BLACKSBURG – Virginia Tech baseball’s Sam Fragale, a redshirt-junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, opened the 2017 season in tremendous fashion and helped the Hokies to its first 3-0 start since 2013. For his efforts, he has been named one of Collegiate Baseball’s National Players of the Week and the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Player of the Week.
Fragale’s Opening Day performance included hitting three home runs in his first three at bats and finishing the day 5-for-5 with a double and triple and a career-high seven RBIs. He became the first Tech player with a three-home run game since Chris Kay (May 10, 2009 vs.