FROM CBB NEWS SOURCES
Miami (FL) 11 FSU 10
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Junior first baseman Yonder Alonso belted two home runs including his first career grand slam and junior closer Carlos Gutierrez recorded a strikeout in the bottom of the seventh to end the game as No. 1 Miami held off No. 2 Florida State, 11-10, Sunday afternoon in a game shortened due to a travel curfew. Sophomore lefty Eric Erickson returned after a month off to pick up his sixth win for the Hurricanes (33-4, 17-2 ACC) who clinched the Atlantic Coast Conference series.
Erickson (6-0) tossed four innings and allowed three runs all coming on solo home runs. He held FSU to five hits, walked three and struck out three. Carlos Gutierrez tossed 1 1/3 innings and recorded his ninth save.
UNC 8 Boston College 2
CARY, N.C. – No. 4 North Carolina closed out its second straight Atlantic Coast Conference sweep and extended its season-best winning streak to nine games Sunday with an 8-2 win over Boston College at Cary’s USA Baseball National Training Complex. Shortstop Garrett Gore drove in a game-high three runs and was one of four players with multi-hit efforts for the Tar Heels (34-7, 16-4 ACC).
On the mound, freshman right-hander Matt Harvey (6-2) earned his second with of the week and matched a career high with eight strikeouts over 5 1/3 innings. He allowed just one earned run on six hits and three walks.
UVA 3 Wake Forest 2 (11 innings)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Jarrett Parker (Fr., Stafford, Va.) hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 11th inning to score Corey Hunt (So., Charlottesville, Va.) and give the No. 16 Virginia baseball team a 3-2 win over Wake Forest Sunday in the rubber game of a three-game series at Davenport Field.
Starting pitchers Andrew Carraway (Jr., Marietta, Ga.) of Virginia and Ben Hunter of Wake Forest locked up in tight battle throughout, with each allowing just two runs. Carraway pitched seven innings, while Hunter went eight.
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GT 9 Maryland 6 (5 innings)
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Brad Feltes hit his fourth grand slam of the season and Zach Von Tersch worked out of a fifth-inning jam to help No. 21 Georgia Tech (28-12, 10-11 ACC) to a 9-6, five-inning win at Maryland (24-18, 7-14 ACC) Sunday afternoon.
The Yellow Jackets avoided a series sweep by getting in the required five innings against the Terps in the series finale. The two teams agreed to begin the game at 12 noon in an effort to complete at least five innings, but still had to sit through a 42-minute rain delay before the first pitch was thrown at 12:38 p.m.
Clemson 6 Duke 6 (FINAL) Game called due to Lighting
DURHAM, N.C. – Duke and Clemson battled to a 6-6 tie Sunday afternoon at Jack Coombs Field after rain and lightning forced officials to end the game in the top of the 11th inning.
Duke (27-13-1, 6-13-1 ACC) led 6-2 heading into the bottom of the ninth and came within one out of locking up the win before Ben Paulsen launched a thee-run homer with two outs in the ninth to tie the game at 6-6. Doug Hogan also contributed to the late rally with a two-out RBI single in the same inning.
After a scoreless 10th inning, Clemson (19-20-1, 7-13 ACC) jumped ahead in the 11th on a two-run home run by Kyle Parker. The two-run bomb was quickly followed by a bolt of lightning from an impending thunderstorm, causing a minimum delay of 30 minutes. Near the end of the delay, rain and hail set in and rendered the field condition unplayable.
NC State 11 Va Tech 5
BLACKSBURG, Va. – NC State scored unearned runs in the seventh and eighth innings to tie the game and then take the lead, and tacked on six more runs in an ugly ninth inning to defeat Virginia Tech 11-5 and win the final game of a three-game Atlantic Coast Conference series at English Field.
The Wolfpack won the series two games to one and improved to 27-12 overall and 12-8 in the ACC. NC State has won 13 of its last 16 games. Virginia Tech fell to 17-23 with the loss, 4-17 in the ACC.
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About the FSU-Miami matchup: Eric Sorenson of CSTV recorded (with pictures) some goings-on at the end of Sunday’s game that are not docuemted here on TheCollegeBaseballBlog. http://slog.cstv.com/extrainnings/2008/04/sunday_summations_lots_of_runs.html
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