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The Pitt News

TJ Zeuch pitches in a snowy game vs. Florida State Sunday afternoon.  Jordan Mondell | Staff Photographer

Zeuch returns to the mound for third game win

By Steve Rotstein / Staff Writer March 20, 2016

Junior pitcher T.J. Zeuch is back in his rightful place on the mound. Pitt’s highly touted starter — D1 Baseball’s No. 41 prospect in the country for the 2016 draft and the fourth-highest ranked...

Theo Schwarz | Senior Staff Photographer

Pitt wrestlers fall at competitive NCAA Tournament

By Steve Rotstein / Staff Writer March 17, 2016

For the first time, Pitt competed in the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships under the bright lights of Madison Square Garden in New York City on Thursday. On a stage bigger than ever inside “the...

(Photo Courtesy of University of Pittsburgh Club Rowing Team)

No rest for the determined: Pitt rowers prepare for their season

By Ryan Reichardt / For The Pitt News March 15, 2016

Wake up at 5 a.m. Get on the rowing machine. Go to class. Get on the rowing machine. “This is the base of what we do,” Pitt Crew Vice President Helen Ann Lawless said. The Pittsburgh club rowing...

Kayla Harris pitches in a 2015 game.  TPN File Photo

Unlucky three marks Panthers’ ACC opener

By Phoebe Gilmore / For The Pitt News March 13, 2016

Pitt softball head coach Holly Aprile could have brought home her 200th career win this weekend, but her Panthers fumbled on all three chances to deliver it. In a weekend upset in Blackburg, Virginia,...

Pitt's Nick Yarnall (33) became the fifth Panther selected in the 2016 MLB Draft.  Emily Klenk | Staff Photographer

Pitt scoops one win of three in weekend series

The Pitt baseball team started its ACC season with two demoralizing losses, but managed to walk off the field in North Carolina with a last-ditch victory. At the ACC opener at Boshamer Stadium in Chapel...

Courtesy of Pitt Athletics.

Q&A: First-year pitcher Sarah Dawson makes waves

By Steve Rotstein / Staff Writer March 2, 2016

Four games in, Sarah Dawson, freshman pitcher for the Pitt softball team, has already thrown out any assumption that she can’t compete in the big leagues. On Saturday, Feb. 27, Dawson pitched a perfect...

Te'Shan Campbell eyeing his opponent.  Theo Schwarz | Senior Staff Photographer

Growing up grappling: Wrestlers bloom from Pittsburgh WPIAL

By David Leftwich March 1, 2016

Maybe it’s something in the water. Pitt wrestling sits in one of the nation’s most fertile recruiting areas, in the heart of the high school Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League —...

Yarnall powers Pitt to weekend sweep over Grambling State

By Steve Rotstein / Staff Writer February 28, 2016

Nick Yarnall hit baseballs so hard this weekend that he might have to check his aluminum bat for dents.  The junior led off the top of the third inning for the Panthers Friday afternoon with a solo blast...

Webb, Wells and Wise: Track and Field Preps for ACC Championship

By Ted Zhang / Staff Writer February 23, 2016

During the last week of February, the Pitt track and field team is just beginning a crucial period of competition. Top athletes from the ACC, including 30 Pitt athletes, will compete in the ACC Indoor...

Ron Sherman (18) takes a swing at a pitch in a game last year.  Pitt New File Photo

Pitt baseball opens season, goes 3-1 in Florida

By Steve Rotstein / Staff Writer February 21, 2016

The Pitt baseball team started its 2016 season at the Historic Dodgertown Classic in Vero Beach, Florida, with an offensive explosion against Niagara University but lagged behind for the weekend’s main...

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