Gannon Morrison had a hat trick to help lift Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons past Waxhaw Marvin Ridge 11-8 on Saturday afternoon in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s state men’s 1-A/2-A/3-A lacrosse championship at WakeMed Soccer Park.
Morrison’s three goals pushed his team-leading total for the season to 57. Nick Forbes had two goals and two assists for the winners while Robbie Lavelle and freshman Charles Van Dyke also had two goals apiece.
Gibbons finally opened up a three-goal lead in the third quarter, with Van Dyke getting his second goal of the game with 3:09 to go in the period to put the Crusaders on top 8-5, but the Mavericks tallied in the final second of the third to make it 8-6.
Marvin Ridge senior goalkeeper Reilly McDermott, who will continue his career at Furman University, made several spectacular saves in the closely contested first half, which ended in a 4-4 deadlock. In fact, McDermott had a whopping 19 saves on the day and was named the Most Valuable Player of the championship.
Junior attackman Jared Blum scored three of the Mavericks’ four goals in the first 24 minutes.
Gibbons ended the season with a perfect 22-0 record and has been in the playoffs in every year the NCHSAA has had lacrosse. The Crusaders have a postseason record of 13-4 all-time and made their second trip to the championship, losing to Lake Norman 9-8 in the 2012 open classification final. Marvin Ridge wound up 18-2 and had a 13-game winning streak snapped.
This was the first year in the five-year history of NCHSAA men’s lacrosse playoffs that there have been classified championships, with a separate 4-A final and then the 1-A/2-A/3-A championship.
It took three full games and three extra innings, but top-seeded Miami made sure it left the Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Championship with a win.
And in the process, the Hurricanes prevented fourth-seeded Duke from making history.
Jacob Heyward led off the 12th inning with a double and scored the tie-breaking run from third base on a wild pitch, and Zack Collins followed with a solo homer for what proved to be a mammoth insurance run as Miami fended off the Blue Devils, 6-5, in Saturday’s tournament game at NewBridge Bank Park.
The loss prevented Duke (33-25) from reaching the ACC Baseball Championship final for the first time since the event began in 1973. Ninth-seeded Georgia Tech advanced from Pool A and will face sixth-seeded Maryland in Sunday’s title game (1:04 p.m.; ESPN2).
Miami (41-17) snapped a two-game losing streak and remains hopeful that its full season’s body of work will pack enough punch for a national seed when NCAA Championship pairings are announced on Monday.
“It’s a big win, tough one,” Miami coach Jim Morris said. “I tell you what, this conference is tough. For the people that were in here the first day, I said at the press conference that anybody can win in this tournament, 1 through 10. If I’m not wrong, it looks like we’re going to have a 9 6 seed playing for the Championship.
“It’s a great league, great league. A lot of good pitching, a lot of good defense, a lot of guys that battle. There used to be two echelons – two groups in this thing from the top to the bottom, and that’s not the way anymore.”
The Blue Devils didn’t go quietly in their quest for their first ACC baseball title since 1961. Cris Perez – a freshman batting .167 with six RBIs in 36 at-bats prior to Saturday – tied the score at 4-4 with a one-out, two-run homer off Miami closer and former high school teammate Bryan Garcia in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Then, after Miami regained a 6-4 edge with its two runs in the top of the 12th, Duke used a walk and two base hits – the second an RBI single by Mike Rosenfeld to close within 6-5 and had the tying run on third before Javi Salas struck out Matt Berezo to earn his first save of the season.
“I’m certainly proud of our team, proud of our fight,” Duke coach Chris Pollard said. “I’m not disappointed in them, I’m disappointed for them. These guys fought like crazy … doing it all year and did it again today. We just came up a run short.”
Garcia (6-4) wound up working three full innings on the mound and took the win. Andrew Istler (8-8), who came on in the 12th as the fourth Duke pitcher, took the loss.
The Hurricanes, who had scored a total of nine runs in their previous four games, wasted little time generating a bit of offense on Saturday. Dale Carey led off with a single, and David Thompson reached on a walk with two outs. Will Abreu then doubled Carey home, and Thompson scored on a wild pitch for a quick 2-0 Miami lead.
Duke loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the second but managed just one run on a two-out walk to Mark Lumpa. Miami starter Bryan Radziewski then retired Andy Perez on a grounder to first to end the inning.
The Hurricanes went up 3-1 in the fifth as Heyward led off with an infield single, moved up on Carey’s sacrifice bunt and scored on Tyler Palmer’s base hit. Heyward slid in safely at home just ahead of Blue Devil rightfielder Ryan Dietrich’s strong throw.
Duke got the run back in the bottom of the inning when Lumpa walked and eventually scored from second on Chris Marconcini’s two-out single.
After the sixth and seventh inning saw a runner from each team thrown out at the plate, Miami finally pushed another home in top of the eighth to go ahead 4-2. Collins opened the inning with a base hit off reliever Nick Hendrix and eventually scored on Brandon Lopez’s sacrifice fly.
Cris Perez’s unlikely homer in the bottom of the ninth gave the Blue Devils new life, but Miami ultimately owned the final answer in the 12th.
Morris believes the Blue Devils – and a number of other ACC teams – should joining the Hurricanes in the NCAA postseason field.
“We’ve got to get eight, maybe nine, 10 teams in the tournament,” Morris said. “We have to have nine from the ACC, and I think you’ve got to consider 10 teams. I look toward to seeing how the ACC does when we get into the NCAA Tournament.”
Junior Kyle Keenan scored a career-high four goals and classmate Kyle Turri recorded four saves in the final period to lead top-seeded Duke to a 15-12 win over fifth-seeded Denver in the NCAA Semifinals Saturday afternoon at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md.
Duke (16-3) advances to Monday’s national championship game and will meet the Maryland-Notre Dame winner at 1 p.m. Denver (15-3) had its 13-game winning streak snapped while two of the
Pioneers’ three losses on the season came at the hands of the Blue Devils.
Jordan Wolf added three goals and two assists for the Blue Devils, who will play for the national crown for the fifth time. Duke fell in the title game in both 2005 and 2007 before winning championships in 2010 and 2013.
With Duke nursing a 12-11 lead midway through the fourth quarter, Keenan and Deemer Class scored goals just 15 seconds apart to push the lead to three at the 8:29 mark. Just over a minute later, Wolf fed Chad Cohan for a marker that sent the margin to four at 15-11. Denver scored with 6:29 left in the game to account for the final margin.
Turri replaced starter Luke Aaron in the Duke net early in the fourth period and responded with four saves against just two goals allowed. Turri started 15 games during Duke’s run to the national championship a season ago including both contests during Memorial Day Weekend.
Duke and Denver traded goals throughout an opening 20 minutes that featured four ties before the Blue Devils scored four unanswered to go up 8-4 at the half. Wolf scored the half’s final three goals, including one with 7.5 seconds left to record his 32nd career hat trick and 13th of the season.
The Pioneers scored first 2:28 into the game and sophomore midfielder Myles Jones responded 52 seconds later to make it 1-1. The trend continued into the second quarter as the Blue Devils would go ahead one and Denver would answer.
Tied 4-4 with under eight minutes to go in the second period, Keenan put the Blue Devils ahead 5-4 to spark the 4-0 run over the final six minutes.
The Blue Devils went ahead by as many as five in the third quarter before Denver went on a 4-1 run of its own to cut Duke’s lead to 11-9 after three periods and set up the exciting finish.
Duke’s balanced offensive attack also featured a three-goal outing from Class and a one-goal, three-assist performance by Christian Walsh. Other multiple point contributors were Cohan (2 goals) and Jones (2 goals & 1 assist).
For Denver, Wesley Berg scored five goals while Tyler Pace had three markers.
The NCAA Championship game is set for 1 p.m., Monday May 26 at M&T Bank Stadium. It will be televised on ESPN2.
UNC coach Mike Fox.North Carolina wasted a strong pitching performance by Benton Moss and the Tar Heels were eliminated from the ACC baseball championship game with a 3-2 loss to Virginia Friday night.
Moss struck out eight and gave up only four hits over six and two-thirds innings but a couple of errors and a couple of bad breaks spelled doom for the Tar Heels, who still have hopes of getting an NCAA bid.
The first error led to an unearned run for Virginia in the fourth inning. With two outs, UNC’s Landon Lassiter, subbing for injured shortstop Michael Russell, threw high and wild to first for an error that allowed the first run of the game to come home for Virginia.
The first bad break came in the bottom of the fourth when UNC’s Korey Dunbar bounced one out of the park in right field. The ball was curving and had it not gone out probably would have banged around in the corner, allowing UNC’s Adrian Chacon to score. But the ground-rule double kept Chacon at third.
“I don’t know if Adrian Chacon would have scored on that or not but I sure would have been waving him home,” UNC coach Mike Fox said. “The game swings both ways and you get breaks some days and some days you don’t.”
Still trailing 1-0 in the seventh, Carolina’s second error led to Virginia’s second run. With a runner on first, a ground ball handcuffed UNC third baseman Alex Raburn. Instead of a possible double play or at least an easy out at first, the error gave the Cavs two on and no out.
A squeeze bunt scored Virginia’s John La Prise as Moss couldn’t get the ball out of his glove cleanly. It was still a close play but La Prise slid under the tag giving the Cavs a 2-0 lead.
After a Virginia throwing error, Carolina second baseman Wood Myers stroked his first home run off the season, clearing the right field wall on a line to tie the score at 2-2.
The Cavaliers came right back in the top of the eighth. UNC reliever Zach Rice hit the lead off batter Joe McCarthy although Carolina coaches didn’t think so. With one out, and UNC relief pitcher Spencer Trayner in the game, McCarthy stole second base.
UVA’s Derek Fisher grounded one up the middle off Myers’ glove, that was ruled a hit, and Cavs re-took the lead at 3-2.
The Tar Heels, who stranded 11 runners on base, left runners on second base in both the eighth and ninth innings to conclude a frustrating game for Carolina.
“Another one-run loss to add to our resume,” Fox said. “Benton was sensational tonight and certainly pitched well enough to win.”
On the other side, three Virginia pitchers combined for 12 strike outs. “Almost every inning but one we had a big strike out in an inning with people in scoring position and that’s something you can’t do,” Fox said. “It’s a great credit to their pitching.”
Starter Brandon Waddell struck out seven over five innings but it was actually Whit Mayberry, who gave up the Carolina runs, that took the win while Rice, who only pitched a third of an inning, got the loss due the hit batter scoring.
“It’s the pitcher versus the hitter and the pitcher won more than not against us tonight,” Fox said. “It was very frustrating.”
Carolina actually outhit Virginia 9-6 but couldn’t come up with the big hit.
The Tar Heels last game in the round-robin tournament comes Saturday afternoon against Maryland and a win could go a long way toward ensuring an NCAA bid for the 33-25 Heels.
“It would just be nice to end on a win here,” Fox said. “There will be something on the line for us but there has been for probably the last eight or 10 games. It won’t be anything new.”
If Duke can beat Miami Saturday morning, the Devils will be in the ACC title game Sunday.
Duke is back on top of the NCAA women’s golfing world.
The Blue Devils came from behind to hold off top-ranked Southern Cal and win by two strokes at the Tulsa Country Club in Tulsa, Okla for the program’s sixth national championship Friday evening. Duke also won the program’s first national title in Tulsa in 1999.
Duke shot a six-under, 274 to beat the Trojans, who finished the day with a round of 10-under par, 270. The Blue Devils completed the competition with a four-day team score of 1,130 – good for ten over par.
Seniors Alejandra Cangrejo and Laetitia Beck led Duke on Friday with matching 2-under par efforts in their final competitive rounds as college golfers.
Sophomore Celine Boutier, the runner-up in the individual event, finished her final round at 1-under, as did Freshman Sandy Choi.
Yu Li, the ACC Rookie of the Year, registered a two-over-par 72 to end her impressive inaugural campaign.
Duke found itself tied for third after the first day of competition, five shots back of the Oklahoma Sooners, two back of UCLA and even with Southern Cal and Arizona State. After the second round, the Blue Devils found themselves in sole possession of second place, three shots back of Oklahoma.
On day three, Duke made its move, carding a two-under, 278 that gave the Devils a six-shot lead heading into the championship’s final round.
Duke also won the team national championship in 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2007.
Drew Van Orden.After a disappointing start to the ACC baseball tournament on Wednesday, Duke came back Thursday with solid pitching and three home runs to blank Georgia Tech 6-0.
Smarting from a 5-3 loss to Clemson, Blue Devil hitters rapped out 14 hits including three home runs. Ryan Deitrich hit a solo homer in the fourth to start the scoring. Andy Perez followed with a solo homer of his own in the fifth. A two-run shot by Jordan Betts opened the lead to 4-0 in the seventh.
The Devils added single insurance runs in the eighth and ninth innings.
Duke starter Drew Van Orden went the distance giving up just five hits and striking out eight.
The No. 4 seed Devils, 1-1 in the tournament, get Friday off before continuing round-robin play Saturday at 11 am against top-seed Miami.
North Carolina may have made it into the ACC Tournament pool play but the Tar Heels didn’t seem to have much left after an emotional win over NC State to advance. Florida State easily handled Carolina 7-1 Wednesday night in Greensboro.
FSU pitcher Billy Strode, who started only three games this season, set the tone for the game by getting the Tar Heels in order each of the first three innings.
Offensively, the Seminoles pushed across a run on an RBI single by Justin Gonzalez but the big inning that opened things up was the fourth.
A controversial play at the plate went Carolina’s way against NC State on Tuesday but this time a controversial play went against the Heels. A one-out double steal, where the runner appeared to be out at third, led to a two-run double down the left field line by Danny De La Calle. That made the score 3-0.
“We knew they were going to try to run,” UNC coach Mik Fox said. “They do a great job of creating things offensively. We made a great throw but we didn’t get the call.”
An RBI ground out, which would have been the third out of the inning, plated a fourth run and then Casey Smit singled in a run to make it 5-0.
Fox said, “It’s hard to recover from a big inning like that with a team that pounds the strike zone and makes plays behind their pitcher.”
Carolina scattered a few hits and had chances to score in the fifth and sixth but double plays ended each threat.
After a Gonzalez home run made it 6-0, the Heels managed a run in the seventh as Alex Raburn singled in Landon Lassiter, who had reached on an error. But once again a double play ended the inning.
“The double plays obviously were huge for them and didn’t allow us to create any opportunities offensively,” Fox said.
Florida State’s John Nogowski finished off the scoring with a solo homer in the bottom of the seventh.
The Tar Heels, now 33-24, have played a lot of crucial games lately and maybe it has taken a bit of a toll. Shortstop Michael Russell, probably the team’s MVP this season, was taken out of the game for precautionary reasons in the fourth with a sore back.
“We’re still fighting for our NCAA lives here,” Fox said.
The pitching staff has been taxed as Taylore Cherry, who started just six games this season, got the start. He gave up six earned runs in five and a third innings, giving up seven hits and three walks on 98 pitches.
The good news is with a day off Thursday, the Carolina starting pitchers on Friday and Saturday should be rested. “We did need to rest those guys,” Fox said. “Hopefully we’ll be fresh for the next two games.”
Benton Moss is expected to start against Virginia Friday night at 7 pm while Zac Gallen is slated to go Saturday at 3 pm.
Florida State, now 42-14, plays Maryland Friday at 11 am.
Note: While it wasn’t an exciting game for the nearly 5,000 fans on hand – including Roy Williams and Larry Fedora – it got loud when ACC t-shirts were thrown out into the crowd between innings and when Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston came on to pitch the ninth for the Seminoles.
Tyler Thornton.UNC’s best starting pitcher got a chance to re-live his relieving days and he came up big. Tyler Thornton came on with a 4-3 lead against rival NC State in the eighth and recorded a two-inning save that propels the Tar Heels into Atlantic Coast Conference tournament pool play.
“I really missed that adrenaline,” Thornton said of closing. “I was really prepared for that time of the game.”
Thornton came on in the eighth with runners on second and third with no outs. He proceeded to get two strikeouts and a line out to end the threat. In the ninth, he got the Pack 1-2-3 for the save.
Carolina moves on to a Wednesday night game against Florida State while the Wolfpack has to hope that they get an NCAA tournament bid although it’s unlikely.
“It’s a disappointing way to end the season – the regular season,” said NC State coach Elliott Avent, catching himself. “We still think – I won’t say a good possibility but a possibility – but that doesn’t sound strong enough. I won’t say ‘good’ and I won’t say ‘possibility.’ But we know what this team has done the last six weeks, the last 15 games.” He said he hopes the committee rewards them for that.
The possible season-ending loss for State was a controversial one as Pack All-America player Trea Turner appeared to steal home in the fifth inning on a play that would have tied the score. But home plate umpire Mark Chapman called Turner out.
Turner, on third with the bases loaded and one out in the fifth, noticed that UNC catcher Korey Dunbar would look down before throwing the ball back to pitcher Trever Kelley.
As State’s Jake Fincher swung and missed for the second out, Dunbar looked down and threw it back to Kelley. Turner, well down the line, took off for home. Kelley alertly threw back home as soon as he got it and Dunbar put the tag on Turner – but it appeared to be too late.
The steal seemed to surprise the umpire who turned to look at the play, perhaps a tad late. “That was an incredibly courageous play on their part,” UNC coach Mike Fox said. “It was certainly close – the umpire called him out.”
Most observers, especially those in Wolfpack red, thought he was safe. NC State coach Avent argued the call and, while he remained calm during the post-game interview, the anger came back as he was leaving the podium, perhaps for the last time this season. He said in a quiet but firm voice to an ACC representative, “Should I stay a little longer to talk about the call he never saw?,” referring to the umpire.
During the news conference, Avent said, “Mark Chapman is a good umpire. He’s one of the best in our league. He’s a better person than he is an umpire and he’s a good umpire. Is he going to hate this film? Probably. Yeah.”
Turner said he thought he was safe but he didn’t think it demoralized the team. “We were up every inning. That’s the best energy we’ve had all year as a team,” he said. “We knew what was at stake. I don’t think that took anything out of us.”
Of course there are a lot of plays in a game that determines the outcome, some not as memorable. For instance, with the bases loaded and a 3-2 count in the bottom of the fourth, UNC’s Wood Myers took a called third strike that appeared to reporters behind home plate to be a ball inside, which would have added Carolina’s fifth run.
It was actually NC State that got on the board first however as Brett Austin singled to center to score Turner, who led off the game with a triple.
The Tar Heels tied it in the second when Skye Bolt homered over the right center field wall.
But the big inning for the Heels was the third. UNC’s Michael Russell tripled to left center, just over the head of a diving Fincher, to score Dunbar, who earlier singled, to give the Heels their first lead at 2-1. Myers singled to left to score Russell, extending the lead to 3-1. Landon Lassiter doubled down the left field line to put runners on second and third with one out.
Bolt came through with his second RBI on a sacrifice fly to right, giving the Heels a three-run third and a 4-1 lead.
State came right back in the fourth with one out, loading the bases with two singles and a walk. Bubba Riley singled to center to drive in two runs, pulling the Pack to within a run at 4-3.
UNC pitcher Zach Rice came in for struggling starter Reilly Hovis, who had thrown 74 pitches in just over three innings, and he struck out two straight batters to stop the State rally.
The Wolfpack, which left 11 runners on base on the day, appeared to be ready to tie or take the lead in the eighth, which would have set the stage for pitching ace Carlos Rodon to close out the Heels.
A four-pitch walk to Riley from UNC’s fourth pitcher Spencer Traynor, started the inning. A fielding error by UNC’s Russell at short, followed quickly by a throwing error, put State runners on second and third with no outs. That’s when Carolina’s ace came in to shut the Pack down and keep them from getting their ace in the game.
“It could have happened differently,” Avent said. “But I don’t think we could have played any better.”
For his part, Fox said, “It’s special when we get together. A lot happened over the last four hours – a long game. We did just enough to come out with a win.”
A midday crowd of 5,822 saw the Heels improve to 33-23 while the pack falls to 32-23.
Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year DJ Stewart of Florida State and Co-Pitchers of the Year Chris Diaz of Miami and Nathan Kirby of Virginia head up the 2014 All-ACC Baseball Team, announced on Monday.
Miami catcher Zack Collins earned ACC Freshman of the Year honors, while Virginia’s Brian O’Connor was selected the ACC Coach of the Year. Each of the ACC’s major season awards, as well as the All-ACC team, were voted upon by the league’s 14 head coaches.
Stewart, a sophomore outfielder from Yulee, Florida, led the Seminoles (41-14, 21-9 ACC) to the Atlantic Division title and the No. 2 seed in this week’s ACC Championship at Greensboro’s NewBridge Bank Park. Stewart leads the ACC in batting at .362 and is tied for the conference lead in RBIs with 47. He is also tied for the league lead in doubles with 19 and is sixth in home runs with seven.
Diaz is a big reason Miami heads into the ACC Championship (40-15, 24-6) as Coastal Division champion and the No. 1 overall seed. The Florida City, Florida, left-hander owns a perfect 9-0 record and a 2.32 ERA while striking out 78 batters and walking 33 in 89 1/3 innings. His nine wins are tied for most among conference pitchers.
Virginia’s Kirby owns an 8-1 record that includes a no-hit, shutout victory over Pitt on April 4, and an ACC-low ERA of 1.58. The Midlothian, Virginia, sophomore ranks fifth among ACC pitchers in strikeouts with 91 while walking just 20 batters in 85 1/3 innings. Kirby has limited opposing hitters to a .180 collective batting average.
Collins, a catcher from Pembroke Pines, Florida, has appeared in 50 of Miami’s 55 games, including 53 starts. He ranks fourth on his team with a .285 average, is tied for second in the ACC with eight home runs and is tied for fourth in RBIs with 46.
Stewart, Diaz and Kirby were all voted All-ACC first team, while Collins earned third-team honors.
Virginia’s O’Connor was voted the ACC Coach of the Year for the second straight season and for the fifth time in his 11 seasons leading the Cavaliers. O’Connor’s team has been ranked No. 1 in the nation most of this season while compiling a 43-11 record that includes a 22-8 mark in ACC play. Virginia leads all schools with eight student-athletes selected to this year’s All-ACC team, including a league-leading five first-team honorees.
Miami and Clemson each had seven players voted first-, second- or third-team All-ACC, followed by Florida State with six selections. The Seminoles’ four first-team selections rank second behind Virginia, followed by NC State with three, and Boston College, Clemson, Miami and North Carolina with one each.
Fifteen of the 48 student-athletes named to the 2014 All-ACC Baseball Team are repeat selections, including a trio of three-time honorees in NC State’s Trea Turner and Carlos Rodon, and Clemson second baseman Steve Wilkerson.
Pairings and game times have been set for the 2014 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Championship, which gets underway Tuesday at NewBridge Bank Park in Greensboro, N.C.
Miami (40-15, 24-6) earned the No. 1 overall seed and will head up Pool A. The Hurricanes will be joined by fourth-seeded Duke (32-23, 16-14) and fifth-seeded Clemson (34-22, 15-14), while No. 8 Wake Forest (30-25, 15-15) and No. 9 Georgia Tech (32-24, 14-16) will play on Tuesday to join the pool.
Florida State (41-14, 21-9) earned the No. 2 seed and will lead Pool B with third-seeded Virginia (43-11, 22-8) and sixth-seeded Maryland (34-19, 15-14). The fourth spot in the pool will go to the winner of Tuesday’s game between seventh-seeded North Carolina (32-23, 15-15) and 10th-seeded NC State (32-22, 13-17).
Under the pool-play format, each team will play one game against each of the other three opponents in its pool Wednesday through Saturday (May 21-24). The two teams with the best records within their respective pools will advance to the title game on Sunday, May 25, with the winner earning the ACC’s automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.
The tournament will get underway Tuesday with the two play-in games. The Tar Heels and Wolfpack will play at 11 a.m., followed by the Demon Deacons and Yellow Jackets at 3 p.m.
Duke and Clemson will open play on Wednesday at 11 a.m., followed by Miami and the Georgia Tech-Wake Forest winner at 3 p.m. and Florida State and the North Carolina-NC State winner at 7 p.m.
Virginia meets Maryland at 11 a.m. Thursday, while Duke will face Georgia Tech or Wake Forest at 3 p.m. and Miami will play Clemson at 7 p.m.
Friday’s action gets started at 11 a.m. when Florida State plays Maryland. Clemson will face the Georgia Tech-Wake Forest winner at 3 p.m., followed by Virginia and the North Carolina-NC State winner at 7 p.m.
The final day of pool play is led off by Miami and Duke at 11 a.m., followed by Maryland and the North Carolina-NC State winner at 3 p.m. and Florida State versus Virginia at 7 p.m.
The two pools winners will play Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. for the 2014 ACC Championship.
Fans can still purchase tickets to next week’s championship. Complete books to all 15 games are available, as well as individual game tickets that can be purchased by calling the Greensboro Grasshoppers at 336-268-2255 or by ordering on-line at: http://theacc.co/BASE14tix.
All 15 games of this year’s ACC Baseball Championship will be televised for the eighth straight year. Regional Sports Networks from across the conference footprint and across the nation will carry all 14 games on Tuesday through Saturday. Sunday’s 1 p.m. championship game will televised nationally by ESPN2. All games will also be available on ESPN3.
In addition, all 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. games will be broadcast via satellite radio on Sirius 220/XM 190. The night games and Sunday’s championship game will available on SiriusXM 91.
2014 ACC BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE
May 20-25 at NewBridge Bank Park, Greensboro, N.C.
Tuesday, May 20
#7 North Carolina vs. #10 NC State, 11 a.m. (RSN)
#8 Wake Forest vs. #9 Georgia Tech, 3 p.m. (RSN)
Wednesday, May 21
#4 Duke vs. #5 Clemson, 11 a.m. (RSN)
#1 Miami vs. Game 2 Winner, 3 p.m. (RSN)
#2 Florida State vs. Game 1 Winner, 7 p.m. (RSN)
Thursday, May 22
#3 Virginia vs. #6 Maryland, 11 a.m. (RSN)
#4 Duke vs. Game 2 Winner, 3 p.m. (RSN)
#1 Miami vs. #5 Clemson, 7 p.m. (RSN)
Friday, May 23
#2 Florida State vs. #6 Maryland, 11 a.m. (RSN)
#5 Clemson vs. Game 2 Winner, 3 p.m. (RSN)
#3 Virginia vs. Game 1 Winner, 7 p.m. (RSN)
Saturday, May 24
#1 Miami vs. #4 Duke, 11 a.m. (RSN)
#6 Maryland vs. Game 1 Winner, 3 p.m. (RSN)
#2 Florida State vs. #3 Virginia, 7 p.m. (RSN)
Sunday, May 25
ACC Championship, 1 p.m. (ESPN2)
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Gannon Morrison had a hat trick to help lift Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons past Waxhaw Marvin Ridge 11-8 on Saturday afternoon in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s state men’s 1-A/2-A/3-A lacrosse championship at WakeMed Soccer Park.
