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Flashes Look to Fly the Flag in the Steel City
3/18/2025 3:20:00 PM | Baseball
KENT- The Kent State Golden Flashes Baseball team (8-9) will travel to the Steel City on Wednesday Mar. 19 for a midweek matchup with the Pitt Panthers. First pitch is currently slated for 3 p.m.
The game will be broadcasted on ACC Network Extra and live stats will be available.
Last Time Out
The Flashes dominated Sunday's rubber match against the Hofstra Pride winning 15-5 in eight innings.
Hayden Jatczak and Alejandro Covas were on fire at the plate for the Flashes each recording four hits and combining for five runs scored and four RBIs.
Each team's offense started out hot with each team scoring two in the first. Kent State's first two runs came across thanks to an RBI groundout by Sawyer Solitaria and a RBI double by Covas.
The game would enter a 45-minute weather delay in the second inning that would force Kent State to pull starter Jacob Bean and turn to Eric Chalus.
Chalus was magnificent in relief for the Flashes going 5.1 innings and allowing just two runs on six hits while striking out nine Hofstra batters.
Hunter Klotz would give the Flashes the lead in the bottom of the third inning with an RBI single out to center. Hofstra would respond with two runs in the fourth off two solo shots.
Kent State would break the game open with five runs in the bottom of the fourth. The runs came across thanks to a Brady Marshall RBI triple, Micah Rienstra-Kiracofe sacrifice fly, a Covas two-run single, and a Matt Thompson fielder's choice.
The Flashes would get another run in the fifth thanks to an opposite field home run by Jatczak,
Kent State would score two runs in each of the final three innings to enact the ten run-rule. In the sixth it was RBI base knocks from Klotz and Thompson, in the seventh it was a two-run homer by Solitaria, and Rienstra-Kiracofe would end the game on
Starting Pitchers
Wednesday: Rocco Bernadina, RHP vs TBA
Scouting the Opposition
The Panthers come into the week at 11-7 on the year and are slated to face off against the Akron Zips on Tuesday Mar. 18. Pitt opened up Atlantic Coast Conference play in Atlanta against Georgia Tech. The Panthers went 1-2 on the weekend beating the Yellow Jackets in the series finale 12-10.
Offensively for the Panthers, Luke Cantwell comes into the week on a nine-game hitting streak including five multi-hit games. Ryan Zuckerman has supplied the power in the offense leading Pitt in home runs and RBIs
On Deck for the Flashes
The Flashes will stay on the road this weekend Mar. 21-23 for a three-game set with the Bowling Green Falcons.
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