Miami baseball had a chance to turn a strong ACC Tournament run into something much bigger on Saturday. Instead, Georgia Tech showed why it has been one of the most complete teams in the country.
The fifth-seeded Hurricanes fell 9-3 to top-seeded Georgia Tech in the ACC Tournament semifinals, ending Miami's bid to reach the ACC championship game. The loss dropped Miami to 38-18 and sent Georgia Tech to 47-9 with a spot in Sunday's title game.
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The Hurricanes now move into NCAA Tournament selection mode after picking up two useful ACC Tournament wins before running into the Yellow Jackets.
Georgia Tech scored two runs in the first inning, added two more in the third and stretched the lead to 6-0 by the end of the fourth. The Yellow Jackets kept adding from there, scoring in six of their first seven offensive innings. Miami finished with nine hits, but the Hurricanes did not score until the sixth and committed three errors in a game where they had almost no margin for mistakes.
Georgia Tech stops Miami's run as Hurricanes await NCAA tournament draw
Vahn Lackey hit a two-run homer in the first to give Georgia Tech immediate control. Ryan Zuckerman added a two-run homer in the third and another two-run shot in the fourth. Georgia Tech finished with three home runs and pushed its season total to 124, a program record.
Miami starter AJ Ciscar had been coming off one of his best starts of the season, allowing one run over seven innings in the Hurricanes' win at Florida State last week, but Georgia Tech did not let him settle into the same rhythm Saturday.
Miami finally broke through in the sixth after Georgia Tech starter Jackson Blakely had mostly kept the Hurricanes quiet. The Hurricanes scored twice in the inning to cut the deficit to 7-2, then added another run in the eighth to make it 9-3.
Blakely worked 5 2/3 innings, allowed one run, struck out three and walked one.
The Hurricanes opened their ACC Tournament stay with an 11-2 win over Stanford, then beat Boston College 8-2 in the quarterfinals. In the Boston College win, Miami answered a two-run first inning with a four-run second, got a two-run homer from Fabio Peralta and another two-run shot from Alex Sosa, and used five innings from Lazaro Collera before the bullpen finished the game.
The NCAA Tournament selection show is scheduled for Monday at noon on ESPN2, with regionals set to begin Friday, May 29.
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