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On Pack: Third-year player who is draft eligible due to taking a medical redshirt as a true freshman ... Rounding into form after returning to action last season as a midweek starter ... Will have a chance to move into the weekend rotation this season ... Has a high ceiling with room to grow into his role on the pitching staff ... Fits well into a starter's role with sharp breaking pitches.
Career: Pitched in just two games out of the bullpen as a true freshman before redshirting the remainder of the season ... The other 16 of his career appearances and all 11 of his starts came in 2008 as a redshirt freshman ... Has a career record of 4-3 with a 5.28 ERA in 58.0 innings pitched.
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 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 (27) and Jennifer (24) ... Father played football, basketball and soccer and MacMurray College in Illinois ... Played against current Wildcat teammate Matt McFolling in high school ... Communications major with hopes of one day playing professional baseball or working in 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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