Baseball | March 19, 2018

LOS ANGELES – USC freshman right-hander Kyle Hurt picked up Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week and Collegiate Baseball National Pitcher of the Week honors today after tossing the bulk of a combined no-hitter to open conference play against Utah last week.
 
Hurt, who was pitching in his fifth collegiate game, tossed 7.2 no-hit innings to lead USC to a 2-0 victory. Hurt struck out seven batters and at one point retired 11 straight batters in the game, before exiting in the eighth inning with two outs and a runner on. The freshman out of Rancho Santa Fe had thrown 117 pitches at that point.
 
Austin Manning would get the third out of the eighth and Connor Lunn tossed a perfect ninth to finish off the no-hitter for the Trojans. It was the first no-hitter of any kind for USC since 2000 when the Trojans tossed a five-inning no-hitter against Mississippi State, and the first nine-inning no-hitter since a combined no-no against Cal State Los Angeles in 1986.
 
Hurt now has a team-best 2.38 ERA on the season and is 2-0 in his freshman campaign. He has struck out a team-high 24 batters on the season and opponents are hitting just .158 against him. Hurt is the first Trojan to pick up a weekly honor this season.
 
USC hits the road for its next five games, starting with UC Irvine on Tuesday night and then a three-game conference swing at No. 3 Stanford starting on Friday.