ACC Baseball Tournament 2016: Wednesday Scores, Updated Bracket and Schedule

With the first round officially over, pool play began at the 2016 ACC baseball tournament in Durham, North Carolina on Wednesday.

ACC Baseball Tournament 2016: Wednesday Scores, Updated Bracket and Schedule

In the first round on Tuesday, the 10th-seeded Wake Forest Demon Deacons beat the seventh-seeded Duke Blue Devils 4-3, while the No.9-seed Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defeated the No.8-seed Boston College Eagles.

Both teams lost, however, just one day later. The Demon Deacons fell to the No. 2 Louisville Cardinals 9-5 on Wednesday, and the Yellow Jackets lost to the No. 1 Miami Hurricanes 4-0.

Trailing 2-1 early in the game, Louisville broke things open in the fourth and fifth innings after two and one-half scoreless innings. Wake Forest scored twice in the top of the first. Third baseman Blake Tiberi hit a two-run homer in the fourth to put the Cardinals ahead 3-2. A single by junior right fielder Colin Lyman and a walk to junior center fielder Corey Ray put runners on first and second with one out in the fifth. Then, Cardinals junior catcher Will Smith sent Wake Forest left-hander Ryan Morse’s pitch over the center-field wall for a three-run home run. Junior second baseman Nick Solak stepped up to bat next and sent right-hander Chris Farish’s pitch out of the yard and over the bull in left field to give Louisville a 7-2 lead. The ball Solak hit traveled 403 feet, according to ACC Baseball.

The Demon Deacons then scored three runs in the eighth to cut the deficit to 8-5, but Smith added a second homer in the bottom of the eighth to give the Cardinals more security.

The No. 4 Florida State Seminoles also emerged victorious Wednesday, beating out the No. 5 North Carolina State Wolfpack 7-3 in the first game of the day. The Seminoles scored four runs in the bottom of the eighth. Steven Wells Jr.’s bases-loaded sacrifice fly snapped a 3-3 tie, and Taylor Walls followed with a two-run single. Florida State scored the final run of the game on a wild pitch.

NC State gained a 3-1 lead after 5 1/2 innings, FSU’s first run coming from John Sansone. Brock Deatherage scored the Wolfpack’s first run on the back end of a double-steal in the second inning and Brett Kinnerman squeezing home another run with a well-placed bunt in the fourth.

Cory Wilder started on the mound for NC State, and worked five innings during which he allowed two runs on three hits. Florida State pulled even in the bottom of the sixth on Dylan Busby’s two-out, two-run single that knotted the score at 3-3.

Round-robin pool play continues for both teams on Thursday, with the Seminoles (35-19) facing Georgia Tech (36-20) at 3 p.m., while NC State (34-19) will play Miami (43-10) in the final game of the day at 7 p.m.

The No. 3 University of Virginia Cavaliers will kick off the day by facing the No. 6 Clemson Tigers.

Omaha, NE – JUNE 24 Catcher Jason Delay #5 of the Vanderbilt Commodores tags out batter Daniel Pinero #22 of the Virginia Cavaliers, after attempting to lay down a bunt in the seventh inning during game three of the College World Series Championship Series on June 24, 2015 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. (Photo by Peter Aiken/Getty Images)

Article by Pablo Mena