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Notre Dame baseball star 3B Jack Penney gets drafted in the 5th round

Congrats Jack!

Notre Dame baseball’s team has had some recent success with getting its players drafted into the MLB.

The 2024 draft took a bit longer than normal for a member of the Irish team to hear his name being called, but it finally happened in the fifth round. Infielder [autotag]Jack Penney[/autotag] was selected by the Detroit Tigers with the 147th overall pick.

During this past season, Penney hit .269 with 4 homers and 34 RBI, while getting on base 32.4% of the time. His calling card was his defense, as he handled 204 attempts, and made just 4 errors on the season. Penney stared 37 double plays as well.

We wish Jack the best while he begins his MLB journey.

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Notre Dame baseball starts trip with a win

The Irish have started a streak on spring break

The Notre Dame baseball team are in a stretch of playing eight games in ten days and they are starting to get into a groove. After dropping the first two games to Georgia Tech, they won on Sunday and had a chance to start a winning streak today.

Mission accomplished, as the Irish defeated St. Joseph’s in Holly Springs, North Carolina 6-3. There was offense early on both sides, as each team scored two runs in the first inning, but then the Irish pitching settled down and the bats did enough to come away with a victory.

Starter [autotag]Matt Bedford[/autotag] lasted just the first inning then reliever [autotag]Blake Hely[/autotag] took over and pitched four innings, allowing just a hit while walking a batter. [autotag]Jack Findlay[/autotag]
would give up a run but [autotag]Carter Bosch[/autotag] would close out the game for the Irish.

Offensively, it was [autotag]Carter Putz[/autotag] putting the team on his back, as he went 3-for-4 with 4 RBI and a run scored. [autotag]Nick Juaire[/autotag] and [autotag]Jack Penney[/autotag] each added an RBI.

The Irish get back on the diamond tomorrow facing the same SJU team with first pitch scheduled for 1 p.m. EST.

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Notre Dame baseball brings bats Sunday, still loses series against Georgia Tech

The Irish are now even early in the season

It was a tough weekend for [autotag]Notre Dame[/autotag] baseball, but they were able to salvage the series finale against Georgia Tech, winning 17-4.

The first two games of the series didn’t go the Irish’s way, losing on Friday 7-4 and then on Saturday 15-2. By avoiding the sweep on Sunday, Notre Dame evened their record at 6-6 on the year, 1-2 in ACC play.

The Irish scored early and often on getaway day, plating double-digits runs in the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 7th and 8th inning. Multiple players had more than one hit with [autotag]Jack Penney[/autotag] leading the way with three hits and 5 RBI. [autotag]Brooke Coetzee[/autotag] scored four runs while [autotag]TJ Williams[/autotag] came across three times.

Notre Dame has a quick turnaround as they have a two-game set against Saint Joseph in North Carolina starting Tuesday afternoon. The series concludes on Wednesday then they stay inside the state as they face off against Wake Forest over the weekend.

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Late game heroics send Notre Dame to a victory over North Carolina-Greensboro

Late game magic for the Irish

It was a back-and-forth affair in Greensboro, North Carolina but [autotag]Notre Dame[/autotag] found some of their magic from last year to help them defeat North Carolina-Greensboro 6-4 in the first game of their series.

The Irish jumped out to a 4-0 lead after the first inning and kept that lead until the bottom of the sixth. The hosts would then match Notre Dame, scoring four runs themselves to set up a dramatic finish.

[autotag]Carter Putz[/autotag] led off the ninth inning with a single, and [autotag]Jack Penney[/autotag] striking out after him. It was [autotag]Danny Neri[/autotag]’s turn and he mashed a home run to give the Irish a 6-4 lead.

The dramatic finish didn’t end there as UNCG plated a run on a double giving them runners on second and third. Notre Dame reliever [autotag]Jack Findlay[/autotag], who took over in the bottom of the sixth, had enough gas as he stuck out Mitchell Smith for the final out.

The win evens the Irish’s record back to 2-2 early in the season. They are back on the diamond tomorrow afternoon, with first pitch set at 2:00 p.m. ET.

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The rain can’t stop Notre Dame, wins game 1 in Statesboro Regional

The Irish get the opening game win!!!

The Irish figured to get an ace like performance from starter [autotag]John Michael Bertrand[/autotag], but the rain would have none of that. Notre Dame’s star pitcher went just one inning before a lengthy rain delay and [autotag]Link Jarrett[/autotag] decided to have his bullpen take it the rest of the way.

Jarrett’s move was genius, as relievers [autotag]Liam Simon[/autotag] and [autotag]Alex Rao[/autotag] shut down the Texas Tech bats. They combined for 15 strike-outs and the Irish had just enough offense for a “comfortable” lead throughout the contest. It was a [autotag]David LaManna[/autotag] two-RBI double in the bottom of the first, prior to the rain delay, that gave the Irish the cushion.

Unfortunately for the Irish, the Red Raiders scored two-runs in the top of the eighth to even the score at two. As we have seen all season, this group just doesn’t quit. Once again LaManna was in the middle of the action, reaching on a catcher’s interference. [autotag]Jack Penney[/autotag] bunted him over to second before [autotag]Jared Miller[/autotag] ran for LaManna, who promptly stole third. His pressure got to TT, as a wild pitch would allow Miller to score to give the Irish the lead back, 3-2.

Reliever [autotag]Jackson Dennies[/autotag] then entered to top of the ninth to close out the game for the Irish. It wouldn’t be easy as he retired one batter before allowing a single, which led Jarrett to bring in [autotag]Aidan Tyrell[/autotag] to close it out and that’s exactly what he did.

Due to the rain delay, the other scheduled game, Georgia Southern against UNC-Greensboro was not played so the remaining schedule is a bit up in the air. What we do know is that the Irish are now in the winners bracket as they get set to play their second game of the Regional.

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