Virginia Tech\u2019s Atlantic Coast Conference championship hopes, but likely not its postseason, ended Friday with a 10-4 loss to North Carolina in an ACC quarterfinal at Truist Field in Charlotte.<\/p>\n
The Hokies (30-24) will await word at noon Monday on ESPN2 after being projected as one of the third seeds in 16 four-team NCAA regionals by d1baseball.com. Second-seeded UNC (44-10-1) advanced to a semifinal in the single-elimination ACC bracket at 5 p.m. Saturday against the winner of Friday night\u2019s game between third-seeded Florida State and 14th-seeded Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
Tech tied the score at 2 in the third on Ethan Gibson\u2019s two-run homer, then went ahead 3-2 that inning on Henry Cooke\u2019s solo home run. But in the fourth, the Tar Heels went ahead for good, eventually dealing Tech starter Griffin Stieg (2-5) a defeat. Jake Schaffner was plunked by a pitch with the bases loaded, tying the score, and Owen Hull put UNC in front with a two-run single up the middle.<\/p>\n
Tech\u2019s Ethan Ball answered with a solo home run to right-center in the fifth, but the Hokies never scored again as effective reliever Caden Glauber (9-0) and the Heels pulled away on Gavin Gallaher\u2019s RBI single, Schaffner\u2019s RBI triple and Owen Hull\u2019s RBI single. Macon Winslow\u2019s two-run homer in the eighth capped the scoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech\u2019s Atlantic Coast Conference championship hopes, but likely not its postseason, ended Friday with a 10-4 loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[5,648,1703,853,1694,2341,185,12201],"class_list":["post-706127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-college-baseball","tag-college-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball","tag-sports","tag-virginia-tech"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116620847271295616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}