Matthew Siverling Season 2021

Awards & Honors
• 2022:  Male recipient of the Skelton Award for Academic Excellence in Athletics (and accompanying $5,000 scholarship), presented to a rising junior, senior or fifth-year who has participated in intercollegiate athletics for at least two seasons at Virginia Tech and holds an overall GPA of 3.40 or better.

Career Highlights:  2021 – Combined to record nine strikeouts across six scoreless relief innings during a three-game series at Pitt (March 26-28, 2021).

2023 at Virginia Tech
• Season Notes:  Made 17 appearances … Posted a 2-0 record … Threw 17.2 innings … Earned the win against UMass Lowell (March 7), recording four strikeouts across 2.1 innings … Pitched 3.1 innings in Radford (April 18), allowing only one hit and zero runs in relief … Struck out five batters at #1 Wake Forest (May 20) across 2.2 innings.

2022 at Virginia Tech
• Season Notes:  Made two appearances and one start … Collected three outs from five batters faced, including two strikeouts … Missed the majority of the season while recovering from thoracic outlet syndrome.
• ACC Baseball Championship:  Pitched during top-seeded, No. 2 Virginia Tech's 18-6 win against 12th-seeded Clemson (May 26).
• Returned to the pitcher’s mound to make his season debut and his first career start during Tech's 8-2 win against Kansas State (May 17) ... Struck out two of the four batters he faced during a scoreless inning of work.

2021:  Made 22 relief appearances, posting a 4-1 record ... Recorded two saves ... Logged the second most innings by a Tech pitcher who threw exclusively from the bullpen (29.1) ... Registered 33 strikeouts and issued 14 walks ... Threw a scoreless inning against Georgetown (May 5) ... Kept a scoreless frame at NC State (April 23) ... Toed 1.2 innings without allowing a run, earning the victory against Boston College (April 3) ... Fanned three batters across three scoreless frames, picking up the win at Pitt (March 28) ... Struck out six batters during his three-inning save at Pitt (March 26) ... Did not allow a run and tallied two strikeouts during his two-inning outing against Florida State (March 13) ... Collected the win after registering two strikeouts during a hitless inning against VCU (March 9) ... Scored his first save of the season, closing with two scoreless innings against North Carolina (March 6) ... Won his first decision of the year after throwing 4.0 innings and striking out six batters at Miami (Feb. 26) ... Tossed two scoreless innings during his season debut against Kent State (Feb. 21).

2020: Appeared in seven games, all out of the bullpen … Had a 4.15 ERA in 8.2 innings pitched (tied for the most among bullpen pitchers), struck out 12 batters, walked five and posted a 0-1 record ... In five relief appearances, tossed at least 1.0 innings and did not allow an earned run … Retired 4-of-7 first batters faced in relief outings, a 57.1 percentage … Inherited two runners, who each scored … Had four multi-K outings, including a season-high four at Louisiana (Feb. 22), which included striking out the side in the sixth, the first of two times he did that - seventh inning against Bryant (March 1) … Pitched a total of five scoreless innings, which including 6.1 consecutive … Also, threw two perfect frames and, at one point, retired a five straight batters

High School: Earned three varsity letters pitching for coach Greg Simmons at Charlotte Christian … Was a two-time CISAA First Team All-Conference and a NCISAA First Team All-State selection … Also earned the Cy Young Award (top pitcher in league) in 2018 and Gold Glove Award in 2019 …  Helped his team win back-to-back CISAA Conference Championships in 2018 and 2019 … Also led his team to an NCISAA Championship in 2019 … Also earned two varsity letters playing basketball and one with the soccer team … Was the valedictorian of his 2019 class and a National Merit Finalist.
 
Personal: Matthew Erich Siverling … Born November 2, 2000 in Ann Arbor, Michigan … Son of John and Annette Siverling ... Has an older brother, Andrew … Majoring in mechanical engineering.