FAYETTEVILLE — Shohn Doty has spent the past few days answering phone calls and messages from home.
Doty, the second-year pitching coach at Charlotte, grew up in Springdale and was an Arkansas graduate assistant under Norm DeBriyn for two seasons from 1994-95.
Doty’s 49ers will host the Razorbacks on Tuesday for the first of a two-game series in Charlotte.
“The phone calls have ranged from good luck and laughing and joking, to, ‘You better strap it on because you’re about to play a really good ball club,’” Doty said.
Charlotte’s task this week is a tall one.