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On Pack: Returning weekend starter who enters his third year of athletic eligibility ... Has the ability to be a successful BIG EAST starter with command of a good fastball and sharp breaking pitches ... Poised for a big season and is expected to once again hold a spot in the starting rotation ... Redshirted his true freshman season.
Career: Made 31 appearances with 24 games started ... Logged 125 2/3 innings pitched while allowing 165 hits, 110 runs and 85 earned runs ... Walked 57 and struck out 80 ... Owns a 7-10 record with a 6.09 ERA ... Opposing batters hit .314 and have eight home runs.
2009: Started all 13 games pitched and went 3-7 with a 6.78 ERA ... Held a spot in the weekend starting rotation for the entire season and his 13 starts tied for the team lead ... Ranked second on the team with 67 2/3 innings pitched ... Surrendered 87 hits, 60 runs and 51 earned runs ... Walked 29 and registered 41 strikeouts, which tied for second on the staff ... Opposing batters hit .310 ... Nine of his 13 starts came against BIG EAST opponents ... Went 3-1 with a 2.08 ERA in his four non-conference games ... Started the season opener against eventual College World Series champion LSU and allowed just one earned run on four hits in four innings pitched ... Allowed only two earned runs over 15 2/3 innings pitched (1.15 ERA) in his first three appearances of the season.
2008: Played his first full season of collegiate ball after returning from a medical redshirt a year earlier ... Key member of the midweek rotation and finished the season with a 4-3 record and 5.17 ERA in 16 appearances, including 11 starts ... Logged 55 2/3 innings and allowed 75 hits and 48 runs (32 earned runs) ... Issued 25 walks and struck out 38 batters while allowing just three home runs to 271 hitters faced ... Over the final two months of the season went 4-0 with a 3.58 ERA in his final 10 appearances (five starts) ... Won his first three starts in April during a stretch in which he went 3-0 with a 1.13 ERA and 11 strikeouts in 16.0 innings ... Struck out a season-high eight batters against Fairfield on March 2 and registered seven strikeouts against Coppin State on April 2 ... Allowed no earned runs over six innings in a win over Lafayette on April 16 ... Pitched five scoreless innings to earn a win over Penn State on April 30.
2007: Appeared in two games before missing the remainder of the season with an injury ... Allowed three hits and two earned runs in 2.1 innings, walking three and striking out one ... Pitched 2.1 scoreless innings in a win over Norfolk State in the second game of the season ... Also made an appearance against Alabama.
Benet Academy: Named to the Illinois Coaches Association All-State Team ... Also chosen as an All-Area player by the Daily Herald, Naperville Sun and Suburban Life newspapers ... Selected to the East Suburban Catholic All-Conference team ... Compiled a 6-2 record and 0.94 ERA as a senior ... Overall record of 15-5 from sophomore through senior seasons ... Lettered three years in baseball and three in basketball ... All-area and all-conference basketball player ... Made first honors in 2004 and second honors in 2005 and 2006.
Personal: Born 8/23/87 in Hinsdale, Ill. ... Youngest of three children of David and Debbie Pack ... Siblings are David (28) and Jennifer (25) ... Father played football, basketball and soccer and MacMurray College in Illinois ... Communications major with hopes of one day playing professional baseball or working in the business management or journalism fields ... Chose to attend Villanova for its strong academic reputation and success with developing pitchers for professional baseball.
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