Georgia Tech Athletics Weekend Update: Baseball, HYPNOFACE, Bill Nye The Science Guy And Other Highlights

by Winfield Featherston on Feb 21, 2011 7:57 AM EST

If you follow Georgia Tech athletics year-round, you would have noticed there were quite a few activities taking place this past weekend. Baseball season started in glorious fashion and the weather played along as well. Basketball continued at its sad,normal pace and various non-revenue sports teams competed as well. Here are the highlights of what you missed.

Georgia Tech Baseball

The Yellow Jackets won the first series of the 2011 season against the Kent State Golden Flashes 2 games to 1. Georgia Tech won the Friday and Saturday games 6-3 and 8-1 respectively. The Yellow Jackets won by slapping the ball around and generating base hits (25 in 2 games) rather than relying on pure power. Unfortunately, Kent State shut said bats down and stole the third game 6-1 Sunday afternoon holding the Jackets to only 5-hits. Tech saw solid starting pitching performances by all of its pitchers over the weekend in Mark Pope (Friday: 6.2 IP, 5 H, 6 K's, ER), Jed Bradley (Saturday: 5.2 IP, 4 H, 10 K's, 1ER), and Buck Farmer (Sunday: 5 IP, 4 H, 6 K's, 0 ER). Jacob Esch led the offense going 7-12 over the weekend which included 4 doubles.

While the bats seemed to have gone cold on Sunday, the game was attended by quite the celebrity (in a Tech man's eyes at least) Bill Nye the Science Guy was on hand to not only throw out the pitch but to also do some play-by-play in the booth. Video and audio soon forthcoming...

Science Rules via Wrek Radio commentator Kyle Tait (@kyle_tait)

The Jackets will travel to Georgia Southern for a 2-game series February 22 and 23 and will return to Russ Chandler this weekend to host St. John's for the weekend.

Georgia Tech Basketball

Hypno-face strikes again!

The Yellow Jackets were defeated last night by the Duke Blue Devils 79-57. Tech has now dropped its 6th straight ACC game. HYPNOFACE took full effect as this time the Paul Hewitt stare down infuriated Coach Kryzaeiswkeuitski so much that he got called for a technical foul. However in typical HYPNOFACE fashion, Duke outscored Georgia Tech ~~54-22~~ 66-39 after Coach K's technical. Iman Shumpert and Mo Miller each had 13 points for Tech.

Tech hosts the Virginia Cavliers on Wednesday February 23rd in Alexander Memorial Coliseum.

Non-Revenue Sports

While football, basketball and baseball hog the spotlight, other Tech athletes are succeeding on the field as well.

Swimming: The ACC Swimming and Diving Championships are being held at Georgia Tech this year. The weekend saw 3 Men's Diving Records broken by the Men's team and the girls swim team broke 4 school records as well. Men's swimming competition begins this week.

Softball: Georgia Tech lost a time-shortened game to Florida International University on Sunday 6-5 in the Felsburg Memorial Tournament held in Miami, FL. The loss puts the Jackets at 7-3 overall. We all miss Jen Yee.

Tennis: Both the men's and women's tennis teams took victories away from Auburn and Washington respectively. The men's team has now put together a 5 series winning streak which includes beating in-state rival georgia (rarely happens folks).

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Thanks for covering the non-rev sports. Yes, we do miss Jen Yee very much.

I watched the basketball game last night and have the following thoughts. If Hewitt could coach these guys to a winning season he should be voted the national coach of the year. We have only two guys who have any business getting minutes in an ACC game. We are a small, slow team with no decent shooters. We have no idea about defending the 3-point shot, and even if we did, no one has the quickness to cover. It was painful to see. All that aside, I love watching games at Cameron. I sat under the basket and had a good time even in the loss.

We have two commitments for next season, so far. We need to find more shooters and a couple of big guys who can play defense. The needs list is soooo long.

by orientalnc on Feb 21, 2011 8:25 AM EST reply actions

No way out

Story’s always been Hewitt can recruit, but not coach. So you’re saying he can’t do either.

March 14th can’t get here soon enough.

by ee8384 on Feb 21, 2011 11:13 AM EST up reply actions

Of the guys who actually play, here is my view. Miller and Holsey are our only “big” players. Both are RS freshmen ad should be relegated to mop up minutes or relief roles. Perhaps they have potential offensively (both seem athletic), but are clueless on defense. Oliver didn’t play, off course, but Rice and Shumpert are the real deal. I was impressed with them. The others, Storrs and Mo Miller are seniors and when they graduate, we will not miss them. Udofia and the others should have no role in a game.

What is sad about last night was that Duke had an off night. Maybe they had trouble getting up for the game. Even the Crazies were a bit subdued until the T was called on K and the Duke bench.

I say this again, we are a jump shooting team that can’t shoot! With no post players to threaten inside, that is all we have. This team reminded me of the Dwane Morrison years.

by orientalnc on Feb 21, 2011 11:35 AM EST up reply actions