Here is your ACC Recap for April 19th
North Carolina 4 Miami (FL) 1
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Right-hander Matt Harvey matched a season-high with seven strong innings, and All-America Dustin Ackley went 4-for-4 with two extra-base hits to spark No. 4 North Carolina to a 4-1 win and a series sweep of No. 7 Miami Sunday at Boshamer Stadium. The Tar Heels (31-10, 13-7 ACC) earned their first three-game sweep in ACC play this season and improved to 9-1 in their last 10 games against the Hurricanes (26-13, 11-10 ACC).
Harvey, who ran his record to 5-1 with the win, held Miami to one run on six hits and four walks over seven innings, which matched his March 8 start versus Clemson for his longest outing of the year. He struck out five en route to his first victory in a start since Feb. 28 against Seton Hall. In two outings this week, Harvey fanned 10 over 10 1/3 innings.
Lefty Brian Moran worked the final two innings and struck out four of the seven batters he faced to earn his first save and close out a combined six-hitter. Carolina pitching held Miami to just five runs and 16 hits in 27 innings this weekend.
Georgia Tech 6 Wake Forest 0
WINSTON-SALEM, NC – Brandon Cumpton and three Yellow Jacket relievers combined on a five-hit shutout of Wake Forest (20-19, 6-15 ACC) to help No. 10 Georgia Tech (26-8-1, 13-5-1 ACC) to a three-game sweep of the Demon Deacons with a 6-0 win Sunday afternoon at Gene Hooks Field at Wake Forest Baseball Park.
“Any time you go on the road in the ACC and win a series, you have to be very happy,” head coach Danny Hall said.
Cumpton (2-0) scattered four hits and struck out seven in his seven-plus innings of work. After yielding a single with two outs in the first inning, the Yellow Jacket starter faced the minimum over the next four frames before the Demon Deacons picked up their second hit of the game in the sixth.
Georgia Tech Recap
Wake Forest Recap
Florida State 13 NC State 2
RALEIGH, N.C. – Florida State (25-12, 12-7 ACC) completed the sweep of NC State (19-21, 7-14 ACC) with a 13-2 victory Sunday afternoon on Doak Field inside Dail Park. The 20th-ranked Seminoles scored 10 of the 13 runs on two outs in the series finale to register the second conference sweep of the season for the Garnet and Gold.
The series sweep was the first over the Wolfpack since 2002 and sixth since Florida State joined the ACC in 1992. It marked the third sweep for the Seminoles over NC State in Raleigh and fifth series victory for the Seminoles on the Pack’s home turf.
Mike McGee went six innings on Sunday to run his record to 3-2 on the year. After giving up two runs in the first, the sophomore right hander settled down nicely blanking the Wolfpack over the next five innings. McGee scattered just three hits over six innings as he walked four and struck out five.
Virginia 2 Boston College 0
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Behind 7.2 scoreless innings from starting pitcher Robert Morey (So., Virginia Beach, Va.), the No. 13 Virginia baseball team recorded a 2-0 win over Boston College on a cool, breezy Sunday at Eddie Pellagrini Diamond at Commander Shea Field. The Cavaliers finished off a 2-1 series win.
The shutout was Virginia’s fourth this season and the first in an ACC game since a 4-0 blanking of Maryland on April 29, 2007. It was UVa’s first in a road ACC contest since a 3-0 whitewashing at Clemson on April 21, 2007.
Morey (1-0) allowed four hits (all singles) and walked only one while striking out a career-high 12 batters. His 7.2 innings on the mound also marked a career best. Morey did not allow a hit through the first 3.2 innings.
Virginia Recap
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Clemson 8 Virginia Tech 1
Blacksburg, VA – Sophomore lefthander Casey Harman pitched 6.0 scoreless innings to lead #18 Clemson to an 8-1 win over Virginia Tech in front of 509 fans at English Field on Sunday. The Tigers improved to 26-14 overall and 12-9 in the ACC. The Hokies, who won the series 2-1, fell to 24-13 overall and 9-11 in ACC play. Clemson’s win snapped Virginia Tech’s eight-game winning streak overall and six-game winning streak in the ACC.
Harman (4-3) scattered six hits, one in each of his 6.0 innings pitched, and allowed no walks with five strikeouts to earn the victory. Scott Weismann also saw his first action in two weeks and pitched 2.0 scoreless innings in relief with two strikeouts. Virginia Tech starter Mathew Price (3-2) suffered the loss, as he gave up six runs on seven hits in 3.2 innings pitched.
Meanwhile, the Tiger bats came alive to the tune of 12 hits. Mike Freeman went 3-for-4 with a homer, two runs, and three RBIs. Matt Sanders also added three hits.
Clemson Recap
Virginia Tech Recap
Maryland 12 Duke 8
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – In just two innings, the University of Maryland baseball team scored more runs than it had in a conference game this season, scoring five times in the first and six times in the second en route to a 12-8 victory against the Duke Blue Devils Sunday afternoon at Shipley Field. The Terrapins (18-21, 6-15 ACC) won the series, 2-1, for their second Atlantic Coast Conference series win this season.
Maryland scored four runs in each of the previous two games of the series, but bettered that in the first inning alone Sunday.
After a 1-2-3 inning from starting pitcher Brett Jones in the top of the first, the Terps’ bats went to work. Designated hitter Jensen Pupa drew a leadoff walk and right fielder A.J. Casario got the Terps on the scoreboard with a two-run home run to center field off starting pitcher Eric Pfisterer.
