2020 VIRGINIA TECH GAME NOTES - WEEKEND NO. 4 Record Home Away Neutral Streak Overall 8-3 6-0 2-1 0-2 W7 ACC 0-0 0-0 0-0 --- --- Nonconf. 8-3 6-0 2-1 0-2 W7 20 MLB PLAYERS • 20 ALL-AMERICANS • 10 NCAA APPEARANCES • 116 DRAFT SELECTIONS • 2,201 WINS FEBRUARY (5-3) Fri. 14 San Diego State # 5-7 L WEEKEND SERIES INFORMATION Sat. 15 UNC Greensboro # 5-7 L Virginia Tech at #29 Georgia Tech C #29 Sun. 16 Coastal Carolina # cancelled March 6-8, 2020 X Tue. 18 ETSU W 10-3 Russ Chandler Stadium Fri. 21 at Louisiana 0-2 L J Sat. 22 at Louisiana W 3-2 Atlanta, Georgia J Sun. 23 at Louisiana W 3-0 X Tue. 25 RADFORD W 3-2 Gameday Information A Fri. 28 BRYANT W 15-4 TV: ACC Network Extra Radio: VT/IMG Radio Network MARCH (3-0) Stats: GT StatBroadcast X Sun. 1 BRYANT - 1 W 7-2 BRYANT - 2 W 10-2 Virginia Tech Georgia Tech Tue. 3 at High Point cancelled Series History X Wed. 4 MARSHALL W 10-5 HOKIES Games: 53 Streaks Yellow Jackets X Fri. 6 at #29 Georgia Tech @ 7 p.m. (8-3, 0-0 ACC) Overall Record: 18-35 (34.0%) Lost 2 (8-4, 0-0 ACC) X Sat. 7 at #29 Georgia Tech @ 2 p.m. ACC Record: 14-31 (31.1%) Lost 1 X ACC Series Record: 2-13 (13.3%) Lost 9 Sun. 8 at #29 Georgia Tech @ 1 p.m. Head Coach Head Coach X Tue. 10 WILLIAM & MARY 4 p.m. Home: 7-14 (33.3%) Lost 2 X Wed. 11 GEORGE MASON 4 p.m. John Szefc Away: 9-21 (30.0%) Lost 1 Danny Hall R Fri. 13 MIAMI @ 4 p.m. at VT: 55-63 Neutral: 2-0 (100.0%) Won 2 at GT: 1,070-555-1 R Sat. 14 MIAMI @ 2 p.m. 3rd season Last 10: 3-7 (30.0%) 27th season X Sun. 15 MIAMI @ 1 p.m. Career: 447-322-3 Total runs scored: VT: 288 Opp: 466 Career: 1,278-672-1 Tue. 17 at Marshall 4 p.m. 15th season Total shutouts by: VT: 0 Opp: 1 ('04) 33rd season A Fri. 20 at Boston College @ 4 p.m. X Sat. 21 at Boston College @ 2 p.m. HOKIES HEAD TO ATLANTA, GEORGIA FOR FIRST ACC WEEKEND SERIES X Sun. 22 at Boston College @ 1 p.m. Hokies take on Yellow Jackets to open ACC: For the 12th time in its 16 year-history in the conference, X Tue. 24 LIBERTY 4 p.m. Tech will start ACC play on the road, and for the seventh time it will be against a ranked opponent. The X Fri. 27 at Virginia @ 6 p.m. Hokies will take on No. 29 Georgia Tech (by NCBWA), the most common of their nine opponents they've X Sat. 28 at Virginia @ 1 p.m. faced on ACC Opening Day. X Sun. 29 at Virginia @ 1 p.m. This will be the fourth time Virginia Tech will play Georgia Tech on ACC opening weekend - and the third APRIL (0-0) time on the road - and breaking a tied with Miami, who VT has played three times (twice on the road, once Wed. 1 at VMI 6 p.m. at home). Tech has twice played Duke on the road and former ACC member Maryland twice as well (one X Fri. 3 WAKE FOREST @ 6 p.m. home, one away). The Hokies have also opened against Virginia, Clemson, Wake Forest and Florida State X Sat. 4 WAKE FOREST @ 3 p.m. (all on road) and Pittsburgh (at home). A Sun. 5 WAKE FOREST @ 12 p.m. Tue. 7 at Radford 6 p.m. Tech on ACC Opening Day and opening weekend: Despite playing 11 of its last 15 ACC Opening Wed. 8 at ETSU 6 p.m. Days on the road, the Hokies are 6-9 overall, won three of their last five and are 4-7 on the road. X Fri. 10 DUKE @ 6 p.m. However, stretching its record out to the entire three-game weekend, Tech is 14-31 overall, 8-25 on the X Sat. 11 DUKE @ 3 p.m. road (have been swept four times) and has won just one of those previous 11 road opening sets. X Sun. 12 DUKE @ 1 p.m. That only win was back in 2007 at No. 21 Georgia Tech, 2-1. In 2008, No. 19 Georgia Tech swept the A Wed. 15 JAMES MADISON 4 p.m. X Fri. 17 NOTRE DAME @ 6 p.m. Hokies, while the Yellow Jackets won the 2013 ACC opening series 2-1 in Blacksburg. Against ranked X Sat. 18 NOTRE DAME @ 6 p.m. opponents on ACC opening weekend, Tech is 5-13 overall and have lost their last five series. X Sun. 19 NOTRE DAME @ 1 p.m. At home, the Hokies are 6-6 overall and 2-2 in a series. X Tue. 21 VMI 6 p.m. X Fri. 24 at North Carolina @ 6 p.m. Seven-game winning streaks: After a 1-3 start, the Hokies have won seven straight, including three of X Sat. 25 at North Carolina @ 3 p.m. the last four by scoring at least 10 runs. Tech's seven-game winning streak is the longest since the team X Sun. 26 at North Carolina @ 1 p.m. opened the 2019 season on a seven-game winning streak (Feb. 15-Feb. 26). Wed. 29 at Liberty 6 p.m. It's been more than six years since the Hokies have won eighth in a row - May 8 through May 24, 2013, which included two ACC regular-season victories and three wins in the ACC Tournament. MAY (0-0) The last time Tech won eight straight games during the regular season was during the 2010 season, from X Fri. 1 PITT @ 6 p.m. X Sat. 2 PITT @ 3 p.m. Feb. 21 through March 9, when the Hokies rattled off nine straight wins. X Sun. 3 PITT @ 1 p.m. At his previous stop, head coach John Szefc coached his teams to six winning streaks of seven games X Tue. 5 NORFOLK STATE 6 p.m. or more, with a long of 11 straight games in 2014 (May 2 through May 23). X Wed. 6 NORFOLK STATE 4 p.m. A Tue. 12 OLD DOMINION 4 p.m. 2019 pitching staff turned in one for the ages: Last year, the Hokies enjoyed one of their most X Thu. 14 at Louisville @ 6 p.m. successful pitching seasons ever accomplished by a Tech staff in its history since the program joined the X Fri. 15 at Louisville @ 6 p.m. ACC (15 years). First, the team’s final overall ERA of 3.98 was the best ever in that time frame. In fact, the X Sat. 16 at Louisville @ 1 p.m. Hokies had not posted a sub-4.00 ERA since 1984 (3.80) - the lowest since was 4.10 in 1995. T19-S24 ACC Championship * TBD The team also finished second all-time in strikeouts (495), with the 2010 squad holding the top mark BOLD - Home game at English Field at Atlantic Union Bank Park ever with 530. The previous high was 461 (1988). Below are other notables for the staff (since 2005): C -- Chanticleer Sports Network J -- Ragin' Cajuns Digital Network X -- ACC Network Extra A -- ACC Network R -- RSN Lowest ERA: 1. 3.98 (2019); 2. 4.14 (2013) Opp. BA: 1. .243 (2019); 2. .257 (2012) @ -- ACC game # -- Baseball at the Beach, Conway, S.C. Most K/9: 1. 9.51 (2019); 2. 8.72 (2010) Few. hits allowed: 1. 428 (2019); 2. 474 (2012) * - BB&T Ballpark, Charlotte, N.C. Few. runs: 1. 237 (2019); 2. 263 (2012) Few. earned runs: 1. 207 (2019); 2. 225 (2012) @HOKIESBASEBALL • VIRGINIA TECH BASEBALL • HOKIESPORTS.COM 2020 VIRGINIA TECH GAME NOTES - WEEKEND NO. 4 #14 John Szefc Virginia Tech Head Coach - Third Season Virginia Tech Director of Athletics Whit Babcock announced the hiring of Tech’s 25th head baseball coach on June 9, 2017 and formally introduced John Szefc as the head coach of the baseball program at a press conference a few days later on June 15. The 2020 season will mark his third as the Hokies' head coach. Szefc (pronounced SHEFF), who won his 400th career game on March 10, 2018 guiding the Hokies to a 3-1 victory over Pitt, accepted the position at Tech after leading Maryland to three NCAA appearances and a 180-122 (.596) overall record as the Terrapins’ head coach. Before arriving in Blacksburg, Szefc owned a 392-259-3 (.602) career record in 12 seasons as an NCAA head coach, producing 10 campaigns with 30 or more wins. In addition to ending a 43-year NCAA tournament drought and becoming the fastest coach to 100 career wins at Maryland, Szefc spent seven seasons (1996-2002) at the helm of the Marist College baseball program, where he led the team to four conference championships, four NCAA Regional appearances and a 212-137-3 (.607) THE SZEFC FILE overall mark. Szefc earned Northeastern Conference Coach of the Year honors in 1997 and was the American Record at Tech Baseball Coaches Associate Northeast Region Coach of the Year in 2001. Seasons: ..................................................Third Season Record: ......................................................55-63 (.466) The first coach in Maryland history to ever take the Terrapins to an NCAA Super Regional, Szefc accomplished ACC Record: ...........................................17-43 (.283) the feat twice in 2014 and 2015 as he guided the program to the first two 40-win seasons in school history and vs.