Pitt Closes Out Tournament Play at Louisville Slugger Invitational

Pitt Panthers (8-7, 0-0 ACC)
Louisville Slugger Invitational
Feb. 28-March 2, 2025
Long Beach, Calif. · LBSU Softball Complex

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SCHEDULE
Friday, Feb. 28: Cal Poly (12 PM ET), Omaha (2:30 PM ET)
Saturday, March 1: Utah Tech (7:30 PM ET), LMU (10 PM ET)
Sunday, March 2: Long Beach State (7:30 PM ET)

ESPN+
Sunday night's game against Long Beach State will be broadcasted on ESPN+. All other games will have live stats available through StatBroadcast.

QUICK HITS

Senior Kyra Pittman leads the Panthers with three complete games and two shutouts. She recorded her first career complete game shutout against Kennesaw State (2/8) and led the Panthers to a shutout win over Quinnipiac (2/21), allowing four hits with a career-high six strikeouts.
Sophomore Ahmari Braden leads the ACC with eight stolen bases and is 8-for-9 on stolen base attempts this season. She leads the Panthers with a .313 batting average (10-for-32), while ranking second on the team in runs scored (9) and on-base percentage (.389).
Redshirt-junior KK Esparza returns as the starting catcher for the Panthers and currently leads the ACC with six caught stealings.
Camryn Murphy entered the starting lineup at the Easton Classic (2/14-16) and has started nine of the last 10 games in left field for the Panthers. Murphy is hitting .321 (9-for-28) with three home runs, 10 RBI, and scored six runs since becoming a starter.
Kaitlyn Brannstrom has started all 15 games at first after transferring from Grand Canyon. She leads thePanthers in RBI (11), on-base percentage (.429), multiple RBI games (3), and is tied for the most home runs (2).