No. 7 Virginia Tech wins baseball series at No. 11 UVa | Baseball

With the gain, the Hokies (31-10, 14-8 ACC) clinched the series with the Cavaliers (33-12, 14-10). This is the 1st time Tech has ever won an ACC baseball sequence in Charlottesville.

The Tech baseball group secured the clinching place for the Virginia Tech athletic software in the Commonwealth Clash all-sporting activities competitors with Virginia. The Hokies now direct the Commonwealth Clash 11.5-7.5 with only two obtainable factors remaining at the ACC out of doors keep track of and subject championships. This is the initially time Tech has gained the Clash due to the fact 2018.

The Hokies won for the 21st time in their last 25 baseball games.

Prior to Sunday’s decline, the Cavaliers have been 26- when main soon after 3 innings this time.

Virginia held a 4- guide just after a few innings, but Virginia Tech went on to rating the game’s future 7 runs to pull forward. It was Tech’s greatest comeback earn towards UVa in 10 decades.

Gavin Cross broke a 4-4 tie in the seventh with a leadoff homer as section of a a few-run Hokie outburst. Cade Hunter and Lucas Donlon each and every additional an RBI solitary in that inning.

Reliever Graham Firoved, who earned a two-inning help you save in the opening recreation of the sequence, pitched the closing 3 ⅔ innings Sunday to choose up his 2nd win of the year for Virginia Tech. He authorized just just one operate.

UVa introduced the tying run to the plate in the ninth, but Firoved induced a video game-ending pop out to safe the victory and the series for the Hokies.

Cross experienced 3 hits and scored 3 runs in the win. Hunter extra two hits and two RBIs, even though Donlon experienced two hits and one RBI.

Tech cut the direct to 4-2 in the fourth. Eduardo Malinowski experienced a operate-scoring sacrifice fly and Hunter experienced an RBI one.

The Hokies scored two far more operates in the fifth to tie the recreation. Tanner Schobel experienced an RBI double and Jack Hurley had a run-scoring sacrifice fly.

Virginia’s Alex Tappen strike two house runs Sunday.

Chris Newell also hit a home operate for the Cavaliers. The junior led off the 2nd inning with a solo shot that traveled 446 ft above the “blue monster” in center discipline.

Sunday marked the to start with time that Virginia has shed when homering three or more occasions in a sport this season. Coming into the weekend, the Cavaliers were 9- when hitting 3 or a lot more out of the ballpark.

Virginia broke its three-sport sequence attendance file with a 3-working day full of 16,277 admirers. The prior document of 14,282 was proven in 2014 in a 3-sport set from North Carolina.