Pitt Drops Close Contest to Seton Hall

Panthers out hit Pirates, can't get past conference foe




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April 5, 2008

PITTSBURGH--The University of Pittsburgh baseball team traveled to South Orange, N.J., for the first of three conference games this weekend against Seton Hall. The Pirates took the first game by a count of 1-0.

 

Panther starter Nate Reed (Reading, Pa./Oley Valley) held Seton Hall to just a single run off of four hits during 6.2 innings of work. He also struck out eight Pirate batters and left seven SHU runners on base.

 

Seton Hall's Dan Lopez led off the fifth with a free base after being hit by a Reed misfire, which set up what would prove to be the winning run in bottom of the fifth inning.

 


 

 

After the Pirates took the lead, the Panthers had one out and runners on first and third in the top of the sixth inning, when SHU hurler Joe DiRocco induced a foul ball fly out to the batter Danny Lopez (Queens, N.Y./Monsignor McClancy) and a fly out to center field to junior Chris Warner.

The Panthers had a chance to answer again in the eighth when Sean Conley (Chippewa, Pa./Blackhawk) singled to center field and Lopez singled to the short stop, placing runners on first and second. The rally quickly died, however, as Lopez was picked off before Chris Warner (West Seneca, N.Y./South Carolina) grounded out to the second baseman to end the threat.

 

The Panthers will take on the Pirates again tomorrow for the second game of the series at 1 p.m.