Pitt HC Pat Narduzzi Offers Condolences for Virginia Football Program

PITTSBURGH — Pitt Panthers head coach Pat Narduzzi stepped to the rostrum for his weekly press convention, he did not actually wish to discuss soccer. 

Within the wake of a taking pictures in Charlottesville, Virginia – the place his workforce performed this previous weekend – that left three males lifeless, three of them lively Cavalier gamers, and two extra College of Virginia college students wounded, Narduzzi needed to increase his condolences on behalf of the Pitt program. 

“I am shocked,” Narduzzi mentioned. “I do not even care to speak about that sport. … Our hearts and our prayers exit to [Charlottesville], College of Virgina, Coach Tony Elliot and his soccer workforce.”

Narduzzi mentioned the losses had been particularly stirring provided that the Panthers had simply performed that workforce. He mentioned he noticed one of many victims, injured standout receiver Lavel Davis Jr., after the sport and wished him properly in his restoration. 

The opposite two victims, wideout Devin Chandler and linebacker D’Sean Perry, had been on the sphere when Virginia performed Pitt. Perry recorded two tackles. 

Narduzzi, clearly emotional, mentioned he “could not fathom” what it is prefer to lose gamers like this. 

“Rising up, we misplaced 1 participant after a exercise at North Illinois. I misplaced my dad in ’88. You consider what that soccer workforce goes by means of. That is a brother [they lost] in that room. You’ll be able to’t even fathom what these children are going by means of. … It is unthinkable. You go from taking part in a soccer sport to that. Our prayers exit to everybody who’s concerned on this. It is unhappy.”

One suspect, Darnell Jones Jr. – a former walk-on working again for the Wahoos – has been taken into custody in response to native authorities and charged with three counts of second-degree homicide, three counts of homicide and three counts of utilizing a handgun within the fee of a felony.

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