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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Virginia (9-10) commences a six-game home stand on Wednesday (March 20) to host UConn (11-6) in non-conference action at Disharoon Park. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m. and the game will be carried live on ACC Network Extra.
 
Game Coverage: ACC Network Extra is available to authenticated subscribers of ESPN3 through WatchESPN and the ESPN app. Links to the broadcast and live stats are available on VirginiaSports.com. Fans can also get in-game updates on the Virginia baseball official twitter page (@UVABaseball)
 
TICKETS INFORMATION
Fans can purchase tickets at a discounted rate in advance by going online to VirginiaSports.com/Tickets. For all regular season home games, available reserved single-game tickets can be purchased in advance for $8 online or via mobile devices. Tickets are $10 at the sport-specific ticket office on game day. General admission single-game tickets are $5 in advance and $8 at the sport-specific ticket office locations on game day.
 
CLEAR BAG POLICY
Consistent with policies that took effect last season, fans attending games at Disharoon Park in 2019 must adhere to the department’s clear bag policy and entrance procedures. Details of the of the policy can be found here: http://www.virginiasports.com/facilities/clear_bag_Davenport_Klockner.html
 
Probable Pitching Matchup
UConn: RHP Colby Dunlop (1-2, 12.96 ERA, 8.2 IP, 4 BB, 5 SO)
Virginia: RHP Zach Messinger (1-0, 2.08 ERA, 8.2 IP, 9 BB, 8 SO)
 
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Virginia (9-10) commences a six-game home stand on Wednesday (March 20) to host UConn (11-6) in non-conference action at Disharoon Park. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m. and the game will be carried live on ACC Network Extra.
 
Game Coverage: ACC Network Extra is available to authenticated subscribers of ESPN3 through WatchESPN and the ESPN app. Links to the broadcast and live stats are available on VirginiaSports.com. Fans can also get in-game updates on the Virginia baseball official twitter page (@UVABaseball)
 
Probable Pitching Matchup
UConn: RHP Colby Dunlop (1-2, 12.96 ERA, 8.2 IP, 4 BB, 5 SO)
Virginia: RHP Zach Messinger (1-0, 2.08 ERA, 8.2 IP, 9 BB, 8 SO)
 
Leading Off
• Wednesday is the start of a six-game home stand, the second shortest stint at Disharoon Park this season.
• Virginia and UConn will meet for the first time since 1986. Virginia holds a 3-2 edge in an all-time series that was first played on April 9, 1963 at Lambeth Field.
• Virginia is 21-6 at home and 39-8 overall against non-conference opponents over the past two seasons.
• UConn is the third member of the current American Athletic Conference Virginia has faced in the last years (UCF – 2018; East Carolina – 2016). Brian O’Connor is 14-6 against current AAC foes.
• The Huskies have yet to play a home game this season and are fresh off the program’s first ever four-game sweep, taking all four against Michigan State this past weekend in Greenville, S.C. UConn has won seven of its last eight games.
 
Coaching Consistency
• The midweek matchup will pit the two longest tenured coaching staffs (head coach, two assistants and volunteer) in the country against each other.
• The Virginia coaching staff, comprised of Brian O’Connor, Kevin McMullan, Karl Kuhn & Matt Kirby, have been together since 2011.
• All UConn graduates, head coach Jim Penders and his staff have remained intact for the last eight seasons. Assistants Jeff Hourigan and Joshua McDonald have been in Storrs since 2011 while volunteer assistant Chris Podeszwa has been with Penders in each of his 16 seasons.
• O’Connor, McMullan and Kuhn have been together for 16 seasons. No other college baseball coaching trio in the country has been together longer.
 
Weekend Review
• The Cavaliers won the series opener for the second-straight week with a 9-8 comeback win against Georgia Tech on Friday night but dropped the final two games of the weekend.
• Virginia overcame a two-run deficit by scoring three runs in the ninth inning. Cameron Simmons drove in the game-winning run on a sac fly, scoring Tanner Morris.
• The Cavaliers brought the tying run to the plate in the top of the ninth of the series finale on Sunday but ultimately fell, 6-5. It marked the first series loss to the Yellow Jackets since 2015.
• Simmons went 7-for-12 (.583) in the series with four runs scored a home run and three RBI.
 
On the Offensive
• Brendan Rivoli hit his first two home runs of the season this past weekend at Georgia Tech. His three-run blast on Sunday in the eighth inning brought Virginia within two runs. He went 5-for-13 with four runs and six RBI in three games vs. the Yellow Jackets.
• Rivoli leads the team with 10 multi-hit games and now ranks seventh in the ACC in hitting .360.
• Since the calendar has turned to March, Simmons has raised his batting average over 80 points and he has recorded a hit in seven of the eight games this month. A total of 10 of his 13 RBI this season have come in the month of March.
• Junior Cayman Richardson matched a career-high with four hits on Sunday against Georgia Tech. He has a hit in each of his last three starts and ranks 13th in the country with five sacrifice bunts.
• Freshman Zack Gelof has reached base safely in the first 19 games of his collegiate career and is currently riding a team-best, eight-game hit streak.
• Tanner Morris has a hit in all but two games this season and is tied for second in the league with nine doubles.
 
Notes from the Bump
• Freshman Zack Messinger will make his third-straight midweek start. The righthander has allowed just two earned runs in 8.2 innings pitched. He pitched a season-high, four innings last week at Liberty and retired 10 of the first 11 batters he faced.
 
Team Tidbits
• Going into Tuesday, Virginia is ranked fourth in the ACC in batting with a .289 team average.
• The Cavaliers have homered in three-straight games and are 6-2 when going yard this season. The last time UVA homered in four-straight games was in 2017, ending the year with a long ball in eight-straight.
• Virginia has struck out 117 times this season, the lowest total in the ACC and the second fewest of any team in the country that has played 19 or more games (Texas A&M – 113).
• As a team, Virginia has produced 14 sacrifice flies, including one to score the go-ahead run on Friday (March 15) vs. Georgia Tech, the seventh-most in the nation.
• Virginia has committed 16 errors this season and sports a .977 fielding percentage, the second-lowest in the ACC.