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Playing the weekend series: Tech welcomes the Quinnipiac Bobcats to English Field for a four-game series that starts on Friday at 4:30 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE), continues with a doubleheader on Saturday starting at 1 p.m. and concludes Sunday with a first pitch slated for Noon.

Facing the Bobcats: This will be the first ever meeting between Tech and Quinnipiac, who come in with a record of 3-1. The Bobcats are a member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and Tech owns a 10-5 record all-time against schools from that league - Canisius (1-0), Marist (3-0), Niagara (3-1) and Rider (2-4) - and just beat Manhattan last Sunday (12-7) in the first meeting versus that program.

Holding a four-game weekend series: Dating back to 2010, this will be the sixth straight season Tech will host a four-game weekend series (if you count last year’s that was moved to Myrtle Beach, S.C.). The Hokies have been quite successful in those meetings, winning six of the seven (in 2011 the team hosted two four-game weekends), but sweeping just two. The offense has produced some staggering numbers in those weekends - once reaching 50 runs in the four games combined (2012) and 42 another (2011), while the pitchers have kept the opposition to scoring less than 10 runs combined three times.

Continuing the 11-game homestand: The current home stretch for the Hokies will be the longest since the 2010 season, when Tech played 12 home games in 13 days - March 5 through the 17 - and posted a 9-3 record. Since then, the Hokies have had a nine-game, nine-day homestand (6-3) in 2011, a 10-game, 15-day homestand (7-3) in 2012 and a 10-game, 13-day homestand (7-3) last season. On Hokies started their current homestand with a walk-off win Tuesday versus Radford.

Playing the doubleheaders: This weekend’s Saturday doubleheader will be the first at English Field since the 2014 season. Tech played two games in the same day three times last year, but all were away from Blacksburg, while during the 2014 season all three of their doubleheaders were played at home - the final was on May 16 against NC State.

Walking off AND in extras: Tuesday’s walk-off win was the ninth under head coach Patrick Mason, who ironically notched his first walk-off victory exactly two years earlier - March 1 - over UMass Lowell, 4-3 in 11 innings. It also marked the first extra-inning game of 2016 for Tech, who went a combined 2-2 last year, including a 4-3 home win over Clemson in its last one (March 22 in 12).

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