The Wolfpacker: An Independent Magazine Covering NC State Sports
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TRACKING THE PACK 18 ■ THE WOLFPACKER NUMBERS AND QUOTES Sponsored by Colony Tire & Service www.colonytire.com PHOTO BY TAYLOR NEWTON/NC STATE ATHLETICS 2 Former NC State stars on ESPN's list of college football's top 90 quarterbacks since 2000. Compiled by data guru Bill Con- nelly, the list features Philip Rivers at No. 25 and Russell Wilson at No. 30. Riv- ers threw for 13,484 yards from 2000-03, while Wilson compiled 8,545 yards passing and 1,083 rushing from 2008-10. 2.16 Dominic Fritton's ERA after his first seven starts of the baseball season. The junior left-hander was one of only three ACC hurlers with more than 40 innings pitched to that point in the season, yet he had compiled the league's sixth-best ERA, with 59 strike- outs and only 10 earned runs allowed. On April 2, Fritton was named a second-team Midseason All-American by D1Baseball. 6 NC State wrestlers who have been named ACC Freshman of the Year. The most recent is redshirt freshman VINCE ROBINSON, who was announced as this year's winner on April 1. Robinson captured the NCAA title at 125 pounds after finishing as runner-up in the league tourney two weeks earlier. He concluded the season with a 24-3 overall record. The complete list of NC State's ACC Freshman of the Year award winners is as follows: Wrestler Year Wt. Vince Robinson 2025 125 Ed Scott 2022 157 Trent Hidlay 2020 184 Kevin Jack 2015 141 Darrion Caldwell 2007 141 Kody Hamrah 2005 157 It's a fun team to coach. When you come off a season where you didn't like the results, you were short of where you wanted to end up record-wise and you lost some close games, what you usually get back is a bunch of guys who don't want to go through that again. They're coachable. Their attention to detail, their 'want to,' it's better. That's been really refreshing. The practices have been high-energy." — Football coach Dave Doeren on the tone of NC State's spring practice sessions following a 6-7 finish last season I'm built for this. I'm a dawg. When a dawg's name is called, a dawg comes out. I'm just ready to play." — Freshman guard Zamareya Jones, to ESPN's Holly Rowe, after hitting 3 three- pointers in the second quarter of NC State's Sweet 16 matchup against LSU 15 15 Three-pointers by NC State (on 30 attempts) in an 83-49 romp over Michigan State on March 24 in the second round of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tourna- ment. Senior guard AZIAHA JAMES (6 of 11) and graduate guard Madi- son Hayes (5 of 7) led the long-range scoring barrage. It was the most three-pointers ever by NC State in an NCAA Tournament game. PHOTO COURTESY NC STATE ATHLETICS