The No. 13 NC State baseball team opens its three-game road series at Hawaii on Friday at the Rainbow Warriors' Les Murakami Stadium. This weekend's series will run Friday through Sunday with first pitch times scheduled for 11:35 p.m. ET, 11:35 p.m. ET and 6:05 p.m. ET, respectively.
Friday's game will be televised on Spectrum Sports and streamed live on ESPN+. A free audio stream will be available for Friday's contest on the Varsity Network App and will be available on the radio on WKNC 88.1.
No live video stream will be available for Saturday and Sunday's games in Honolulu. Due to scheduling conflicts and travel limitations, there will be no NC State baseball radio broadcast for Saturday or Sunday's games at Les Murakami Stadium. Fans can still tune in to Hawaii's radio feed by clicking
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Live stats will be available for all three games. Links for all three games of this weekend's series are listed above.
PROJECTED STARTING PITCHERSFriday RHP
Sam Highfill (NCSU) vs. LHP Harrison Bodendorf (Hawaii)
Saturday LHP
Dominic Fritton (NCSU) vs. LHP Randy Abshier (Hawaii)
Sunday LHP
Ryan Marohn (NCSU) vs. TBD (Hawaii)
THE MATCHUP: SERIES AGAINST HAWAIINC State holds a 2-1 advantage in the series against Hawaii, winning two games out of three in the sole series meeting back in 2017. More notes from the series against VCU are listed below:
NC State opened its 2017 campaign with a weekend series at Hawaii, winning matchups on Friday and Sunday to head back home to Raleigh with a series victory.
The Wolfpack captured game one of the first and only previous series meeting 4-0 on Feb. 17, 2017. The pitching trio of starter Sean Adler, Austin Staley and Zach Usselman combined to allow just five hits in the shutout victory.
NC State secured the series victory over the Rainbow Warriors with an 8-1 win on Feb. 19, 2017. Brett Kinneman, Evan Mendoza and Joe Dunand each logged multi-hit performances in the win. Starting pitcher Tommy Dejuneas earned the pitching victory after tossing 5.2 scoreless innings.
While NC State didn't open its season on the road in 2024, the last time the Wolfpack didn't open the year at Doak Field at Dail Park was its series in Manoa in 2017.
SCOUTING HAWAIIHawaii (2-2) opened its season with a series split against Ole Miss at Les Murakami Stadium. The Rainbow Warriors dropped their first two matchups before posting a pair of victories by a combined margin of victory of 22-5. Freshman infielder Elijah Ickes leads the Rainbow Warriors with a .556 batting average (5-for-9), six runs scored, five hits and a .714 on-base percentage. The Hawaii offense found multiple ways to get runners on base throughout its opening series against the Rebels, drawing 27 walks and earning seven free passes via hit batsmen, both of which rank first in the Big West and top 40 in the nation. Hawaii head coach Rich Hill and Wolfpack head coach Elliott Avent also meet in a matchup of two of the nine active head coaches with 1,000 career victories or more.
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