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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. The Virginia baseball team opens its home ACC schedule this weekend against Boston College at Davenport Field. The teams will match up at 6 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
The Friday and Sunday games will be webcast on ACC Select at www.accselect.com. WINA 970-AM also will have radio coverage on Friday and Sunday.
The Cavaliers (16-4, 2-4 ACC), ranked as high as No. 19 nationally in the USA Today/ESPN coaches’ poll this week, swept a doubleheader with Stony Brook on Tuesday, winning the first game 3-0 and the second 6-4.
Pat McAnaney (Sr., Syracuse, N.Y.) was honored for his pitching on Saturday with Co-ACC Pitcher of the Week laurels. He threw a complete game in the 10-1 win over Duke and allowed just an unearned run, four hits and a walk while striking out eight. He now leads the ACC in innings pitched (28.0) and strikeouts (32) this season.
Virginia enters the weekend as the league leader in team earned run average (2.18) and is third in team batting (.326).
Dan Grovatt (Fr., Tabernacle, N.J.) leads the team in hitting with a .446 batting average, while Farrell is batting .394. The two are second and eighth, respectively, in batting in the ACC. David Adams (Jr., Margate, Fla.) is batting .384 and leads the team with 22 RBI tied for third in the league. Grovatt and Farrell each have 18 RBI.
Boston College (9-8, 2-4 ACC) comes to Virginia after winning 12-6 at Virginia Tech in non-conference action Thursday. The Eagles had an impressive ACC series last weekend as they took two of three at Clemson. Freshman Matt Hamlet leads the team in hitting at .400 seventh in the ACC.
Virginia continues its 12-game homestand next Tuesday at 5 p.m. against VCU.