37.0 IP, 14 BB, 46 SO)
LEADING OFF
- Going into the weekend Duke, Virginia and Miami all sit atop the Coastal Division standings with 12 ACC wins. Duke leads the division by profitable share (.600), having performed one much less recreation than UVA and Miami.
- Duke would be the third nationally ranked group on UVA’s schedule this 12 months. UVA boasts a 7-2 file towards top-25 groups this season and are 3-0 towards nationally ranked foes at residence in 2023. The Cavaliers subsequent ACC sequence is Might 12-14 can be towards Louisville, at present No. 21 within the D1Baseball nationwide ballot.
- Virginia (No. 6) and Duke (No. 12) each rank within the top-15 in RPI. Together with Wake Forest (No. 3) and Boston Faculty (No. 13), the ACC has 4 groups within the top-15.
- UVA’s 34 wins this season are tied for the second-most within the nation and path solely Wake Forest’s 35. Virginia was the primary group in school baseball to eclipse the 30-win ma achieve this with a 16-4 win over Mount St. Mary’s on April 12.
- UVA’s .791 profitable share is the fifth highest of any program within the nation. UVA is one among six groups nationally with out double-digit losses.
- Virginia and Duke are each ranked within the top-10 in group ERA. The Blue Devils are ranked fourth with a 3.42 ERA whereas the Cavaliers sport a 3.57 ERA, the seventh lowest within the nation.
- UVA is the one group within the nation to rank within the top-15 in BOTH batting common (2nd – .335) and ERA (seventh – 3.57)
HOME COOKING
- Virginia boasts a 25-2 mark at residence this season and is tied with Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas Tech for essentially the most residence wins within the nation. Texas Tech is the one one of many 4 groups on the highway this weekend.
- UVA has received 25 or extra video games at residence 14 of the final 20 seasons underneath head coach Brian O’Connor.
- The Cavaliers have received over 77 % of their video games (562-167) at Disharoon Park because the facility opened in 2002.
- UVA is amid an 11-game homestand, the longest stint at residence this season. After returning residence from Notre Dame, UVA won’t go away the Commonwealth for 23 days till its last highway sequence of the common season towards Georgia Tech (Might 18-20).
AGAINST THE BLUE DEVILS
- Virginia is 106-66-1 towards Duke in an all-time sequence that was first performed in 1926, an 8-2 Cavalier victory. Friday’s assembly would be the 173rd all-time assembly between the 2 colleges.
- UVA has 100 all-time wins towards 5 colleges, Duke (106), North Carolina (116), Virginia Tech (107), Maryland (113) and VMI (109).
- Virginia has received 13 of the 14 ACC three-game sequence towards Duke courting again to 1991.
- The Cavaliers opened up ACC play final season by taking two out of three towards the Blue Devils in Durham. UVA clinched the sequence with a 13-1 win over Duke within the opening recreation of a Sunday doubleheader. The Blue Devils halted UVA’s 14-game win streak and prevented the sequence sweep with a 7-6 win within the nightcap.
MIDWEEK SUCCESS
- The Cavaliers went 2-0 within the midweek with a 7-4 win over Liberty on Tuesday and a 13-4 victory over Towson on Wednesday.
- The potent Cavalier offense was held hitless over the primary 5 innings towards Liberty and trailed 4-1 after six innings. UVA scored seven unanswered runs to return away with the victory. It was the primary win after trailing after the sixth inning in 29 video games courting again to final season.
- The Cavaliers pounded out 19 hits towards Towson on Wednesday, the fifth time UVA has recorded 19 or extra hits in a recreation this season. Kyle Teel turned the third Cavalier since 2013 and the second this season to file 5 hits in a recreation.
- Virginia is 22-0 this season towards non-conference opponents and has received 26-straight common season video games towards non-conference foes courting again to final season. The Cavaliers are the one group within the nation with no loss in non-conference play in 2023.
OFFENSIVE FIREPOWER
- Virginia enters the weekend No. 1 within the nation in hits (515) and doubles (120). The Cavaliers .335 group batting common is the second highest of any group in NCAA D-I.
- The Cavaliers have scored 399 runs this season the third-most of any group within the nation and are averaging 9.3 runs per recreation, essentially the most within the ACC and the seventh-most within the nation.
- There are 37 gamers in D-I baseball batting over the .400 mark, two of them are within the Cavalier lineup – Kyle Teel (.424) and Griff O’Ferrall (.413). UVA is one among 4 colleges with a number of gamers batting .400 (Omaha – 2, Sam Houston – 2, Wofford – 2).
- No different duo within the nation has extra hits mixed than Teel (73) and O’Ferrall (71). Teel is in a three-way tie for the nationwide lead in hits.
- Virginia has struck out 275 instances as a group this season, the fewest of any group within the ACC.
- Virginia has the fourth largest scoring/run differential within the nation.
Highest DI Scoring Margin/Run Differential
| 1. | Wake Forest | +6.2 |
| 2 | South Carolina | +5.7 |
| 3. | LSU | +5.5 |
| 4 | Virginia | +5.2 |
| 5. | Campbell | +4.9 |
ON THE MOUND
- The Cavalier pitching employees boasts the seventh-lowest group ERA (3.57) within the nation.
- Of the 384 strikeouts (Eighth most in NCAA) recorded by Cavalier pitching, 146 have come trying, essentially the most of any employees within the nation.
- The Cavalier hurlers additionally boast school baseball’s Eighth-best strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.15) and rank 14th in WHIP (1.29).
- Brian Edgington has gone 5 or extra innings in eight of his 10 begins this season. He’s looking for his seventh win which might set up a brand new career-high in his fifth 12 months of faculty baseball.
- Edgington comes into Friday night time with the ninth-lowest ERA within the ACC. Amongst lively pitchers, his 241 profession strikeouts are tied with LSU’s Paul Skenes for the 16h most within the school baseball. Solely Rhett Lowder has extra profession Ks than Edgington of lively ACC pitchers.
- The Cavaliers are 7-2 in video games that Nick Parker has began this season, solely dropping a 6-4 choice towards Pitt and a one-run loss final weekend at Notre Dame.
- Parker has allowed 12 earned runs in ACC play this season, tied for the eighth-fewest amongst certified ACC pitchers. Solely one of many 4 runs that crossed towards him at Notre Dame was earned in 4.2 innings of labor, his longest outing since getting back from harm.
- Jack O’Connor acquired the nod within the opening recreation of final Sunday’s doubleheader at Notre Dame and struck out six over 4 innigns of labor. 5 of the ten hits he allowed went for additional bases, together with a pair of homers.
- O’Connor’s 3.65 ERA is the third lowest of any power-5 freshman this season and ranks eleventh within the ACC.
PLAYER NOTABLES
- Anticipated to make his 102nd-straight begin as UVA’s catcher on Friday, Teel leads the ACC in batting common (.424), doubles (19), hits (73) and hits per recreation (1.70). He reached base safely in all however two video games this season. Teel is in a three-way tie for the nationwide lead in hits (Jonah Cox – Oral Roberts;
Ryan Galanie – Wofford). - Casey Saucke has put collectively a multi-hit effort in 5 of the final six video games and is 11-for-23 with eight runs scored, a house run and 5 RBI in that span. He recreation UVA one among its two leads within the sequence finale at Notre Dame with an reverse subject, two-run homer.
- Sophomore Griff O’Ferrall began all 101 of UVA’s video games at shortstop the previous two seasons and batted leadoff in 100 of them. He has scored a run in 19 of his final 21 video games and ranks second within the ACC with 53 runs scored. O’Ferrall lead the group and ranks sixth within the ACC with 14 stolen bases. He’s been profitable in 31 of his 34 profession makes an attempt (91 %), the second highest of any Cavalier with over 30 stolen bases.
- Ethan Anderson moved into second on the group in RBI with a four-RBI night time towards Towson, upping his season complete to 44. He ranks fourth within the ACC in hits (67) and seventh within the ACC in RBI (44).
GELOF CHASING MORE HISTORY
- Regardless of being restricted to 1 RBI in his final 4 video games, Jake Gelof maintains his nationwide RBI lead with 68.
- Already this system’s single-season file holder in RBI with 81 final season, he’s trying to change into the primary Cavalier with two seasons of 70 or extra RBI. Presently solely Gelof and UVA Baseball Corridor of Famer Phil Gosselin are the one two Cavaliers to have two seasons of 60 or extra RBI.
Most RBI in Single Season in UVA Historical past
| 1. | 81 – Jake Gelof – 2022 | |
| 2. | 77 – Pavin Smith – 2017 | |
| 3. | 71 – Alex Tappen – 2022 | |
| 4. | 68 – Jake Gelof – 2023 | |
| 5. | 67 – Kenny Cities – 2015 | |
| 67 – Joe Koshansky – 2004 |
Most Profession RBI in UVA Historical past
| 1. | Steven Proscia (2009-11) | 182 |
| 2. | Pavin Smith (2015-17) | 178 |
| 3. | Sean Doolittle (2005-07) | 167 |
| 4. | Ryan Gilleland (1995-98) | 166 |
| Invoice Narleski (1984-87) | 166 | |
| 6. | Jake Gelof (2021-present) | 163 |
A large fire consumed multiple buildings Friday morning on the former Virginia Intermont College campus in what one city official called “a tragedy for our city.”
Videos shared on social media and captured by local news outlets show the massive blaze engulfing structures at the historic college campus. Located in Bristol in western Virginia along the Tennessee border, Virginia Intermont College closed in 2014.
Neal Osborne, a city councilman in Bristol, shared video of the blaze on Facebook, which he said had become “a full inferno” of the college’s main hall by 1:15 a.m.
“There’s no way around it – this is very bad and this is a tragedy for our city, this is a tragedy for our neighborhood, this is a tragedy for everyone who attended Virginia Intermont College,” Osborne said in the post. “This is heartbreaking to see this.”
USA TODAY left a phone message Friday morning with the Bristol Fire Department seeking an update on the fire.
City councilman: Property owners ‘will have to answer’ for why fire erupted
The fire could be seen in videos burning the main building on campus, as well as adjacent structures. News crews with WJHL-TV reported observing the building collapse after 2 a.m.
Bristol police and firefighters were at the scene, and Osborne said in his video that firefighters from surrounding localities and departments also responded to provide additional aid.
Osborne said he and other city officials had for years pushed the owners of the private property to care for the aging infrastructure, but that those concerns “fell on deaf ears every single time.”
“They will have to answer for this in my mind,” Osborne said. “They will have to answer for why this property was not secured, why they did not take proactive steps to prevent this from happening.”
What is the Virginia Intermont College?
Constructed within view of the Blue Ridge Mountain range, Virginia Intermont College was founded in the late 1800s as an institute for women to get a higher education. It later become coeducational before it was finally shuttered in May 20, 2014 due to financial failure and the loss of its accreditation, the Roanoke Times reported.
Friday morning’s blaze is not the first time a fire has broken out on the closed campus.
Following a previous fire in November, Bristol Fire Chief Mike Armstrong told WJHL that the site was “dangerous” and said his crews prioritized fighting fires without stepping foot inside the aging buildings.
“The floors are rotten, the windows are broken out, the roofs are rotten. And it’s just not safe to be in there with all the debris, the broken glass,” Armstrong said. “I can tell you within the last 12 months, we’ve had multiple fires up here.”
Bristol Vice-Mayor Jake Holmes told WJHL that the site had fallen into disrepair and had become “a hazard.”
Eric Lagatta covers breaking and trending news for USA TODAY. Reach him at elagatta@gannett.com
An Egyptian man living in Virginia who was slated to be deported has been charged with planning an attack on the Israeli consulate in New York City.
Abdullah Azz al-Din Taha Muhammad Hassan allegedly provided bomb-making instructions and plans on how to attack the Manhattan consulate to an undercover FBI source, according to court documents. He was arrested Tuesday, the FBI told Fox News Digital.
Hassan is charged with distribution of information relating to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction in furtherance of the commission of a federal crime.
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On the opposite side of a pro-Palestinian protest area, a group of pro-Israel demonstrators gathered, holding Israeli flags in front of the Consulate General of Israel in New York City. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
“The FBI’s New York Office wants to reassure our Jewish community here in New York that our office — along with our law enforcement partners — remains vigilant in our efforts to identify, investigate and disrupt potential threats to our community, using every tool at our disposal to do so. As always, we urge all community members to report suspicious activity to law enforcement and call 911 in cases of imminent violence or threats to life,” the FBI said in a statement.
“We will continue working to ensure our communities remain safe places for all, and we thank the public for their continued trust and partnership.”
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Hassan caught the FBI’s attention after the Fairfax County Police Department informed federal authorities that a tipster alerted police about his social media posts on X. The tipster said the account engaged in “radical and terrorist-leaning behavior.”
In several posts, Hassan praised the Islamic State terror group and other radical figures, federal prosecutors said. In August, he began messaging with an FBI confidential source whom he believed he recruited to conduct a “mass casualty attack,” authorities said.
Demonstrators attend an “emergency rally for Gaza” outside the Israeli Consulate in New York City, Oct. 9, 2023. (Jennifer Mitchell for Fox News Digital)
Over several weeks, Hassan directed the informant on how to make a bomb, acquire weapons and how to make a “martyrdom video,” authorities said. In November, he allegedly selected the Consulate General of Israel as the target of the attack, saying it would be easier to commit an attack using small arms and be “martyred” by the police.
He believed New York would be “a gold mine of targets” for an attack, prosecutors said. As the pair planned the attack, Hassan also allegedly told him to book flights to countries without extradition agreements with the United States. During the attack, Hassan said the source could either murder people at the consulate with an assault rifle or detonate an explosive vest while standing in a group of targets, court documents state.
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Hassan also asked for the source to livestream the attack so he could watch it in real time, authorities said.
In a statement, Jonathan Harounoff, the international spokesperson for Israel’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, said the Jewish state “will not cower to terror.”
“We will not be silent in the face of hate and violence,” he said. “We will not stop in our pursuit of justice and peace. We will continue in our fight to return all 100 of our hostages still being held in Hamas terror tunnels in Gaza.”
Sara Netanyahu and Ofir Akunis, consul general of Israel, attend Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the 79th session of the General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Ofir Akunis, Israel’s consul general in New York, expressed gratitude to authorities for thwarting the alleged attack.
“This attempted attack by terror organizations is an attack on the sovereign soil of the State of Israel in its entirety,” he wrote on X. “It’s proof that terror knows no boundaries and that we must fight it everywhere and every time. The threat it poses to the western world and its values must be fought together by all western democracies alike. Together we will prevail.”
Two top 10 teams will be in historic Gallagher-Iba Arena as the #6 Hokies try to slow down the red hot #3 Cowboys in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Both teams are undefeated as Oklahoma State is currently 5-0 while Virginia Tech is 3-0. The two programs also wrestled at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational earlier this month. The Cowboys ran away with the team trophy in Vegas, placing first by a margin of 77 points, while Virginia Tech placed fourth.
Tonight’s matchup is shaping up to be one of the most competitive duals of the first semester. We’ll keep you informed with live updates of the contest as they happen in real time!
Projected Lineups
125: #2 Troy Spratley, OSU vs #4 Eddie Ventresca, VT
133: #18 Reece Witcraft, OSU vs #12 Connor McGonagle, VT
141: #4 Tagen Jamison, OSU vs #12 Sam Latona, VT
149: #15 Carter Young, OSU vs #1 Caleb Henson, VT
157: #14 Caleb Fish, OSU vs #13 Rafael Hipolito, VT
165: #6 Cameron Amine, OSU vs #21 Mac Church, VT
174: #3 Dean Hamiti, OSU vs #4 Lennox Wolak, VT
184: #3 Dustin Plott, OSU vs #20 TJ Stewart, VT
197: #12 Luke Surber, OSU vs #10 Andy Smith, VT
285: #3 Wyatt Hendrickson, OSU vs #15 Jim Mullen, VT
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